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DPRK to Remain Unchanged in Its Stand toward Six-Party Talks

Korean Central News Agency of DPRK

    Pyongyang, May 11 (KCNA) -- The "reward for freeze" should be taken up as a major agenda item at the working group meeting of the six-party talks. This principled stand of the DPRK remains unchanged, says Minju Joson today in a signed commentary carried as regards the opening of the meeting for the settlement of the nuclear issue between the DPRK and the U.S. in Beijing on May 12. The DPRK side advanced the proposal of "reward for freeze" at the last round of the six-party talks as the first-phase measure for the peaceful settlement of the nuclear issue. The proposal is the most realistic and flexible proposal for peacefully settling the nuclear issue as the present relations between the two countries were taken into full consideration, the commentary says, and goes on:
    The proposal commands unanimous understanding and support from those countries concerned and many countries of the world as it is part of the DPRK's sustained efforts to make a positive contribution to the peaceful settlement of the nuclear issue between the two countries and the development of the overall situation on the Korean peninsula and the rest of the world.
    The DPRK will participate in the meeting to discuss the proposal of "reward for freeze" to all intents and purposes.
    If the U.S. turns aside this and takes the meeting as an opportunity to insist on its assertion that the DPRK should make CVID, that will entail very serious consequences.
    The DPRK is of the view that there would be no need for it to sit with the U.S. at the negotiating table if the U.S. seeks to force the DPRK, not a defeated country, to accept its absurd demand, talking about "irreversible and the like."
    The DPRK will participate in the meeting with patience and magnanimity but the efforts made by the DPRK side alone would not be enough to make the meeting fruitful.
    Everything depends on the U.S. attitude. If the U.S. seeks to waste time, insisting on its old assertions as it did at the last round of the talks, that will only result in throwing hurdles in the way of the six-party talks for the settlement of the nuclear issue, to say nothing of scuttling the meeting itself and the U.S. will be held fully responsible for its improper behavior.
    The U.S. would be well advised to see how the world goes by and make a proper option with discretion.