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Foreign Ministry Spokesman on Working Group Meeting of Six-party Talks

Korean Central News Agency of DPRK

    Pyongyang, May 15 (KCNA) -- A spokesman for the DPRK Foreign Ministry gave the following answer to a question put by KCNA Saturday as regards the close of the working group meeting of the six-party talks: The working group meeting of the six-party talks for the settlement of the nuclear issue between the DPRK and the U.S. took place in Beijing from May 12 to 14.
    At the meeting the DPRK side clarified its will to maintain the general goal of the denuclearization of the Korean peninsula and to freeze its nuclear facilities as the first-phase action and displayed utmost flexibility from a sincere stand to settle the issue at any cost.
    The DPRK's proposal of "reward for freeze" commanded support and sympathy from the majority of the participants in the meeting for its justice and fairness.
    However, the U.S. again pressurized the DPRK, not a defeated country, to accept the CVID. It put a brake on the discussion of the issue, repeating its old assertion that it can never make any discussion unless the DPRK does so.
    Moreover, the U.S. side made an absurd assertion about the "enriched uranium program", its own fabrication.
    This clearly proves that the U.S. does not wish to see any progress in the solution of the nuclear issue at the six-party talks before the presidential election slated for late this year in a bid to win it without difficulty.
    The world is well aware of the despicable true nature of the Bush group as it disclosed its disposition as an expert in fabricating false information in an effort to justify its war of aggression.
    The DPRK resolutely dismissed the U.S. assertions, holding that the information presented by the U.S. at the meeting was nothing but a prelude to inventing a pretext for mounting a military attack on the DPRK when necessary.
    No one supported the U.S. unreasonable stand at the meeting.
    The world public is now getting more skeptical as to whether there would be any need to continue the six-party talks which are no more than armchair talks, asserting that the talks failed to make any progress as the U.S. made no sincere efforts for the settlement of the issue, insisting on its own assertions that the DPRK must scrap its nuclear program first.
    The DPRK side intends to conduct dialogue with sustained patience in the future too, proceeding from its consistent stand to denuclearize the Korean peninsula peacefully through the six-party talks.
    If the U.S. persistently seeks to waste time, pressurizing the DPRK to change its political system and disarm itself under the signboard of "peaceful talks", the DPRK will be left with no option but to use it as a means for building stronger nuclear deterrent force.
    Therefore, such meaningless delaying tactics employed by the U.S. will do the DPRK nothing bad.