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KCNA Flails U.S. for Scrapping DPRK-U.S. Agreed Framework

Korean Central News Agency of DPRK

    Pyongyang, June 14 (KCNA) -- High-ranking officials of the United States reportedly let loose a string of balderdash that the U.S. made it clear that there is no prospect for the construction of LWRs and there can not be such concession as the resumption of the LWR construction. This goes to clearly prove once again that it was the United States which scrapped the DPRK-U.S. Agreed Framework as they declared a total suspension of the construction of LWRs which had been supposed to be provided by the U.S. to the DPRK under the AF.
    Underlying their remarks is a U.S. foolish attempt to shirk its responsibility for having unilaterally pulled out of the AF.
    As already known, the Bush administration has expressed inveterate bitterness toward the system in the DPRK, listing it as an "axis of evil" and a target of a preemptive nuclear attack from the very day of its appearance. In October 2002 it openly threatened and pressurized the DPRK, groundlessly charging that it violated the AF by going ahead with its "uranium enriched program" for the purpose of manufacturing nuclear weapons.
    The DPRK side only told the U.S. special envoy that it is entitled to have a nuclear weapon and even something more powerful than it in order to protect its sovereignty from the U.S. escalated threat to stifle the DPRK with nukes. The DPRK has never admitted any "uranium enriched program" absurdly claimed by the U.S.
    Nevertheless, the U.S. unilaterally announced its step to stop the supply of heavy oil to the DPRK as from November 14, 2002 and totally halted even the LWR construction as from December 1, 2003 under this pretext.
    This was nothing surprising for the DPRK as it had already expected such action from the U.S. administration.
    From the very outset the DPRK has never anticipated that the Bush administration would complete the LWR construction to the last as it was steeped in hostility toward the DPRK to the marrow of its bone. The issue of LWRs taught the DPRK a serious lesson that there can be no relationship based on confidence with the U.S. government as it scrapped the AF the core issue of which is the provision of LWRs to Pyongyang, regarding even this document signed by its president as a pair of old shoes.
    It is necessary to settle any issue with the U.S. through a one-one agreement on the principle of simultaneous actions. This alone may lead to the process of building confidence, the most important issue in the present DPRK-U.S. relations.
    The DPRK will settle any issue with the U.S. on this principle in any case in the future