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KCNA Refutes U.S. Call for DPRK's CVID

Korean Central News Agency of DPRK

    Pyongyang, June 15 (KCNA) -- The international community is getting ever more critical of the U.S. arrogant and high-handed attitude with regard to the nuclear issue between the DPRK and the U.S. A radio of Russia in a commentator's article on June 3 said the U.S. unreasonable approach to the nuclear issue between it and the DPRK is only complicating the situation on the Korean peninsula as it baffles the 6-way talks and infinitely prolongs the discussion on the nuclear issue.
    This is a just and appropriate comment that no body can deny.
    The acute phase of confrontation over the nuclear issue today is due entirely to the fact that the Bush administration is refusing a peaceful and fair solution to the issue by coming out with "complete, verifiable and irreversible dismantlement" (CVID), that is, "scrapping the nuclear program first" on the part of the DPRK.
    The U.S. demand that the DPRK should abandon its nuclear program first is, in essence, a brigandish claim to totally destroy even the latter's nuclear program for peaceful purposes and disarm it and, eventually, override it as it did Iraq.
    The DPRK has built up its nuclear deterrent in face of the U.S. escalated nuclear war threat. It would mean surrender if the DPRK accepted disarmament by scrapping its nuclear program first when the U.S. is intensifying its moves to stifle the former without the slightest intention to abandon its hostile policy. An independent sovereignty state, the DPRK in particular, can never allow this.
    It is the immovable stand of the DPRK that all the issues with the U.S. must be solved on the principle of simultaneous actions and it must be thoroughly prepared both for confrontation and dialogue.
    The U.S. has conceived the fiction of the DPRK's "enriched uranium," which has met with a rebuff, in an effort to justify its call for scrapping the nuclear program first on the part of the DPRK, and thus reduced the DPRK-U.S. Agreed Framework to a dead letter. And now it is spreading even rumors of "secret sale of uranium hexafluoride." But this only brings the weakness of the Bush administration, a group of tricksters, into a bolder relief.
    Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs of China Zhou Wenzhong on June 8 said: "We know nothing about the uranium program. We do not know whether it exists. So far the United States has not presented convincing evidence of this program."
    Facts clearly prove that the main obstacle in the way of the settlement of the DPRK-U.S. nuclear issue is the persistent call of the Bush administration for CVID.
    The U.S. seems to be intending to while away the time, flying the flag of CVID, an offspring of its diehard hostile policy against the DPRK, which stands no chance of realization. But time is not favorable only to the U.S.
    In the meantime, the DPRK will promote all necessary countermeasures with increasing vigor.