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KCNA Blasts U.S. "Proliferation Security Initiative"

Korean Central News Agency of DPRK

    Pyongyang, July 20 (KCNA) -- A U.S. assistant secretary of State, raising a hue and cry over the non-existent DPRK's drug smuggling, let loose sophism that it sponsors the drug smuggling and its income is likely to be spent for the ballistic missile development. This is nothing but a sinister attempt of the Bush administration to tarnish the image of the DPRK on the international arena and justify the "proliferation security initiative (PSI)" in a bid to isolate and stifle it.
    The U.S. much publicized PSI is a product of its hostile policy toward the DPRK aimed to blockade and suffocate it in the light of the background against which it was set out and the aims sought by it.
    After setting out PSI in April last year, the U.S. came out with a "proposal" on setting up "a proliferation security system for weapons of mass destruction (WMD)" at the G-8 summit in June. On September 4 the so-called eleven member nations of the PSI met to adopt the "principle of control over WMD."
    These facts go to prove that the U.S. loudmouthed PSI is a foolish trick to justify the inspection, control and blockade against the independent sovereign countries including the DPRK.
    What matters is that the Bush administration keeps floating all kinds of lies about the DPRK in a bid to justify PSI.
    The U.S. hue and cry over "state-sponsored drug smuggling" and "the use of its income for the missile development" is nothing but a sinister ploy to charge the DPRK with "proliferating WMD" and internationalize the sanctions and blockade against it.
    As already clarified more than once, drug abuse and smuggling are banned by law in the DPRK as it reduces man to a mental cripple.
    The production, use and export of drug and mental stimulant for health care and scientific researches are under way in the country under a strict state control and they are subject to laws and order. And they are successful thanks to the exchange of information and cooperation between the DPRK and the International Narcotics Control Board.
    The absurdity of the U.S. loudmouthed "state-sponsored drug smuggling" was clearly evidenced by the fact that an Australian court handling the case of the DPRK trading ship "Pongsu" this year ruled that the state was not involved in the case.
    The DPRK has strictly based itself on its strong independent national industry in building such powerful war deterrent force as missiles.
    Nevertheless, the U.S., the world's biggest criminal proliferating weapons, is linking the DPRK's development of missiles, its means for self-defence, with the "drug smuggling". This is an insult to the DPRK.
    The U.S. topped the world's list of arms exporters by selling weapons worth some 13.3 billion U.S. dollars or 45. 5 percent of the world's total earning by sale of conventional weapons in 2002.
    It is none other than the U.S. which has done illegal acts in arms export, posed a threat to other countries and gained huge profits from it. Yet it has kept mum about these criminal acts. It is ridiculous of the U.S to try to isolate and stifle the DPRK by charging it with "proliferating WMD," labelling it a "rogue state" and putting PSI into practice.
    The U.S. should own its responsibility for being the world's biggest proliferator of WMD and give up its hostile policy toward the DPRK.