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KCNA Refutes Report on Drug Smuggling

Korean Central News Agency of DPRK

    Pyongyang, August 17 (KCNA) -- The U.S. Congressional Research Service recently released a report what it called "Drug smuggling and north Korea". In the report the Bush administration groundlessly pulled up the DPRK, saying that it has become a state policy to cultivate opium in the DPRK, it conspires with criminal organizations in countries around it for drug smuggling and that it has doubled the drug production and its smuggling.
    This is a base political farce orchestrated by the U.S. to tarnish the image of the DPRK on the international arena at any cost and internationalize and justify its moves to apply sanctions and blockade against the DPRK.
    The anti-DPRK smear campaign escalated by the U.S. in the wake of the passage of the "bill on human rights in north Korea" through the House of Representatives clearly proves that the Bush group is keen to isolate and stifle the DPRK by labeling it a "rogue state" and a target of international concern, far from wishing to co-exist with it.
    In fact, it is the U.S. in which drug production and smuggling are closely linked not only to businessdom but to politicaldom.
    Even at the very moment the report was released, many illegal drug markets were in their normal operation in the U.S. and a number of people were trespassing borders for smuggling and secret sale of drugs.
    The U.S., ill-famed for the world's biggest drug dealing and drug smuggling, kept mum about those illegal acts in its own land but had temerity to slander the DPRK which has nothing to do with the drug smuggling. It is the height of impudence.
    What should not be overlooked is that it defiled even the political system in the DPRK, while spreading a rumor about its drug smuggling.
    Explicitly speaking, a basic principle governing the activities of the Workers' Party of Korea and the DPRK government is to regard man as the most precious being in the world and devote everything to the work to train everyone as a highly civilized human being of sound body and mind.
    It is a well known fact that the drug abuse and their secret sale are strictly banned by law in the DPRK as they reduce people to mental cripples and the production, use and import of any substance for health care and scientific researches are subject to strict state control and the relevant law in the DPRK.
    In zealously spreading all sorts of false stories about the DPRK, while increasing pressure upon it over its nuclear issue the U.S. seeks to force it to scrap its nuclear program first and lay down its arms. This is, however, nothing but a delusion.
    Now that the Bush administration gets more undisguised in its hostile policy toward the DPRK while escalating on a phased basis its political provocation against the DPRK, it can not but be strange for the latter to sit at the negotiating table with the U.S. to discuss the nuclear issue, a product of the deep-rooted bilateral mistrust.
    The U.S. should make a bold switchover in its hostile policy toward the DPRK, clearly understanding that with nothing can it mar the international image of the DPRK.