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U.S. Attitude towards Six-party Talks Assailed

Korean Central News Agency of DPRK

    Pyongyang, August 18 (KCNA) -- The U.S. is nowadays insisting on its brigandish demand that the DPRK should drop its nuclear program first, once again reverting the DPRK's proposal for "words for words," "action for action" and "reward for freeze" to which the U.S. agreed at the last six-party talks as part of its anti-DPRK diatribe. This will only result in destroying the foundation for the settlement of the nuclear issue. Rodong Sinmun Wednesday says this in a signed commentary. It goes on:
    At the last talks the U.S. set out the "forthcoming proposal" advocating "dialogue" and "negotiations" for the settlement of the nuclear issue. There is, however, no noteworthy change in its stand and attitude.
    The basic foundation of the six-party talks is collapsing due to the recent reckless smear campaign of the U.S. against the DPRK over issue of "human rights," "drug" and "defectors from the north" aimed at the "overthrow of the system" in the DPRK and "its change."
    The U.S. is deploying ultra-modern combat equipment in and around south Korea in real earnest and intensifying the blockade against the DPRK and war exercises against it under the cloak of "reduction and relocation" of the U.S. forces in south Korea, blustering that "the option for the use of force is on the table." This is little short of laying a "time bomb" in the way of the six-party talks and a deliberate act of driving the talks to a collapse.
    Some of the U.S. ruling quarters even assert that the six-party talks are unnecessary and meaningless and the next round of the talks may be put off till the time after the presidential election slated for November.
    Judging from these facts, one may come to a definite conclusion that the U.S. is not interested in the talks but is keen only on stifling the DPRK as it did in Iraq. It is none other than the U.S. that is hamstringing the settlement of the nuclear issue and driving the talks to a breakdown. With neither excuse nor lie can the U.S. justify its criminal attempt or lay the blame at other's door.
    The U.S. is well advised to lend an ear to the demand of other participants in the talks, withdraw its unjust proposal and assertion and take a right option to have a sincere and well-intended way of thinking and stand. The fate of the talks and the prospect of settling the nuclear issue depend on the U.S. attitude.