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KCNA on U.S. Political Provocation

Korean Central News Agency of DPRK

    Pyongyang, August 20 (KCNA) -- The United States is much publicizing "human rights issue" and "drug trafficking" in the DPRK. Recently U.S. Congress adopted a bill on human rights in north Korea which called for providing financial and material aid for the overthrow of the political system in the DPRK and urging a third country to observe it.
    The U.S. seeks to tarnish the international image of the DPRK over human rights and drug issues and politicize and internationalize those issues in a bid to bring down its inviolable political system.
    What type of a political system the DPRK has and what sort of lifestyle its people follow are their internal issue and the U.S. is, therefore, not entitled to say this or that about them.
    As the DPRK has already clarified more than once, its people fully enjoy genuine freedom and rights under the socialist system where all people form a big harmonious family. It is the consistent popular policy of the DPRK government to guarantee them human rights to the last in a responsible manner.
    It is, therefore, preposterous for the U.S. to take issue with the human rights situation in the DPRK as it pleases, talking rubbish about "poor human rights performance" in disregard of the true picture of the country.
    Its talk about the drug trafficking is nothing but sheer nonsense. The crimes related to drugs are subject to strict control by the most popular and revolutionary laws under the man-centered socialist system in the DPRK.
    The very existence of their source is impossible in the society.
    All facts suffice to prove that a series of issues including human rights and drug issues dreamed up by the U.S. without let-up besides the nuclear issue are aimed to stifle the DPRK and that it has no slightest willingness to co-exist with the DPRK.
    This situation leaves the DPRK skeptical as to whether there would be any need for it to continue to sit at the negotiating table with the U.S. for a solution to the nuclear issue or not.
    The U.S. side backtracked from all agreements reached at the third round of the six-party talks and officially expressed its stand that human rights and other issues should be addressed if the DPRK-U.S. relations are to be normalized even after a solution to the nuclear issue, blustering that there can never be any quid pro quo for the nuclear freeze.
    The U.S. has thus destroyed the foundation of the negotiations for a solution to the nuclear issue of its own accord.
    It is clear that nothing can be expected from any negotiations with the U.S. under the present circumstances.
    The U.S. administration should rebuild the foundation to keep the process of dialogue going and break the present deadlock.
    It is self-evident that no issue between the two countries to say nothing of the nuclear issue can be solved unless the U.S. makes a fundamental switchover in its hostile policy toward the DPRK.