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KCNA Dismisses Story about DPRK's Pursuance of "Uranium Enrichment Program"

Korean Central News Agency of DPRK

    Pyongyang, October 5 (KCNA) -- There is public opinion in the United States that the story about the DPRK's development of "uranium enrichment" was deliberately faked up by the Bush administration to prevent the inter-Korean and the DPRK-Japan relations from improving. Selig Harison, senior researcher at the U.S. International Policy Center, in an article criticized the Bush administration for hyping up the threat caused by uranium, asking it if the administration has any evidence to support its assertion that north Korea has developed weapon-grade uranium enrichment facilities.
    The story about the DPRK's uranium enrichment program much touted by the U.S. is nothing but groundless and base propaganda. It was a product of the despicable plot hatched by ultra neo-conservatives of the U.S. in the wake of U.S. presidential envoy Kelly's Pyongyang visit in October 2002.
    The U.S. asserted that the DPRK must scrap its nuclear program first and it has been pursuing a uranium enrichment program at the several rounds of the six-party talks and other working-level talks only to be rebuffed. It is well known to everybody that far from drawing a proper lesson from this, the U.S. has persistently raised hue and cry over the program and even peddled the story about Pyongyang's "secret sale of uranium hexafluoride" to make its story sound plausible.
    The aim sought by the U.S. in this is to isolate and strangle the DPRK by laying an international siege to it after charging it with nuclear weapons development and, furthermore, topple its political system.
    It is a trite method employed by the Bush administration to fabricate misinformation and encroach upon the independence of sovereign countries on its basis. This is clearly proved by its aggression against Iraq.
    It is a widely known fact that the Bush administration first raised the issue of the development of weapons of mass destruction to invent a pretext to invade Iraq, disarmed it through arms inspection and then brought down its legitimate government.
    The U.S. seems to try to repeat what it did in Iraq in the DPRK. But that is a pipedream.
    The U.S. moves to pressurize the DPRK over its nuclear issue and its adventurous attempt to provoke a nuclear war against it have resulted in totally overturning the groundwork for the dialogue between the DPRK and the U.S. for a solution to the nuclear issue and escalating the military tension on the Korean peninsula and this put it on the verge of a war.
    It is the established war scenario of the U.S. to launch an all-out nuclear war on the peninsula and escalate it into its surrounding areas.
    This military strategy of the U.S. will inevitably spark off confrontation and clashes in Northeast Asia, to say nothing of the Korean peninsula, as it is aimed to establish its unchallenged domination over the region.
    The U.S. invasion of the DPRK would lead to another world war.
    The U.S. had better ponder cool-headedly over the grave consequences to be entailed by the outbreak of a war and stop its policy of pressure upon the DPRK over the nuclear issue and confrontation with it, going against the trend of the times.