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FM. Spokesman Clarifies DPRK's Stand on Six-party Talks and Solution to Nuclear Issue

Korean Central News Agency of DPRK

    Pyongyang, October 8 (KCNA) -- A spokesman for the Foreign Ministry of the DPRK clarified the principled stand of the DPRK as regards the six-party talks and the solution to the nuclear issue between the DPRK and the U.S., holding the Bush administration accountable for its unilateral abrogation of all agreements reached between the DPRK and the previous U.S. administration over the nuclear issue and the prevailing stand-off on the Korean peninsula. This clarification was made in a statement issued Friday to accuse the Bush group of trying to mislead the public opinion in a bid to shift the blame for the delay of the solution to the nuclear issue between the two countries including the resumption of the six-party talks on to the DPRK and garner voters' support with the presidential election at hand.
    Commenting on the stand and attitude of the administration towards the nuclear issue, the statement said that it is the consistent stand of the DPRK government to seek a solution to the complicated and sensitive nuclear issue through bilateral negotiations and added that this stand still remains unchanged. He disclosed that the Bush administration did not come out to the six-party talks with a willingness to solve the issue from the outset. They used them as a leverage to force the DPRK to stand trial over the nuclear issue, bring collective pressure upon it to bring it to its knees and secure a pretext to attack it by force just as it invaded Iraq, he noted.
    Noting that any progress in the six-party talks and a prospect of settling the nuclear issue entirely depend on the U.S. switchover in its hostile policy toward the DPRK, the statement asserted that the DPRK does not care who becomes president in the U.S. and that its only concern is what kind of Korea policy the future administration would shape.
    The six-party talks can be resumed right now if the U.S. rebuilds the groundwork of the talks with a willingness to make a switchover in its hostile policy toward the DPRK though belatedly. But if the new administration does not make such switchover it can never expect any change in the DPRK's stand toward the issue.