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U.S. Urged to Restore Destroyed Groundwork of Six-Party Talks

Korean Central News Agency of DPRK

    Pyongyang, October 14 (KCNA) -- If the United States has a willingness to seek a peaceful solution to the nuclear issue, though belatedly, it should stop applying double standards over the nuclear issue, drop its hostile policy toward the DPRK and rebuild the groundwork of the six-party talks destroyed by itself, urges Rodong Sinmun Thursday in a signed commentary. The news analyst goes on:
    The U.S. is working hard to put pressure on the DPRK at the United Nations, prompted by its conception of unilateralism and superpower policy. This will only push the situation to a very dangerous phase.
    Recently, senior officials of the U.S. vied with each other in making much ado in a bid to shift the blame for the delayed next round of the six-party talks on to the DPRK and pressurize it to come out to the negotiating table.
    The Bush administration opted to scuttle talks from the very day it took office, totally ignoring the DPRK-U.S. agreements made in the days of its preceding administration. The Bush bellicose group did not regard the DPRK as its dialogue partner, to begin with, by defining it as part of an "axis of evil" and a target of its preemptive nuclear attack. The construction of light water reactors (LWR) which the U.S. had promised to provide to the DPRK ended in its groundwork and the U.S. unilaterally suspended the supply of heavy fuel oil to the DPRK, the only commitment which Washington had implemented under the DPRK-U.S. Agreed Framework, thus scrapping the AF in the long run.
    It is none other than the U.S. which destroyed the groundwork of the six-party talks laid with much effort.
    The U.S. side unwillingly came out to the talks from the contradictory stand that "contacts are possible but negotiations are impossible" and declared that it would not have any negotiations with the DPRK.
    The U.S. unilaterally backpedaled the agreements and promises already made at the talks. At the third round of the six-party talks all the participating sides unanimously agreed on the principle of "words for words", "action for action" and "reward for freeze". But no sooner had the talks closed than the U.S. officially clarified once again its political stand that there would be no reward for north Korea's nuclear freeze.
    Not content with slinging mud at the DPRK, the U.S. went the lengths of letting loose a string of malignant vituperation against the supreme headquarters of the DPRK. It even adopted an act called "North Korean Human Rights Act" in a bid to spend a huge amount of fund for its anti-DPRK sabotage operation out of its government budget.
    The U.S. seems to order the DPRK to kneel down before it and respond to a "dialogue" while sitting in a chair. It is a gross miscalculation and a pipedream to calculate that this American way of thinking will work on the DPRK.