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KCNA Brands El Baradei as Servant for U.S.

Korean Central News Agency of DPRK

    Pyongyang, October 18 (KCNA) -- There are disturbing signs of the attempts to hush up the cases of secret nuclear-related experiments in south Korea against the backdrop of the international community's increasing suspicion and concern about them in the wake of their disclosure. The world is upset by the suspicion about south Korea's nuclear development that has snowballed since the IAEA inspection began and the observation of experts that south Korea has pursued a nuclear weapons development program since the 1970s and has now full access to the nuclear weapons development technology. This goes to prove that the south Korean authorities' assertion that the above-said experiments were just for a peaceful purpose and at an experimental phase is nothing but a hocus-pocus to cover up their criminal purpose and that the nuclear weapons development has been pursued under the manipulation of the government.
    This notwithstanding, IAEA Director General El Baradei during his recent visit to south Korea and Japan claimed that south Korea's nuclear activities were just simple experiments conducted by individual scholars and the third inspection in October was made not because previous two inspection activities were insufficient but it was just a normal procedure, in a bid to downplay the importance of the inspection.
    When the secret nuclear experiments of south Korea were brought to light, he said they aroused deep concern. But he claimed that they were just at an experimental phase and south Korea was trustworthy in a bid to downplay the gravity of the case although south Korea is believed to have acquired nuclear weapons development technology through a series of nuclear-related experiments. This meant that he echoed what the U.S. said to defend south Korea.
    He went the lengths of asserting that there is a fundamental difference between north Korea and south Korea in their nuclear performances because the north pulled out of the NPT, expelled IAEA inspectors and is now in the process of industrializing the reprocessing of nuclear substance. He also made such anti-north provocative remarks that the worst precedent was made by the UN Security Council's passive counteraction and the international community is losing patience over the issue of the six-party talks and that now is the time for the UNSC to do something.
    The nuclear issue between the DPRK and the U.S. cropped up and no progress was made in the six-party talks because the Bush administration has pursued a hostile policy toward the DPRK.
    Such being a stark fact, some forces of the IAEA are keeping mum about the U.S. improper behavior and chiming in with its smear campaign against the DPRK, though it is acting rightly.
    During his recent visit to Israel for the probe into the nuclear suspicion El Baradei did not utter even a word about the nuclear issue of the country, an open secret. He made incoherent remarks when interviewed by media during his visit to south Korea. This is a clear indication that he is a servant for the U.S.
    People mock at him for his mean behaviour, departure from the principle of objectivity and impartiality to be observed by the director general of the IAEA, saying that he seems to seek to serve another term of office by currying favor with the U.S.
    His biased attitude towards the nuclear issue between the DPRK and the U.S. and the nuclear issue of south Korea prompts one to draw a conclusion that he is using the DPRK's open and legitimate nuclear activities as a pretext for hiding south Korea's nuclear issue.
    The dishonest forces of the IAEA are faithfully serving the U.S., a center of nuclear industrial complexes, and are resorting to high-handed and arbitrary practices based on mistrust in the relations with the DPRK under the manipulation of the U.S.
    If El Baradei keeps going partial, quite contrary to justice, conscience and expectation of the international community, he will not be able to evade the responsibility for having stood in the way of the denuclearization of the Korean peninsula and conniving at south Korea's nuclear weaponization and nuclear arms race in Northeast Asia.
    Baradei should behave himself, mindful of the adverse impact his partial and irresponsible behavior will have on the process of denuclearizing the Korean peninsula.
    The DPRK declares once again that as a party directly responsible for the denuclearization of the peninsula it will push for a full probe into the nuclear issue of south Korea to the last and holds that this issue should be clarified before anything else at the multi-lateral negotiations for the denuclearization of the peninsula.