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Foreign Ministry Spokesman on Issue of Resuming Six-Party Talks

Korean Central News Agency of DPRK

    Pyongyang, October 22 (KCNA) -- A spokesman for the DPRK Foreign Ministry Friday gave the following answer to the question put by KCNA as regards a series of stories spread by the United States recently about the issue of resuming the six-party talks: On October 15 a spokesman for the U.S. State Department falsified the fact by claiming that the present deadlock is due to the DPRK's failure to respond to the six-party talks and clarified that its Secretary Powel would visit some participating countries to discuss the resumption of the talks.
    It admits of no argument that the six-party talks for a peaceful solution to the nuclear issue could not be resumed because its groundwork was destroyed by the U.S. and south Korea's nuclear issue surfaced, etc.
    Nevertheless, the U.S. is talking this or that about the issue of the resumption of the talks, paying no heed to the call of the DPRK for restoring that groundwork of the talks.
    The denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula was proposed by the DPRK before any others as early as in the middle of the 1980s.
    As for the six-party talks, they were proposed and translated into reality by the DPRK before any others to seek a negotiated solution to the nuclear issue. So the DPRK is responsible for the talks.
    This being a hard fact, the U.S. foolishly tries to lay the blame for the delay in the resumption of the six-party talks at the DPRK's door, advertising the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula was its invention.
    The DPRK is approaching the six-party talks strictly in its interests. In other words, it will attend the talks if they prove helpful to it as it realized them to settle the nuclear issue.
    For the DPRK to respond to the talks under the coercion and pressure from someone, though it is well aware that they are of no help to it, has nothing in common with its principled stand.
    Participating countries should face up to the reality before peddling the issue of opening the next round of the talks.
    The U.S. is becoming evermore undisguised in its hostile acts against the DPRK as evidenced by PSI exercises staged to blockade and stifle the DPRK and the signing of the "North Korean Human Rights Act" by its president. It has gone the lengths of foolishly working to bring up the nuclear issue for discussion at the UN Security Council.
    It is clear to everybody that it is hard to open the talks now that the dialogue partner is totally denied and pressurized.
    Peddling this issue despite this hard reality would only invite scoff of the world.
    The U.S. oft-repeated call for the resumption of the talks would only glaringly prove that it is playing a piece of sleight of hand in the run-up to the presidential election.
    If that is not the real intention of the U.S., the DPRK would like to ask the U.S. whether the groundwork of the talks has been restored as demanded by the DPRK, whether it is ready to drop its hostile policy towards Pyongyang and participate in making "reward for freeze," the first-phase measure of the proposal for a package solution based on the principle of simultaneous actions and discuss south Korea's nuclear issue before anything else with a view to denuclearizing the Korean Peninsula.
    The U.S. would be well advised to stop busying itself to build up public opinion in a bid to cover up its evermore undisguised hostile acts against the DPRK and make good preparations to fully consider all its demands.
    The resumption of the six-party talks depends on whether the U.S. is ready to fully consider the demands raised by the DPRK.