Resumption of Six-Party Talks Entirely Depends on U.S. Attitude
Korean Central News Agency of DPRK
Pyongyang, October 26 (KCNA) -- U.S. Secretary of State Powell was reported to have asserted at a press conference held during his visit to Japan on Oct. 24 that there is no change in the U.S. intention to participate in the multi-lateral talks to settle the nuclear crisis of north Korea and the U.S. will never yield to the negotiating strategy of north Korea which waits for the returns of the presidential election.
Earlier, U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Armitage let loose a string of balderdash that north Korea seems not to have any concern for opening the six-party talks before the U.S. presidential election, saying the U.S. was ready to hold the six-party talks in the near future.
Mandarins of the U.S. State Department vied with one another to assert that the next round of the six-party talks failed to open due to the "delaying tactics" of the DPRK watching for the outcome of the U.S. presidential election. This is nothing but a foolish attempt to shift the blame for the stalemate of the talks on to the DPRK.
It has already been widely known to the world that the nuclear issue on the Korean Peninsula was caused by the U.S. and the groundwork of the six-party talks was destroyed by the Bush administration and the talks have not yet been resumed due to the outbreak of the nuclear issue in south Korea, etc.
Explicitly speaking, it is the DPRK that is responsible for the six-party talks as they were initiated and materialized by it to seek a negotiated peaceful solution to the nuclear issue.
The Bush administration is, however, describing the talks as its merit. But the last three rounds of the talks would be unthinkable without the DPRK's sincere attitude and stand toward the negotiated peaceful settlement of the nuclear issue.
The DPRK has made every possible effort to settle the nuclear issue at the talks with utmost flexibility and magnanimity. But the U.S. side came out to the talks from a wrong stand that dialogue is possible but negotiation is impossible. It only read out the scripts written by the White House, deliberately scuttling the talks.
This being a hard fact, it is preposterous for the U.S. to try to lay the blame for the delayed talks at the DPRK's door.
The DPRK's stand on the six-party talks is quite clear. It approaches them in the state interests and will participate in them if they prove helpful to the solution of the nuclear issue.
The U.S. is grossly mistaken if it thinks the DPRK will respond to the talks under the pressure of others though the DPRK knows well the talks would not be of any help to the settlement of the nuclear issue as the DPRK has strictly adhered to the independent stand in settling all the matters for decades.
It is clear to everyone that it is impossible to open the talks now that the U.S. is becoming evermore undisguised in its hostile policy toward the DPRK while totally denying its dialogue partner and pressurizing it.
The nuclear issue on the Korean Peninsula has become a topic of the debate during the election campaign and there is a hot argument about who is to blame for the delay of the six-party talks with the presidential election fast approaching. Under this situation the Bush administration is employing a sleight of hand to mislead the public opinion at home and abroad and garner support from more electors.
The DPRK would like to question the U.S. whether it has rebuilt the groundwork of the talks as demanded by the DPRK, the talks for which Washington pretends to be so much concerned, whether it is ready to roll back its hostile policy towards the DPRK and participate in "reward for freeze", the first-phase step of the package proposal based on the principle of simultaneous actions and discuss the nuclear issue of south Korea for the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula.
The resumption of the six-party talks entirely depends on the U.S. attitude.
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