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KCNA Dismisses Story Spread by "The Washington Post" as Sheer Lie

Korean Central News Agency of DPRK

    Pyongyang, December 4 (KCNA) -- A recent issue of "The Washington Post" released misinformation that "north Korea conducted a test of poisonous gas on human bodies," claiming that it was based on "testimonies made by north Korean defectors." The paper even cited words of the deputy director of an American research center in a bid to make the story sound plausible.
    As he let loose a whole string of vituperation against the DPRK, the newspaper should admit, whether it likes or not, the fact that his "testimony" lacked objectivity because it had something in common with the U.S. hostile policy towards the DPRK.
    We feel no need to waste time accusing "The Washington Post" any more as it used to take part in the smear campaign against the DPRK when necessary. But we cannot but scoff at the newspaper for telling threadbare stories about the Korean issue.
    Early this year, too, U.S. officials busied themselves with staging a Congressional hearing with "north Korean defectors" attending and the like in a bid to support their absurd assertion that "north Korea conducted a chemical weapon test on prisoners." Timed to coincide with this, media of the U.S. and other Western countries made much ado about this "test," a fabrication made by renegades and defectors.
    But the U.S. suffered bitter shame before the international community when those who were involved in the false propaganda disclosed at a press conference the truth about how the false documents had been written.
    We would like to make it clear once again that the fiction about the above-said test hyped by the U.S. again is part of its malicious psychological operation to defame the dignified DPRK's international authority and force it to change its regime.
    The U.S. has left no means untried to stifle the DPRK, seized with inveterate bitterness towards its system.
    The smear campaign launched by the U.S. against the DPRK on the basis of the fiction about the above-said test is nothing new to us as it cooked up a whole string of lies including misinformation about "nuclear development, human rights issue and drug trafficking."
    What matters is that the U.S. is digging up somebody's "problems," pretending to be unblemished and poking its nose into this or that matter, though it is beset with a lot of problems at home and abroad.
    The U.S. failed to make the world understand all its crimes such as indiscriminate killing of innocent civilians and abuse of prisoners in Iraq and so on. Its behavior only proved that it is the worst violator of human rights in the world.
    As already reported, the abuse of Iraqi prisoners by U.S. troops in Iraq put the U.S. into a tight fix and largely sapped its political clout as it was little short of medieval barbarism.
    It is by no means fortuitous that news analysts of different countries commented that the adverse impact the U.S. abuse of prisoners had on it was little short of what the September 11 had on it.
    The recent U.S. diatribe was prompted by its deliberate attempt to deliver it out of its embarrassing situation and divert the world attention elsewhere.
    By charging the legitimate sovereign state with the horrible test unimaginable in the 21st century, the U.S. seeks to impair the image of the DPRK and cover up its monstrous crimes.
    The U.S. renewed smear campaign against the DPRK, a sovereign state, is only heightening its vigilance.
    "The Washington Post" would be well advised to come to its senses as it spread sheer misinformation about the fictitious cases without any consideration.