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U.S. Urged to Rebuild Groundwork of Six-party Talks

Korean Central News Agency of DPRK

    Pyongyang, December 14 (KCNA) -- The United States is these days misleading public opinion to shift the blame for the delayed resumption of the six-party talks on to the DPRK, far from rebuilding the groundwork of the talks which it destroyed itself. Commenting on this, a Rodong Sinmun analyst Tuesday says:
    U.S. Deputy State Secretary Armitage during his recent junket to Japan uttered the rigmarole that it was like compensating to misbehavior to show a positive gesture, though symbolic, to north Korea and that would be little short of sending a wrong signal.
    The U.S. is letting loose such nonsensical blast to shift its responsibility for the deadlocked six-party talks onto the DPRK while persistently charging the DPRK with nuclear development.
    The DPRK's stand to seek a negotiated settlement of the nuclear issue between the DPRK and the U.S. remains unchanged. It is its stand to step up the process of the six-party talks in such a manner as to help toward the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula.
    It is not the aim of the talks to keep them go on for the mere form's sake.
    It is useless to hold talks, even a hundred times, without producing any substantial results. As already made clear by the DPRK, it intends to follow with patience the course of policy-shaping by the second-term Bush administration. We think this is a wise act.
    It is a clumsy and nasty deed for the U.S. to try to mislead public opinion in an effort to create the impression that it is interested in the resumption of the six-party talks and the peaceful solution to the nuclear issue while remaining indifferent to the restoration of their groundwork which it destroyed.
    The DPRK-U.S. contact in New York showed that the U.S. is seeking to exploit the process of the talks as a lever for forcing the DPRK to renounce first all its programs including peaceful nuclear development, not showing still any willingness to make a switchover in its policy toward the DPRK. Should the U.S. persist in this wrong stand, it would be hard to resume the talks .The U.S. rectification of its hostile policy toward the DPRK is neither a gift nor a reward to the DPRK but is a key link in solving the nuclear issue.
    If the U.S. continued to force its confrontational hostile policy toward the DPRK that would result in prompting it to redouble its deterrent force, much less solving the nuclear issue.
    The U.S. should take a confident-building attitude, clearly understanding the principled and consistent stand of the DPRK regarding the U.S. policy switchover as the key to the settlement of the nuclear issue.