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KCNA Holds U.S. Chiefly Accountable for Nuclear Issue of S. Korea

Korean Central News Agency of DPRK

    Pyongyang, December 14 (KCNA) -- As already reported, the International Atomic Energy Agency decided to cover up the nuclear issue of south Korea in a way it thinks fit at a recent meeting of its Board of Governors. In this regard, U.S. media including the Washington Post reported that south Korean diplomats conducted a hectic diplomatic offensive in the run-up to the meeting and wooed the IAEA Board of Governors to quickly adopt a decision in favour of south Korea.
    Meanwhile, the U.S. took an attitude of downplaying the issue even before the results of IAEA inspection were announced, asserting that it was nothing serious.
    This indicates that the decision of the IAEA is an inevitable product of the political plot hatched under the U.S. backstage manipulation and patronage and the lobbying activities of the south Korean authorities.
    The nuclear development has been pushed forward by the successive governments in south Korea for decades as a top secret policy at the U.S. instigation and tacit connivance.
    The U.S., however, feigns ignorance of this, claiming that it has strictly controlled the nuclear development in south Korea and known nothing about its uranium enrichment experiments and extraction of plutonium.
    But it is quite nonsensical for the U.S. to assert that it knew nothing about the nuclear development in south Korea where everything is under the U.S. control and supervision.
    The U.S. signed an "agreement on atomic energy" with south Korea in 1956 and has since been deeply involved in the nuclear development and researches in south Korea. It has strictly supervised the nuclear development in south Korea through the U.S.-south Korea "joint committee for cooperation in atomic energy" which met every year.
    It has not only connived at the nuclear development in south Korea and encouraged it but actively helped it in this.
    The experiments of nuclear substance and the manufacture of nuclear weapons in south Korea would have been unthinkable without the U.S. assistance in technology and equipment.
    As the U.S. helped south Korea in shaping a policy on the development of nukes and provided it with material, technical and human assistance, the development of nuclear weapons has reached a very grave phase in south Korea in terms of its nuclear technical forces, the amount of stockpiled nuclear substance, designing of nuclear bombs, technology and equipment for their manufacture and means for their delivery.
    The nuclear substance experiments made by south Korea disclosed this time are just a tip of the iceberg in the light of the present level of nuclear development in south Korea as it has established a perfect system for this purpose, having a major index for nuclear weaponization such as the extraction of nuclear substance, the manufacture of nukes, the possession of means for their delivery and a scenario for a nuclear war.
    These clandestine nuclear experiments conducted by south Korea in a premeditated manner under the U.S. manipulation go to prove that the U.S. has sought to use the six-party talks from their outset for pressurizing the DPRK to disarm itself, not for denuclearizing the Korean Peninsula.
    The countries concerned with the six-party talks have regarded it as their goal to realize the denuclearization of the peninsula. This means that the denuclearization should be realized throughout the peninsula, involving the north and the south.
    If the denuclearization of the peninsula is to be discussed in a realistic manner at the six-party talks, the nuclear issue of south Korea should be taken up before anything else and the truth behind it be thoroughly probed to make everybody understandable. It is quite natural that the DPRK cannot participate in the talks in which the U.S. will only demand the DPRK "scrap its nuclear program first," shutting its eyes to the nuclear issue of south Korea which is under its nuclear umbrella.
    It is as clear as noonday that such talks will get one nowhere.
    The DPRK will closely follow how the U.S. will rectify its double standards in handling the nuclear issue and its hostile policy towards Pyongyang.