U.S. Call for "Disarmament" of DPRK Refuted
Korean Central News Agency of DPRK
Pyongyang, December 28 (KCNA) -- A spokesman for the DPRK Foreign Ministry gave the following answer to a question put by KCNA today as regards the assertion about the "disarmament" of the DPRK made again by high-ranking officials of the U.S. administration:
Senior most officials of the U.S. administration are reported to have openly asserted again these days that it is necessary to "disarm" the DPRK by "collective pressure". They dared not make such assertion for some time.
This ill-boding assertion helps us guess what a Korea policy the Bush administration will shape for its second term.
Their assertion means, in the final analysis, that the DPRK should lay down its arms and abandon its system, yielding to the U.S. It is an unacceptable demand that can never be met.
The DPRK has already clarified more than once the stand that the DPRK-U.S. nuclear issue is an offspring of the present U.S. administration's extremely hostile policy towards the DPRK and, accordingly, the issue can be settled only when the U.S. drops its hostile policy aimed at the "overthrow of the system" in the DPRK and opts for co-existence with it.
It is nonsensical for the U.S. to assert that the DPRK, which has been in the hostile relationship and technically at war with the former for over half a century, should accept the unilateral demand for "disarmament".
It will be something unimaginable that the DPRK will accept such coercive and brigandish demand.
The U.S. is grossly mistaken if it calculates that the DPRK will lay down its arms of its own accord under any pressure from somebody.
Self-defensive power is our life and soul and the core of our Songun policy is to attach importance to arms.
The U.S. would be well advised to stay calm and do its own business, if it has no will to co-exist with the DPRK.
There is no reason for the DPRK to make haste.
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