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Spokesman for DPRK Foreign Ministry on Issue of Six-Party Talks

Korean Central News Agency of DPRK

    Pyongyang, January 8 (KCNA) -- A spokesman for the DPRK Foreign Ministry issued a statement Saturday as regards the issue of the six-party talks. The statement said:
    The settlement of the nuclear issue between the DPRK and the U.S. is still delayed as the six-party talks remain at a deadlock.
    In this connection the U.S. is trying to shift all the responsibilities for the deadlocked talks on to us, spreading rumour that the U.S. has done all it can but the DPRK has not responded to it.
    Some countries misunderstand that both the DPRK and the U.S. are accountable for this.
    It is entirely due to the U.S. that the six-party talks have not been resumed and the solution of the nuclear issue is delayed.
    The nuclear issue between the DPRK and the U.S. is a product of the latter's hostile policy toward the former. The U.S. should, therefore, replace its hostile policy towards the DPRK by a policy of peaceful co-existence between the two countries. Herein lies the master key to its settlement.
    The U.S. claims that it does not pursue any hostile policy towards the DPRK nor has any intention to invade it. But it is, in actuality, insisting that the DPRK dismantle its nuclear program first and disarm itself after setting it as its final goal to "bring down its system."
    The U.S. policy hostile to the DPRK and opposing the co-existence with it was clearly evidenced by the developments following the third round of the six-party talks held in June last.
    All the participating countries unanimously agreed on the principle of "words for words" and "action for action" at the talks.
    This notwithstanding, no sooner had the talks come to a close than the U.S. instructed high-ranking officials of the administration to persistently insist that the DPRK accept CVID and clarify its official stand that it can not make any reward unless the DPRK abandons all its nuclear programs. This drove the atmosphere hostile to the DPRK to an unprecedented pitch of tension and completely destroyed the groundwork of the talks.
    The U.S. has increased its military pressure upon the DPRK by announcing its plan to introduce more armed equipment worth 13 billion U.S. dollars and deploying aircraft carriers in the waters around the Korean Peninsula on a permanent basis under the pretext of filling up the vacuum of combat forces caused by the relocation of the U.S. forces in south Korea. It has escalated its moves to isolate and blockade the DPRK by staging PSI exercises targeted against the DPRK.
    The U.S., at the same time, instituted and effectuated "the North Korean Human Rights Act" and painted those who illegally crossed the border as "defectors from the north" in a bid to justify its operation to lure and abduct DPRK citizens. It has frantically conducted a psychological warfare to accelerate the process of "destabilizing and undermining" the system in the DPRK through its smuggling of mobile phones and transistors, etc.
    These facts go to prove that the U.S. has not been interested in finding a solution to the nuclear issue through the six-party talks ever since their outset but sought to isolate, blockade and strangulate the DPRK economically, while letting the talks proceed without any results, and pursued the aim of buying time and creating an environment for putting collective pressure on the DPRK in the long run.
    A sinister aim pursued by the U.S. under the pretext of the nuclear issue was clearly revealed by the fact that while persistently raising a hue and cry over the DPRK's non-existent "uranium enrichment program", it has zealously shielded south Korea from its secret nuclear activities which have been pushed forward in a premeditated manner at the tacit connivance of the U.S.
    The U.S. talk about a negotiated peaceful solution to the issue and the resumption of the talks without any efforts to rebuild the groundwork of the talks is nothing but an artifice to evade its responsibility.
    If the U.S. truly wishes a negotiated settlement of the nuclear issue, it should rebuild the groundwork of the talks unilaterally destroyed by it and drop in practice its hostile policy aimed to "bring down the system" in the DPRK and opt for co-existence with it, though belatedly.
    This is the key to settling the issue.
    Sitting face to face is aimed to terminate hostility and having a dialogue to co-exist with each other.
    It is self-evident that there is no need to sit face to face if the U.S. does not intend to drop its hostile policy towards the DPRK and co-exist with it and even if talks take place under this situation they will not produce any results.
    We have so far shown all sincerity and flexibility.
    As we have already clarified, we will closely follow what a Korea policy the second term Bush administration will shape and react to it.
    This would be quite understandable to everybody.
    It is our consistent stand to denuclearize the peninsula and seek a negotiated settlement of the issue.
    The prospect of settling the nuclear issue between the DPRK and the U.S. will entirely depend on the latter's attitude.