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DPRK's Invariable Reply

Korean Central News Agency of DPRK

    Pyongyang, January 10 (KCNA) -- Goodwill with goodwill, hard line policy with tougher measures and "punishment" with severe punishment -- This is the invariable answer of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. The Korean people have always emerged victorious in the wars and confrontation with formidable imperialist enemies under the leadership of the brilliant commanders of Mt. Paektu.
    Under the guidance of President Kim Il Sung, the first generation of the Korean revolution, on the revolutionary principle of arms with arms and blood with blood, accomplished the historical cause of national liberation through the long and hard-fought war against the Japanese imperialists armed to the teeth.
    It is unthinkable apart from the President's wise leadership and Juche-oriented, tough countermeasures that the Korean people won victory in the Korean war (from June 1950 to July 1953) against the U.S. imperialists who had boasted of being the "strongest" in the world.
    In the postwar period, the U.S. continued provoking such incidents as Pueblo, spy plane EC-121 and Panmunjom cases to bring the situation on the Korean peninsula to the brink of war. Each time, however, it could not but drink a bitter cup of water.
    The tradition of tougher counter-action established in the anti-Japanese war has been carried forward by leader Kim Jong Il.
    In the 1990s the DPRK, with such tougher stand, frustrated the wicked plan of the U.S. to completely disarm it and unleash a nuclear war under the pretext of "nuclear suspicion" and exposed in all nakedness the falsity of its allegation that the DPRK would "collapse within three years" and "within five years".
    The Bush administration, calling the DPRK a part of "axis of evil", designated it as a target of nuclear attack. The U.S. ruptured the DPRK-U.S Agreed Framework and replied to the DPRK's efforts for a DPRK-U.S. non-aggression treaty with "blockade", threat of "military punishment" and arrogant stand that it might have contact but no negotiations with the DPRK.
    And it set the International Atomic Energy Agency in motion to internationalize the campaign to stifle the DPRK.
    The DPRK government thwarted such moves of the U.S. with the statement dated January 10, 2003 on its withdrawal from the Nuclear Proliferation Treaty.
    The Korean peninsula still remains the most dangerous hot spot in the world.