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Spokesman for DPRK Foreign Ministry Assails Rice's Reckless Remarks

Korean Central News Agency of DPRK via Korea News Service (KNS)

    Pyongyang, April 25 (KCNA) -- A spokesman for the DPRK Foreign Ministry answered a question put by KCNA Monday as regards the fact that the United States threatened the DPRK again over the nuclear issue. On April 21, U.S. State Secretary Rice in an interview with the U.S. FOX TV let loose the threatening remarks against the DPRK that the U.S. would go to the UN Security Council and it would not wait with folded arms for the north Koreans to return to the six-way talks.
    The spokesman said:
    As we have already declared time and again, it is our consistent ultimate goal to denuclearize the Korean Peninsula and there is no change in our principled stand to attain it through negotiation.
    What matters is that there are still no conditions and justification for the DPRK to participate in the six-way talks.
    If the United States is really interested in the resumption of the six-way talks, it should provide the DPRK with conditions and justification to return to the talks. The U.S. may know too well what conditions and justification it means.
    Nevertheless, far from showing elementary respect and sincerity to the dialogue partner, it is seriously getting on the nerves of the DPRK, making official figures of its administration blare that the U.S. will dash north Korea's ambitious nuclear program under the eyes of the international community and it has the right and possibility to bring the issue to the UNSC.
    The Bush administration's behaviour is nothing but coercion. It is not interested at all in providing the DPRK with the justification to participate in the talks, which it had deprived of the latter, but intends to bring the issue to the UNSC in a bid to resolve it through sanctions if the latter disobeys.
    Those countries participating in the six-way talks are disillusioned with such insincere and irresponsible actions. For the resumption of the six-way talks, the U.S. should withdraw its remarks about "an outpost of tyranny" at an early date. It is no more than a robber-like demand for the U.S. to unilaterally urge the DPRK to trust the empty word "sovereign state" uttered by the U.S. without retracting the above remarks and come to the talks.
    We can never return to the talks nor can we have any form of dealing with the U.S. unless the ill fame of an "outpost of tyranny" is shaken off.
    The U.S. is threatening that it will refer the nuclear issue to the UNSC, strengthen the PSI and take sanctions against the DPRK. But, these are nothing new to the DPRK. The stand of the DPRK is that the U.S. may bring the nuclear issue to the UNSC, if it wants that so much.
    But, we make one thing clear: The DPRK will regard the sanctions as a declaration of war.
    We are fully ready to cope with everything in a do-or-die spirit and have already prepared all countermeasures against the sanctions.
    We have built the nuclear deterrent force with so much effort despite enormous difficulties in order to effectively cope with the arrogant, outrageous and brigandish method of the U.S.
    Therefore, we remain undeterred by reckless remarks of Rice.
    We know what we should do at the decisive moment and will react to the hardline action of the U.S. with the toughest action.