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Rice's Vituperation against DPRK Refuted

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

    Pyongyang, May 14 (KCNA) -- A spokesman for the DPRK Ministry of Foreign Affairs Saturday gave the following answer to a question put by KCNA as regards a string of vituperation let loose again by U.S. Secretary of State Rice against the DPRK: Rice in her appearance on CNN chat on May 12 let loose a spate of sophism that the DPRK violated the 1994 DPRK-U.S. Agreed Framework even before the ink of its signature to the agreement was dry, and asserted that its system is a "terrible regime" and it should be "reformed".
    As far as the DPRK system is concerned, it is the true socialist system of Korean style which was chosen by the Korean people themselves and has been glorified by them. Its nature remains unchanged no matter how malignantly Rice defiles it.
    Rice's reckless remarks self-exposed that her loudmouthed recognition of the "sovereign state" and the like were nothing but a ruse to conceal the U.S. attempt at "bringing down the regime" of the DPRK and mislead the public opinion.
    While talking about the "peaceful settlement" of the nuclear issue, Rice did not forget to make threatening remarks that the U.S. has still all options on the table and keeps strong deterrent against the DPRK.
    This fully revealed the U.S. attempt at a military invasion of the DPRK as it is quite different from the Bush group's oft-repeated utterances that the U.S. has "no intention to invade" the DPRK.
    The Bush group is the world's infamous tyrannical regime that should be radically reformed and changed.
    No one can deny that various parts of the world have turned into seas of blood and it has become turbulent since Bush's neo-conservative group came to power.
    It was none other than the Bush administration that scrapped the DPRK-U.S. Agreed Framework.
    We would like to cite some instances proving how it did.
    The DPRK fully implemented all its commitments such as freezing all its nuclear activities and perfectly ensuring the surveillance by IAEA inspector s according to the AF.
    But the Bush administration had not properly honored its commitments under the AF but acted diametrically contrary to it right after it came to power.
    Paragraph 1 of the AF commits the U.S. to providing light water reactors (LWR) to the DPRK by 2003. But only groundwork had been carried out for their construction in ten years.
    Under this paragraph the U.S. is also obliged to deliver heavy fuel oil to the DPRK every year until the construction of LWRs is completed. But it totally suspended this supply after inventing the rumor about the nonexistent "enriched uranium program" of the DPRK. Paragraph 2 calls on the DPRK and the U.S. to go in for fully normalizing the bilateral political and economic relations.
    The U.S., however, had persistently pursued its hostile policy and economic embargo and, worse still, listed the DPRK as part of "an axis of evil".
    Paragraph 3 commits the U.S. to giving its formal assurances that it will neither use nukes nor pose any nuclear threat to the DPRK. But, it designated the DPRK as a "target of preemptive nuclear attack", far from offering such assurances.
    Paragraph 4 requires the DPRK to accept nuclear inspection after the U.S. full delivery of non-nuclear parts, including LWR turbines and generators.
    Nevertheless, the U.S. had never honored any of its commitments but put pressure upon the DPRK to accept the nuclear inspection. In the long run, all the paragraphs of the DPRK-U.S. Agreed Framework had been scrapped due to the U.S. noncompliance with all its promises for ten years and what it called "enriched uranium program" cooked up by it to evade its responsibility for the non-compliance with them.
    This truth has been recognized by anyone of intelligence and reason.
    All the remarks of Rice prove that she is either a woman ignorant of the DPRK-U.S. history or a brazenfaced liar.
    We cannot but be confused by such incoherent remarks made by the secretary of State of the "superpower".
    Call a spade a spade.