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KCNA Refutes U.S. Lie bout DPRK's Scrapping of AF

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

    Pyongyang, May 18 (KCNA) -- Recently Bush war-like forces keep floating misinformation that DPRK scrapped the DPRK-U.S. Agreed Framework. In a word, this is nothing but a desperate attempt of the present U.S. administration to evade its responsibility for its foreign policy failure and soothe the criticism and derision of the U.S. at home and abroad.
    The international community had looked forward to a change in the foreign policy of the 2nd-term Bush administration while criticizing the unilateral and high-handed foreign policy of the U.S. whereby it ignited the Afghan and Iraqi wars, engulfing various parts of the world in wars.
    Challenging this, the present Bush administration has carried its foreign policy into extremes. It asserted a more high-handed and excessive role of the U.S. in handling global issues and let loose a whole string of provocative remarks such as an "axis of evil" and "outposts of tyranny".
    The April 26 issue of the New York Times in a by-lined article noted that the Bush administration committed the biggest mistake in its foreign policy in handling the north Korean issue.
    Its writer claimed that Bush's Korea policy triggered off resentment of north Korea, pushing it to the manufacture of nuclear weapons, resulted in increasing the possibility of the outbreak of the second Korean war and boosted the danger of Japan and other Asian countries going nuclear and the possibility of terrorists acquiring nuclear substance.
    As already known, the DPRK resolutely pulled out of the NPT to cope with the evermore undisguised moves of the Bush administration to isolate and stifle it and had access to nukes for self-defense.
    The ever-increasing U.S. pressure over the nuclear issue and the reality today proved that a powerful force alone can defend justice and uphold truth.
    This being a hard fact, the U.S. again raised a hue and cry over the DPRK's abrogation of the AF. This is little short of a foolish attempt to evade its blame for having created the present complicated situation and justify its moves to isolate and stifle the DPRK.
    The U.S. is chiefly to blame for scrapping the AF.
    The basic spirit of the AF calls on both the DPRK and the U.S. to put an end to the long-standing abnormal bilateral relations and fully normalize the political and economic ties on the basis of respecting each other's sovereignty and giving up hostile intentions.
    The Bush administration, however, has not stood for a peaceful solution to the issues related to the relations between the DPRK and the U.S. but has worked hard to bring the DPRK to its knees, disarm it and swallow up it by force of arms in the end.
    What the U.S. has sought in the several rounds of the six-country talks in the past is nothing but leverage for stifling the DPRK. These facts clearly indicate that the responsibility for having scrapped the AF entirely resides with the U.S.
    It is the common understanding of the international community that the nuclear issue can never find a solution unless the U.S. drops its hostile policy toward the DPRK and has a political will to co-exist with it.
    No matter how hard the U.S. tries to label somebody as a "war-like state", it can never conceal its true colors as the chief criminal who reneged on the points agreed upon between the two sides and disturbed world peace and stability.