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KCNA Urges U.S. to Rebuild Groundwork of Six-party Talks

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

    Pyongyang, May 18 (KCNA) -- The U.S., turning aside from the DPRK's just proposal for the resumption of the six-party talks, has recently floated the misinformation that the talks have not been resumed due to the latter's attitude. Boucher, spokesman for the U.S. State Department, asserted that the six-party talks have not been resumed due to north Korea, blustering that Pyongyang would gain nothing unless it returns to the talks. Hill, U.S assistant secretary of State who is also chief delegate of the U.S. side to the talks, argued that the prospect of north Korea returning to the talks remains untransparent.
    This is a gangster-like assertion reminding one of a thief crying "Stop the thief!" It glaringly shows the impudent double-dealing nature of the U.S., a past master of plot and deception.
    It is none other than the U.S. which is chiefly to blame for the deadlocked six-party talks and the delay in the settlement of the nuclear issue between the DPRK and the U.S.
    Ever since the outset of the talks the U.S. has insisted on its assertion that the DPRK scrap its nuclear program first, sticking to its wrong stand that "dialogue is possible but not negotiation", thus deliberately rendering the talks fruitless.
    No sooner had the third round of the six-party talks ended in June last year than the U.S. instructed senior officials of its administration to appear to insist on CVID and clarify its official stand that there would be no reward unless the DPRK dismantles all its nuclear programs.
    The U.S. went the lengths of creating an unprecedented atmosphere hostile to the DPRK, completely destroying the groundwork of the talks.
    Even after the appearance of the second-term Bush administration, the U.S. did not drop its hostile policy toward the DPRK but totally rejected its system, terming it "a tyrannical regime", thus making it impossible for it to participate in the six-party talks.
    The reality indicates that the U.S. has shown no interest in settling the nuclear issue between the DPRK and the U.S. through the six-party talks but sought to keep the talks going on without any result in a bid to buy time to achieve its black-hearted purpose.
    The DPRK has already clarified through statements of the DPRK Foreign Ministry and statements of a spokesman for the ministry that if the U.S. truly wants the settlement of the nuclear issue between the DPRK and the U.S., it should stop disregarding and insulting its dialogue partner and doing so would be helpful to creating an environment for the resumption of the talks.
    The U.S. propaganda falsifying all these facts is aimed at dragging on the settlement of the nuclear issue on the Korean Peninsula at any cost in a bid to invent a pretext for its sustainable interference in the Northeast Asian issues. For the present, it is designed to bring up the nuclear issue of the DPRK for discussion at the UN Security Council in an effort to create circumstances necessary for sanctions against the DPRK.
    The U.S. lip-service to the negotiated peaceful settlement of the nuclear issue without any effort to rebuild the groundwork of the talks and the resumption of the talks is nothing but a cheap trick to evade its responsibility.
    The DPRK still remains unchanged in its will to denuclearize the Korean Peninsula and seek a negotiated settlement of the nuclear issue between the DPRK and the U.S.