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KCNA Blames U.S. for Spawning Nuclear Issue

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

   Pyongyang, June 4 (KCNA) -- The NPT Review Conference in New York came to an end a few days ago. Delegates of the conference were increasingly assertive that the nuclear disarmament in the nuclear weapons states should take place before anything else for a proper solution to the issue of non-proliferation of nuclear weapons.
    They were particularly critical of the U.S. which has failed to honor its commitment under the treaty.
    The U.S. is chiefly to blame for having put the treaty into the present deplorable situation. It has developed smaller nukes, withheld the implementation of its commitment to guarantee security and laid down the doctrine of preemptive nuclear attack in breach of the NPT, while deliberately falling short of fulfilling its commitment as nuclear weapons state to cut down nuclear weapons.
    The U.S. has been badly disgraced under a barrage of criticism and censure.
    As proven by the whole course of the conference, the U.S. has been blamed as an author of nuclear issues currently under dispute worldwide.
    The U.S. should take the lead in the implementation of the NPT as it is the world's biggest nuclear developer and possessor.
    However, it has put spurs to the spread of nuclear weapons, far from honoring the treaty.
    It has thus far denied to ratify the CTBT and stepped up the development and production of new type nukes.
    Its nuclear policy has spawned more nuclear issues and crises as it has applied double standards as regards the nuclear issue and threatened the anti-American states that it would preempt nuclear attacks on them.
    Such being a hard fact, the U.S. at the conference worked hard to justify its nuclear policy and pointed accusing fingers at other countries.
    A particular mention should be made of the fact that it busied itself to build up public opinion critical of the DPRK's "nuclear ambition."
    These are just part of the examples of the arrogant attitude and brazen-faced actions taken by the U.S. as regards nuclear issues.
    The recent conference clearly indicated what is a stumbling block lying in the way of solving the nuclear issue between the DPRK and the U.S.
    Since the very day the issue surfaced the DPRK has demanded from the U.S. the solution to the elementary issues which a nuclear weapons state should have naturally guaranteed a non-nuclear state.
    Had the U.S. respected the NPT from the outset and given the non-nuclear states unconditional assurances against the use of nukes and refrained from pursuing the development of smaller nukes for preemptive attack, the DPRK-U.S. nuclear issue would not have surfaced.
    The U.S. should also have respected the legitimate right of non-nuclear states to use nuclear technology for peaceful purposes.
    Closely following the conference, the DPRK expected that the U.S. would honestly repent of its past wrongdoings, though belatedly. But it behaved quite contrary to the expectation.
    Things will not change as long as the U.S. keeps pursuing its strategy to dominate the world based on its nuclear stick policy.
    The outcome of the conference left a question mark: Even in case of the DPRK's return to the six-party talks will the U.S. truly give the DPRK exceptional assurances which it has never done to any other non-nuclear states?
    It was against this backdrop that the DPRK proposed to discuss the nuclear disarmament issue at the six-party talks on an equal standing.
    It is the DPRK's judgment that it would be hard to expect any good results from the six-party talks should the U.S. stick to its self-justified nuclear policy and assertions.