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DPRK FM on Government's Stand for Peace and Stability on Korean Peninsula

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

    Pyongyang, July 31 (KCNA) -- DPRK Foreign Minister Paek Nam Sun, addressing the ministerial meeting of the 12th ASEAN Regional Forum on July 29, said that peace and security on the Korean Peninsula is a key factor of ensuring peace in Northeast Asia and the DPRK government is making every effort to settle the present unstable situation and achieve durable peace and stability on the peninsula. There is no change in the stand of the DPRK government to uphold and thoroughly implement the June 15 North-South Joint Declaration, a milestone for the country's reunification, under any situation, he said, and went on:
    The DPRK has exercised its utmost patience and flexibility in an effort to seek a peaceful negotiated solution to the nuclear issue on the Korean Peninsula. In order to bring about a radical turn in realizing the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula it is necessary to remove the basic factor which compelled the DPRK to have access to nukes.
    Our nukes are not meant to strike the U.S. and we do not intend to keep them permanently.
    We will have neither reason nor necessity to possess even a single nuke if the U.S. agrees to completely remove its nuclear threat to the DPRK and opens the relations of peaceful co-existence with the DPRK.
    If the nuclear issue finds a satisfactory solution, we will return to the NPT and accept the IAEA inspection.
    The six-party talks should prove fruitful by having an in-depth discussion on the ways of denuclearizing the whole Korean Peninsula on the principle of respect for sovereignty and equality under any circumstances.
    To this end, we proposed practical ways of completely solving the nuclear issue at the fourth round of the six-party talks, calling for reaching the common understanding that it is necessary to terminate the hostile relations between the DPRK and the U.S., legally and institutionally open the ties of peaceful co-existence, eliminate all the nukes from the north and the south of Korea, completely remove the possibility of introducing nukes and nuclear substance into it from outside and the U.S. is required to assure the DPRK of an unconditional non-use of nukes with a view to putting an end to the U.S. nuclear threat to the Korean Peninsula and its vicinity. He expressed expectation that the forum would help find a peaceful and fair solution to the nuclear issue on the Korean Peninsula in line with its objective and idea as it identifies respect for sovereignty, non-interference in other's internal affairs and equality with its basic principle.