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KCNA Blasts Remarks Made by Spokesman for U.S. Department of State

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

    Pyongyang, September 2 (KCNA) -- A spokesman for the U.S. Department of State on Aug. 29 claimed that the appointment of the "presidential envoy for the human rights issue of north Korea" and the "Ulji Focus Lens-05" joint military exercises have nothing to do with the six-party talks. This is the reckless remark that can be made only by the U.S., the past master at sophism.
    The United States justified this appointment by asserting that this was done according to the act.
    As proven by the history of the U.S., all the acts reflecting its foreign policy were rebuffed by the times and history for being aggressive, arrogant and brigandish in their nature.
    The same can be said of the "North Korean Human Rights Act" which calls for the appointment of the "envoy".
    This is nothing but an act aimed at violating the human rights in the DPRK and an act for bringing down the system there.
    The U.S. is the world's worst human rights abuser as it is engrossed in the politico-ideological and military terrorism to spread the American style "freedom and democracy" under the pretext of "combating terrorism".
    The U.S. institution of the "human rights act" and its try to justify it is no more than a ridiculous and cheap charade.
    The U.S. appointment of the envoy on the eve of the day slated for six-party talks reveals its frantic efforts to resort to political terrorism aimed at bringing down the system in the DPRK, even risking the collapse of the six-party talks. What should not be overlooked is that the spokesman claimed the appointment was something both the president and the secretary of State deemed very desirable. This self-exposes that the "overthrow of the system" in the DPRK is a matter of utmost concern of the U.S. top officials.
    This assertion of the U.S. clearly proved the DPRK was entirely just when it took the appointment to task.
    It is nothing but sophism for the U.S. to claim that the "UFL-05" staged by the U.S. and south Korea was "an annual drill of defensive nature".
    In the past the U.S. suspended the "Team Spirit" joint military exercises in face of strong protest from the DPRK, thus admitting that the war maneuvers conducted by it around the Korean Peninsula could not go with the U.S.-DPRK dialogue. The "UFL" was totally aimed to mount a preemptive nuclear attack on the DPRK, its dialogue partner. If it had been designed to protect the U.S. mainland it should have staged it there.
    The U.S. planned to stage the exercises, timed to coincide with the resumption of the six-party talks and was brazen-faced enough to inform the DPRK of them, thereby making serious mockery of its dialogue partner and compelling it to change its approach to the resumption of the talks.
    With nothing can the U.S. flee from its responsibility for preventing the talks from being resumed as scheduled.
    If it is true that the U.S. is focusing its efforts on the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula, it should stop such farce aimed at hamstringing its process with a hue and cry over "human rights issue".
    Washington's poor excuse in face of hard facts would only throw it into a more deplorable position.