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U.S. Anti-DPRK Diatribe Assailed

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

    Pyongyang, October 18 (KCNA) -- A spokesman for the Foreign Ministry of the DPRK answered the following question put by KCNA on Oct. 18 as regards the U.S. escalated anti-DPRK smear campaign: The United States is putting into practice sanctions blocking the legitimate financial transaction of the DPRK while making much ado about its "illegal deals such as drug deal and counterfeit notes".
    As a matter of fact, the DPRK does not feel any need to refute every fiction about "illegal deals" spread by the U.S. Its recent diatribe is nothing but a version of the trite psychological warfare conducted by the U.S. administration to justify its hostile policy toward the DPRK as the former has slandered the latter by attaching a variety of labels such as "part of an axis of evil" and "a rogue state."
    In other words, the U.S. administration's evermore undisguised smear campaign against the DPRK is prompted by its foolish ambition to impair the ever-rising prestige of the dignified DPRK and put international pressure upon it in a bid to shake its "system." This indicates that the U.S. remains unchanged in its real intention to "bring down the system" in the DPRK.
    Why is the U.S. getting so frantic in its anti-DPRK smear campaign at this moment?
    By applying sanctions against the DPRK in a "roundabout way" the Bush administration seeks to put pressure upon it in advance so as to pressurize Pyongyang to accept the former's assertion that the latter should abandon its "nuclear program first" at the six-party talks slated to take place in the future. This compels the DPRK to suspect whether the Bush administration has the willingness to implement the joint statement of the six-party talks or not. The DPRK has already declared that it would regard the U.S. sanctions against it as a declaration of war.
    If the U.S. persists in its hostile acts against the DPRK contrary to the spirit of the joint statement of the six-party talks, the DPRK will be left with no option but to take self-defence steps to cope with those acts.
    The DPRK does not say empty words.