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U.S. Double Standards Accused

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

    Pyongyang, October 23 (KCNA) -- The DPRK will neither accept nor allow the unjust double standards of the U.S. over the nuclear issue in the future, too. There will be a prospect of settling the nuclear issue only when the U.S. gives up the unfair and prejudiced double standards over the nuclear issue as demanded by the DPRK. Rodong Sinmun today says this in a signed commentary. It goes on:
    The U.S. is allowing some countries to go without any trouble even after failing to fulfill their commitments under the NPT, while pressurizing other countries to remain true to it.
    The U.S. has connived at and even cooperated with Israel in its development and production of nukes and kept mum about Japan which has stepped up its moves to emerge a nuclear power after stockpiling plutonium more than what it actually needs,
    Recently the U.S. has become evermore undisguised in its policy of double standards. To cite a few examples, it promised those countries outside the NPT to transfer nuclear technology to them and expressed its "willingness" to permit some countries' nuclear activities for peaceful purposes on condition. In the final analysis, the U.S. stand on the nuclear issue depends on whether a country is its ally or not.
    Its approach towards the nuclear issue on the Korean Peninsula is a typical example of its double standards.
    The DPRK demands that the U.S. take measures and treat the former as it does those countries which possess nukes outside the NPT. The U.S. words that it respects the DPRK's sovereignty as a member of the United Nations can be proved in practice only when it behaves so.
    If the U.S. persistently clings to its double standards over the nuclear issue, lending no ear to the DPRK's demand, this behavior will only result in paralyzing the worldwide nuclear non-proliferation regime and disturbing the world stability.