U.S. Urged to Drop Its Policy of Double Standards
Korean Central News Agency of DPRK via Korea News Service (KNS)
Pyongyang, October 22 (KCNA) -- The United States is becoming evermore undisguised in its double-dealing tactics over the nuclear issue, says Minju Joson Saturday in a signed commentary. It goes on: It has secretly supported Israel in its nuclear development, shut eyes to its access to nukes and has recently gone the lengths of transferring nuclear technology to those countries outside the NPT while viciously pursuing the policy to isolate and stifle the DPRK citing the nuclear issue of the Korean Peninsula as a pretext.
It is the U.S. which approves others' access to nukes and transfers nuclear technology to them as it pleases in disregard of the NPT to meet its own interests. The U.S. policy of such double standards on the nuclear issue can never be tolerated as it is a very dangerous policy which would bring nothing but consequences upsetting the worldwide nuclear non-proliferation regime, disturbing world stability and bringing nuclear holocaust to humankind. The DPRK categorically rejects such policy as a serious violation of its sovereignty and dignity.
It is impossible to free the DPRK from nuclear threat, the root cause of the nuclear issue on the Korean Peninsula, as long as the above-said policy of the U.S. remains in force.
It is the demand of the DPRK that the U.S. treat the DPRK the same way it does other states which possess nuclear weapons in actuality outside the NPT. This would provide in practice evidence proving the U.S. commitment to respect the sovereignty of the DPRK, a UN member nation. If the U.S. turns down our demand and keeps pursuing the policy of double standards over the nuclear issue, it would be held fully responsible for all the ensuing consequences.
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