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KCNA Refutes U.S. Smear Campaign against DPRK

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

    Pyongyang, November 30 (KCNA) -- The U.S. hard-line conservatives have become evermore undisguised in their campaign to label the DPRK a "lawless state." They painted the DPRK as "the only country in the world which is actively sponsoring crimes", "a criminal state linked with an organized criminal group" and "an abnormal state," asserting that it is linked with the "group engaged in issuing counterfeit notes."
    This is the most malignant mud-slinging at the dignified DPRK and its system.
    It is neither surprising nor new to the DPRK that the U.S. is misleading the public opinion with sheer lies intended to give impression that the DPRK is sponsoring crimes.
    The DPRK can not but take note of the fact that the U.S. hard-line conservatives have escalated the campaign to slander the DPRK as a "lawless state" in a phased manner after the publication of the September 19 joint statement.
    This campaign is part of the U.S. psychological operation to brand the DPRK as "a lawless state", tarnish its image and isolate and stifle its system at any cost.
    By making the story about a "lawless state" an established fact the U.S. seeks to plug the countries participating in the six-party talks and many other countries into an offensive to pressurize the DPRK to "scrap its nuclear program first."
    A principle on the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula was agreed upon at the six-party talks and this laid groundwork for a substantial discussion for its implementation.
    The U.S., however, is staging ceaseless anti-DPRK psychological operations of all sorts aimed at realizing a "regime change" in it and forcing it to "scrap its nuclear program first" behind the scene of dialogue. This is spawning serious problems.
    It is something unimaginable to discuss the issue of forcing the DPRK to "scrap its nuclear program first" given that the U.S. offensive to pressurize the DPRK has gained in an unprecedented dimension.
    The U.S. groundless smear campaign against the DPRK would only increase the skepticism about the former's expression of the willingness to implement the September 19 statement the keynote of which is peace, stability, respect for sovereignty and co-existence. It arouses apprehension as to the fact that the U.S. will escalate its offensive to stifle the DPRK although the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula is realized in the future. The U.S. pressure campaign, therefore, throws a stumbling block in the way of the six-party talks.
    The DPRK's laws assume most popular nature and serve as powerful weapons in providing genuine freedom and democracy to the Korean people. Neither slander nor calumny will ever make those laws to cease to exist as they are strictly observed thanks to the Koreans' conscious enthusiasm and sense of obligation as citizens.
    Such being a hard fact, the U.S. is terming the DPRK a "criminal state" and a "lawless state". This is a base political farce that can be orchestrated by the U.S. only, a country accustomed to fabricating lies.
    The DPRK and Korean-style socialism under which the entire party and all the servicepersons and people are united in single mind will remain unfazed in any storm and stress.
    The U.S. hard-line conservatives would be well advised to clearly understand this and behave themselves.