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KCNA Blasts U.S. Moves to Scuttle Six-Party Talks

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

    Pyongyang, December 19 (KCNA) -- The U.S. is persisting in its campaign to impair the image of the DPRK. The Bush administration recently let such ignorant and rude political hooligans as U.S. Under-Secretary of State Joseph and U.S. Ambassador in Seoul Bershbow make reckless remarks terming the DPRK a "criminal state" and "an enterprise engaged in criminal acts".
    This is one more grave provocation against the DPRK which stands dignified and sacred in the international arena as the above-mentioned "outcries" are nothing but a version of the reckless remarks about "part of an axis of evil" and "an outpost of tyranny".
    The Bush administration painted the DPRK as a "lawless state" and a "criminal state," not content with labeling it a "rogue state." This smear campaign is aimed at creating an environment for implementing its hard-line policy towards the DPRK according to its premeditated "scenario." Once the U.S. said that the DPRK is a sovereign state and it respects the sovereignty of the DPRK. However, the reality proves that this was nothing but a ruse to deceive the international community and buy time for stifling the DPRK militarily.
    It is a hackneyed method the U.S. has employed throughout its history to brand a government and leadership of a country as a "criminal" before perpetrating aggression and intervention in other country and nation. It is well known to everyone that such false propaganda of the U.S. means a prelude to a war of aggression.
    The reckless remarks let loose by the U.S. conservative hardliners are no more than part of the campaign to invent a pretext for starting a war against the DPRK.
    As was the case with Iraq, the U.S. smear campaign is always accompanied by its aggression against a sovereign state and the disturbance of peace and stability and such human rights abuse as massacre, its consequences.
    As far as a "criminal state" is concerned, one cannot but mention the U.S. which was set up through the most savage human rights abuses and which has become rich as a result of aggression, war, plunder and killing.
    The U.S. is the biggest criminal state as it has carried out wars of aggression in different parts of the world and killed innocent civilians in cold blood defying the UN Charter and international law and it is chiefly to blame for zealously fostering terrorism and spreading nuclear weapons. Is there any other lawless and cruel country than the U.S. and any other group of criminals than the Bush group on the earth?
    It is preposterous for the U.S. to dare term the DPRK a "criminal state" and so on.
    The U.S. conservative hard-liners' reckless remarks against the DPRK are an expression of the undisguised hostile policy of the Bush administration towards the DPRK. This is a foolish attempt to justify its financial sanctions against the DPRK and shift the responsibility for the deadlocked six-party talks onto it.
    It is the principled stand of the DPRK that it cannot discuss the issue of the abandonment of the nuclear program unless the U.S. withdraws its hostile policy towards the DPRK.
    The U.S. increased pressure upon the DPRK would only compel it to hold higher the banner of Songun and bolster its deterrent for self-defence in every way to cope with the possible provocation of the hostile forces.