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Homage to Kim Il Sung on New Year

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

    Pyongyang, December 31 (KCNA) -- The United States is chiefly to blame for inciting confrontation with the DPRK and blocking the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula. Rodong Sinmun today says this in a signed article dealing with the six-party talks for the settlement of the nuclear issue in the peninsula which has attracted the attention of the international community this year. A dark shadow cast on the six-party talks is entirely attributable to the U.S. hostile policy toward the DPRK, the article says, and goes on: If the U.S. had stopped putting pressure on the DPRK and honestly approached the dialogue with it as unanimously demanded by public opinion at home and abroad, an epochal occasion could have been marked in realizing the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula.
    The U.S. has driven the situation to the brink of war while intensifying military moves seriously getting on the nerves of the DPRK in and around south Korea all the year round.
    This year, in particular, the U.S. has resorted to ill-boding military moves to modify its military strategy in the direction of depending on latest weapons under the pretext of coping with the "possibility of military conflicts with north Korea". It persisted in forcing the DPRK to "abandon its nuclear program first" while putting aside its principled stand and demand. At the first round of the fourth six-party talks the U.S. demanded the DPRK totally abandon nuclear weapons as well as all the nuclear activities including the peaceful use of nuclear energy.
    The wild ambition of the U.S. imperialists to stifle Korean-style socialism centered on the popular masses, the life and cradle of the Korean people, by force of arms and dominate the whole of Korea reached the extremes this year.
    The U.S. ruling forces have made desperate efforts to stifle the socialist system of the DPRK from early days of their assumption of office. They have become all the more pronounced in their moves for "human rights" offensive against the DPRK, appointing a "special envoy in charge of human rights issue in north Korea" this year in the wake of the adoption of the "North Korean Human Rights Act" last year.
    The perfidy of the U.S. to the DPRK, a dialogue partner, was fully exposed in escalating sanctions and pressure on it.
    If the U.S. continues pursuing its hostile policy to stifle the DPRK as it did this year, the nuclear issue would never be settled and, accordingly, denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula would be impossible.