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U.S. Chiefly Accountable for Having Totally Scrapped DPRK-U.S. Agreed Framework

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

    Pyongyang, January 16 (KCNA) -- The United States can never evade its responsibility for having totally scrapped the DPRK-U.S. Agreed Framework (AF) and delayed the settlement of the nuclear issue in a deliberate manner. Rodong Sinmun Monday observes this in a signed commentary. It goes on:
    Some officials are spreading misinformation that the DPRK is to blame for the end of the unsuccessful construction of the light water reactors (LWRs), while demanding it "compensate" for this.
    The main spirit of the AF called on both sides to respect each other's sovereignty and create reconciliation and trust in order to put an end to the hostile relations between them and, furthermore, ensure peace and security in the Korean Peninsula and other parts of Asia-Pacific and the rest of the world. The LWR project, a key point of the AF, was considered to be a guarantee for terminating the hostile relations between the DPRK and the U.S. and finding a peaceful solution to the nuclear issue on the Korean Peninsula. Under the AF the U.S. was committed to providing two LWRs to the DPRK by the year 2003 in return for the latter's freeze of nuclear facilities and supplying 500,000 tons of heavy fuel oil to it every year till their construction is completed. The U.S. also gave the DPRK assurances that it would not threaten the latter with nukes.
    The U.S., however, has not fulfilled any commitment under the AF. The Bush administration categorically refused to implement the AF and has systematically perpetrated premeditated acts of totally scrapping official documents signed between the DPRK and the U.S., unreasonably asserting that a series of agreements including the AF signed by the preceding regime with the DPRK are "beneficial" to it only, while being harmful to the U.S. interests and prestige.
    It is quite nonsensical for some politicians to urge the DPRK to "compensate" for the unsuccessful end of the LWR construction in stead of holding the U.S. chiefly accountable for the abrogation of the AF.
    It is the DPRK that has to claim compensation for the loss caused by the suspension of the LWR project.
    Whoever is concerned about the nuclear issue on the Korean Peninsula should properly know who stands for the denuclearization of the peninsula and who persistently blocks it.