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KCNA Urges U.S. to Remove Obstacle to Six-Party Talks

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

    Pyongyang, January 25 (KCNA) -- A string of outcries are now being heard from Washington making the public skeptical about the attitude of the U.S. administration towards the six-party talks. Schneider, chairman of the Defence Science Committee in the U.S. Department of Defense, was reported to have uttered recently that it is illusion to judge that north Korea stands for the settlement of the nuclear issue and that additional sanctions are one of the options, asserting that north Korea is not likely to abandon its nuclear program through dialogue.
    Such remarks are nothing but an expression of a deliberate intention of the hard-line conservatives to throw bigger obstacles to the six-party talks for the settlement of the nuclear issue.
    The goal of the six-party talks is to denuclearize the Korean Peninsula.
    In order to make the talks serve the purpose of denuclearizing the peninsula it is necessary for the DPRK and the U.S. to find a practical way of solving the nuclear issue and trust and respect each other.
    The U.S. "sanctions" against the DPRK are a wanton violation of the spirit of the joint statement adopted at the talks which calls for mutual respect and peaceful co-existence as they are intended to bring down the latter's system by stifling it.
    Whoever has elementary political sense can know well that "sanctions" are an issue directly related to the six-party talks.
    What matters is that the U.S. grossly twisted the DPRK's stand to realize the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula and resume the six-party talks, not content with trumpeting that financial sanctions against Pyongyang have nothing to do with the talks and its stance on these sanctions is nothing but a pretext to delay the talks.
    The denuclearization of the peninsula is the final goal of the DPRK and the cherished desire of the Korean nation.
    The DPRK clarified its principled stand and attitude towards the denuclearization of the peninsula after the emergence of the nuclear issue between the two countries and advanced a lot of proposals and ways for finding a solution to it.
    Even after the appearance of the Bush administration the DPRK manifested the stance that it would regard the U.S. as a friendly nation, not remaining hostile to it, if it stops taking issue with the DPRK's system and imposing sanctions upon it, and has made every effort for finding a peaceful solution to the nuclear issue and improving the bilateral relations.
    There is no change in the DPRK's basic stand to remain committed to the goal of denuclearizing the Korean Peninsula, implement the joint statement adopted at the fourth round of the six-party talks and seek a negotiated peaceful settlement.
    The U.S. hard-line conservatives' misinterpretation of the DPRK's stand for the denuclearization of the Peninsula is nothing but a mean trick to mislead the opinion of the nations participating in the six-party talks and the world hoping for the resumption of the talks and shift the responsibility for the talks that remain stalled due to the financial sanctions imposed upon the DPRK by the U.S.
    There can be no smooth and fair talks so long as the U.S. pursues a sinister aim to strangulate the people of the DPRK through sanctions and bring down their system, refusing to co-exist with the latter and trust it.
    If the U.S. truly wants the resumption of the six-party talks and their progress, it had better opt for lifting its financial sanctions against the DPRK and co-existing with it.