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U.S. Hard-Line Policy Not Workable on DPRK

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

    Pyongyang, January 27 (KCNA) -- The U.S. policy to isolate and stifle the DPRK proved bankrupt in the 20th century. But the Bush administration pursued it with increased zeal last year, blocking the way of improving the DPRK-U.S. relations and rendering the situation extremely tense. Rodong Sinmun today observes this in a signed article. From the very day of its appearance the second-term Bush administration revealed its intention to escalate the policy under the motto of "hard-line," the article notes, and goes on:
    The U.S. warlike forces said that it is difficult to push forward dialogue without discussing the issue of the DPRK's abandonment of its nuclear program before anything else. Clear is the aims sought by the U.S. through this. It seeks to project the above-mentioned issue as a pending issue related to the DPRK-U.S. relations, complicate the dialogue with the DPRK and indefinitely drag on it, using it as a pretext. Another design sought by it is to keep its forces in south Korea for an indefinite period, aggravate the military confrontation on the Korean Peninsula and weaken the deterrent of the DPRK and thus swallow it up with ease any moment.
    The U.S. warmongers declared the DPRK an "outpost of tyranny" and a "criminal state".
    The U.S. ceaselessly took issue with the DPRK over the issues of "democracy", "human rights" and "religion" and imposed even sanctions on the DPRK. The U.S. imperialists attempted to mount a preemptive attack on the DPRK with their forces in the mainland, the Pacific and south Korea, the Japan "Self-Defense Forces" and the south Korean forces involved.
    But, no hard-line policy of the U.S. imperialists could work on the DPRK.
    The DPRK has invariably maintained the revolutionary line of Songun, closely watching the undisguised moves of the enemies for a new war. The important lesson the Korean people drew again last year is that they should maintain the highest degree of vigilance against the cunning double-dealing tactics of the Bush administration over the issues of the six-party talks and the DPRK-U.S. relations and that they should decisively counter the U.S. imperialists' hard-line policy with the toughest policy.
    Any concession in the acute standoff with the U.S. imperialists invites a ruin. A concession will result in a hundred concessions and finally invite death and national ruin.
    It is the invariable stand of the DPRK to respond to favor with favor and a hard line with the toughest stand.