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KCNA Blasts U.S. Gimmick to Evade Responsibility for Deadlocked Talks

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

    Pyongyang, February 11 (KCNA) -- The United States is now busy floating fictions of "smuggling of fake cigarettes" and "smuggling of drugs" in a bid to achieve a sinister purpose, not content with peddling the lie about "counterfeit notes." Shortly ago, a White House spokesman blustered that the U.S. would never tolerate north Korea's involvement in illegal activities, referring to the reports of American newspapers to the effect that "fake cigarettes" made in north Korea are on sale in American markets. Meanwhile, the U.S. secretary of defense said that the prospect of the resumption of the six-party talks remains gloomy because the DPRK is acting against the U.S. financial sanctions, uttering that counterfeit notes, drug smuggling and sale of missile technology are north Korea's main source of revenue. Underlying these outbursts is the U.S. foolish and mean attempt to tarnish the international image of the DPRK and shift the responsibility for the stalled six-party talks on to it at any cost.
    What the U.S. conservative hard-liners seek is to delay the six-party talks under any pretext, escalate the tension on the Korean Peninsula and thus draw water to its mill to meet its own political interests.
    They fabricated something new and deliberately created an obstacle to the talks prompted by such way of thinking whenever there was a sign of their progress. They cooked up the story of "counterfeit notes" and kicked up the row for sanctions against their dialogue partner even before the ink got dry on the joint statement adopted at the fourth round of the six-party talks, spoiling the atmosphere of the talks. The Bush administration held a briefing on the "counterfeit notes" of the DPRK in Washington last December but failed to produce any clear evidence. This proved that it was nothing but a farce.
    It is a true nature peculiar to the U.S. to spread sheer lies and interfere in the internal affairs of other countries and realize its attempt at aggression on their basis. A clear proof of this was the brigandish armed invasion launched by the Bush administration against Iraq on the basis of its false information. That was why the unbiased international public opinion dismissed the stories about "smuggling of fake cigarettes" and "drug smuggling" and the like spread by U.S. media as a stereo-typed lie faked up by the U.S. ruling quarters and is demanding the U.S. immediately lift sanctions against the DPRK.
    The U.S. gimmick to mislead the public opinion by spreading more lies while defying such demand will never convince the international community.