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U.S. Smear Campaign against DPRK Blasted

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

   Pyongyang, January 25 (KCNA) -- A spokesman for the DPRK Foreign Ministry on Thursday gave the following answer to a question put by KCNA as regards the recent smear campaign conducted by the U.S. against the DPRK over UN organizations' aid to it: The DPRK has maintained good relations of cooperation with different bodies of the United Nations for several decades. And aid projects of the above-said bodies, including the UNDP, in the country have been carried out strictly in conformity with the UN regulations and in a transparent way.
    Nevertheless, the United States is kicking up another anti-DPRK racket over not much aid funds of the UNDP from the outset of the year to meet its dirty political aims. It talks about "offer of illegal funds" and cries out for "investigating aid projects" and "shelving aid program", asserting for no reason that the DPRK might have used the aid funds for the development of nuclear weapons.
    The United States has made every possible effort to put serious sanctions and blockade against the DPRK. And it is now seeking to intensify pressure on the DPRK and tarnish its image externally by means of blocking the legal aid projects of UN organizations with unjust reasons.
    As the UNDP has denied, the U.S. assertions admit of no argument as they are a sheer fiction.
    News services of different countries have said that the U.S. hard-liners, who set in motion the unilateral financial sanctions on the DPRK as soon as the September 19 joint statement was published and drove the six-party talks to a deadlock, invented what it called "suspected diversion of illegal funds", timed to coincide with the DPRK-U.S. talks in Berlin. Such comment is by no means accidental.
    The DPRK will continue to develop the cooperative relations with the UNDP and other bodies of the UN. However, it will not allow any attempt to politicize the aid project nor accept conditional or unjust aid at all.
    The U.S. will be wholly accountable for all consequences to be entailed by its ongoing reckless campaign against the DPRK.