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KCNA Blasts U.S. Conservative Hard-liners' Moves to Deter DPRK-U.S. Relations from Improving

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

   Pyongyang, December 5 (KCNA) -- U.S. conservative hard-liners are going reckless in their moves to bring the DPRK-U.S. relations back to those of acute confrontation.
    Shortly ago, the Wall Street Journal called on the Bush administration to stick to the DPRK policy it pursued in its early days, asserting that the administration's drastic switchover in its policy toward the DPRK would adversely affect the U.S.-Japan alliance.
    Earlier, Bolton, former U.S. ambassador to the UN, in his autobiography blustered that it was good that Japan linked the "abduction issue" with the nuclear issue, while seriously provoking the DPRK. He, when addressing representatives of anti-DPRK plot-breeding organizations in Japan, went the lengths of crying out for building up opinion among Congressmen and others that the DPRK should not be de-listed as a "sponsor of terrorism" with ease.
    There is a sign of echoing this voice at U.S. Congress, too.
    This is an unpardonable challenge to the unanimous desire of the international community for peace and stability in Northeast Asia as it is a manifestation of extreme hostility toward the DPRK and Cold War-minded view on confrontation which call for isolating and stifling the DPRK, invariably considering it as an enemy.
    As already clarified, the DPRK's access to nukes despite manifold difficulties was to cope with the U.S. continued hostile policy toward the DPRK and threat posed by it.
    It is, therefore, an absolute pre-condition for the DPRK's abandonment of its nuclear program for the U.S. to drop its hostile policy toward the DPRK. The DPRK can never abandon its nuclear program unless the U.S. rolls back its hostile policy toward the DPRK.
    The U.S. conservative hard-liners might know well how the DPRK reacted to the Bush administration's unilateral demand for the abandonment of the nuclear program.
    However, they are clinging to a trite method to maintain Cold War on the Korean Peninsula in a bid to fish in troubled waters.
    What they seek is to rattle the DPRK's nerves without let-up in a bid to make it pull out of the denuclearization process and shift the responsibility for it on to the DPRK.
    Their calculation is that this would provide favorable conditions for justifying its neo Cold War strategy aimed at escalating international tension under the pretext of "preventing the spread of WMD" and for such guys as Bolton to return to the administration. No wonder, U.S. media reported that the conservative hard-liners led by Cheney within the Bush administration are watching for a chance to rise again.
    We don't care whether the U.S. conservative hard-liners support the pragmatic policy towards the DPRK or stoke hysteria of confrontation and whether they put the U.S.-Japan alliance above denuclearization or not.
    We are not serious about the U.S. improving its relations with the DPRK because even its move to bring those relations back to what was before would do the latter nothing bad.