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Bolton's Anti-DPRK Remarks under Fire

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

   Pyongyang, January 22 (KCNA) -- Bolton, former U.S. ambassador to the UN, in his article contributed to the "Wall Street Journal" let loose a spate of reckless remarks. He claimed that the U.S. should pull out of the dealing with north Korea and opt for a high-handed policy as the presentation of its report on nuclear declaration is delayed. He also blustered that the U.S. should plug south Korea into the PSI and build a triangular cooperation mechanism involving the U.S., Japan and south Korea to pressurize north Korea and it should not be de-listed as a "sponsor of terrorism" under any circumstances.
    Minju Joson Tuesday in a signed commentary assailing his utterances observes that it cannot but disclose Boltonfs wicked intention to torpedo the process for the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula.
    It goes on:
    As far as some problems that cropped up at the second phase for the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula are concerned, they surfaced because the countries participating in the six-party talks failed to keep pace with the measures taken by the DPRK to implement the agreement and the speed at which it has pushed ahead with them in all respects.
    The process for the denuclearization of the peninsula is under special circumstances as it can make progress only when the six parties honestly fulfill their commitments on the principle of "action for action." Herein lies the reason why the DPRK asserts that the observance of the principle of simultaneous action is vital to advancing the above-said process.
    The U.S. committed itself to cross the DPRK off the list of "sponsors of terrorism" and stop the application of the "Trading with the Enemy Act" against it until the end of last year according to the Oct. 3 agreement adopted at the six-way talks but the U.S. has been hesitating to do so. It is quite self-evident that the DPRK cannot unilaterally implement its commitments under this situation.
    If the U.S. is truly willing to advance the process for the denuclearization of the peninsula, it should simply honor its commitments.
    The call made by U.S. conservative hardliners for building the above-mentioned mechanism, misinterpreting the truth about the situation, cannot be construed otherwise than an artifice to achieve their sinister aim.