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U.S. Hard-line Policy toward DPRK Slammed

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

   Pyongyang, March 5 (KCNA) -- These days the U.S. conservative hardliners are talking nonsense that the points agreed at the six-party talks have not been properly implemented due to the "delaying tactics" of the DPRK and, accordingly, the Bush administration should stick to its hard-line policy toward the DPRK, not appeasing it. They are even blustering that it is seriously "mistaken" if it calculates it can produce a better agreement with the next U.S. administration.
    Commenting on this, Rodong Sinmun today terms this a provocative move to scuttle the six-party talks and lay an obstacle in the way of settling the nuclear issue on the Korean Peninsula in a bid to deteriorate the existing hostile relations between the DPRK and the U.S. and bring the situation on the peninsula to an extreme pitch of tension.
    The U.S. conservative hardliners are not seeking the negotiated settlement of the nuclear issue on the peninsula but working hard to attain their sinister aim with a strong-arm policy by shifting onto the DPRK all the responsibilities for the delayed implementation of the points agreed at the six-party talks, the commentary says, and goes on:
    They are blustering that the new U.S. regime would never pardon the DPRK while talking nonsense that it is delaying the implementation of the above-said points. This is a short-sighted and foolish ruse to frighten and stifle it with pressure and blackmail.
    It is preposterous and ridiculous for them to float rumor that the DPRK pins any hope on the next U.S. president. It is a very wrong way of thinking for them to regard their one-sided hard-line policy toward the DPRK as a cure-all.
    They had better clearly understand that if the U.S. opts for the one-sided hard-line policy toward the DPRK, the bilateral relations will reach an extreme phase and everything go up in smoke.
    The DPRK does what it should do and refrains from what it should not do no matter what others may say. The U.S. conservative hardliners are sadly mistaken if they calculate they can wrest any concession from the DPRK with a strong-arm policy.
    They would be well advised to discard a foolish delusion and behave with reason in the realistic way of thinking.