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Negotiated Solution of Nuclear Issue Urged

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

   Pyongyang, April 13 (KCNA) -- It is the consistent stand of the DPRK to seek a peaceful negotiated settlement of the nuclear issue and its ultimate goal is to realize the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula.
    A DPRK delegate said this in a speech made at the annual meeting of the United Nations Disarmament Commission on April 8.
    Recalling that now a very tense situation is prevailing on the Korean Peninsula due to the reckless moves of the anti-DPRK, anti-reunification forces at home and abroad, he added these acts cannot but be a very regretful development as they are aimed at bringing back the positive situation in the region favorable for reconciliation and cooperation to the phase of confrontation.
    He said that the DPRK government has made patient efforts for the peaceful solution to the nuclear issue but the U.S. has not yet taken any measures to cross the DPRK off the list of sponsors of terrorism and stop applying the trading with the enemy act to it, the commitments the U.S. should fulfill on the principle of action for action.
    If the U.S. sincerely wishes the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula, it should not throw hurdles in the way of settling the nuclear issue with such hostile actions as joint military exercises with south Korea but show its will to unroll its hostile policy towards the DPRK in practice as it committed itself to do so, he declared.
    The south Korean authorities should stop heading for the anachronistic confrontation with the DPRK, being subservient to outside forces, but behave themselves as required by the historic June 15 joint declaration and the October 4 declaration, he urged.
    Holding that this meeting should mark an occasion in realizing the strong desire of humankind for a nuclear-free world, he urged the nuclear weapons states, the U.S. having the world's biggest nuclear arsenal, in particular, to commit themselves to take substantial measures for nuclear arms reduction aimed at the complete elimination of nuclear weapons and thus contribute to attaining the objective of the meeting.