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KCNA Refutes Remarks of Senior U.S. Official

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

   Pyongyang, April 14 (KCNA) -- It is obvious that all the parties concerned should refrain from doing anything detrimental to the fulfillment of the October 3 agreement in order to ensure the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula at present.
    However, Levey, undersecretary of the U.S. Department of Treasury, at a hearing of the Senate Finance Committee on April 1, again raised a hue and cry over "north Korea's counterfeiting" the story of which had already been proved to be a fabrication of the U.S.
    He blustered that the U.S. Secret Service is going with the investigation into north Korea's counterfeiting activities and economic sanctions serve as leverage at the negotiations with north Korea.
    This is nothing but sophism of a wicked guy following the conservative hard-liners intended to tarnish the image of the DPRK and deliberately strain the situation.
    When taking note of the fact that the issue of the frozen funds at Banco Delta Asia put the six-party talks at a stalemate for more than one and half years, his reckless behavior can not be allowed to go unnoticed now that the participating countries' fulfillment of their commitments is high on the agenda.
    Levey, as a high-ranking official of the U.S. administration, asserted that north Korea keeps counterfeiting and economic sanctions serve as "leverage". Such remarks can not be construed otherwise but an attempt to attain a sinister purpose by reversing black and white and getting on the nerves of the dialogue partner.
    As for the story about the DPRK's "counterfeiting", even media of the U.S. disclosed early in January that it was a drama orchestrated by the U.S. itself and its mastermind was the CIA.
    The U.S. conservative hard-liners would be well advised not to miscalculate.
    The DPRK is not afraid of any U.S. sanctions at all since the former has suffered from such sanctions for the past several decades and has no economic relations with the latter.