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Replacement of Armistice Agreement by Peace Accord Urged

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

   Pyongyang, July 28 (KCNA) -- 55 years have passed since the Armistice Agreement was signed between the DPRK and the U.S.
    In this regard Rodong Sinmun Monday carries a signed commentary which says: In order to prevent the danger of a new war and ensure durable peace on the Korean Peninsula, there is no other way but to put an end to the U.S. hostile policy toward the DPRK and conclude a peace accord between them.
    The above-said policy of the U.S. is a main obstacle to settling the pending issues such as the nuclear issue and ensuring peace on the peninsula, the commentary notes, and goes on:
    The U.S. has systematically violated the fragile AA, instead of replacing AA by a peace accord on the peninsula.
    The hostile policy enforced by the U.S. towards the DPRK has resulted in bedeviling not only the DPRK-U.S. relations but the inter-Korean relations. The situation is further deteriorating. The U.S. drop of the above-mentioned policy is, therefore, essential for defusing the tension and ensuring security on the peninsula. This is also in line with the interests of not only the north and the south of Korea but other countries around it.
    The DPRK has consistently urged the United States to rectify its hostile policy toward the DPRK and replace the AA by a peace accord.
    Had the U.S. rolled back the above-said policy as called for by the DPRK, no such complicated pending issues as what they are facing now would have surfaced between them.
    The U.S. warlike forces are straining the situation behind the scene of the six-party talks while systematically escalating their military moves to invade the DPRK.
    The military tension can never be defused on the peninsula nor can the danger of war be removed from there unless the U.S. drops the above-said policy and replaces the AA by a peace accord.
    Everything depends on the stand and attitude of the U.S.
    The U.S. should not evade its heavy responsibility as the party chiefly to blame for having deteriorated the situation on the peninsula and caused the nuclear crisis but respond as early as possible to the just call of the DPRK for replacing the AA by a peace accord. This would be beneficial not only to ensuring peace and security in Northeast Asia and other parts of the world but also to the U.S., concludes the commentary.