DPRK Says Bush's Accusation 'Little Short of Declaring A War'

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DPRK Says Bush's Accusation 'Little Short of Declaring A War'

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The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) Thursday slammed U.S. President George W.Bush's accusation that the DPRK is part of "axis of evil," saying it is "little short of declaring a war" against the DPRK.

"This is, in fact, little short of declaring a war against the DPRK," said the Foreign Ministry in a statement. "We cannot but take a serious view of the dangerous remarks made by Bush from the outset of the year."

In the statement broadcast by the official news agency KCNA, Pyongyang denounced Bush's State of the Union address delivered Tuesday for groundlessly pulling up the DPRK over the development of weapons of mass destruction and labeling it as one of "countries threatening the U.S. and world peace" and "axis of evil."

Bush's remarks explicitly seek an ulterior political aim, the statement noted.

Since Bush came to power, U.S. friction with other countries has become frequent and international relations have become more turbulent than ever before, the statement said.

The statement attributed the current recession in the U.S., the terrorist attacks on New York and Washington and the scandals plaguing the Bush administration to the "unilateral and self-opinionated foreign policy, political immaturity and moral leprosy" of the Bush administration.

It is unprecedented in the history of modern DPRK-U.S. relations that a U.S. president in his policy speech made "undisguised" threatening remarks against the DPRK, an independent and sovereign state, said the statement.

Bush's view clearly shows what a real aim the U.S. sought when it proposed to resume talks with the DPRK recently and why the Bush administration ruled out seeking a negotiated settlement of the nuclear and missile issues created during the previous administration, said the statement.

The statement said the U.S. intention to stifle the DPRK by force of arms makes the DPRK realize it is a far-sighted policy to equip itself with powerful offensive and defensive means.

The DPRK is watching the moves of the U.S., which has pushed the situation to the brink of war after throwing away even the mask of "dialogue" and "negotiations," added the statement.

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