US to Blame for Resumption of Nuclear Development: DPRK Spokesman

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US to Blame for Resumption of Nuclear Development: DPRK Spokesman

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The United States is to blame for the measure taken by the Democratic People's Republic of Korea(DPRK) to revitalize its nuclear program, a spokesman for the DPRK's Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of the Fatherland said on Sunday.

"The DPRK's measure to lift nuclear freeze is a just measure to make up for the loss of electricity caused by the US unilateral halt to the supply of heavy oil under the DPRK-US Agreed Framework and stabilize the economic construction and the people's living," the spokesman said.

"It is preposterous to assert that our nuclear power bases pose a threat while nuclear power plants in other regions and countries raise no problem," he added.

On November 14, the United States made a decision to suspend supplies of heavy oil to the DPRK, claiming that the DPRK had been developing a secret nuclear program in violation of the 1994 Agreed Framework.

Under the 1994 accord, the DPRK was to abandon its nuclear program in return for two light water reactors and 500,000 tons of heavy oil a year from the United States, which were estimated 30 percent of the total energy demand of this country.

The DPRK announced on Thursday that it would immediately resume its nuclear development program as a measure to cope with the suspension of heavy oil supply by the United States.

The spokesman also accused the United States of driving a wedge between the DPRK and South Korea to freeze the development of inter-Korean relations.

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