DPRK Opposes Internationalization of Nuclear Issue

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DPRK Opposes Internationalization of Nuclear Issue

The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) is against any move to internationalize the nuclear issue on the Korean Peninsula, a DPRK Foreign Ministry spokesman said Saturday in Pyongyang.

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The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) is against any move to internationalize the nuclear issue on the Korean Peninsula, a DPRK Foreign Ministry spokesman said Saturday in Pyongyang.

"The DPRK is strongly opposed to any attempt to internationalize the nuclear issue on the Korean Peninsula and will never participate in any form of multi-party talks related to the issue," the spokesman said in an interview with the Korean Central News Agency. He was referring to the "5+5" talks reportedly initiated recently by the United States, which include the five permanent members of the UN Security Council as well as the DPRK, South Korea, European Union, Japan and Australia.

The nuclear issue on the Korean Peninsula is a product of the anti-DPRK policy of the United States, which has inescapable responsibility for the matter and can never run away from it, the spokesman said.

"The only way of solving the nuclear issue on the Korean Peninsula peacefully and in a fair way is for the DPRK and the US to hold direct and equal negotiations," the spokesman reiterated.

The US would be well advised to "think over to which phase its attempt will push the DPRK," he warned.

Last October the United States alleged the DPRK had a secret nuclear program in violation of the 1994 Agreed Framework signed by the United States and the DPRK. This agreement stipulated the northeastern Asian country freeze its nuclear facilities in exchange for US help to build two light water reactors and an annual supply of 500,000 tons of heavy oil.

However, the issue turned more complicated when a US-led international group decided to suspend heavy oil deliveries to the DPRK and then Pyongyang moved to reactivate its frozen nuclear facilities and announced its withdrawal from the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty earlier this month.

Tensions have been running high over the nuclear crisis and the international community has been urging Pyongyang to return to the NPT and readmit the monitors of the International Atomic Energy Agency.

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