DPRK Envoy Accuses US of Hostile Acts

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DPRK Envoy Accuses US of Hostile Acts

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The ambassador of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea has accused the United States of taking "hostile" acts toward his country and warned of "deteriorating" situation on the Korean peninsula, Spanish Ambassador Inocencio Arias said Monday.

Arias, this month's president of the United Nations Security Council, made the remarks during a press encounter after briefing the 15-nation council on his meeting with DPRK Ambassador to the United Nations Pak Gil Yon on July 2.

"He (Pak) said the United States was committing hostile or unfriendly acts toward North Korea," Arias said, adding that Pak also called on Washington to stop such acts.

These "unfriendly" acts included naming the DPRK as part of the"Axis of Evil," redeploying US troops along the border between theNorth and the South, and increasing military assistance to South Korea, Arias quoted Pak as saying.

Pak was also quoted as urging the United States to restart negotiations with his country on the nuclear row.

The Pak-Arias meeting was part of a rare tense lobbying drive the DPRK launched to counter efforts by Washington to press for a council condemnation of Pyongyang's alleged nuclear program. Pak and his colleagues also visited missions of other council members early June, according to diplomats here.

According to Arias, no other council members made comments on his meeting with Pak at the closed-door session. He also confirmedthat for the time being no council member approached him proposingany steps on the DPRK's nuclear issue.

"I'm not hiding anything," he said. "I have not been approachedby any member of the council to make a statement on this issue."

The United States has for months pressurized the council to condemn the DPRK's withdrawal from the nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT) and its reactivation of some nuclear facilities.

In a letter to the Security Council earlier, the DPRK argued that its withdrawal was a right stipulated by the NPT and called on the council to be impartial on the DPRK's nuclear issue.

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