DPRK urges US to accept proposed package solution

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DPRK urges US to accept proposed package solution

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The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) insisted on Monday that a package solution based on the principle of simultaneous action be the way to solve the nuclear issue on the Korean Peninsula, urging the United States to accept the proposal at an early date.

According to a commentary published in Rodong Sinmun, the organ of the Workers' Party of Korea, the proposal elaborates on the blueprint of a package solution and the order of simultaneous action to comprehensively and fairly settle the nuclear issue, including the US switchover in its hostile policy toward the DPRK, the DPRK's renunciation of its nuclear program and the normalization of diplomatic ties between the two countries.

The DPRK withdrew from the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty after the United States failed to honor its commitments and obligations as regards the fundamental settlement of the nuclear issue, and infringed upon the sovereignty of the DPRK, the commentary noted.

The self-defensive measure was taken by the DPRK as the United States totally scrapped the DPRK-US Agreed Framework, it said.

Both the DPRK and the United States should at the same time lay down their arms and coexist in peace. The proposal for the package solution is the stance and attitude that the DPRK and the United States should take at the six-way talks, it said.

The United States should make a bold political decision to accept the proposal, it added.

The package solution aimed at denuclearizing the Korean Peninsula was proposed by the DPRK at the six-way talks in Beijing in August.

On Oct. 25, a spokesman for the DPRK Foreign Ministry said the country would be willing to take into account the written assurance of non-aggression proposed by US President George W. Bush after the package solution was adopted by both sides.

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