Rodong Sinmun on key to settlement of nuclear issue

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Rodong Sinmun on key to settlement of nuclear issue

The DPRK remains unchanged in its stand to solve the nuclear issue through dialogue, in a peaceful way and by the way of simultaneous action. The point at issue is the stand of the U.S. The key to the settlement of the nuclear issue depends on the change of the U.S. stand. The DPRK's Rodong Sinmun Monday said this in a signed commentary.

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If the U.S. continues to persist in its brigandish theory and demand in defiance of the DPRK's sincerity and magnanimity and does not make a switchover in its hostile policy toward it, the six-way talks would give no help to the settlement of the nuclear issue in the future, too and make no contribution to ensuring denuclearization and peace of the Korean peninsula. The DPRK's Rodong Sinmun Monday said this in a signed commentary.

The commentary goes on:

The DPRK cannot but call into question the U.S. insistence on "complete, verifiable, irreversible dismantlement of nuclear program".

It is necessary to make an analysis of the essence and danger of the above-said assertion.

The U.S. demand for "complete dismantlement of nuclear program" is an essential ambition to wrest the nuclear deterrent force from the DPRK free of charge to disarm it and overthrow its system. In other words, it is a brigandish logic for "scrapping nuclear program before overthrowing the DPRK's system".

In the long run, the strategic purpose and danger of "complete, verifiable, irreversible dismantlement of nuclear program" forced by the U.S. are to disarm the DPRK completely, suffocate it economically, militarily occupy it and exterminate its socialist system.

The commentary said that now that the U.S. is persistently forcing the "complete, verifiable, irreversible dismantlement of nuclear program" upon the DPRK,turning aside from the latter's elastic and most magnanimous proposal, the DPRK cannot but demand the U.S. completely withdraw its troops from south Korea in a verifiable way and make the "complete, verifiable, irreversible security assurance" guaranteeing the adoption of peace agreement and normalization of relations.

The DPRK remains unchanged in its stand to solve the nuclear issue through dialogue, in a peaceful way and by the way of simultaneous action. The point at issue is the stand of the U.S. The key to the settlement of the nuclear issue depends on the change of the U.S. stand.

Source: Agencies

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