DPRK's Stand on Talks with U.S. Clarified Pyongyang, October 23 (KCNA) -- If the United States truly wants a peaceful settlement of the nuclear issue between the DPRK and the U.S. it should make a bold switchover in its hostile policy toward the DPRK, says Rodong Sinmun today in a signed commentary. Saying that this is the only way for the peaceful settlement of the nuclear issue between the two countries, the commentary goes on: The U.S. bellicose forces have become more undisguised in their moves to isolate and stifle the DPRK after the six-way talks. One of the major assertions made by them recently is that north Korea should make an irreversible and verifiable abandonment of its nuclear program. This is, in essence, little short of forcing the DPRK to completely disarm itself and remain bare-handed and yield to the U.S. "Concession" on their lips is no more than their intention to make public a statement in which some countries would declare that they have no intention to attack and invade north Korea and they respect its borderline. The U.S. is building up public opinion to create such impression that the nuclear issue between the DPRK and the U.S. is an issue to be dealt between the DPRK and the countries around it. This is a very impudent artifice to sidestep the issue and evade its responsibility for its settlement. The U.S. has such a bad precedent whereby it adopted a joint statement and an agreed framework with the DPRK and sent its president's letter of assurances to the DPRK but threw away them like a pair of old shoes after a new president took office. The U.S. demand that the DPRK scrap its nuclear program irreversibly and verifiably is aimed to force the DPRK to disarm itself and remain bare-fisted and then achieve its ambition for aggression with ease. This can not but be an unreasonable way of thinking unacceptable to anyone for a belligerent party to force the other party to come out first with its hands up. No peaceful solution to the nuclear issue is thinkable apart from the U.S. switchover in its hostile policy toward the DPRK and the adoption of a non-aggression treaty between the two countries. The U.S. is employing delaying tactics, making a mockery of the international community with lip-service to the peaceful solution to the nuclear issue between the DPRK and the U.S. It is a great mistake for the U.S. to expect the DPRK to disarm itself, while delaying the settlement of the issue. The DPRK once again states explicitly that it is not interested in any talks where the U.S. refuses to make a switchover in its hostile policy toward the DPRK.
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