Pyongyang, December 16 (KCNA) -- The policy research director of
the Institute for
American Studies of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the
Democratic People's Republic of Korea Sunday issued the following statement:
It is a significant event for ensuring peace and security of the
region and beyond that the top
leaders of the DPRK and the U.S. committed themselves to improve
the DPRK- U.S. relations at the historic
DPRK-U.S. summit held
in Singapore last June, and the
current DPRK-U.S. relations are advancing along the steadfast
will of the top leaders to
follow through on the Singapore DPRK-U.S. Joint Statement in
good faith.
However, the continued
commission by the United
States of vicious anti-DPRK
hostile actions, running
counter to these developments,
prompts my shock
and
indignation.
During the past six months since the Singapore DPRK-U.S. summit,
the U.S. high-
ranking politicians including the secretary of state have almost
every day slandered the
DPRK out of sheer malice, and the State Department and the
Treasury Department have
taken anti-DPRK sanctions measures for as many as eight times
against the companies,
individuals and ships
of not only the DPRK
but also Russia, China and other third
countries by fabricating
pretexts of all hues
such as money
laundering, illegal
transactions through ship-to-ship transfer and cyber-attack.
Recently, the U.S. is resorting to anti-DPRK human rights plot
in such a way that it
carries deliberate
provocation by adding
high-ranking government officials
of the
DPRK, a sovereign state, to its unilateral sanctions list, while
taking issue with the non-
existent "human rights issue".
Now, the international
society is unanimous
in welcoming the proactive
denuclearization steps taken by the DPRK and urging the U.S. to
respond to these steps
in a corresponding manner. And
president Trump avails
himself of every possible
occasion to state his willingness to improve DPRK-U.S.
relations.
Far from the
statements of the president, the State
Department is instead
bent on
bringing the DPRK-U.S. relations back to the status of last year
which was marked by
exchanges of fire. I
cannot help but
throw doubt on the
ulterior motive of the State
Department.
If they are a sort of diplomats of "only superpower",
they should at least realize from
the past record of the DPRK-U.S. relations that sanctions and
pressure would not work
against the DPRK.
The United States will
not be unaware of the
self-evident fact that
its threat,
blackmail and pressure against the other side cannot be a
solution under the relations of
pent-up confrontation,
mistrust and hostility
between the DPRK and
the U.S. and
deterioration of the situation that might be incurred by these
hostile actions would not
be beneficial for peace and security of the Korean peninsula and
beyond.
Since we know too well that the deep-rooted hostility between
the DPRK and the U.S.
cannot be redressed overnight, we have been proposing that the
DPRK-U.S. relations be
improved on a step-by-step approach of resolving what is
feasible one by one, by giving
priority to confidence building.
If the high-ranking
politicians within the U.S.
administration including the State
Department had calculated that they could drive us into giving
up nuclear weapons by
way of increasing the anti-DPRK sanctions and pressure and human
rights racket to an
unprecedented level, which has nothing to do with confidence
building, it will count as
greatest miscalculation,
and it
will block the path
to denuclearization on the
Korean
peninsula forever - a result desired by no one.
The U.S. should realize before it is too late that "maximum
pressure" would not work
against us and take a sincere approach to implementing the
Singapore DPRK-U.S. Joint
Statement.
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