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. -0-
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