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“U.S.’s Policy Switchover Is Key to Solution to Nuke Issue”: Pyongyang

Spokesman of DPRK FM on Prospect of Resumption of Six-party Talks

The DPRK Foreign Ministry issued a comment on the resumption of the six-party talks on November 13. It said that the U.S. media’s nonsense story that the six-party talks could not succeed because the DPRK insisted on the DPRK-U.S. bilateral talks was nothing but sophism.

The following are the full text of the comment.

A spokesman of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the DPRK gave the following answer to a question put by the KCNA on November 13 as regards some misinformation about the prospect of the resumption of the six-party talks afloat in the United States after the presidential election: Some American media recently spread nonsensical stories that the six-party talks could not succeed because the DPRK insisted on the bilateral talks between the DPRK and the U.S. only.

This is nothing but sophism to profoundly confusing right and wrong.

As already known, the six-party talks were realized thanks to the positive initiative of the DPRK and their present deadlock is entirely attributable to the U.S. far-fetched assertion.

On various occasions, the DPRK clarified that it stands for settling the nuclear issue between the DPRK and the U.S. through dialogue and negotiation and it does not stick to the form of talks aimed to solve it.

As for the bilateral talks, the DPRK has neither expected nor waited for them as the U.S. has been opposed to that kind of talks. Accordingly, the DPRK does not feel any need to ask the U.S. for the bilateral talks as it is not ready to hold them.

Moreover, it does not stand to reason for the DPRK to try to hold any bilateral talks with the party which is hatching plots “to bring down the DPRK’s system.” For the U.S. to make its policy switchover is the key to finding a solution to the issue.

If the U.S. drops its hostile policy aimed at “bringing down the system” of the DPRK and opts for co-existing with the latter in practice, it will be quite possible to settle the issue.

The DPRK will go ahead to attain its desired goal strictly according to its independent judgment and for the state interests of the state.

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