Statement of DPRK Government on its withdrawal from NPT

     Pyongyang, January 10 (KCNA) -- The Government of the
Democratic People's Republic of Korea issued a statement today as
regards the grave situation where the national sovereignty and the
supreme interests of the state are most seriously threatened by the
U.S. vicious hostile policy toward the DPRK. The full text of the
statement reads:     A dangerous situation where our nation's
sovereignty and our state's security are being seriously violated is
prevailing on the Korean Peninsula due to the U.S. vicious hostile
policy toward the DPRK.     The United States instigated the
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to adopt another "resolution"
against the DPRK on January 6 in the wake of a similar "resolution"
made on November 29, 2002.     Under its manipulation, the IAEA in
those "resolutions" termed the DPRK "a criminal" and demanded it scrap
what the U.S. called a "nuclear program" at once by a verifiable way in
disregard of the nature of the nuclear issue, a product of the U.S.
hostile policy toward the DPRK, and its unique status in which it
declared suspension of the effectuation of its withdrawal from the
Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT).     Following the adoption of
the latest "resolution", the IAEA director general issued an ultimatum
that the agency would bring the matter to the un security council to
apply sanctions against the DPRK unless it implements the "resolution"
in a few weeks.     This clearly proves that the IAEA still remains a
servant and a spokesman for the U.S. and the NPT is being used as a
tool for implementing the U.S. hostile policy towards the DPRK aimed to
disarm it and destroy its system by force.

    A particular mention should be made of the fact that the IAEA in
the recent "resolution" kept mum about the U.S. which has grossly
violated the NPT and the DPRK-U.S. Agreed Framework, but urged the
DPRK, the victim, to unconditionally accept the U.S. demand for
disarmament and forfeit its right to self-defence, and the agency was
praised by the U.S. for "saying all what the U.S. wanted to do." This
glaringly reveals the falsehood and hypocrisy of the signboard of
impartiality the IAEA put up.     The DPRK Government vehemently
rejects and denounces this "resolution" of the IAEA, considering it as
a grave encroachment upon our country's sovereignty and the dignity of
the nation.     It is none other than the U.S. which wrecks peace and
security on the Korean Peninsula and drives the situation there to an
extremely dangerous phase.      After the appearance of the Bush
administration, the United States listed the DPRK as part of an "axis
of evil", adopting it as a national policy to oppose its system, and
singled it out as a target of preemptive nuclear attack, openly
declaring a nuclear war.     Systematically violating the DPRK-U.S.
Agreed Framework, the U.S. brought up another "nuclear suspicion" and
stopped the supply of heavy oil, reducing the AF to a dead document. It
also answered the DPRK's sincere proposal for the conclusion of the
DPRK-U.S. non-aggression treaty and its patient efforts for
negotiations with such threats as "blockade" and "military punishment"
and with such an arrogant attitude as blustering that it may talk but
negotiations are impossible.     The U.S. went so far to instigate the
IAEA to internationalize its moves to stifle the DPRK, putting its
declaration of a war into practice. This has eliminated the last
possibility of solving the nuclear issue of the Korean Peninsula in a
peaceful and fair way.

    It was due to such nuclear war moves of the U.S. against the DPRK
and the partiality of the IAEA that the DPRK was compelled to declare
its withdrawal from the NPT in march 1993 when a touch-and-go situation
was created on the Korean Peninsula.     As it has become clear once
again that the U.S. persistently seeks to stifle the DPRK at any cost
and the IAEA is used as a tool for executing the U.S. hostile policy
towards the DPRK, we can no longer remain bound to the NPT, allowing
the country's security and the dignity of our nation to be infringed
upon.      Under the grave situation where our state's supreme
interests are most seriously threatened, the DPRK Government adopts the
following decisions to protect the sovereignty of the country and the
nation and their right to existence and dignity:     Firstly, the DPRK
Government declares an automatic and immediate effectuation of its
withdrawal from the NPT, on which "it unilaterally announced a
moratorium as long as it deemed necessary" according to the June 11,
1993, DPRK-U.S. joint statement, now that the U.S. has
unilaterally abandoned its commitments to stop nuclear threat and
renounce hostility towards the DPRK in line with the same
statement.     Secondly, it declares that the DPRK withdrawing from the
NPT is totally free from the binding force of the safeguards accord
with the IAEA under its article 3. The withdrawal from the NPT is a
legitimate self-defensive measure taken against the U.S. moves to
stifle the DPRK and the unreasonable behavior of the IAEA following the
U.S.     Though we pull out of the NPT, we have no intention to produce
nuclear weapons and our nuclear activities at this stage will be
confined only to peaceful purposes such as the production of
electricity.     If the U.S. drops its hostile policy to stifle the
DPRK and stops its nuclear threat to the DPRK, the DPRK may prove
through a separate verification between the DPRK and the U.S. that it
does not make any nuclear weapon.      The United States and the IAEA
will never evade their responsibilities for compelling the DPRK to
withdraw from the NPT, by ignoring the DPRK's last efforts to seek a
peaceful settlement of the nuclear issue through negotiations.

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Rodong Sinmun on U.S. strategy for domination over DPRK      Pyongyang,
January 10 (KCNA) -- The U.S. warmongers should clearly know that the
U.S. strategy for domination over the DPRK is a pipe-dream
and immediately stop their reckless military pressure on the DPRK.
Rodong Sinmun yesterday said this in a signed article, and went on:    
The people's army and people of Korea are heightening their
vigilance against the reckless military and political moves of the U.S.
warmongers according to the strategy and taking a combat posture.    
The U.S. attempt to stifle the DPRK, failing to see the might of
their single-hearted unity, is a foolish act like kicking a rock with a
bare foot.     The U.S. "theory on strength-almighty", "weapon-
almighty" does not go down with the DPRK. the DPRK's pluck is firm as
it is fully prepared to counter the U.S. strategy of strength.     The
range and depth of the DPRK military strikes are inestimable. But only
one is clear. It is nowhere the enemies find safety before the
sphere of the DPRK strong strikes.     Let us see who will win and who
will be defeated in the fire-to-fire standoff.      The U.S.
imperialists will be defeated and the DPRK will be an honorable winner.
     If the United States fires a shot, we will fire ten and hundred
shots.     A new Korean war will finally lead to the third world war.
If a war breaks out on the Korean Peninsula where military and
strategic interests of neighboring big countries are entangled, they
will be embroilled in it, like it or not.      The United States will
get nothing in the showdown with the DPRK, but defeat and ruin.