North Korea rejected further talks on its nuclear program
because of US breakdown, Choe Su Hon, Deputy Foreign Minister of
North Korea, said Tuesday.
"It is quite preposterous that North Korea, under the groundless
US sanctions, takes part in the talks of discussing its own nuclear
abandonment," Choe said in his speech to the general debate of the
61st session of the UN General Assembly.
"This is the matter of principle intolerable of even the
slightest concession," he stressed.
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Choe reiterated that North Korea maintains its consistent position
to resolve the issue of denuclearizing the Korean peninsula
peacefully through dialogue and negotiations, adding it is willing
to hold the talks more than any other countries.
"However, the United States, soon after the announcement of the
Joint Statement, has spent no time in imposing financial sanctions
up on North Korea," he severely blamed the United States.
What the United States had done eventually scrapped the
already-agreed itinerary for the following rounds of the talks and
created the present impasse, the deputy foreign minister
argued.
He pointed out that "it is crystal that the United States is not
in favor of the Six-Party Talks and the denuclearization of the
Korean peninsula."
Meanwhile, Choe emphasized the importance of the implementation
of the North-South Joint Declaration which was signed on June 15,
2000.
Under the banner of the Joint Declaration and under the ideals
of By Our Nation Itself, North Korea will surely achieve the
national reunification by firmly realizing the cooperation in three
areas of national independence, peace against war and patriotism
for reunification.
(Xinhua News Agency September 27, 2006)
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