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[ 07-01-2003 ]
Category
[ International Relations ]
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[ North Korea ]
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      International agency or US mouthpiece?

      The Board of Governors of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) passed an unfair resolution on the nuclear issue on the Korean peninsula on November 29.



      The DPRK can never accept the resolution which ignores the cause of the occurrence of the nuclear issue and unilaterally opposes it.

      How did the nuclear issue on the Korean peninsula occur? How did the IAEA serve the US in dealing with the DPRK's nuclear issue in the past years? How was it involved in the Korean issue by the US?

      The nuclear issue was raised by the US policy of using south Korea as a nuclear base. The shipment of US nuclear missiles into south Korea began with the introduction of Honest John in the latter half of the 1950s and neutron bombs were brought in the first half of the 1980s.

      Proceeding from its desire to turn the Korean peninsula into a nuclear-free and peace zone, the DPRK government joined the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) in December 1985, and signed the Safeguards Agreement with the IAEA in January 1992 and fulfilled its obligations to the NPT.

      It proposed that US nuclear weapons should be withdrawn from south Korea and their threat to the DPRK be removed.

      Far from being faithful to its commitment to remove the nuclear crisis on the Korean peninsula, the US persisted in blackmail against the DPRK.

      In 1993 the US resumed Team Spirit joint military rehearsal with south Korea. On February 25, that year, some officials of the IAEA Secretariat and some member nations adopted a resolution on special inspection of north Korea's military sites that were unrelated to nuclear activities at the meeting of the IAEA Board of Governors.

      The DPRK government released on March 12 a statement to declare that it would withdraw from the NPT as a step to defend the supreme interests of the country. In response to this, the US and its followers hammered out a resolution to bring the nuclear issue of north Korea to the UN at the meeting of the IAEA Board of Governors on April 1.

      On April 5 the DPRK Foreign Ministry published a statement denouncing the resolution in the strongest term. It made clear that north Korea's nuclear issue should not be put at the disposal of the UN, but it should be solved on the DPRK-US negotiation table.

      As a result of the DPRK's fair and principled stance, the first-stage DPRK-US talks were held in New York in June 1993 and the DPRK-US joint statement was released on June 11 and the DPRK's self-defensive measure was taken to temporarily suspend the effectuation of its withdrawal from the NPT.

      At the second-stage of DPRK-US talks held in Geneva in July 1993 both sides reaffirmed the principle of the June 11 joint statement and the US reaffirmed its Commitment to refrain from using military force including nuclear weapons and threatening the DPRK with them. Pursuant to the DPRK-US New York agreement signed on February 25, 1994, the DPRK, though in a specific status, accepted the IAEA inspection to ensure the continuity of safeguards.

      Nevertheless, the IAEA Secretariat and inspection team tried to force routine or ad hoc inspections on the DPRK, unilaterally claiming that the inspection was not for the continuity of safeguards but under the Safeguards Agreement. On March 31 the UN Security Council published a "presidential statement" calling on the DPRK to accept an unreasonable additional inspection by the IAEA.

      Some IAEA officials went so far as to infringe upon the dignity and sovereignty of the DPRK in tandem with the US policy of stifling the DPRK. The IAEA Board of Governors' meeting on June 10 demanded the opening of the DPRK's military sites and adopted a resolution on the suspension of the IAEA's assistance to the DPRK.

      A spokesman for the DPRK Foreign Ministry released a statement on June 13, 1994, declaring that the DPRK would immediately withdraw from the IAEA and allow inspections no longer proper to the status of the DPRK and consider UN sanctions to be a declaration of war against it.

      Thanks to the determined and principled stance of the DPRK a DPRK-US agreed statement was published in Geneva in August 1994 and a DPRK-US Agreed Framework was published at the second meeting on the sidelines of the third-stage talks held between September 23 and October 21.

      The October 21 1994 DPRK-US Agreed Framework marked a milestone in the solution of the nuclear issue on the Korean peninsula.

      In the long run, the DPRK-US talks which had undergone a cycle of progress and setback for a year and half ended. The International Atomic Energy Agency passed a resolution against the DPRK by raising an issue of nuclear inspection during the third-stage DPRK-US talks. But its anti-DPRK move proved fruitless.

      All this fact proves that the grave situation was created by the IAEA which unfairly dealt with the nuclear issue on the Korean peninsula by applying double standards and the results gave the IAEA a black mark on its dignity and honour. The IAEA Board of Governors again passed a resolution under the wirepulling of the US, compromising its honour as an international organization. It is backsliding to the infamous past, oblivious of the historic lessons. There is no difference between nuclear crises on the Korean peninsula at present and in the 1990s because both of them are products of the US anti-DPRK policy.

      The present US administration failed to abide by the DPRK-US Joint Statement and Agreed Framework, and wantonly violated the spirit of the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty and reduced the North-South Joint Declaration on Denuclearization to a dead document.

      The IAEA turns away from the US labelling the DPRK as part of an "axis of evil" and including it in the list of preemptive nuclear strike targets, causing a grave obstacle in the solution of the nuclear issue on the Korean peninsula. This proves that the IAEA serves as the mouthpiece of the US.

      The IAEA should regard neutrality and impartiality as the principle of its activities. It is not wise for the IAEA to try to intervene 4n the nuclear issue on the Korean peninsula as a tool of US anti-DPRK policy.

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