North Korea warns U.S. of
'grave consequences' of attacks
By Jim Lea, Osan bureau chief
North Korea is calling on the United States to stop the bombing
attacks on Afghanistan.
An editorial in the Rodong Shinmun, the official newspaper of North
Korea’s ruling Worker’s Party, stated Tuesday that using military action
“to eradicate the root cause of terrorism is contrary to the purpose of the
anti-terrorism struggle and may cause grave consequences.”
The United States, the editorial said, is “seriously threatening
our sovereignty and security by keeping (the North) on its list of ‘sponsors of
terrorism’ without any foundation.”
The North’s state-operated Korean Central News Agency on Tuesday
quoted a Foreign Ministry spokesman as saying U.S.-North Korean relations were beginning
to thaw during the latter days of the Clinton administration. But those relations became
“refrozen” because of the “deep-rooted hostility” toward Pyongyang by
Bush and his administration.
Bush broke all agreements between Washington and Pyongyang when he
entered office, the spokesman said, meaning, “his administration cannot be
trusted.”
The spokesman called Bush’s hope to discuss a reduction of
Pyongyang’s conventional military force “a noose” and a “bid to
torpedo” Pyongyang-Washington talks. That comes as North Korea “technically is
at war with the United States,” and is “radically beefing up its armed forces in
South Korea under the pretext of the ongoing war in Afghanistan.”
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