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N. Korea says Obama no different from Bush
SEOUL, May 4 (Yonhap) -- North Korea blasted U.S. President Barack Obama on
Monday as no different from his predecessor in trying to "stifle" countries that
are uncooperative with the U.S., referring to Washington's move to punish
Pyongyang's rocket launch.
The Obama administration with its allies led the U.N. Security Council's efforts
to adopt a presidential statement condemning the April 5 launch and tighten
sanctions against the North.
"With nothing can the U.S. justify such illegal provocation as forcing the UNSC
to table the issue of the DPRK's (North Korea) launch of a satellite for peaceful
purposes and issue 'a presidential statement,'" the North's foreign ministry
spokesman said in an interview with the Korean Central News Agency.
"All the facts go to clearly prove that although the present U.S. administration
plays tricks, talking about 'change' and 'multilateral cooperation diplomacy' it
is nothing different from the preceding administration which frantically worked
to stifle by force other countries which incurred its displeasure," the
unidentified spokesman said.
The spokesman also said the reality of international relations forces North Korea
to bolster its nuclear power in self-defense.
"The DPRK is firmly convinced that it was entirely just when it opted for
bolstering the nuclear deterrent to protect the sovereignty and the right to
existence of the country and the nation," he said.
Pyongyang has refrained from name-calling and smearing Obama, a common recurrence
during the preceding George W. Bush government, amid speculation that it wants to
mend ties with Washington after eight years of largely frayed relations.
Obama has yet to begin bilateral talks with Pyongyang, as his policy agenda is
crowded by other foreign and economic issues.
The North's spokesman renewed the country's claim that the country successfully
launched a satellite.
The Kwangmyongsong-2 is "regularly going round the earth," he said, citing
ungrounded confirmation by U.S. scientific and military institutes.
"It is only the U.S. administration and unsavory forces subservient to it that
insist the DPRK's satellite launch was a ballistic missile launch," he said.
Outside monitors said no such object has entered space and that the North Korean
boosters, including the payload, fell into the ocean.
Pyongyang said it will conduct a second nuclear test and inter-continental
ballistic missile tests unless the U.N. Security Council apologizes for punishing
its launch.
North Korea has withdrawn from nuclear disarmament talks and expelled
international monitors to protest the council's actions. The North also said it
has begun reprocessing spent nuclear fuel rods, a process that extracts the
plutonium used to make nuclear bombs. North Korea tested its first nuclear device
in 2006.
Earlier Monday, the Rodong Sinmun, the North's main newspaper published by the
Workers' Party, accused the U.N. of being "extremely unfair" and applying "double
standards" by taking issue with the launch.
hkim@yna.co.kr
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Monday as no different from his predecessor in trying to "stifle" countries that
are uncooperative with the U.S., referring to Washington's move to punish
Pyongyang's rocket launch.
The Obama administration with its allies led the U.N. Security Council's efforts
to adopt a presidential statement condemning the April 5 launch and tighten
sanctions against the North.
"With nothing can the U.S. justify such illegal provocation as forcing the UNSC
to table the issue of the DPRK's (North Korea) launch of a satellite for peaceful
purposes and issue 'a presidential statement,'" the North's foreign ministry
spokesman said in an interview with the Korean Central News Agency.
"All the facts go to clearly prove that although the present U.S. administration
plays tricks, talking about 'change' and 'multilateral cooperation diplomacy' it
is nothing different from the preceding administration which frantically worked
to stifle by force other countries which incurred its displeasure," the
unidentified spokesman said.
The spokesman also said the reality of international relations forces North Korea
to bolster its nuclear power in self-defense.
"The DPRK is firmly convinced that it was entirely just when it opted for
bolstering the nuclear deterrent to protect the sovereignty and the right to
existence of the country and the nation," he said.
Pyongyang has refrained from name-calling and smearing Obama, a common recurrence
during the preceding George W. Bush government, amid speculation that it wants to
mend ties with Washington after eight years of largely frayed relations.
Obama has yet to begin bilateral talks with Pyongyang, as his policy agenda is
crowded by other foreign and economic issues.
The North's spokesman renewed the country's claim that the country successfully
launched a satellite.
The Kwangmyongsong-2 is "regularly going round the earth," he said, citing
ungrounded confirmation by U.S. scientific and military institutes.
"It is only the U.S. administration and unsavory forces subservient to it that
insist the DPRK's satellite launch was a ballistic missile launch," he said.
Outside monitors said no such object has entered space and that the North Korean
boosters, including the payload, fell into the ocean.
Pyongyang said it will conduct a second nuclear test and inter-continental
ballistic missile tests unless the U.N. Security Council apologizes for punishing
its launch.
North Korea has withdrawn from nuclear disarmament talks and expelled
international monitors to protest the council's actions. The North also said it
has begun reprocessing spent nuclear fuel rods, a process that extracts the
plutonium used to make nuclear bombs. North Korea tested its first nuclear device
in 2006.
Earlier Monday, the Rodong Sinmun, the North's main newspaper published by the
Workers' Party, accused the U.N. of being "extremely unfair" and applying "double
standards" by taking issue with the launch.
hkim@yna.co.kr
(END)
