N. Korea will not yield to arrogance

SIR—I have read the letter of the US Ambassador to Uganda, Martin Brennan, published on February 9.His letter reminds me of a proverb which says “Like father like son”. He tried to justify the so-called state of the Union address of Bush who is profoundly confusing right with wrong. Your editorials of February 2, “Bush should calm down” and of February 6, “USA must be fair” represent the public opinion on the US’s reckless and arrogant behaviour based on her unilateral and self-opinionated foreign policy. Though Ambassador Brennan tried to justify Bush’s policy, everyone knows that the DPRK is neither a state sponsor of any kind of terrorism nor a threat to the peace of the world. But everyone knows that the USA is the world’s number one imperialist state building up arsenals of weapons of mass destruction including nuclear, chemical and biological ones while seeking for world supremacy.Does Brennan need a documented record for it? He might know why modern terrorism is focused on America alone and why it has become serious while Bush is in office.It is well-known the USA is pursuing an undisguised hostile policy to isolate and stifle the DPRK by force of arms while posing a permanent threat to its sovereignty and the peace on the Korean peninsula. The U.S. is keeping more than 40,000 American soldiers and all kinds of weapons of mass destruction including nuclear arms in South Korea.There is no reason for Bush to fear the “ N. Korea’s missiles” if the USA doesn’t threaten the DPRK by force of arms. The DPRK is arming itself for self-defence. The DPRK will not give up its sovereignty, yielding to the US arrogant policy. As for the DPRK-USA Agreed Framework of 1994, the key is that the U.S provides to the DPRK two light water reactors (LWR) in return for freezing the latter’s projects of building of independent nuclear power facilities. The provision of the LWR has been scheduled to be completed by 2003, but it is unlikely to become a reality due to the US’s unwillingness to implement her commitment. The delayed LWR project causes a huge loss of electricity and other economic problems in the DPRK. So, the U.S must compensate it.The Bush administration has a choice to make. It is well advised to renounce the cold war way of thinking and abandon its hostile policy towards the DPRK in keeping with public opinion. Ri Myong CholCounsellorEmbassy of the DPRK, Kampala