Posted on 02/19/2010 2:07:19 AM PST by ErnstStavroBlofeld
North Korea vowed Friday not to give up nuclear arms for "petty economic aid," claiming it has only developed them to counter what it called U.S. nuclear threats.
The North's official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) said the reason the communist country pursued nuclear arms is not to bargain them for economic benefits but to counter "the deepening U.S. nuclear threats."
"We have tightened our belts, braved various difficulties and spent countless (amounts of) money to obtain a nuclear deterrent as a self-defense measure against U.S. nuclear threats," the KCNA said in an editorial monitored in Seoul.
"We never meant to seek 'economic benefits' from someone or threaten others."
The U.S. and South Korea believe North Korea has produced enough plutonium to build at least six nuclear bombs.
"Only fools will entertain the delusion that we will trade our nuclear deterrent for petty economic aid," the KCNA said.
North Korea launched a diplomatic campaign this year to create consensus for a forum that could lead to a peace treaty with the U.S. and formally close the 1950-53 Korean War.
North Korea says such a treaty would improve the odds of denuclearizing the Korean Peninsula, arguing the existing truce feeds U.S. aggression toward it and blocks progress in six-party talks on ending its nuclear arms programs.
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