DPRK Warns It Will Take Measures in Face of US Threat

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DPRK Warns It Will Take Measures in Face of US Threat

The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) will take adequate measures to counter a possible United States preemptive attack, DPRK's ambassador to Russia, Pak Ui-chun, warned in Moscow Friday.

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The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) will take adequate measures to counter a possible United States preemptive attack, DPRK's ambassador to Russia, Pak Ui-chun, warned in Moscow Friday.

Pak told a press conference that while the United States "publicly speaks of dialogue, a peaceful settlement and multilateral talks (on settling nuclear crisis in the DPRK), it isactually stepping up preparations for a war against the DPRK behind our backs."

"In a nutshell this means that the US Defense Department is nowin the final stage of considering a serious plan to approve an armed attack on the DPRK," he said.

"The purpose of the plan... is to prepare a simultaneous strikeon all parts of the DPRK to occur within several hours of an invasion order."

He also denounced US President George W. Bush's State of the Union Address as aggressive.

"This political declaration of the US administration is, indeed,an openly aggressive statement aimed at toppling the DPRK's political establishment," he said.

The ambassador noted that the DPRK was particularly outraged byBush's description of the DPRK's political system as repressive, and his statement that America would not be blackmailed by the threat of nuclear weapons.

He confirmed Pyongyang's position that it was resolutely opposed to any US attempt to bring the conflict over DPRK's nuclear program to the international stage.

"We will not take part in any multilateral talks on the DPRK's conflict, irrespective of their form or format," the diplomat stressed.

He also said that his country did not intend to send its delegation to the special session of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in Vienna on Feb. 12, where the DPRK's nuclear issue is to be discussed.

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