The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) on Tuesday rejected a US accusation that the DPRK is pursuing a secret "uranium enrichment program" before the resumption of the six-party talks in Beijing.

It is an insolent act of "seeking a sinister political purpose, " the leading newspaper Rodong Sinmun said in a signed commentary.

The US State Department has in a recent report termed the DPRK as "a violator of the international arms control agreement" by pursuing a clandestine "uranium enrichment program."

The United States should be blamed for violating the Joint Declaration on the Denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula and the DPRK-US Agreed Framework (AF), said the commentary.

"It is the US that has pursued a nuclear war in utter disregard of the joint declaration and the AF," it said, citing the fact that the United States has "massively deployed nuclear weapons in and around south Korea reneging on its commitment not to use nuclear weapons against the DPRK nor to threaten it with those weapons."

The commentary also blamed the United States for pushing the DPRK-US nuclear stand-off to an extreme phase.

Source: Xinhua