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KCNA Slams Outbursts of IAEA Director General
Pyongyang, January 18 (KCNA) -- El Baradei, director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, recently blustered that the DPRK is the primary threat to the nuclear non-proliferation system and has breached the NPT beyond the IAEA control for 12 years. His remarks go to prove how he busied himself backing the U.S. hostile policy toward the DPRK as he wantonly interfered in the issue outside his mandate. The DPRK is not a member nation of the NPT and had already withdrawn from the IAEA. It has nothing to do with the IAEA. Yet, he is still pulling up the DPRK over this or that. This is an undisguised provocation and an imprudent act exceeding his authority. We can hardly understand how he still remains in the office as director general of the IAEA as he does not know why and how the nuclear issue surfaced between the DPRK and the U.S. and the well known fact that the DPRK is no longer a member nation of the IAEA and NPT.
He expressed a "serious concern" over the nuclear issue of south Korea when it was disclosed. But no sooner had voices patronizing Seoul come out from Washington than he made a volte-face at once. He asserted that the DPRK is to blame for the delayed settlement of the nuclear issue on the Korean Peninsula, blustering that now is the time for the UNSC to move. He is now doing his best to please the U.S. in his reckless bid to serve another term as IAEA director general. He behaved discarding even the principle of objectivity, impartiality and neutrality which the IAEA should regard as its life and soul just to please the U.S., his master. But he is now out of favor with the U.S. due to the differences over various matters related to Iran, Iraq and some other Mideast countries. The U.S. has already expressed its stand more than once that it is opposed to his serving another term as IAEA director general at the end of his second term. The Washington Post reported that officials of the U.S. administration wiretapped scores of phone calls between El Baradei and Iranian diplomats, which was aimed to gather evidence unfavorable to him and unseat him. It is as clear as noonday that he, who has acted under the pulls and pressures of the superpower, will stoop to any infamy just to court the U.S. favour as he is tight-cornered. This time he succeeded in improving his image talking about the so-called "authority" of the IAEA. He asserted that the IAEA has sufficient modern technological means to verify even nuclear activities in any "closed facility" and as was the case with the elimination of nuclear weapons in South Africa., the IAEA can take charge of the job once an agreement is reached. This betrays his political greed. It is ridiculous of him to poke his nose into internal affairs of the country outside the IAEA though he has failed to solve its own problems at a time when the secret nuclear experiments conducted by its member nations are disclosed one after another. If he truly wants to discharge the mission and role as the IAEA chief, he is well advised to mind P's and Q's and stick to the principle of impartiality, though belatedly, so that the IAEA may not become a plaything of anyone. Posted by: Steve 2005-01-19 |
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