The director general of the IAEA in a recent report submitted to a meeting of the IAEA board of governors said the DPRK's LWR construction and the uranium enrichment activities arouse serious concerns.

Echoing this, the spokesman for the U.S. State Department urged the DPRK to stop nuclear activities including the LWR construction and accept the IAEA inspection.

IAEA aggravated the nuclear issue on the Korean Peninsula pursuant to the U.S. hostile policy toward the DPRK. This deprived the IAEA of the qualifications to intervene in the DPRK's nuclear activities. But it has not yet come to its senses.

IAEA has not voiced concerns over the nuclear programs of other nuclear states. It only expressed concerns over the DPRK's nuclear program, an indication of its partial approach toward the DPRK.

IAEA and the U.S. should not try to view the prevailing situation with the old standard in the period when the DPRK's nuclear activities were confined to the peaceful purposes only.

The DPRK, which legitimately accessed nukes to cope with the U.S. persistent hostile policy, has its own standard on which IAEA's function is not workable as the function mainly deals with non nuclear states.

IAEA and the U.S. should act with discretion, clearly facing up to the situation.