In this regard, Dr. Kang Chol of Kim Il Sung University in the DPRK told KCNA that the U.S. should reflect what it has got in the 20-year-long nuclear faceoff with the DPRK.

He further said:

According to a recent report by south Korea's Yonhap News, Robert Gallucci, former senior official of the U.S. Department of State, repeatedly called for unconditioned dialogue to settle the nuclear issue on the Korean Peninsula, claiming that it is impossible to destroy the DPRK's nukes.

Gallucci, who was active as a U.S. representative at the time of the adoption of the Agreed Framework, stated in a paper presented to an international seminar in Seoul on Oct. 10. that the policy, pursued by the U.S. and south Korea to "defuse" the "nuclear threat" from the DPRK for the past 20 years, came to failure. And he added it could not be a strategy to seek a solution to the issue through sanctions or regime "collapse".

The present U.S. administration should come to its senses, in the light of such opinions raised by politicians, scholars and other people of different strata at home.

Not a few countries in the world have possessed nukes superior in quantity than the DPRK. But the U.S. has long put sanctions on the DPRK only, because of its inveterate repugnancy and hostility toward the DPRK.