State Secretary Pompeo also told the Senate that international sanctions will be maintained until the DPRK is denuclearized.

Commenting on it, Rodong Sinmun Thursday says:

Sanctions and pressure can never go together with dialogue.

Pressure will only heighten the other party's vigilance and do more harm than good to dialogue. The same is the relations of the DPRK and the U.S. which have antagonized with each other most on the earth for a long time.

The two parties declared before the world their will to hold hands with each other and put an end to the hostile relations through the Singapore DPRK-U.S. summit meeting and talks and joint statement.

The DPRK has shown goodwill and magnanimity by dismantling its nuclear test ground in northern area and sending the remains of GIs.

However, the U.S. paid only lip-service to the improvement of the relations but did nothing. On the contrary, it is going against its promise.

The present U.S. administration should draw a lesson from the preceding administrations which drained the cup of sorrow only while resorting to sanctions and pressure for over half a century.

The U.S. side should neither insist on "denuclearization first and conclusion of a peace treaty next" nor delay the settlement of the issue of adopting a war-end declaration its president promised during the Singapore DPRK-U.S. summit.

It is the invariable will of the DPRK to resolve the matter through dialogue and negotiations.