UN General Assembly
2006

consistent position of seeking to resolve the issue of denuclearizing the Korean peninsula peacefully through dialogue and negotiation. As the world knows well, the core elements stipulated in the Joint Statement of 19 September 2005, adopted at the six-party talks, are the respective commitments of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea and the United States to abandon its nuclear programme and to live in peaceful coexistence. As for the Joint Statement, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea remains committed to implementing all its agreed provisions on an equal footing. The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea is sure to get greater benefit from implementation of the agreed provisions of the talks. That is why it is willing, more than any other country, to hold the talks. However, the United States, soon after the announcement of that Joint Statement, wasted no time in imposing financial sanctions upon the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, a dialogue partner, eventually scrapping the 27 06-53609 already agreed itinerary for the following rounds of the Talks and creating the present impasse.