Six-Party Talks Useless in Dealing with Nuke Development of NK

[imText1]Hwang Jang Yop, president of North Korean Democratization Alliance said in a meeting with the youth on Tuesday that the six-party talks was useless in settling the dispute with North Korea on nuclear weapons development, since South Korea, China and Russia kept helping NK while the U.S. and Japan held Pyongyang in check.

Rather, Hwang argued, that urging NK not to return to the roundtable of talks would restrain Kim Jong Il more effectively. “Generous offer of aid in exchange for coming back to the six-party talks would be an act of traitor,” Hwang affirmed.

Hwang viewed the role of China as more important than anything in dealing with North Korean nuclear weapons development since only China can pressure Pyongyang to abolish totalitarian Su-Ryeong (Absolute Leader) dictatorship and to lead North Korea toward Chinese-type ‘reform and openness.’ Only then, Hwang asserted, North Korea’s various issues on nuclear development, human rights violation and starvation would be solved.

On the wartime command issue, president Hwang pointed out the controversy as a result of problematic relationship between Seoul and Washington, rather than one of resuming self-defense. “Argument for redemption of wartime command,” Hwang said, “is an attempt to weaken the Korean-American alliance and to shun the United States.”

He added that “without U.S. army’s presence, we cannot restrain Chinese and North Korean power. Objective of war is to win, not to be commanded by whom.”

When asked about possibility of U.S. military sanction on NK in case of Pyongyang’s nuclear test, Hwang responded that it was not realistic due to Chinese and Russian objection.