On the 18th, the policy department of North Korea\u2019s National Defense Commission (NDC) issued a statement calling for South Korea and the U.S. to \u201capologize and stop all their provocative actions immediately if they sincerely hope for dialogue and negotiations.\u201d<\/p>\n
The NDC commented in the statement, \u201cFirst, they should withdraw all UN Security Council sanctions measures, which they concocted on unreasonable pretexts.\u201d<\/p>\n
It went on to mention the Cheonan sinking and \u201cMarch 20th hacking,\u201d both of which have been declared North Korea\u2019s responsibilities but which Pyongyang denies, stating, \u201cAll anti-Republic actions, fabricated claims linking North Korea to their accidents, must stop immediately.\u201d <\/p>\n
It went on also to demand an end to combined U.S.-ROK military drills, saying, \u201cThey need to give us a formal guarantee before the whole world that they will no longer threaten our Republic or cling to their intimidating nuclear war exercises.\u201d <\/p>\n
This, it added, \u201ccan begin with the removal of the nuclear war tools dragged in by the U.S. and can lead to global nuclear disarmament.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
On the 18th, the policy department of North Korea\u2019s National Defense Commission (NDC) issued a statement calling for South Korea and the U.S. to \u201capologize and stop all their provocative actions immediately if they sincerely hope for dialogue and negotiations.\u201d The NDC commented in the statement, \u201cFirst, they should withdraw all UN Security Council sanctions […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":151,"featured_media":23223,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wikipediapreview_detectlinks":true,"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news"],"yoast_head":"\n