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Trust between North Korea and the U.S is the Way to Achieve Nuclear
Disarmament in North Korea
Women Making Peace, Korean women’s voice for peace on the Korean
peninsula, 14 February 2005
1. Korean women, who have been hoping to see Korea become a land of
peace, without war and weapons, and who have long worked for the peaceful
reunification of Korea, are very concerned about the declaration that
North Korea has nuclear weapons. 2005 is the 60th year since the atomic
bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and the screams of the victims
still ring in our memory. We cannot accept the existence of nuclear
weapons, which are fundamentally against life and peace.
2. It has been our strong position that the nuclear weapons states
including the U.S. should dismantle all their nuclear weapons, and
we do not believe a North Korean nuclear weapon can help in resolving
the Korean nuclear problem. North Korean nuclear weapons could
bring about a nuclear domino situation in neighboring countries, strengthen
Japanese remilitarization, cause an arms race and aggravate tensions
in Northeast Asia. If North Korea, according to its statement, does
possess nuclear weapons, it must dismantle them for the “denuclearization
of the Korea Peninsula.”
3. At the same time, however, for actual resolution of North
Korea’s nuclear issue, we should pay attention to the background
of its declaration of nuclear weapons possession. North Korea considers
the Bush administration's policy as designed “to antagonize,
isolate and stifle the DPRK,” and is very worried about “regime
change.” We understand that North Korea considers nuclear weapons
a means of self-defense, and views its possession of nuclear weapons
as a self-defense measure—a position stemming from its security
anxiety over the US’s hard-line policy. We should also pay attention
to the parts of the DPRK statement that affirm the principles of dialogue
and negotiation as the way to solve the issue, and that clarify the
ultimate goal to be denuclearization of the Korean peninsula.
4. We therefore oppose any economic sanctions or military attack against
North Korea in retaliation for its declaration of possession of nuclear
weapons. Such methods will strengthen tensions and insecurity and
elevate the risk of war. The North Korean nuclear issue absolutely
must be resolved through peaceful and cooperative methods. The key
to resolving the nuclear problem is to create an environment of mutual
trust in which there is no longer a need for nuclear weapons. The
most important element is “trust”; if there is no trust,
complete verification will be impossible and it will take a long time
to solve the problem. It is also important to have a new environment
in which nuclear weapons are irrelevant and unneeded.
5. The US needs to talk with North Korea directly, as soon as possible,
to solve the DPRK’s anxieties over its security. The US pressure
on North Korea--through such actions as its labeling of the North
as an “outpost of tyranny,” the US Congress’ passage
of the “North Korean Human Rights Act,” and the ''Proliferation
Security Initiative”--should be stopped. To build trust
between North Korea and the US, both countries need to agree upon
a comprehensive package deal for simultaneous dismantling of the North
Korean nuclear program and US compensation to North Korea.
6. As representative of the southern part of the peninsula’s
“community of destiny,” the South Korean government should
play a more independent and active role. From the long-term
view of peace building and reunification of the Korean peninsula,
the South needs to fulfill its duty of comprehensive and substantive
economic assistance to the North, and to create the circumstances
that will assure the security of North Korea.
7. We women of South Korea, in this “60th year of liberation”
and “60th year of division” of Korea, will work to advance
inter-Korean cooperation and exchanges, and to build support
among the people of Korea and the international community for
peaceful resolution of the North Korean nuclear issue.
We believe that our determined efforts for peace are the way to overcome
the pain of division and war, to put an end to the cold war legacy,
and to realize a Korean peninsula where peace and reconciliation prevail.
We ask the support of the international community to make this hope
come true.
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