(2004.02.24)
China, Japan, Russia, and the U.S. should do their best for the peaceful settlement of the issues regarding nuclear programs in North Korea. No one has the right to victimize North Korea. International community should stop scapegoating and victimizing North Korea.

 

Following the Geneva Frame of Agreement in 1994, the U.S. should keep its promise to ease the economic sanctions against North Korea.  Imposing economic sanctions on the people suffering from famine and hunger is a serious violation of basic human right. No country has any  right to prevent North Korea from producing energy from uranium. The U.S., Japan, and other countries should stop preventing North Korea from developing peaceful production of electricity from uranium resources. PSI operations against North Korean ships should be immediately stopped for a free world.

 

Japan should apologize officially the wrongdoings against the people of North Korea, including those 130,000 to 200,000 women who were kidnapped for military sex slavery as well as those thousands of men who were sent to forced labour. Compensation and reparation should be paid in cash to the people of North Korea.

 

KEDO should immediately supply the two light-water reactors which were promised by the Geneva Agreement, and the U.S. Senate and House should be able to play a positive role for the construction of the LWR in Shinpo. The U.S. should supply 500,000 tones of fuel oil to North Korea according to Geneva Agreement. And the U.S., who has the nuclear weapons and weapons of mass destruction, should abandon its plan of preemptive attacks with nuclear weapons against those nuclear-weapon have-nots according to the Article 3 of the Geneva Agreement. The U.S. should not misuse and scapegoat North Korea for the interest of its coming presidential election. The U.S. should make the written promise for the security of the people and the nation of D.P.R.K. The U.S. should open the normal and peaceful relations with North Korea as a friendly nation like Vietnam or China. We believe that this is the best way to solve the conflicts between the U.S. and North Korea.

 

Japan should also open the normal diplomatic relationship with North Korea, and cancel its economic and financial sanctions against North Korea. Issues around kidnapping Japanese persons should be resolved by diplomatic means. Japan should keep the every detailed promises which were made between the two countries in the spirit of reciprocity and respect.

 

We strongly urge the U.S. to play positive role in the process of economic cooperations between North and South Korea, which are taking shape in the Kaesung Special Economic Development Project, Keumgangsan Project, Railway Project, and others. In no chances, the U.S. should become the obstacle or give pressure to South Korea.

 

The United Nations and its General Secretary Kopi Anan should make a clear declaration to prevent military attacks, economic sanctions, naval blockades of PSI, and international pressures of various kinds against the famine-ridden North Korea. UN and IAEA should denuclearize the nuclear-weapon-haves, e.g., Russia, the U.S., Israel, China, U.K., France, India, Pakistan, and invite them to join NPT. (Japan should be included here, for it has accumulated some 7,000 to 45,000 kilograms of Plutonium and has the capacity to produce more than thousand nuclear warheads.) They are the ones who actually proliferate nuclear weapons and technologies. UN and Kopi Anan should reexamine the role of UN Command in Korea, scrutinizing whether the UN Command actually plays the facilitating role for peace and reunification of Korea or has become an obstacle for the process of peaceful cooperations between North and South Korea.

 

February 24, 2004

Planning Subcommission of the Reunification Committee

The National Council of Churches in Korea