North Korea: No Concessions on Nuclear Program

North Korea says it will not make concessions in the standoff over its nuclear program. A commentary in the Communist Party newspaper Rodong Sinmun says Iraq made compromises in allowing in weapons inspectors, and its destiny is now at stake.

The newspaper said Iraq "compromised its revolutionary principles" by allowing United Nations weapons inspectors into the country, and by agreeing to disarmament.

The commentary also said Pyongyang is not about to follow Saddam Hussein's lead. Washington has been demanding that Pyongyang end its suspected nuclear weapons program. Pyongyang has expelled U.N. nuclear inspectors, and pulled out of the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.

If it had given in to Washington's demands, the newspaper commentary said, North Korea would have already met what it called the same "miserable fate" as Iraq.
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