Subject: EEE会議（北朝鮮関係情報：Kelly 証言）
Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2003 13:14:26 +0900
From: "kkaneko" <kkaneko@eagle.ocn.ne.jp>

各位殿

先ほどお送りした米国の北朝鮮関係の情報のうち、Jim Kelly国務次官補が12日上院
外交委員会で行った証言はとくに重要と思います。テキスト全文は大変長いので、国
務省のプレスリリースで、その要点をご覧下さい。　この中で、彼は、（１）北朝鮮
は核兵器を開発しながら国際的孤立を終わらせたいと考えているが、それは両立不可
能だ、（２）他の核兵器保有希望国が米国の北朝鮮対応振りをじっと見守っているこ
とに留意せよ、（３）北朝鮮さえ希望すれば、�@５大国（米、ロ、英、仏、中）との
会議、�A６者会議（南北朝鮮、米、中、ロ、日）などの多国間による解決の道は開か
れている、（４）米国は米（こめ）などの食糧援助は人道援助として今後も続ける。
食料を武器に使うつもりはない。などと述べております。　ご参考まで。　金子熊夫

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Text: North Korea Pursuing Mutually Exclusive Goals, Kelly Says

(Asst. Secretary's remarks to Senate Foreign Relations Committee March 12)
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North Korea can't have nuclear weapons and expect to end its international
isolation, says Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific
Affairs James A. Kelly.

"Over the past ten years, Pyongyang has been in pursuit of two mutually
exclusive goals," Kelly told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee March
12.

The first goal of the Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea (DPRK) is
nuclear weapons, he said.

The communist regime's second goal is "redefining its place in the world
community -- and, incidentally its access to international largesse -- by
broadening its diplomatic and foreign economic relations."

The DPRK "needs to accept that it cannot do both," he said in prepared
testimony.

So far, North Korea has chosen to pursue nuclear weapons development and
to escalate international tensions even as it demands commitments and
dialogue, the assistant secretary said.

"North Korean provocations are disturbing, but they cannot be permitted to
yield gains to North Korea," Kelly said.

"We must, in dealing with North Korea, be mindful that other would-be
nuclear aspirants are watching," Kelly cautioned, "If North Korea gains
from its violations, others may conclude that the violation route is cost
free."

Deterrence, he added, "would be undermined and our nonproliferation
efforts -- more critical now than ever -- would be grossly jeopardized."

The international community, Kelly said, "must, and indeed is, impressing
on the North that it is in its own best interest to end its nuclear arms
program."

The United States, he added, is open to ideas about the format for a
multilateral solution.

"One idea is for the Permanent Five -- the U.S., China, France, Great
Britain and Russia -- to meet together with the Republic of Korea, Japan,
the EU (European Union), and Australia. Others have suggested other
ideas, such as six-party talks: North and South Korea, the U.S., the PRC
(Peoples' Republic of China), Japan, and Russia," he said.

He reiterated President Bush's commitment to finding a peaceful,
diplomatic solution with North Korea and said the United States will
continue to provide humanitarian assistance to the people of North Korea.
"We will not use food as a weapon," he said.

Kelly noted that the Bush administration recently announced an initial
contribution of 40,000 tons of food aid to North Korea through the World
Food Program and is prepared to contribute as much as 60,000 tons more.

The Pyongyang regime has indicated it wanted to transform its relations
with the United States, South Korea and Japan, he observed.

"North Korea has the ability to achieve such a transformation," he said,
"The question is whether it has the will to do so."

For full engagement with the United States and the international
community, North Korea must live up to its existing obligations and
eliminate its nuclear weapons program in "a verifiable and irreversible
manner," Kelly said.

North Korea, he added, "will need to change its behavior on human rights,
address the issues underlying its appearance on the State Department list
of states sponsoring terrorism, eliminate its illegal weapons of mass
destruction programs, cease the proliferation of missiles and
missile-related technology, and adopt a less provocative conventional
force disposition."

Following is the text of Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and
Pacific Affairs James A. Kelly as prepared for delivery before the Senate
Foreign Relations Committee March 12