SEOUL Jan. 30 Kyodo (EDS: ADDING ...

SEOUL Jan. 30 Kyodo

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North Korea forward Thursday slammed U.S. President George W Bush's State of the Union address as an ''undisguised declaration of aggression'' to topple the country's method in its first comment forward the speech.

A spokesman for the North Korean Foreign Ministry issued a statement accusing Bush of committing ''such a surpassingly grave provocation as malignantly slandering the DPRK'' in his tongue to Congress on Tuesday, the (North) Korean Central recently made knowns Agency (KCNA) reported. DPRK imputes to North Korea's official name, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.

The statement said Bush's exposition in his speech that North Korea is using its nuclear program to incite fear and solicit concessions ''proves he is a shameless charlatan reversing black and white in subordination to the eyes of the world.''

''We will not allow the U.S. to wantonly encroach relating to the sovereignty and dignity of the DPRK and lay waste its system,'' the statement said.

''We will do our most distant to defend our system in view of the U declaration of aggression,'' it said, calling anew for a legally binding nonaggression pact with the US

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