The United States had agreed to remove North Korea from its state terrorism list and to contribute to fuel aid to the country in exchange for the North shutting down its nuclear facilities and disclosing all data on its nuclear programs.
"No action has been taken on the United States' pledge to remove the DPRK [North Korea] from the list of countries supporting terrorism, or on the law on trade with hostile states, and energy supplies are not being provided in the agreed volume," the article in Rodong Sinmun said.
North Korea has reassured the U.S. that it will not pursue nuclear technology or cooperate with other countries in the nuclear sector, and has no intention of engaging in nuclear cooperation with other countries in the future, the commentary said.
Last month Mike McConnell, the director of the United States intelligence service, said North Korea had broken the pledge it made last year to halt all nuclear activities, and that "while Pyongyang denies a program of uranium enrichment and they deny their proliferation activities, we believe North Korea continues to engage in both."
The Trading with the Enemy Act was enacted in 1917 to restrict trade with countries hostile to the United States. Currently, the only nations with which trade is effectively closed by the act are North Korea and Cuba.
Under an agreement reached last October between the United States, Japan, Russia, China, and North and South Koreas, Pyongyang was to halt its nuclear programs and provide full information on nuclear activities by the end of 2007 in exchange for economic and political concessions. However, the North missed the deadline, causing the six-way negotiations to stall.
Since the October deal, South Korea, China and Russia have each supplied North Korea with 50,000 metric tons of fuel oil.
