The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) on Saturday denounced the United States for intentionally breaching the Geneva framework, and demanded compensation for a US-led move to suspend construction of two nuclear power plants in the country.

The comment was published in Saturday's Rodong Sinmun, the official newspaper of the Workers' Party of Korea.

The Korean Peninsula Energy Development Organization (KEDO)'s announced last week that it would suspend the construction of two light water reactors in the DPRK for a year, starting from next month.

The decision by the United States and other KEDO members was overt defiance toward the DPRK and brutal damage to the DPRK-US Agreed Framework, the comment said.

The article also criticized Washington for misleading public opinions by claiming the DPRK had not been able to provide the essential conditions to carry on with the reactor project, thus creating the false impression that the DPRK was to blame for the collapse of the Agreed Framework.

The Agreed Framework is a package agreement between the DPRK and the US signed in Geneva in 1994, in which the DPRK promised to give up its nuclear reactor projects, while the United States agreed to help it build two light water reactors in compensation.

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