North Korean Embassy in Tehran on Current Situation of Korean Peninsula

Following the intensification of tensions in the Korean Peninsula and imposition of sanctions on Pyongyang, the Ambassador of North Korea to Iran clarified the country’s stands in a statement given to AVA Diplomatic:

In recent years, the United States and its followers continue to manipulate “resolutions on sanctions” against the DPRK at the UN Security Council, abusing the self-defensive measures of strengthening national defense power of the DPRK as a threat to world peace and security.

In this regard, the Korean Lawyers Committee published a white paper with a view to disclosing the background of those illegal “sanctions resolution” passed by the UN Security Council against sovereign states without any justification and the absurdity of the legal ground claimed by the UN Secretariat.

Indeed, the history of sanctions of the UN is a history of crimes tainted with high-handedness and arbitrariness. And the “sanctions resolutions” of the United Nations against the DPRK are criminal documents devoid of legality, morality and impartiality.

If the nuclear test or satellite and ballistic missile launches themselves constitute threat to international peace and security, the permanent member states of the UN Security Council should become the targets of sanctions one after another and corresponding sanctions resolutions adopted as they conducted nuclear tests more than 2,000 times, launched over 7,000 satellites and still undertake intercontinental ballistic missile launch tests almost every day.

But the UN Security Council manipulated the “sanctions resolutions” without any legal ground, alleging that only the nuclear test and satellite and ballistic missile launches of the DPRK constituted threat to international peace and security. In the meantime, the United States put political and economic pressure on other countries to take side with its hostile policy toward the DPRK to implement the anti-DPRK “sanctions resolutions.”

If the “resolutions” of the UN Security Council are “fair” and “reasonable” they will be implemented naturally without the coercion and pressure of the United States on other countries.

However, the United States mobilizes all its vassal forces to put political, economic and military pressure on other countries in order to force them to implement the illegally-manipulated “sanctions resolutions” against the DPRK.

The root-cause of the nuclear issue on the Korean peninsula lies in the United States and it is none other than the United States that pushed the DPRK to become a nuclear weapons state.

Our nuclear tests and ballistic missile launches are just and righteous self-defensive measures to safeguard the sovereignty and right to existence to cope with the nuclear threat of the United States persisting for more than half a century and they do not run counter to any international law.

As is generally known, the UN ”sanctions resolutions” against the DPRK have neither legal ground nor justification, to say nothing of their morality.

The United Nations adopted the illegal and immoral ”sanctions resolutions” against the DPRK and applied blockade-type sanctions.

It is necessary to convene the Forum of International Legal Experts to clarify legal ground of the UN “sanctions resolutions” against the DPRK.

The UN “sanctions resolutions” against the DPRK are not the issue confined to the DPRK alone.

As the UN history spanning more than 70 years shows, if the DPRK became the target of UN “sanctions” today, another state will become their target tomorrow.

The prevailing reality fully shows that organizing the forum of international legal experts to investigate the legal ground of ”sanctions resolutions” is all the more pressing.

The forum of international legal experts is the place where the legality of ”sanctions resolutions” can be clarified fairly from the international law perspective.

On March 13, 2017, the permanent mission of the DPRK to the UN proposed to the UN Secretariat that governmental and non-governmental experts from all states and international legal organizations attend the forum as they wish and the agenda of the forum be agreed upon reasonably in full reflection of the wishes and opinions of the attendants.

The UN Secretariat should, in accordance with its main mission of maintaining international peace and security fulfill its responsibility before the international community by positively responding to our proposal on organizing the forum of international legal experts to clarify the legal ground of the ”sanctions resolutions” against the DPRK.

A spokesman for the General Staff of the Korean People’s Army (KPA) issued a statement Friday as regards the extremely dangerous situation prevailing on the Korean peninsula due to the Trump administration’s reckless military provocation.

The Trump administration of the U.S. began to disclose its brigandish nature timed to coincide with Key Resolve and Foal Eagle nuclear war games now under way in across south Korea, the statement said, and went on:

The DPRK policy shaped by the Trump administration is first to put high-intensity sanctions and pressure together with someone, second to constantly keep tactical nuclear weapons deployed in south Korea and third to launch an independent military action aimed at “beheading operation” against the leadership of the DPRK and “preemptive strike”.

In actuality, the Trump administration, which made a surprise cruise guided missile strike at Syria on April 6, has entered the path of open threat and blackmail against the DPRK, describing it as “a strong warning message” to it.

The U.S. State secretary, Defense secretary and other officials concerned with security of the U.S. are openly crying out more often than not for launching an independent military action against the DPRK.

Under the prevailing situation where the Trump administration’s serious military hysteria has reached a dangerous phase which can no longer be overlooked, the KPA General Staff re-clarifies its principled stand as follows upon authorization:

All the brigandish provocative moves of the U.S. in the political, economic and military fields pursuant to its hostile policy toward the DPRK will thoroughly be foiled through the toughest counteraction of the army and people of the DPRK.

Our toughest counteraction against the U.S. and its vassal forces will be taken in such a merciless manner as not to allow the aggressors to survive.

Under the prevailing grave situation, the U.S. has to come to its senses and make a proper option for the solution of the problem.

The army and people of the DPRK will as ever courageously counter those who encroach upon the dignity and sovereignty of the DPRK and will always mercilessly foil all the provocative options of the U.S. with Korean-style toughest counteraction.