THE EMBASSY OF THE DEMOCRATIC
PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF KOREA TO SWITZERLAND
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No. 90/22 November 18, 2022
2. Answers Given by Director General for Int'l Organizations of DPRK Foreign Ministry to KCNA Questions
3. Europe Should Open Its Eyes and See Through Sinister Intention of U.S.
4. Root Cause of Aggravated Situation Must Be Questioned
5. Blessed Triplets
Press Statement of DPRK FM
Pyongyang, November 17 (KCNA) -- Choe Son Hui, minister of Foreign Affairs of the DPRK, made the following press statement on Thursday:
I clarify a serious warning stand toward the fact that the U.S., Japan and south Korea held a three-party summit a few days ago and talked about "bolstered offer of extended deterrence" and "strong and resolute counteraction", describing the DPRK's legitimate and just military counteractions, incited by their war drills for aggression, as "provocation".
The recent tripartite talks will finally result in bringing the situation on the Korean peninsula to an unpredictable phase.
It is necessary to remind that the U.S. and its followers staged large-scale war drills for aggression one after another, but they failed to contain the DPRK's overwhelming counteraction and, on the contrary, it resulted in increasing their security crisis.
The U.S. "bolstered offer of extended deterrence" and the daily-increasing military activities of the allied forces around the Korean peninsula are foolish acts that will bring more serious instability to the U.S. and its allies.
The keener the U.S. is on the "bolstered offer of extended deterrence" to its allies and the more they intensify provocative and bluffing military activities on the Korean peninsula and in the region, the fiercer the DPRK's military counteraction will be, in direct proportion to it, and it will pose a more serious, realistic and inevitable threat to the U.S. and its vassal forces.
The U.S. will be well aware that it is gambling for which it will certainly regret.
Answers Given by Director General for Int'l Organizations of
DPRK Foreign Ministry to KCNA Questions
Pyongyang, November 18 (KCNA) -- Jo Chol Su, director general of the Department of International Organizations of the DPRK Foreign Ministry, gave the following answers to questions put by KCNA Friday upon the railroading of an anti-DPRK "human rights resolution" at a session of the 3rd Committee of the 77th UN General Assembly on Thursday:
Question: It is said that an anti-DPRK "human rights resolution" tabled by the U.S. and its vassal forces was railroaded at the session of the 3rd Committee of the 77th UN General Assembly on November 17. What do you say about it?
Answer: The DPRK does not recognize but totally rejects the "human rights resolution" as it is a product of the unwarranted hostile policy against the DPRK by the U.S. and its vassal forces.
In our country there is no "human rights" issue touted by the U.S. and its vassal forces nor can it exist in it where the people's independent rights are institutionally guaranteed and people actually enjoy them.
The coercive passage of the "human rights resolution" masterminded by the hostile forces does not reflect the universal viewpoint and stand of the international community on the human rights performance in the DPRK.
Not a few countries including China, Russia and Cuba voiced clear opposition to the anti-DPRK "human rights resolution" unilaterally raised by the U.S., EU, Japan and other Western countries.
This proves that the "human rights resolution" has nothing to do with substantial guarantee and improvement of human rights and that it is just a means for realizing the sordid political attempt of the U.S. and other Western countries.
Question: What is the purpose of the U.S. touting "human rights issue" of other countries in the international arena?
Answer: The purpose is clear. It is to pressurize the independent, sovereign countries standing against the U.S. high-handed and arbitrary practices, interfere in their internal affairs and topple their political system.
It is a trite method used by the U.S. to dub independent and righteous countries "devils", tarnish their images and create lever for putting international pressure on them.
Finding that its sanctions and military threat do not work on the DPRK, the U.S. has become foolish as to mobilize its vassal forces into anti-DPRK "human rights offensive".
After the puppet Yoon Suk Yeol traitorous group hell-bent on confrontation with the fellow countrymen came to power, south Korea has come out as a "human rights" shock brigade for the U.S. This clearly shows that the "human rights resolution" is a brainchild of the hostile forces in their sordid attempt to bring down the ideology and social system in the DPRK in an underhanded manner.
Question: Isn't it another purpose of the U.S. and other Western countries to divert the focus of international community away from the poor human rights performance in their own countries when they raised the "human rights issue" in other countries?
Answer: Exactly.
Those countries and forces that spearheaded the recent anti-DPRK "human rights resolution" are all the worst human rights abuser and tundra of human rights that left indelible blot in the world history of human rights.
It is exactly the U.S. where all sorts of social evils and institutional human rights abuses stalk, including deep-seated racism, incurable gun-related crimes, medieval human trafficking and police violence.
Even according to recent reports, a daily average of 122 people fall victim to gun-related crimes in the U.S. out of which the toll of African Americans holds 12 times that of the white.
The world's top "suicide kingdom", a human hell infested with all sorts of human rights abuses and immoral acts, is none other than south Korea where democratic forces are clamped down under the "Security Law", an evil law against human rights, civilians are put to illegal investigation and custody and citizens of the DPRK become targets of group abduction.
Europe is endemic with all kinds of social evils like human trafficking, slave labor, cruel treatment of immigrants, rejection of refugees and drug abuse. Japan has the record figure in crimes against children and women, xenophobia and suicide.
Such worst human rights abuser countries are touting about "human rights issue" in other countries as if they are "human rights judges". This is a mockery and insult to human rights.
Question: What do you think is a prerequisite to guaranteeing human rights?
Answer: It is a very worrisome development that recently human rights has become a political tool and weapon serving the small group and forces including the U.S. and other Western countries in the international community and are abused for interfering and pressurizing other countries.
The international community must be vigilant against the abuses of the sacred human rights for political attempt by some countries and take note of such negative phenomenon.
There are lots of countries and nations and each of them has differing history, custom and economy with different levels of social and cultural development, which denies a unique human rights standard that fit for all.
Genuine human rights standard is not set by the "human rights missionaries" of the West, and the best standard is the one that prioritizes interests, desire and wishes of broad range of popular masses.
In the DPRK where the people-first politics are embodied in the overall state activities and social life, people's rights and interests are made a top priority to help them enjoy genuine rights truly meeting their ideal and wishes.
It is the most important prerequisite to guaranteeing genuine human rights to rise up against the high-handed and arbitrary practices and double-dealing acts of the U.S. and its vassal forces keen on applying sanctions, pressure, military threats and aggression against independent countries in order to maintain their hegemony.
Question: What is the stand of the DPRK government to the hostile forces' "human rights" racket against it?
Answer: The U.S. and its vassal forces are gravely mistaken if they think their "human rights" racket would browbeat us.
Human rights precisely mean state sovereignty.
The reality of war-torn countries that suffered from the U.S. aggression clearly shows that human rights can not be protected when state sovereignty is violated.
If there is any threat to the human rights in our country, that comes from the U.S. and its vassal forces.
The DPRK will do its utmost to protect the state sovereignty and interests from the hostile acts of the U.S. and its vassal forces and promote the popular masses' genuine human rights, and will take thorough-going and strong counteraction to the hostile forces' anti-DPRK "human rights" smear campaign.
Europe Should Open Its Eyes and See Through Sinister Intention of U.S.
Recently, European countries are raising their voice of criticism against the U.S. for enforcing “Inflation Reduction Act” (IRA).
The German Chancellor and French Finance Minister expressed serious concern that adoption of the new act by the U.S. will destroy a level playing field leading to negative relations of competition among EU-U.S. alliance and will increase the danger of starting a new trade war.
The EU is also showing a strong reaction to it. It branded the U.S. step as an act of running counter to the international trade regulations.
Minister of Industry and Trade of Czech Republic, the Chair of the European Union for the second half of the year 2022, clarified the common position of the member states that they will never accept the above-mentioned act of the U.S. as it is extremely protectionist and discriminative causing damage to the export business of European countries.
Then why the “IRA”, taking effect from August 17 this year, is under fire from European countries?
It is because the act is run through with protectionist contents. For instance, it offers preference, such as tax reduction and exemption, huge subsidies and low energy prices, to foreign enterprises investing in the U.S. and encourages the Americans to buy domestic goods.
For example, when buyers purchase the U.S.-made electric cars, they are annually exempt from the tax in the amount of up to US$ 7,500 on each car. This would push the buyers to opt for the much cheaper electric cars without any hesitation, making the electric cars of Germany and France, the major electric car producers, be driven out of the market.
This is not all.
After the U.S. adopted the “IRA”, automotive, energy and green enterprises of many European countries, including Germany, Netherlands, Denmark and Norway, have been increasing their investment in the U.S. by opening new factories, expanding production activities, etc.
This is adding a great burden to the European countries which are already having a hard time to rescue their enterprises facing bankruptcy caused by the worst economic crisis in the history.
Now European countries are in an unprecedented energy crisis resulted from the adverse effect of joining the U.S.-led sanctions campaign against Russia and have to purchase the liquefied natural gas from the U.S. - “the closest ally”- at a price four times higher than its domestic market price.
On the other hand, the U.S. is lining its own pockets taking advantage of the energy crisis in Europe. For Exxon Mobile, a U.S. energy giant, it is reported that the company has made excessive profits of more than US$ 17 billion in the second quarter of this year which is three times higher than the figure of the same period last year.
Not content with this, the U.S. is now trying to gain control over the global electric car market with a huge sum of grant while creating more jobs by attracting European car manufacturing enterprises to the U.S. with honeyed words like “dealing with global climate change”. This is the true intention of the U.S.
Europe had better wake up to the reality, though belatedly, and protect its interests on its own.
If it doesn’t listen to the advice and only clings to the “alliance” with the U.S., it will never be able to avoid the ill fate of continuously offering its property to the U.S.
Even at this moment, the U.S. might be devising another bill to seek its own profits first, not caring about the European allies at all.
Son Ryu Jin, Researcher of Korea-Europe Association
Root Cause of Aggravated Situation Must Be Questioned
Recently, the High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy issued a so-called statement in denunciation of the military operation conducted by our army in response to the “Vigilant Storm”, the U.S.-south Korea aggressive war exercise against the DPRK. In this statement, he reportedly called for a “resolute and united response by the international community”, condemning our military operation as a “grave threat to international and regional peace and security”.
I cannot repress my indignation at the farce of issuing preposterous “statement”.
For a high-ranking politician representing Europe, it would be proper to grasp the essence of an international affair objectively and make remarks prudently, more than anyone else.
He seems to be deaf to the international society’s assessment that the U.S.-led provocative war exercises are the root cause of the aggravated situation on the Korean peninsula.
With incomprehension and prejudice against the essence of the Korean peninsula issue and double-dealing way of thinking running all over it, his statement is a repetition of the US’s harping on “threat to peace and security”.
When it comes to this High Representative, he is the very person who evoked strong criticism and protest of the international society for uttering discriminative and neo-colonialist phrase that “jungle could invade the garden”, describing Europe as a “garden” and other regions as “jungle”.
At that time, he made an excuse that he only cited the words by the U.S. neo-conservative politicians. By doing so, he laid bare himself that he is a person who parrots the U.S.’ words without his own opinion.
Experts are not exaggerating when they say that the “strategic independence” advocated by the EU is unlikely to be ever realized as long as there is such a person like him without independent opinion or principle.
I would like to ask him a question.
How can he term the military confrontation racket of the U.S., which posed a grave threat to the security of a sovereign state by bringing the strike group of the U.S. nuclear carrier “Ronald Reagan” and “B-1B” strategic bomber into the Korean peninsula, the hottest spot of the world?
Does he have a cheek to talk about “regional peace and security” while remaining silent about EU members’ act of inciting the tension on the Korean peninsula by selling all kinds of war equipment to south Korea in disregard of the 2008 common position of the Council of the European Union on prohibition of arms export to the areas of conflict.
If the High Representative is truly interested in maintaining the world peace and security, he should pluck up the courage and question the reckless military provocation of the U.S. – the root cause of the aggravated situation on the Korean peninsula.
Pak Myong Chol, Researcher of Korea-Europe Association
A set of triplets were born in a mountain village in Kimhwa County, Kangwon Province, in July Juche 83 (1994).
The father was an officer of the Korean People’s Army.
Although the triplets received medical care, they were not in a good condition. Of the three, the condition of the third, which was the lightest in body weight, was particularly poor.
The neighbours wondered whether the babies’ lives could be saved, especially in their mountain village. All the roads were blocked by heavy rains, and as the days went by the doctors grew more apprehensive.
But they did not lose hope; they were convinced that the triplets and their mother would be flown to Pyongyang as soon as the weather improved.
The villagers and doctors only looked up at the sky.
But the sky grew darker, lightening flashed overhead followed by thunder, and it began to bucket down. Worse still, the sad news of President Kim Il Sung’s sudden death was reported.
The doctors, who were taking care of the babies in the incubators, wailed over his death and the babies’ mother lost consciousness.
The triplets were no longer mentioned; it was as if everyone had forgotten they even existed.
On July 12 an order was issued by phone and telegraph:
The Air Force of the Korean People’s Army shall immediately fly aircraft to dispatch the triplets and their mother;
The Pyongyang Maternity Hospital shall send a strong medical team led by its technical director to the site;
Pyongyang Airport shall prepare for the plane to land whatever the weather conditions...
Who had given this order at a time when the whole country was wailing over the death of their President? Later it became known that it was Kim Jong Il.
Kim Jong Il was suffering from the greatest sorrow at the loss of Kim Il Sung. But he gave the order; such was his concern for the triplets.
So a military plane flew to the destination through the heavy rain.
When the plane landed, the triplets’ family, the villagers—young and old, men and women—and soldiers gathered round it, shedding tears of joy.
155 days later, the triplets left the Pyongyang Maternity Hospital in good health.