THE EMBASSY OF THE DEMOCRATIC
PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF KOREA TO SWITZERLAND
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No 28/23 April 6, 2023
1. Press Statement of DPRK Permanent Representative to UN Office and Other International Organizations in Geneva
2. Expansion of U.S.-led War Drills for Aggression Is Trigger for Driving Situation on Korean Peninsula to Point of Explosion
3. Press Release of DPRK Embassy in Spain
4. DPRK: Launching Drill of ICBM
Press Statement of DPRK Permanent Representative to
UN Office and Other International Organizations in Geneva
Pyongyang, April 6 (KCNA) -- Han Tae Song, permanent representative of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea to the United Nations office and other international organizations in Geneva issued the following statement on April 6:
The "resolution on human rights situation in the DPRK" that does not deserve recognition was forcibly adopted at the 52nd session of the UN Human Rights Council (HRC) on April 4, 2023.
The delegation of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) strongly denounces and categorically rejects the anti-DPRK "resolution on human rights" drafted by the U.S. and its following forces as an intolerable act of political provocation and hostility.
The "resolution", unilaterally coerced by the U.S. and its following forces, is the most heavily politicized document of fraud which is full of such falsehood and fabrications as "denial of the right to information", "arbitrary detention and punishment", "social discrimination", "abduction" and "surveillance of the private lives - the non-existent and non-exist-able phenomena in our society.
Moreover, giving impudent instructions on this and that about the laws of our state is an act of intolerable interference in our internal affairs and infringement upon our sovereignty. The laws have been adopted in conformity with the will of all the people to safeguard the sovereignty of the state and the safety of the people from the U.S. and other hostile forces' outrageous attempts at overthrowing our system and their military threats.
The "resolution" is somehow composed of things that perfectly match with nightmarish human rights situation in the U.S.
Which country deceived the international community with fraudulent and false information and openly invaded sovereign states in the 21st century?
Which country is the police state where all kinds of hate crimes are rampant due to social contradiction and conflicts and black people writhe in pain as they cannot even breathe under the long arm of the authority?
Which is the unique "tapping empire" of the world that conducts nationwide surveillance permeating every second and every minute of its own citizens’ private lives, and even goes so far as to wiretap the phone calls by heads of other states, employing the most advanced means of reconnaissance and surveillance?
Which is the country with an anti-popular system where more than a million innocent people lost their lives due to failure of its anti-epidemic policy?
The U.S. is indeed the worst-ever human rights violator and the barren land of human rights and it should stand trial before the international community.
The U.S. is making desperate effort to isolate and stifle the Korean people by the unprecedented, inhumane and anti-humanitarian sanctions and blockade. Such being the case, it stands as an insult to the human rights, a mockery of human rights and an unpardonable crime against the human rights that the U.S. dares to pick on the human rights situation in our country.
Such a preposterous and uncivilized "resolution" running through with falsity and fabrication has been repeatedly adopted in the UN human rights mechanisms for more than 20 years. This tragic reality highlights once again the need for a reassessment of the international human rights debate.
Given that such a noble ideal as human rights had been reduced by the U.S. and the Western forces to an ideal "weapon" fit for their aggression, interference in the internal affairs and infringement upon sovereignty of independent sovereign states, the international human rights debate has lost its value – genuine promotion of the human rights.
The UN Human Rights Council is entrusted with an important mission to promote and protect the universally recognized human rights. But, instead of representing the common interests of humankind, it is now being misused for bloc-forming conspiracy of designating and attacking a specific country, subdued by high-handedness and arbitrariness of the U.S. and the Western forces. If it continues to go along this path, it will certainly be blamed by the whole world and will lose the very justification for its existence.
The anti-DPRK "human rights" campaign waged by the U.S. and a handful of its following forces in the UN by no means represents the public sentiment of the international community aspiring to justice and equality.
I take this opportunity to send a stern warning to south Korean puppet gang of traitors, a mere colonial servant of the U.S. even bereft of its national sovereignty, for its impudence to provoke our prestigious Republic with the human rights situation.
The DPRK will never tolerate any hostile act of the U.S. and its following forces encroaching upon our sovereignty and dignity, and will make every possible effort to defend the genuine people's system and their rights.
Expansion of U.S.-led War Drills for Aggression Is
Trigger for Driving Situation on Korean Peninsula to Point of Explosion
Pyongyang, April 6 (KCNA) -- Choe Ju Hyon, an international security analyst, released the following article titled "Expansion of the U.S.-led war drills of aggression is a trigger for driving the situation on the Korean peninsula to the point of explosion" on April 6:
The reckless military confrontational hysteria of the U.S. and its followers against the DPRK is driving the situation on the Korean peninsula to an irreversible catastrophe.
The U.S. kicked off different largest-ever joint military drills against the DPRK simultaneously despite the latter's repeated grave warnings, pushing the security situation of the Korean peninsula to the brink of a nuclear war. Against this backdrop, the U.S. staged joint naval drills with Japan and south Korea on April 3 and 4.
The U.S.-led allied forces were busy with an anti-submarine warfare drill and a search and rescue drill in the waters around the Korean peninsula to stoke an atmosphere of confrontation with the DPRK. The U.S. nuclear carrier Nimitz, Aegis destroyers Wayne E. Meyer and Decatur, and warships of Japan and south Korea were involved in the drills.
The hostile forces unhesitatingly make threatening remarks against the DPRK, saying that the drill, which was hosted to improve the allied capabilities for coping with the underwater threat from north Korea, promoted the strengthening of the allied deterrence and security cooperation.
Now the international community unanimously hopes that the dark clouds of a nuclear war hanging over the Korean peninsula will be removed as early as possible and peace and stability brought to the fore.
Nevertheless, the U.S. and its followers have pushed the situation on the Korean peninsula to an extremely critical phase, steadily escalating the intensity and scale of the joint military drills under different codenames, since the outset of this year.
The U.S. has staged more than tens of war drills for aggression, including the longest-ever Freedom Shield joint military exercises and the largest-ever Ssangyong joint landing drills, to attack and occupy the inviolable DPRK since March. By staging the tripartite joint naval drills with Japan involved again, the U.S. has betrayed its disgusting true colors as the chief culprit of escalating tensions on the Korean peninsula and the cancer-like entity threatening regional security and global peace before the very eyes of the world.
More than 200 big and small countries exist on the globe and each country stages military drills according to its right to self-defence. But there is no such military drill as the U.S. and its vassal forces' anti-DPRK war drills which continue all the year round, day after day and month after month, with the involvement of huge war hardware specifically targeted on a country.
For the U.S.-led joint military drills, hundreds of thousands of allied troops, which are huge enough to fight an all-out war, and core strategic assets termed ultra-modern are deployed around not so large Korean peninsula. Such war rehearsal is an unprecedented one without parallel in the world in terms of its bellicose nature, scale and intensity.
Witnessing such dreary situation prevailing in the Korean peninsula, anyone with common sense and reason can easily notice who the arch criminal escalating tension is and what the malignant factor of bringing the fiery clouds is.
As unanimously recognized by the international community, the U.S. and its vassal forces' frantic joint military drills have turned the Korean peninsula into a huge powder magazine which can be detonated any moment, and the vicinity of the Korean peninsula into a firing range exclusive to the U.S. imperialist aggressors and a world-class exhibition of strategic weapons.
The military provocations by the U.S.-led warmongers have gone beyond the tolerance limit. This reality awaits more explicit stand and answer of the DPRK's defence capabilities.
The DPRK's war deterrence will continue to show its responsibility for and confidence in its crucial mission through offensive action.
Press Release of DPRK Embassy in Spain
Pyongyang, April 4 (KCNA) -- The embassy of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea in the Kingdom of Spain made public the following press release on April 3:
Four years have passed since the unprecedented assault on the DPRK embassy in Spain was conducted under the direct manipulation of the U.S. intelligence authorities in 2019.
Right after the case, the Spanish government issued interim investigative results to the effect that a gang composed of over 10 Americans illegally intruded into the DPRK embassy in broad daylight and transmitted data they stole to the FBI of the United States. The government also urged under the extradition treaty with the U.S. that the U.S. should arrest and hand over criminals who had fled to the U.S. However, the U.S. has not intensified the investigation into American criminals involved in the case nor handed over Christopher Ahn whom it "arrested" for mere form's sake.
As for Christopher Ahn, he is a felon who deserves severe punishment from every aspect as he raided into the inviolable diplomatic mission of a state together with members of the anti-DPRK plot-breeding body and inflicted massive mental and physical strains and material damage on diplomats and their family members.
Nevertheless, the U.S. openly shields and abets terrorism against the DPRK citizens in foreign countries, making far-fetched assertions that it needs to check whether the assault on public officials of a hostile country staying in foreign countries can be regarded as a crime under the U.S. law, given the hostile relations persisting between the U.S. and the DPRK and the specific situation of no existence of a peace agreement nor diplomatic relations between the two countries.
The U.S. also makes every possible attempt to hush up the case, while building public opinion that even though Christopher Ahn was "judged" to be extradited to Spain, it cannot be realized once the U.S. secretary of state opposes the judgment, citing the "safety of the U.S. citizen" as a reason.
All the countries are under international obligation to thoroughly guarantee the safety of diplomatic envoys staying in their countries under the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations, and entering a diplomatic mission building without permission is considered as an intrusion into the territory of that particular country.
The U.S. assertion that diplomats of hostile countries are excluded from exclusive diplomatic rights and privileges is a gangster-like violation of international law.
If this assertion is followed, there comes a conclusion that it doesn't matter though the U.S. diplomats and citizens staying in countries hostile to the U.S. have their lives threatened and their interests encroached in the future.
The reality goes to clearly prove once again that the "rule of law" touted by the U.S. is nothing but a political tool for putting pressure on those countries incurring its displeasure and that the U.S. is a rogue state which makes no scruple of doing anything for its interests.
Such acts of the U.S. are a clear disregard and a grave insult to the sovereignty and dignity of the DPRK.
No country in the world will tolerate violence to and plunder of diplomatic mission, where an inviolable sovereignty is exercised, and its members.
It is the invariable principled stand of the DPRK that no compromise or concession can be allowed when it comes to the issue of defending its sovereignty and dignity and protecting lives and security of its citizens.
The U.S. is obliged to make an official apology and a compensation for the assault on the DPRK embassy in the Kingdom of Spain, and arrest and extradite all criminals involved in the incident at once.
The Spanish government, too, should make positive effort for the earlier settlement of the case on the principle of independence and impartiality.
The Central Military Commission of the Workers’ Party of Korea saw to it that a firing drill of the ICBM Hwasongpho-17 was conducted on March 16 this year.
This drill was conducted under the grave situation in which a most unstable security environment was being created on the Korean peninsula owing to the provocative and aggressive large-scale war games conducted by the US and south Korea against the DPRK.
The ICBM, launched at Pyongyang International Airport, travelled up to a maximum altitude of 6 045km and flew a distance of 1 000.2km for 4 151 seconds before accurately landing on the target area in the open waters of the East Sea of Korea.
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