THE EMBASSY OF THE DEMOCRATIC
PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF KOREA TO SWITZERLAND
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3074 Muri/Bern Switzerland
No 46/26
1. Press Statement of Permanent Representative of DPRK to UN
2. Crime of Japan, Sworn Enemy of Korean Nation
Press Statement of Permanent Representative of DPRK to UN
Pyongyang, May 7 (KCNA) -- Kim Song, permanent representative of the DPRK to the UN, issued the following press statement on May 6:
At the 11th NPT review conference now under way at the UN Headquarters, the U.S. and some vassal countries are dampening the atmosphere of the conference, groundlessly taking issue with the present position and exercise of sovereign rights of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, a nuclear weapons state outside the treaty.
The NPT review conference, which should contribute to addressing the international issue of nuclear disarmament and the root cause of the danger of nuclear conflict, fails to fulfill its original mission and turns into a place of malicious accusation against the sovereign states, pursuant to the sinister political attempt of the U.S. and Western forces. This is the fundamental reason why the global non-proliferation system is weakening.
I denounce and reject in the strongest tone the brigandish and shameless acts of certain countries including the U.S. which are taking issue with the DPRK's realistic and just access to nuclear weapons through the legal channels and exercise of its inherent defensive rights as a sovereign state.
The wrong behavior of the U.S. and Western countries forcing the DPRK, which transparently exercised the right to withdraw from the treaty according to Article 10 of the NPT, to fulfill the treaty obligations is a wanton violation of the spirit of the treaty and a total disregard of the purpose and principle of international law.
Before insisting obstinately on the observance of treaty obligations of the DPRK, which legally withdrew from the NPT decades ago, the U.S. should answer first whether the same criteria apply to the implementation of the obligations of various international treaties and international organizations conventions it had quit.
The soundness and legality of the NPT are not challenged by the exercise of the rights of a sovereign state existing outside the treaty, but are eroding from inside due to the defection by some treaty member states including the U.S. which are arbitrarily abusing the nature and application scope of the treaty.
It should be the essential point in implementing the NPT and the main agenda item of the current review conference to rectify the violation of treaty obligations of the U.S. and some countries which are now neglecting the obligations to nuclear disarmament as the signatories to the NPT and resorting to such proliferation acts as offer of "extended deterrence" and transfer of nuclear submarine technology to non-nuclear states.
The position of the DPRK as a nuclear weapons state does not change by rhetorical assertion or unilateral desire of outsiders.
Clarifying once again, the DPRK is not bound by the NPT in any case.
The DPRK will make a positive contribution to the efforts of the international community to ensure international peace and security and promote global strategic stability by remaining faithful to the law on the state nuclear force policy, which clarifies the mission of nuclear force, the principle of using nuclear weapons and the obligation to prevent proliferation in a most transparent way, and to the implementation of its obligations under the national constitution which fixes its legal position as a nuclear weapons state.
Crime of Japan, Sworn Enemy of Korean Nation
Pyongyang, May 6 (KCNA) -- The pent-up grudge and resentment of the Korean people toward the Japanese imperialists' cruel and brutal military rule erupted into a nationwide anti-Japanese resistance on March 1, 1919.
The March First Popular Uprising, started with a mass demonstration in Pyongyang, swept the whole of Korea and spread to the areas abroad where Koreans lived.
The panic-stricken Japanese imperialists mobilized all the repressive forces in Korea at that time to suppress the peaceful demonstration. Not content with this, they even shipped huge forces into Korea from the mainland of Japan.
They fully revealed their true colors as beasts in the suppression of the March First Popular Uprising.
Japanese imperialist murderers rushed to a young schoolgirl, who participated in the demonstration march, and cut her two arms with knives and killed her by hacking her body to pieces.
They committed all sorts of thrice-cursed atrocities. They broke the skulls of uprisers by striking the back of their heads with metal bars and hooks, stabbed their whole bodies with short swords to ensanguine and tore the mouth of a young boy with a knife and killed him mercilessly as he shouted a slogan of independence.
More than 100 000 Koreans lost their lives during the March First Popular Uprising alone due to the barbarous massacre of the Japanese imperialists.
As regards the crucial and atrocious massacre of the peaceful demonstration participants, even a government-patronized scholar of Japan confessed that the Japanese were hell-bent on the suppression too cruel to see.
A foreign witness said that the wild beating and crucial atrocities perpetrated by Japanese against an innocent Korean were so heinous and brutal that reminded him of an act of beast against human being, adding that the Japanese, though they committed such extreme atrocities, felt sorry for the lack of more extreme method.
During the March First Popular Uprising, the Japanese imperialists dyed the whole of Korea with the blood of innocent people.