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DPRK Delegate Denounces U.S. Moves to Escalate Arms Race in Space

Korean Central News Agency of DPRK via Korea News Service (KNS)

   Pyongyang, April 18 (KCNA) -- A DPRK delegate, addressing a meeting of the UN Disarmament Commission, said that world powers are spurring on the global arms race, while increasing military spending and gaining enormous profits through arms sale.
    He went on to say:
    A particular mention should be made of the fact that the U.S. is stepping up the development of new type nuclear weapons, pursuant to its strategy of preemptive nuclear attack, and escalating the arms race into the space.
    As long as the nuclear doctrine presupposing the use of nukes persists and the race for dominating arms market goes on among world powers, any UN discussion on the nuclear disarmament and nuclear non-proliferation will prove to be an empty talk and the desire for peace and world denuclearization will never come true.
    Noting that the nuclear issue on the Korean Peninsula is a product of the hostile policy pursued by the U.S. toward the DPRK for the past more than five decades, he added that the U.S. has threatened the DPRK after listing it as part of an "axis of evil" and a target of preemptive nuclear attack as soon as the Bush administration emerged.
    Referring to the fact that the DPRK has bolstered its capability for self-defence to cope with the threat of U.S. nuclear attack, he declared this is a legitimate exercise of its sovereignty to protect the country and people and defend its system from the any foreign threat of attack and aggression.
    It is the last instruction of President Kim Il Sung and a consistent stand of the DPRK government to realize the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula, he noted, reiterating the invariable will of the DPRK to implement the September 19 joint statement and the February 13 agreement.