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KCNA warns against any infringement upon DPRK's sovereignty

KCNA

    Pyongyang, June 27 (KCNA) -- High-ranking officials of eleven countries met in Madrid recently and discussed the so-called "Madrid proposal" under the manipulation of the U.S., talking about the DPRK's "nuclear and missile issues and drug smuggling." There the U.S. made trite, far-fetched assertions that the DPRK-flagged trading vessels illegally transport drugs, counterfeit money and weapons of mass destruction and its followers agreed to lay a tight international siege to the DPRK under the pretext of "preventing the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and drugs."
    What should not be overlooked is that this agreement has something in common with the proposal for "sea blockade against the DPRK" made public by Bush in May last.
    This indicates that the U.S. preemptive block strategy aimed to isolate and stifle the DPRK internationally has entered the phase of its implementation and the touch-and-go situation created on the Korean peninsula may lead to an outbreak of war anytime.
    The DPRK has already served a strong warning that it would regard sea blockade against the DPRK as a breach of the armistice agreement, a declaration of war and a war action, in the long-run, no matter how hard the U.S. may try to cover up its nature.
    The Bush administration is much publicizing the proposal as an "international agreement" but those eleven countries represent neither the international community nor the un and, moreover, if they intercept the DPRK-flagged vessels, that will be, in fact, an act of wantonly violating international law.
    The present international law defines it as a serious infringement upon the sovereignty of other countries to stop, search and seize ships of those countries in the open sea.
    Therefore, those acts have so far been dismissed as piracy and a blatant challenge to the un charter.
    Some countries which profess respect for international law and the un charter have chimed in with the U.S. blockade operation little short of openly infringing upon the sovereignty of the DPRK, pursuant to its unilateral and self-justified strategy for world supremacy. This can not but be a height of folly.
    The reality clearly proves that the Bush administration is the world's biggest group of hooligans who utterly disregard international law and the UN Charter.
    It is a publicly recognized fact that the U.S. is the most dangerous country in the world that proliferates nukes, missiles and drugs.
    It is the U.S. which harassed mid-east peace and stability by transferring nuclear-related technology to Israel and it is again the U.S. which gained huge profits by massively selling missiles to different parts of the world.
    Some countries are supporting the U.S. in its moves to isolate and stifle the DPRK, oblivious of those facts. They should clearly know that their act will only result in allowing the U.S. to becloud even their political future and bar their economic prosperity.
    If the U.S. and its followers infringe upon the sovereignty of the DPRK even a bit, talking about "blockade" and "sanctions", the DPRK, as it has already clarified, will deal merciless retaliatory blows at them no matter who its opponent is.