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KCNA denounces U.S. mean lobbying

KCNA

    Pyongyang, June 28 (KCNA) -- The United States is scheming to refer the nuclear issue on the Korean peninsula to the UNSC after instigating several countries to adopt a "statement of the president" of the ASEAN regional forum accusing the DPRK. The U.S. was reported to have distributed copies of the draft statement among the UNSC permanent members and ten non-permanent members in a bid to have a statement of its president denouncing North Korea for "developing nuclear weapons" adopted at its meeting.
    This proves that the U.S. is keen on bringing the nuclear issue up for discussion at the un in a bid to increase international pressure upon the DPRK and thus isolate and strangle it.
    As the DPRK has already clarified, the point related to the Korean peninsula in the document adopted at the ASEAN regional forum is an interference in its internal affairs and a product of the U.S. mean lobbying aimed at increasing international pressure upon the DPRK.
    The "president's statement" urged the DPRK to resume cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency and retract its decision to withdraw from the nuclear non-proliferation treaty. But this does not stand to reason from an international legal point of view.
    Article 10 of the NPT stipulates that each signatory to the treaty can pull out of it under the extraordinary situation where its supreme interests are threatened. therefore, the measure taken by the DPRK to withdraw from the NPT was an exercise of its undeniable legitimate right.
    The NPT, by its nature, assumes a noble purpose and mission of preventing the proliferation of nuclear weapons internationally, eradicating threats of those weapons and ensuring the use of nuclear energy for a peaceful purpose only.
    However, there is such a serious partiality in the course of implementing the treaty that a few powers resort to high-handed and arbitrary practices for a nuclear monopoly and force non-nuclear states to yield to their subjugation, control and dictation, infringing upon their sovereignty and dignity.
    As unanimously admitted by the world unbiased public opinion it is none other than the U.S. which has most wantonly violated the NPT.
    Even after its accession to the NPT the U.S. has kept developing and manufacturing new types of nuclear weapons of high performance, tested them and massively stockpiled weapons of mass destruction threatening the existence of humankind, instead of opting to cut down or dismantle nuclear weapons.
    This should be called into question as it is a wanton violation of the NPT.
    Given that the U.S. has converted South Korea into the biggest nuclear arsenal in Far East and unilaterally poses a nuclear threat to the DPRK, it was quite just for the DPRK to have withdrawn from the NPT to protect the sovereignty of the country and the vital rights of the nation.
    Such being a stark fact, the U.S. is calling on the DPRK to cancel its decision of withdrawing from the NPT. This is preposterous.
    Moreover, its intention to refer the issue to the UN can never be tolerated as it seeks to use the UN in achieving its criminal aim to isolate and stifle the DPRK.
    The DPRK will regard any move to bring the DPRK's nuclear issue up for discussion at the UNSC as a prelude to a war and take a corresponding measure.