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U.S. indicted by Pyongyang int'l tribunal

Korean Central News Agency

Release Date: 7/25/2003

Pyongyang, July 24 (KCNA) -- The Pyongyang International Tribunal was opened today under the sponsorship of the Democratic International Organizations and the Korean Committee for Solidarity with the World People to indict the U.S. for its crimes against Korea. The Joint International Prosecution Team of the �gPyongyang International Tribunal on U.S. Crimes in Korea,�h authorized by the Democratic International Organizations, progressive anti-war peace organizations, justice-loving individual figures and lawyers, brings this indictment against the following persons, in their official and individual capacities, for the crimes committed on the Korean Peninsula by the U.S. administration, the U.S. military and other persons under their command (hereinafter referred to as the U.S.), the indictment says, and continues:

The accused are all presidents of the United States, from the Truman administration to the present Bush administration: all secretaries of state, all secretaries of defense: all chairpersons of the joint chiefs of staff: all secretaries of the army, navy and air force, all directors of the central intelligence agency: all staff members of the National Security Council: all national security advisers to U.S. presidents: all commanders of the U.S. forces in South Korea: all those who planned, prepared, organized, ordered and executed the criminal acts included in the indictment, and their accomplices: and all those who were involved in mass killings of the Korean people.

The basic charters, fundamental laws and conventions violated by the accused are as follows:

The U.S. invasion of Korea violated the un charter, namely, chapter 1 on the maintenance of peace and security, chapter 5 on the procedures of the un security council, chapter 6 on the pacific settlement of disputes and chapter 7 on the actions with respect to threat to peace, breaches of peace and acts of aggression.

The U.S. occupied South Korea and obstructed its democratic development in violation of the Cairo and Potsdam Declarations on post-war settlement.

The U.S. provoked the Korean War and has made persistent attempts to ignite another war. These acts of aggression are in violation of the treaty on the renunciation of war, the treaty on the definition of aggression and the UNGA resolution 3314 (xx1x) on the definition of aggression and acts of aggression.

The U.S. committed crimes against peace, war crimes and crimes against humanity on the Korean Peninsula in violation of the charters of the international military tribunal of Nuremberg and the Far East military tribunal, regulations of the Nuremberg tribunal and the principles of international law recognized at the trial and the code of laws on crimes against peace and security of mankind.

The U.S. violated the Hague convention respecting the laws and customs of war on land, which forbids the use of poison and poisoned weapons, and the Geneva protocol prohibiting the use in war of asphyxiating, poisonous and other gases, and of bacteriological methods of warfare.

The U.S. violated the provisions of different conventions and protocols, including the Geneva Conventions of August 12, 1949 on the protection of civilians in time of war and the same convention on the treatment of prisoners of war.

The U.S. violated the universal declaration of human rights, the convention on the prevention and punishment of the crime of genocide, the convention on the abolition of racial discrimination in all forms, the international covenant on civil and political rights, the international covenant on economic, social and cultural rights, the convention on non-applicability of the statute of limitations to war crimes and crimes against humanity, and the convention on the prevention and punishment of the crimes of apartheid.

The U.S. violated the nuclear non-proliferation treaty, the international convention on prevention and punishment of terrorism, the agreement on the partial limitation of drug production, the Geneva Convention on the prevention of drug production and trafficking, and other conventions and un resolutions which ban the drug trafficking and use.

The U.S. violated the internationally recognized customary laws and rules governing the use of force.

The U.S. undermined the Korean Armistice Agreement, the DPRK-U.S.A. Joint Statement and the DPRK-U.S.A. Agreed Framework. The U.S. invalidated the joint declaration on denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula and obstructed the implementation of the June 15 North-South Joint Declaration.

The U.S. violated the domestic laws of the DPRK, the People's Republic of China, Japan, the United States of America and other countries concerned in the course of pursuing its hostile policy towards the DPRK.

The indictment cited detailed facts to prove that the crimes were committed in violation of the above-said laws and regulations.

All the crimes committed by the U.S. in Korea in the past were unprecedented ones in light of their scope and brutality.

Seeing that the accused can never flee from their responsibility for bringing all sorts of misfortunes and pains to the Korean people after dividing Korea, the joint prosecution team urged the international joint justice team to rule that the U.S. must take all forms of responsibility indicated in international laws--political, moral, penal and material--and pass a judgment on it.