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Verdict of Pyongyang International Tribunal on U.S. crimes

KCNA

Release Date: 7/26/2003

Pyongyang, July 25 (KCNA) -- The international joint justice team of the Pyongyang international tribunal on U.S. crimes in Korea announced its verdict today. According to the verdict, the international joint justice team considered that all the criminal acts committed by the United States in Korea from 1945 to 2003 are grave violations of the un charter, the universal declaration of human rights, the charter and the principles of the international military tribunal of nuremberg, the codes on crimes against human peace and security, the 1949 Geneva Conventions and other international laws and regulations and principles, and held that the U.S. government should bear full responsibility for them.

The verdict reads:

1.The U.S. government and the other accused mentioned in the indictment are guilty of the charges leveled by the prosecution and detailed in the indictment submitted to the tribunal.

2.The U.S. government must make an official apology for all its criminal acts in Korea, and make due compensation for physical, mental and material losses inflicted upon the Korean people.

3.The U.S. must find out all those involved in planning, preparation, organization, instruction, execution and backing of the crimes against the Korean people, and sentence them to criminal punishment.

4.The U.S. must enact a relevant law for it to assume full responsibility for its crimes on the Korean Peninsula, and establish a special institution in congress and administration with the mandate to investigate and address this issue.

5.The U.S. government must immediately abandon its hostile policy towards the DPRK, put an end to its military threat against it, sign a non-aggression treaty with it, and settle the issue of peace on the Korean peninsula in a peaceful way through the DPRK-U.S. talks.

6.The U.S. must immediately pull its troops and all nuclear weapons from the south of Korea, and end its political pressure, economic sanctions and blockade, and psychological warfare against the DPRK.

7.The U.S. government must refrain from interfering in the internal affairs of Korea, contrary to the will of the Korean people to reunify the country by the Korean nation itself in a peaceful way, true to the June 15 North-South Joint Declaration.

This verdict has been reached on the basis of objective and fair principles of setting up the tribunal and its procedures and the U.S. government has a legal and moral obligation to take practical measures in this regard.