KCNA flails U.S. publicized sanctions against DPRK
KCNA
Pyongyang, April 4 (KCNA) -- The U.S. hostile moves against the DPRK have reached a ridiculous phase.
On March 24 the Bush administration groundlessly asserted that a DPRK company received a technology of manufacturing nuclear weapons in return for its export of medium-range missile and its related technology to Pakistan although the company was doing normal trading business with it. Washington declared that it would apply sanctions against the DPRK for this.
This is nothing but a ridiculous and unjustifiable action that does not deserve even a passing note as it is Washington's trite trick to charge the DPRK with missile proliferation and nuclear development and put international political and diplomatic pressure upon it.
As far as the missile issue is concerned, the DPRK has not acceded to the missile technology control regime and, therefore, it is an independent sovereign state which is not legally bound to anything in terms of missile export and the transfer of its technology.
The U.S., ignorant of such elementary principle of international law and common sense, unreasonably accused the DPRK of violating this regime. This only indicates that the u.s. is a de facto lawless state that defies international law.
The U.S. action is little short of admitting itself that it is a rogue state which interprets law as it pleases and imposes its view on value upon those countries which incur its displeasure.
Explicitly speaking, it is an indisputable sovereign right of the DPRK to produce and deploy missiles to protect its sovereignty and supreme interests and export them to other countries within the framework of normal military cooperation and exchange.
The DPRK's missile program is of strictly peaceful and defensive nature and it, therefore, does not pose any threat to those countries which respect the sovereignty of the DPRK.
The Bush administration had better have a proper view on other countries of the world before talking about sanctions against the DPRK.
The U.S. have used thousands of weapons of mass-destruction including tomahawk cruise missile in the Iraqi war, reducing cities and villages in Iraq, a sovereign state, to ashes and killing innocent civilians. The U.S., the chieftain of such typical state-sponsored terrorism, is, however, calling for applying sanctions against the DPRK. This is like a thief crying "stop the thief"
The Bush administration should clearly know that it will never succeed in diverting elsewhere the international community's condemnation of the U.S. and its war no matter what sanctions it may apply against the DPRK.
