Statement of fm spokesman blasts UNSC's discussion of Korean nuclear issue
KCNA
Pyongyang, April 6 (KCNA) -- A spokesman for the Foreign Ministry of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea issued the following statement today: The United States forced the UN Security Council to call a meeting on April 9 to discuss the DPRK's withdrawal from the NPT.
As pointed out in the Jan. 10 statement of the DPRK government, its withdrawal from the NPT has already taken effect.
The U.S. and some countries insist on a "legal argument" that the DPRK's withdrawal takes effect after April 10 but a scrutiny into the minutes of the UNSC meeting held in June 1993 would tell that such assertions are meaningless.
The DPRK has so far made every possible effort to ensure stability and peace in the Korean Peninsula and the region.
The projected discussion of the DPRK's issue at the UNSC meeting in spite of this is undisguised pressure on the DPRK and a grave provocative act intended to scuttle all its efforts for dialogue and aggravate the situation on the Korean Peninsula.
The UNSC's handling of the nuclear issue on the peninsula itself is precisely a prelude to war.
The UNSC's discussion of the Iraqi issue was misused by the U.S. as an excuse for war.
The U.S. intends to force the DPRK to disarm itself.
The Iraqi war shows that to allow disarming through inspection does not help avert a war but rather sparks it.
Neither international public opinion nor the UN Charter could prevent the U.S. from mounting an attack on Iraq.
This suggests that even the signing of a non-aggression treaty with the U.S. would not help avert a war.
Only the physical deterrent force, tremendous military deterrent force powerful enough to decisively beat back an attack supported by any ultra-modern weapons, can avert a war and protect the security of the country and the nation. This is a lesson drawn from the Iraqi war.
The U.S is seriously mistaken if it thinks that the DPRK will accept the demand for disarming while watching one of the three countries the U.S. listed as part of an "axis of evil" already subject to the barbarous military attack.
The DPRK will not recognize any resolution to be adopted at the UNSC meeting to be called by the U.S. which launched the war defying the UN.
If the UNSC is abused for the U.S. hostile policy to stifle the DPRK, it will not bear any responsibility for the failure of all the efforts for dialogue and the extremely tense situation but will have no other option but to beef up the deterrent force for war by mobilizing all the potentials.
