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Spokesman for DPRK FM. Denounces U.S. Sanctions against Cuba and Syria

Korean Central News Agency of DPRK

    Pyongyang, May 16 (KCNA) -- A spokesman for the DPRK Foreign Ministry Sunday gave an answer to a question put by KCNA as regards the U.S. intensified sanctions against Cuba and Syria. Recalling that the U.S. announced the new measures for sanctions against Cuba under the pretext of "accelerating the democratic transition" of Cuba on May 6 and took sanctions against Syria according to the "law on settlement of accounts in Syria" on May 11 for the reason that the country has "sponsored terrorism", the spokesman said:
    The U.S. measures for sanctions against Cuba and Syria are a wanton violation of independence of the sovereign states and a revelation of the unilateralist arbitrariness ignoring the UN Charter and principles and norms of international law.
    The Bush administration, now driven into a tight corner at home and abroad by the rapid expansion of the anti-U.S. resistance and disclosure of the U.S. abuses of Iraqi prisoners, is desperately trying to calm down the ever-mounting world-wide anti-U.S. sentiments and make the situation favorable to him in the forthcoming presidential election.
    Therefore, the Bush administration has taken sanctions against Cuba and Syria one after another in a bid to disperse the focus of the public opinion on Iraq and gain support from Jewish circles and reactionary Cubans at home.
    But the U.S. is seriously mistaken.
    Any U.S. sanctions, blockade and support to the anti-revolutionary elements cannot break the will of the Cuban people to defend the socialist system they have chosen and bring to their knees the Syrian Arab people who are striving to defend their rights to independence and fairly settle the Mideast issue, standing against the pressure of the foreign forces.
    The DPRK people are extending full support and solidarity to the Cuban people believing in the justness of their cause and sternly defending socialism and the Syrian Arab people in their just efforts to defend the sovereignty of the country and the dignity of the nation.
    The U.S. provocations against Cuba and Syria give a serious lesson to the international community.
    The belligerent nature of the Bush group has no limit.
    Moreover, with the presidential election approaching, the Bush administration will leave no means untried to work out a greater shocking accident in every part of the world as the possibility of its reelection is getting gloomier.
    The DPRK army and people are now watching with high vigilance the U.S. every move and getting fully ready for combat to smash at one stroke the provocations of the enemies anytime and anywhere.
    There is no future for the Bush administration indulged in aggression and arbitrariness.