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DPRK Calls for End to U.S. Unilateral and High-handed Practices

Korean Central News Agency of DPRK

    Pyongyang, October 1 (KCNA) -- Evermore undisguised unilateral and high-handed practices are sparking aggression, arbitrariness and uneasiness across the world and causing an uninterrupted vicious cycle in which the sovereignty and interests of small countries are violated to serve the monopolistic interests of specified countries, said Choe Su Hon, vice-minister of Foreign Affairs who is heading the DPRK delegation, addressing the 59th session of the UN General Assembly on Sept. 27. He noted that Northeast Asia, to be more specific, the Korean peninsula is one of the victims of unilateral and high-handed practices.
    He continued:
    The danger of a war is increasing as the days go by on the Korean peninsula where the national division imposed upon it by the outsiders has lasted for more than half a century due to the U.S. extreme moves to isolate and stifle the DPRK and its threat to mount a preemptive nuclear attack on it.
    The tense political and military situation surrounding the Korean peninsula clearly proves once again the justice of the steps taken by the DPRK to increase its self-defensive military power to prevent a war and ensure peace, pursuant to the Songun politics of leader Kim Jong Il.
    The DPRK's independent politics, Songun politics serves as a reliable deterrent force for peace and security in Northeast Asia as well as the Korean peninsula and, furthermore, the rest of the world. The DPRK feels highly proud and self-confident of it.
    The DPRK had no option but to build a nuclear deterrent force because the present U.S. administration has worked hard to destroy it by force after designating it as part of an "axis of evil," a target of its preemptive nuclear attack, prompted by its inveterate bitterness towards the DPRK system.
    The DPRK's nuclear deterrent force is, to all intents and purposes, a legitimate self-defensive means to cope with the daily increasing U.S. nuclear threat and aggression and reliably defend the sovereignty, peace and security of the country.
    The denuclearization of the Korean peninsula is the DPRK's goal and it is the consistent stand of its government to seek a negotiated peaceful solution to the nuclear issue between the DPRK and the U.S.
    The DPRK will dismantle its nuclear deterrent force when the U.S. abandonment of its hostile policy towards the DPRK including the nuclear threat to the DPRK has been proved in practice.
    The parties concerned shared understanding and reached an agreement at the 3rd round of the six-party talks held in June that it is important to observe the principles of "words for words," "action for action" and "reward for freeze" in the efforts to settle the nuclear issue.
    It is the DPRK's consistent stand to pursue the talks as regards the six-party talks, but the evermore undisguised U.S. hostile policy towards the DPRK and the secret nuclear experiments which were disclosed one after another in south Korea are throwing stumbling blocks in the way of the talks.
    The UN should not allow any longer the unilateral and high-handed practices, a breach of the UN Charter and international law, at present and realize its full democratization so that all the international issues may be solved in the common interests of the member nations, stressed Choe Su Hon.