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DPRK's Stand on UNSC Reform Clarified

Korean Central News Agency of DPRK via Korea News Service (KNS)

   Pyongyang, May 3 (KCNA) -- The Democratic People's Republic of Korea calls for making sufficient discussions of all proposals and making tireless efforts to reach a consensus, not setting an artificial deadline for the reform of the UN Security Council, said the DPRK delegate. Making clear the stand of the DPRK at an unofficial meeting of the plenary session of the UN General Assembly on the UNSC reform on April 27, he called for a unanimous agreement of the member states and voiced opposition to setting the criterion of election of a permanent member of the UNSC with main stress on financial contribution.
    Drawing attention to the fact that Japan has not settled the anti-human war crimes it committed last century, though 60 years have passed, and it teaches a distorted history to the younger generation, beautifying its crime-woven history, and intentionally causes territorial disputes with its neighboring countries, he said those neighboring countries which fell victims to Japan's aggression in the past are strongly opposed to its permanent membership of the UNSC.
    If a country which is stepping up preparations to repeat past war crimes is admitted as a permanent member of the UNSC, merely because it donates a huge amount of money to the UN, we will not be able to talk about justice, international peace and security and credibility of the UN, he stressed.