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DPRK to Closely Follow How U.S. Will Move at Phase of Action in Future

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

    Pyongyang, September 25 (KCNA) -- The DPRK's stand to seek a negotiated solution to the nuclear issue between the DPRK and the U.S. remains consistent. The DPRK government will as ever make patient efforts to realize the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula. Choe Su Hon, vice-minister of Foreign Affairs who is leading the DPRK delegation, declared this when addressing the plenary meeting of the 60th UN General Assembly on Sept. 22.
    The DPRK participated in the discussion of the issue with magnanimity and sincerity from its principled and fair stand to realize at any cost the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula, its avowed ultimate goal, at the recent fourth six-party talks held in Beijing, thus making it possible to meet all challenges and reach an agreement on the principle for the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula in a broad sense, he noted. What is most important at this stage is for the U.S. to provide the DPRK with light water reactors as early as possible as evidence proving its substantial recognition of the DPRK's right to nuclear activity for a peaceful purpose, Choe said, adding the DPRK will closely follow how the U.S. will move in actuality at the phase of action in the future. He went on to say:
    The UN should be reformed as required by the new century if it is to fulfill its mission for global peace and security and the economic and social progress. What is most important here is to materialize UN-centered multilateralism in line with the purpose and principle of the UN Charter.
    The UN Security Council should be reformed on the principle of ensuring full representation of non-aligned countries and other developing countries who account for an absolute majority of the member nations of the UN. Japan should not be allowed under any circumstances to sit on the Security Council as it has refused to redeem the crimes it committed against other countries in the past and has distorted its history of aggression and driven the regional situation to confrontation. Turning to the reform of UN organizations on human rights, he said that this reform should give top priority to putting an end to the infringement upon state sovereignty, politicization of human rights, double standards and selectivity, worst human rights abuses at present, and consider it as an ultimate goal.
    And it is also necessary to strictly observe the principle of ensuring full representation of UN member nations the same way as done in reforming the UNSC, he noted, and stressed:
    The DPRK government will boost the friendly and cooperative relations with all the countries of the world that respect the sovereignty of the DPRK on the principle of independence, peace and friendship and thus make a positive contribution to the efforts of the UN member states to build a peaceful and prosperous new world.