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Major Role of UN Called for

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

    Pyongyang, October 24 (KCNA) -- Rodong Sinmun Monday in a signed article dedicated to the Day of the UN calls for increasing the major role of the United Nations in settling crucial international issues as required by the new century. What is important for this is for all the UN member nations to fairly solve the international issues in the spirit of the UN Charter so as to contribute to the sound development of the international community and the global peace and security, the article says, and continues:
    The UN reform should be thoroughly carried out in the direction of realizing UN-centered multilateralism in line with the objective and principles of the UN Charter.
    Only when the UN is reformed in this direction is it possible to check unilateralism and high-handed practices quite contrary to the UN Charter and international law and ensure the major function and role of the UN in settling crucial international issues. Such UN reform would make it possible to prevent the major international issues from being decided or unfairly settled by specified countries and provide conditions for fairly and reasonably settling the issues in the interests of an absolute majority of UN member nations. The UN Security Council should be reformed on the principle of ensuring the full representation of the non-aligned countries and other developing countries which account for an absolute majority of UN member nations. A permanent seat on the UNSC, one of the important bodies of the UN, should not be given to any country carelessly.
    Japan has a crime-woven past as it ignited wars of aggression against other countries and enforced the harshest policy of colonial rule in history. Though 60 years have passed since the defeat of Japan, it has distorted its history of aggression and driven the regional situation to a brink of confrontation, far from honestly repenting of its past crimes and settling them. Japan is, therefore, should not be allowed to seat on the UNSC under any circumstances. In order to increase the role of the UN it is important to overhaul the UN Human Rights Organization on the principle of guaranteeing the member nations full representation in the same direction of reforming the UNSC.
    Being a member nation of the UN, the DPRK has made every effort to preserve global peace and security and establish fair international relations in conformity with the objective and principles of the UN Charter since it joined the UN on Sept. 17, 1991.
    The DPRK remains unchanged in its assertion and stand to carry out a fair and democratic reform of the UN and increase its role and function and thus preserve global peace and security and soundly develop the international relations.