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Rodong Sinmun on WPK's Foreign Policy Idea

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

   Pyongyang, January 17 (KCNA) -- The stand and will of the Workers' Party of Korea and the Government of the DPRK to consistently adhere to the foreign policy idea of independence, peace and friendship are invariable and unshakable as declared in the joint New Year editorial, says Rodong Sinmun Wednesday in a signed article. Stating that the idea of independence, peace and friendship is the steadfast foreign policy idea of the WPK and the DPRK Government, the author of the article says:
    The WPK firmly maintains independence in external relations. The DPRK never allows anyone to encroach upon its sovereignty or interfere in its internal affairs and to rule and control it, but strongly opposes the violation of the sovereignty of other countries. It assesses and deals with all the problems arising in the international community with independence as the yardstick and fights resolutely against practices of violating independence. In the international arena it does not please another's humor nor read another's face, but speaks what it wants to say. It respects the independence of other countries, resolutely opposes all the attempts and moves to encroach upon others' sovereignty and interests or interfere in others' internal affairs and fully supports the just cause of all peoples against imperialist domination and subjugation.
    Ours is a peace-loving country. Our people experienced terrific disasters of war imposed upon them by the U.S. imperialists in the past and are today building a great prosperous powerful nation in face of the ceaseless aggressive moves of the U.S. imperialists.
    It is entirely thanks to the patient peace-loving efforts and increase of self-defensive force by the people of the DPRK that a new war has not broken out on the Korean Peninsula until now. They are bending every possible effort in unity with all the peace-loving forces worldwide to curb and foil the anti-DPRK moves of the U.S., achieve peace and stability on the Korean Peninsula and defend peace and security of Asia and the rest of the world. The DPRK will wage a relentless struggle to ensure peace and security of the Korean Peninsula, Asia and the world out of the noble sense of responsibility for the destiny of the Korean nation and humankind.
    The WPK will develop good-neighborly and friendly ties with all the countries worldwide on the basis of the principle of independence and international justice and strive to improve and normalize relations even with the countries which were hostile to the DPRK in the past, if they respect its sovereignty and abandon their hostile policies toward it.