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DPRK Will Make All Efforts for Korean and Regional Peace and Security

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

   Pyongyang, October 22 (KCNA) -- The DPRK will make persevering efforts for peace and security on the Korean Peninsula and the region in the future, too, declared the DPRK delegate at a meeting of the First Committee of the 62nd Session of the UN General Assembly on Oct. 15.
    The key to ensuring global peace and security is to totally remove nuclear weapons on the globe by realizing nuclear disarmament, he said, and continued:
    If the argument is allowed that only the big countries can possess nuclear weapons and attack and threaten small countries with them, the desire of humankind to build a peaceful and prosperous world can never be achieved any time.
    If the states possessing nuclear weapons truly want global peace and security and are interested in non-proliferation, they should set forth a nuclear disarmament timetable aimed at the complete removal of nuclear weapons and the 4th special meeting of the UN General Assembly on disarmament must be convened at an early date.
    The situation of the Asian region around the Korean Peninsula still remains strained.
    The U.S. missile defense system now under serious discussion in Europe has already been deployed unhindered in Asia and a move to form a new military alliance is getting undisguised.
    Everyone knows that the establishment of the missile defense system and strengthened military alliance are targeted at the DPRK and its surrounding countries.
    The deep-rooted hostile policy toward the DPRK pursued by the U.S. for over half a century is the very source of the instability on the Korean Peninsula and the rest of Asia.
    The denuclearization of the peninsula is the behest of President Kim Il Sung and it is the consistent stand of the DPRK to solve the nuclear issue through dialogue and negotiation.
    The full implementation of the September 19 joint statement depends on how the other five parties fulfil their duties on the principle of "action for action" and, especially, what practical measures the U.S. and Japan take to drop their hostile policy toward the DPRK.
    The U.S. should remove the legal and institutional mechanisms hostile to the DPRK by erasing the DPRK from the list of sponsors of terrorism and lifting sanctions under the Trading with the Enemy Act, as agreed upon by the six parties.