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Rodong Sinmun on DPRK's Avowed Foreign Policy Tenet

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

   Pyongyang, January 18 (KCNA) -- It is the consistent stand and foreign policy of the DPRK to establish and develop relations of friendship, cooperation and good neighborliness with all countries that respect the sovereignty of the DPRK and are friendly towards it, says Rodong Sinmun Friday in a signed article.
    Independence, peace and friendship are the idea of the consistent foreign policy of the Workers' Party of Korea and the government of the DPRK, the article says, and goes on:
    The present times are the era of independence. What people want is independence, not subjugation, peace, not war, and friendship, not confrontation.
    Each country has the right to defend its independence and, at the same time, an obligation to respect the independence of other countries. Only when countries support and unite with each other on the principle of full independence, equality, mutual respect and non-interference in other's internal affairs can the relations of friendship and cooperation be genuine and strong.
    The development of relations with other countries and nations on the basis of independence can meet the requirements of their people for independence and contribute to strengthening the genuine international relations of friendship and cooperation.
    There are in the world big or small countries and developed or less developed countries. But there can be neither superior nor inferior countries nor countries dictating other countries nor the dictated ones. All countries are required to exercise their sovereignty with independence and make progress on the basis of their peculiar national tradition, custom, feelings and mode. The relations among countries, therefore, should be forged and developed from an independent stand. Only then can they become those of genuine friendship and cooperation.
    The DPRK will in the future, too, make positive efforts to boost the friendly and cooperative relations with all countries that are friendly towards it.