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DPRK's Will to Contribute to ASEAN Regional Peace and Stability Reiterated

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

    Pyongyang, July 27 (KCNA) -- The DPRK will as ever exert efforts to deter war, defend peace and advance the process for the settlement of the nuclear issue on the Korean Peninsula and in its vicinity and thus positively contribute to ensuring lasting peace and stability in the region.
    DPRK Foreign Minister Pak Ui Chun who is heading the DPRK delegation to the ministerial meeting of the 15th ASEAN Regional Forum stressed this at the meeting held in Singapore on July 24.
    He said that the clear trend for arms race, intensified military alliances and space militarization caused by the change in the relations of forces in the Asia-Pacific region underlines the need for the forum to fulfill its mission and role for promoting dialogue for political security, cooperation and confidence-building.
    The DPRK is ready to render active cooperation to enhance the role of the forum, he said, adding that it acceded to the Treaty of Amity and Cooperation in Southeast Asia as a token of its support to the ASEAN and its willingness to contribute to the regional peace and prosperity.
    Briefing on a series of affirmative developments around the Korean Peninsula, he stressed that this is a product of the joint efforts made by the DPRK and parties concerned to ensure peace and stability on the Korean Peninsula and in its vicinity. However, amidst the ongoing of dialogue and implementing of agreed points, military actions are being taken nonstop to threaten dialogue partner, getting more serious in their nature, he pointed out, and said:
    Now peace on the Korean Peninsula is maintained thanks to the war deterrent of the DPRK, a shining fruition of the Songun politics.
    The DPRK has honestly implemented the September 19 joint statement for denuclearizing the Korean Peninsula.
    The "action for action" principle advanced by the DPRK to settle the nuclear issue has been fixed as one code of conduct at present with approval of all the parties to the six-way talks.
    We hope that such way of confidence-building verified in practice would be referred in a constructive manner in the work of the forum.
    Dialogue for political security and confidence-building, desired by the forum, are must way and means needed for peace, security and denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula.
    The DPRK will render active cooperation so as to help the forum keep the basic principle of consensus and non-interference.