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DPRK Foreign Ministry spokesman on U.S. start of Iraqi war

KCNA

    Pyongyang, March 21 (KCNA) -- A spokesman for the DPRK Foreign Ministry gave an answer to a question put by KCNA today as regards the U.S. start of military attack on Iraq. He said:
    At dawn of March 20, the United States finally started its military attack on Iraq defying the unanimous protest of the international community.
    The U.S. armed attack is a grave encroachment upon sovereignty.
    The violation of Iraqi sovereignty already started with demanding disarmament by inspection and gradually led to the war.
    The unilateral demand for the disarmament of a sovereign state itself is a wanton encroachment upon this country's sovereignty.
    The encroachment upon sovereignty by military attack is the most vivid expression of violation of the rights of the people in this country.
    Countries which liked to call for the "protection of human rights" in the past are directly joining in the current armed attack or conniving at it. Such "doctrine of strength" and hypocrisy disturb the international order while seriously threatening peace and security not only in the middle east but in the rest of the world.
    The Government of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea is opposed to a war.
    War against the independence of a sovereign state and human rights can never be justified.
    This highhanded action of the U.S. against Iraq and the war preparations now being made by the U.S. and its followers in the Korean Peninsula compel the DPRK to do all it can to defend itself and help it clearly know for what it should do more.