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Japan Can Never Be Permanent Member of UNSC: DPRK Representative to UN

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

    Pyongyang, March 13 (KCNA) -- It is intolerable and contrary to the basic mission of the UN for Japan to be a permanent member nation of the UNSC in view of the fact that it committed crimes against humanity in the past and is reviving militarism and posing a threat to Asia and its surrounding countries. Pak Kil Yon, permanent representative of the DPRK to the United Nations, said this in a letter addressed to UN Secretary General Kofi Annan on March 7 as regards Japan's bid to be a permanent member nation of the UNSC.
    He expressed deep concern over the fact that Japan is talking about its qualification to be a permanent member nation of the UNSC under the pretext of its big financial contributions to the UN and that some other countries incline toward supporting it, looking over its purse.
    He went on:
    The UN is not a banking company distributing the right of voting according to amount of investment but a political organization based on the principle of independent equality for peace and security. Permanent membership of the UNSC cannot be sold and bought by money.
    If Japan is truly to contribute to prosperity of humankind, it should frankly repent of its past crimes, make a sincere compensation for them and make a clear commitment to the international community so as to convince it that Japan will not repeat the past wrongdoings.
    If the permanent membership of the UNSC is given to Japan which is listed as an "enemy state" in the UN and has not redressed its past crimes, history will stop its advance before long in the world, Northeast Asia in particular, and humankind will suffer another disaster.
    He stressed once again the steadfast stand of the DPRK that Japan, which has not honestly repented and compensated for its past crimes but threatened stability in Northeast Asia, can never be a permanent member nation of the UNSC which deals with the issue of world peace and security.
    He asked the UN secretary general to distribute the letter as an official document of item 53 of the 59th session of the UN General Assembly "Issue of equal representative right in UNSC and increase of its member nations and other issues related to them" and the UNSC.