Why the DPRK rejects UN resolution

The capitulation of all the members of the UN Security Council to U.S. imperialism’s arm-twisting for a resolution condemning the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea has led to a grave situation not only for the Korean peninsula but for all of Asia. It can only whet the appetites of the imperialists for further aggression. The Korean peninsula was invaded by both Japan and the U.S. The DPRK, which has the most valid security concerns, is systematically maligned in the imperialist media; its voice is rarely if ever heard in the United States. We have decided, therefore, to devote our editorial space this week to reprinting in full the following statement from the DPRK’s Foreign Ministry issued July 16, the day after the Security Council vote.

The vicious hostile policy of the United States towards the DPRK and the irresponsibility of the UN Security Council have created an extremely dangerous situation on the Korean Peninsula where the sovereignty of the Korean nation and the security of the state have been seriously infringed.

The U.S. has recently kicked up much row after bringing the issue of the missile launches conducted by our army as part of the routine military training for self-defense to the UN under the motto of reacting to it in one voice. It was against this backdrop that the U.S. forced the UN to adopt a UN Security Council resolution taking a serious note of our exercise of its right to self-defense on July 15.

The U.S. sponsored “resolution” called for an international pressure for disarming the DPRK and stifling it, terming the missile launches pertaining to its right to self-defense “a threat to international peace and security.”

By doing so the U.S. sought to describe the issue between the DPRK and the U.S. as an issue between the DPRK and the UN and form an international alliance against the DPRK.

This has brought such serious consequences as gravely violating the dignity and sovereignty of the DPRK and driving the situation to an extreme pitch of tension, thereby seriously disturbing peace and security on the peninsula and in Northeast Asia.

It was an entirely unreasonable and brigandish act that the U.S. brought to the UN the DPRK’s missile launches—nothing contradictory to any international law—after branding them as a violation.

This time the U.S. attempted till the last moment to apply Chapter 7 of the UN Charter legalizing a military action against the DPRK. This indicates that the “resolution” constitutes a prelude to the provocation of the second Korean war.

It is a brigandish logic to claim that missile launches conducted by the U.S. and Japan are legal while the training of missile launches conducted by the DPRK to defend itself is illegal.

Any missile fire or any nuclear test approved by the U.S. is connived at and they are not subject to discussion at the UN.

This is the reality today.

The U.S. has made mockery of the DPRK’s true heart and sincere efforts to realize the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula in a peaceful manner through dialogue and negotiations. Yet the U.S. is now asserting that it will not punish the DPRK once it come out for the six-party talks but punish it if it fails to do so. This is sheer sophism which can never be justified.

Only the strong can defend justice in the world today where the jungle law prevails.

Neither the UN nor anyone else can protect us.

The past history and the present reality show that only a country with its powerful force can defend the national dignity and its sovereignty and
independence.

It is a daydream to calculate that our principle will alter due to the change of the world.

We have already clarified that we
will have no option but to take stronger physical actions should someone take issue with our army’s training of missile launches for self-defense and put pressure on it.

The Foreign Ministry of the DPRK is authorized to clarify as follows in view
of the grave situation prevailing on the peninsula:

First, our Republic vehemently denounces and roundly refutes the UNSC “resolution,” a product of the U.S. hostile policy towards the DPRK, and will not be bound to it in the least.

Second, our Republic will bolster its war deterrent for self-defense in every way by all means and methods now that the situation has reached the worst phase due to the extremely hostile act
of the U.S.

We will firmly defend our own way the ideology and system chosen by our people, true to the Songun policy, a treasured sword.