UN "RESOLUTION ON
HUMAN RIGHTS" AGAINST DPRK REJECTED:
FM
Spokesman
Pyongyang,
March 31 (KCNA)
The
spokesman for the DPRK Foreign Ministry Sunday gave the following answer to a
question put by KCNA as regards the adoption of the "resolution" against
the DPRK at the UN Human Rights Council: The 25th meeting of the UN Human
Rights Council released a "report" of the "Commission of Inquiry" on the human rights situation in
the DPRK and railroaded a "resolution" against it.
The
DPRK has not recognized the CI grouping political swindlers, marionettes of the
U.S. and the West, and totally opposes and rejects the above-said resolution, a
product of the vicious hostile policy towards it.
Unable
to bring down the DPRK by taking issue with it over its nuclear issue only, the
U.S. and other hostile forces are making false facts in succession in a bid to
intensify "human rights racket" against it to invent an excuse for
interfering in its internal affairs and topple down its social system.
The
U.S. and Japan, war criminal states and unethical criminal states with the
history of aggression, plunder and murder against other countries and nations
in the past, and EU are concealing their past history stained with blood,
styling themselves "human rights judges" and resorting to political
slander and attack on independent countries, steeped in inveterate repugnancy
toward them.
If
human rights are to be discussed sincerely, it is necessary to bring for
discussion at international criminal court and punish, first of all, the U.S.
aggression of sovereign states including Iraq and Afghanistan, genocide,
Japan's past heinous crimes against humanity and misanthropy, racial
discrimination, chauvinism and new Nazism rampant in EU countries.
Human
rights precisely mean national sovereignty. If politicization of human rights,
selectivity and double standards pursued by the U.S. which has no qualification
to say about genuine human rights and forces following it are connived at, acts
of calling into question specific countries, prompted by political motive, will
be more rampant day by day.
The
DPRK will firmly defend the idea and socialist system chosen by it and continue
sincerely discharging its duty in the field of international human rights.
DPRK FM BLASTS UN FOR TAKING ISSUE WITH DPRK OVER ITS JUSTIFIABLE
ROCKET LAUNCHING DRILLS
Pyongyang,
March 30 (KCNA)
--
The
Foreign Ministry of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea Sunday issued the
following statement blasting the United Nations for its illegal action of taking
issue with the justifiable rocket launching drills conducted by the Korean
People's Army (KPA):
The
sincere efforts of the DPRK to prevent a new war and ensure peace and security
on the Korean peninsula are facing a grave challenge of the hostile forces.
The
UN Security Council at a closed - door consultative meeting held on Mar. 28 at
the urgent request of the U.S. committed an illegal provocative act of
"denouncing" the DPRK's justifiable rocket launching drills for no
reason. The drills were self-defensive military drills of the KPA to cope with
the grave situation created by the U.S. hostile policy toward the DPRK which
has been pursued for the past several decades and the evermore intensified
exercises for a nuclear war.
The
climate for detente is being created on the Korean peninsula thanks to the
proactive and peace-loving sincere efforts of the DPRK this year. Nevertheless,
the U.S. kicked off the Key Resolve and Foal Eagle joint military exercises
with south Korean puppet forces with huge aggression forces and destructive
weapons involved. With their scale and danger increased, the largest-ever
forces since 1993 are involved in the Ssangyong drill which started on Mar. 27.
The U.S. dared declare that its main objective is to "occupy
Pyongyang."
It
is quite natural for the KPA to make full preparations to cope with the prevailing
grave situation as its mission is to protect the security of the country and
its people and defend peace. However, the UN Security Council, shutting its
eyes to the U.S. madcap nuclear war exercises, "denounced" the KPA's
self-defensive rocket launching drills to cope with them as a "violation of
resolutions" and "threat to international peace and security"
and is set to take an "appropriate step". It is absolutely
intolerable.
As
far as UNSC's "resolutions" which it claimed were
"violated" by the DPRK are concerned, they are full of brigandish
paragraphs to wantonly encroach on the sovereignty of the DPRK and the security
of the nation and deprive it of its right to launch satellites for peaceful
purposes as they are a product of the U.S. hostile policy toward the DPRK.
The
DPRK, therefore, categorically rejected them as soon as they were adopted and
there is no ground whatsoever for the DPRK to be bound to them. If something is
measured by a wrong ruler, a wrong result is bound to be produced. That is why
there is such absurdity that the DPRK's efforts to defend the security of the
country and the nation are labeled a "provocation" and the U.S. moves
for igniting a nuclear war are described as ones for "defending
peace".
If
the UNSC persistently tries to deny the exercise of the DPRK's just right by
partially citing the unreasonable "resolutions" according to the U.S.
scenario, it will end up escalating tensions and sparking conflict only, far
from contributing to keeping peace and security on the Korean peninsula and in
the region.
The
farce staged by the U.S. to "denounce" the DPRK's rocket launching
drills for no reason after bringing them up for discussion at the UNSC is aimed
to divert the blame for escalating tensions to the DPRK and hype the DPRK's
"threat" to have a justification for arms buildup pursuant to its
pivot to Asia-Pacific strategy.
As
the U.S. persists in its moves to isolate and stifle the DPRK by abusing the
UNSC, prompted by its strategic interests, the DPRK has the right to defend
itself and is fully ready to do so. Now that the U.S. is staging ceaseless
nuclear war exercises by mobilizing all type nuclear strike means aimed at
"occupying Pyongyang," etc. while describing the exercises as
"annual ones", the KPA's drills to cope with them will involve
various forms of exercises in which more diversified nuclear deterrence will be
used for hitting various medium-and long-range targets with a variety of
striking power.
The
DPRK is fully ready for next-stage steps which the enemy can hardly imagine in
case the U.S. considers them as a "provocation" again. It would not
rule out a new form of nuclear test for bolstering up its nuclear deterrence. The
U.S. had better ponder over this and stop acting rashly. If a catastrophic
development which no one wants occurs on the peninsula, the U.S. will be wholly
responsible for it
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JAPANESE AUTHORITIES WARNED OF THEIR MOVES TO SEIZE KOREAN HALL OF
CHONGRYON
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Pyongyang,
March 29 (KCNA) -- The Committee for Aiding Overseas Compatriots of Korea
made public a statement on Friday denouncing the Japanese authorities for
their extremely dangerous moves to stifle the General Association of Korean
Residents in Japan (Chongryon) and Koreans in Japan.
On
March 24 the Japanese authorities took such fascist action as instigating the
Tokyo District Court to make an illegal decision to allow the sale of the
land and building of the Korean Hall of Chongryon.
This
is a wanton violation of the dignity and existence right of Chongryon and
Koreans in Japan and a grave infringement upon the sovereignty of the DPRK,
the statement said, adding:
The
Japanese authorities are feigning ignorance of the fact, noting that the
decision was made by a "judiciary organ" in a bid to evade the
blame for seizing the Korean hall. But this is no more than an excuse to
cover up their sinister criminal purpose.
It
is their sinister political scenario to deprive the Central Standing
Committee of Chongryon of the base of its activities and thus weaken the
authority of Chongryon, a model of Juche-based overseas Koreans' movement,
and dampen the elated patriotic enthusiasm of Koreans so as to stamp out the
movement of Koreans in Japan.
The
statement went on:
Now
that the Japanese authorities deliberately touched off distrust at a time
when confidence-building is required for improving the DPRK-Japan relations
more urgently than ever before the DPRK is compelled to take corresponding
measures.
If
the Japanese authorities persist in their moves to seize the Korean Hall
despite the warning of the DPRK, they will be wholly responsible for the
consequences to be entailed by them.
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ILLEGAL DECISION OF
TOKYO DISTRICT COURT SLAMMED
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Pyongyang,
March 29 (KCNA) -- The Tokyo District Court made a decision to allow the sale
of the land and building of the Korean Hall of the General Association of
Korean Residents in Japan (Chongryon) under the backstage wire-pulling of the
Japanese authorities. The spokesman for the Democratic Lawyers Association of
Korea Saturday released a statement disclosing the illegality of the
decision.
The
statement says:
The
illegality of the decision finds its vivid manifestation in that the court
selected a disqualified company as a successful bidder by fraud and swindle.
The
Tokyo District Court had delayed the announcement of the results of auction
of the Korean Hall of Chongryon, which was made in October of 2013. On March
20, it reopened the tenders for it for no reason all of a sudden and made the
decision to allow the sale to the Marunaka Holdings Co. Ltd., Japan.
As
far as the above-said company is concerned, it had already been disqualified
as it underbid others in October last year and took back bid bond from the
court.
In
particular, it is a precedent of the Japanese courts that in case the
relevant court returned the bid bond to a disqualified company it would not
make a decision to allow the sale to it.
Therefore,
it was a crude violation of the law in every aspect that the court chose the
above-said company as a successful bidder.
The
illegality of the decision of the Tokyo District Court is also evidenced by
the double-dealing attitude of the Resolution and Collection Corporation, a
creditor.
When
the issue of the Korean Hall presented itself, the Corporation made a hostile
and discriminating demand that Chongryon should repay a total amount plus
interest though it has settled issues with other debtors in a friendly
manner.
But
the Corporation kept mum about the decision of the Tokyo District Court to
sell the Korean Hall at a price less than half the actual one.
The
Japanese authorities has long regarded the Korean Hall of Chongryon on which
the flag of the DPRK is fluttering as a thorn in their flesh and run the
whole gamut of plots to seize it.
That
was why the Tokyo District Court staged an unprecedented farce in disregard
of the Japanese law, precedents of the courts and practices of the basic
procedures for tenders
The
Democratic Lawyers Association of Korea categorically rejects the decision of
the Tokyo District Court and declares internally and externally that the
illegal decision is invalid, the statement says.
The
Japanese authorities had better halt their moves to seize the Korean Hall,
though belatedly, if it thinks of its face as a "law-governed
state" even a bit and has real intention to improve the relations with
the DPRK, the statement concludes.
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SPOKESMAN FOR N. SIDE'S
DELEGATION TO N-S HIGH-LEVEL CONTACT BLASTS S. KOREA'S SCATTERING OF
ANTI-DPRK LEAFLETS
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Pyongyang,
March 29 (KCNA) -- The north-south relations have been driven into a
catastrophic phase again due to the south Korean authorities' frantic
scattering of anti-DPRK leaflets. The spokesman for the north side's
delegation to the north-south high-level contact issued a statement revealing
its gravity on Friday.
It
says:
The
south Korean authorities headed by Park Geun Hye dared take issue with the
nuclear issue of their fellow countrymen outside Korea. Inside south Korea
they are busy openly encouraging the operation to scatter leaflets against
fellow countrymen and smear campaign against them.
The
ceaseless leaflet scattering operation in south Korea is an open breach of
the valuable agreement reached between the north and the south and the most
serious act of treachery that can never be pardoned.
The
north and the south reached a historic agreement at the high-level contact on
February 14 in which they solemnly stated to the nation that they would
refrain from slandering each other.
But
the situation is quite contrary to our expectation.
It
is because the pledge which south Korea made upon authorization of Park Geun Hye
turned out to be a smokescreen to cover up the leaflet scattering operation
that was carried out at the connivance of the authorities and the smear
campaign against the north that has gone beyond the tolerance limit.
We
cannot but query is it Park's style negotiating tactics to produce a honeyed
agreement in a bid to attain her goal and is it her special skill for
"confidence-building" as she is unhesitatingly reneging on the
agreement under such absurd pretexts as "nature of social system"
and "freedom of speech".
The
leaflet scattering operation and smear campaign against the DPRK going beyond
the tolerance limit are undisguised acts of declaring a war against the DPRK.
Park
named the leaflet scattering against the DPRK a "balloon operation"
and is making sure that a military posture is taken to cope with the possible
counterattack of the DPRK.
In
the long run, this tells that she is aware that a leaflet scattering operation
conducted under the signboard of "balloon operation" is a dangerous
source of a military retaliation.
We
have long regarded the leaflet scattering by the south side as a declaration
of a war and papers for sentencing death to human scum who orchestrated the
leaflet scattering operations.
Does
she really want to see such leaflets becoming a source of war for reducing
the base of provocations to ashes?
She
should bear in mind that now is the time to make a choice herself.
The
more desperately Park is hurling betesnoires and conservative media into the
smear campaign against fellow countrymen, the deeper she will find herself in
an inescapable quagmire.
Those
who go frantic with the anti-DPRK leaflet scattering and smear campaign
against compatriots going against the trend of the times can never be called
human beings with normal way of thinking and fair media persons.
All
of them are without exception betesnoires disqualified to be members of the
nation and top class criminals who will not be able to live in the peaceful
and stable reunified country.
The
more zealously Pak harbors betesnoires, the worse smell she will feel. In the
long run, she will earn the ill fame of being an owner of huge dumping
ground.
Ethics
and morality are more important than politics.
Otherwise
she will consider the presidential chair as a commanding tower for smear
campaign and make no scruple of throwing the nation into an abyss of
misfortune by misusing it.
If
the south Korean authorities are to have an elementary face to appear before
the DPRK side, they should properly implement the north-south agreement, to
begin with.
All
compatriots are closely watching the moves of the south Korean authorities.
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