The chief of the Law
Institute of the DPRK Institute of International Studies released a statement
on Monday over the fact that the Trump administration of the U.S. seeks to slap
new sanctions on the DPRK, pursuant to its policy called "maximum pressure
and engagement".
On May 4, the U.S.
House of Representatives passed a new anti-DPRK Sanctions Act, the keynote of
which is to ratchet up sanctions on the DPRK to the maximum and impose
sanctions on the foreign businesses, organizations and individuals that have
business deals with it and employ its workers.
Meanwhile, the U.S. is
seeking unprecedented sanctions, pressure and diplomatic blockade against the
DPRK by pressurizing and blackmailing other countries and their businesses and
individuals not to have normal diplomatic and economic and trade relations with
the DPRK under the "sanctions resolution" of the UN Security Council.
The statement denounces
this as an unethical crime violating all the principles of international law
including the UN Charter as it seeks the most vicious aim of deteriorating the
economy of the DPRK and the people's living under the pretext of "nuclear
non-proliferation".
Such sanctions have not
just begun today. It is a wanton violation of international law and an impudent
mockery of the international community that the U.S. is persisting in the moves
to justify sanctions against a sovereign state by its domestic law.
What is more serious is
that the U.S. seeks to realize its world hegemonic ambition under the pretext
of such sanctions, the statement points out, adding:
Those countries under
naval threats and pressure from the U.S. to break ties with the DPRK and stop
their economic and trade activities with it are largely at strategic rivalry
with the U.S. or located at vantage points of geopolitical importance. Most of
them have already been exposed to various forms of sanctions by the U.S.
The facts go to prove
that the Trump administration is seeking to kill three birds with one stone:
The U.S. scheme is to stifle the DPRK, a stumbling block in implementing its
strategy for world hegemony, by citing the DPRK's exercise of independent
rights as "threat" and "provocation" to global peace and
security and to tame the countries disobedient to it and put the strategic
bases under its control.
After all, the passage
of the illegal Anti-DPRK Sanctions Act shows that such elementary principles
and institutional mechanisms on international relations as respect for
sovereignty, non-interference and peaceful settlement of a dispute have almost
disappeared.
The present situation
evidently proves that the U.S. has already gone beyond the pale in arrogance and
shamelessness to gratify its hegemonic ambition and that it is impossible to
expect any peace and stability in the earth when such rude action is allowed.
To remain vigilant
against the U.S. sanctions and pressure on the DPRK and struggle against them is
the way for defending the sovereignty of each country and ensuring global peace
and security.
The U.S. should not
test the DPRK's perseverance any longer.
Explicitly speaking,
the DPRK's nuclear deterrence for self-defence and preemptive strike capability
are aimed at the U.S. trying to antagonize, isolate and stifle it. Accordingly,
they can never be any political or economic bargaining chip and they will never
be abandoned though the U.S. ratchets up the sanctions and pressure to the
utmost.
If the Trump administration
truly wants to adopt a new policy towards the DPRK, drawing a lesson from the
preceding administration's failure, it should go for change of the Armistice
Agreement between the DPRK and U.S. into a peace accord and total removal of
the hostile relations so as to help ensure lasting peace of the Korean
peninsula and furthermore global peace and security.
If it persists in
anti-DPRK sanctions without understanding its rival, the administration will
have to take full responsibility for the ensuing catastrophic consequences.
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