U.S. Is Responsible for Rupture of Hanoi Summit Talks: DPRK Foreign Ministry Spokesperson

A spokesperson for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea(DPRK) gave the following answer to a question put by KCNA on May 24, as regards the attempt revealing within the United States to impute to the DPRK the cause for the rupture of the Hanoi DPRKU.S. summit talks:

As we have stated before, the underlying cause of setback of the DPRKU.S. summit talks in Hanoi is the arbitrary and dishonest position taken by the United States, insisting on a method which is totally impossible to get through.

For the sake of building confidence, a main key to an alleviation of the DPRK-U.S. hostile relations, we took crucial and meaningful measures of a strategically decisive nature including the discontinuation of nuclear test and test-fire of intercontinental ballistic missile, and we also took a broadminded step towards the realization of the repatriation of the American POW/MIA

remains.

However, the United States did not respond to our goodwill measures in the same manner, but deliberately pushed the talks to a rupture by merely claiming the unilateral disarmament of the DPRK.

Notwithstanding the above facts, the United States attempts to ascribe the setback of the DPRK-U.S. summit talks in Hanoi to a completely irrelevant issue and to impute the responsibility for the ruptured talks to the DPRK. Such American ulterior intention definitely needs to be brought to the attention.

We hereby make it clear once again that the United States would not be able to move us even an inch with the device it is now weighing in its mind, and the further its mistrust and hostile acts towards the DPRK grow, the fiercer our reaction will be.

Unless the United States puts aside the current method of calculation and comes forward with a new method of calculation, the DPRK-U.S. dialogue will never be resumed and by extension, the prospect for resolving the nuclear issue will be much gloomy.

The U.S. would be well advised to wake up to reality and learn anew how to have dialogue and negotiation.

Hostility and Prejudice Will Lead Japan to SelfDestruction and Isolation: KCNA Commentary

Pyongyang, May 25 (KCNA) –

The rash acts of hostility of Japan towards the General Association of Korean Residents in Japan (Chongryon), an organization of overseas citizens of our dignified Republic, harden the Korean nation's will to settle accounts with the former.

At a recent meeting of the Cabinet ministers, the Japanese authorities, finding fault with Chongryon, defined it as an object subject to investigation under the Act for the Prevention of Sabotage, and adopted a decision to the effect that it is possible that the latter can commit a violent act of sabotage.

The Japanese authorities' branding Chongryon as an "anti-state organization" is a vivid manifestation of their deep-rooted hostile policy towards the DPRK and an expression of their vicious and black-hearted intention to crack down and stamp out Chongryon at any cost.

Chongryon has consistently worked for defending and ensuring the life and interests of Koreans in Japan and promoting friendship with the Japanese people as clarified in its action programme over 60-odd years since its formation.

It has conducted legitimate activities, abiding by international law and the Japanese laws without interference in the Japanese internal affairs and promoted mutual understanding and friendly exchanges between the peoples of the DPRK and Japan.

This being a fact, the Japanese authorities claim that Chongryon has been involved in the "abduction issue", "illegal export case" and "sci-tech support for the DPRK". This is sheer sophism.

This is nothing but the malignant prejudice to make the public take Chongryon as a "violent body" while antagonizing it for no justifiable grounds and regarding it as the target of crackdown and obliteration.

To look back on history, the Japanese reactionaries have kept Chongryon as the first target of their hostile moves towards the DPRK and persistently resorted to a host of smear campaigns and crackdown against it.

In particular, the Abe regime which set the hostile policy towards the DPRK as the national policy is getting more vicious in its moves against the DPRK and Chongryon.

The shooting spree at the Central Hall of Chongryon in February was followed up by the Japanese customs authorities' fascist crackdown against the students of Kobe Korean High School on their return to Japan after visiting their motherland. This not only offended the juvenile minds of children but seriously threatened even the life and safety of Koreans in

Japan.

In March, the right-wing gangsters of the Japanese No. 1 Party insulted and decried the students of the Korean schools. The right of Koreans' children to national education was also trampled upon as evidenced by the justification of a stop to the payment of subsidies for the Korean schools.

What is stunning is that the Abe regime is hell-bent on depriving Chongryon and the Koreans in Japan of all their democratic national rights including human rights, right to living and the right to business and also the legitimate rights universally recognized by international law, while enforcing its own sanctions independent of the UN sanctions, quite contrary to its lipservice for dialogue with the DPRK.

All the facts go to prove that the decedents of samurais remain unchanged in their hostile attitude towards the DPRK and Chongryon despite the changed situation and peaceful climate on the Korean peninsula which draws the attention of the world community.

The encroachment on the national rights of the Koreans in Japan amounts to the encroachment of the sovereignty of the DPRK. The Abe group should remember that Chongryon just represents the dignity and sovereignty of the DPRK in Japan.

Reckless hostility and prejudice will lead Japan only to self-destruction and isolation. The Japanese authorities would be well advised to roll back their anachronistic and hostile policy towards the DPRK and Chongryon, clearly understanding the trend of the times.

CPRC Reunification and Agitation Department Exposes Sordid Nature of LKP

Pyongyang, May 25 (KCNA) – 

The Reunification and Agitation Department of the Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of the Country (CPRC) of the DPRK released an indictment on May 24, revealing the sordid nature of the "Liberal Korea Party" (LKP) keen on covering up their high profile crimes and taking power again under the pretext of the "people's livelihood" and "security".

The LKP is a group of gangsters that have inherited the "tradition" of fascist dictators. Far back in the past at the time of its first predecessor "Liberal Party", it enforced fascist dictatorship by invoking the "Security Law". At the times of the "Democratic Republican Party", it instituted "anti-communist law", "yusin constitution" and "social security law". In the 1980s it enacted a "draft law on assembly and demonstration". Through the fabrication of more than 100 fascist laws as such, the party turned south Korea into a prison without bars characteristic of the conservative party.

The long line of the names ranging from the "Democratic Justice Party", "Democratic Liberal Party", "New Korea Party", "Grand National Party", "Saenuri Party" to the "Liberal Korea Party" that the party has taken up has accompanied corresponding rallying and dismissing.

In fear of the candlelight demonstrators that flared up, it changed the name "Saenuri Party" into the "Liberal Korea Party" and claimed "repentance", "shake-up", "parting with the past" and "modification". But a crow is never whiter for often washing.

Exposing the essence of the "people's livelihood" cited by the traitorous party, the indictment continued: The crippled south Korean economy and the impoverished people's livelihood are entirely the product, consequence and miserable result of the unpopular rule pursued by traitors Lee Myung Bak and Park Geun Hye during their term from the conservative party.

Lee Myung Bak who presented himself as an "economy-minded president" brought unprecedented pain and sufferings to the south Koreans with the production of more than 5.2 million unemployed and over 10 million poverty-stricken masses.

Park Geun Hye visited other countries for the conclusion of the humiliating "Free Trade Agreement", spending three million USD at one time, allegedly to achieve "diplomatic performance" only to plunge the subservient bubble economy of south Korea into an abyss beyond control.

The indictment censured the shameful "security" rhetoric uttered by the harassers of peace. It continued: The traitorous party has now gone desperate, justifying itself as "security guard" and "peace guard" everywhere in south Korea.

Insulting the historic north-south summits and declarations as "strategy risking security" and "meeting devoid of details of nuclear dismantlement deal" and "declaration that was dictated by the north" and "unilateral declaration reflective of the north's interests only", they viciously slandered them, stressing the need to "stop pleading for dialogue and to tighten sanctions and pressure on the north".

The sinister aim behind the rackets of the "leftist dictatorship" and confrontation with the fellow countrymen touted by the LKP under the signboard of "security" is to round up conservative elements through stereotyped coloring offensive, revive fascist dictatorship, hobble the northsouth reconciliation efforts and create the phase of acute crisis of war far back in the past.

The LKP is a group of traitors that have to be thrown overboard together with the kingpins of evil doings. Hwang Kyo An is the No. 1 target of the abolition of evils out of the LKP group keen on pushing back the wheel of history under the excuses of the "people's livelihood" and "security".

No matter how loudly the LKP group including Hwang may cry out for "people's livelihood" and "security", they can never cover up their sordid nature as the fascist party, the group of sycophantic traitors and confrontational maniacs and hotbed of evils.

It will be hard to realize new politics and new life wished by the south Koreans nor will it be possible to expect improvement in the north-south relations and peace and prosperity on the Korean peninsula with the cancerlike entity and group of traitors like LKP left intact.

However hard the traitorous party may try to find a way-out by citing "people's livelihood" and "security", they are destined to meet ruin, in the face of the fierce resistance and severe punishment by the people, the indictment concluded.

S. Korean Authorities Should Break with Idea of Confrontation: KCNA Commentary

Pyongyang, May 25 (KCNA) –

Recently, the U.S. Strategic Command made public that the south Korean military authorities took part for the first time in the nuclear attack drill Global Thunder that took place secretly at an air force base in North Dakota State, U.S. in November last year.

As known, Global Thunder drill is an annual global nuclear war drill that has been conducted in secrecy under the direction of the U.S. Strategic Command with the involvement of the 5th Bombing Group with B-52Hs and the 91st Missile Group with Minuteman-3s.

The U.S. had openly claimed in 2017 that one of the main purposes of the Global Thunder drill is to get familiar with the operation for striking the nuclear facilities in the DPRK.

Then, we cannot but ask the south Korean military authorities what happened in the Korean peninsula last year. They signed the historic April 27 Panmunjom Declaration, the September Pyongyang Joint Declaration and the north-south agreement on military field last year. However, they went so shameless as to take part in the U.S. nuclear attack drill aimed at a preemptive attack on the DPRK behind the scene. This is another perfidious act against the compatriots in the north.

Such act is just one of many typical examples of disguised hostile acts persisted in by the south Korean military in collusion with the U.S. against the trend of the north-south reconciliation and peace.

The south Korean military, failing to drop the past evil habit of perpetrating military provocations, has ceaselessly conducted joint military drills in collusion with the U.S. against the DPRK though they had to be ceased.

The U.S.-south Korea joint military drill Alliance 19-1 and joint air drill were conducted in March and April this year. And plans of war drills against the DPRK are being mapped out even at this moment.

Nevertheless, the south Korean military is asserting that the military drills conducted by the army of the DPRK within its territorial land and waters under its regular drill plan are running counter to the idea of the north-south agreement on military field.

This is just the height of shamelessness.

The south Korean military is pursuing military confrontation, far from making efforts to develop the north-south relations and preserve peace and security on the Korean peninsula. This proves that the south Korean military doesn't actually want north-south reconciliation and cooperation and peace.

The above-said disguised act of the south Korean military, to say nothing of the open hostile acts they committed so far, constitutes an unpardonable provocation against the compatriots in the north. It draws bitterer disillusion and anger of all Koreans.

Dark cloud comes before a storm.

The south Korean authorities should cleanse themselves of the black hearted confrontational idea and take a proper stand to honestly implement the north-south declarations and the agreement on military field.

All Koreans will never pardon the confrontational moves of the south Korean military going against the trend of north-south reconciliation and peace.

KCNA Commentary Rebukes Japan's Smear Campaign against DPRK

Pyongyang, May 26 (KCNA) –

The Japan police recently announced that a "specified missing person" was located in the country. They have so far claimed that "his possible abduction by north Korea can not be ruled out".

This has given the lie to the story about "abduction" touted by the Japanese reactionaries.

It is not the first time that the specified persons who were reported to have gone missing were discovered in Japan.

A person whom they claimed to have been abducted by North Korea emerged as a dead body inside the premise of a second-hand ship import and export company in Chiba Prefecture in August 2013. There are other ample examples of the discovery of "specified missing persons", when counting only those revealed by the Japanese media, notably those in September in 2013, November in 2014, June and October in 2015, and June and December in 2016.

This clearly proves the absurdity of the "abduction issue" touted by the Japanese authorities. The increase on the number of missing persons, a serious social problem in Japan, is just anti-human rights profile of the island country.

The number of those who give up everything and turn into "outcast without identities" for such reasons as debts, unemployment, difficulty in schoolwork, and botched marriage life claims 100 000 in Japan every year.

There emerged a company called "overnight relocation" which earns money by helping people take to flight to shock the public. No wonder, a movie-man of a country is shooting a documentary film called "Disappeared People" featuring the wretched life of the Japanese who live a desolate life without any social relations.

However, the Japanese politicians set up plot-breeding organizations related to the "abduction issue" in the government, Diet and society from long ago and have engaged in evil activities of all descriptions at the expense of huge amount of money to convince the Japanese and the world people of the "abduction" by North Korea.

Recently they kicked up huge anti-DPRK racket called the "rally of families of abduction victims" by deliberately linking with the DPRK tens of thousands of missing persons whose number far exceeds that of the "abduction victims" fabricated by them.

The Japanese reactionaries' racket for "solution to the abduction issue" is all about evading historical responsibility for their unprecedented bloody crimes committed by the Japanese imperialists in the past and justifying their hostile policy toward the DPRK.

The Abe group is made up of the most shameless and wicked men with good hands at swindling and plot-breeding. It is a pipedream for Japan to think of attaining its dirty aim by spreading the threadbare "abduction issue". The more loudly the Japanese politicians get vocal about the issue, the more offences it will commit before the Koreans and the world people.

Humankind will never pardon those reactionaries of history who deceive their own people and the world people to become a military giant and to realize the ambition of reinvasion.

The Japanese rulers are fated to meet miserable end of plunging into a trap set by them.

KCNA Commentary Terms Former U.S. Vice President Biden Snob Bereft of Elementary Quality as Human Being

Former U.S. Vice-President Biden has gone reckless and senseless, driven by ambition for power. Biden, a presidential candidate from the Democratic Party during his recent election campaigning reeled off rhetoric slandering the supreme leadership of the DPRK.

What he uttered is just sophism of an imbecile bereft of elementary quality as a human being, let alone a politician.

He is the guy being accused even within the Democratic Party, to say nothing of the American society, for his vulgar acts and words about women and his thoughtless remarks.

It is well known to the world that he received a grade of F during university days for plagiarizing other’s article in his paper and that he could not but give up running for presidency in 1988 for plagiarizing a speech of a British politician that led to a public furor.

In April 2011 when the then President Obama was making a speech, he was fast asleep in the auditorium to become a laughing-stock of the media.

Once he called his political rival Republicans “shrieking pigs” to startle the public.

It is by no means accidental that there are nonstop comments within the United States over his bid for presidency that he is not worth pinning hope on and he is a fool of low IQ.

Even the American media derided him as a man with “manic-obsessive running of the mouth”, saying that he likes giving a speech but he is not serious in his words.

Yet, he is self-praising himself as being the most popular presidential candidate.

This is enough to make a cat laugh. It is easy to conjecture how the politics to be pursued by such a thoughtless guy would look like.

Such a guy had the temerity to insult the supreme leadership of the DPRK, an intolerable and serious political provocation against the DPRK.

Explicitly speaking, we will never pardon anyone who dare provoke the supreme leadership of the DPRK but will certainly make them pay for it.

Biden had better think over and over the reason for his past two-time failures in presidential elections and remember that prudence in addressing others is integral to a presidential candidacy.

US method of calculation does not make sense

Given the prevailing situation, improved relations between the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea and the United States are a long way off. All the blame falls upon the US that has made much ado about improved relations and peace on the one hand but, on the other hand, is resorting to all conceivable schemes in trying to prolong the economic sanctions. This means there is no change in its policy of disarming the DPRK first to create conditions for realizing its ambition of overthrowing the latter’s social system.

In his April 12 policy speech at the First Session of the 14^th Supreme People’s Assembly of the DPRK, Chairman Kim Jong Un of the State Affairs Commission said: The more pronounced the US policy hostile towards the DPRK becomes, the tougher our counteraction will become; if the US wants the settlement of issues through dialogue, it should have the right attitude and find a methodology that can be shared with us.

Last year, the DPRK voluntarily took crucial and significant measures including the discontinuation of nuclear test and test-fire of intercontinental ballistic missile, thereby taking the first step towards confidence-building which is the main key to the removal of bilateral hostile relations. It also demolished completely the nuclear test site in its northern part.

Chairman Kim Jong Un, together with US President Trump, signed the June 12 DPRK-US Joint Statement, a historic declaration announcing to the world that the two countries would write a new history of relationship. During the summit talks he also took steps for realizing the repatriation of the remains of US soldiers, which had been requested by the US President. On several occasions after the meeting, he reaffirmed his will to sincerely implement the joint statement. At the second DPRK-US summit talks and meeting he expressed his resolve to set the essential stages and course to be followed without fail for the implementation of the joint statement in the interests of both sides and to take more prudent and trustworthy steps.

However, the US’ response was disappointing.

Some American politicians judged that the DPRK came to the negotiating table because sanctions were imposed on it; they are throwing the wet blanket over the atmosphere for dialogue by clamouring about “maximum pressure.” Most recently the US conducted a test for simulated interception of the DPRK’s intercontinental ballistic missile and resumed military exercises, which the US President had committed himself to suspending, by changing their names. During the Hanoi summit talks it presented its arbitrary demands which were unacceptable to the dialogue partner.

What the DPRK wants is to establish, through confidence-building, a durable peace mechanism on the Korean peninsula where a volatile situation prevailed, rather than having the sanctions lifted.

If the US, ignorant of what its dialogue partner thinks, insists on forcing its outrageous demands on the latter, it is nothing more than a foolish dream.

The DPRK will make no concession or compromise over the issues concerning the fundamental interests of its State and people. So it attaches importance to the settlement of issues through dialogue and negotiations, but it is not interested in the US-style dialogue of unilaterally pushing its demands.

Kim Jong Un said: What is obvious is that if the US sticks to its current political way of calculation, the prospects for problem solving will be bleak and very dangerous; at this crucial time, I hope that the United States will make a well-advised judgment and the second hand of the clock of the DPRK-US showdown which they stopped with so much difficulty will not move again for all ages.

Now the US should realize that, by its sort of thinking, it will not be able to move the DPRK one iota nor get what it wants at all, even if it sits with the latter a hundred times, a thousand times.

Kim Jong Un’s Visit to the Russian Federation and friendship Korea-Russia

Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea visited the Russian Federation in April 2019.

As all his diplomatic activities did, this visit again produced great sensation among the world people.

This year Kim Jong Un visited China as his first political schedule for the new year and had the second DPRK-US summit meeting and talks in February; his quick and proactive diplomatic activities kindled a fire of diplomacy with regard to the Korean peninsula. Now he visited Russia, developing the ever-friendly relations between the two countries onto a new high.

Reporting his Russia visit, the world media commented it as a historic event demonstrating the firmness of the traditional friendly relationship between the DPRK and Russia, a typical example of Kim Jong Un-style diplomacy which is proactive, aggressive and exceptional, and a great event that ushered in a new history, a new era, for developing the relations between the two countries.

His visit drew greater attention as it was made at the moment decisive of the development of the situation on the Korean peninsula and the rest of northeast Asia. Today the situation is about to return to its original state, when it was on the brink of war, owing to the one-sided and unfriendly attitude taken by the US.

To look back, in 2018, with an intention to build a lasting, durable peace mechanism on the Korean peninsula and to accomplish its complete denuclearization, the DPRK took several practical steps including the suspension of nuclear test and test-firing of ICBM and returning the remains of American war dead. Such steps won support, understanding and welcome of the international community. However, the US, while making remarks about improving its relations with the DPRK and peace, desperately resorted to imposing sanctions on this country. During the second DPRK-US summit meeting and talks held in Hanoi, it presented the demands that were unacceptable for its dialogue partner and completely impossible methods, creating great obstacles to achieving peace on the Korean peninsula and improving regional situation. As a consequence, the relations between the two countries have come into a deadlock.

During his visit to Russia made at this juncture, Kim Jong Un met President Putin for the first time, establishing intimate relations with him and promoting the strategic ties between the two countries. The top leaders of the two countries assessed that the DPRK-Russia summit meeting and talks constituted an occasion of great significance for maintaining and managing strategically the unstable situation on the Korean peninsula which was created after the second DPRK-US summit, and agreed to promote strategic communication and tactical collaboration in the course of ensuring peace and security on the Korean peninsula and in the region.

It can be said that Kim Jong Un’s visit to Russia has a great bearing on developing the situation on the Korean peninsula and in the region. Through several rounds of summit meetings and talks, the DPRK and Chinese leaders had consolidated the blood-sealed alliance between the two countries, and now Kim Jong Un’s visit to Russia strengthened strategic ties between the two countries. This means that the country, which is overcoming sanctions and making progress on the strength of self-development, is further developing strategic relations with China and Russia, the two powers that cannot be neglected in developing the situation on the Korean peninsula and in the region.

Now that the US is opposed to the peaceful settlement of the Korean question, going against the current of the times, it is facing international denunciation. During his visit to Russia,   Kim Jong Un said: Peace and security on the Korean peninsula will entirely depend on the future attitude of the US and the DPRK will provide for every possible situation.

This was another clear message he sent to the US and became another source of interest for the world.

Striving for Realization of Genuine International Justice Holds Principal Position in Foreign Policy of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea(DPRK)

Justice is a common ideal of humankind, and it is a shared aspiration and desire of all countries and nations across the world to achieve prosperity for all in a free and peaceful world where genuine international justice is in place.

In the international arena at present, however, the globally recognized fundamental principles governing the international relations are being blatantly violated, the imperialists’ moves for aggression and war are being justified and legitimized, and the imperialists’ attempts at violating the sovereignty of other countries at the former’s own free will are growing more pronounced than ever before.

The reality urgently demands that the world progressive peoples undertake active struggle for the realization of international justice, irrespective of their differences in political and religious beliefs and level of economic and cultural development.

At the 7th Congress of the Workers’ Party of Korea,Comrade Kim Jong Un,

Chairman of the State Affairs Commission of the DPRK, underlined the need to fight for genuine international justice while articulating the independent foreign policy of our Party and the government of our Republic.

The respected Supreme Leader Comrade Kim Jong Un said as follows.

“ It is essential to fight for genuine international justice.”

Independence is, after all, justice, and meeting the demand for independence and interests of all countries and nations in a fair manner is essential in realizing international justice.

To any country or nation which is entitled to exist and develop independently as a full-fledged member of the international community together with other countries and nations, mistreatment and oppression by outside forces are an intolerable insult, and justice cannot be said of in a country afflicted by domination, subordination, interference and pressure from outside forces.

The great leader Comrade Kim Il Sung and the great leader Comrade Kim Jong Il confirmed through their personal revolutionary practices that independence is the justice of history, the victory of revolution and the basis for development of fair international relations, and they guided the trend of history along the road of independence, thus opening up a new history of independence in which the popular masses carry out the revolution of their respective countries in an independent way and build a new just world, freed from domination and subordination.

Comrade Kim Jong Un, Chairman of the State Affairs Commission of the DPRK, holding higher the banner of independence, the banner of international justice held by the great President Kim Il Sung and the great General Kim Jong Il, undertakes vigorous activities for check and frustration of the domination moves of the imperialist reactionaries, for friendship and solidarity with the socialist countries and the anti-imperialist independent forces and for establishment of independent and fair international relations and world peace and security.

Four-time visits to the People’s Republic of China, visits to the Socialist Republic of Vietnam and the Russian Federation and two-time DPRK-U.S. summit meetings and talks were historic events that fully demonstrated to the whole world the strategic standing and dignity of our Republic and made great contributions to safeguarding world peace and security and building a new independent and just world.

The DPRK will not make any slightest concession nor compromise, as in the past, on the matters relating to the fundamental interests of our state and people and make determined efforts to achieve genuine justice which serves to fairly meet the demand for independence and interests of all countries and nations.

In order to realize genuine international justice, it is necessary to resolutely smash all kinds of practices and challenges that run counter to it. Comrade Kim Jong Un, Chairman of the State Affairs Commission of the DPRK taught that it is imperative to exert every effort to categorically reject high-handedness, arbitrariness, double standards and injustice of the imperialists which trample on the sovereignty and the right to existence of the country and nation and ensure fairness in addressing international issues, and shatter the brazen and deceptive appearance of “justice” held out by the imperialists and dominationists.

Now in the international arena, there are serious contradictions and struggles going on between the world progressive peoples who are striving to defend the sovereignty and dignity of their countries and nations on one hand and the imperialist reactionary forces who are resorting to aggression, war, high-handedness and arbitrariness on the other hand.

Because of the aggression and interference of the imperialists and domination forces, the sovereignty of countries and nations is being violated and war and conflicts are ceaselessly breaking out in various countries. The actions of the imperialists – which have been carried out against Syria during the past several years and are now repeated against Venezuela to remove a legitimately elected president of the sovereign state – are a direct challenge to international justice. Worse still is the fact that such an armed invasion or interference in internal affairs is committed under the cloak of “annihilation of terror”, “provision of peace” and “protection of human rights”.

Imperialists are calling the countries subservient to them as good ones but branding the insubordinate countries as “evil”, “gangster state”, “dictatorship” and “state sponsor of terrorism”, and they are attempting to outrageously impose their value under the signboard of “justice”.

We demand that double standards and high-handedness rampant now in international relations be never tolerated, and abnormal phenomena detrimental to justice and truth be not permitted nor acquiesced any longer. All countries and nations aspiring after independence and justice should resolutely frustrate the imperialists’ practices of high-handedness, arbitrariness, aggression and infringement upon sovereign rights and safeguard the sovereignty, and they should also wage a vigorous struggle to smash the imperialists’ hypocritical talk of “justice” and realize genuine international justice.

It is important to ensure that the demand of all developing countries and international community as a whole is fairly reflected in resolving the international issues now confronting humankind such as conflicts, antiterrorism and environment.

Now in the discussions of international issues, independent demand and interests of the developing countries are marginalized and the law of jungle is rampantly pursued. Some irresponsible countries deliberately turn their faces away from the environment and other serious issues and openly override the internationally agreed conventions for the sake of their economic interests.

The countries aspiring after independence and justice should increase vigilance against the maneuvers of imperialists trying to fish in troubled waters by meddling in disputes and to interfere in the internal affairs of sovereign states under the pretext of anti-terrorism, protection of human rights and so on.

They should also direct the spearhead of attack toward the egoistic acts of imperialists seeking only to be better off for themselves by sacrificing the whole world.

A new international order based on sovereignty should be established in order to realize genuine international justice. Now in international relations, the priorities and the deciding powers are given only to the developed and some specific countries, whereas the opinions of the developing and many other countries are ignored.

In order to rectify these abnormal practices, the old order which is tolerating the privileges of some countries in international political area should be eliminated, the principles of respect for sovereignty, territorial integrity, noninterference in internal affairs and equality be applied, and an international economic order based on the principle of equality and mutual benefit be established.

The great President Kim Il Sung and the great General Kim Jong Il advanced the idea of replacing the old international order – which had been framed by the imperialist powers in a way that would enable them to decide and settle the international issues on their terms – with the one which meets the desire of progressive humankind aspiring after independence. And through their energetic external activities the great leaders ensured that the nonaligned and developing countries pool their efforts to establish a new international order based on independence and develop South-South cooperation in political, economic, cultural and other several fields on the principle of collective self-reliance.

With a sense of responsibility and consciousness which correspond to the strategic position considerably raised thanks to the extraordinary wisdom, unique courage, tireless efforts, self-sacrificing devotion, outstanding and seasoned leadership, and vigorous external activities of Comrade Kim Jong Un, Chairman of the State Affairs Commission, our Republic is fighting more resolutely for destruction of the old international order which is resorting to an injustice under the signboard of “justice” and to establish a new fair and just one.

It is important to guarantee fairness in the activities of the United Nations and other international organizations in order to establish a new international order.

The historical fact, which shows the international organizations assume an important role in establishing a global order, indicates that the process of establishing a fair international order would necessarily go hand in hand with a process of properly solving the issues associated with the international organizations.

There now exists severe gap in equality among countries and nations in several international organizations. At the United Nations alone, the non-aligned countries, though counted as an overwhelming majority, are not exercising due influence, whereas a small number of powers are enjoying privileged rights, contrary to the UN Charter.

What should not be overlooked is the reality that the so-called “resolutions” are adopted in the UN and other international arena to serve only to justify and legitimatize the high-handedness and arbitrariness of specific countries, and the unheard-of acts of injustice of forcing sanctions on the victims are openly committed in the name of UN on the ground that the victims protested against the offenders.

Even though sanctions might be taken as the last desperate measure by those forces who admit their inability to bring us down by force, they themselves amount to a grave infringement upon our sovereign rights and an outrageous mockery of international justice, and therefore, we will not tolerate them in the least but confront and completely smash them at any cost.

In order to eradicate the relations of domination, subjugation and inequality and build a just world where full-fledged sovereignty and equality of every country and nation are ensured, the international community should be democratized and, to this end, the United Nations and other international organizations should be democratized.

We strongly hold that the UN and other international organizations terminate the orders and practices of tolerating the privileges of certain countries and provide for the legislative and institutional underpinning which would fairly ensure the independent demand and interest of every country and nation on the principles of respect for sovereignty, territorial integrity, non-interference in internal affairs and equality.

International justice never comes of itself, but it is only possible when the anti-imperialist, independent countries become strong enough. If a country is not strong enough, it will have no voice in the international arena, nor ability to defend justice and conscience, and it will become to play into the hands of the powers, however honest and just it may be.

Thanks to the wise leadership of the great President and the great General, our Republic has consolidated the single-minded unity of the Party and the people, the strong foundations of self-supporting national economy and the powerful national defense capability under the uplifted banner of independence, self-reliance and self-defense, and these are a reliable guarantee of the struggle for achieving genuine international justice.

Upholding the historical policy speech delivered by Comrade Kim Jong Un, Chairman of the State Affairs Commission at the First Session of the 14^th Supreme People’s Assembly, the DPRK will further consolidate the material foundation of socialism and strengthen the political and military might in every way, thus accomplishing the cause of building a powerful socialist country and contributing to realizing genuine international justice.

The justice-loving progressive countries of the world should strive to build on their strength on the principle of self-reliance and self-development. It is equally important to strengthen the unity based on independence. The world progressive peoples, who are championing independence, should counter the imperialists’ moves of division and alienation with a strategy of unity, and they should unite and cooperate with one another, transcending the differences in social system, political views, ideology, religion, nation and races.

It is an unshakable stand of our Party and the government of the DPRK to strive for realizing genuine international justice. The DPRK will as ever actively push forward with the sacred cause of building a new independent and just world in strong unity with the peoples of all countries aspiring after independence and justice, holding high the banner of anti-imperialism and independence, the banner of international justice.

DPRK Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Expresses Invariable Support to and Solidarity with Venezuelan People

A spokesperson for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Democratic People’s

Republic of Korea (DPRK) gave the following answer to a question put by KCNA

on May 5 as regards the coup d’état attempt by anti-government forces in

Venezuela:

An abnormal incident broke out recently in Venezuela, where internal antigovernment forces attempted a coup d’état to remove the legitimately elected

president.

The latest coup d’état attempt is an extremely dangerous act of violence that

pushes the Venezuelan situation to an utmost instability, having a highly negative

impact on the overall situation in the region.

The situation in Venezuela is being aggravated day by day, because the internal

anti-government forces are launching, with the support of the outside forces, a

campaign against the president from January and the hostile forces are making

undisguised attempt to deprive Venezuela of its representation in the United

Nations.

At the same time, the United States, acting like a “single superpower”, is

making such reckless remarks that a military action is possible with regard to the

Venezuelan situation and the U.S. will carry out that action if so necessary. These

remarks are evoking great concern of the international community.

We condemn all of the attempts for removing the legitimately elected president

of Venezuela and interfering in its internal affairs as a challenge to international

justice and a flagrant violation of international law.

We call for a peaceful solution to the Venezuelan issue in accordance with the

independent will and decision of the government and people of that country and

extend invariable support and solidarity to the Venezuelan people in their struggle

for defending sovereignty.

DPRK Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Hits out at Outrageous Act of U.S.

A spokesperson for the Foreign Ministry of the Democratic People’s Republic

of Korea made the following statement on Tuesday:

The United States committed an unlawful and outrageous act of dispossessing

our cargo ship by forcibly taking it to Samoa (U.S.), linking the ship to the

“sanctions resolutions” of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) and its

domestic “sanctions acts”, all being imposed against the DPRK.

The UNSC “sanctions resolutions” on the DPRK, which the U.S. has

employed as one of the grounds for its dispossession of our cargo ship, have

flagrantly infringed upon the sovereignty of our state, and therefore, we have

categorically rejected and condemned the whole of them all along.

Moreover, the United States’impudent act of forcing other countries into

observance of its domestic law is indeed a wanton violation of the universally

accepted international laws which make clear that in no case can a sovereign state

be an object of jurisdiction of other countries.

The latest U.S. act constitutes an extension of the American method of

calculation for bringing the DPRK to its knees by means of “maximum

pressure” and an outright denial of the underlying spirit of the June 12 DPRKU.

S. Joint Statement that has committed to establish new bilateral relations.

The U.S. should ponder over the consequences its heinous act might have on

the future developments and immediately return our ship.

The time when the U.S. held sway over the world at its own free will is gone

long ago, and it would be a biggest miscalculation if the U.S. thought that the

DPRK is among the countries where the American-style logic of “strength”

might work for.

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We will carefully watch every move of the United States hereafter.