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.
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