Pyongyang,
June 2 (KCNA) -- The chief of the External Policy Office of the Foreign
Ministry of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea on June 1 issued the
following press statement titled "Our efforts to defend the dignity and
interests of the state will not be bound by anyone's prejudiced viewpoint and
malicious criticism":
Recently,
the multilateral sanctions monitoring team (MSMT), the U.S.-led sanctions and
plot-breeding body, committed a political provocation of fabricating and making
public a "report" taking issue with the cooperative relations between
the DPRK and Russia.
The hostile
act of the MSMT, a bogus group which has no legality in terms of existence and
purpose, is a wanton violation of the international legal principles with
sovereignty equality and non-interference in others' internal affairs as the
core and a mockery of the fair international community.
We express
serious concern over the provocative acts of the West to encroach upon the
sovereign rights of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea with its
unilateral and high-handed political and legal standards as a yardstick and
give stern warning against the negative consequences to be entailed by its
reckless acts.
No one has
given the U.S. and its followers the mission and power to judge and denounce
the legitimate relations between sovereign states at their own discretion, and
herein lies the main reason why the existence and activities of the MSMT should
be questioned and rejected.
The MSMT,
which was formed arbitrarily by eleven countries hostile to the Democratic
People's Republic of Korea and the Russian Federation, is thoroughly a
political tool operating according to the geopolitical interests of the West
and, therefore, it has no justification to investigate the exercise of
sovereign rights of other countries.
The
DPRK-Russia military cooperation aimed at protecting the sovereignty,
territorial integrity and security interests of the states and ensuring peace
and stability in the Eurasian region is a legitimate exercise of the sovereign
right granted by Article 51 of the UN Charter which stipulates that each state
has the right to self-defense individually or collectively. It is also a
legitimate exercise of the sovereign right fully conforming with Article 4 of
the treaty on comprehensive strategic partnership between the DPRK and Russia
which requires each of the parties to provide military and other assistance in
case of an armed attack against the other.
There is a
thing to make clear in this opportunity. The reason why the military
cooperation between the countries involved in the MSMT has not become the
target of international investigation isn't because it is just, defensive and,
moreover, peaceful.
The legality
and justness of the DPRK-Russia relations based on the new development-oriented
point lies in the fact that they are the cream of inter-state relations that
put an end to the era, in which a handful of countries formed an illegal and
confrontation-oriented political and military group and resort to arbitrary
practices at will, and establish a multi-polar world order based on genuine
respect for sovereignty, equality and justice.
The DPRK has
the right to take strong countermeasures to defend its interests from the
outrageous encroachment on its sovereignty and interference in its internal
affairs by the member states of the MSMT
The hostile
forces' illegal plot-breeding moves will have no effect on the relations of
cooperation between independent sovereign states and our efforts to defend the
dignity and interests of the state will not be bound by anyone's prejudiced
viewpoint and malicious criticism.
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