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Kim Song

lines on the record: 67
first: 2019-09-24
most recent: 2022-09-24
sittings or episodes: 3
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“The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea will broadly cooperate with all countries and nations that oppose and reject aggression and interference, domination and subordination, and aspire to independence and justice, transcending differences in ideologies and systems. It will also develop multifaceted exchanges and cooperation even with capitalist countries that respect our country and take a friendly attitude to it. The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea sets great store by sovereign equality and international justice. Moreover, in the future it will actively join the international community in its efforts to maintain world peace and security and establish a fair and just international order. It will also fulfil its responsibilities and role in ensuring peace and security on the Korean peninsula.”
2022-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 77 (2022)
“We also strongly demand that all the economic and financial embargoes imposed on Cuba by the United States be lifted immediately, as required by relevant resolutions of the General Assembly. We also stand in firm support and solidarity with the peoples of the Syrian Arab Republic, Palestine and other independent countries that are struggling to repel the interference of foreign forces and safeguard their independence, sovereignty and territorial integrity. It is the unwavering foreign policy of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea Government to maintain independence, peace and friendship.”
2022-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 77 (2022)
“The partial acts and double standards favouring the unfair positions of some individual countries and specific forces should be thoroughly eliminated, and the core principles of the United Nations Charter — the sovereign equality and equal rights and self-determination of the peoples — should be strictly observed. The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea delegation takes this opportunity to extend firm support and solidarity to the Government and the people of Cuba in their struggle to safeguard the sovereignty and right to development of their country in the face of the high-handedness and arbitrariness of the United States in a move to interfere in its internal affairs.”
2022-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 77 (2022)
“If the United Nations is to ensure impartiality and objectivity in its activities, it should adhere to the cardinal principles of respect for sovereign equality and peoples’ rights to self-determination. The United States and some other United Nations Member States are trying to unilaterally impose Western values and the “rules-based international order” on sovereign States, behind the slogans of “safeguarding democracy” and “protecting human rights”. Such interventionist attempt constitutes a flagrant breach of the United Nations Charter, which gives precedence to the principle of sovereign equality.”
2022-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 77 (2022)
“As long as the double standards, unfairness, highhandedness and arbitrariness of the United States are not removed, any decisions or resolutions adopted by the Security Council can neither have reasonable binding force nor contribute to ensuring global peace and security. In order to put an end to the highhandedness and arbitrariness of specific countries, including the United States and restore the confidence of the international community in the Security Council, urgent priority should be given to the expansion and strengthening of representation of developing countries, which account for the absolute majority of the United Nations membership.”
2022-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 77 (2022)
“The Security Council is not fully discharging its missions and responsibilities to safeguard international peace and security. The main reason for that lies precisely in the unjust and double-dealing acts of the United States and some United Nations Member States following in the footsteps of the United States. The Security Council does not say even one word about the high-handedness and arbitrariness, reckless arms build-up and war crimes of the United States, but only picks a quarrel with the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea at every opportunity in its righteous efforts to bolster national self-defence capabilities. All of that reveals that the Security Council has lost its competency and authority to act on behalf of the United Nations Member States when it performs its duty to maintain international peace and security.”
2022-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 77 (2022)
“All the United Nations activities should be duly oriented to realizing the common interests and prosperity of the Member States. To that end, the basic formula for solving problems should be decision-making that reflects not the individual interests of a few countries, but the legitimate and just demands and opinions of all the Member States. The Security Council is the very organ where impartiality and objectivity are not ensured in United Nations activities. The mere fact that the Security Council makes an issue of the exercise of the legitimate right to self-defence of a sovereign State is a contradictory act, as it denies the basic spirit of the Charter of the United Nations, which clearly stipulates sovereign equality and non-interference, as well as the recognized rules governing international relations.”
2022-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 77 (2022)
“The United States, having divided the world into “democratic” and “authoritarian” States, is now forcing other countries to choose between the two and seeking bloc confrontation. It attempts to maintain world hegemony by expanding the bilateral and multilateral military alliance system that is a legacy of the Cold War. The prevailing reality urgently calls on the United Nations, entrusted with maintaining global peace and security and safeguarding international justice, to fully discharge its missions and role enshrined in the Charter, strictly adhering to the principles of impartiality and objectivity. The United Nations is the most universal international organization, bringing together all sovereign countries. As such, an individual country or a minority group can never represent the United Nations.”
2022-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 77 (2022)
“Today the world is faced with not a few severe crises and challenges, but the most fundamental danger is the high-handedness and arbitrariness of the United States and its followers, which are destroying the foundation of international peace and stability in order to maintain the hegemonic unipolar world. The “rules-based international order” advocated by the United States is no less than the United States-centred international order, permeated with unilateral and hegemonic American values. It is also an imperialistic power structure that gives precedence to the interests of the United States over the common interests of humankind and international law, demanding other countries’ obedience.”
2022-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 77 (2022)
“In his policy speech delivered at the seventh session of the fourteenth Supreme People’s Assembly, Comrade Kim Jong Un, President of the State Affairs of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, said that the current international situation shows that the contradictions between justice and injustice and between the progressive and the reactionary, especially the power structure surrounding the Korean peninsula, have become obvious and that the change from a unipolar world advocated by the United States into a multipolar world is accelerating significantly.”
2022-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 77 (2022)
“The United States compelled the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea to adopt the law on the policy of nuclear forces in defiance of the United States hostility. The United States should clearly understand that its heinous, hostile policy against the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea over the past 30 years is responsible for creating today’s reality, and ask and answer itself and ponder over how far it is prepared to take this situation in the future.”
2022-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 77 (2022)
“The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea has found another correct way to defend its sovereignty and fundamental interests from the persistent hostile policy and military threat of the United States and its following forces and to ensure peace and security on the Korean peninsula and in the region. At the recent seventh session of the fourteenth Supreme People’s Assembly of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, a law on the policy of the nation’s nuclear forces was adopted with unanimous approval, in reflection of the general will of all Korean people. In direct proportion to the increase of the hostile policy and military blackmail of the United States against us, our strength is bound to grow continuously to contain them.”
2022-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 77 (2022)
“That is because the United Nations connived at and allowed the high-handedness and arbitrariness of the United States in antagonizing the independent Democratic People’s Republic of Korea under an absurd rationale that it differs in its ideas and systems and opposes its unjust policy. The United States is even now planning to conduct joint military exercises, which arose serious concern in the surroundings of the Korean peninsula. Obviously, this is an extremely dangerous act of igniting the fuse to drive the situation on the Korean peninsula to the brink of war.”
2022-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 77 (2022)
“A few days ago, the United States President attacked us from this very rostrum, saying that despite his country’s “efforts to begin serious and sustained diplomacy”, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea continues to blatantly violate United Nations “sanctions” (A/77/ PV.6, p. 23). To put it clearly, we have never recognized such United Nations resolutions that seek to pressure us because we do not abide by the rules made by the United States unilaterally. We will not accept them in the future, either. In addition to our country, there is a number of countries in the world that possess nuclear weapons, but only the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea has been subjected to the most brigandish and brutal sanctions resolutions.”
2022-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 77 (2022)
“The successes of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea in its national and social development were by no means achieved in a peaceful and quiet environment. The security environment on the Korean peninsula is now caught up in a vicious cycle of tension and confrontation due to the increasing hostility of the United States and its following forces against the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. Recently, it has been heading towards a much more dangerous phase. One of the foremost excuses of the United States and its servile forces to justify their hostile policy and military threats against the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea is none other than the possession of our self-defensive nuclear weapons.”
2022-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 77 (2022)
“Industry, agriculture and all other sectors of the economy are following a trend of steady and stable growth, while the efforts to supply the people with modern apartments free of charge and provide the children and students all across the country with nutritious food, new school uniforms and stationery materials at the State’s expense are being carried forward as planned. The subjective and objective conditions and environment are still unfavourable, but visible and substantial progress and advances are being made in our country in a social atmosphere that is full of vim and vigour. That reality in our country substantiates the fact that we can successfully overcome any difficulty and challenge if we rely on the strength of the people to implement policies that suit the reality on the ground.”
2022-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 77 (2022)
“Upon authorization, I take this opportunity to express thanks to those countries and international organizations that have shown their deep interest and willingness to render assistance to the anti-epidemic work of our country. Despite the inevitable difficulties and obstacles caused by the global health crisis and abnormal weather conditions, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea Government achieved new successes and progress by tirelessly propelling the efforts for national development and stabilization and the improvement of the people’s livelihood.”
2022-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 77 (2022)
“That served as a fundamental guarantee for the successful implementation of the scientific anti-epidemic policy. In terms of anti-epidemic and public health foundations, our country has been in a weaker condition than other countries, but it took the contagious disease under control in the shortest period of time. All in all, that brilliant result was achieved by the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea Government’s correct anti-epidemic policy and superior socialist system. The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea Government is closely following the anti-epidemic situation in neighbouring countries and the world. At the same time, it is stepping up its work to build the national anti-epidemic capacity to actively cope with any public health crisis in the present and the future and to fully secure the life and safety of the people.”
2022-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 77 (2022)
“But the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea Government made a correct analysis of the features of the malignant virus and the circumstances of its outbreak, together with the state of the public health of the country. On that basis, it lost no time in putting forward an anti-epidemic policy in a scientific, transparent and speedy manner so as to take the strategic initiative in preventing the infectious disease, and proceeded with its implementation with due care, thereby achieving a decisive victory in exterminating the malignant virus in a very short period of 100-odd days. A high sense of organization and voluntary unity of action, along with a social ethos of helping and caring about each other, reflect the superiority of the political system peculiar to our country.”
2022-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 77 (2022)
“Nevertheless, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea has had valuable successes in protecting the life and safety of the people from the threat of a malignant pandemic and in achieving overall development of the country, while persistently overcoming the difficulties and obstacles on its own. I hope that the successes and experiences gained by the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea will make a positive contribution to the deliberation of the theme before the current session of the General Assembly on the international community’s overcoming interlocking challenges and finding transformative solutions. The unprecedented crisis caused by the malignant virus spread throughout our State beginning late last April. It created a very critical ordeal and served as an occasion to test the national crisis-preparedness capacity of the country.”
2022-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 77 (2022)
“The United Nations was founded in reflection of the expectations and desire of humankind, which wanted to see no repetition of the scourge of the world wars that had inflicted indescribable misfortune upon them. More than ever before, the present reality urgently calls for the United Nations to promote cooperation, reconciliation, unity and solidarity among its Member States, and to discharge its righteous missions and role. The world has been faced with challenges and difficulties of all sorts during the past year. The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea was no exception.”
2022-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 77 (2022)
“To make matters worse, the global health crisis is compounded by newly emerging infectious diseases, such as monkeypox. This year has seen immense human and material losses in all regions of the world, including South Asia, Western Europe and North America, due to the destructive effects of the disastrous abnormal weather resulting from the climate change. That has created yet another difficult problem for the international community. Moreover, the global security environment is plunging into its worst state since the Second World War, owing to the high-handedness and arbitrariness of some countries attempting to replace the current international order centred on the United Nations system with a “rules-based international order” governed by unilateral and exclusive Western values.”
2022-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 77 (2022)
“Let me begin by congratulating Mr. Csaba Korosi on his election as President of the General Assembly at its seventy- seventh session. I am confident that, under his able stewardship, this session will be crowned with success. I also expect that the current debate will serve as a meaningful occasion for all United Nations Member States to find common solutions through exchanges of useful experiences in overcoming the existing challenges and crises and building a sustainable world for ourselves and future generations. Over the three years since the outbreak of a once-in- a-century pandemic, this malignant virus has taken the precious lives of more than 6.53 million people and still poses a threat to the existence of humankind with the emergence of subvariants that are strong in transmission and immunity evasion.”
2022-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 77 (2022)
“In future, too, my country will discharge its responsibilities and duties to strengthen its friendship and unity with every country in the world that respects our sovereignty, in order achieve genuine international justice and equality and ensure peace and security on the Korean peninsula and in the rest of the world.”
2021-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 76 (2021)
“The delegation of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea would like to take this opportunity to extend its full support and encouragement to the Government and the people of Cuba, who continue to move forward holding aloft the banner of socialism in the face of efforts by the United States to impose illegal sanctions and blockades and to undermine Cuba from within. I also want to express our constant support to independent countries such as Syria and Palestine and their peoples and our solidarity with them in their unyielding struggle to protect their national dignity, sovereignty and territorial integrity. The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea maintains unchanged its underlying foreign-policy ideas of independence, peace and friendship.”
2021-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 76 (2021)
“Those unhappy events prove that human rights are directly linked to sovereign rights and that without them, people cannot avoid the fate of stateless nations fraught with misery and disaster. The United Nations should do away with double standards and the unjust tendency to favour the positions of some countries and forces. It should rather ensure full impartiality and fairness, as required by the Charter, whose backbone is the principle of sovereign equality and respect for equal rights and the self- determination of peoples.”
2021-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 76 (2021)
“Next, for the United Nations to be a fair Organization with practical abilities, we should revitalize its work based on the principles of sovereign equality and respect for peoples’ equal rights and their right to self-determination. Ensuring sovereign equality and respect for equal rights and self-determination are core principles of the Charter and the cornerstone of the Organization’s very existence. Some Member States try to unilaterally impose Western values and the rules-based international order on sovereign States under the guise of defending democracy and protecting human rights. Such attempts to interfere in the internal affairs of any sovereign State are gross violations of the principle of sovereign equality. Chaos, disorder, bloodshed and violence continue unabated in some countries owing to foreign intervention.”
2021-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 76 (2021)
“That is telltale evidence that the United Nations does not represent the interests of a broad spectrum of the international community but has rather degenerated into a closed circle for the privileged few. In order to prevent high-handedness and arbitrariness in the Security Council, we should increase its representation of developing countries, which make up a majority of the United Nations. It is also imperative that the rules and procedures of the United Nations be revised so that resolutions adopted in the Security Council can be rejected, when necessary, by General Assembly resolutions, which reflect the will of an overwhelming majority of Member States.”
2021-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 76 (2021)
“It is particularly urgent that we make the Security Council an impartial and responsible organ that substantially contributes to the maintenance of international peace and security, as explicitly stipulated in the Charter. The Council is not a political instrument through which certain global Powers take decisions on international relations and the destiny of sovereign States with a yardstick of double standards and on the basis of their own interests and priorities. The Security Council has not said a word about the reckless arms build-up and criminal war acts perpetrated by specific countries such as the United States and its servile forces. Instead, the Council takes every opportunity to find fault with the legitimate self-defence measures of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea.”
2021-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 76 (2021)
“Underlying these are the self-serving policies of interference by the United States and the West. The Afghan crisis has claimed the lives of tens of thousands of innocent people and triggered a flow of millions of refugees, as well as the collapse of the State and the country’s social system. That is clear testimony to the tragic consequences of the open use of armed forces against a sovereign State and of interference in its internal affairs and occupation by foreign troops. Reality urgently demands that the United Nations become a fair international Organization with strong executive power to discharge its mandate in conformity with the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations.”
2021-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 76 (2021)
“If the United States wants to see the Korean War, its most protracted war, come to an end, and if it truly desires peace and reconciliation on the Korean peninsula, it should take a first step towards abandoning its hostile policy towards the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea by permanently ending its joint military exercises and deployment of all kinds of strategic weapons targeting my country in and around the Korean peninsula. I am convinced that relations between the United States and the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, as well as inter-Korean relations, will improve if the United States refrains from threatening my country and abandons its hostility to it. The coronavirus disease pandemic, climate change, the refugee problem and endless disputes among countries are emerging as burning issues.”
2021-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 76 (2021)
“We will continue to keep our eyes on changes in its policy towards the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. If the current United States Administration tries to solve the issue of the Korean peninsula, something that the preceding Administration failed to do, by relying on the same anachronistic means and methods, the result will be no different. If the United States continues to act in the same manner in order to threaten and provoke us, and relies on Cold War legacies such as military alliances, it will not end well. Not long ago, when it withdrew its troops from Afghanistan, the United States announced that it had put an end to its longest war, which lasted for 20 years. But in reality, the Korean war has gone on for more than 70 years.”
2021-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 76 (2021)
“The current Administration should demonstrate its stated policy that it has no hostile intent towards the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea through practical actions rather than words. It should also end its double standards towards my country. If the United States makes the bold decision to give up its hostile policy, we are also prepared to respond in kind. But at the present time we do not believe that there is any prospect of the United States truly abandoning that policy. Nevertheless, we will not implore it to do so. In the course of the showdown between our two countries spanning more than half a century, we have grown quite accustomed to United States military threats and we now know well how to deal with that very hostile country. We have learned how to cope with the hostility and have gained rich experience.”
2021-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 76 (2021)
“In addition, he expressed the principled position that we would also approach the United States on the principle of power for power and goodwill for goodwill in future. The United States now has two options. One is to contribute to the peace and stability of the Korean peninsula and the world by wholly and boldly abandoning its anachronistic hostile policy towards the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. Successive United States Administrations have repeatedly expressed, both verbally and in writing, that they had no hostile intent towards my country, advocating dialogue with us. But as reality has shown, that was nothing more than flowery rhetoric to cover up their hostility.”
2021-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 76 (2021)
“Given that the United States and its military ally South Korea are increasing their military threats against the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, no one can deny my country its legitimate right to defend itself by developing, testing, manufacturing and possessing weapon systems equivalent to the ones they possess or are developing. In his report to the eighth Congress of the Workers’ Party of Korea, Kim Jong Un, Chairman of the State Affairs Commission of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, stated that the key to establishing new relations between the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea and the United States will be the latter’s abandonment of its hostility to my country.”
2021-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 76 (2021)
“However, the military threats against the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea from the United States and its servile forces are evolving constantly with time. The United States spends astronomical amounts of money — more than $700 billion annually — on developing supersonic weapons, long- range precision-guided weapons, new-generation intercontinental ballistic missiles and nuclear strategic bombers, all of which are bound to be used first against the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea in a future Korean war. The South Korean authorities have recently been hell-bent on developing ultramodern weapons with the tacit approval and patronage of the United States, and substantial war equipment has been shipped to South Korea. Such dangerous moves change the balance of military power on the Korean peninsula.”
2021-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 76 (2021)
“What we mean by a war deterrent is literally the legitimate right to self-defence — one that can deter aggressive war and enable us to defend ourselves. As the whole world knows, and to the great concern of the United States, we do of course include powerful offensive means in our war deterrent. However, we do not want to target anyone with those means. In other words, we would never violate or endanger the security of the United States, South Korea or our neighbouring countries. We are simply building up our national defence in order to defend ourselves and reliably safeguard our country’s security and peace. For that reason, we do not imprudently say that we are building up military power that is good enough to deter provocation.”
2021-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 76 (2021)
“The possible outbreak of a new war on the Korean peninsula has been contained not because of any mercy shown by the United States to the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea but because our State has been developing a reliable deterrent that can hold hostile forces at bay and deter their attempts at military invasion. We have acquired reliable power to defend ourselves through continuing efforts, with clear insight into the demands of the times, which require that we possess the power we need for national defence in the current geopolitical environment and balance of power on the Korean peninsula, as well as constantly strained international relations. There is no country on Earth that is under the constant threat of war facing the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, and its people long for peace.”
2021-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 76 (2021)
“Inter-Korean relations have never been free of United States interference and obstruction, as the United States has stationed its troops in South Korea and has bound it with the chains of military alliance. Moreover, the inter-Korean agreements have never been faithfully implemented owing to the hostile behaviour of the South Korean authorities, which prioritize cooperation with an ally over the harmony of the nation. The international community must not overlook one fact, which is that the relations between the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea and the United States are not merely an example of those between unfriendly countries without diplomatic relations, but rather of those between belligerent countries that are legally in a state of war.”
2021-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 76 (2021)
“The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea has never — not once — conducted a military exercise around the United States, but the United States has staged all manner of war drills on and around the Korean peninsula and in Korean waters every year for the past several decades by mobilizing army, naval and air forces across the world, including its own troops in South Korea, and it has threatened us through intimidating military demonstrations, while it continues to deploy numerous weapons to South Korea. In August 2021, despite our repeated warnings, the United States and South Korea defiantly conducted a combined command exercise, which is an outright war drill of an offensive nature. The difference between those exercises and the joint military exercises staged by the United States for the past several decades is in name only.”
2021-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 76 (2021)
“The hostile policy of the United States towards the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea finds its clearest expression in its military threats against us. Not a single foreign troop, not a single foreign military base exists on the territory of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. But in South Korea, almost 30,000 United States troops are stationed at numerous military bases, maintaining a war posture for taking military action against my country at any moment.”
2021-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 76 (2021)
“From the first day of the foundation of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, the United States has not recognized our sovereignty, treating us as an enemy State and openly showing its hostility to the socialist system chosen by our people. The United States designated the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea as a communist State and one with a non-market economy. It has also completely blocked, both institutionally and legislatively, the establishment of relations between our two countries in the areas of politics, economics and trade, using the unreasonable pretexts of issues to do with human rights, the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, the sponsoring of terrorism, religious oppression, money laundering and more. If that is not a hostile policy, then what is it — a friendly policy?”
2021-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 76 (2021)
“To this day, many Member States are unaware that the issue of the Korean peninsula has its origin in the hostile policy of the United States towards the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. Worse still, they suffer from the misconception that the United States has become hostile to my country only due to the nuclear issue. It is not my country’s possession of nuclear weapons that has triggered the United States’ hostile stance towards the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. On the contrary, it is the United States, the biggest nuclear power in the world, that has antagonized and posed a nuclear threat to the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea for more than 70 years. Its hostile policy is not at all abstract. We face military threats and hostile acts from the United States every day.”
2021-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 76 (2021)
“The international community also wishes to achieve a peaceful resolution to the issue of the Korean peninsula, for the sake of the Korean nation. I therefore want to take this opportunity to clarify the position of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea on the root causes of the still unresolved issue of the Korean peninsula and on the fundamental ways to ensure lasting peace and stability there. We believe in identifying a problem’s root causes before attempting to solve it. Three decades have passed since the end of the Cold War. But the Korean peninsula is still in a vicious cycle of looming tensions and confrontation. Its primary root cause is a policy of hostility towards the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea.”
2021-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 76 (2021)
“The Korean nation and its people, who lived on the same territory for thousands of years and many generations with the same bloodline, were artificially divided by outside forces in the mid-twentieth century, and in the end joined the United Nations with two seats. That was a tragedy indeed. As a result of the Second World War, the United Nations was established with the primary responsibility of maintaining international peace and security. Nevertheless, against the will and desire of the Korean nation, the Korean peninsula was divided in two and since then has experienced constant tension and instability. That was the root cause of the pain and misfortune inflicted on the Korean nation. No one can deny that fact. It will never be forgotten and it has been passed down from generation to generation.”
2021-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 76 (2021)
“To that end, we consistently maintained the position that northern and southern Korea should join the United Nations under a single name after confederating and reunifying, or alternatively that they should share one seat if reunification occurred after joining the Organization. But the anti-reunification and anti-national attempts became increasingly overt, making the national division permanent and legitimate and seeking to isolate the Republic internationally through the United Nations membership issue. Against that backdrop, we took the decisive measure of joining the United Nations on our own initiative.”
2021-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 76 (2021)
“Our people trust in the party and the Government, united in mind and destiny. That is where the invincible power of our State and the source of its inexhaustible strength lie. Thirty years ago, on 17 September 1991, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea became the 160th Member State of the United Nations when the General Assembly, at the 1st plenary meeting of its forty-sixth session, unanimously adopted resolution 46/1, welcoming the Republic to the community of nations. Since our country and nation have remained divided, the Republic initially considered joining the United Nations with a view to achieving reunification.”
2021-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 76 (2021)
“The Government will manage those projects on a regular basis for a five-year period and is taking strict crisis- management measures in order to mitigate natural disasters, including floods and typhoons. I believe that our Government’s achievements in dealing with the global health and climate change crises will contribute to the efforts of the international community to recover from COVID-19 and build sustainable socioeconomic resilience. The world is facing greater difficulties than ever before, with challenges and threats, big and small, everywhere. Even in these circumstances, we have had great success and have garnered our people’s gratitude and support. Under the wise political guidance of our party and our State leadership, we are steadily effecting development changes through our own efforts.”
2021-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 76 (2021)
“In accordance with a decision made at an important meeting some time ago, our country has taken measures to regularly provide its children with nutritious food such as dairy products free of charge at the State’s expense, even at this difficult time. Tens of thousands of modern homes will be built annually at the State’s expense and allocated to the people, thanks to the people-oriented policy of the Government of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. With regard to climate change, the Government of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea has formulated a plan that includes river improvement, afforestation for erosion control, dyke maintenance and tidal embankment projects across the country.”
2021-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 76 (2021)
“Despite the continued global health crisis and abnormal weather conditions, we have made a number of achievements in terms of social and economic development and the improvement of people’s living standards. The industrial sector is moving forward, as we have focused various efforts on strengthening the country’s capabilities in self-supporting development. Good prospects have also opened up in the agricultural sector with regard to putting fulfilment of this year’s grain production plan on a sound footing by minimizing the disastrous effects of climate change. As the supreme principle of its activities, the Workers’ Party of Korea invariably upholds its duty to provide the Korean people with a stable life and to steadily improve it.”
2021-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 76 (2021)