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Kim In Ryong

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2016-12-15
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2017-06-28
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  1. “No matter what others say and whatever sanctions, pressure and military attacks may follow, we will not flinch from the path of building up our nuclear forces, which are used to defend the sovereignty of our country and our right to national existence. The Democratic People's Republic of Korea's self- reliant nuclear force serves to guarantee and strengthen the peace of the Korean peninsula and the world. I reaffirm my Government commitment to strengthening its national nuclear deterrent in every possible way to eliminate the source of nuclear threat and blackmail of the United States, which grows more desperate day by day, and to safeguard the peace and security of the Korean peninsula and the world.”

    2017-06-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7985Reprise1 (2017) · source

  2. “The buildup of nuclear forces by the Democratic People's Republic of Korea is a natural exercise of its sovereignty to thwart the nuclear threat imposed by the United States against our country in an unprecedented way. It is also an effort to ensure genuine international justice and peace and security on the Korean peninsula and in the region. To this day, the United States continues to talk about dialogue, but it does not make any sense to talk about dialogue when unjust preconditions are attached and extreme pressure is applied. Having undergone rigorous trials, the Korean people have arrived at the conclusion that the only way to defend their vital rights and sovereignty is to react to the nukes in kind.”

    2017-06-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7985Reprise1 (2017) · source

  3. “That the United States forced others to agree to the sanctions resolution, which had been fabricated in a back room at its own pleasure, and described the resolution as the will of the international community is a flagrant example of high-handedness and of its trampling upon international justice and an arbitrary act in pursuit of its own interests. It is a fatal miscalculation if the countries that had a hand in the frame-up of the sanctions resolution think that they can delay or keep in check the open development of the nuclear forces of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea even for a moment. They will clearly see that their means and indiscreet acts run counter to their objectives.”

    2017-06-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7985Reprise1 (2017) · source

  4. “Now it has introduced the monster-like Terminal High Altitude Area Defense missile defence system in South Korea in order to aggravate the tensions and turn the Korean peninsula into a radioactive zone. On 1 June, the United States publicly imposed unilateral sanctions on the Democratic People's Republic of Korea and, on 3 June, it spearheaded the fabrication of another sanctions resolution through a vote of the Security Council. The United States is stepping up its military buildup, including modernizing its nuclear weapons, just in order to obtain exclusive and permanent possession of the most sophisticated weapon system in the world, but other countries are not allowed to test or launch any nuclear- or ballistic-related object. It is really the height of shameless arrogance, self-righteousness and double standards.”

    2017-06-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7985Reprise1 (2017) · source

  5. “The United States staged the madcap pre-emptive nuclear strike drills against the Democratic People's Republic of Korea after deploying two nuclear carrier strike groups in the East Sea of Korea and introducing B-lB strategic bombers from the Guam Island. They even brought a nuclear submarine into the Port of Busan in South Korea and held a missile interception test simulating the Democratic People's Republic of Korea's intercontinental ballistic missile attack on 30 May. On 20 June, the United States introduced two B-IB nuclear strategic bombers into the airspace of South Korea to conduct simulation bombing exercises, and it is openly arguing that it would send strategic bombers to the Korean peninsula more than once a month.”

    2017-06-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7985Reprise1 (2017) · source

  6. “Needless to say, as everybody witnessed, thejoint military exercises Key Resolve and Foal Eagle 2017, which were carried out by the United States on the Korean peninsula over 60 days in March and April this year and which introduced the largest-ever mass aggressive forces and sufficient strategic assets to wage another full-scale war, are very dangerous and reckless aggressive war drills that constitute grave threats to the peace and security on the Korean peninsula and beyond in the region and are acts of State-sponsored terrorism against a sovereign State. Those kinds of extreme, provocative military manoeuvres by the United States continue even after the end of the joint military exercises.”

    2017-06-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7985Reprise1 (2017) · source

  7. “We are seriously concerned by the fact that the United States and its vassal forces again picked a fight with the Democratic People's Republic of Korea over its self-defence strengthening measures under the pretext of non-proliferation. I would like to clarify the principled position of my Government. It is clear that the main root cause of the grave situation on the Korean peninsula, which is inching to the brink of war and is shrouded in nuclear war clouds, is the hostile outdated policy and manoeuvres of the United States aimed at provoking a war against the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.”

    2017-06-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7985Reprise1 (2017) · source

  8. “The respected Supreme Leader Comrade Kim Jong Un, in his remarkable statement made at the historic seventh Congress of the Worker's Party of Korea, clearly affirmed before the world that the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, as a responsible nuclear-weapon State, would not use nuclear weapons first, unless the forces of aggression that are hostile to the Democratic People's Republic of Korea violate its sovereignty with their nuclear weapons; and would faithfully observe its commitments to nuclear non-proliferation, which it agreed to before the international community, and strive for global denuclearization.”

    2017-06-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7985Reprise1 (2017) · source

  9. “On the occasion of today's open debate on the theme of global efforts to prevent the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction to non-State actors, once again, I would like to clarify and emphasize the policy of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea on the non-proliferation of weapons of mass destruction.”

    2017-06-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7985Reprise1 (2017) · source

  10. “This is nothing but an outrageous breach of the sovereignty of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. Everyone recalls that, in February this year, the hostile forces tried to use the death of a citizen of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea to step up their human rights racket against the Republic and spread rumours about its use of chemical weapons or weapons of mass destruction, in a bid to create an atmosphere of international criticism against the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. Once again, I hereby strongly denounce the reckless remarks against the Democratic People's Republic of Korea by hostile forces, for the dangerous political purpose of tarnishing the dignified image of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea and weakening its social system by spreading such ruinous rumours on the international stage.”

    2017-06-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7985Reprise1 (2017) · source

  11. “Let me express my appreciation to you, Sir, for convening today's important debate. We join with previous speakers to support the statement of the representative of Venezuela on behalf of the Movement of Non-Aligned Countries. At the outset, I condemn in the strongest terms and categorically reject the reckless remarks made by hostile forces, including the United States, Japan, the United Kingdom, France, Spain and the Republic of Korea. Taking the opportunity offered by today's open debate, they once again called into question the measures taken by the Democratic People's Republic of Korea to bolster its self-defence capabilities, and referenced the use of chemical weapons that have never existed, while branding the Republic as a threat to world peace and regional security and a country that violates Security Council resolutions.”

    2017-06-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7985Reprise1 (2017) · source

  12. “Finally, I hope that the Security Council will discharge its responsibility to the international community by strictly observing impartiality objectively to fulfil the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations with regard to the maintenance of international peace and security.”

    2017-01-10 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7857 (2017) · source

  13. “The hydrogen bomb test, nuclear warhead test and the test firing of various strikes, which the Democratic People's Republic of Korea conducted, including the preparation for intercontinental ballistic missiles and other rocket launches, are fully in line with the exercise of the legitimate right tipulated in the Charter of the United Nations as a self-defence measure for deterrence in case of encroachment upon our sovereignty and the right to survival by hostile forces. As long as the United States and its followers continue their nuclear threats and blackmail, and as long as they do not stop their war games at our doorstep, disguising them as annual events, our self- defence capability and our capability for pre-emptive strikes with nuclear armed forces as their pivot will be bolstered significantly.”

    2017-01-10 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7857 (2017) · source

  14. “In thit regard, the international law community asserted that a declaration of independence is not a threat to the peace or a breach of the peace and labelled the adoption of the sanctions resolution as an act of abuse of power. Even the writers of the Charter of the United Nations clarified that they had drafted Article 39 referring to an act of aggression, not to be invoked for sanctions during times of peace.”

    2017-01-10 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7857 (2017) · source

  15. “However, to our regret, the Secretariat has only mentioned Article 39 of the Charter of the United Nations, without a single word in response to our question in the letter dated 20 December 2016 addressed to Mr. Jeffery Feltman, Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs. Article 39 of the Charter cannot be legal grounds for sanctions resolutions, as was already discussed in the international law community. In 1966, when former Rhodesia declared independence from the British colonial regime, the Security Council adopted a sanctions resolution invoking the Article 39 as its legal grounds for the first time in the history of the United Nations.”

    2017-01-10 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7857 (2017) · source

  16. “Nevertheless, the Security Council concluded that the Democratic People's Republic of Korea ongoing nuclear and ballistic-related activities are a clear threat to international peace and security, including the so- called resolution 2321 (2016), which was fabricated most recently against the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. We sent letters to former Secretary-General, Mr. Ban Ki-moon, dated 23 May and 5 December 2016, respectively, questioning if there is any article in international law that stipulates that nuclear tests and satellite and ballistic missile launches constitute a threat to international peace and security as legal grounds for Security Council sanctions resolutions against the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.”

    2017-01-10 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7857 (2017) · source

  17. “The Democratic People's Republic of Korea made a request on several occasions to the Security Council to convene an emergency meeting with regard to the aggressive and provocative large-scale joint military exercises, which are undermining international peace and security. Nevertheless, the Security Council declined our request every time. On the other hand, it takes issue with the righteous self-defence actions being taken by the Democratic People's Republic of Korea to safeguard its sovereignty, dignity and national security. The Democratic People's Republic of Korea has no other choice but to arm itself with nuclear weapons.”

    2017-01-10 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7857 (2017) · source

  18. “We cannot but take this opportunity to point out the attitude of the Security Council towards the issue of the Korean peninsula, where an explosive situation prevails. The Korean peninsula faces extremely aggravated tensions. Nobody knows when a nuclear war will break out owing to the manoeuvres of the United States and its followers to stifle the Democratic People's Republic of Korea with unprecedented politico-military and economic isolation and pressure. Every year the United States has continued to hold large-scale joint military exercises, escalating military threats against the Democratic People's Republic of Korea and bringing into the Korean peninsula all kinds of nuclear strategic assets on the pretext of the exercises.”

    2017-01-10 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7857 (2017) · source

  19. “First of all, allow me tojoin previous speakers in expressing our appreciation to Her Excellency the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Sweden and His Excellency the Secretary-General for organizing this open debate of the Security Council on conflict prevention and sustaining peace. Today the role of the Security Council is important in discharging the mission of the United Nations, which is to maintain international peace and security. We believe that the Security Council should be directed towards ensuring impartiality and objectivity to fulfil the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations with regard to the maintenance of international peace and security.”

    2017-01-10 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7857 (2017) · source

  20. “Finally, as a responsible nuclear-armed State, and as we have already declared, our Republic will not use nuclear weapons first, unless the forces of aggression that are hostile towards us violate our sovereignty with their own nuclear weapons. We will faithfully observe our commitment to the non-proliferation of nuclear weapons, which we made before the international community. We will continue to strive for global denuclearization.”

    2016-12-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7837 (2016) · source

  21. “With strategic assests that include nuclear-powered aircraft carriers and nuclear submarines, the United States is driving the situation on the Korean peninsula towards an extremely explosive situation. It is the consistent stance ofthe Democratic People's Republic of Korea to fundamentally remove the danger of nuclear war posed by the United States by relying on its own powerful nuclear deterrence and defending regional and global peace and security. The Democratic People's Republic of Korea possesses nuclear deterrence as a self-defence measure to protect its State and social system in the face of the constant nuclear threat that emanates from the United States. The Democratic People's Republic of Korea will hold steadfast in its strategy of bolstering up its own nuclear forces.”

    2016-12-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7837 (2016) · source

  22. “Joint military exercises by the United States and South Korea took place recently in the southern half of the Korean peninsula, simulating a real war with the participation of hundreds of thousands of armed forces, including special forces an strategic nuclear assets, aimed at decapitating the leadership of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea and occupying Pyongyang, as well as introducing nuclear strategic bombers to Guam in the wake of the official decision on the development and deployment of the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense anti-missile system in South Korea and after bringing them into the Korean peninsula and its vicinity.”

    2016-12-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7837 (2016) · source

  23. “It does nothing but show the sinister political aims to increase the pressure against the Democratic People's Republic of Korea in this forum. The issue of nuclear weapons on the Korean peninsula is the product of hostile policies of the United States towards the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. As we have stated previously, if the United States had not been hostile to the Democratic People's Republic of Korea and threatened our country with its nuclear weapons, then the issue of nuclear weapons on the Korean peninsula would not exist. Additionally, the Korean peninsula would not have turned into a global hotspot. The nuclear threat and blackmail of the largest nuclear Power against the Democratic People's Republic of Korea is reaching an extremejuncture.”

    2016-12-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7837 (2016) · source

  24. “At the outset, let me join previous speakers in expressing my gratitude for the successful efforts made by the Spanish presidency in convening this meeting. First of all, I strongly and totally reject the remarks made by some delegations - including Japan France and South Korea - who have picked up the issue of self-defence and nuclear deterrence of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, an act of encroachment upon the sovereignty of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. As far as I know, the main agenda of this meeting is stopping the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction by non-State actors. Notwithstanding the disregard of that agenda, some delegations have picked up the issue of the nuclear and ballistic missile programmes of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea once more.”

    2016-12-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7837 (2016) · source