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Pak Gil Yon

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2006-07-15
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2006-10-14
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  1. “The United States has sought to impose collective sanctions upon the Democratic People's Republic of Korea by manipulating the Security Council to adopt a resolution pressuring Pyongyang. The Democratic People's Republic of Korea is ready for both dialogue and confrontation. If the United States persistently increases pressure upon the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, my country will continue to take physical countermeasures, considering such pressure to be a declaration of war.”

    2006-10-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5551 (2006) · source

  2. “The denuclearization of the entire peninsula was President Kim Il Sung's last instruction and is the ultimate goal of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. The Democratic People's Republic of Korea's nuclear test does not contradict the 19 September Joint Statement, under which it committed itself to dismantling its nuclear weapons and to abandoning its existing nuclear programme. On the contrary, it constitutes a positive measure for its implementation. The Democratic People's Republic of Korea has clarified more than once that it would feel no need to possess even a single nuclear weapon once it was no longer exposed to the United States threat and after that country had dropped its hostile policy towards the Democratic People's Republic of Korea and confidence had been built between the two countries.”

    2006-10-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5551 (2006) · source

  3. “The Democratic People's Republic of Korea has exerted every possible effort to settle the nuclear issue through dialogue and negotiations, prompted by its sincere desire to realize the denuclearization of the Korean peninsula. The Bush Administration, however, responded to the Democratic People's Republic of Korea's patient and sincere effort and magnanimity with a policy of sanctions and blockade. The Democratic People's Republic of Korea was compelled to substantially prove its possession of nukes to protect its sovereignty and the right to existence from the daily increasing danger of war from the United States. Although the Democratic People's Republic of Korea conducted the nuclear test due to the United States, it remains unchanged in its will to denuclearize the peninsula through dialogue and negotiations.”

    2006-10-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5551 (2006) · source

  4. “The delegation of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea expresses its disappointment over the fact that the Security Council finds itself incapable of saying even a word of concern to the United States, which threatens the Democratic People's Republic of Korea with nuclear pre-emptive attack and aggravates tension by reinforcing armed forces and conducting large-scale joint military exercises near the Korean peninsula. As was already declared, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea successfully conducted an underground nuclear test under secure conditions on 9 October as a new measure for bolstering its war deterrent for self-defence. The Democratic People's Republic of Korea's nuclear test was entirely attributable to the United States nuclear threat, sanctions and pressure.”

    2006-10-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5551 (2006) · source

  5. “The delegation of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea totally rejects the unjustifiable resolution 1718 (2006), adopted by the Security Council just now. It is gangster-like for the Security Council to have adopted today a coercive resolution, while neglecting the nuclear threat, moves for sanctions and pressure of the United States against the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. This clearly testifies that the Security Council has completely lost its impartiality and persists in applying double standards in its work.”

    2006-10-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5551 (2006) · source

  6. “The Democratic People's Republic of Korea remains unchanged in its will to denuclearize the Korean peninsula in a negotiated, peaceful manner, just as it committed itself in the 19 September joint statement of the six-party talks. The latest missile launch exercises are quite irrelevant to the six-party talks. The Korean People's Army will go on with missile launch exercises as part of its efforts to bolster deterrence for self-defence in the future, too. The Democratic People's Republic of Korea will have no option but to take stronger physical actions in other forms should any other country dare to take issue with the exercises and put pressure upon it.”

    2006-07-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5490 (2006) · source

  7. “It is also preposterous for them to term the latest missile launches a provocation and the like for the simple reason that the Democratic People's Republic of Korea did not send prior notice of them. It would be quite foolish to notify Washington and Tokyo of missile launches in advance, given that the United States, which is technically at war with the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, has been threatening for a month to intercept the latter's missiles, in collusion with Japan. We would like to ask the United States and Japan if they have ever notified the Democratic People's Republic of Korea of their ceaseless missile launches in the areas close to it.”

    2006-07-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5490 (2006) · source

  8. “It is a lesson taught by history, and a stark reality of international relations proven by the Iraqi crisis, that upsetting the balance of forces is bound to create instability and crisis, and even spark a war. But for the Democratic People's Republic of Korea's tremendous deterrent in self-defence, the United States would have attacked the Democratic People's Republic of Korea more than once, as it has listed my country as part of an axis of evil and a target of pre-emptive nuclear attack. Peace in the Korean peninsula and in the region would have been seriously disturbed. The Democratic People's Republic of Korea's missile development, test firing, manufacture and deployment therefore serve as a key to keeping the balance of forces and to preserving peace and stability in North- East Asia.”

    2006-07-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5490 (2006) · source

  9. “The United States, at the same time, has totally hamstrung efforts to implement the joint statement through such threats and blackmail as large-scale military exercises targeted against the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. It is clear to everyone that there was no need for the Democratic People's Republic of Korea to unilaterally put on hold the missile launch in such a situation. That being a stark fact, it is a far-fetched assertion, grossly falsifying reality, for them to claim that routine missile launches conducted by the Korean People's Army for self-defence have strained the regional situation and blocked the progress of the dialogue.”

    2006-07-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5490 (2006) · source

  10. “Such behaviour has brought overall relations between the Democratic People's Republic of Korea and Japan to where they were before the publication of the Declaration. It is a manifestation of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea's broad magnanimity that, in this situation, it had put the missile launch on hold for so long. The joint statement of the six-party talks of 19 September 2005 stipulates the commitments to be fulfilled by the six sides to the talks to denuclearize the Korean peninsula. However, no sooner had the joint statement been adopted than the United States applied financial sanctions against the Democratic People's Republic of Korea and, through them, escalated pressure on it in various fields.”

    2006-07-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5490 (2006) · source

  11. “In that Declaration, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea expressed its intention to extend beyond 2003 the moratorium on missile firing, in the spirit of the Declaration. That step was taken on the premise that Japan would move to normalize its relations with the Democratic People's Republic of Korea and redeem its past. The Japanese authorities, however, have abused the good faith of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. They have not honoured their commitment; indeed, they have internationalized the abduction issue, pursuant to the United States hostile policy towards the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, although the Democratic People's Republic of Korea had fully settled the issue.”

    2006-07-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5490 (2006) · source

  12. “As for the moratorium on long-range missile test flights, which the Democratic People's Republic of Korea agreed with the United States in 1999, it was valid only when the Democratic People's Republic of Korea-United States dialogue was under way. The Bush Administration, however, scrapped all the agreements that the preceding United States Administration had concluded with the Democratic People's Republic of Korea and totally scuttled the bilateral dialogue. The Democratic People's Republic of Korea had already clarified, in March 2005, that its moratorium on missile test firing had lost its validity. The same can be said of the moratorium on long-range test firing which the Democratic People's Republic of Korea had agreed with Japan in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea-Japan Pyongyang Declaration in 2002.”

    2006-07-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5490 (2006) · source

  13. “The latest successful missile launches were part of a routine military exercise staged by the Korean People's Army to increase the nation's military capacity for self-defence. The Democratic People's Republic of Korea's exercise of its legitimate right as a sovereign State is bound neither to any international law nor to bilateral or multilateral agreements, such as the Democratic People's Republic of Korea-Japan Pyongyang Declaration and the joint statement of the six-party talks. The Democratic People's Republic of Korea is not a signatory to the Missile Technology Control Regime and therefore is not bound to any commitment under it.”

    2006-07-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5490 (2006) · source

  14. “I would like to congratulate you, Sir, on your assumption of the presidency of the Security Council for the month of July. It is unjustifiable and gangster-like for the Security Council to debate the missile launch exercise of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, both in view of the competence of the Security Council and under international law. The delegation of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea resolutely condemns the attempt by some countries to misuse the Security Council for the despicable political aim of isolating and pressuring the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, and totally rejects the resolution adopted earlier at this meeting of the Security Council.”

    2006-07-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5490 (2006) · source