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Ri Tong 11

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  1. “These kinds of acts on the part of the United States can only have a destructive impact on the credibility of the Security Council. The establishment of the State of Palestine is the inalienable right of its people. Giving support and solidarity to the just struggle of the people of Palestine to establish an independent State based on the pre- 1967 borders, with East Jerusalem as its capital, is receiving support from an overwhelming international majority, which no one can stop. The Government of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea remains consistent in its very strong support for the just struggle of the people of Palestine. We urge Israel to stop all of the illegal and unlawful military actions occurring now in that part of the world and respond positively to international demands.”

    2014-07-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7222 (2014) · source

  2. “All of these killings targeted at defenceless civilians should not be tolerated, and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea condemns Israel in the strongest terms. Thirdly, the Security Council should carry out its mission to ensure international peace and security, as requested by the international community. The Council is not a political tool to be used by one specific country for its selfish needs and to abuse power. The question of Palestine has now reached a very dangerous and critical stage; all this is related directly to the behaviour of that one country, the United States, a permanent member of the Security Council. The United States has since the beginning defended and supported Israel, pushing it towards war, with the ridiculous argument we heard this morning that Israel has the right to defend itself.”

    2014-07-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7222 (2014) · source

  3. “The more Israel expands its armed invasion, based on ridiculous arguments, as we saw this morning, the more Israel will expose its true colours as an aggressor and a source of threat and tension in the region, thereby inviting greater condemnation from the international community. Secondly, Israel should stop the indiscriminate mass killing of civilians, as requested by the international community. Under international law, mass civilian killings are regarded as a crime against humanity and a war crime. Israel's indiscriminate mass civilian killings are becoming ever more brutal because they are targeting even young children, who are the happiness and future of mankind. The indiscriminate mass killings of civilians by Israeli soldiers are becoming more savage because they are targeting civilian hospitals.”

    2014-07-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7222 (2014) · source

  4. “In this regard, the delegation of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea would like to clarify its position as follows. First, Israel should immediately put an end to its armed invasion into the Gaza Strip, as requested by the international community. The Middle East, along with the Korean peninsula, is one of the largest hotspots in the world. The core issue in the Middle East is the question of Palestine. Israel, since the first day of its inception, following the end of the Second World War, has been a country with a history of bloody aggression and provocations against Palestine and Arab countries. Israel's armed invasion should not be tolerated, and it cannot be justified on any grounds.”

    2014-07-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7222 (2014) · source

  5. “Mr. Ri Tong 11 (Democratic People's Republic of Korea): Let me first commend you, Mr. President, for having convened this very important meeting in a very timely manner. Let me also thank Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon for his briefing. I should like also to associate the delegation of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea with the statement to be made by the Islamic Republic of Iran on behalf of the Non-Aligned Movement. Today we are witnessing another barbaric armed invasion into the Gaza Strip by Israel, posing a great threat to peace and security in the Middle East. This ongoing armed invasion by Israel is characterized by indiscriminate destruction and massive civilian killings, giving rise to shock, outrage and condemnation on the part of the international community.”

    2014-07-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7222 (2014) · source

  6. “Mr. Ri Tong 11 (Democratic People's Republic of Korea): The self-defence missile launch and military nuclear tests of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea for the same purpose will become annual.”

    2014-05-07 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7169 (2014) · source

  7. “Mr. Ri Tong 11 (Democratic People's Republic of Korea): Annually, on the grounds of it being "annual and routine", the United States continues to hold joint military exercises. This August, the United States is going to hold another very dangerous and provocative joint military exercise. I am finishing. This is the last sentence.”

    2014-05-07 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7169 (2014) · source

  8. “Again, the spokesperson made it very clear that the Democratic People's Republic of Korea did not make nuclear weapons to be recognized by the United States nor, did it make nuclear weapons to be approved by the United States. I will finish soon.”

    2014-05-07 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7169 (2014) · source

  9. “Mr. Ri Tong 11 (Democratic People's Republic of Korea): I will finish injust a few sentences. As long as the United States maintains more than 1,000 nuclear weapons and continues to increase its nuclear threats and blackmail against the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea's already diversified nuclear strike means will be targeted at the United States. On 28 April, a spokesperson of the National Defence Commission of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea again made a statement in the face of the rumours wildly spread by the United States Government that it would not recognize or accept the Democratic People's Republic of Korea as a nuclear- weapon State, and that therefore the Democratic People's Republic of Korea should abandon nuclear weapons.”

    2014-05-07 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7169 (2014) · source

  10. “On 14 March, the National Defence Commission of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea issued a statement in the face of the grave, destructive situation being created intentionally by the United States.”

    2014-05-07 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7169 (2014) · source

  11. “Instead of raising the topic of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea's legitimate self-defence launches at the Security Council, The United States has remained silent until today. Thirdly, there is the question of the position of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea in the face of increasing nuclear blackmail by the United States. I mentioned earlier the hostile acts of the United States against the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. All those facts clearly indicate that there has been no change at all. The ambition of the United States Government has been to eliminate the Democratic People's Republic of Korea politically, isolating it economically and annihilating it militarily.”

    2014-05-07 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7169 (2014) · source

  12. “In addition to that, the United States made gangster- like advertisements, referring to the Democratic People's Republic of Korea as a provocation and a threat. On the other hand, they were advertising their own aggressive joint exercises as annual and routine. The were held on our doorstep in South Korea, far across the ocean from the United States mainland, threatening the very security of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. They went so far as to raise the issue of our legitimate self-defence rocket launches at the Security Council and to condemn them, which were held on our land and territorial waters. The United States still remains quite silent. This is a very serious issue: the question of South Korea's ballistic missile launches with a 500-kilometre range.”

    2014-05-07 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7169 (2014) · source

  13. “As the two sides were holding the separated-family reunions, in an atmosphere of blood relations and warm feelings after a long time of separation, the United States went ahead with its opening ofjoint military exercises - which was very dangerous and provocative - pouring cold water on the positive move towards the easing of tension and fostering reconciliation on the Korean peninsula. For two months, from the end of February to the end of April, the United States held joint military exercises in South Korea. They brought in a massive arms build- up of all kinds of the most powerful nuclear weapons against the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. They held the largest ever joint landing exercises. And they beganjoint air-strike exercises, declaring that they were targeted at so-called Pyongyang occupation.”

    2014-05-07 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7169 (2014) · source

  14. “It was only the United States that instead of encouraging them, totally ignored those moves and intentionally proceeded to escalate tension on the Korean peninsula. As soon as we advanced the crucial proposals, the United States totally rejected the proposals, declared that there would be no change in its policy towards the Democratic People's Republic of Korea and stated that the joint nuclear military exercises would be held as planned. Upon our initiative, the North-South dialogue was being held. At that time, the United States did not hesitate to fly strategic bombers carrying nuclear weapons into South Korea.”

    2014-05-07 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7169 (2014) · source

  15. “The Democratic People's Republic of Korea boldly accepted the request from the South Korean authorities to hold reunions for families separated throughout parts of North and South Korea. Most of those were held successfully. Those very positive initiatives, although they were in the initial stages, gave rise to great expectations and hope among the entire Korean nation for a broader and greater path towards reconciliation and the casing of tension in the Korean peninsula. It was highly welcomed by the international community. Secondly, there is the question of the United States response with its increased hostile activities and policies against the Democratic People's Republic of Korea and its increased nuclear programmes. As I mentioned earlier, there had been positive moves towards easing tensions.”

    2014-05-07 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7169 (2014) · source

  16. “In particular, they referred to suspending the joint military exercises that were going to be held as planned. After advancing those crucial proposals, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea took unilateral initial steps by suspending any slander against the other side. Furthermore, it went ahead with its suspension of all its military movements along the full length of the military demarcation line, so that the Democratic People's Republic of Korea would not be misinterpreted as an instigator of provocations or threats, as one country is continuing to serve as an adversary to the Democratic People's Republic of Korea and to mislead the world. In February, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea made another proposal on holding high-level talks between the two sides, which were held successfully.”

    2014-05-07 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7169 (2014) · source

  17. “In his 2014 address, Marshall Kim Jung Un, the respected leader of the entire Korean people, made a warm appeal to the entire Korean nation to move, at a historic turning point, towards the reunification of the country and safeguarding national security and peace. Upholding the warm appeal of the supreme leadership, the National Defence Commission of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, the supreme governing body of the country, last January advanced crucial proposals addressed to the South Korean authorities. Those proposals concerned very important issues. First, there was the question of suspending all acts of mutually slandering each other, thereby creating a better planet and improving North-South relations. They also concerned the question of suspending all hostile military acts against each other.”

    2014-05-07 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7169 (2014) · source

  18. “The Democratic People's Republic of Korea is consistent in its opposition to all types of weapons of mass destruction. We strongly insist that the total elimination of all existing nuclear weapons in the world is the only single measure that can guarantee the non-proliferation of nuclear weapons. The Democratic People's Republic of Korea delegation would like to take this opportunity to briefly draw the Council's attention to the recent developments in the situation on the Korean peninsula and to clarify its position on the nuclear issue on the peninsula. First, let me turn to the efforts of my Government with regard to national security and peace.”

    2014-05-07 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7169 (2014) · source

  19. “Recently there has been an increasing tendency towards nuclear-weapon modernization programmes and nuclear umbrellas are continuing to open up for so-called allied countries, with massive build-ups of nuclear weapons - a trio, by air, sea and ground, with aircraft carriers, nuclear-powered submarines and strategic bombers carrying nuclear weapons. That gives further rise to the fear of the vertical proliferation of nuclear weapons and increased concern about a nuclear arms race among nuclear-weapon States. All of these facts clearly indicate that the mastermind of nuclear-weapon proliferation is none other than the largest nuclear-weapon State, the United States. The propaganda being produced by that country is nothing but hypocrisy seeking to deceive the world.”

    2014-05-07 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7169 (2014) · source

  20. “The overall process of overheated East- West confrontations during the Cold War also gave rise to the emergence of new nuclear-weapon States under the protection and patronage of the largest nuclear- weapon State. One such country was Israel, which emerged as another nuclear-weapon State. On the other hand, under increasing pressure - torrents of so-called Security Council sanctions and increasing nuclear blackmail - countries such as the Democratic People's Republic of Korea cannot have nuclear weapons even for the purpose of self-defence.”

    2014-05-07 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7169 (2014) · source

  21. “Mr. Ri Tong 11 (Democratic People's Republic of Korea): At the outset, I would like to thank Deputy Secretary-General Eliasson for his remarks commemorating the tenth anniversary of the adoption of resolution 1540 (2004). It is almost 70 years since the first nuclear-weapon State in the world emerged, in 1945. International efforts to build a nuclear-weapon-free world, thereby creating a peaceful world, have continued unabated. However, the number of nuclear-weapon States has increased, standing at nine countries today. The dropping of atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki by the largest nuclear-weapon State, demonstrating the most brutal and destructive power of such weapons, immediately sparked the proliferation of such weapons.”

    2014-05-07 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7169 (2014) · source

  22. “The Japanese are the only ones to have committed that crime. Concerning the Yasukuni shrine, it contains the remains of 14 convicted Class A war criminals who were punished under international law. That is not something that can be disputed here. The issue of revised textbooks is a very sensitive one that concerns educating future generations about history. Japan is trying its best to educate its youth about militarism, something at which their ancestors did not succeed. It is one thing to tell them and to warn them, but they should learn the lessons of what happened to their ancestors after militarism - a defeat they will repeat if they continue to go in that direction.”

    2014-01-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7105 (2014) · source

  23. “Prime Minister Abe himself raised the question of rewriting the definition of the aggression that their ancestors conducted. How can one say that Japan is peace-loving? Secondly, the Japanese delegation talked about comfort women. I do not think that the delegation of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea even needs to talk about that, because it has already been clarified. One thing to emphasize, however, is the fact that Japan can never - ever - erase history. As the delegation of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea mentioned in its previous remarks, that was a most extraordinary and spectacular crime against humanity. No nation in the world, in the history of humankind or the history of Statehood, has mobilized, under the name of comfort women, sex slaves for the soldiers of their invasion army.”

    2014-01-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7105 (2014) · source

  24. “Mr. Ri Tong 11 (Democratic People's Republic of Korea): We apologize for taking the floor again. We have just heard remarks that do not make any sense. Previously, the Japanese representative also made totally senseless remarks. Concerning those remarks, let me emphasize three points. First, the Japanese representative talked about a peace-loving Japan. I do not know any country in this Chamber that thinks of Japan as a peace-loving nation. When one looks at Japanese politicians and the diplomats who come here, representing the politicians, they say totally different things and present totally different pictures of Japan. Domestically, the politicians say that their policies on the invasion, military occupation and colonial period of the Second World War were about a war of liberation for Asian people.”

    2014-01-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7105 (2014) · source