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Song Kim

lines on the record: 40
first: 2023-07-13
most recent: 2023-11-27
sittings or episodes: 3
sources: un-security-council

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“I cannot agree with the comment just made by the representative of the United States, because the United States mobilizes strategic assets such as its B-52H strategic nuclear bomber aircraft carrier and nuclear submarines for joint military drills. Those strategic assets are not for defence. They are highly offensive military hardware specializing in strategic strike ambitions. In that regard, the strategic assault that the United States is mobilizing through joint military exercises is therefore aiming weapons to attack the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. That is our challenge. If the United States really wishes for peace and stability through diplomacy, it must immediately stop all joint military exercises conducted under various code names.”
2023-11-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9485 (2023) · source
“From the first day of the foundation of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, the United States has not recognized our sovereignty, has treated us as an enemy State and has shown open hostility towards us. That hostility is not at all abstract. The military threats and double standards, such as we those we heard about here today, are the hostile acts that we are facing from the United States and that we face every day, month and year. Unless the persistent military threats against the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea are eliminated, our efforts will therefore focus on continuing to strengthen our capability to defend our dignity and safety and the interests of our State.”
2023-11-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9485 (2023) · source
“It is the legitimate right of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, as another belligerent party, to develop, test, manufacture and possess weapon systems equivalent to those that the United States already possesses or is developing right now. I want to once again clearly reiterate our position that we are exercising our legitimate right to self- defence in order to cope with a military threat from the United States. The United States Ambassador also said that the door is open for diplomacy. But the most important thing to do is to create an environment conducive to diplomacy and dialogue. The United States has repeatedly said that it has no hostile intentions to the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, but that is merely empty talk.”
2023-11-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9485 (2023) · source
“I would like to say a few words about the comments by the Ambassador of the United States. Self-defence is a legitimate right of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. It is very important that we correctly understand a key element of the relations between the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea and the United States. They are not merely relations between unfriendly countries without diplomatic relations, but relations between belligerent countries that have been in a state of war technically, legally and practically for seven decades. In the circumstances, one belligerent party — the United States — is threatening us with nuclear weapons.”
2023-11-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9485 (2023) · source
“It will fulfil its responsibility to reliably defend peace and security on the Korean peninsula and in the region from external threats of all hues.”
2023-11-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9485 (2023) · source
“The Security Council should not waste time and energy taking issue with the exercise of its legitimate right by a sovereign State overwhelmed by the arbitrariness and high-handedness of particular forces. It should pay greater attention to ending such substantial threats to international peace and security as the killing of civilians being perpetrated in the Middle East under the patronage and protection of the United States. Gone are the days when the United States’ high-handedness was disguised as justice and its arbitrary practices worked anywhere in the world. As I have already stated, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea will proudly exercise its legitimate rights, including the right to launch satellites, no matter what obstacles stand in the way.”
2023-11-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9485 (2023) · source
“Reckless attempts to deprive the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea of its sovereign rights are no different from attempts to force it to disarm. Were the United States and its followers to try once again to encroach on our national sovereignty by invoking the implementation of the Security Council’s irrational, unlawful and outrageous sanctions resolutions against the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, it would inevitably trigger the exercise by a sovereign State of its legitimate right to self-defence enshrined in the Charter. Whether or not the current confrontation concerning the legitimate right of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea to explore outer space develops into a physical conflict — or even the most serious possible situation, such as war — hinges entirely on the attitude of the United States.”
2023-11-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9485 (2023) · source
“Double standards are in fact a primary root cause that is tragically degrading the authority of the Security Council, which is entrusted with the important responsibility of maintaining international peace and security and which is provoking denunciation and derision on the part of the international community rather than respect. The prime mover in that situation is none other than the United States. For the sake of peace and stability in the region and the rest of the world, the part of the international community that stands on the side of justice should no longer tolerate the prejudiced and politicized double standards of a handful of States and their exclusive group, which includes the United States.”
2023-11-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9485 (2023) · source
“In the long run, I can say with good reason that the imposition by the United States and certain of its followers of Security Council sanctions resolutions on the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea is tantamount to demanding that we relinquish all the rights of a sovereign State. Furthermore, it amounts to a declaration that they do not recognize our State. The reconnaissance satellite launch by the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea has become an issue, whereas the same conduct by the United States and its allied forces is found to conform to international norms. Such a double-dealing criterion is one of the main factors driving the situation in and around the Korean peninsula to confrontation and conflict.”
2023-11-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9485 (2023) · source
“The United States keeps insisting that the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea is in violation of the Security Council resolutions because it has used ballistic-missile technology for its satellite launch. In that case, I have a question. Is the United States launching its satellites with a balloon or a catapult rather than a carrier rocket that uses the same technology as a ballistic missile? Anyone can see that such illogical arguments from the United States make neither political nor scientific sense and clearly demonstrate the absurdity of the Council’s so-called sanctions resolutions against the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea.”
2023-11-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9485 (2023) · source
“The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea’s right to the use of outer space is a proper and legitimate right of a sovereign State recognized by the Outer Space Treaty, which stipulates that, “[o]uter space shall be free for exploration and use by all States without discrimination of any kind, on a basis of equality and in accordance with international law.” As for the Security Council’s sanctions resolutions against the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, on which the United States and some of its followers among Member States have based their criticism of our satellite launch, they are no more than illegal and unlawful pieces of paper that contravene the spirit and objectives of the Charter of the United Nations and a typical outcome of the heinous and hostile policy of the United States aimed at depriving our country of its sovereignty and its right to existence and development.”
2023-11-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9485 (2023) · source
“Had the United States not openly mentioned the end of the regime of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea; had it not made it a policy to use nuclear weapons against our State in the guise of a commitment to the provision of so-called extended deterrence and the enhanced regular visibility of strategic assets; had it not pursued the establishment of an Asian version of NATO and thereby created a security environment as dangerous as the one currently prevailing in and around the Korean peninsula, a communication or meteorological satellite launch for peaceful purposes could have been prioritized over a reconnaissance satellite in our State’s efforts to explore outer space.”
2023-11-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9485 (2023) · source
“And the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea’s launch of a reconnaissance satellite at this juncture is directly related to the unstable security environment in the region created by the reckless military actions of the United States and its followers.”
2023-11-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9485 (2023) · source
“The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea launched its reconnaissance satellite in order to handle the situation and assert decisive control over it and thereby prevent a new war from breaking out in the region. It was an inevitable undertaking and a minimum exercise of its right to self-defence. Furthermore, there is no other nation in the world in a security environment as critical as that of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. Yet some of those other nations are launching a variety of military satellites into space with no restrictions. In that context, what is in question is the lawful and legitimate right of a sovereign State to develop, launch and operate multiple military and civilian satellites that it requires for its self-defence and in accordance with its plans for economic, scientific and technological development.”
2023-11-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9485 (2023) · source
“Nowhere in the world, or in the annals of history, can we find a precedent for a grave threat such as the one that the United States has presented to the national security of a Member State of the United Nations, along with its aggravation of the situation in the region by mobilizing its whole triad of strategic nuclear forces, which have even been joined by the troops of its allies. If such actions are not seen as a threat to global peace and security as defined in the Charter of the United Nations, there is no reason for the Security Council to exist and it should therefore dissolve itself today — right now. The Korean peninsula and the region are in an unstable situation, owing to the expanding military manoeuvres of the United States and its followers.”
2023-11-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9485 (2023) · source
“For that reason, the military and security landscape prevailing on the Korean peninsula and in the region is creating a hair-trigger danger. Only yesterday, with the participation of the United States nuclear aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson and the nuclear-powered submarine USS Santa Fe, an enormous number of troops from the United States, the Republic of Korea and Japan staged a large-scale joint military exercise at the doorstep of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. There is no excuse for its aggressive nature. This year alone, the United States has introduced various strategic nuclear assets, including nuclear aircraft carriers and strategic nuclear submarines and bombers, in and around the Korean peninsula on almost 30 occasions, posing an open and direct military threat to the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea.”
2023-11-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9485 (2023) · source
“The launch by the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea of a reconnaissance satellite is to get a clear picture of the dire military moves by the United States and its followers so that we can be fully prepared for them, given the fact that their aggressive nature is becoming increasingly clear as the days go by. It is a legitimate and righteous exercise of the right to self- defence, which fully belongs within the legal sphere of our self-defence. The United States has deployed vast strategic assets in and around the Korean peninsula on a constant stand-by basis and is pushing ahead with various plans of military action at a practical level to exhibit its excessive strength and use it under any pretext.”
2023-11-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9485 (2023) · source
“Nearly 70 years have passed since the first artificial satellite was launched into space, and more than 5,000 satellites are now orbiting the Earth. However, the Security Council repeats its abnormal and absurd practice of making an issue of the launch of a satellite by the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea alone. I strongly condemn and categorically reject, on behalf of the entire Korean people in their indignation, this Security Council meeting, convened at the outrageous demand of the United States and its follower States, to unjustly characterize the exercise of the sovereign right of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, as it constitutes a flagrant violation of the sovereignty of our State and serious interference in its internal affairs.”
2023-11-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9485 (2023) · source
“Because it has been scientifically verified that the so-called “clean water” filtered through the Advanced Liquid Processing System still contain a large quantity of radioactive material, the terrible discharge of nuclear-polluted water into the ocean is absolutely unacceptable. In the interest of the safety and future of humankind, Japan should immediately reverse its decision to discharge nuclear-polluted water into the ocean.”
2023-08-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9406 (2023) · source
“I would like to take the floor again to correct some points made by the Japanese delegation. The regrettable discharge of the nuclear-polluted water into the ocean, is directly related to the mandate of the Security Council. The discharge of nuclear- polluted water into the ocean is clearly a criminal act of destroying the ecological environment of the ocean and threatening the existence of humankind. The regrettable discharge of nuclear-polluted water into the ocean is a typical manifestation of the two-faced, double-dealing attitude of Japan, which talks about a nuclear-free world.”
2023-08-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9406 (2023) · source
“In conclusion, the international community should be vigilant about and raise its voice against the danger and gravity of the unlawful arbitrary attempts by the United States and its followers to prevent the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea from exercising its sovereign rights.”
2023-08-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9406 (2023) · source
“The Council should also condemn Japan’s heinous crime against humanity that will jeopardize in the extreme the safety and security of humankind and the maritime ecological environment with its decision to discharge nuclear-contaminated water containing a large quantity of radioactive materials. The more the United States and its followers increase hostile pressure on and military threats against the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, the more vigorously, courageously and unfailingly the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea will exercise its legitimate rights as a sovereign State, including through military reconnaissance-satellite launches to safeguard its sovereignty and security interests.”
2023-08-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9406 (2023) · source
“Let me ask a question: is there any country that would remain idle when another technically belligerent party gravely threatens its security environment? The Security Council should be aware that its unfair, biased and irresponsible actions are now driving the situation in the Korean peninsula and North-East Asia further towards catastrophe. If it really intends to contribute to peace and security on the Korean peninsula, the Security Council should call into question the manoeuvres of the United States and its followers, which conduct large-scale nuclear war exercises that mobilize several hundreds of thousands of armed forces and sophisticated offensive weapons of all sorts, and threaten the entire Asia-Pacific region, including North- East Asia.”
2023-08-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9406 (2023) · source
“No one can deny that, even now, the United States and the military gangsters of the Republic of Korea are turning the Korean peninsula into an area with the potential for an immense thermonuclear war while clamouring for regime change in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea and engaging in the large-scale Ulchi Freedom Shield joint exercise, which implicates theoretical pre-emptive nuclear strikes on our State. Peoples of the world are witnessing the stark reality that the United States strategic reconnaissance assets, which it claims to feature advanced technologies, are frequently flying in the skies above the waters around our territory with the aim of tracing, confirming and monitoring targets for a pre-emptive strike.”
2023-08-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9406 (2023) · source
“The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea has never recognized the Security Council resolutions that infringe upon the rights of a sovereign State, nor will it ever be bound by such resolutions in future. With regard to the illogical argument made by the United States that our satellite launch includes technologies directly linked to an ICBM programme, it makes no sense that the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea would be persistently seeking to acquire ICBM technology through satellite launches given that it already operates an ICBM force.”
2023-08-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9406 (2023) · source
“At a time when fierce competition for space resources is unfolding among national Powers, it cannot but be a disgrace for the United Nations, which represents 193 States Members of the United Nations, that the Security Council is questioning solely the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea’s satellite launch while making a false equivalence between a satellite-carrier rocket and an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM). Calling on the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea to abide by the unlawful resolutions of the Security Council, which has been reduced to being a tool of the United States to implement its aggressive strategy of world hegemony, is a brigand’s demand that all sovereign rights be conceded to that belligerent party, the United States.”
2023-08-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9406 (2023) · source
“Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Security Council has convened a meeting, under a separate agenda item, to take issue with our satellite launch, in contravention of its mandate to maintain international peace and security, thereby incurring further shame for itself and disgracing its reputation. The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea sounds a serious alarm over — and condemns in the strongest terms — the abnormal practice at the Security Council of declaring our legitimate right to launch a satellite illegal.”
2023-08-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9406 (2023) · source
“The satellite launch was the exercise of the legitimate right of an independent and sovereign State, which is undeniably recognized under international law. The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea issued navigational warnings in advance to ensure the transparency of the satellite launch, as well as the safety of ships and aircraft. Moreover, the satellite launch caused no harm to the security of the neighbouring country. As we have made clear time and again, our launch of the reconnaissance satellite is an exercise of the legitimate right to self-defence to deter the ever- increasing hostile military acts of the United States and its followers. At the same time, such a launch is aimed at building our capabilities for self-defence.”
2023-08-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9406 (2023) · source
“Desired or not, whether an extreme situation takes shape on the Korean peninsula will heavily depend on the United States’ upcoming moves. If an abrupt situation takes place in the future, the United States shall bear full responsibility for it. In conclusion, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea will actively join the efforts of the international community to ensure world peace and security and establish a fair and just international order. It will fulfil its role and responsibility in the struggle to safeguard peace and stability on the Korean peninsula in the future as well.”
2023-07-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9376 (2023) · source
“A one-sided dispute of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea’s exercise of the right to self-defence in the face of the hostile policy and military threats of the United States, under the single pretext of violations of Security Council resolutions — which were forcibly adopted by the United States and its followers — really is a most irresponsible and ill-minded act and a total abandonment of moral obligations and consciousness towards international peace and security. If the military alliance activities of the United States and South Korea remain intact and only the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea efforts to bolster self- defensive deterrence are accused as provocations, it will result in fostering military asymmetry on the Korean peninsula and destroying the balance of power.”
2023-07-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9376 (2023) · source
“If its ignoring of the military arbitrariness of the United States leads to military attacks and aggression against the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, resulting in a most horrible disaster, such as a nuclear war on the Korean peninsula, can the Security Council bear the responsibility? If not, the Security Council is faced with two options: the first is to refrain from obstructing the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea’s exercise of the right to self-defence; and the second is to denounce and deter the United States’ anti-peace behaviour.”
2023-07-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9376 (2023) · source
“If the exercise of the right to self-defence of a United Nations Member State aimed at safeguarding its sovereignty and security in defiance of the military threats of the United States continues to be disputed, and if the provocative and risky muscle-flexing of the United States continues to be granted impunity, the international community will take for granted the United States’ attempted military attacks and aggressive actions against the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, which is tantamount to instigating the outbreak of a nuclear war on the Korean peninsula.”
2023-07-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9376 (2023) · source
“At the very least, the Security Council should explain why it ignores the fact that the United States’ extremely dangerous military provocations pose a significant threat to the security of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. At present, the Security Council is taking a very dangerous path under the influence of the high- handedness and arbitrariness of the United States and its handful of followers. It is an act of flagrant disregard for the sovereignty of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea to take issue with our legitimate exercise of the right to self-defence alone, without any discussion of the validity of the overstepping military moves by the United States and South Korea.”
2023-07-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9376 (2023) · source
“The joint United States-South Korea military exercises involving nuclear assets, with the very dangerous and unrealistic aim of eliminating a sovereign State from the region, constitute very risky acts that could spark the disaster of a nuclear war on the Korean peninsula. Such acts are genuine threats to international peace and security, which must be dealt with by the Security Council. The Security Council should explain why dozens of United States nuclear war drills involving all sorts of strategic nuclear assets are not regarded as a threat to international peace and security, while our single test of an ICBM is regarded as such.”
2023-07-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9376 (2023) · source
“Such reckless military moves by the United States constitute an outright provocative act of an aggressive nature that is pushing the situation on the Korean peninsula towards an actual armed conflict — far beyond the constant military preparedness posture aimed at a belligerent party. As such, it is having a negative impact on the regional military and political situation and the security architecture. Here is a question for those who insist that the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea’s exercise of the right to self-defence, including missile fire drills, poses a threat to international peace and security: how do the deployment of nuclear assets, the conduct of joint military exercises and the aerial espionage activities committed by the United States contribute to peace and stability on the Korean peninsula?”
2023-07-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9376 (2023) · source
“What is more serious is that the United States is attempting to redeploy nuclear weapons on the Korean peninsula by dispatching a nuclear submarine to South Korea for the first time in 40 years, while resorting to extremely provocative aerial espionage activities by infiltrating the sovereign airspace of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. United States nuclear strategic bombers have been dispatched to the Korean peninsula a number of times within the period of one month. A cruise missiles-loaded nuclear submarine was deployed in South Korea and Japan. The United States strategic nuclear submarine carrying hundreds of nuclear warheads and 20-odd ICBMs deployed in South Korea poses a serious threat not only to the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea and neighbouring countries, but also to the countries of the Asia-Pacific region.”
2023-07-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9376 (2023) · source
“In addition, it is unprecedentedly driving the regional situation to the brink of a nuclear war by frequently deploying nuclear-powered submarines and nuclear strategic bombers in and around the Korean peninsula and conducting large-scale joint military exercises. Nowhere in the world other than in the Korean peninsula are such extremely provocative and aggressive nuclear-war exercises taking place so frequently and on an annual basis, with the ultimate goal of eliminating from the region a single sovereign State.”
2023-07-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9376 (2023) · source
“Currently, the military provocations of the United States and its followers against the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea are increasing at an unprecedented rate, and, consequently, the military security dynamics on the Korean peninsula are nearing a nuclear crisis surpassing that of the cold war era. In April, the United States cooked up the Washington Declaration, a platform for a nuclear showdown with the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. As a follow-up, the United States is openly planning to deliberate on the use of nuclear weapons against our Republic through the meeting of the United States-South Korea Nuclear Consultative Group, which will be the parent body of the United States-Japan-South Korea tripartite nuclear alliance.”
2023-07-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9376 (2023) · source
“A Security Council open briefing on the legitimate exercise of the right to self-defence of a sovereign State is a contradictory action that denies the fundamental principles of sovereign equality and non-interference in the internal affairs of States, enshrined in the Charter and norms of international relations. We categorically reject and condemn the convening of this Security Council briefing by the United States and its followers, which encroaches upon the legitimate right of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea to self-defence, since it constitutes an illegal and reckless act of violating the spirit of the Charter and international law.”
2023-07-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9376 (2023) · source
“The exercise of the right to self-defence is a legitimate right of sovereign States, which nobody can deny, as it is recognized under the Charter of the United Nations and international law. Our test-fire of a new type of intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) had no negative effect on the security of neighbouring countries. Japan announced that our ICBM landed outside its exclusive economic zone, which is tantamount to Japan acknowledging that no risk was posed to its security. Moreover, our test-fire of a new type of ICBM — the Hwasong-18 — is a warranted exercise of the right to self-defence to deter dangerous military actions by hostile forces and safeguard the security of our State and peace in the region without fail.”
2023-07-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9376 (2023) · source