Press Statement by Vice-Minister for U.S.
Affairs of DPRK Foreign Ministry

Pyongyang, April 25 (KCNA) -- Kim Un Chol, vice-minister for U.S. affairs of the
Foreign Ministry of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), issued
the following press statement on April 25:
The U.S. is busy filling up a breach of tattered sanctions and pressure
mechanism as its illegal existence, engaged in the supervision over
implementation of the anti-DPRK sanctions resolutions for the past decade, has
been put at stake in the UN.
The intense sanctions, revealed by the present U.S. administration, are by no
means new for the DPRK which has lived under such sanctions of the hostile
forces for more than half a century.
Sanctions, a diplomatic tool extremely favored by the U.S., can be regarded as
an inseparable means of existence for the U.S. that is staking its fate on
domination and subordination upon other nations.
But it is an undeniable reality that the means has become a noose tightening the
neck of the U.S. in the Korean peninsula.
Whenever the U.S. cooked up a new sanctions resolution in the UN arena, it
triggered a more powerful and more developed nuclear test of the DPRK. Like
this, the U.S. harsh sanctions have acted as catalyst and motive force that has
encouraged the stepwise upgrade of the DPRK's national power.
It was just due to the U.S. nuclear threat that the DPRK decided to have access
to nukes, and it was also due to the former's ceaseless hostile policy and
sanctions and pressure that the latter could rank itself among the world's nuclear
powers by running straight ahead.
Of course, the DPRK people had to pay a huge price under untold sufferings
caused by the U.S. sanctions, the most brutal and unethical ever in history in
terms of width, depth and duration.
As clarified by Kim Jong Un, the respected president of the State Affairs of the
DPRK, the pain the U.S. has imposed upon the DPRK people has turned into a
strong rage against the U.S., the wrath that is redoubling the DPRK's

determination and will to bolster up the most powerful strength no one can
match.
The DPRK has got used to the U.S. sanctions and acquired the capability and
great strength to make headway against any harsh sanctions.
The DPRK is a state entity that grows stronger before harsher sanctions and
pressure.
It is correctly looking through what the Biden administration is attempting to
enliven the worn-out sanctions and pressure on the DPRK.
Clearly speaking, if the U.S. introduces a new version of sanctions against the
DPRK, the latter will take a new opportunity necessary for its upward
readjustment of force which the U.S. is most afraid of.
The U.S. can never deprive the DPRK of its self-respect, its strength and its will
to counter the U.S. What the DPRK will lose in the confrontation with the U.S. is
the chain of sanctions and the nuclear threat and what the former will gain there
is its eternal security and prosperity.
The DPRK will reliably defend its sovereign rights and security interests from the
U.S. ever-escalating hostile threat and sanctions and pressure and take more
powerful practical actions to make its military technical strength irreversible and
raise the capability of controlling the security situation in its vicinity. -0-