Press Statement of Vice Foreign Minister of

DPRK

Pyongyang, May 8 (KCNA) -- Kim Son Gyong, vice-minister for International
Organizations of the DPRK Foreign Ministry, released the following press
statement on May 8:
As soon as the illegal anti-DPRK sanctions-breeding mechanism, which had
violated and threatened the sovereignty and right to existence of a sovereign
state by abusing the sacred name of the UN, has come to an end, the U.S. is
racking its brain to create a substitute for the mechanism.
The U.S. has so far stirred up confrontation and conflict in the Korean peninsula
and the East Asian region, seriously deteriorating the security environment. It is
now working hard to invent a new criminal mechanism targeting other nations
and a specified country by rallying all reactionary forces. This is a wrong and
harmful act of disturbing the fundamental order of global peace and security.
The U.S. impudent moves to use the UN as a tool for attaining its unfair political
concession at home and operate a phantom organization abroad to trample
down the authority of the UN are the root cause of bringing down the present
international political security structure based on the purpose and principle of the
UN Charter.
The U.S. is trying to set up another sanctions monitoring mechanism led by it,
without any sign of self-reflection after its miserable failure at the UNSC. Such
behavior is a typical example of the self-conceit of the U.S. regarding itself as a
supranational entity standing above the international law.
This issue is by no means limited to the DPRK.
If the U.S. brigandish behavior is permitted, the wrong international practice of
fabricating illegal plot-breeding mechanism against any country and imposing
unilateral sanctions will become a custom and this will be a serious challenge to
the international community aspiring after justice and equity.
I express serious concern over the arbitrary practice of the U.S. brandishing
illegal sanctions stick at the international community while openly ignoring the
recognized basic rules of the international relations, and strongly denounce it.

When looking back on the past history of the U.S. which has suffered only
setbacks in the confrontation with the DPRK either in military coercion or
diplomatic ability, to have a vital stake in sanctions will be, in essence, the only
and last-ditch option of the U.S., the weak.
No matter what sanctions mechanism the U.S. may set up inside or outside the
UN and no matter what sanctions it may impose on the DPRK through it, the
DPRK's strategic strength to protect its sovereignty will never allow a moment's
standstill and stagnation.
The just international community should never allow the U.S. moves to form a
party seriously encroaching upon the sovereignty and security of a sovereign
state and wantonly violating international law but should raise the voices of
unanimous denunciation against the arch criminals disturbing global peace and
stability. -0-