Press Statement of Director General for Int'l
Organizations of DPRK Foreign Ministry
Pyongyang, June 2 (KCNA) -- Jo Chol Su, director general of the Department of
International Organizations of the Foreign Ministry of the Democratic People's
Republic of Korea, made public the following press statement on Friday:
I strongly protest against the "statement" issued by the UN secretary-general
denouncing the DPRK's launch of military reconnaissance satellite and resolutely
condemn and reject his improper behavior of encroaching upon the legitimate
sovereign right of a member state of the UN as an extremely unfair and
unbalanced act of interfering in its internal affairs.
The equality of sovereignty, respect for sovereignty and non-interference in
internal affairs are the basis of the establishment of the UN as well as the basic
spirit of the UN Charter.
If UN Secretary-General Guterres eagerly regards the expression of his stand on
the DPRK's satellite launch as his duty, he should first learn how to equally treat
the 190-odd UN member states in conformity with his duty stipulated in the UN
Charter, and properly explain the reason why he doesn't take issue with other
countries' satellite launch but only blames the DPRK for launching satellite.
In case the UN secretary-general has his own convincing ground or reason,
separately from the non-commonsensible and far-fetched assertion of the U.S.
and its followers that the DPRK's satellite launch is contrary to the "resolutions"
of the UN Security Council because it uses ballistic missile technology, I am
ready to patiently listen to what he says.
But in view of the unbalanced and prejudiced stand and attitude Secretary-
General Guterres has shown so far in regard to the issue of the Korean
peninsula, I never expect that he would make an answer to satisfy the questions
of the DPRK and the international community.
The UNSC "sanction resolutions" against the DPRK that ban the legitimate right
of an individual member state of the UN to develop space are nothing but illegal
documents wantonly violating the UN Charter and other international laws as

they are a product of the U.S. and its followers' hostile policy toward the DPRK
aimed to deprive it of its sovereignty and rights to existence and development.
The DPRK's launch of military reconnaissance satellite is a logical and legitimate
response to the undisguised military threat of the U.S. and its allies and an
exercise of the universal right of a sovereign state to defend its sovereignty and
territorial integrity.
Nobody is entitled to take issue with this, even though he is the UN secretary-
general.
The DPRK will continue to proudly exercise its sovereignty including the launch
of military reconnaissance satellite to prove that the UN is not a monopoly of the
U.S. and the U.S. high-handed and arbitrary practices and unilateralism can
never work on the world.
I think that Secretary-General Guterres should pay bigger attention and energy to
the international pending issues that the international community awaits an
immediate solution rather than needlessly interfering in the natural exercise of
the sovereignty of UN member states. -0-