Press Statement of Kim Yo Jong, Vice Department

Director of C.C., WPK

Pyongyang, July 14 (KCNA) -- Kim Yo Jong, vice department director of the Central
Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea, issued the following press statement on July
14:
To thoroughly contain and frustrate the most hostile and threatening nuclear
confrontation policy of the U.S. against the DPRK is the just right to self-defence to
defend the Korean peninsula and the Asia-Pacific region from the disaster of a nuclear
war, and no one has any justification for slandering the DPRK's launch of new-type
ICBM.
The recent launch, conducted in the safest way, taking into full consideration any
potential danger that may affect the security of neighboring countries, did not do any
harm to international maritime and air security.
However, the UNSC held an open meeting again to unilaterally pick a quarrel with the
DPRK's exercise of the right to self-defence, in disregard of the DPRK's just security
concern and the U.S. criminal attempt to increase the possibility of outbreak of a real
nuclear war in the Korean peninsula and the region. This perfectly proved that it is a
confrontation organization destroying the global peace and stability and a new Cold War
mechanism totally inclined to the U.S. and the West.
I express strong displeasure over and scathingly condemn the unfair and prejudiced
behavior of the UNSC which again called into question the DPRK's exercise of its just
right to self-defence, which did not hurt anyone, under the unchanged and boring illegal
pretext of violation of the UN "resolution".
Due to the aggressive provocations of the U.S. far beyond its constant military
readiness, the situation of the Korean peninsula is now heading toward the threshold of
nuclear clash and the outbreak of a nuclear war is not hypothetical but is becoming a
miserable reality that countries in the Northeast Asian region have to face in the near
future.
The U.S. has frequently staged the joint military drills with clear aggressive character by
mobilizing nuclear submarines, nuclear strategic bombers and other various nuclear
strategic assets under the pretext of the offer of the so-called "extended deterrence" and
planned to put into the Korean peninsula a nuclear submarine with strategic nukes for
the first time in more than 40 years, along with the operation of the U.S.-south Korea
"nuclear consultative group", a nuclear war tool. Such military provocations of the U.S.

are the most direct threat to the security of not only the DPRK but also all other
Northeast Asian countries.
The UNSC, whose mission is to defend global peace and security, should have squarely
confronted this fact and properly judged who threatens with nukes and who is exposed
to nuclear threat.
Ignoring such bounden duty, the UNSC connived at and fostered and even instigated the
U.S. moves to exterminate the DPRK, an expression of the extremely unfair and double-
standard behavior. This is an irresponsible crime of pushing the whole of Northeast Asia
and Asia-Pacific to the holocaust of a nuclear war.
As the UNSC deliberately ignores the U.S. dangerous nuclear threat and blackmail, the
U.S. nuclear weapons including strategic nuclear submarine will be more massively,
often and openly deployed in the Korean peninsula under the mask of "lawfulness," and
the Northeast Asia will be soon turned into the world's biggest nuclear arsenal.
If an undesirable, unprecedented nuclear war breaks out in the Korean peninsula, the
UNSC will be held accountable for it as it has worked hard to categorically restrain the
DPRK from exercising its legitimate right to self-defense while being on the U.S. side.
Availing myself of this opportunity, I warn that the riffraff, accustomed to follow their U.S.
master blindly, joined in making public an anti-DPRK "joint statement" which is not
recognized by anyone outside the arena.
The U.S. should be aware that the more it makes the DPRK feel unpleasant, the worse it
finds itself in a dilemma.
Only when the U.S. withdraws its hostile policy toward the DPRK, can the DPRK's
displeasure and the evil cycle of the situation, which no one wants, disappear.
However, the more the U.S. persists in its reckless and provocative confrontation option,
refusing to reject it, the more the situation will lead to a very unpleasant direction for the
U.S., and it itself will feel it every minute, every second, every hour and every day.
The price the U.S. has to pay for its moves against the DPRK will never be low, and I do
not conceal the fact that very unlucky things will wait for the U.S.
The U.S. should be aware that the DPRK's mode and scope of counteraction may be
freer along with the increased "visibility" of deploying strategic assets on the Korean
peninsula.
Now that the U.S. does not respond to the abandonment of its hostile policy toward the
DPRK, the only solution to achieving peace and stability in the Korean peninsula and the

region, the DPRK will further put spurs to building up the most overwhelming nuclear
deterrence until the U.S. admits its policy failure and for itself rolls back its line of
confrontation with the DPRK. -0-