DPRK Foreign Minister Choe Son Hui Issues

Press Statement

Pyongyang, October 20 (KCNA) -- DPRK Foreign Minister Choe Son Hui on October
19 made public the following press statement titled "The countries involved in
imposing illegal and outrageous sanctions on the DPRK will have to pay a dear
price":
Contrary to the recognized principles of international law with sovereignty equality
and noninterference in internal affairs as their core, the U.S. and its vassal countries
are working hard to revive the structure of sanctions and pressure on the DPRK,
which went bankrupt structurally and is on the verge of collapse.
The "multilateral sanctions monitoring team," which allegedly acts on behalf of the
panel of experts, a has-been involved in monitoring the implementation of the UN
"sanctions resolutions" for more than 10 years, is utterly unlawful and illegitimate in
terms of its justification for existence and purpose, and its existence itself constitutes
a denial of the UN Charter.
I express serious concern and regret at the U.S. habitual misconduct of arbitrarily
flouting the international order in pursuit of its hegemonic interests, and vehemently
condemn and reject it as a challenge to international justice and the most
undisguised violation of the DPRK's sovereignty.
The U.S.-led sanctions against the DPRK are by no means a new experience for us.
However, the unilateral behavior of the U.S., obsessed with the suicidal concept of
pressure without sound thinking and sense of reality, and of some countries blindly
following it has emerged as a threatening entity shaking the international relations to
their foundations and seriously polluting the world security environment.
The emergence of another hostile threatening factor calls for ceaselessly adding new
factors to the corresponding counteraction force for deterring it.
Wrong practice is bound to entail an inevitable reaction and corresponding
punishment.
If the U.S. expected that it can surprise the DPRK and stop its advance with such
worn-out means as sanctions and pressure, it is just a fatal misjudgment.
As clarified by the president of the State Affairs of the DPRK, the pain the U.S. has
inflicted on our people has provoked a towering rage towards the U.S. and this has
become a decisive factor and a strategic opportunity for redoubling our strength.

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If the U.S. seeks to control the world by dint of high-handed and arbitrary practices,
self-righteousness and prejudice, more countries will become interested in putting an
end to the American-style hegemony and it will bring earlier the emergence of the
anti-U.S. global solidarity structure.
The DPRK remains steadfast in its will to safeguard its sovereign rights,
development and interests, regional and global peace and security to cope with the
ever more undisguised sinister and hostile scheme of the U.S. and its satellite
countries.
I take this opportunity to recall the criminal act of the ROK which violated the
sovereignty and territory of the DPRK and caused the current mishap, and make it
clear that the U.S. will be held accountable for it.
We will correctly remember the U.S. and the ROK, which have taken the lead in
illegal and outrageous sanctions and pressure on the DPRK, and Japan, Canada,
Britain, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Australia and New Zealand, which
actively joined it, and record all their hostile acts.
The forces involved in the smear campaign against the DPRK will have to pay a dear
price for it. -0-
www.kcna.kp (Juche113.10.20.)

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Press Statement by Vice-Minister for Int'l
Organizations of DPRK Foreign Ministry
Pyongyang, October 20 (KCNA) -- Kim Son Gyong, vice-minister for International
Organizations of the DPRK Foreign Ministry, released the following press statement
on Sunday:
As regards a measure taken by the DPRK of physically breaking the roads and
railways in the section of its side connected to the ROK completely, UN Secretary-
General Guterres on Oct. 15 made seriously improper remarks, emphasizing the
importance of restraint, and demanding the restoration of all relevant communication
channels as soon as possible.
He successfully played the role of a spokesman for the U.S., repeating like an
automatic responder such stereotyped remarks as "abidance by the UNSC
resolutions" and "complete and verifiable denuclearization of the Korean peninsula"
which have nothing to do with the above-said issue.
I express deep displeasure over and categorically reject the remarks of interfering in
the internal affairs of the DPRK unhesitatingly let loose by the UN secretary-general,
the supreme official of the UN whose life and soul are objectivity and impartiality,
contrary to the UN Charter's principle of respect for sovereignty and non-interference
in internal affairs.
Whether we dismantle roads and railway facilities or newly build them in the territory
where the sovereignty of the DPRK is exercised, it pertains to the DPRK's sovereign
right from A to Z and it is not a matter to be meddled in by the UN secretary-general.
To be rightful, he should have condemned the ROK military for encroaching upon the
sovereignty of the DPRK by infiltrating drones, military attack means, into even the
sky above its capital city a few days ago.
He is taking issue with the self-defensive measure taken by the DPRK army in its
territory, not making even a word about the ROK's wanton infringement upon the
DPRK's sovereignty. This is an unpardonable and unfair behavior of double-
standards.
The UN secretary-general made the prejudiced remarks, instead of standing at a
strictly neutral position in the present situation on the Korean peninsula where the
possibility of armed conflict is becoming a reality. It is little short of giving a green
light to the U.S. and the ROK army's attempt to ignite a war against the DPRK.

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In case an incident which nobody wants occurs on the Korean peninsula due to the
reckless military temerity of the ROK with the back of the U.S., the UN secretary-
general will never be free from responsibility for it as he incited the warmongers'
fever with an undisguised behavior of availing himself of and following them. -0-
www.kcna.kp (Juche113.10.20.)