IMO Reduced into Tool for White House
Pyongyang, June 4 (KCNA) -- Kim Myong Chol, an international affairs analyst of
the DPRK, issued the following article "The International Maritime Organization
reduced into a tool moving under the control of the White House" on June 4:
The 107th meeting of the Maritime Security Committee of the International
Maritime Organization (IMO) on May 31 forcibly adopted a "resolution" branding
the DPRK's measures for bolstering up its self-defence capabilities as "violation
of UNSC resolution" and "threat to international maritime security", pursuant to
the U.S. and its vassal forces' hostile policy toward the DPRK.
It was the first time in the history of IMO to cook up such resolution criticizing the
missile launch of an individual country. This goes to prove that IMO has been
completely politicized, abandoning its original mission of promoting international
cooperation in the field of maritime security.
At the IMO meeting on the day when the DPRK launched a military
reconnaissance satellite, the U.S. and its followers postponed all the discussions
and forcibly adopted an anti-DPRK "resolution", thus openly revealing their
sinister intention to incite international criticism over the DPRK's satellite launch.
The DPRK's measures for bolstering up its military capabilities are an exercise of
its sovereign rights for self-defence to protect the security of the country and the
people from the ever-more reckless military hostile acts of the U.S. and its vassal
forces and to defend the regional peace and stability.
This is a legitimate right of a sovereign state clearly stipulated in the UN Charter
and relevant international laws, and an international organization has neither
authority nor qualification to say this or that about it.
As for our missile launching activities, our army has conducted the missile test-
firing drills in the safest way in thorough consideration of the security of regional
countries and in fact, there has been no harm to any country so far.
On the contrary, the world witnessed not a few accidents due to the fall of rockets
or missiles launched by Western and other countries.
Moreover, for its recent military reconnaissance satellite launch, the DPRK
issued a maritime warning to the Maritime Security Agency of Japan, a regional