Saturday, March 07, 2015

DPRK Foreign Minister Urges U.S. to Roll Back Its Hostile Policy Towards Socialist State
Pyongyang, March 6 (KCNA) -- Ri Su Yong, foreign minister of the DPRK, made a speech at the Geneva Conference on Disarmament on March 3.

He said:
Overall disarmament process remains deadlocked contrary to expectations of the member countries.

Arbitrary and double-dealing attitudes of some countries bring about negative consequences of sparking off an arms race, far from seeking genuine disarmament negotiations based on mutual trust among member countries.

The NPT was adopted at the disarmament talks in the last century but nuclear disarmament was not completely realized. Consequently, the nuclear map of the world today has significantly changed.

Less people in the media and academic circles pay attention to this issue.

If the CD fails to sufficiently play its role any longer, the issue of nuclear disarmament may disappear from the UN agenda once and for all.

The Korean peninsula is a nuclear arsenal as the world's largest nuclear weapons state and the youngest nuclear weapons state are technically at war.

The Korean peninsula may be called a ground showcasing the consequences proving that a nuclear weapons state failed to keep promise made to non-nuclear state at a time when the NPT was adopted.

Instead of providing assurances of non-use of nukes against the DPRK which acceded to the NPT in 1985, the U.S. has not de-escalated its nuclear threat to Pyongyang at all but further increased it.

The hostile policy of the U.S. towards the DPRK for over half a century, not just a few years, compelled the DPRK to have access to nukes. The DPRK cannot but bolster its nuclear deterrent capability to cope with the ever-increasing nuclear threat of the U.S.

The DPRK's future counteraction will depend on whether the U.S. rolls back its hostile policy toward the DPRK or not.

As long as Korea remains divided, lasting peace on the Korean peninsula and the regional security cannot be ensured.

When Korea is reunified, it will definitely help realize the cherished desire of the nation and, at the same time, will be a decisive contribution to the peace and security on the Korean peninsula and, furthermore, those in Northeast Asia where the interests of big powers clash.

The DPRK will not spare its sincere efforts to bring about a great change in the inter-Korean relations this year.

The government of the DPRK expresses conviction that CD will pay due attention to the situation on the Korean peninsula and give support for the efforts to ease the tension.


DPRK Will Take Resolute, Merciless Counteractions: Rodong Sinmun

Pyongyang, March 6 (KCNA) -- Rodong Sinmun Friday in an article blasts the U.S. and south Korean puppet forces for kicking off Key Resolve and Foal Eagle joint military exercises for aggression.

The bellicose forces at home and abroad are working hard to apply the "tailored deterrence strategy" to the drills and examine its efficiency during the maneuvers as they did last year and, on this basis, round off a new scenario for a war against the north in April, the article notes, and goes on:
An opportunity of resuming dialogue and improving the relations between the north and the south of Korea has already been scuppered. Now that the Armistice Agreement was reduced to a dead paper, what remains to be done at present is to counter the fire with fire and nukes with nukes.

The DPRK will come out to take resolute and merciless counteractions as the U.S. and puppet forces chose confrontation, not dialogue.

It is the firm resolution and choice of the service personnel and people of the DPRK to make the U.S. imperialists keenly realize what its powerful strike and true war are like and give vent to the grudge pent up for centuries.

Victory is always in store for the DPRK and disgrace and ruin await the U.S. and its followers. The aggressors and provokers will be doomed to be forlorn wondering spirit before they realize the powerful war deterrent the army and people of the DPRK have bolstered for several decades.

The U.S. and puppet forces had better behave themselves, bearing in mind the final warning of the DPRK.

Koreans in Japan Accuse Japan of Its Discrimination Policy, Human Rights Abuses

Pyongyang, March 6 (KCNA) -- The Korean Human Rights Association in Japan held a seminar in Tokyo on Feb. 28 denouncing Japan for its policy of discrimination against Koreans and human rights abuses.

Present there were Koreans in Japan and Japanese citizens.

Kim Pong Gil, chairman of the association, said that Koreans in Japan have suffered pain for decades due to the Japanese authorities' discrimination policy and gained their rights through struggle.

Japan is still discriminating against students of Korean schools, he noted, calling for bringing into light the essence of Japan's chauvinism.

The reporters referred to the case of attacking Kyoto Korean Primary School No. 1 of the General Association of Korean Residents in Japan in December of 2009 by the ill-famed "Citizens' Society against Special Privilege of Koreans in Japan", an ultra-right conservative group.

They said Japan has due obligation to guarantee the students of Korean schools the right to learn as they are descendants of Koreans forcibly drafted by the Japanese imperialists in the past.

They urged the Japanese government to make reparation for national education on the basis of international agreements and recommendations.


Rodong Sinmun Accuses Japan of Its Move for Expanding Scope of SDF's Activities

Pyongyang, March 6 (KCNA) -- Japan is going to enact the "national security law" to drastically increase the scope of activities of its "Self-Defence Forces" (SDF).

The present chief executive of Japan submitted its bill to the consultative council of the Liberal Democratic Party and the New Komeito Party.

Its keynote is to revise the "law on situation in surrounding areas" and the "law on cooperating with the UN peace-keeping activities" so that the Japanese government may decide on overseas dispatch of the SDF any time without any resolution of the UN Security Council or approval of the Diet. It also calls for expanding the scope of Japan's support to its allies to allow Japan to render assistance not to a country but to various countries and provide not only ordinary materials but weaponry and ammunition.

It was reported that the bill would soon be submitted to the Diet and formally adopted as a law.
Rodong Sinmun Friday in an article observes in this regard:
Japan has put off its veil of "a pacifist state" and revealed its true colors as a militarist nation seeking reinvasion.

The ruling forces of Japan, getting upbeat with the largely beefed forces of aggression, now seek to realize their wild ambition for starting reinvasion of Asian countries by legalizing the overseas advance of the SDF and increase of its operation sphere under the pretext of "national security."

This was clearly evidenced by the fact that the Japanese reactionaries are set to completely delete the words "situation in surrounding areas" from the "national security law" in a bid to expand the SDF's operation sphere to the whole of Asia.

Japan has a crime-woven history in which it massacred Asians after occupying their countries through aggression and war in the past. It is not hard to guess what horrible crimes against humanity Japan will commit once it launches reinvasion. 

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