Press Statement of Kim Yo Jong, Vice Department Director of C.C., WPK

Press Statement of Kim Yo Jong, Vice
Department Director of C.C., WPK

Pyongyang, June 4 (KCNA) — Kim Yo Jong, vice department director of the
Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK), issued the following
press statement on Saturday:
The UNSC held a meeting to take up the DPRK's right to satellite launching as a
single agenda item at the U.S. gangster-like request. As a result, it produced
another shameful record of working as a political appendage of an individual
country.
The UNSC have held more than 9 000 official meetings since its establishment,
but this time it called a meeting to take issue with a sovereign state's right to
space development quite different from aggression and war, major threats to the
international peace and security. This should be regarded as an insult to and
serious distortion of the spirit of the UN Charter and as a deliberate delinquency
in the genuine mission of the organization.
It is today's universal reality that over 5 000 satellites with various aims and
missions are now in their orbits around the Earth and even private companies are
taking an active part in the space development.
This being a hard reality, the UNSC is continuously taking discriminative and rude
action to take issue with only the launch of a satellite by the DPRK, a full-fledged
member of the UN.
I am very unpleased that the UNSC so often calls to account the DPRK's
exercise of its rights as a sovereign state at the request of the U.S., and bitterly
condemn and reject it as the most unfair and biased act of interfering in its
internal affairs and violating its sovereignty.
To make the UNSC take up the DPRK's exercise of its legal rights as a sovereign
state precisely means the undisguised disregard for and violation of the DPRK's
sovereignty.
Without considering the changed security situation of the Korean Peninsula, the
UNSC is trying to unilaterally deprive the DPRK of its sovereignty and rights to
existence and development, blindly following the articles of the illegal and unfair