Press Statement of DPRK Permanent Mission to UN Office and International Organizations in Vienna

Press Statement of DPRK Permanent Mission
to UN Office and International Organizations

in Vienna

Pyongyang, September 15 (KCNA) — The DPRK permanent mission of the
UN Office and International Organizations in Vienna released the following
press statement on September 14:
With a recent session of the Board of Governors of the International Atomic
Energy Agency as an opportunity, the U.S. again committed a grave political
provocation, terming the DPRK's access to nuclear weapons "illegal" and
talking about "denuclearization".
We strongly denounce and reject the U.S. provocative act of revealing once
again its invariable hostile intention against the Democratic People's Republic
of Korea while openly interfering in its internal affairs and infringing upon its
sovereignty and express serious concern over the negative consequences to
be entailed by it.
The U.S. repeated its anachronistic "denuclearization" assertion at the
international meeting, clearly proving that the final goal of its policy towards
the DPRK is to make the latter abandon its constitution and system and the
U.S. has no intention to coexist with it.
The DPRK's access to nuclear weapons plays a key and important role in
guaranteeing global peace and stability as an inevitable option for reliably
defending the sovereignty and security of the state from the U.S. persistent
nuclear threat and ensuring the balance of strength.
In contrast with this, the U.S. endangers global peace and security and
undermines the foundation of the international nuclear non-proliferation
system through radical nuclear arms buildup and reckless nuclear
proliferation. Such hegemony-seeking act of the U.S. is the most serious
threat that the international community faces.
As for the world's biggest nuclear weapons state, the U.S. should honestly
fulfill its obligation for nuclear disarmament more than anybody else and
immediately stop such worrying nuclear proliferation acts as "offering
extended deterrence", realizing nuclear sharing with non-nuclear states and
transferring nuclear submarine technology.

We warn the IAEA for its attempt to call into question and deter the just
exercise of the sovereign rights of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea,
losing its independence and impartiality and disregarding the realistic and
practical U.S. nuclear threat.
The position of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea as a nuclear
weapons state which has been permanently specified in the supreme and
basic law of the state has become irreversible. The IAEA, which has not
formally established relations with the DPRK for more than 30 years, has no
legal right and moral justification to interfere in the internal affairs of a nuclear
weapons state which exists outside the NPT.
If the IAEA is sincerely concerned about the international nuclear threat and
the ever-worsening international security environment caused by it, it would
be logical to call into question the malicious act of the U.S. which wantonly
violates the obligation it has assumed before the international community to
prevent nuclear proliferation while concentrating more than anyone else on
nuclear power buildup.
The U.S. has gone to extremes in its nuclear threat as days go by and the
U.S.-led nuclear alliance is getting desperate in its confrontational moves. To
steadily bolster up the nuclear deterrent for self-defence to cope with this
reality is the best option for preventing the danger of a nuclear war on the
Korean peninsula and in the region and reliably guaranteeing the right to
existence and development of our state.
We will as ever thoroughly oppose and reject any attempt to change the
present position of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea and faithfully
discharge our duty before the international community as a responsible
nuclear weapons state. -0-