Kim Son Gyong, vice-minister for International Organizations of the Foreign Ministry of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, released the following press statement on May 8:

As soon as the illegal anti-DPRK sanctions-breeding mechanism, which has violated and threatened the sovereignty and right to existence of a sovereign state by abusing the sacred name of the UN, has come to an end, the US is racking its brain to create a substitute for the mechanism.

The US has so far stirred up confrontation and conflict in the Korean peninsula and the East Asian region, seriously deteriorating the security environment. It is now working hard to invent a new criminal mechanism targeting other nations or a specified country by rallying all reactionary forces. This is a wrong and harmful act of disturbing the fundamental order of global peace and security.

The US impudent moves to use the UN as a tool for attaining its unfair political concession at home and operate a phantom organization abroad to trample down the authority of the UN are the root cause of bringing down the present international political security structure based on the purpose and principle of the UN Charter.

The US is trying to set up another sanctions monitoring mechanism led by it, without any sign of self-reflection after its miserable setback at the UNSC. Such behaviour is a typical example of the self-conceit of the US regarding itself as a supranational entity standing above the international law.

This issue is by no means limited to the DPRK.

If the US brigandish behaviour is permitted, the wrong international practice of fabricating an illegal plot-breeding mechanism against any country and imposing unilateral sanctions on it will become a custom and this will pose a serious challenge to the international community aspiring after justice and equity.

I express serious concern over the arbitrary practice of the US brandishing the illegal sanctions club at the international community while openly ignoring the recognized basic rules of the international relations, and strongly denounce it.

When looking back on the past history of the US which has suffered only setbacks in the confrontation with the DPRK either in military coercion or diplomatic ability, to have a vital stake in sanctions will be, in essence, the only and last-ditch option of the US, the weak.

No matter what sanctions mechanism the US may set up inside or outside the UN and no matter what sanctions it may impose on the DPRK through it, the DPRK’s strategic strength to protect its sovereignty will never allow a moment’s standstill and stagnation.

The just international community should never allow the US grouping that seriously encroaches upon the sovereignty and security of a sovereign state and wantonly violates international law, but should raise the voices of unanimous denunciation against the arch criminals disturbing global peace and stability.

KCNA