Kim Song, permanent representative of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) to the United Nations made a speech at the general debate of the 79 th Session of the UN General Assembly on September 30.

Having outlined the line of the DPRK government on achieving socio-economic development and the steady implementation of it, he clarified the principled position of the DPRK government to defend regional peace and stability and to realize international justice.

He said that the security environment of the Korean peninsula is bound to be intricately complicated through to the next generation as well, unless the U.S. and its followers change their confrontational and aggressive nature.

Under such circumstances, it is an indispensable exercise of sovereign rights for the DPRK to maintain powerful strength capable of defending national security interests and guaranteeing peaceful development, he added.

He then continued as follows:

The situation on the Korean peninsula has not entered war even though it is fraught with extreme tension. It is totally attributable to our country’s powerful war deterrence which helps stave off threat of aggression and keep the balance of power in the region.

Therefore, we continue to increase our war deterrence capabilities not only from our obligation to ensure national security but also from our mission to maintain peace and security in the region and beyond.

Comrade Kim Jong Un , President of the State Affairs of the DPRK, said that we can choose either dialogue or confrontation but we should go further in getting ourselves fully prepared for confrontation and that this is the review and conclusion drawn from the 30-year-long DPRK-U.S. relations.

When it comes to the right to self-defense, a legitimate right of a sovereign state, we will never go back to the point in the far-off past. When it comes to the national prestige, we will never bargain over it with anyone for it was gained through the bloody struggle of the entire Korean people.

Whoever takes office in the U.S., we will only deal with the state entity called the U.S., not the mere administration. Likewise, any U.S. administration will have to face the DPRK which is different from what the U.S. used to think.

Justice or injustice is judged according to whether the actor is pro-U.S. or an independent country and the United Nations is misused for political aims of an individual country. Such reality should no longer be tolerated and allowed.

The reform of the present global governance regime should be oriented to realizing impartiality, equity and justice.

The United Nations will regain its sacred image only when it strictly adheres to the principles of sovereign equality, non-interference in internal affairs, impartiality and objectivity and eliminates high-handedness and arbitrariness as well as biased double standards practices in all its activities in conformity with the purposes and principles enshrined in the UN Charter.