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DPRK urges joint rejection of unilateralism

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In a world "as unstable as never before," the pressing task laid before the United Nations should be a firm rejection of unilateralism, a top diplomat of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea said UN on Tuesday.

Deputy Foreign Minister Choe Su Hon told the UN General Assembly that the unstable situation "is a product of unilateralism compelling countries to be subservient to the high-handedness and unreasonable demands of the superpower."

Describing the world situation, he recalled that countries were designated as "axis of evil" and the "targets of preemptive nuclear attacks" on the basis of extreme national chauvinism and hostility.

"Unilateral military attacks are openly perpetrated against sovereign states under the pretext of 'war against terrorism' and suspicion over the possession of weapons of mass destruction," he said, apparently referring to the coalition war on Iraq earlier this year.

He warned that the "neo-imperialist practices" has destroyed the principles of respect for sovereignty and sovereign equality.

DPRK is one of the three nations that constitute what US President George W. Bush called "axis of evil," along with Iran and Iraq.

An official statement from North Korea earlier Tuesday said Pyongyang was taking "practical measures to steadily beef up its nuclear deterrent force as a just self-defensive means" to counter such an attack.

DPRK top diplomat says nuclear issue outcome of hostile policy

A top diplomat of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) said here Tuesday that his country is seeking a peaceful solution to the nuclear issue, which in essence is an outcome of "the hostile policy pursued by the United States.

DPRK Deputy Foreign Minsiter Choe Su Hon told world leaders at the UN General Assembly that his country has been hostilely isolated and stifled by the United States, a policy originated from "the deep-rooted hostility."

The minister said that it is the consistent position of his country to resolve the nuclear issue peacefully through dialogue and negotiations.

"Denuclearizing the Korean peninsula is the ultimate goal and the initiative of the DPRK as well as the earnest aspirations of the entire Korean nation," he noted.

He recalled that there was a brief chance to solve the problem peacefully, after the historic inter-Korean Summit Meeting in June,2000.

However, the expectation of peace and stability "faded away all of a sudden," when the DPRK was singled out as part of an "axis of evil" and the "target of preemptive nuclear attack," he said.

Defending its nuclear program and policy of independence, or the SONGUN policy, Choe said that the maintained peace on the Korean peninsula "is entirely thanks to the powerful war deterrence."

"The deterrence of ours is not to attack anyone, but to serve as a self-defensive means to safeguard our sovereignty in all intents and purposes," he said.

"Under the present circumstance in which the DPRK and the United States are leveling guns at each other, asking the other party to put down the guns first does not make any sense," he said, adding that the US policy can be construed only as an ulterior intention to disarm and kill the DPRK.

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