Pyongyang: US Aggressive Policy towards the DPRK Has Reached a Dangerous Level 

Pyongyang (ST) – The people’s Democratic Republic of Korea (DPRK) has affirmed that the heinous American hostile practices towards Pyongyang, the latest of which was the incitement to convene a UN Security Council session on “human rights” in the country, had reached a dangerous level that can’t be tolerated. 

A statement by the DPRK’s Foreign Ministry, published by the Korean Central Agency on its website today, stated that, in conjunction with the large-scale war exercises that start today between the US and South Korea, Washington is planning with its followers to forcibly call for holding an informal meeting of the UN Security Council to discuss the “human rights issue” of the DPRK without any reason or basis. 

The Ministry expressed Pyongyang’s condemnation of this vicious US practices based on blackmail and exploitation of the “human rights” issues as the fiercest expression of its hostile policy towards the DPRK, which is categorically rejected. 

“This is the habit of Washington, whenever it finds itself cornered and unable to contain and besiege the DPRK on the nuclear issue, Washington moves to the issue of human rights in order to put pressure on Pyongyang,” the statement added. 

The ministry affirmed that: “The firm position of the Korean people towards the US and the other enemies is to insist on punishing those who deny the sovereignty of our state and its socialist system and make them pay the price”. 

It added that human rights mean sovereignty and it is the legitimate rights of any state to use all possible means to defend its sovereignty. 

The DPRK declares that it will take firm countermeasures against the fiercest hostile conspiracies of the US and its followers with the aim of defending its national sovereignty and the rights and interests of its people. 

Najla Khoury