§The DPRK Issued Its Position Statement to UN Member States as a Formal UN Document on the Occasion of One-Year Anniversary of the US-DPRK Joint Statement
June 12th 2019 marks one-year since the historic US-DPRK summit. The DPRK issued a Foreign Ministry spokesperson statement on June 4th for the anniversary and sent it to the UN Secretary General, asking him to circulate it to all UN member States as a formal UN document for the UN General Assembly and the UN Security Council. The document number is A/73/894-S/2019/466 [1].
Apparently,
there has been no mass-media coverage of the full text of the statement, so this
Watch Report reproduces it below without commentary.
[Letter to the UN Secretary General]
Letter dated 6 June 2019 from the Permanent
Representative of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea to the United
Nations addressed to the Secretary-General
I have
the honour to enclose herewith a press statement made on 4 June 2019 by the
spokesperson for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Democratic People’s
Republic of Korea (DPRK) with regards to DPRK-U.S. summit meetings (see annex).
I should
be grateful if you would have the present letter and its annex circulated as a
document of the seventy-third session of the General Assembly, under agenda
item 66, and of the Security Council.
(Signed)
Kim Song
Ambassador
Permanent Representative of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea to the
United Nations
[Annex to the Letter to the UN Secretary
General]
Annex to the letter dated 6 June 2019 from
the Permanent Representative of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea to
the United Nations addressed to the Secretary-General
Press statement of the spokesperson for the
Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea dated 4 June 2019
The
DPRK-U.S. summit meeting and talks held in Singapore in June last year for the
first time in history was a momentous occasion of great significance in
promoting peace and stability on the Korean peninsula and in the region and
advancing the historic trend of reconciliation and cooperation.
The 12
June DPRK-U.S. Joint Statement adopted at the DPRK-U.S. summit meeting and
talks enjoyed full support and approval of all countries and peoples across the
world, as it proved in practice that even the countries with the most hostile
relations
could lay out an avenue for establishing new relations once they make
politically decisive steps to defend peace and stability, giving these issues a top priority.
As is
acknowledged by the international society at large, the government of the DPRK
has exerted ceaseless efforts over the past year to establish new DPRK-U.S.
relations, build a lasting and stable peace regime on the Korean peninsula and
achieve denuclearization of the Korean peninsula, as has been stipulated in the
12 June DPRK-U.S. Joint Statement, and also made every possible endeavour, such
as taking practical initiatives that require strategically decisive measures.
However,
it is regrettable to see that the United States has become ever more
undisguised during the past year in its scheme to annihilate us by force while
deliberately turning its face away from the implementation of the DPRK-U.S.
Joint Statement and only insisting on our unilateral surrender of nuclear
weapons. At the second DPRK-U.S. summit talks, held in Hanoi amid the great
interest and expectation of the entire world, the United States made the
biggest mistake of having missed a lifetime opportunity by insisting on
“dismantlement of the nuke first”.
This
overshadows the future of the DPRK-U.S. talks.
Had the
United States done anything of a little help in addressing the issues on the
basis of serious position and sincere attitude for implementing the DPRK -U.S.
Joint Statement, the issue of denuclearization of the Korean peninsula might
also have seen much progress.
In his
historic policy speech, Comrade Chairman of the State Affairs Commission of the
Democratic People’s Republic of Korea said that, given the persistence of
deep-rooted hostility between the DPRK and the U.S., it is necessary for
implementation of the 12 June DPRK-U.S. Joint Statement that both sides give up
their unilateral demands and find a constructive solution which would meet each
other’s interest.
And he
said that, to this end, it is requisite for the U.S. to fold its current method
of calculation and approach us with a new one.
The 12
June DPRK-U.S. Joint Statement is the commitment which the two countries have
pledged to the world and the humankind, and it is the task both sides should be
jointly accountable for.
The DPRK
remains unchanged in its stand and will to cherish and implement in good faith
the 12 June DPRK-U.S. Joint Statement personally signed by the supreme leaders
of the DPRK and the U.S. at the first-ever DPRK-U. S. summit talks.
However,
if the U.S., a dialogue partner, fails to carry out its obligation and keeps
resorting to anti-DPRK hostile policy, the fate of the 12 June DPRK-U.S. Joint
Statement will not be promising.
Whether
the 12 June DPRK-U.S. Joint Statement will remain effective or turn out to be a
mere blank sheet of paper will now be determined by how the U.S. would respond
to our fair and reasonable stand.
Nearly
one year now since the declaration of the historic 12 June DPRK -U.S. Joint
Statement, the U.S. should duly look back on the past one year and cogitate
about which will be a correct strategic choice before it is too late.
The U.S.
would be well-advised to change its current method of calculation and respond
to our request as soon as possible.
There is
a limit to our patience.
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