Briefing Held for Diplomatic Envoys Here

Pyongyang, December 3 (KCNA) -- The Foreign Ministry of the DPRK organized a briefing for diplomatic envoys here on Friday as regards the fact that a new "sanctions resolution" against the DPRK was cooked up at the UN Security Council on Nov. 30. At the briefing Han Song Ryol, vice-minister of Foreign Affairs, referred to the principled stand of the DPRK on the UNSC's "sanctions revolution" against the DPRK. "Sanctions resolution" taking issue with the DPRK over its nuclear warhead explosion test held in September last was fabricated by the UNSC, he noted, saying the DPRK totally rejects it as another excess of authority and violation of sovereignty by the UNSC totally denying the sovereignty of the DPRK, going beyond its authority. It is the U.S. that spawned the nuclear issue on the Korean peninsula and it is also the U.S. that pushed the DPRK to have access to nuclear weapons, he said. The UNSC has no authority to prohibit a sovereign state from exercising its right to self-defense such as steps for bolstering defense capabilities including nuclear test and there is no provision in the UN Charter and any international law which stipulates that nuclear test poses threat to international peace and security, he said, adding: It is the very wise and just option proven in practice that the DPRK has built a powerful deterrence while overcoming difficulties after shaping it as a state line to go nuclear. Diplomatic envoys said they have a clear understanding of the stand of the DPRK on the UNSC's "sanctions resolution". -0-