DPRK Will Not Flinch from Bolstering Nuclear Force: DPRK Representative to UN

Pyongyang, October 8 (KCNA) -- The permanent representative of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea to the United Nations stated that the DPRK would never flinch even an inch from bolstering the nuclear force. Speaking at the General Debate of the First Committee of the 72nd Session of the UN General Assembly that on Oct. 6, he said: For success of nuclear disarmament efforts, the countries that possess largest nuclear arsenals should take the lead in dismantling nuclear weapons, roll back nuclear doctrines of aggressive nature such as "preemptive strike" and withdraw nuclear weapons deployed outside their own territories. With regard to the Nuclear Weapons Ban Treaty (NBT) adopted at the UN in July this year on the initiative of non-nuclear-weapon-states, the disapproval and rejection on the part of nuclear-weapon-states including the U.S. and the military allies cast a gloomy shadow on the prospects of the treaty. The DPRK agrees with the primary focus of the NBT on total elimination of nuclear weapons; however, since the U.S. that poses nuclear threat and blackmail on the DPRK rejects the NBT, the DPRK is not in position to accede to the treaty. Its possession of H-bomb and ICBM is a part of legitimate self-defensive measures to put a definite end to the nuclear threats and hostile policy of the U.S. and safeguard its sovereignty and rights to existence and development. Nevertheless, the U.S. is taking issue with the self-defensive measures of the DPRK for bolstering up its national defense capability, labeling them as "threats" and "provocations". It even rigged up several "sanctions resolutions" against the DPRK at the UN Security Council, thus disguising the issue as one between the DPRK and UN. Should the U.S. ignore the repeated warnings and pounce upon the DPRK with military force at last, the DPRK will inflict severe punishment with its power of self-reliance and self-development it has so far consolidated. -0-