I)emocratic People's Republic of Korea PERMANENT ISSION O THEUNITED ATIONS M T N 820 SecondAvenue, 13thFloor, NewYork,N.Y 10017 Tel: (212) 972-3105/3106 Fax: (212) 972-3154 PressRelease Checkagainst delivery Statement H.E. Mr. KIM CHANG GUK by Deputy Permanent Representative the of DemoqattcPeople's Republicof Korea to the tIN at the 2006 substantrve sesslon the Drsarmament of Commission (General Exchange Views) of 11 April, Juche95(2006) New York l t l \ Mr. Chairman, of as you I congratuiate on your election chairmanofthe 2006Session theIINDC, andlook underyour skillful chairmanship' ofthe currentsession forwardto the success aftertwo yearsof setbacks is of At the same time, I feel a sense relief thatthis meeting possible due course to artificialobstacles' in the UnitedNationsdisarmament Mr. Chairman, in on for It would be instructive us to look backon thepastdebates thenuclearissues the states weapon certainnuclear arena includingtheUnitedNations.As we areall aware, international the in to andtheir alliesforcedthe debates be conducted termsofconflict ofvaluesto dominate to and world, not in termsof world peace security saveour planetandmankindfiom nuclear to t9 fai]1ne contribute the on the And for two yeam, IINDC couldnot evenagree agenda, destruction. for nuclear us This actualnucleardisarmament. shows thataslong asthereexiststhe ambition world would be in vain. communityfor nuclear-free the supremacy, eflortsof intemational ' "democracy" "freedom" and beingmobilizedto spread is Today,military strength practically play mainrole. Thepostcold war hopesfor thenuclearweapons the across world, in which nuclear ofnuclearwar haveincreased' freeworld haveall fadedaway,andthreats in issues the tIN is not on peoples the debate nuclear that world Whether couldshowtlhe we respond states weapon If states' thenuclear weapon totally on thenuclear hypocrisydepends on for states an agleement prohibitionof nuclear weapon positlu"tyto ih" callsofthe non-nuclear and ofnucleardisarmament non-proliferation' would be madein tG process *"upon., a big progress Mr. Chairman, to related eachother,andnuclear are and Nucleardisarmament non-proliferation inseparably has disarmament priority to non-proliferation. machinery,the United Statesand its allies set At the SecurityCouncil andthe Lrl.{disarmament issuesfrom eachother, and insist on their odd nucleardisarmamentand non-proliferationasseparate In that only nuclearproliferation is thleat to intemationaipeaceand security.- other words' arguments their nuclear because in threats theworld, iherewould be no nuclear iflrotferation is contained, at are weapons not posingany threats all. of their ulteriorintentions avoidingnuclear only reflects on Their insistence non-proliferation disarmament. As long as nuclearweaponsand threatsof their use exist, the logical conclusionis proliferation of nuclear weapons. of Lr this regard, the Democratic People's Republic ofKorea considersthat the nuclear doctrine the United States is the actual obstacle io nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation' The United Stateshas declaredpre-emptivenuclear strike as its security strategy,1sengrosseo policy in developing new tlpes ofnuclear weaponsand, is applying dual standardsin its nuclear according to its relations with other countries and its sffategic interests' actual The US nuclear doctnne ofuse ofnuclear weaponsii the total negation of the NPT and the threat of threat to world peaceand security.The developmentof l-r"* typ". of nuclear w-eapons, effort for nuclear pre-emptive nuclear strike and dual standardp-olicywould inevitably foil the disarmamentand non-proliferation, and instigatenuclear arrnsrace' Mr. Chairman, ofthe united The nuclear issueofthe Korean peninsula is a direct product ofthe hostile policy Statestowards the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. strike", by "pre-emptive The Bushadministration pursuing ambitionof "regimechange" is the "axis of evil" and"tgannical" state. has TheUnitedStates designated while callingthe DPRK part of the DPRK asa targetofnuclearpre-emptive that strike,anddisclosed it hasmadenewtypesof nuclear weapons attackthe DPRK. to to deterrence In thesecompellingcircumstances, DPRK hadno choiceotherthannuclear the of exercise the counter US's ever-growing the which is a reasonable threatofnuclearattack, sovereign from the foreigninvasion. rightsto defendits territory,peopleandsocialsystem positionof denucleaization The Democratic consistent People's Republicof Koreamaintains olthe Korean peninsula. the TheBeijing Joint Statement 6 partytalksofseptemberlast yearclearlystipulates of andthe of obligations the DPRK andthe USA for the denuclearization the Koreanpeninsula of principlesof simultaneous actions realizethem. to People'Republicof Koreagive However,theUnited States demanding the Democratic that is programfirst, which not only contradicts reason alsoshowsthattheUnited but up its nuclear to States no interest finding realisticwaysto the settlement ofthe nuclearissueof the Korean has in peninsula. its How caathe DPRK put down arms,whentheUS hasnot abrogated hostilepolicy of defrning the DPRK " the main enemy''?How can the DPRK dismantleits nuclearweaponsfirst, when the US weapons? is stepping nuclearwar exercises pre-emptive up strikethe DPRK with nuclear to its with the DPRK by abandoning hostilepolicy WhentheUnited States a mind to co-exist has on it, the DPRK will haveno needof a singlenuclear weapon. of The United States to shouldrefrainfrom setting obstacles the denuclearization the Korean up peninsula furlher,but showpracticallyits will to implement obligations undertheBeijing the any Joint Statement. Thankyou.