DPRK Foreign Ministry Spokesman Rejects UNSC "Resolution on Sanctions"

Pyongyang, March 5 (KCNA) -- A spokesman for the DPRK Foreign Ministry issued the following statement on Thursday: The U.S. fabricated another "resolution on sanctions" by abusing the UNSC, while finding fault with the DPRK's H-bomb test and satellite launch. The DPRK's access to nuclear weapons is an unavoidable option for self-defense made by it as the U.S., the world biggest nuclear weapons state and the only user of the nuclear weapons, designated the dignified DPRK as an "axis of evil" and target of a preemptive nuclear strike and has persistently escalated the hostile moves and nuclear threats to the DPRK by introducing various kinds of lethal hardware for a nuclear war. The DPRK's H-bomb test and satellite launch are being termed a breach of the previous "resolutions" of the UNSC but, in essence, those "resolutions" are a product of high-handedness practiced beyond the mandate of the UNSC. As for the satellite launch, it is the legitimate right of a sovereign state. The DPRK shaped the 5-year program for national aerospace development through the legitimate exercise of the independent right recognized by international law and according to it successfully launched earth observation satellite Kwangmyongsong-4 which is now under normal operation. Where in the UN Charter is the mandate investing the UNSC with the right to deprive an individual UN member nation of the right to use space for peaceful purposes, a right specified in international law, stipulated? If the DPRK's satellite launch is to be found fault with, it is necessary to call into question all countries that launched satellites including the U.S. The DPRK bitterly denounces and totally rejects all "resolutions" against it including the recent "resolution", which are being misused for sinister political purpose of a big power in wanton violation of the independent right, right to development and right to existence of the sovereign state, as the criminal documents devoid of impartiality, legitimacy and morality. The DPRK's bolstering up of the nuclear deterrent is an exercise of the just right to self-defence which should be done constantly as long as the U.S. persists in its hostile policy, and the DPRK's satellite launch is the work for space development pursuant to the legitimate right of a sovereign state which should be done ceaselessly forever irrelevant to the U.S. hostile policy whose termination is still up in the air. The world will soon witness more steps and actions to be taken by the DPRK on its path of successfully implementing the line of simultaneously developing the two fronts. The U.S. will be wholly responsible for the total failure of the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula as it refused to the last the abandonment of its hostile policy toward the DPRK. -0-