Spokesman for Korean Jurists Committee Slams Hostile Forces' Harsh Sanctions against DPRK

Pyongyang, March 25 (KCNA) -- A spokesman for the Korean Jurists Committee issued a statement on Thursday hitting out at the U.S. and its followers for slapping unilateral sanctions against the DPRK in the wake of the forcible adoption of the UNSC's "resolution on sanctions" No. 2270. The statement said that the DPRK's H-bomb test is a self-defensive measure for defending the country's sovereignty and national right to existence from the U.S. aggressive hostile policy toward the former and daily-increasing nuclear threat to it. It went on: The satellite launch of the DPRK, too, can never be a problem as it is an legitimate exercise of the right to explore space granted by international law. The U.S. pressed the UNSC into adopting the "resolution on sanctions," finding fault with a sovereign state's right to self-defense and legitimate right. This is a blatant violation of the DPRK's sovereignty, a serious threat to world peace and security and the height of the brigandish arbitrary practice. As it has become clear that the hostile forces' moves to impose harsh sanctions on the DPRK to stifle it are aimed to infringe upon its right to existence and bring down its "social system," its toughest countermeasures are entirely just in the light of not only international law but also the right to self-defence. The harsher sanctions to be slapped by the U.S. and its followers against the DPRK would only make its self-development capability stronger and precipitate their miserable end. -0-