N. Korea condemns U.N. non-proliferation resolution

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SEOUL, Sept. 30 (Yonhap) -- North Korea vowed Wednesday not to be bound by the
latest United Nations resolution on non-proliferation and disarmament, saying it
will never give up its nuclear weapons under any circumstance.
A spokesman for the North's Foreign Ministry told the Korean Central News Agency
(KCNA) that the prerequisite to global denuclearization is the United States and
other heavy possessors of nuclear weapons carrying out their own disarmament and
abolition.
The unnamed spokesman quoted by the KCNA, monitored here, then said that North
Korea has no choice but to stick to its nuclear deterrent to safeguard regional
peace and security as well as its national interest in the face of nuclear
threats from the U.S.
The U.N. Security Council last Thursday unanimously adopted a resolution to stop
the proliferation of nuclear weapons in a bid to seek a safer world for all and
to create the conditions for a world without nuclear weapons. Resolution 1887 was
adopted shortly after U.S. President Barack Obama, who holds the rotating council
presidency in September, opened the summit.
"The bottom line is that the U.N. resolution 1887 is a dual-standard document
which failed to reflect international society's general wish and opinions," the
spokesman said in response to a question from a KCNA reporter.
In a gesture that appears to leave the door for dialogue open, however, the
spokesman stressed that North Korea will strive for the denuclearization of the
Korean Peninsula in the context of Washington's nuclear policy toward Pyongyang
and the global effort to build a world free of atomic weapons.
ycm@yna.co.kr
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