United Nations (UN) Secretary General Antonio Guterres visited South Korea, North KoreaThe statement came from Pyongyang, after China reiterated its determination to completely denuclearize.
Kim Son Gyong, North Korea’s Deputy Foreign Minister for International Organizations, said in a statement that Guterres’ remarks were “contrary to the obligations of his mandate at the UN and extremely far from impartiality and fairness”. “The UN secretary general should not seek or accept orders from the government of a particular country and refrain from taking any action that could harm his position as an international official accountable only to the UN,” the statement said. “Disarmament is a violation of North Korea’s sovereignty as it demands unilateral disarmament, and UN Secretary-General Guterres is perhaps well aware that North Korea rejects it outright and uncompromisingly.”
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“The history of the conflict between North Korea and the United States shows that lasting peace and stability on the Korean peninsula will never be achieved unless the United States, the world’s largest nuclear armed power and the world’s only nuclear criminal, abandons its illegal and hostile policy,” the statement said. “North Korea’s access to nuclear weapons is an indispensable choice to defend the security of its state and people, and to ensure its development independent of US hostile policy and nuclear threat and blackmail,” the statement said.
‘WE RECOMMEND NOT GOING TO THE FIRE’
Emphasizing that the UN “must see international justice and equality of sovereignty as the basic principle of its activities”, it was noted that Guterres, as the head of this body, “should always maintain justice, impartiality and objectivity in international relations”. The statement concluded with the statements, “We advise Secretary General Guterres to be careful when making dangerous words and behaviors that are fueling the fire, and instead take steps to help solve the extremely grave problem in the Korean peninsula.”
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UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres reiterated the UN’s determination to completely denuclearize North Korea in South Korea, where he went for official contacts. Guterres, who met with South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol, called for “complete, irreversible and demonstrable nuclear disarmament” in Pyongyang, noting that Seoul’s peacekeeping efforts on the peninsula are supported.
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