[2017-01-31]



















A spokesman for the Foreign Ministry, in a statement on January 26, clarified the foreign policy stand of the DPRK government.

He said that the country smashed reckless acts of the hostile forces to provoke a war of aggression, apply sanctions and pressure and intensify psychological warfare against it on the strength of the invincible political and military power and firmly defended national sovereignty and dignity and peace and security in the Korean peninsula and Northeast Asia.

He mentioned that the international community had a better understanding of the danger and injustice of the hostile forces’ policy of hostility to the DPRK and nuclear threat and blackmail against it and voiced increasing support and solidarity with it, and the country bolstered up bilateral friendly and cooperative relations with different countries and strengthened mutual support and cooperation on the international stages.

The DPRK will work proactively to develop foreign relations in line with the status of a dignified independent power, a nuclear state, by carrying out the tasks related to the foreign policy Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un put forward in his New Year Address, he said.

The DPRK’s buildup of nuclear forces is an inevitable option and exercise of its legitimate right to self-defence to cope with the US, the largest nuclear state in the world which has adopted nuclear preemptive attack on it as its policy and brings the dark cloud of nuclear war to the Korean peninsula while shipping its enormous strategic assets and aggressive forces into it, he stated.

The statement continued:

We will continue to build up our self-defensive military capacity and the capability for preemptive strike, the pivot of which is the nuclear forces, as long as the US and its vassal forces keep on nuclear threat and blackmail and as long as they do not stop the war games they stage at our doorstep disguising them as annual events.

Our defence capacities and nuclear forces are never a thing to invade and threaten anyone, but a powerful sword and righteous deterrent to defend our sovereignty and right to existence, peace and security in the region and the rest of the world.

We will defend peace and security of our state at all costs by our own efforts and make a positive contribution to safeguarding global peace and stability.

It is the consistent stand of the Workers’ Party of Korea and the DPRK government to expand and develop the relations of good neighbourliness, friendship and cooperation with those countries championing independence according to the ideals of its foreign policy--independence, peace and friendship.

This year we will direct efforts to expanding contacts and exchanges with countries that have long historical traditions of friendship and cooperation with us and consolidating the bonds of friendship.

We will improve relations and actively promote multi-faceted exchange and cooperation in the political, economic and cultural fields with all countries that respect our sovereignty and are friendly toward us, though different in ideology and system.

This year, too, we will work hard to oppose and reject all sorts of high-handed and arbitrary practices and application of double standards including the unreasonable and illegal sanctions and pressure rackets against the DPRK in close cooperation with various countries on the international stages including the UN, establish an independent and fair new international order and realize genuine international justice.

We will also make joint efforts to settle international issues like anti-terrorism, disputes and environment and promote common development and prosperity of humankind.

We will, as ever, remain committed to the ideals of our foreign policy, further raise the international influence of the country and develop foreign relations in a proactive and diversified manner.





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