“However it’s our judgment that there isn’t a prospect, at this time stage, for the US to essentially withdraw its hostile coverage in the direction of the DPRK,” he added.
The Ambassador was talking on the sixth, and remaining day of the high-level week of the General Assembly. After being held nearly final yr due the coronavirus pandemic, this yr’s gathering featured “hybrid” actions that included leaders in particular person together with digital members.
United States involvement
For Mr. Track, it is “the need of the worldwide neighborhood to see peaceable decision of the problem of the Korean peninsula within the pursuits of the Korean nation.”
Three a long time because the finish of the Chilly Conflict, he stated, the peninsula “continues to be in a vicious cycle of ever-looming aggravation of rigidity and confrontation.”
The ambassador argued that the “primary root trigger lies within the hostile coverage in the direction of the DPRK”, principally from the US.
“Worse nonetheless, they’ve a false impression that the US has develop into hostile in the direction of the DPRK because of the nuclear concern,” he stated, however the US has been “antagonizing the DPRK for greater than 70 years.”
Enough navy energy
For the Everlasting Consultant, “the attainable outbreak of a brand new warfare on the Korean peninsula is contained not due to the US’s mercy on the DPRK.”
“It’s as a result of our State is a rising dependable deterrent that may management the hostile forces of their makes an attempt for navy invasion,” he stated.
“We’ve got saved dependable energy to defend ourselves by exerting steady efforts, with a transparent perception into the demand of the instances which necessitates us to own adequate may for nationwide protection within the face of the geopolitical surroundings and the steadiness of energy on the Korean peninsula in addition to ever-straining worldwide relations.”
He confused, nonetheless, that his nation doesn’t want to use this energy in opposition to any nation. “In different phrases, we’d by no means violate nor endanger the safety of the US, South Korea and our neighboring international locations,” he defined.
United Nations’ reform
Pointing to the COVID-19 pandemic, international warming and conflicts all around the globe, he stated “it’s no exaggeration to say that the worldwide neighborhood is confronted with essentially the most severe disaster because the founding of the UN.”
To handle these challenges, he proposed modifications to the United Nations system, significantly the Safety Council.
“[It] doesn’t say a single phrase concerning the reckless arms buildup and warfare legal acts by particular international locations, such because the US, and its following forces. It as a substitute finds faults with the simply self-defensive measures of the DPRK at each probability,” he stated.
To reform the Council, he proposed to Member States that the “illustration of creating international locations, which make up majority within the UN, ought to be elevated.”
For him, it can also be “crucial” that the resolutions adopted on the Security Council may very well be rejected by a contravening decision from the Normal Meeting.
Subsequent, he requested the worldwide neighborhood to “revitalize the work of the UN primarily based on the ideas of sovereign equality and respect for equal rights and self-determination of the individuals.”
Mr. Track additionally pointed to a world marked by “chaos, dysfunction, bloodshed and violence” that’s attributable to international intervention.
The Ambassador stated that, to this present day, some international locations “attempt to unilaterally impose the western values and ‘guidelines primarily based worldwide order’ upon sovereign states behind the signboard of ‘defending democracy’ and ‘defending human rights’.”
For him, “such an try to intervene within the inside affairs is a gross violation of the precept of sovereign equality.”
