The core element of the Agreed Framework between the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea and the United States, which was reached on 21 October 1994, is the provision of light-water reactors by the United States on the condition of a freeze on our nuclear activities.
Seven years have passed since…
My delegation is taking the floor to explain its position before a vote is taken on draft resolution A/56/L.9, submitted by Cuba under agenda item 34, entitled “Necessity of ending the economic, commercial and financial embargo imposed by the United States of America against Cuba”.
It is the consis…
I congratulate you, Sir, once again on your election as President of the fifty- sixth session of the General Assembly. I also wish to express high appreciation to Mr. Harri Holkeri, who carried out his duties as President of the fifty-fifth session of the General Assembly in an excellent manner. I w…
My delegation has noted with great attention the report submitted by the Working Group on Security Council reform and would like to present its views on this issue.
Proposals to increase membership of the Security Council and thus ensure equitable representation by all regions constitute an essenti…
The supreme ideal of humankind is to build a free and peaceful world in which people can live an independent and cultured life. Humankind has made continuous efforts to build such a humane
world, but the world humankind hopes to see still remains a dream. International society continues to witness …
My delegation would like to respond to statements by some delegations with regard to the safeguard agreements with the International Atomic Energy Agency. The so-called nuclear issue has been originated with the aim of stifling our country against the background of the international political situat…
I would like to express high appreciation to Ambassador Richard Ryan, President of the Security Council, for having introduced the annual report of the Security Council to the General Assembly.
The number of open-ended meetings of the Security Council has recently increased, thus improving its work…
Terrorism in all its forms and manifestations constitutes a major force that poses constant instability and threats to all countries and peoples. It is, therefore, important, in ensuring world peace and security, that effective measures be taken to eliminate terrorism.
The large-scale terrorist inc…
I first congratulate the President on his assumption of the presidency of the General Assembly at its fifty-sixth session.
My delegation expresses its great appreciation to the Secretary-General for presenting his report on the work of the Organization.
I also take this opportunity to express once…
I should like at the outset to express my thanks to the Secretary-General for his report on the prevention of armed conflict, contained in document A/55/985. In his report, the Secretary- General has defined the prevention of armed conflict as the major United Nations activity for the maintenance of…
Security Council reform remains the most sensitive and complicated political issue in the United Nations. That fact is well substantiated by the seven-year-long discussions that have taken place on that one issue. We regret to note that this year’s numerous meetings of the Open-ended Working Group o…
The delegation of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea wishes to exercise its right
of reply with regard to the references to the so-called nuclear issue on the Korean peninsula by the Director General of the IAEA and by some countries in their statements.
As is well known, the nuclear issue …
The twenty-fourth special session of the United Nations General Assembly, on social development, which was held in Geneva in June of this
year to review and appraise the implementation of the Copenhagen Declaration and Programme of Action adopted an outcome document to further achieve such objectiv…
I have the honour to introduce draft resolution A/55/L.14, submitted under agenda item 183, entitled “Peace, security and reunification on the Korean peninsula”. In the draft resolution the General Assembly would welcome and support the historic inter-Korean summit held at Pyongyang in June this yea…
My delegation is taking the floor to explain its position before the vote on draft resolution A/55/L.9/Rev.1, submitted under agenda item 31, entitled “Elimination of coercive economic measures as a means of political and economic compulsion”.
The Government of the Democratic People’s Republic of K…
I would like first to express my gratitude to the Secretary-General for submitting the report on the work of the Organization to the Assembly at the current session. It provides us with comparatively detailed information on the activities of the United Nations relating to international peace and sec…
On behalf of the delegation of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, I should like first of all to congratulate Mr. Harri Holkeri on his election as President of the General Assembly at its fifty-fifth session. I believe that the present session will produce the desired results under his leader…
Six years have elapsed since the General Assembly first took up the issue of Security Council reform in a process that has been followed with close attention by Member States.
During that period, a number of meetings of the Open-ended Working Group on the Question of Equitable Representation on and…
The delegation of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea takes note of the report of the Secretary-General on the return or restitution of cultural property to the countries of origin, contained in document A/54/436, submitted in association with the Director- General of the United Nations Educat…
As my delegation has clearly and fully pointed out its positions vis-à-vis the nuclear issue on the Korean peninsula both in the First Committee and in the plenary Assembly, it will underline only one point here.
As a group of traitors of the nation that has introduced a large number of nuclear wea…
