calendar>>May 12. 2009 Juche 98

Rodong Sinmun on DPRK's Tough Stand against Hostile Forces' Moves

Pyongyang, May 12 (KCNA) -- The United Nations Security Council is resorting to the sanctions against the DPRK after adopting a brigandish "presidential statement" critical of the DPRK's satellite launch while being embroiled in the hostile forces' anti-DPRK smear campaign. The reality evidently shows that the UNSC is dancing after the tune of the U.S. and, consequently, the principle of sovereignty equality and impartiality, stipulated in the UN Charter, remain in name only and the theory of strength can work on in international arena.

Rodong Sinmun today says this in a signed commentary.

Charging that such hostile forces as the U.S. and Japan are still now asserting the DPRK's satellite launch to be a "ballistic missile launch" and slandering its self-defensive countermeasure as "brinkmanship," the commentary says:

The conclusions and lessons we drew from the present developments are that the hostile forces' moves to isolate and stifle the DPRK are getting more grave and dangerous on a worldwide scale, the sovereignty can be defended only by strength in the present international relations, it was quite right that the DPRK took the road of bolstering up its nuclear deterrent, and each nation should be responsible for its own destiny and defend it to the last, taking the independent stand as a weapon.

The viewpoint the DPRK got after studying the tendency of the Obama administration's policy toward the DPRK in 100 days of its emergence is that this administration is little different from the former Bush administration which had persisted in the policy to isolate and stifle the DPRK.

Invariably keeping the independent stand full of confidence, the DPRK will decisively contain the hostile forces' anti-DPRK sanctions and smear campaign with its toughest action.