The DPRK delegate reiterated this stand at the session of the Ad Hoc Committee on International Terrorism of the UN General Assembly on April 11.

Terrorism is rampant in different parts of the world despite the international community's efforts against it, he said, noting that military aggression and interference in the internal affairs of sovereign states and serious human rights abuses committed under the pretext of "war on terrorism" are being connived as just.

Armed invasions of sovereign states and massacres by the U.S. in different parts of the world, the Middle East in particular, are typical of state terrorism and human rights violation, he said, adding:

Every international effort against terrorism should be made in line with the objective and principle of the UN Charter and relevant international laws, and such actions as armed invasion of sovereign states under the pretext of "war on terrorism" should not be allowed in any case.

The DPRK delegation considers that the Comprehension Convention on International Terrorism, now under making, should include the ways for preventing terrorism by state army. It also reckons that the UN Special High-level Meeting on Counter-Terrorism will be helpful to correctly confirming the root cause of terrorism and taking relevant steps.

The DPRK government firmly maintains the consistent stand of opposing all forms of terrorism and any support to them.