According to it, the U.S. imperialists ignited the Korean War on June 25, 1950 and on Dec. 17 of the same year labeled the DPRK as "a hostile country threatening the U.S. security." It severed all economic relations with the DPRK including freezing of its assets, stop to trade and investment, financial transaction and transport, pursuant to the "Trading with the Enemy Act".

In the 1960s with the "Foreign Aid Act" in force the U.S. totally barred the government, business groups and banks from dealing with the DPRK. In the 1970s and 1980s it escalated sanctions against the DPRK in all fields of economy such as trade, investment, insurance, credit, loan and lease on the strength of the Trade Act, the "Foreign Economic Emergency Measure Act" and the "Export and Import Bank Act".

On Jan. 20, 1988 the U.S. groundlessly labeled the DPRK as "a sponsor of terrorism" and invoked all sanction acts including the "Foreign Aid Act", the "Arms Export Control Act" and the "International Banking Organs Act".

According to the Geneva DPRK-U.S. Agreed Framework in October 1994 the U.S. promised to provide light water reactors to the DPRK. But, it dragged on the project and finally stopped it, laying big obstacles to the DPRK's development of self-supporting nuclear energy industry.

The U.S. and its followers cooked up anti-DPRK resolutions 1718 and 1874 at the UN Security Council meetings in 2006 and 2009, groundlessly pulling up it over its nuclear test for self-defence and launches of satellites for peaceful purposes, slapping new harsh sanctions on it worldwide.

In April this year they cooked up the UNSC presidential statement "critical" of the launch of satellite Kwangmyongsong-3, kicking off an anti-DPRK campaign calling for additional sanctions.

The sanctions imposed by the U.S. and its followers upon the DPRK involve not only the military field but almost all other fields. Restrictions and embargo are imposed upon all things ranging from materials necessary for people's living to delivery of major industrial equipment and the transfer of latest technology.

Pursuant to domestic acts and UN resolutions, etc. the U.S. is enforcing the freeze of the DPRK's assets, bans on aid, financial transaction and assistance, loan contracts, search operations against suspicious ships in the open seas, confiscation of banned materials and control over all the exports and imports of materials related to all types of weapons.

There are more than hundreds of acts and measures of the U.S. for applying sanctions against the DPRK.

They are slapping double and treble sanctions upon the DPRK through the "Wassenaar Arrangement on Export Controls for Conventional Arms and Dual-use Goods and Technologies," etc.

To cite just an example, the U.S. prevented other countries from exporting raw Vanadium to the DPRK in 2009, on the plea that it might be used for missile production.

There are thousands of materials and technologies on which embargo is put like this.

They enforce an embargo on equipment for chemical industry under the pretext that they may be diverted to dual-use and are controlling even the delivery of raw materials for cosmetics, claiming that they may be used for the production of chemical weapons. They are banning the export of long-bed vehicles to the DPRK by this or that way under the pretext that they may be used as carriers or launchers of missiles.

As far as humanitarian aid is concerned, they block it, talking about "dismantlement of nukes" and "transparency." They have become so mean as to claim rice should not be provided to the DPRK as it may be diverted to military use and it is advisable to provide only confectionery or nutrients that cannot be kept for a long time and even in that case they should be given little by little every month.

Noting that the Lee Myung Bak regime of south Korea is most zealous in executing the U.S. sanctions against the DPRK, the memorandum goes on:

In July 2008 the Lee group of traitors unilaterally derailed the tour of Mt. Kumgang which had been conducted for nearly 10 years, driving the work in the Kaesong industrial zone to an extreme crisis.

It was more desperate in the moves to cook up UNSC resolutions on sanctions against the DPRK.

Even at present the Lee group is busy with diplomacy intended to implore other countries to refrain from investing, giving humanitarian aid and having any deal with the DPRK.

The U.S. and the Lee group are sadly mistaken if they think such mean sanctions would help shake the faith and will of the Korean people and break the single-minded unity.

Neither sanctions nor pressures can hold in check the dynamic advance of the DPRK along the road of independence, Songun and socialism.