Bonakele Majuba, secretary of the Mfumalanga Provincial Committee of the South African Communist Party who doubles as chairman of the South African Association of Friendship and Solidarity with Korean People, in a statement on March 25 said that the "resolutions on sanctions" adopted by the UNSC against the DPRK, a sovereign state, are a wanton violation of its right to legitimate satellite launch.

This amounts to escalating the racket of the U.S. and its followers to stifle the DPRK, the statement noted, adding: They should stop any act of straining the situation on the Korean Peninsula.

The statement extended full support to the Korean people in their just struggle to defend the sovereignty of the country.

Tin Tun, director of the Myanmar Medical Research Institute, in a statement on March 19 strongly rejected the UNSC's "resolutions on sanctions" against the DPRK.

The statement said that the satellite launched by the DPRK is aimed to develop its science and technology and improve its people's living standard and its nuclear test was conducted to protect the country's sovereignty and people's right to existence, to all intents and purposes.

The U.S. moves compelled the DPRK to take stronger countermeasures for defending its sovereignty and security, it stressed, adding:

The Korean people will never pardon the U.S. moves to justify its hostile policy toward the DPRK, create an atmosphere of international sanctions to stifle it, but intensify space development and nuclear activities, its independent and legitimate rights.