Saying that women holds an important position and play a huge role in promoting progress and harmony of society and welfare of families, the delegate continued:

The government of the DPRK has taken legal and practical measures one after another to make sure that women fully exercise their rights in all fields of society with equal rights with men.

Under the wise guidance of the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un, women in our country take an active part in state and social activities and make a great contribution to the development of society.

Since it acceded to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women 15 years ago, the DPRK government has sincerely fulfilled the obligation specified in the convention and closely cooperated with international organizations in the field of promotion of rights of women and the protection of their health.

The DPRK government will strive hard for the progress of women and promotion of their welfare, and further strengthen international cooperation and exchanges.

Taking this opportunity, we appeal to the international community to pay due attention to Japan's moves to cover up the crimes related to the sexual slavery for the Imperial Japanese Army.

The crimes are hideous ones against humanity as Japan violated the rights of a large number of women in Asia and several countries and regions of the world after reducing them to the sexual slaves for the Imperial Japanese Army including Korean women numbering 200 000.

But Japan is still trying to cover up in a crafty manner the crimes, while denying it, far from making an apology for them.

Japan insulted the victims of the sexual slavery as "victims of flesh trafficking" and categorically stood against the registration of the issue of the sexual slavery as a heritage in UNESCO records.

Last year in return for paying a few pennies of fund, Japan cooked up a sort of "agreement" to keep the past crimes buried into oblivion and buckled down to implementing it and is demanding the removal of the statue of a girl sexual slave outside the Japanese embassy in south Korea.

No statute of limitations is applicable to the crimes against humanity.

Japan can never evade the responsibility for the sexual slavery and is under obligation to make state and legal acknowledgement of its past crimes and make apology and reparation as demanded by the international community.

Recently the UN is taking issue with the sexual violence committed by UN peace-keeping forces deployed in several regions of the world.

Therefore, the UN should never connive at Japan's moves to embellish and cover up its past act of inflicting the sexual slavery upon hundreds of thousands of women, while still refusing to make official apology and reparation for the crimes.

We hold that the UN has to take to task the south Korean authorities' hideous terrorist act of abducting a group of women citizens of the DPRK in broad daylight but turning down the elementary humanitarian demand for opening their state to public and sending them back to their home.

How to handle these questions serves as a touchstone discerning the true mission of "promoting human rights" professed by the UN and international human rights organizations.

Therefore, we strongly demand that measures be taken to officially deal with the crimes against humanity committed by the south Korean authorities and send them back to the folds of their families as early as possible.