The "resolution" once again proved that the UNSC, obliged to regard it as its mission to ensure the rights to independence and existence of member states, has been reduced to a nominal puppet international body, the statement said, and went on:

The Korea Asia-Pacific Peace Committee clarifies the following principled stand of the DPRK in connection with the fact that the U.S.-led hostile forces conspired with each other to deny outright the legitimate rights of the DPRK, a justice-loving sovereign state, and persist in their reckless moves to isolate and stifle it:

1. We resolutely reject the UNSC "sanctions resolution" against the DPRK as an unheard-of hideous provocation to it.

The "resolution" reflecting the U.S. inveterate repugnance toward the DPRK is the worst-ever violation of the sovereignty of the DPRK. It stretches out its tentacles to even the sector of the living of the people in the DPRK under the signboard of "filling the gaps" of the "sanctions" imposed in the past on it.

It is self-evident that such "resolution" invented by the U.S.-led hostile forces, which totally deny the sovereignty and vital rights of the DPRK, will enrage its army and people.

2. It is the principled stand of the DPRK that if the "sanctions resolution" adopted by the UNSC is attributable to the nuclear weapons and rockets just as claimed, the U.S. should first face the harshest sanctions as the very one chiefly responsible for them.

The U.S. is entirely to blame for spawning the nuclear issue on the Korean peninsula.

It is none other than the U.S. which compelled the DPRK to emerge as a nuclear power in the East, possessed of a variety of powerful rockets.

It will be the supreme and urgent task of the UN to strictly check the moves of the U.S. wantonly violating peace and security on the Korean peninsula and in Northeast Asia and keenly seeking a chance to launch a war.

3. The army and people of the DPRK will smash the ferocious "sanctions" by the U.S. and its vassal forces through the toughest counteractions and thus reliably defend the sovereignty of their country and vital rights of the nation.

The more desperate moves of the U.S. to infringe upon the sovereignty of the DPRK and deny outright its rights to existence and development under absurd pretexts will only spark the latter's tougher countermeasures and result in imperiling the security of the U.S. and economic interests of countries to be involved in the sanctions racket.

The world will clearly see that the jungle law-based brigandish logic pursued by the "sanctions resolution" to wantonly violate the supreme interests of the DPRK can never work.