Ja Song Nam, North Korea’s Ambassador to
the U.N., recently submitted a formal letter to Ban Ki Moon, U.N. Secretary General, informing him that adoption of the Third Committee’s recently
passed resolution on human rights in North Korea is unacceptable.
The Secretariat
of the U.N., in compliance with Nam’s request on the 24th of last month that the letter and an addendum be circulated
among the UN General Assembly and Security Council, posted them to its homepage on December 1st.
The document claimed that the European
Union [EU] and Japan have chosen to challenge North Korea by not acknowledging
its leadership and acting in accordance with hostile policies of the U.S.
“Hostile policies of the
U.S. seek to prevent us from conducting a new nuclear test. North Korea will act
freely, without regard to any international resolutions, “ the document read, going on to
repeatedly stress the possibility of a fourth nuclear test.
Attached to the letter was a statement by
North Korea’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, released just after the passing of
the human rights draft resolution, criticizing the act as a “political
provocation” and declaring that Pyongyang plans to respond by strengthening its
war deterrence.
“We will not have our nuclear experimentation suppressed by the hostile
behavior of the U.S.,” the statement goes. “The deterrence through negotiation
with U.S. forces and invasion schemes only serve to make us infinitely
stronger.”
