On the 19th, North Korea officially rejected the United Nations’ human rights resolutions. The North Korean representatives expressed outrage at the resolution that which suggested that DPRK’s human rights issue be discussed at the International Criminal Court (ICC). The North Korean government mentioned the possibility of recommencing its nuclear experiments and called the resolution a “political provocation” reports Yonhap News.
According to North Korea’s Korean Central News, the representatives stated that it is inevitable for their nation to continue with developing and miniaturizing their nuclear weapons in order to resist American oppression, intervention, and possible invasion, in their attempt to “usurp socialism”. Myeong-Nam Choi, North Korea’s Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs made similar statements following the UN’s decision.
In addition, North Korean representatives criticized the United States, Japan and E.U. that the human rights resolution was made based on false testimonies by defectors. They stated that the document was simply a culmination of faulty information and lies that were designed to bring down the North Korean regime.
There is a grim prospective for attempts to open and expand diplomatic talks with DPRK after this incident. North Korean government officials stated that the international community had closed the doors themselves. Many experts expressed that realistically, European human rights inspectors’ visits to the world’s most isolated nation in the world is cancelled. DPRK Vice Foreign Minister Choi stated that there is no further need for North Korea to talk with the international community.
Not too many are very surprised with North Korea’s reactions, however. While North Korea has recently made attempts to recommence talks with South Korea and other major nations such as the United States, they have been continuing to develop weapons of mass destructions and threatening South Korea of provocation by force. Only last month a U.S. military satellite witnessed the KPA (Korean People’s Army) commission a number of nuclear missile submarines, and their soldiers provoked the South Korean soldiers who were guarding the DMZ.
