UN General Assembly
2008

As far as verification is concerned, it is a commitment to be fulfilled by the six parties during the final phase of the denuclearization of the entire Korean peninsula, in accordance with the 19 September Joint Statement. The United States insistence on unilateral inspection of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea is a brigand-like demand to unilaterally disarm the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, the other warring party, by discarding its commitment to the 39 08-53129 denuclearization of the entire Korean peninsula, the core of which is the removal of the United States nuclear threat, in accordance with the 19 September Joint Statement. Now that the United States has broken the agreement, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea is inevitably taking relevant countermeasures based on the principle of action for action. If the six parties are not true to their word in carrying out their respective obligations because of their great lack of trust in one another, no progress will be made at all. That is a lesson drawn from the process of previous Six-Party