UN General Assembly
2021

The United States spends astronomical amounts of money — more than $700 billion annually — on developing supersonic weapons, long- range precision-guided weapons, new-generation intercontinental ballistic missiles and nuclear strategic bombers, all of which are bound to be used first against the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea in a future Korean war. The South Korean authorities have recently been hell-bent on developing ultramodern weapons with the tacit approval and patronage of the United States, and substantial war equipment has been shipped to South Korea. Such dangerous moves change the balance of military power on the Korean peninsula. Given that the United States and its military ally South Korea are increasing their military threats against the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, no one can deny my country its legitimate right to defend itself by developing, testing, manufacturing and possessing weapon systems equivalent to the ones they possess or are developing.