UN General Assembly
2014

unless its members decide in good faith to give up their prerogatives in the interests of democracy. Given the changing times and the demands of the majority of Member States, the permanent member that is most vociferous about the export of democracy should reflect on whether or not its preaching is just hypocrisy. Should the Security Council fail to reform itself and remain out of step with the times, Member States may well opt for a United Nations without such an anachronistic and undemocratic Council. The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea maintains that all problems pertaining to international relations should be resolved not by high-handedness and arbitrariness, but in strict accordance with the principles of sovereign equality enshrined in the United Nations Charter. The nuclear issue is a matter of the sovereignty and the right to exist of a Member State and must take precedence over peace and security. The hostile policy, nuclear threat and stifling strategy pursued by the United States for more than half a century inevitably prompted the decision of the Democratic People’s