Rodong Sinmun on Foreign Policy of the WPK and the DPRK GovernmentThe establishment of diplomatic relations between the DPRK and western countries is a fruition of the independent foreign policy pursued by the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK), says Rodong Sinmun, the leading newspaper of the DPRK, in a signed article Feb.24. It says:Shortly ago, the DPRK established diplomatic relations with Canada and Spain and earlier with the Netherlands and Belgium. Last year Philippines, Italy and United Kingdom opened diplomatic ties with the DPRK and Australia resumed them with it. Independence, peace and friendship are the avowed idea of the foreign policy of the WPK and the DPRK government. The DPRK does not make any discrimination in improving diplomatic relations nor put any conditions. It is the WPK's stand to establish and develop good-neighbourly, friendly and cooperative relations with all the countries that respect the DPRK's sovereignty and are friendly towards it. The international concern for the DPRK is growing deeper as days go by and it has become an irresistible trend for many countries to desire improved relations with the DPRK. This is quite a natural and normal process. The normalization of the relations between the DPRK and various countries in the world would make a positive contribution to ensuring peace and security not only in northeast Asia but the rest of the world. The DPRK government will as ever make a positive contribution to the humankind's common cause of global independence by developing friendly, cooperative and good-neighbourly relations with all the countries in the world that respect its sovereignty and are friendly towards it. |
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