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The UNSC should become a body responsible for substantially ensuring the international peace and security and not act a tool for justifying specified countries' moves to meet their strategic interests, he stressed.
Saying that the principle of impartiality should be thoroughly observed in the activities of the UNSC, he held that disputes should be settled mainly by parties concerned through peaceful dialogues and negotiations.
Coercive steps such as sanctions and use of armed forces should be strictly rejected, a system under which UNSC resolutions shall take effect only with the approvals of the UN General Assembly should be set up and the UNSC should never be a stage unreasonably dealing with only the issues of developing countries, he stated.
The UNSC should be reformed as soon as possible in keeping with the rapidly changing situation, he said, and went on:
What is important here is to help the non-aligned and other developing countries making up the overwhelming majority of the UN member nations to fully exercise their representative right.
The DPRK calls for increasing the number of UNSC non-permanent member nations, a quite possible proposal, before handling the issue of expanding its permanent member nations. This is its view concerning the issue of the expansion of the UNSC.
Even if permanent member nations are expanded, such a country as Japan, a past war criminal state which is distorting the past history of aggression, far from settling it, should never be allowed to assume a permanent seat on the UNSC.
It is also important to take immediate steps to ensure the openness in the activities of the UNSC.
