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DPRK's Satellite Launch Is Legitimate Right of Sovereign State: Foreigners
Pyongyang, April 7 (KCNA) -- Foreign figures released statements between March 27 and April 1 in support of the DPRK's plan for launching a satellite for peaceful purposes.

Lyne Sinyodyium, councilor of the European Society for the Study of the Juche Idea, in a statement said that the DPRK can launch satellite as an independent and sovereign state as other countries do and no country has the right to find fault with the DPRK's satellite launch.

The Bulgarian Group for the Study of the Juche Idea in a statement noted that the DPRK deserves the right to develop modern technologies including the study of space for peaceful purposes as a sovereign state.

Julio Ballesteros Espin, chairman of the Ecuador-Guaranda Institute for Friendship and Cultural Solidarity with the Korean People, in a statement said that the DPRK's planned satellite launch is a right of a sovereign state by all accounts, adding that the DPRK will as ever shine as the country of independence, peace and friendship.

Andreas Hugo Pareira, chairman in charge of Defence, Security and International Relations of the Central Directive Council of the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle, in a statement said that no country, to say nothing of an international organization, has the right to interfere in the DPRK's projected satellite launch or criticize it as the satellite to be lifted is for earth observation.

Phanindra Raj Pant, secretary general of the Nepali Association for Supporting the Songun Politics and co-secretary general of the Afro-Asian People's Solidarity Committee of Nepal, in a statement noted that the DPRK has strictly abided by international norms and regulations on the peaceful use of satellite launch and ensured utmost transparency in a bid to contribute to deepening international cooperation and trust in the fields of scientific researches into space and satellite launches.

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