TEHRAN (Tasnim) – North Korea’s Foreign Ministry lashed out on the G7 on Tuesday, calling the bloc a Cold War relic that ought to preserve its nostril out of the affairs of different international locations, and finish its existence altogether.
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“I resolutely reject and most strongly condemn the ‘joint statement’ of the G7 foreign ministers’ meeting, which is peppered with groundless and unreasonable accusations seriously encroaching upon the dignity and sovereignty of the DPRK,” North Korean Department of International Organizations Director-General Jo Chol Su advised reporters, responding to the G7 assertion put out following the bloc’s international ministers’ assembly in Tokyo on November 8, Sputnik reported.
Characterizing the G7 as a bloc representing “only a few countries’ interests,” Jo confused that it has “lost the justification for its existence,” and is a “legacy of the Cold War” that “should be dismantled immediately” as a “first step toward defusing the present international crisis and restoring global peace.”
Jo accused the G7, whose members embody the United States, Britain, Italy, Japan, France, Germany and Canada, plus the European Union, of inflicting and fomenting a collection of worldwide crises, from Ukraine and the Middle East to the Taiwan Strait, the South China Sea and the Korean Peninsula.
For the G7 to attempt to “find fault” with the actions of unbiased, sovereign states just like the DPRK is constitutes “a mockery of and an insult to the international community aspiring after fairness and equity,” the senior North Korean diplomat mentioned. “I think (the) G7 had better look at its image reflected in the eyes of the international community first before accusing others.”
“Even at this moment, the US is shipping cluster bombs and depleted uranium bombs, the usage of which are completely banned by international law, and other deadly weapons and huge lethal war hardware to Ukrainian battlefields to deliberately undermine peace and stability in the European region. In the Middle East, it is conniving at and fanning up indiscriminate military strikes in Gaza Strip while zealously shielding Israel’s hideous massacre of civilians as ‘the right of defense’,” Jo mentioned.
“Meanwhile, it is keen on muscle-flexing in the Taiwan Strait and other parts of the South China Sea, talking about ‘freedom of navigation’, ‘international order based on rules’ and ‘opposition to change of the status quo by force or coercion. It has staged a series of bilateral and multilateral joint naval military exercises with their allies to escalate the regional military tensions to the maximum.
On the Korean Peninsula, it is pushing the situation to the brink of a nuclear war by establishing different nuclear confrontation policies, including the ‘Washington Declaration’, and accelerating the efforts for routine deployment of its strategic nuclear submarines, strategic bombers and other nuclear strategic assets,” the diplomat added.
Jo accused the US’s G7 allies, together with Japan, Britain, France, Germany and Canada, of stoking tensions and having “disgraceful records” doing “considerable harm to international peace and security,” citing, for instance, to Britain’s provision of depleted uranium tank shells and long-range missiles to Ukraine, the deployment of naval forces to the Asia-Pacific, and strikes to intensify nuclear tensions within the Pacific by the AUKUS pact with the US and Australia.
“All facts go to clearly prove that (the) G7 is a confrontational group of destroyers and violators of peace and stability who stir up and aggravate distrust, conflict, confrontation and armed clash across the world,” Jo mentioned, including that the G7 is “the main stumbling block to the establishment of a just international order.”
North Korea’s response follows the G7 Foreign Ministers’ assertion calling on Pyongyang to unilaterally denuclearize and liquidate its missile applications in a “complete, verifiable, and irreversible manner,” and slammed the DPRK over claims of arms transfers to Russia.
The Group of Seven emerged throughout the Cold War, with the primary summit of the G6 international locations happening in 1975 (Canada would be a part of the bloc a 12 months later). The European Economic Community – predecessor to the European Union, was invited to hitch all future summits in 1977 as a non-enumerated member. Russia was invited into the G7 in 1998 as a sweetener to encourage the Yeltsin authorities to proceed its market reforms and give up Moscow’s strategic pursuits to the West, however had little energy to sway bloc coverage. Russia was suspended from the G8 at first of the Ukrainian disaster in 2014, and introduced its everlasting withdrawal in January 2017.
With the rise of the BRICS bloc of nations (Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa, and from January 1, 2024 onward Argentina, Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates), the G7 is steadily shedding its dominant standing in world financial and geopolitical affairs, accounting for some 30 % of the world’s whole GDP, in comparison with 37 % for the BRICS.
North Korean media have hailed the rise of BRICS, characterizing the Global South country-led bloc’s rising energy as an element that may velocity up the top of the domination of the US dollar in world commerce.