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-9- bases, vital to the security of the country, to inspection by outsiders, including citizens of the USA, which remains an enemy country of the DPRK. Were the DPRK to go down that road, the sacrifices and achievements of the Korean people would be reduced to nought. As the March 12 statement of the Korean government stated: "It we submissively accept an unjust inspection by the IAEA, it would legitimise the espionage acts by the United States, a belligerent party vis a vis the DPRK, and set the beginning of the full exposure of all our military installations. Under our specific conditions, in which the country still remains divided and exposed to the constant nuclear threats from the United States, it will be totally inconceivable to lay our military sites open to the enemies." Clearly learning the lessons of Iraq, the statement continued: "It is an old method of the United

-10- States to satisfy its demands one by one, that is, to demand the opening of one military site today and another tomorrow." Therefore, the DPRK government took the decision to leave the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty to defend its supreme interests - something permissible under international law and allowed for within the terms of the Treaty itself. As a March 15 memorandum of the Korean Foreign Ministry rightly noted, the withdrawal from the NPT was "a self-defensive measure to defend our nation's dignity and its right to survival and a just measure to safeguard the common interests of the non-nuclear weapon States". In his recent press conference, Qian Qichen, the Foreign Minister of China, noted that the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty had no provision for the imposition of sanctions or other punitive measures, and no mention of any penalty for a country that refuses to sign or quits the Treaty.

-11- In recent years we have seen so many examples of the hypocrisy, arrogance and bullying of the United States and its key allies such as Britain. Countries that do not dance to their tune can be blockaded and bombed. Such as sovereign states like Yugoslavia can be shattered like a pane of glass. Iraq must obey every dot and comma of UN resolutions - and a whole series of other arbitrary impositions- whilst Israel can ignore scores of UN resolutions for decades, not simply with impunity but also with an economy that is wholly maintained by US Subventions. Iran, Algeria and Pakistan face varying degrees of pressure on account of suspicions and rumours - many no doubt malicious- regarding their nuclear intentions, but the whole world knows that Israel has a nuclear arsenal and there is an unseemly scramble to get rid of South Africa's bombs and to shred and destroy the evidence solely because the advent of a government where the main role will be

-12- played by the African National Congress led by President Nelson Mandela cannot be stayed off for much longer. Chairman Mao once said that the imperialists had done so many evil deeds that the peoples of the world would never forgive or spare them. Countries that had the capacity to challenge imperialism have been humiliated and destroyed whilst the new colonialists, now in pin striped suits rather than with helmets, from the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund have imposed Structural Adjustment Programmes on countries of South America and Africa that are so severe that in their effects on the mass of poor genocide is not too strong a word to employ in describing them. Korea's just stand for its own independence and that of all countries and peoples is thus supported by hundreds of millions of people around the world who are looking for a clear, militant and courageous lead in present the new world situation.

-13- on the occasion of the visit to New Delhi by Korean Vice President Li Jong ok, Indian Foreign Minister Dinesh Singh told reporters on March 25: "North Korea's withdrawal from the NPT highlighted the shortcomings of the Agreement. The west says it wants us to sign the NPT, but this is unreasonable. The NPT discriminates between the nuclear haves and have-nots." Western hysteria would have us believe that membership of the NPT is near universal and that Korea's withdrawal is something outrageous. But this is far from the case. A glance at the SIPRI (Stockholm International Peace Research Institute) Handbook for 1992, shows that amongst the non-signatories are such important Third World countries as Algeria, Angola, Argentina, Brazil, Cuba, Guyana, India and Myanmar (formerly Burma) & Pakistan. the zionist state of And, of course, L Israel is not a signatory. Furthermore, there are many countries that have joined the NPT but have not signed a Safeguards Agreement. either.h Nor should it be forgotten that the Standard procedure of both the british and

-14- American advices is to neither confirm or deny that their vessels are carrying nuclear weapons. This led the former Labour government of New Zealand to ban both advices from its ports and waters. New Zealand, too, was the scene of the French State terrorist bombing of the free Greenpeace ship, 'Rainbow Warrior', which resulted in the death of which I hitted a young photographer. The secret service agents responsible were later decorated by the French government. The already mentioned SIPRI Yearbook also provides - largely inadvertently - valuable information on how, in the post-Soviet, post-Gulf war world, the attempts have been made to prostitute the LIAEA has been prostituted to serve the ends of the CIA, and of how this is opposed by the Third world countries. Analyst Harald Müller writes (you I will have to excuse some of the phraseology): "In February 1991 at a meeting of the IAEA Board of Governors, Director General Hans Blix stated that the IAEA Secretariat had concluded that paragraphs 73 and 77 gave the Agency the right to investigate any location in the state

-15- Concerned if it had grounds to Suspect the existence of unreported material. " During the June 1991 session of the IAEA Board of Governors, and again before the General Conference, Director General Blix put forward three conditions under which the IAEA would be able to discover operations such as those conducted by Iraq : (a) unlimited access to all 'suspect' facilities in a country; (b) a supply of intelligence on such facilities by member states capable of collecting relevant data (eg: those which possess observation satellites); and (c) full backing by the UN Security Council. With the support of the industrialized States (i.e. the timmy imperialists), the IAEA Secretariat was asked to submit detailed proposals for such reforms. At the December 1991 Board Meeting, the Secretariat presented working papers on special inspections and on the use of intelligence. It was proposed that a 'special unit' to collect and evaluate such data intelligence submitted by member states be installed, reporting directly

-16- to the Director General. Opposition to Safeguards reform focused on this proposal. A group of developing countries, including Algeria, Cuba, India, Iran, Mexico, North Korea and Pakistan, objected to the 'intelligence unit', arguing that this might be tantamount to handing over the IAEA to the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). "That the safeguards issue reopened the North-South divide, with Mexico, the main voice of criticism against the nuclear-weapon States among the NPT developing countries, taking the side of threshold countries, is a serious signal. In their zeal to promote safeguards reform, the industrialised countries have neglected advance consultation with key developing countries." The present international campaign to defend Korea is a campaign in defence of peace, independence and socialism. It There can have and must be no room for sectarianism or pettiness. At the same time, we need to be

-17- clearly aware of the fact that these are Sections of the labour, peace and green Movements, as well as the ultra-left, who will fall for imperialist propaganda and who will sing the same anti-socialist, anti- Asian, anti- Third world and anti- independence tunes. The NCP has a record of not hesitating to take difficult but correct positions on key issues of the international class struggle - Czechoslovakia, Afghanistan, Iraq, Yugoslavia. To the best of its ability it has projected these positions within the broader labour and peace movements. An enormous effort is now needed in this regard. One of the many contributions that the Irish have made to the British labour movement is the words to that magnificent song. 'The Red Flag'. In the Korean language it is called 'Orin Jayug'. It reached Korea in the 1920s and is still one of the most popular songs in the country. I'm sure that all comrades know the Chorus: Though cowards flinch and traitors sneer We'll keep the Red Flag flying here!

-18- That is the message from Pyongyang - from the Korean people and their leaders. Let it also be the message from our meeting tonight. Long live Socialism! Long live the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, the glorious workers' Party and the heroic People's Army! Long live the Korean people's great leader Comrade Kim Il Sung and their respected Supreme Commander Comrade Kim Jong Il! Thank you.