Tenet of DPRK's Consistent Foreign Policy

Pyongyang, January 7 (KCNA) -- The Party and government of the DPRK are making positive efforts to usher in a new chapter of developing the foreign relations in line with its changed international position. Respected Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un clarified in his New Year Address that the Party and government of the DPRK would remain committed to the ideals of their foreign policy of independence, peace and friendship, expand and develop the relations of good-neighbourliness, friendship and cooperation with those countries championing independence, and make concerted efforts with them to ensure genuine international justice. The ideals of the DPRK's foreign policy clarified by him serve as important guidelines giving clear answers to the principled matters of boosting its external relations on its own initiative and ensuring the dignity and interests of the nation at the highest level in line with its status of independent power and a nuclear power. The DPRK's strategic position has reached the highest level since its founding. Independence is the main principle being maintained by the government of the DPRK in its external relations. The DPRK, by strictly adhering to the principle of independence in its external relations, could invariably and dynamically advance along the road chosen by it, despite the raging wind raised by the reactionary forces of history against socialism worldwide and the hegemonic powers' evermore undisguised high-handed and arbitrary practices. Today when those imperialists are getting evermore undisguised in their war moves, the DPRK's nuclear deterrence for self-defence serves as a powerful weapon for defending peace. It is the consistent foreign policy stand of the DPRK to improve and normalize the relations with those countries which respect its sovereignty and are friendly toward it though they had been hostile to it in the past. The DPRK will invariably adhere to the tenet of its foreign policy-- independence, peace and friendship-- and make positive contributions to the independent development of the world in the future, too. -0-