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STORY: UN / DPRK
TRT: 2.22
SOURCE: UNTV
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 25 AUGUST 2014, NEW YORK CITY / FILE
FILE – RECENT, NEW YORK CITY
1. Wide shot, exterior United Nations headquarters
25 AUGUST 2014, NEW YORK CITY
2. Wide shot, dais
3. Wide shot, journalists
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Ri Tong Il, Deputy Permanent Representative of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea:
“This Ulchi Freedom Guardian joint military exercise is not simply an annual routine defensive nature military exercise as the US shamelessly continues to advertise to the international community, but this is strictly and totally aggression war exercises and total nuclear war exercises targeted against the DPRK.”
5. Close up, photographer
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Ri Tong Il, Deputy Permanent Representative of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea:
“The United States is not hiding the fact this is purely and totally aimed at Pyongyang occupation by openly declaring they are applying the tailored, so-called tailored deterrence strategy to this exercise. The so-called tailored deterrence strategy is what the US and South Korea finally agreed last year, October, US South-Korea joint annual security consultation meeting.”
7. Wide shot, cameras
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Ri Tong Il, Deputy Permanent Representative of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea:
“In case the UN Security Council is not holding emergency meeting as requested by the DPRK, it will send a very wrong message to the international community. This Council by being silent, continue to be silent, to approve as a rightful action with regards to the United States who has continued to deploy for over half a century, for six decades, whatever number of troops, whatever number of weapons of mass destruction including nuclear weapons, in the doorstep of the DPRK.”
9. Med shot, reporters
10. Wide shot, end of press conference
North Korean Ambassador Ri Tong Il told reporters in New York today (25 August) that the joint military exercises currently being conducted by South Korea and the United States are “not simply an annual routine defensive nature military exercise as the US shamelessly continues to advertise to the international community, but this is strictly and totally aggression war exercises and total nuclear war exercises targeted against the DPRK.”
Ri Tong Il said “the United States is not hiding the fact this is purely and totally aimed at Pyongyang occupation by openly declaring they are applying the tailored, so-called tailored deterrence strategy to this exercise.”
The tailored deterrence strategy, he said, “is what the US and South Korea finally agreed last year, October, US South-Korea joint annual security consultation meeting.”
The North Korean Ambassador told reporters that a letter had been sent to the Security Council requesting an emergency meeting to deal with the matter.
He said that if the Council does not take up the issue, “it will send a very wrong message to the international community.”
He added that the Council continues to be “silent” with regard “to the United States who has continued to deploy for over half a century, for six decades, whatever number of troops, whatever number of weapons of mass destruction including nuclear weapons, in the doorstep of the DPRK.”
This year's US.-South Korea Ulchi Freedom Guardian military exercise is reportedly taking place from 20 to 31 August in and around the Korean peninsula.
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