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STORY: UN / DPRK
TRT: 2.19
SOURCE: UNTV
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH/ NATS
DATELINE: 24 JANUARY 2014, NEW YORK CITY / FILE
FILE – RECENT, NEW YORK CITY
1. Wide shot, exterior United Nations headquarters
24 JANUARY 2014, NEW YORK CITY
2. Zoom in, dais
3. Wide s shot, journalists
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Sin Son Ho, Permanent Representative of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea to the United Nations:
“We propose taking practical measures in heartfelt response to the warm call for creating a favourable atmosphere for improving the north-south relations. It is the invariable stand of the army and the people of the DPRK to mend the north-south relations and to achieve national reconciliation and unity.”
5. Med shot, photographer
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Sin Son Ho, Permanent Representative of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea to the United Nations:
“If the South Korean authorities have a true intent for improving the north-south relations, they should definitely end the vicious cycle of slandering and hatred that are a hamper to all, and listen to the voices of fellow countrymen calling for reconciliation of the nation.”
7. Med shot, journalists
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Sin Son Ho, Permanent Representative of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea to the United Nations:
“The South Korean authorities should take a crucial political decision of cancelling Key Resolve and Foal Eagle military exercises.”
9. Med shot, journalists
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Sin Son Ho, Permanent Representative of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea to the United Nations:
“If the coordination and cooperation with the United States are so precious and valuable, they had better hold the exercises in a secluded area or in the US, far away from the territorial land, sea and air of the Korean Peninsula.”
11. Med shot, reporters
12. SOUNDBITE (English) Sin Son Ho, Permanent Representative of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea to the United Nations:
“We propose taking practical measures, beneficial to each other, to prevent a nuclear holocaust from being inflicted on the Korean Peninsula. The de-nuclearization of the Korean Peninsula is a goal common to the nation. This is also the invariable will of the army and the people of the DPRK.”
13. Med shot, reporters
14. Wide shot, end of press conference
The representative of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) told journalists today (24 Jan) in New York that his government had presented a set of “practical measures” to South Korea in order to create “a favourable atmosphere for improving the north-south relations.”
Ambassador Sin Son Ho noted that the Pyongyang government had issued an open letter with these proposals and said that “if the South Korean authorities have a true intent for improving the north-south relations, they should definitely end the vicious cycle of slandering and hatred that are a hamper to all, and listen to the voices of fellow countrymen calling for reconciliation of the nation.”
A key point of the proposal would require the South Korean Government to cancel the Key Resolve and Foal Eagle joint military exercises with the United States.
The DPRK diplomat said that “If the coordination and cooperation with the United States are so precious and valuable, they had better hold the exercises in a secluded area or in the US, far away from the territorial land, sea and air of the Korean Peninsula.”
The proposal also calls for “taking practical measures, beneficial to each other, to prevent a nuclear holocaust from being inflicted on the Korean Peninsula.”
Key Resolve and Foal Eagle are Field Training Exercises conducted annually by the South Korean Armed Forces and the United States.
