Songdowon International Children's Camp

A spokesperson for the Foreign Ministry of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea gave the following answer to a question raised by KCNA on May 15 as regards the fact that Britain committed an extremely provocative act of putting the Songdowon International Children's Camp into the recently-issued list of sanctions against Russia. The DPRK Foreign Ministry spokesperson said:

Songdowon Football pitch

On May 11, the British Foreign Office included our Songdowon International Children's Camp in the list of sanctions, while announcing "sanctions measures" against Russia's "organisational activities" to "forcibly transfer" and "militarise" Ukrainian children.

Such a reckless act by Britain is a heinous unethical politically-motivated provocation to tarnish the external image of our state and disparage the DPRK-Russia relations of friendship and co-operation by unreasonably linking our children's camping facility with the groundless issue of "forcible migration" of Ukrainian children.

We strongly denounce and reject the malicious act of the British government which even targets the camp, a sacred base for education and growth of children, to achieve its purpose of political machinations.

So far, Britain has zealously followed the US acts of hostility toward the DPRK, taken issue in every way with the exercise of the sovereign rights of our state, and participated in the war drills against the DPRK at any time, thus systematically aggravating bilateral relations.

The British government's recent designation of the Songdowon International Children's Camp as a target of "sanctions" as part of its conspiratorial moves to demonise Russia is an intolerable insult to our dignified state and proves that its hostility toward the DPRK is exceeding all limits.

Now that Britain has committed such reckless acts as even toying with the rights and interests of the children that our state values the most, we have the adequate right to counter London's malicious behaviour.

The British government will be wholly responsible for all the consequences to be entailed from its grave hostile act toward our state.

(KCNA, Pyongyang, May 15)

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