UNITED NATIONS - The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) on Tuesday vowed to continue its cooperation with all the parties concerned for "unconditional resumption of the Six-Party Talks."    

The statement came as Pak Kil Yon, the vice-foreign minister of the DPRK, was speaking at the general debate of the UN General Assembly.

"The DPRK will in the future, too, make strenuous efforts to establish a durable and lasting peace mechanism on the Korean peninsula and will continue to cooperate with all the parties concerned for unconditional resumption of the Six-Party Talks."

The Six-Party Talks, involving China, the DPRK, the United States, the Republic of Korea, Russia and Japan, began in 2003. Six rounds of talks were held before stalling in December 2008.  

"The DPRK joined the UN proceeding from its desire to defend world peace and achieve common prosperity of the mankind together with all UN members and has since remained faithful to the purposes and principles of the UN Charters as it had pledged," he said.

"However, in the present international relations the logic of power and high-handed politics become all the more undisguised negating the principle of sovereign equality against the efforts and desires of the UN member states," he said.

Meanwhile, the vice-foreign minister also voiced his support for the Palestinian statehood bid at the United Nations.

"The DPRK which recognized Palestine state in 1988 supports its UN admission and expresses its conviction that the aspirations of the Palestine people will be translated into a reality," he said.      

On the economic construction, the vice-foreign minister said, "The DPRK government concentrates all its resources on economic construction with main emphasis on significantly improving the people's livelihood, thus achieving unprecedented remarkable successes."

"The economic construction in the DPRK will make a meaningful contribution to the efforts of the international community to bring about regional development and to attain the UN Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), a set of eight anti-poverty targets to be reached by 2015, he said.

"In this context, a stable and peaceful environment is a vital prerequisite for the DPRK and its people today in their struggle for economic construction," he said.  "To our regret, the Korean peninsula is not yet provided with a lasting and stable peace mechanism."

On the issue of denuclearization, he said, "The DPRK government remains consistent in its stand to secure peace and stability and move towards denuclearization of the Korean peninsula through dialogues and negotiations."

"The present circumstances of the Korean peninsula require all the parties concerned to seize the opportunity of dialogue and take courageous decision to act boldly on solving the fundamental issues," he added.