Kim Jong Un Enjoys Performance Given by Art Squad of KPA Unit 531

    Pyongyang, March 12 (KCNA) -- Supreme Commander of the Korean People's Army Marshal Kim Jong Un together with service persons of the KPA enjoyed the performance given by the art squad of KPA Unit 531.
    Put on the stage were such colorful numbers as narration and chorus "Strength of Korea", agitation drama "Let Us Reap Richer Bean Harvest ", dramatic witticism "Let Us Glorify the Name of the People's Army", poem and story-telling "There Is South Sea before Us" and chorus "All Servicepersons and People Will Become Human Bullets and Bombs".
    Through the performance the artistes sang high praises of the unchangeable mode of the KPA counteraction to counter the enemies coming in attack with a dagger with a sword, a rifle with an artillery piece and nukes with precision nuclear strike means of Korean style more powerful than them.
    Watching the performance, the audience pledged themselves to deal deadly blows at the enemies and victoriously conclude the great war for national reunification once an order is issued by the Supreme Commander.
    He was greatly satisfied with the fact that the artistes of the art squad of KPA Unit 531 staged a splendid performance reflecting the noble ideological and moral traits and militant mettle of the KPA to always emerge victorious in confrontation with the enemies, thinking of a battle only awake or asleep.
    He highly estimated the performance as a perfect one firm in the ideological stand as it fully represented the prevailing grave situation.
    Among the audience were Choe Ryong Hae, Hyon Yong Chol, Hyon Chol Hae and Pak Jong Chon.

Kim Jong Un Gives Field Guidance to Fish Farm

    Pyongyang, March 11 (KCNA) -- The dear respected Marshal Kim Jong Un gave field guidance to the Ryongjong Fish Farm.
    He said the Ryongjong Fish Farm is a typical fish farm of the Songun era built at the initiative of leader Kim Jong Il and under his energetic guidance.
    He recollected the long and tiresome journeys made by Kim Jong Il, exerting devoted efforts to bring about a fresh turn in fish breeding as required by the new century, saying he could not forget November 21, 2010 when he visited there, accompanying the leader.
    At the general control room he watched the real-time measurement of the quantity, temperature, pH and oxygen content of water in indoor and outdoor fish ponds with the help of computers and underwater cameras' monitoring of the physiology of fishes.
    What is important in fish breeding is to put fish farming on a scientific basis, he noted, adding this would make it possible to keep fish production going at a high rate.
    He went round the fish ponds built along the water way of the Ryongjong spring.
    He was pleased to watch sturgeons and fishes of various other species in the ponds.
    Watching the Ryongjong spring from which water was flowing into the fish ponds in an endless stream, he recalled that when water stopped gushing out from the spring, service persons and employees of the fish farm turned out to restore it into its original state. Water supply is of particular importance for fish farming, he added.
    Feasting his eyes at the food factory and protein food factory standing near the outdoor ponds, he said with deep emotion that they were visited by Kim Jong Il.
    He said people cannot substantially benefit from fish farms if the supply of food for fishes is not put on a par with fish production no matter how many modern ones are built.
    Seeing the letters displayed in the compound of the fish farm "Sturgeons go to sea while the DPRK advances into the world", he told the officials to add the letters "Satellites enter space". World-startling miracles are being worked in various parts of the country through a dynamic drive for breaking through the cutting edge under the wise leadership of our party, he added.
    Noting that the Ryongjong Fish Farm is crystal of Kim Jong Il's love for people, he proposed erecting a monument to the undying leadership feats of Kim Jong Il and displaying his portrait in the compound of the farm to convey his loving care to posterity.
    He told the officials and employees of the fish farm to play a pioneer's role in translating the desire of Kim Jong Il to provide the people with more fish into reality.
    He was accompanied by Choe Ryong Hae, Kim Kyok Sik, Kim Yong Chol, Pak Jong Chon, Rim Kwang Il and An Ji Yong.

 

Kim Jong Un Inspects Islet Defence Detachment

    Pyongyang, March 11 (KCNA) -- Supreme Commander of the Korean People's Army Marshal Kim Jong Un Monday inspected the Wolnae Islet Defence Detachment, an outpost in the biggest hotspot in the western sector of the front very near from Paekryong Island.
    He saw children on the islet jumping for joy, taking hands of their mothers and held them in his arms one by one before having a photo taken with them.
    He walked along the lane leading to the detachment and learned in detail about the terrains of the islet, deployment of firepower equipment and the soldiers' living for hours.
    He was briefed on the enemy's situation from the commander of the detachment at the observation post.
    He acquainted himself with the troop deployment and targets of the 6th marine brigade of the south Korean puppet army on Paekryong Island and praised the detachment for being fully ready to go into action in order to cope with the enemy's attempt at provocations.
    He underscored the need to keep increasing the density of fire and steadily modify and supplement the proposal for assignment of fire power duties and use of artillery pieces in order to cope with the enemy's changed troop deployment.
    He specified before the commanding officers of the detachment and the leading members of the artillery unit of the 4th Army Corps of the KPA who accompanied him the order of strike and density of fire for wiping out enemy's targets including radar posts, detectors for artillery pieces, Harpoon launching base, 130mm multiple rocket and 150mm self-propelled howitzer batteries under the 6th marine brigade of the south Korean puppet army.
    He ratified new regulations for naval operation: To fire threatening warning shells when enemy's warships sail close to waters on the extension of the Military Demarcation Line and fire powerful sighting shells to destroy them when they intrude into them.
    He said his inspection of the islet defence detachments stationed in the biggest hotspot was to accurately learn about the combat preparations and finally confirm the order for precision strike at enemy's targets.
    The enemies are on a knife edge for fear of prompt shelling from the KPA, he said, adding that the enemies feel fretful after straining the situation by staging what they called annual drills in the most sensitive waters where the two opposing sides stand in sharp confrontation.
    As the saying goes that a guy who is fond of playing with fire is bound to perish in flames, all the enemies quite often playing with fire in the sensitive hotspot should be thrown into a cauldron once I issue an order, he said, adding:
    The density of our fire is very high at present and it can strike enemy's targets on Paekryong Island three or four times and turn it into a sea in flames.
    He told the commander of the detachment to photograph enemy's positions engulfed in flames and blown up during a battle and send pictures to the Supreme Command.
    Once an order is issued, you should break the waists of the crazy enemies, totally cut their windpipes and thus clearly show them what a real war is like, he noted.
    As I told commanding officers while inspecting the Jangjae Islet Defence Detachment and the Mu Islet Hero Defence Detachment, if the Supreme Commander issues an order, the artillerymen of the Wolnae Islet Defence Detachment, too, should make the first gun report and signal flare for the great war for national reunification, he stressed.
    Satisfied to see combat positions including the observation post built well in line with the instruction of the Supreme Command on making thorough preparations for all-out action, he said that this detachment is a perfect unit as it has turned into a strike base from a defence one.
    He awarded higher military ranks to the commander and political commissar of the detachment on the spot by an order of the Supreme Commander as they have turned the detachment into an impregnable fortress, unsinkable warship.
    He had a photo taken with Kim Kwang Chol, private third class soldier, on watch duty and commanding officers of the detachment after taking them to his arms.
    He went round soldiers' bed room and education room to take warm care of their living.
    He gave a pair of binoculars and an automatic rifle to the detachment as gifts and had a picture taken with soldiers and their families.
    He enjoyed a performance given by the art group of the detachment soldiers on the same day.
    Praising them for giving a good performance and singing songs well, he said this was a model of the Songun culture. He also praised the detachment for conducting well the political and ideological education as intended by the party.
    He was accompanied by Choe Ryong Hae, Kim Kyok Sik, Kim Yong Chol, Pak Jong Chon, Rim Kwang Il and An Ji Yong.

 

 

Kim Jong Un Inspects Long-range Artillery Sub-unit of KPA Unit

    Pyongyang, March 11 (KCNA) -- Supreme Commander of the Korean People's Army Kim Jong Un Monday inspected a long-range artillery sub-unit of KPA Unit 641 whose mission is to strike and wipe out the enemies on Paekryong Island.
    Expressing expectation and conviction that the soldiers of the sub-unit would remain true to the Songun revolutionary leadership of the party, he gave them a pair of binoculars and an automatic rifle as gifts and had a picture taken with them.
    He received a detailed report from the commanding officers on the combat preparedness of the sub-unit.
    He highly praised the sub-unit for having made perfect combat preparations as required by the operational technological plan of the Supreme Command, grasped all enemy targets and waited for the issue of an order to fire.
    Seeing Juche artillery pieces of the sub-unit, he assigned to it the duty to blow up the headquarters of the puppet sixth marine brigade and its affiliated marine battalions through merciless firepower strikes if the enemies on Paekryong Island make a provocation.
    He assessed the time for preparing shooting while guiding the firepower training of the soldiers of the sub-unit.
    After watching the firepower training of the artillerymen, he praised them for being fully prepared to fire shells right now.
    A modern war is an artillery war and the combat preparations of artillerymen is the one of the KPA, he said, setting forth the tasks which would serve as guidelines for making perfect combat preparations of the unit.
    Each day at present is little short of a real war state in the true sense of the word and for the artillerymen to become master cracks is a combat task which brooks no delay, he said.
    He underscored the need to steadily study and round off new artillery war methods of Korean style in line with the improved arms and equipment of the unit and the changing operational scenarios of the enemies, meticulously organize and command artillery operations and combats and thus give fullest play to the might of artillery pieces.
    Saying that he attaches importance to this artillery unit, he underlined the need to deal blows of justice at the enemies through unimaginably deadly strikes and wipe out the group of aggressors to the last man, if they recklessly provoke.
    He looked round the education room and bedroom of a company under the sub-unit to take deep care of the soldiers' living.
    He expressed great satisfaction again over the fact that the commanding officers and soldiers of the units stationed in the western sector of the front have turned all the operation theatres into impregnable fortresses to defend the party, the revolution, the country and its people at the cost of their lives.
    The areas in the western sector of the front are the biggest hotspot where a war can break out right now due to the reckless provocations of the enemies for aggression, he noted, underlining the need to maintain the maximum alert as required by a touch-and-go situation and make powerful retaliatory strikes at the enemies if they intrude into seas of the country even 0.001mm on which the DPRK's sovereignty is exercised.
    He was accompanied by Choe Ryong Hae, Kim Kyok Sik, Kim Yong Chol, Pak Jong Chon, Rim Kwang Il and An Ji Yong.

 

The Prime Mover behind the Nuclear Issue of the Korean Peninsula

 The United States made an official announcement on January 29, 1958 that it had deployed nuclear weapons in the southern half of the Korean peninsula.

This was how the nuclear issue of the Korean peninsula was created.

Ascribed the defeat of the US in the Korean war (1950-1953) which it ignited to its failure to use atomic bombs, the US politicians speeded up the preparations for a nuclear war in Korea. They shipped many nuclear weapons into south Korea, clamouring that the Korean peninsula is a strategic zone corresponding to an object of the use of nuclear weapons and a testing ground of a nuclear war.

South Korea was turned into the largest nuclear base in the Far East by the mid-1970s. A member of the US House of Representatives in those days confessed that the US had deployed over a thousand nuclear weapons and 54 nuke transport planes in south Korea.

The US worked out many Korea-targeted nuclear war plans which it steadily concretized through various war exercises.

Every year the US and south Korea staged joint war exercises of different code names such as Foal Eagle, Ulji Focus Lens, Rimpac and Freedom Banner, mobilizing a huge amount of nuclear war means enough to fight a real war.

As seen above, Korea has been under the constant nuclear threat of the US for over half a century.

This compelled Korea to pay a special attention to the settlement of nuclear issue. It has made every possible effort to solve the nuclear issue of the Korean peninsula since the US declared it had deployed nuclear weapons in south Korea. Korea entered the NPT and IAEA and signed the DPRK-US Agreed Framework in order to remove nuclear threat of the US and danger of a nuclear war in the Korean peninsula.

However, the nuclear threat of the US was not diminished.

At a DPRK-US talks held in the years of the Clinton administration the US provided assurances to the DPRK against the threat or use of nuclear and all other types of weapons by it and declared that it would not harbour a hostile intent toward Korea.

But all its commitments were not implemented. The Bush administration nullified the DPRK-US agreements its predecessor made and designated Korea as part of the “axis of evil” and a target of preemptive nuclear attack.

Korea could not but withdraw from the NPT and build a self-defensive nuclear deterrent.

Later, at the six-way talks for the settlement of the nuclear issue of the Korean peninsula the US affirmed its will not to attack or invade Korea with nuclear or conventional weapons. And it assured several times that it would improve bilateral relations and move toward establishing the diplomatic relations with Korea.

The United States reneged on this promise, too. On the contrary it intensified its offensive moves to stifle Korea, continuously aggravating the situation in the Korean peninsula.

As proved by the above-mentioned facts, it is none other than the US that is the prime mover behind the nuclear issue of the Korean peninsula and its complication.

Therefore, the US is to blame for the nuclear issue of the Korean peninsula.

Nevertheless, the US has misled the public opinion as if responsibility for it rests with Korea, claiming that the nuclear issue of the Korean peninsula was raised and the situation prevailing in the region became tense because Korea had withdrawn from the NPT and had nuclear tests.

Then please give it a thought. What would have become of Korea and the situation there if Korea has not possessed a nuclear deterrent?

Korea must have been destined to be like Iraq or Libya and the Korean peninsula like the Balkan peninsula in the end of the last century and Afghanistan in the beginning of the new century.

To be more specific, the US would have started a war in the Korean peninsula, the most catastrophic nuclear war the humanity has ever experienced.

But fortunately, Korea had a nuclear deterrent. Herein lies the reason why Korea’s nuclear deterrent is called a sure guarantee for the peace in the Korean peninsula.

The US Must Draw a Lesson from the Pueblo Incident

 

Forty five years have elapsed since the Pueblo Incident occurred, which precipitated a touch-and-go situation on the Korean peninsula.

On January 23, 1968, a naval vessel of the Korean People’s Army, during a routine patrol, captured the US armed spy ship Pueblo and more than 80 of its crew in the act of committing espionage after illegally intruding into the territorial waters of the DPRK.

In capturing them, the DPRK was exercising its sovereign right as a dignified sovereign state.

However, the US clamoured about “retaliation,” claiming that the ship was in international waters and did not engage in espionage. In fact, this was the first American vessel in history that was captured by the navy of a foreign country. It was indeed a great shame for the US. The US political circles were utterly dismayed, the National Security Council meeting on January 24 and 25 in succession and adopting resolutions for military “retaliation.”

Accordingly, a task force with the nuclear aircraft carrier Enterprise as a flagship moved out toward the sea off Wonsan, Korea, and several hundreds of fighter-bombers headed for south Korea. An “emergency mobilization order” was given to the US army stationed in Japan and south Korea.

Not satisfied with this, the US brought in two more aircraft carriers.

The world watched the developments on the Korean peninsula with anxiety. The leadership of the former Soviet Union, an ally of the DPRK, urged its counterpart to release the US ship, reasoning that a war might break out if the DPRK mishandled the incident and the Vietnamese war unleashed by the US, as well as the Spanish war, had been triggered by a ship incident.

To this the DPRK responded by declaring that it would retaliate against the “retaliation” and return all-out war for the “all-out war.”

The DPRK was in full combat readiness, and everyone thought a war was inevitable in Korea.

Facing a duel of force and an exchange of fire, the US backtracked.

Overpowered by the Korean army and people who regarded the sovereignty and dignity of their country as more important than their own lives, the US proposed a dialogue to the DPRK government. In December that year, the US signed a letter of apology in which it confessed that its ship intruded into the territorial waters of the DPRK and committed hostile acts, and gave assurances that it would not do the same in the future. As the then President Johnson admitted, it was the first apology of the US.

Through the Pueblo Incident, the DPRK showed its full determination to fight to the finish against those who infringe upon its sovereignty without making any concession.

The US should have drawn a due lesson from the incident. In later days, however, it has persisted in acts of espionage, military provocations, arms buildup and military drills against the DPRK. Some examples are the shooting down of the spy plane EC-121 in 1969, the Panmunjom Incident in 1976, the crash landing of a helicopter in the DPRK’s airspace in December 1994, and the fleeing of the electronic reconnaissance plane RC-135 after being frightened by the hot pursuit of the KPA plane while perpetrating espionage in the DPRK’s airspace in March 2003. In all these incidents, widely known to the world, the US was subjected to a stern punishment by the DPRK.

Now the US is boisterous about “detente,” “peace” and “end of war” and “dialogue” on the Korean peninsula, but as a matter of fact, it is steeped in political stratagems and military provocations to suffocate the DPRK.

The DPRK is constantly on the alert, keeping a sharp watch for the US moves.

Counter provocations with an immediate counteroffensive, and an aggressive war with a war of justice for the country’s reunification–this is the stand and will of the DPRK’s army and people at present. It may be claimed to be an advanced version of the DPRK’s declaration that it would retaliate against the “retaliation” and return all-out war for the “all-out war.”

The DPRK has already won international recognition as a military power and nuclear state. It has acquired inexhaustible military capabilities of dealing an instant and merciless blow to anybody who intrudes even an inch into its territory, waters and airspace, regardless of where they are from.

The US must never forget the disgraceful incident of 45 years ago.