KIM JONG UN GUIDES KPA SERVICES' DRILL OF HITTING ENEMY NAVAL TARGET

    Pyongyang, January 31 (KCNA) -- A drill of services of the Korean People's Army (KPA) for hitting enemy naval target was staged at the personal initiative of Supreme Commander Kim Jong Un.

    He visited the drill ground to guide the drill, accompanied by Hwang Pyong So, Hyon Yong Chol, Ri Yong Gil, Kim Yong Chol and Ri Pyong Chol.

    He was greeted on the spot by Air Force Col. General Choe Yong Ho, commander of the KPA Air and Anti-Air Force, Air Force Lieut. General Son Chol Ju, political commissar of the Air and Anti-Air Force, Vice Admiral Ri Yong Ju, vice-chief of the KPA General Staff, Vice Admiral Ho Yong Chun, political commissar of the KPA Navy, Rear Admiral Jin Chol Su, head of the East Sea Fleet of the KPA Navy.

    The drill was conducted with main emphasis on rounding off the war method of mounting surprise air and naval attacks on the U.S. imperialists' carrier which sailed into the operation waters in the southern half to make military strikes at strategic targets of the DPRK and helping combat flying corps and submarine units get familiar with combat methods, command and coordination.

    After acquainting himself with the order and methods of services to strike an islet simulating an enemy carrier, he issued an order to the guards air division and groups to make sorties.

    Fighter airmen made zero feet flight and got close to the enemy carrier by boldly breaking through its dense network of anti-air defence and mounted zooming attack on it, giving the enemy no breathing spell.  Then combined submarine units made torpedo attacks in succession from ambushed waters on the enemy forces hit hard by air strikes.

    Underscoring the need to intensify KPA services' maneuvers of striking carrier task group of the U.S. imperialist aggressor forces, he said if the KPA steadily studies and rounds off the war methods of mercilessly striking the enemy's backbone by the guerrillas-style combat method, well aware of his weak points, it is quite possible to send even a carrier to the bottom of the sea. He gave important instructions for bolstering up the operation capabilities of the units of all services.

    The enemies boast of their latest military science and technology but one cannot give precedence to scientific and technological estimation only when making comparison between the military capabilities of the warring parties, and the fight with the enemies is not only the confrontation between arms and equipment and physical strength but the confrontation of mental power and ideology of people, he said, emphasizing our just and great war for national reunification based on the warm love and absolute trust in our own things is sure to triumph.

    Calling upon our generation to force the U.S. to write once again another disgraceful page in the history of its navy, he underscored the need to make the U.S. imperialists experience on their land the dreadful horror, shudder and bitter defeat they have never done in the war with the DPRK.

    He solemnly declared that we have no willingness to sit any longer with the rabid dogs openly barking that they will bring down by the method of bringing about "changes" the socialist system, the cradle which our people consider dearer than their own lives, slandering the ideology and social system chosen by them as "totalitarian" and the like. He said with confidence that the DPRK is ready to react to any form of war, operation and battle to be wanted and chosen by the U.S. imperialists and fully ready to counter any war including a war by conventional armed forces and a nuclear war.

KIM JONG UN PROVIDES FIELD GUIDANCE TO WONSAN SHOES FACTORY

    Pyongyang, January 31 (KCNA) -- Kim Jong Un, first secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea, first chairman of the National Defence Commission of the DPRK and supreme commander of the Korean People's Army, provided field guidance to the Wonsan Shoes Factory.  He was greeted by officials of the factory and the relevant field which took part in the remodeling project.

    He enjoyed a bird's-eye view of the factory. He expressed great satisfaction, saying its appearance has changed beyond recognition and it is very nice to see the remodeled production buildings and clean environment around them. Its mere appearance makes visitors pleasant, he added.

    To update the existing factories is an important work to realize the desire of President Kim Il Sung and leader Kim Jong Il who were always considerate of improving the working conditions and living environment of the workers, he said, adding this was the way of fulfilling the sense of moral obligation towards them.

    He looked round the monument to the revolutionary activities of the peerless great persons of Mt. Paektu erected in the compound of the factory and the newly built room dedicated to its history.

    He praised the factory for successfully building the room in such an instructive manner as to vividly show what course of development it had covered under the leadership of Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il and what successes and experience it has gained in that course.

    He instructed the factory to effectively conduct the education through its history as well as five-point education so that its workers may work well with high pride and honor, bearing deep in mind leadership exploits performed by the party and leaders for the development of their work sites.

    Going round the production processes including the injection-molding work-team, uppers shop and shoe-making shop and cultural and welfare facilities, he learned in detail about its remodeling and management activities.

    Personally weighing shoes, he highly appreciated the factory for making progress in implementing the party's policy on making shoes light. He said that the cultural and welfare establishments, outdoor sports facilities and resting places have been built well and the room for disseminating scientific and technological knowledge has been successfully built to enable the employees of the factory to complete the college course through tele-education.

    He underscored the need to wage a dynamic drive for mass-producing quality and fashionable shoes at the factory as it has been turned into a model and standard of the nation's shoes factories.

    He instructed the factory to make its products with trademark "Maebongsan" popular by making steady efforts with main emphasis on improving their quality.

    Commanding a bird's-eye view of the newly remodeled factory again, he said that it is the factory to be proud of and it is the best one impeccable in all aspects. He noted with pleasure that its employees have every reason to call their factory palace of workers.

    He said that the remodeling of the factory is not simply aimed at updating this factory but face-lifting all light industrial factories across the country like the Wonsan Shoes Factory.

    He asked officials to convey his salute to the officials and builders of the construction company managed by Kim Chang Ryong who devotedly completed the huge remodeling project on the highest level as required by the party. He promised to spare time to have a photo session with them.

    He had a photo taken with the employees of the factory.

    He was accompanied by Han Kwang Sang, department director of the Central Committee of the WPK.

DPRK FOREIGN MINISTRY SPOKESMAN REFUTES SENIOR U.S. DIPLOMAT'S REMARKS ON DIALOGUE WITH DPRK

    Pyongyang, February 1 (KCNA) -- The spokesman for the Foreign Ministry of the DPRK gave the following answer to a question put by KCNA Sunday as regards the fact that the U.S. is working hard to shift the blame for the failure to hold dialogue with the DPRK onto the latter:
    Kim Song, special representative for north Korea policy of the U.S. Department of State, in an interview during his tour of China on Jan. 30 let loose a spate of outbursts that the U.S. always keeps the door of dialogue for engagement and denuclearization open.
    This is a foolish attempt of the U.S. to fan up an atmosphere of sanctions and pressure on the DPRK through "international cooperation" by shifting the blame for the failure to hold dialogue and negotiations for the settlement of the issue of the Korean peninsula onto the DPRK.
    As well known to the world, entering the new year, the DPRK made bold and flexible proposals to defuse the danger of war, ease tension and create a peaceful climate on the Korean peninsula and is making every possible sincere effort to put them into practice.
    It clarified its stand that it is ready to take responding steps for putting a moratorium on nuclear test, a concern of the U.S., in case the latter temporarily halts joint military exercises in south Korea and its vicinity.
    It, at the same time, clarified that it is ready to sit at a negotiating table with the U.S. any time.
    It also invited Kim Song to visit Pyongyang as he expressed his willingness to meet with his counterpart of the DPRK during his visit to Asia this time.
    However, the U.S., in disregard of this, is working hard to shift the blame onto the DPRK, misleading public opinion by creating impression that dialogue and contacts are not realized due to the latter's insincere attitude.
    While talking about dialogue, Kim insisted on the stance that the DPRK should first take its sincere attitude toward denuclearization if dialogue is to start. This means, in essence, refusing dialogue as it is aimed to disarm the dialogue partner, first of all.
    Even the U.S. president openly said that it would bring down the social system in the DPRK. It is preposterous and a height of American-style shamelessness and hypocrisy to claim that the U.S. keeps the door of dialogue with the DPRK open.
    The DPRK feels no need to sit at a negotiating table with the party totally denying the ideology and social system chosen by the Korean people and desperately working to bring down them.
    The DPRK will resolutely counter the U.S. as long as it refuses to make its Korea policy switch and seeks "collapse of system" in the DPRK.

KCNA COMMENTARY ACCUSES U.S. OF HACKING AT DPRK'S COMPUTER SYSTEM

Pyongyang, January 31 (KCNA) -- It has been disclosed recently by U.S. media that the U.S. has snooped on the computer system and other communication facilities in the DPRK.

According to the report based on a top secret document of the U.S. National Security Agency and testimonies made by former government officials of the U.S., it has run the whole gamut of base espionage acts such as gathering information about nuclear development in the DPRK through its cyber-attacks for several years.

Snowden, former agent of the CIA, at an interview with German media, disclosed that U.S. agents had illegal access to the computer network of the DPRK a few years ago and have regularly monitored it after setting up the hacking and tracking program CNE they obtained by hacking at the south Korean computer network. This is clear evidence revealing once again the true colors of the U.S. as a cursed empire of hackers.

Whenever an opportunity presents itself, the U.S. made much fuss over heavy loss it suffered due to cyber-attacks by other countries.

For example, the U.S. kicked off a racket for slapping "additional sanctions" against the DPRK after deliberately linking the cyber-attack on the Sony Pictures Entertainment to the latter.

The U.S. advanced the theory on cyber warfare in the 1990s. Since then, it has organized lots of cyber warfare units, beefing up and developing them.
    It has stepped up preparations for a cyber-war, steadily increasing military expenditure for it under the pretext of "protecting national interests." It set up the cyber command in May, 2010. In October, 2012 Obama issued a secret presidential order regarding U.S. policy on cyber warfare operations, which was meant to enable the U.S. army to mount a sudden preemptive cyber-attack upon any country by mobilizing all means.

Pursuant to the scenario, the U.S. Department of Defense is developing new type cyber weapons capable of jamming and disabling the military systems of other countries even under the conditions that the systems are not connected with the Internet if necessary.

At a secret presidential order, the U.S. agents mounted a cyber-attack code-named "Olympic Games" upon a nuclear facility of Iran and seized the design for its interior operation. They secretly input the malignant virus "Stuxnet" to the inner network system of the Iranian nuclear facility, causing delay in its nuclear activities for peaceful purposes.

Such criminal acts of the U.S. are being openly perpetrated against not only those countries opposed to it but also its allies. The U.S. has further intensified hacking and espionage operations in various parts of the world. This is aimed to gather data necessary for realizing its wild ambition for dominating the world as well as improve and test the methods and means to be used for the future cyber wars.

It is a serious challenge to the international community aspiring after world peace and stability that the U.S. is abusing the latest sci-tech successes for making a weapon for dominating the world. The U.S. is, indeed, a country of war maniacs running riot to realize their wild ambition for hegemony by infringing upon the sovereignty of other countries and even violating and stamping out human civilization. It is also a chieftain of aggression and intervention and a plot-breeding base.

It is by no means fortuitous that the world public is censuring the U.S. acts of harassing the security of the cyber space. It would be well advised to stop running riot, well aware that successes made in the latest information technology are by no means its monopoly.