Kim Jong Un’s Declaration

Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, seeing the successful test-firing of ICBM Hwasong 15 at 02:48 on November 29, 2017 in a suburb of the capital city of Pyongyang, declared with dignity: The great historic cause of perfecting the national nuclear forces, the cause of building a rocket power, has been realized today.

In his report delivered at the March 2013 Plenary Meeting of the Central Committee of the Workers’ Party of Korea, he said: The peace and prosperity of the country and people’s happy life are guaranteed by powerful nuclear forces; if we possess the capability to deal a precision strike with nuclear weapons, no aggressive forces will dare attack us; the bigger and more powerful the capability is, the more powerful the deterrent to aggression is; especially in our case, the enemy is the US, the largest nuclear power in the world; as the US poses a constant nuclear threat to our country, we must firmly consolidate our nuclear forces in terms of quality and quantity.

Over the past four years, he has made devoted efforts for the building up of the country’s nuclear forces; under his personal guidance, the DPRK has achieved great successes in the launch tests of SLBM, ground-to-ground IRBMs Hwasong 10 and 12 and ICBM Hwasong 14.

As it now has possessed new-type ICBM system capable of carrying an extra-large, heavy nuclear warhead for striking the whole mainland of the US, the DPRK is capable of defending its sovereignty and territorial integrity as well as the peaceful life of its people.

The great cause of building a rocket power has also been achieved. In the past liquid-propellant rocket motor and sample imitation played the major role in its rocket industry. In February this year it experimented its newly-developed high-thrust solid-propellant motor through the test-firing of the ground-to-ground IRBM Pukguksong 2, demonstrating to the whole world the might of its rocket industry, that the liquid-propellant motor is developed to the solid-propellant motor and the way of sample imitation to the way of creative invention.

Noteworthy was the caterpillar-type launch pad. The 9-axle self-propelled vehicle which was first used in the recent test-firing of ICBM Hwasong 15 is an indigenous product of the DPRK.

The US would be well advised to accept Kim Jong Un’s meaningful declaration, give up its hostile policy towards the DPRK, and take the road of improving its relations with the country.