Respected Comrade Kim Jong Un Visits War Martyrs Cemetery

 

Pyongyang, July 26 (KCNA) -- Kim Jong Un, general secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea and president of the State Affairs of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, visited the Fatherland Liberation War Martyrs Cemetery on July 25 on the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the victory in the great Fatherland Liberation War.

He was accompanied by Minister Kang Sun Nam and other commanding officers of the DPRK Ministry of National Defence and commanders of the services and commanders of large combined units of the Korean People's Army.

Kim Jong Un laid a flower before the Fatherland Liberation War Martyrs Cemetery.

He paid high tribute to the martyrs of the great years who honorably defended the sovereignty and security of the country and people with bloody victory and at dearly cost and provided the precious ideological and moral heritage and tradition of victory as an eternally invariable cornerstone for the mightiness of the DPRK.

He said that the miracle of July 27, the first defenders of the DPRK brought about while reliably safeguarding the outpost of the anti-imperialist struggle in an eastern part of the earth, is a victory of the distinguished and ardent patriotic cause of the army and people of the DPRK who devotedly defended the honor and sovereignty of the country and, at the same time, a great victory of significance in the human history as they inflicted eternally indelible disgrace and defeat on the U.S. imperialism, the chieftain of aggression, and prevented a new world war.

Saying that the precious war victory won by the victorious wartime generation at the cost of their blood and lives and the victory always won in the unyielding confrontation with the U.S. imperialism for 70 years through centuries and generations is a genuine example of defending the country and peace which clearly impressed the whole world with the entity of the people's country and just state that no force can conquer, he stressed this is the proud dignity and prestige established in the 5 000-year-long history of the Korean nation.

A country, great in history and tradition and steadfast in succession, is invincible, he said, affirming that the DPRK, the most dignified and independent powerful country in the world, will always emerge victorious when the heroic spirit and fighting trait displayed in the great years are creditably inherited as the irresistible might peculiar to the Korean revolution.

Respected Comrade Kim Jong Un Visits Cemetery of CPV Martyrs

 

Pyongyang, July 26 (KCNA) -- Kim Jong Un, general secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK) and president of the State Affairs of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), visited the cemetery of martyrs of the Chinese People's Volunteers (CPV) in Hoechang County of South Phyongan Province to pay a high tribute to them on the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the victory in the great Fatherland Liberation War.

He was accompanied by Jo Yong Won, Presidium member of the Political Bureau and secretary of the WPK Central Committee, Kang Sun Nam, minister of National Defence of the DPRK, Choe Son Hui, minister of Foreign Affairs, Kim Song Nam, department director of the WPK Central Committee, and Kim Yo Jong, vice department director of the WPK Central Committee.

The guard of honor of the Korean People's Army (KPA) lined up at the cemetery.

The national anthems of the People's Republic of China and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea were solemnly played.

Amid the playing of the wreath-laying music, a wreath in the name of the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un was laid at the monument to the CPV martyrs.

Written on the ribbons of the wreath were letters reading "Martyrs of the Chinese People's Volunteers will Be Immortal".

Kim Jong Un paid a silent tribute in memory of the CPV martyrs who unsparingly dedicated their precious lives to the righteous war of the Korean people to repel the imperialist aggression.

Then, he placed a flower before the grave of Mao Anying at the cemetery and paid a tribute to him.

He made a round of the cemetery, together with senior officials accompanying him.

He said that the noble soul and spirit of sons and daughters of the Chinese people who supported the Korean people in the sacred anti-imperialist, anti-U.S. struggle with their heroic sacrifice and made an important contribution to the war victory are obviously recorded in history as a foundation and model of the DPRK-China friendship to be immortal along with the socialist ideal.

Noting that the hard-fought Fatherland Liberation War was a war of justice to defend their dignity, honor and sovereignty as well as the world peace and security and an acute political and military confrontation with the imperialist dominationist forces which was staged on behalf of the peace-loving forces and the progressive mankind, he stressed that the great victory won by the peoples of the DPRK and China at the cost of their blood is invariably displaying its great vitality still now, century after century.

He said that the noble life of the CPV martyrs would be immortal in the hearts of the Korean people and that the history and tradition of unity between the peoples of the two countries, who forged the bonds of kinship in the sacred struggle for accomplishing the cause of anti-imperialist independence and socialism and have resolutely smashed the reactionary offensive of the imperialists by dint of justice and truth, would be reliably carried forward through generations.

 

Press Statement of Minister of National Defence of DPRK

 

Pyongyang, July 20 (KCNA) -- Kang Sun Nam, minister of National Defense of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), issued the following press statement on July 20: In  defiance  of  the  repeated warning  by  the  DPRK  and  serious  concern  of  the international community, the U.S. and the group of traitors of the "Republic of Korea" (ROK) held  a  meeting of the  "nuclear  consultative group" on  July 18 to  discuss the plan for using nuclear weapons against the DPRK.

In particular, the hostile forces posed the most undisguised and direct nuclear threat to the DPRK by bringing an Ohio-class strategic nuclear submarine to the Pusan Port operation  base,  which  means  strategic  nuclear  weapons  have  been  deployed  on  the Korean peninsula for the first time after 40 odd years.

This  shows  that  the  U.S.  scenario  for  a  nuclear  attack  upon  the  DPRK  and  its implementation have entered the most critical stage of visualization and systemization and the phase of a military clash on the Korean peninsula has surfaced as a dangerous reality beyond all sorts of imagination and presumption. Among the nuclear-armed nations of the world, the U.S. is the only country which openly made it its policy to use its nuclear weapons against a specific country.

No one will be able to deny the gravity and dangerousness of the security environment facing the DPRK in the light of that fact alone. The  U.S.  and  the  traitors  of  the  "ROK"  are widely advertising the  deployment  of gigantic strategic nuclear weaponry of the U.S. We  correctly  know  why  such  weapons  have  found  themselves  on  the  Korean peninsula and where they came from. As  the  U.S.  and  the  "ROK"  gangsters  have  gone  beyond  the  "red  line"  in  their military  hysteria,  now  is  the  time  for  the  DPRK  to  make  clear  once  again  its corresponding action choice and response direction. The  military  security  situation  in  the  area  of  the  Korean  peninsula,  which  has undergone a fundamental change due to the reckless military moves of the U.S. and its

followers,  more  clearly  indicates  what  mission  the  nuclear  weapons  of  the  DPRK should carry out.

Through this press statement, I remind the U.S. military of the fact that the ever-increasing visibility of the deployment of the strategic nuclear submarine and other strategic assets may fall under the conditions of the use of nuclear weapons specified in the DPRK law on the nuclear force policy.

The  DPRK's  doctrine  on  the  use  of  nuclear  weapons  allows  the  execution  of necessary  action  procedures  in  case  a  nuclear  attack  is  launched  against  it  or  it  is judged that the use of nuclear weapons against it is imminent. The U.S. military side should realize that its nuclear assets have entered extremely dangerous waters.

I seriously  warn  once  again  the  U.S.  and  the  "ROK"  military  gangsters'  group daringly touting the "end of regime" in our country. To the U.S. and the "ROK", any use of their military muscle against the DPRK will be  their  most  miserable  choice by  which  they will  have  no  room to  think  of  their existence again.

The armed forces of the DPRK will responsibly carry out their important mission for defending the country's sovereignty, territorial integrity and fundamental interests and  preventing  a  nuclear  war  on  the  Korean  peninsula and  in  the  Northeast  Asian region by thoroughly deterring and repelling the crazy maneuvers of the U.S. and its stooges to use nuclear weapons on the Korean peninsula.

Press Statement of Kim Yo Jong, Vice Department Director of C.C., WPK

 Pyongyang,  July  17  (KCNA)  --  Kim  Yo  Jong,  vice  department  director  of  the Central  Committee  of  the  Workers'  Party  of  Korea,  made  the  following  press statement on Monday: Recently the U.S. side builds up public opinion that the DPRK does not respond to dialogue. This is a tendency reflecting the uneasy and anxious mind of the U.S. which has continuously witnessed the thing it most fears in recent days.

The  present  situation  in  the  Korean  peninsula  has  reached  such  a  phase  that  the possibility  of  an  actual  armed  conflict  and  even  the  outbreak  of  a  nuclear  war  is debated, going far beyond the phase of acute confrontation between the DPRK and the U.S. created in 2017.

As I had already clarified who is entirely responsible for the situation, this time I am going to refer to the absurdity of "dialogue without any preconditions" and "opened door of diplomacy" much touted by the U.S. in public. We had held a series of dialogues and negotiations with the U.S. since the 1990s. Therefore, we are aware that lurking behind the present U.S. administration's proposal for "dialogue without any preconditions" is  a trick to  prevent the thing it fears from happening again. Even if the DPRK-U.S. dialogue is supposed to start, it is as clear as noonday that the present U.S. administration will put nothing but only "CVID" on the negotiation table.

Today “denuclearization” is an outdated word to be found only in a dictionary of dead words. No matter how hard the U.S. racks its brain, it would be impossible for it to find out the terms and bargaining chip for negotiation with the DPRK. We can predict the possibility that the U.S. may play such old trick as a temporary halt to the U.S.-south Korea joint military drills, to which its preceding president was committed a few years ago, or merely please someone with such reversible things as reduced combined military drills and halt to the deployment of strategic assets. Such a slender trick for earning time can never work on us. Once  decided,  the  strategic  assets  of  the  U.S.  will  be  deployed  in  the  Korean peninsula in a matter of 10 hours and 20 days will be enough for it to resume the joint military exercises by re-deploying troops.

We are well aware that if the U.S. employs such a strategic trick as the end of its military presence in south Korea and withdraws all its troops and military equipment from  south  Korea,  which  is  something  fantastical,  it  will  take  only  15  days  for  the overseas-stationed U.S. troops to return to the "Republic of Korea" and turn it into a military vantage point. It is as easy as pie for the U.S. political circles to exclude the DPRK from the list of "sponsors of terrorism" today but re-list it tomorrow. In the final analysis, we are well aware that what the U.S. can offer to the DPRK in the dialogue is all changeable and reversible. However,  what  the  U.S.  wants  from  the  DPRK  is  the  "complete  and  irreversible denuclearization".

Then,  can  we  exchange  the  eternal  security  of  our  state  for  immediate  benefit, pinning our faith on such reversible commitment? We do not act against our own interests. The U.S. might be well aware why the DPRK has no interest in the dialogue with it.

Even through the recent UNSC meeting on our launch of new-type ICBM, we could clearly  confirm  once  again  how  our  rivals  have  prolonged  their  policy  toward  the DPRK  and  what  a  sweet  dream  they  have,  along  with  the  transfer  of power  from Moon Jae In to Yoon Suk Yeol, and from Trump to Biden. In  the  United  States  of  America  and  the  "Republic  of  Korea,"  any  agreements, signed  and  committed  by  preceding  presidents,  are  instantly  reversed  once  new regimes emerge. That's why we have to adopt a long-term strategy against the "ROK", the top-class stooge of America, and the USA, the empire of world evils, not such individuals as Yoon Suk Yeol or Biden, and build up a mechanism for guaranteeing the prospective security of the DPRK on the basis of overwhelming deterrent.

It is a daydream for the U.S. to think that it can stop the advance of the DPRK and, furthermore, achieve irreversible disarmament through the interim suspension of joint military exercises, halt to the deployment of strategic assets and the reversible sanction relief. We squarely face up and attach importance to the reality. The reality before the DPRK is not dialogue repeatedly touted by the U.S. like an automatic  teller  machine  but  the  nuclear  strategic  bomber  flying  near  the  DPRK regardless  of  time,  air  espionage  of  the  U.S.  violating  our  territorial  sovereignty, convocation of the "nuclear consultative group" meeting openly discussing the use of nukes against the DPRK and the entry of U.S. strategic nuclear submarine into waters of the Korean peninsula for the first time in 40-odd years. The U.S. should know that its bolstered extended deterrence system and excessively extended military alliance system, a threatening entity, will only make the DPRK go farther away from the negotiating table desired by it.

The most appropriate way for ensuring peace and stability in the Korean peninsula at present is to deter the U.S. highhanded and arbitrary practices in the position of might and with enough exercise of power, rather than solving the problem with the gangster-like Americans in a friendly manner. The DPRK is ready for resolutely countering any acts of violating its sovereignty and territorial integrity, threatening the wellbeing of its people and destroying peace and stability of the Korean peninsula. The U.S. should stop its foolish act of provoking the DPRK even by imperiling its security.

What  the  U.S.  witnessed  in  a  worry  a  few  days  ago  is  just  a  beginning  of  the DPRK’s already-launched military offensive.

KCNA's Detailed Report on Mass Movement Conducted during War

 Pyongyang, July 24 (KCNA) -- The Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) Sunday made public  a  detailed report on  the great  vitality of the  all-people  mass  movement widely  conducted  in  the  front  and  the  rear  in  hearty  response  to  the  appeal  of  the leader during the 1950-1953 Fatherland Liberation War. The report said that the heroic service persons and civilians of the DPRK opened the roads of victorious advance, vigorously conducting an all-people mass  movement in the  front  and  the  rear  during  the  fierce  war,  in  hearty  response  to  the  appeal  of President Kim  Il  Sung for  the  all-people  resistance  "Go  All  Out  for  Victory  in  the War". Stressing that the wise leadership of Kim Il Sung who powerfully aroused the army and  people  to  victory  in  the  war  was  the  motive  power  that  gave  full  play  to  mass heroism across the country, it went on to say: He set forth the basic strategy of the  revolutionary war  for  turning the Fatherland Liberation War into an all-people resistance and defeating the aggressors by the united efforts of the popular masses and made sure that unique mass movements of Korean style  were  launched  on  a  wide  scale  to  give  full  play  to  the  strong  mental  power peculiar to the Korean people. The radio addresses, delivered by the President to all the Korean people on June 26 and July 8, Juche 39 (1950), made all the people harden their determination to fight for the  leader  and  the  country  to  the  last,  stirring  up  the  movement  of  volunteering  for military service on the war front. This all-people movement, vigorously launched at the beginning of the war, gained further momentum day by day, with the number of  volunteers reaching more than 1 249 000 in mid-August. It made a great contribution to steadily reinforcing the Korean People's Army (KPA) ranks and increasing its striking power on the front. With  a  deep  insight  into  the  position  of  company  in  increasing  the  KPA  combat ability, the President took the initiative in the model company movement in October 1951, on the basis of the revolutionary work method created during the anti-Japanese war. The  first  model  company  was  produced  in  February  1952  on  the  occasion  of  the Day  of  Army  Founding  under  the  meticulous  guidance  of  the  great  brilliant commander.

The ranks of model companies and model soldiers had rapidly increased with each passing day, bringing up nearly 400 model companies and tens of thousands of model soldiers in the whole army in a matter of one year. The "My Height" movement, launched by the KPA officers and men on the front to defend the heights of the country at the cost of their lives, true to the militant slogan "Don't give up even an inch of land to the enemy!" set forth by the President, was a manifestation of their noble patriotic spirit and self-sacrificing spirit. Hero Han Kye Ryol was the pioneer of this movement. In April 1951, he heroically defended a nameless hill with his 12 comrades-in-arms, saying at his last moment that "Height of the country is mine." The "My Height" movement, conducted by servicepersons themselves, spread to all the front line units and sub-units in the summer of 1951. The revenge-register movement was a powerful mass movement launched by the brave KPA soldiers to work off the grudge of fallen comrades-in-arms and civilians during the war. The  flame  of  the  movement  was  kindled  in  the  company  which  produced  Hero Kang Ho Yong, who threw himself down the group of enemies with a hand grenade in his mouth when he was badly wounded in the battle in February 1951. The movement turned the whole front into a scene of annihilating the enemy. The  movement  for  winning  the  "Minchong" weaponry,  launched  by  the  KPA  in hearty response to the Party's militant call for annihilating more enemies by giving full play  to  the  might  of  combat  weapons,  reflects  the  noble  patriotic  spirit  of  the victorious wartime generation. In April 1951, Hero Jo Kun Sil killed and wounded numerous enemies by pressing the trigger of his heavy machine-gun with his jaw when he was injured in both arms and  legs in  a  battle.  The  honorable  title  of  "Minchong"  was awarded  to his  heavy machine gun No. 236, and this was the origin of the movement. Amid the flames of the powerful mass movement, the title of "Minchong" weaponry was awarded to over 3 460 weapons and combat equipment in a year alone. During the three-year war, the mass movement of patriotism and innovation was vigorously conducted at workplaces and villages to fully display the irresistible might peculiar to heroic Korea. From  the  beginning  of  the  war,  the  civilians  in  the  rear  turned  out  in  the  mass movement for wartime production under such slogans as "The rear is, as it were, the front!" and "Let us produce and supply, even one bullet and rifle, more and faster for the fighting valiant People's Army soldiers!" With the  single  mind  to produce and supply  more  weapons to  the KPA soldiers more  quickly,  the  working  class  across  the  country  conducted  various  patriotic movements including the multi-machine tending movement, the movement for using time in a rational way, the  movement for  new creative ideas and the campaign for lowering the production cost. In the whole period of the war, transport workers waged a vigorous campaign to create new norms in the volume of freight transport and the running distance. Workers  and  technicians  of  the  Pyongyang  Locomotive  Section  launched  a campaign  to  reduce  the  locomotive  repair  period  and  carry  more  goods  under  the slogan "Let us mobilize all locomotives for the front without stopping!" A mass movement was briskly launched in the rural areas to ensure the victory in the war with increased food production. After  the  first  torch  of  the  plow-woman  movement  in  the  spring  of  1951,  the movement developed into a mass movement, with more than 3 650 women in North Phyongan Province and over 2 690 women in South Phyongan Province involved in 1951. The number of those involved in the movement increased to at least 5 000 in Hwanghae Province alone in 1952. The  high-yielding  movement,  started  with  the  fact  that  the  President  highly appreciated  a  model  peasant  in  Cholwon  County  of  Kangwon  Province  in  August 1950  who  made  a  success  in  rice  farming  by  improving  farming  methods  and introducing  high-yielding  seeds,  developed  into  an  all-people  emulation  drive  for high-yielding, promoting the wartime increased food production. A movement for donating funds for weaponry was conducted on a large scale amid the high enthusiasm of all the people. People from all walks of life took an active part in the movement and, consequently, a lot of cash, grain, and precious metals were donated and planes, tanks, and warships named after  "Rodongja"  (worker),  "Minchong"  (democratic youth),  "Taehaksaeng" (university student), "Sonyon" (child) and others were sent to the front. As a mass patriotic movement, a campaign for donating relief grains to the front was launched among peasants. This campaign originated from the fact that Kim Il Sung sent a letter of thanks to peasants of Phyongwon County in November  1952,  after receiving their joint letter along with the relief grains they donated to the front. In South Phyongan Province alone, 6 390 straw bags of relief grains were donated till late February 1953. All peasants across the country participated in the campaign which lasted for six months from early November 1952 to late April 1953. The mass movement, which gave full play to the indomitable mental power, ardent patriotism, burning hostility, and popular heroism of the army and the civilians who turned out in the do-or-die resistance, rallied as one in mind around the great leader during the war, is shining as the great vitality that brought about the immortal history of victory in the war and made the DPRK always emerge victorious in the course of its development and as a proud national custom to be carried forward forever.