DPRK FM's Press Statement

 

Pyongyang, October 28 (KCNA) -- Choe Son Hui, foreign minister of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, issued the following press statement on Saturday:

A "joint statement", issued by the diplomatic authorities of the U.S., Japan and the "Republic of Korea (ROK)" on Oct. 26, is the most politicized document that seriously distorted the friendly and cooperative relations between the Democratic People's Republic of Korea and the Russian Federation and is opposed to the universal principles of international law on establishing relations among sovereign states.

The U.S. and its allies' criticism of the DPRK-Russia relations has not been in existence for only a day or two.

Anyhow, it has become clearer that they have the vital geopolitical interests in illegalizing the DPRK-Russia relations, in view of the present international political situation and the crises the U.S., Japan and "ROK" are facing at home and abroad.

If they have no malice toward the DPRK and Russia, there will be no reason to strain every nerve and feel uneasy about the development of equal and normal relations between the two countries.

If they were curious to prove that the specific sphere of cooperation between the DPRK and Russia posed a "threat" to international peace and security, they should have to clarify beforehand why their triangular military alliance is not regarded as a threat to regional peace and security.

Unlike the shackling and unequal relations among the U.S., Japan and "ROK" which are thoroughly subject to the establishment of U.S. hegemony, the DPRK-Russia relationship is the reciprocal relations of friendship and cooperation based on independent equality and respect for sovereignty.

The bilateral relations are developing on the basis of such recognized principles of international law as national sovereignty, mutual respect, non-interference, equality and mutual benefit under the DPRK-Russia treaty of friendship, good neighborliness and cooperation, a legitimate constitution of international law. This is an intrinsic attribute of the DPRK-Russia relations.

According to the principle of international law on friendly relations and cooperation among the sovereign states confirming with the UN Charter, any nation or group of nations has no right to interfere in the issues belonging to the national sovereignty of states or in internal and external affairs of other countries.

Therefore, the groundless criticism and defamation of the DPRK-Russia relations are just denial and violation of the UN Charter and the recognized international law.

The independent DPRK and Russia do not define their duty according to the direction or deadline specified by others and, moreover, the groundless concern of the U.S., Japan and "ROK" about the DPRK-Russia relations is not a matter for the DPRK to settle.

The DPRK-Russia relations, aimed at promoting the well-being of the peoples of the two countries, do not target the third country, but if peace and security in the region are endangered due to the persistent moves of the U.S., Japan and "ROK" for instability, they will act as a powerful strategic stability element to contain such situation.

It is the steadfast will and stand of the DPRK to comprehensively expand and develop the bilateral relations with the Russian Federation in the idea of independence, peace and friendship and thus build stable, future-oriented and eternal DPRK-Russia relationship in the new era, no matter what others may say.

I express firm belief that the traditional and strategic DPRK-Russia relations of friendship, cooperation and good neighborliness will greet a new higher phase through full implementation of the agreements reached at the historic September DPRK-Russia summit meeting and talks.

DPRK Foreign Ministry Spokesman on Israel's Strike at Palestinian Hospital

 

Pyongyang, October 26 (KCNA) -- A spokesperson for the Foreign Ministry of the DPRK gave the following answer to a question raised by KCNA on Thursday over Israel's recent strike at a hospital in Palestine that killed many people, a great tragedy:

Israel bombed a public health establishment which is to be protected on a top priority in peacetime or wartime under international law. This is an unimaginable hideous war crime and unethical crime.

What should not be overlooked is that Israel's such criminal act was openly committed under the undisguised patronage of the U.S.

The U.S. delivered huge amounts of munitions to Israel and dispatched two carrier strike groups to the waters off the Middle East, thus giving Israel a green light to massacre Palestinians without any worries.

Immediately after the bombing of the hospital by Israel, the U.S. covered such crime, making absurd sophism that the incident seemed to be committed by other forces rather than Israel. This shows that the U.S. is an accomplice who connived at and fostered Israel's genocide.

The U.S. arrogantly vetoed a UNSC resolution on allowing humanitarian access to the Gaza Strip, for the mere reason that the "right to self-defense" of Israel was not mentioned. This reveals the U.S. intention that it is enough if Israel faithfully carries out its Middle East policy, whether thousands of Palestinians die or not.

The U.S., wrecker of global peace and strangler of justice, can never evade the blame for having connived at and fostered Israel's hideous war crime that ruthlessly killed Palestinians.

 

 

Press Statement by DPRK Ambassador to Russia

 

Pyongyang, October 21 (KCNA) -- Sin Hong Chol, DPRK ambassador to Russia, released the following press statement on Saturday:

Recently, the U.S. finally delivered ATACMS ground-to-ground missile system to Ukraine despite the deep concern and strong opposition of the international community.

The Zelenskiy puppet clique, feeling gratitude for the U.S. offer of ATACMS, told that ATACMS has demonstrated its capability and that they give special thanks to the U.S.

The U.S. is craftily working to minimize the catastrophic consequences to be entailed by the delivery of ATACMS, building up public opinion that ATACMS delivered to Ukraine is an old type with maximum range of only 170 km.

However, no one will deny the fact that the ATACMS, whether old or modern, will be used for strike at the interior of Russia.

Any strike at the interior of Russia, a nuclear power, will not be of help to the early end of the Ukrainian situation or its peaceful settlement as the U.S. advocates but will serve as a catalyst for putting the whole Europe into the crucible of endless war and prolonging the war.

The U.S. now asserts that it does not want a head-on conflict with Russia, but in actuality it has left no means untried to inflict a strategic defeat on Russia and hold military hegemony over the whole world.

The delivery of ATACMS was finally motivated by the U.S. sinister intention to maintain the proxy war through Ukraine and thus deplete and weaken the overall national power of European countries and make them more firmly dependent on it.

The outlook for solution to the Ukrainian crisis is getting bleaker and the world has moved closer to an unprecedented great war, due to the selfish and anti-peaceful acts of the U.S. seeking only hegemonic interests, utterly indifferent to global peace and stability.

The anti-imperialist independent and righteous international community is strongly denouncing the offer of lethal weapons by the U.S., which imposes the most disastrous war on all mankind, and urging it to revoke such offer without delay.

The Ukrainian war by the U.S., which is sacrificing the interests of all Europeans for the establishment of "Unipolar World" while spending on hopeless war astronomical funds collected from its population as taxes, will end up in disgrace after being recorded in history as the second Afghanistan war.

The illegal and immoral high-handed and arbitrary practices of the U.S. imperialists and their followers will be surely settled by the peace-loving countries aspiring after independence and peace, and the sacred cause for realizing the international justice will be accomplished without fail.

Respected Comrade Kim Jong Un Receives Russian Foreign Minister

 

Pyongyang, October 20 (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), received Sergei Lavrov, foreign minister of the Russian Federation, on a visit to the DPRK at the office building of the WPK Central Committee on Oct. 19.

Present there were Andrei Rudenko, vice-minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, and Alexandr Matsegora, Russian ambassador to the DPRK.

The respected Comrade Kim Jong Un had a happy meeting with Sergei Lavrov and warmly welcomed his visit to the DPRK before having a talk with him in an atmosphere of comradeship.

On the occasion, Sergei Lavrov courteously conveyed the warm greetings of Russian President Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin to

the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un.

Kim Jong Un expressed deep thanks for it and sent the warm greetings of the WPK and the government and people of the DPRK to Putin and the fraternal Russian people.

He looked back with deep emotion on the meeting he had with Putin at the Vostochny Spaceport in September, leaving a remarkable trace in the history of the traditional DPRK-Russia friendship.

He expressed the steadfast stand of the WPK and the DPRK government to work out a stable, forward-looking, far-reaching plan for the DPRK-Russia relations in the new era by faithfully implementing the agreements made at the DPRK-Russia summit, and to promote the well-being of the peoples of the two countries and push forward with the cause of building a powerful state by dint of the said plan.

Exchanged in an open-minded manner at the talk were views on such important matters of mutual concern as the issue for the two countries to actively cope with the complicated regional and international situation on the basis of their solid political and strategic trust relations and expand in a planned way the bilateral ties in all fields through the joint efforts, and a consensus of views was reached.

The talk proceeded in a friendly and amicable atmosphere.

U.S. Scheme for Nuclear Supremacy Rebuked

 

Pyongyang, October 17 (KCNA) -- Kim Kwang Myong, a researcher of the Institute for Disarmament and Peace of the DPRK Foreign Ministry, issued the following article titled "U.S. pursuit of nuclear supremacy is root cause of strategic instability destroying world peace" on October 17:

At a time when peace and stability are seriously wrecked in Europe, the Middle East and other parts of the world due to the U.S. hegemonic moves and interference, American politicians again asserted that the U.S. should dominate the world with nuclear upper-hand, arousing great uneasiness and concern of the international community.

Some days ago, the U.S. congressional sub-committee on strategic forces termed the anti-U.S. independent countries' bolstering of self-defensive military capability "threat", and released an extremely risky report which calls for rounding off the U.S. mainland missile defense system and accelerating the modernization of nuclear forces to cope with it.

The U.S., the world's biggest nuclear weapons state and the world's first nuclear user which adopted the preemptive nuclear attack on other countries as its national policy, is talking about "nuclear threat" from someone. This is a sophism making profound confusing of right and wrong and just like a guilty party filing the suit first.

It is working hard to highlight the defensive nature, but the world recognizes that the U.S. mainland missile defense system is, in essence, a means for carrying out a nuclear war of aggression.

In the Cold War period, the U.S. put forward the "Strategic Defense Initiative", called the "Star Wars" plan, under the pretext of coping with the nuclear threat from the former Soviet Union. After the end of the Cold War, it unilaterally quit the ABM treaty (anti-ballistic missile system), which was concluded between the Soviet Union and the U.S., in 2001 under the judgment that the treaty was hindering its nuclear arms buildup.

Clear is the ulterior aim sought by the U.S. through its ceaseless updating of the interceptor missile system. Its aim is to make the shield stronger so that the spear can be used as safely as possible.

In this sense, the U.S. scheme to build the missile defense system in the mainland under the pretext of "nuclear threat from north Korea" is, in fact, part of the out-and-out offensive moves for bolstering up the nuclear force to make a preemptive nuclear strike at the DPRK easier.

The disruption of the strategic balance between offense and defense will cause conflicts.

The U.S. spearhead for carrying out its geopolitical hegemony strategy by blackmailing other countries with nukes is now being further sharpened, revealing its insidious appearance.

The U.S., giving up its "principle of no-first use of nuclear weapons", is planning to increase the stockpile of nuclear materials necessary for making strategic and tactical nuclear warheads and nuclear bombs in a geometric way. And it is hell-bent on modernizing the nuclear triad to carry them on.

In January 2017, the U.S. Department of Defense approved the development of next-generation Columbia-class strategic nuclear submarine, nd has been speeding up the work for replacing all Ohio-class strategic nuclear submarines with Columbia-class ones from 2027. Last December, it first opened the sixth-generation stealth nuclear strategic bomber, B-21 Raider, to the public.

In addition, the U.S. planned to replace Minuteman 3 with a new ICBM, LGM-35A Sentinel, from 2029 and announced the fact that the first ground test of the first-stage solid-fuel engine for the LGM-35A Sentinel was conducted in March last.

It is also desperately resorting to space militarization and spending astronomical funds on the development of latest weapons using laser technology.

This is proved by the facts that the U.S. put 10 military satellites into orbit in April in order to bolster the capability of tracking ultra-modern missiles including hypersonic missiles in the low earth orbit and that a person concerned of the Missile Defense Agency of the U.S. Defense Department said in August that the research of a directed-energy weapon for intercepting missiles of hostile countries finally came to fruition.

What merits a more serious attention is that the U.S. has deliberately escalated the situation by frequently dispatching nuclear strategic assets to hotspots including Northeast Asia and offering ultra-modern military hardware to its junior allies.

All the facts eloquently show who is threatening with nukes and who is threatened by whom.

The strengthened military capability for independence and self-defense can never be a pretext for bolstering up the nuclear force for aggression.

The U.S. arms buildup targeting nuclear powers is bound to bring about a due counteraction, and the world is plunging deeper into vortex of the "new Cold War", an era of new nuclear arms race.

The reality urgently requires the DPRK, which is standing in confrontation with the U.S. imperialism, the most aggressive nuclear war criminal force, to bolster up its self-defensive military capabilities for deterring a nuclear war both in quality and quantity and in a rapid way.

The international community should heighten vigilance against the U.S. reckless moves for nuclear arms buildup that undermine the basis of global peace and stability, and never remain a passive onlooker to them.

The DPRK will counter the hostile forces' any attempt for a nuclear war with its overwhelming and decisive response strategy and fulfill its mission as a responsible nuclear weapons state for reliably defending peace and security in the region and the rest of the world.

Prevailing Situation of Middle East - Product of U.S. Hegemonic Strategy

 

Recently, a grave armed conflict broke out in the Middle East. This is an inevitable result from the nearly 80-year-long U.S. strategy for dominance in the region.

However, the U.S., turning black into white, is disguising Israel as a “victim”, in total disregard of what causes and motivates the Middle East situation this time.

Also, not content with massive delivery of war supplies into Israel, it has stationed even an aircraft carrier strike group in the territorial waters in the eastern Mediterranean Sea, instigating the Israel’s massacre of the Palestinians.

Such a wicked behavior of the U.S. clearly proves once again that what it claimed to be an “impartial mediator” in resolving the Palestinian problem is no more than a trick to deceive the international community.

Despite the painstaking efforts by the international society, Palestine-Israel peace process has almost come to naught and the vicious circle of armed conflicts never ends. This entirely lies in the extreme one-sided policy of the

U.S. which is giving a tacit approval of Israel and helping it in its unlawful attempt to expand territories.

The U.S. strategy is to put the Middle East, the world’s biggest energy reserve and a military strategic point, under its full control by using Israel as its shock brigade and puppet. Today’s reality clearly shows what a tragic result such U.S. strategy has brought about.

The broad spectrum of the international society, as well as Arab countries, are now strongly blaming the U.S. for patronizing and backing Israel, which is branding the Palestinian people’s righteous struggle to regain their legitimate right as an “act of terrorism”.

The US-assisted missile defense system “Iron Dome” of Israel became useless against the rocket attack of the Palestine resistance forces. And the Mossad, said to be hand-raised by the U.S., has never predicted the surprise attack launched this time. This gave rise to the increased voice of lamentation and mockery even in the U.S. All this brings into bold relief the U.S. defeat.

The U.S. is making a great fuss, being hell-bent on military aid to Israel and dispatching an aircraft carrier strike group. This only proves that the U.S. is in fear of its total collapse of the system of domination over the Middle East made at no small pains.

There is an ever-growing aspiration among humankind to put an end for good to domination, high-handedness and arbitrariness and ensure peace and stability in the region and the rest of the world.

The trend of history aspiring after independence, equality and justice can never be checked, no matter how desperate the U.S. is. The anachronistic strategy of the U.S. for hegemony will face a greater protest and denunciation with the passage of time.

 

Yang  Myong         Song Secretary       General Korea

Article of Int'l Affairs Analyst

 

Pyongyang, October 10 (KCNA) -- Ra Jong Min, a commentator on international affairs of the DPRK, issued an article titled "Only fools can jump into fire with faggot on their backs" on Tuesday.

The full text of the article is:

Shortly ago, the Ministry of Defense of Canada announced that it would stage an "Operation NEON" around the Korean peninsula from early October to early November, adding this shows that Canada attaches great importance to the Indo-Pacific region and the international security.

As well known to the international community, the acute situation, the eve of the outbreak of a nuclear war, is prevailing over the Korean peninsula and Northeast Asia owing to the U.S. reckless arms buildup and joint military exercises for aggression.

It is easy to judge that the introduction of fighter planes and warships into such a hotspot is a dangerous act like adding fuel to the flames.

However, it seems that Canada, engrossed in kowtowing to the U.S. without elementary thinking ability, has not properly understood the gravity of the present situation in the Korean peninsula.

Canada's behavior is not only an anti-peace act of wrecking peace and security in the Korean peninsula and stability in the Asia-Pacific region but also a foolish option of destroying its security by itself.

Whenever an opportunity presents itself, Canada is making an impression that it contributes to the issue of peace and security in the Korean peninsula. But what the country has done so far in the Korean peninsula and the Asia- Pacific region is to disturb peace and stability and aggravate confrontation and conflict.

Canada, which dispatched mercenaries to the Korean War ignited by the

U.S. in the 1950s, has played a leading role in carrying out the U.S. hostile policy toward the DPRK in the new century, too.

It has enforced the law on "special economic measures" to totally block trade, financial services and technology transfer with the DPRK and ban the navigation and mooring of our ships and planes in its territory, under the pretext of implementing the UNSC sanctions resolution, since 2011.

In January 2018, it called a "Vancouver meeting on security and stability of the Korean peninsula" with the attendance of 20 countries, including Korean War participants and Japan, to create an atmosphere for provoking the second Korean war.

This year, too, the prime minister and the foreign minister of Canada remained silent about the fact that the U.S.-led joint military exercises are driving the situation in the Korean peninsula to the redline and, instead, slandered the DPRK's exercise of the legitimate right to self-defence, revealing their distrust and hostility towards it.

At a time when the certainty of military conflict in the Korean peninsula is increasing more remarkably than ever before due to the war drills of the U.S. and "Republic of Korea", Canada is committing such rash act of jumping into fire with brushwood on its back, not content with having added fuel to the flames owing to the anachronistic daydream and its blind belief in its American master. We wonder if Canada's thinking is normal.

As the country has such a way of thinking, it courteously asked even a Nazi to attend its recent parliament session to create an atmosphere of welcoming someone, only to be condemned by the international community and apologize for its act.

It is a natural result for Canada which has become inveterate in finding boundless satisfaction and relief in following its master blindly without any clear view.

It is by no means fortuitous that the international community unanimously has branded "Canada's positive effort for peace and security in the Asia-Pacific region" as an attempt to prove its loyalty to the U.S.

If Canada continues acting as a servant of the U.S. as now, it will be called the "51st state" of the U.S. like the "Republic of Korea".

Canada should stop such a reckless act of doing harm to its own interests, clearly understanding that the Asia-Pacific countries are closely following its reckless behavior.

U.S. Deployment of Space Force Criticized

 

Pyongyang, October 10 (KCNA) -- Ri Song Jin, a researcher of the National Aerospace Technology Administration of the DPRK, released the following article titled "U.S. space force deployment aimed at preemptive aggression war" on Tuesday:

The U.S. moves aimed at military hegemony in the Asia-Pacific region are steadily expanding into space.

Recently, a high-ranking official of the U.S. space force visited Tokyo to give shape to the conspiracy with the Japanese defense minister in the field of space and opened to the public that the work to form the U.S. space force to be stationed in Japan is being promoted.

Just ten months ago, the U.S., which has long sought space supremacy, created its first overseas space force in its Indo-Pacific Command after the establishment of the space force in 2019.

Later, the U.S. deployed its space force in the region of south Korean puppets, an advanced base for carrying out the Indo-Pacific strategy, and recently involved the space force in "Ulji Freedom Shield", a nuclear war rehearsal for aggression, for the first time.

The number of U.S. space troops was over 200 when it was organized, but increased more than 40 times in just three to four years, reaching at least 8 600 in the fiscal year 2023 and the budget allotted to the space force is increasing rapidly every year. This is nothing but a part showing that the U.S. moves for space militarization have gone beyond the red line.

The U.S. claims that the deployment of the U.S. space force in the Asia- Pacific region is for defending its mainland and ensuring security of its allies, but this is nothing but a camouflaged curtain to cover up the scenario for preemptive attack on the anti-U.S. and independent countries.

The real aim sought by the U.S. is to further improve the capability for preemptive strike at regional countries by using space to ensure its military edge over the DPRK, China, Russia and other regional military powers and, ultimately, to realize its strategy for world supremacy for aggression by force of arms.

The danger of deployment of the space force lies in the fact that the U.S. is trying to mount a preemptive attack on its foes simultaneously in the ground, air, sea and space once an opportunity arises, while constantly deploying its space force in the Asia-Pacific region and bringing into existence strategic nuclear submarines, strategic bombers and other strategic assets at any time.

Due to the U.S. reckless and dangerous arms buildup and space militarization, the possibility is still growing in the Asia-Pacific region in which the strategic balance may be destroyed at any moment to bring about a nuclear war.

The reality requires the regional countries more urgently than ever before to take every possible measure for defending peace and security in the world and the region from the U.S. aggressive moves for space militarization.

Now that the U.S. is getting hell-bent on space militarization with a preemptive nuclear attack as its ultimate target by massively introducing space force into the Korean peninsula and its vicinity, the space development including military reconnaissance satellite is an indispensable strategic option for guaranteeing the security interests and right to existence of the DPRK.

The just international community should heighten vigilance against the U.S. reckless moves for space militarization and resolutely oppose them in order to prevent the destruction of balance of forces in the region and the world and thoroughly deter the U.S. scheme for an aggression war.

The DPRK will continue to spur the bolstering up of the self-defensive capabilities for safeguarding the national sovereignty and territorial integrity and ensuring the regional peace and security to cope with the ever-escalating military threat and aggression scheme of the U.S. and its vassal forces in all areas including space.

 

 

 

 

 

 

DPRK Foreign Ministry Spokesman on Anti-Syria Terrorism

 

Pyongyang, October 9 (KCNA) -- A spokesman for the Foreign Ministry of the DPRK gave the following answer to a question by KCNA on Sunday as regards the brutal terrorist attack in Syria that caused many casualties:

The recent hideous terrorist act was prompted by the sinister intention of the hostile forces inside and outside Syria who are seeking to create uneasiness and horror in Syria and thus bring obstacles to its government's efforts for the solution of crisis and the reconstruction while persistently attempting to overthrow the legitimate regime of Syria.

We strongly denounce the terrorist attack as an undisguised infringement on the Syrian people's desire for national sovereignty and peaceful and happy life and express deep sympathy to the victims and their bereaved families.

Taking this opportunity, we reaffirm the consistent stand of the DPRK government against all sorts of terrorism and extend firm support and solidarity to the Syrian government and people courageously struggling against the hostile forces' vicious challenges and threats.

France Should Refrain from Disturbing Peace and Security in Northeast Asia: Analyst

 

Pyongyang, October 6 (KCNA) -- Ryu Kyong Chol, a researcher of the Korea-Europe Association, on Friday issued the following article "France should refrain from disturbing peace and security in Northeast Asian region":

France reportedly plans to send the patrol plane Falcon 200 to the waters near the Korean peninsula under the pretext of "monitoring illegal naval activities" in October.

In the light of the past history of France, in which it brought warships and patrol planes to the waters off the Korean peninsula to disturb peace, its recent decision is not so surprising but its poor plight is too deplorable as it seeks to raise its prestige by never missing the opportunity for supporting the U.S.-led racket for putting pressure on the DPRK every year.

France has dispatched its military forces to the waters near the Korean peninsula every year since 2019 under the pretext of implementing the UNSC anti-DPRK "sanctions resolutions". Such moves to escalate tensions are very dangerous.

Let us recall the case that broke out in October 2021 when the French patrol plane Falcon 200, which took off from the Futenma U.S. air base in Okinawa of Japan, flew over the East China Sea for the first time under the pretext of "monitoring illegal naval activities".

At that time, a Chinese naval frigate patrolling the waters sent a signal of requiring identification to the French patrol plane and a Chinese fighter jet contained it for 25 minutes. Commenting on such acute circumstances, security experts expressed concern that the regional military tensions have been aggravated since France announced the "Indo-Pacific strategy".

What should not be overlooked is that France, a permanent UNSC member state which is talking about world peace and security more often than any others, regards Japan, which is harboring a wild militaristic ambition, as a bridgehead for carrying out its strategy.

It is an extremely dangerous option for France to highlight its existence in the Asia-Pacific region even through military cooperation with Japan, a war criminal state.

Now that the military and political situation of the Korean peninsula is inching close to the brink of a thermo-nuclear war, due to the U.S. and its followers' hostile military acts, even France has poked its nose into making the touch-and-go situation more complicated and dangerous.

Such irresponsible behavior of France to interfere in the situation of the Korean peninsula and Northeast Asia, where interests of regional powers are inextricably intertwined, is no more than an extremely foolish act of plunging itself into a bottomless pit.

France, caught in trouble even in the African region, had better remind itself of the fact that it may face an unexpected and unwanted challenge for its patrol plane's reckless maneuvers in the Asia-Pacific region that has turned into a flashpoint.

France should cool its head heated with Cold War mentality and face up to the situation.

In different parts of this planet, the voices of justice against the extreme interference in the internal affairs by France, the former suzerain state, are getting stronger and the countries and forces opposed to its anachronistic foreign policy are increasing.

France should immediately stop the dangerous act of destroying peace and security of the Korean peninsula and the Northeast Asian region before it becomes too late, instead of copying someone, captivated by anachronistic "gunboat diplomacy".

And this will be useful to it.

STATEMENT OF SPOKESMAN FOR DPRK MINISTRY OF NATIONAL DEFENSE

 

Pyongyang, October 4 (KCNA) -- A spokesman for the Ministry of National Defense of the DPRK issued the following statement on October 4:

The U.S. Defense Department recently made public "2023 strategy for countering WMD", in which it termed China and Russia "pacing challenge" and "acute threat" and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) "persistent threat".

Such act of the U.S. military is another grave military and political provocation against independent sovereign states.

As for the "persistent threat", it is an expression most suitable for the U.S., the world's biggest WMD-armed state and the only criminal state that used A- bombs, which has labeled the DPRK as "enemy" and escalated unprecedented nuclear threat and blackmail against it since the last century.

This year alone, the U.S. staged the largest-ever joint drills, making a series of bluffing and foolish remarks such as "end" and "total destruction" of the DPRK. The U.S. also activated the conspiratorial mechanism for a nuclear attack on the DPRK according to its war scenario that made the use of nuclear weapons against the DPRK its policy.

The reckless moves of the U.S., which brought even a strategic nuclear submarine, equipped with nuclear warheads large enough to totally destroy one state, to the vicinity of the Korean peninsula, constitute the most serious WMD threat to destroy the whole world.

The world's biggest WMD threat just comes from the U.S.

Through the publication of the recent "2023 strategy for countering WMD", the U.S. has just revealed its dangerous intention for aggression to seriously violate the sovereignty and security of the DPRK and other independent sovereign states by threatening them with WMDs, and realize its wild ambition for seizing global military hegemony.

Such situation requires the DPRK's armed forces to strongly counter with powerful deterrence the ever-more reckless medium- and long-term threat posed by the U.S. seeking to use WMDs against the DPRK.

The historic 9th Session of the 14th Supreme People's Assembly newly stipulated in the Constitution of the DPRK the mission of the armed forces of the DPRK to defend state sovereignty, territorial integrity and rights and interests of the people, safeguard the socialist system and the gains of the revolution from all sorts of threats and guarantee peace and prosperity of the country with powerful military muscle.

The armed forces of the DPRK will remain faithful to its honorable militant mission newly specified in the supreme law of the DPRK in accordance with the unanimous will of all the Korean people, and will counter the U.S. imperialist aggressors' military strategy and provocations with the most overwhelming and sustained response strategy.

Press Statement of Russian Affairs Department Director General of DPRK Foreign Ministry

 

Pyongyang, October 2 (KCNA) -- Kim Jong Gyu, director general of the Russian Affairs Department of the Foreign Ministry of the DPRK, issued the following statement on Oct. 2.

One year has lapsed since the "Nord Stream" pipelines explosion case broke out to greatly shock the international community.

The international community still clearly remembers the irrational behavior of the U.S. and the West which groundlessly shifted the blame onto Russia to incite hostility toward the country right after the outbreak of the case.

Germany, Demark and Sweden, involved in the on-going investigation, have not yet presented any convincing results and the politicians of the U.S. and the West, who were loudmouthed about "Russia's deed," now evade their comment on the case. This casts serious doubt on the hidden circumstances behind it.

It has already been fully proved in detail by influential media and experts of the world for the past one year that Russia has nothing to do with the case.

Meanwhile, it is alleged that frogmen of the U.S. navy carried out a special operation to destroy the pipelines under an order from Biden, along with the declassified data proving that the U.S. and some European countries had been notified of the Zelenskiy regime’s sabotage plan three months before the outbreak of the case. Such undeniable evidence, proving the U.S. and the West were behind the case, has come to light one after another to evoke worldwide repercussions.

As a result, the significance of "Russia's deed", once hyped up by the Western media, is getting shrunken as days go by, and the international community has focused their sharper eyes on the U.S., the Zelenskiy puppet clique and other anti-Russia forces.

Against this backdrop, the U.S. and the West flatly rejected Russia's just proposal to conduct an international joint investigation, involving Russia as a directly related party, under the observation of the UN. Furthermore, they have never informed Russia of their investigation results.

This is just a petty trick to cover up the traces of their involvement in the sabotage crime.

The present situation brings to light the impudent double-standard policy and black-hearted design of the U.S. and the West working hard to demonize the independent countries by painting a black picture of them, frequently talking about "fairness" and "objectivity."

The pro-justice, pro-truth international community should voice support for the fair and reasonable demand of Russia and never pardon the unjust and outrageous arbitrary and tyrannical practices of the U.S. and the West.

SPOKESMAN FOR MINISTRY OF NUCLEAR POWER INDUSTRY OF DPRK RELEASES PRESS STATEMENT

 

Pyongyang, October 2 (KCNA) -- A spokesman for the Ministry of Nuclear Power Industry of the DPRK released a following press statement on Monday:

An anti-DPRK "resolution" was cooked up again at the 67th session of the IAEA General Conference on September 29 as a result of conspiracy between the U.S. and its followers.

We vehemently denounce and reject the abnormal behavior of the IAEA, which has been completely reduced to a reptile organization that serves the U.S. away from its elementary mission as an international organization to maintain impartiality.

In the early 1990s, the DPRK had already withdrawn openly and squarely from the IAEA, for it had been hell-bent on hostile acts against the DPRK by openly supporting the U.S. hostile policy toward the DPRK. Therefore, the IAEA has neither qualifications nor justification to say this or that over the DPRK's exercise of sovereignty.

Moreover, following the promulgation of the law on the state nuclear force policy last year, the principle of state activities concerning the building of the nuclear force was stipulated in the Socialist Constitution, the supreme law of the DPRK, at the recent 9th Session of the 14th Supreme People's Assembly. As a result, the position of the DPRK as a nuclear weapons state has become irreversible, and this is a stark reality that can never change no matter how desperately anyone may deny.

Nevertheless, the U.S. and its followers are still resorting to the fabrication of a "resolution" full of hackneyed and far-fetched assertion by abusing the name of an international organization.

Such farce of the hostile forces is a revelation of their sinister intention to cover up their criminal acts of seriously threatening the international nuclear non-proliferation system and justify their hostile policy toward the DPRK by outlawing the DPRK's legitimate nuclear activities.

What should not be overlooked is that the director-general of the IAEA is taking the lead in creating the atmosphere of pressurizing the DPRK, spreading a false story about "imminent 7th nuclear test" in the DPRK.

It is crystal-clear that such tireless "enthusiasm" of the director-general is to flatter the U.S. and the West, not prompted by his "strong sense of responsibility" for his job.

The IAEA, led by the present director-general, has come under fire from the international community for conniving at and encouraging the "AUKUS", an outcome of conspiracy between the U.S. and the West for nuclear proliferation, and Japan's discharge of nuclear-polluted water.

Taking this opportunity, we clarify once again our principled stand to the director-general who behaves like a U.S. State Department official, forgetful of his duty as director of an international organization.

As long as tyrannical nuclear weapons of the U.S. and imperialist aggression forces exist on this land, the DPRK's position as a nuclear weapons state will remain unchanged and the DPRK will never tolerate the hostile forces' acts of infringing upon its sovereignty.

If the IAEA wants to avoid international criticism as a paid trumpeter of the U.S., it would be well advised to devote itself to tackling the difficulties facing the international community such as the U.S. nuclear proliferation through "AUKUS", Japan's discharge of nuclear-polluted water and the U.S. expansion of nuclear test ground, instead of wasting time and energy for such futile work as adopting anti-DPRK reports, cooking up "resolutions" and keeping IAEA inspectors on standby.

IMMORTAL EXPLOITS TO GO DOWN WITH CENTURY

 

The feeling of respect and reverence towards President Kim Il Sung, the veteran statesman and outstanding leader of the world revolution, is cherished by the Togolese people, too.

Gnassingbe Eyadema, President of Togo was deeply moved by the unique Juche idea, noble internationalist obligation and boundless magnanimity of President Kim Il Sung when he first visited Pyongyang in September 1974.

Then the Togolese President set forth as a priority in his country the elimination of the colonial legacy remaining in politics, the economy and other fields and the provision of stable life to the people by achieving sustainable economic growth.

While he was waging a struggle for it, he decided to visit Pyongyang again in the beginning of the 1980s.

President Eyadema and his party visited Pyongyang for the second time from September 29 to October 4, 1981 in order to receive teachings from President Kim Il Sung on important issues arising in the building of new society. President Kim Il Sung warmly welcomed them as goodwill envoys and gave careful attention so that they did not feel any inconvenience during their visit.

During the visit by the Togolese delegation to Pyongyang, President Kim Il Sung met them as many as ten times and expounded on direction and method – the guideline for Togo in the building of a new society. He said that if they improve seed and the farming method in Africa which is so hot in weather, they can multiply the production by several times and that the imperialists cannot act rashly in regional countries if the members of ECOWAS grow good crops and solve the food problem.

Even after President Eyadema’s return to his country, he paid deep attention to the Togolese people striving to build a new society and took measures to aid Togo materially and morally in agriculture, construction, education, and other fields. Those include building a Party school in Lomé that can admit 400 students as well as the dispatch of technical forces needed for irrigation works.

That is why President Eyadema cherished boundless gratitude and reverence for President Kim Il Sung and said that he greatly admires and hails President Kim Il Sung as his true brother and a great man of the world. He also highly praised that the feats performed by President Kim Il Sung for human history will remain forever.

The friendly and cooperative relations between the DPRK and Togo were established under the deep concern and friendship of the preceding leaders. Even though centuries and generations have passed, it continues to develop on favorable terms in line with the common aspirations of the two peoples and the demands of the new era.

We extend our support and solidarity to the people of Togo striving for the country’s development and prosperity, and we will make active contributions to further strengthen and develop the friendly and cooperative relations that exist between our two peoples.

 

Song Se Il

President of Korea-Africa Association

DPRK Foreign Minister Issues Press Statement

 

Pyongyang, September 30 (KCNA) -- Choe Son Hui, foreign minister of the DPRK, issued the following press statement on Saturday:

On September 29 the U.S. and its vassal states convened closed-door negotiations of the UN Security Council, in which they denounced the inviolable constitutional activities of the DPRK and its measures for bolstering up the capabilities for self-defense.

I brand the illegal and outrageous acts of the U.S. and other hostile forces, which termed the exercise of the DPRK's entirely just exercise of its sovereignty a "provocation" and "threat", as a frontal challenge to the sovereignty of the DPRK and undisguised interference in the internal affairs of a sovereign state, and vehemently denounce and reject them.

It is the extreme double standard for the UNSC to take issue with the DPRK over the exercise of its legitimate sovereign right only, while completely overlooking the ceaseless military provocations being perpetrated by the U.S. and its vassal forces, which declared the "end of regime" in the DPRK as their national policy, to wreck peace and stability of the Korean peninsula.

The abnormal behavior of the UNSC, which pulls up a sovereign state over its legislative activities, legitimate use of space and normal development of external relations, proves that the hostile forces' insistence on the "implementation of the UN resolution" means, in essence, the complete renunciation of the sovereignty by the DPRK.

It is an inevitable result in the DPRK's historical process for bolstering up its national defense capabilities and raising its national prestige that it fixed its legal position as a responsible nuclear weapons state at the highest level.

The DPRK formulated its status as a nuclear weapons state in its constitution, which is of great significance in the fact that it guarantees the eternal foundation for its prosperity and provided a powerful legal lever for defending its sovereignty as a nuclear-armed nation, not merely the constitutional work that revised and supplemented the provisions of the supreme code of the nation.

The position and role of the nuclear weapons in ensuring the security of the DPRK accurately reflect the threats from the outside hostile forces and the ever-changing global geopolitical structure at present and in the future.

It is the undeniable stark reality that the U.S. and its vassal forces' ceaseless nuclear threats to the DPRK, which has lingered for more than half a century, have become a decisive factor and premise that triggered the DPRK's access to nuclear weapons and constant bolstering of its nuclear force.

It is the history never to be written off nor to be revised that the DPRK was compelled to arm itself with nuclear weapons as the U.S. turned the Korean peninsula into a nuclear arsenal decades before the DPRK had access to nuclear weapons, and has ceaselessly escalated its nuclear threats to the DPRK.

The DPRK is strengthening the role of its nuclear force in ensuring national security and consolidating its legal and institutional position to cope with the U.S. and its followers' move of institutionalizing the use of their nuclear weapons against the DPRK and making it their policy. No one is entitled to take issue with this independent right of a sovereign state.

As long as the U.S., the imperialist entity, exists, it is the destiny of the DPRK to arm itself with nuclear weapons.

If the U.S. and other hostile forces try to deny the DPRK's constitutional position as a nuclear weapons state or deprive it of that position by forcing denuclearization upon it, it will be regarded as the most serious violation of its sovereignty and constitution forcing it to renounce its constitution and social system.

Taking this opportunity, I would like to warn the UNSC against its behavior of unhesitatingly employing illegal and hideous double standard, blindly following the U.S., bereft of equity and justice.

We will deter all the hostile forces' attempts to violate the inviolable sovereignty of the DPRK by launching the strongest and overwhelming counteraction and firmly defend its position as a nuclear weapons state, the supreme interests of its national security, from the outside hostile acts.

PRESS STATEMENT OF IM CHON IL, VICE-MINISTER OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS OF DPRK

 

Pyongyang, October, 1 (KCNA) -- Im Chon Il, vice-minister of Foreign Affairs of the DPRK, issued the following press statement on Sunday:

The U.S. unjust and outrageous hostility toward the DPRK-Russia traditional friendly and cooperative relations and its attempt to interfere in them have gone beyond the red line.

Recently, the U.S. groundlessly termed the development of the good neighborly relations between the two countries "violation of resolutions" of the UN and "violation of international law" in a bid to give the world public a false impression that the DPRK-Russia cooperation poses a "threat" to global peace and security.

This is a vivid expression of the U.S. hegemony-oriented way of thinking based on the Cold War-style confrontation logic.

The DPRK-Russia relations are developing onto a new high stage, according to the strategic decision of the top leaders of the two countries. They serve as a powerful fortress and strategic stronghold for preserving peace and for deterring the imperialists' high-handed and arbitrary practices, military threats and interference.

Given that the U.S. and the West have gone to the extremes in their confrontational and divisive moves for gaining hegemony, the good neighborly relations between the two countries have reached the height of development, thus ensured the balance of the international mechanical structure and further improved the world strategic security environment.

Unlike the U.S. sophism, the relations getting more and more "dangerous" are the U.S.-led alliance which constantly threatens the security environment of independent sovereign states, assuming more evident aggressive and exclusive colors.

The U.S.-Japan-"south Korea" triangular military alliance, which has clearly betrayed hostility toward the DPRK and its neighboring countries, and NATO, the mastermind of the Ukrainian crisis, are just the cancer-like entities jeopardizing the international order based on the purpose and the principle of the UN Charter and posing a grave threat to global peace and security.

The U.S., which prioritizes the nexus with its allies to maintain its hegemony, has neither qualifications nor justification to find fault with the intensified unity and solidarity between the independent and anti-imperialist sovereign states which are exposed to an actual threat from it.

The U.S. ill-minded repugnancy toward the DPRK-Russia relations only reveals that it lacks power and wits in the showdown with the anti-imperialist independent countries.

The anti-DPRK, anti-Russia hostile remarks of the U.S., an entity typical of injustice, clearly prove once again that to develop the DPRK-Russia relations is, indeed, the just way for building an independent and peaceful new world and realizing genuine international justice.

The DPRK will further develop the traditional relations of friendship and cooperation with the Russian Federation and other independent sovereign countries and thus deter the imperialists' military threat, provocation, high- handed and arbitrary practices and firmly defend peace and security on the Korean peninsula and in the rest of the world.

PRESS STATEMENT OF DPRK FOREIGN MINISTRY SPOKESMAN

 

Pyongyang, October 1 (KCNA) -- A spokesman for the Foreign Ministry of the DPRK issued the following press statement on Sunday:

There was a grave terrorist attack on the Cuban embassy in the United States on September 24.

We strongly denounce the recent terrorist act as a wanton violation of international law and an undisguised infringement on the sovereignty of Cuba.

Lurking behind the incident is the sinister intention of the anti-Cuban forces in the U.S. to tarnish the international image of Cuba, with the final aim of overthrowing the social system of socialist Cuba.

Though the truth behind a shooting spree case against the Cuban embassy in the U.S. three years ago has not been probed yet, there took place again another case of throwing gasoline bottle bomb to threaten the lives of diplomats. This goes to prove that the above-said incidents were committed evidently at the tacit connivance of the U.S. administration.

The U.S. is keen only on putting those countries incurring its displeasure on the list of sponsors of terrorism, purposely turning away from the obligations of the receiving state stipulated in the Vienna Convention on diplomatic relations. This can never be justified in any case.

The U.S. arrogant and despicable anti-Cuban moves are facing the strong protest and denunciation by the international community aspiring after the respect for sovereignty of an independent and sovereign state and justice.

If the U.S., always clamoring for "observance of international law" and boasting of "law-governed state", has the slightest will to defend its "honor", it should, though belatedly, acknowledge the blame for not only the recent incident but also all the past terrorist cases and probe their truth to show its sincerity.

We have consistently and fully supported the just cause of the Cuban party, government and people for defending the sovereignty and socialism and will always stand together with the Cuban people in the struggle against all sorts of terrorism.

9TH SESSION OF 14TH SPA OF DPRK HELD

 

Pyongyang, September 28 (KCNA) -- The 9th Session of the 14th Supreme People's Assembly (SPA) of the DPRK took place at the Mansudae Assembly Hall on September 26 and 27.

The session was convened at a time when all the people across the country are further accelerating the struggle to glorify this significant year as a year of great turn and change to be remarkably recorded in the development course of the DPRK by further promoting the great national pride and patriotic enthusiasm of having splendidly celebrated the 75th founding anniversary of our powerful and dignified state as a great revolutionary event to be specially etched in history.

Present there were the deputies to the SPA, and as observers officials concerned in Pyongyang and local areas including those of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK), the SPA Standing Committee, the Cabinet, armed forces and law enforcement organs and financial sector.

Taking the platform were Kim Tok Hun, member of the Presidium of the Political Bureau of the WPK Central Committee, vice-president of the State Affairs Commission of the DPRK and premier of the Cabinet, Choe Ryong Hae, member of the Presidium of the Political Bureau of the WPK Central Committee, first vice-president of the State Affairs Commission of the DPRK and chairman of the SPA Standing Committee, Ri Pyong Chol, member of the Presidium of the Political Bureau and secretary of the C.C., WPK, and other senior officials of the Party, the government and the military, the chairman and vice-chairpersons of the SPA, members of the State Affairs Commission and vice-chairmen, the secretary general and members of the SPA Standing Committee.

The session decided its agenda items:

First, on amending and supplementing some contents of the Socialist Constitution of the DPRK

Second, on deliberating and adopting the law of the DPRK on ensuring the rights of the disabled

Third, on deliberating and adopting the law of the DPRK on irrigation Fourth, on deliberating and adopting the law of the DPRK on public servants Fifth, on reviewing the enforcement of the law of the DPRK on financial sector

Sixth, on naming the National Aerospace Development Administration of the DPRK the National Aeronautics and Space Technology Administration of the DPRK Seventh, on the organizational matter 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, attended the discussion of the first agenda item as an observer.

When the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un appeared at the venue of the session, all the participants broke into enthusiastic cheers, looking up to him, the symbol of all victories and glory of our Party, state and people and representative of the great dignity who opened up a new turning point of building an independent and self-defensive state and bolstering up the national defense capabilities and is leading confidently the long-term struggle for the overall development of Korean-style socialism to dynamic success.

Pak In Chol, chairman of the SPA, presided over the session.

As the session was declared open, the national anthem of the DPRK was played.

Deputy Choe Ryong Hae, chairman of the SPA Standing Committee, made a report on the first agenda item.

The reporter said that the SPA is to discuss and adopt the amendment to the Constitution in order to stipulate the position of the nuclear force in the national defense and the principle of state activities on the building of the nuclear force in the Socialist Constitution, the basic law of the Republic and the great political charter for building a powerful socialist country.

The revolutionary development of the nuclear force of the Republic and the signal successes in its economic and cultural fields and remarkable changes in the international arena, which have been witnessed over the past one year since the promulgation of the law on the state's policy on the nuclear force at the historic 7th Session of the 14th Supreme People's Assembly, clearly proved the validity and vitality of the codification of the state's policy on the nuclear force, he said.

He referred to the weighty significance of fixing the principle of state activities on the building of modern nuclear force and the mission of the armed forces of the DPRK for the times in the Socialist Constitution on the basis of the successful codification of the state's policy on the nuclear force.

Saying that reflected in the draft amendment and supplement are the contents that the DPRK, a responsible nuclear weapons state, develops highly nuclear weapons to ensure the rights to existence and development of the country, deter war and defend peace and stability in the region and the rest of the world, and that the mission of the armed forces of the Republic is to defend the national sovereignty and territorial integrity and the rights and interests of the people, protect the socialist system and the gains of the revolution from all threats and guarantee peace and prosperity of the country with powerful military capabilities, he brought up the draft amendment and supplement for discussion at the session of the SPA.

The session adopted an ordinance of the SPA of the DPRK "On Amending and Supplementing Some Contents of the Socialist Constitution of the DPRK" with unanimous approval.

The unanimous adoption of the crucial agenda item for formulating the DPRK's policy on the nuclear force as the basic law of the state, in the wake of codifying the policy at the 7th Session of the 14th SPA, is a historic event as it provided a powerful political weapon for markedly strengthening the national defense capabilities including the nuclear force, consolidating the institutional and legal foundation for security guarantee and protection of national interests based on them and accelerating the comprehensive development of Korean-style socialism.

The respected Comrade Kim Jong Un made a speech.

He expressed his heartfelt thanks to the deputies to the SPA who exercised the most historic right of voting in reflection of the general will of all the Korean people and added a brilliant page to the history of the DPRK's Constitution, and extended a noble tribute to all the people.

He reviewed the proud successes made this year, which is of great significance for the Korean revolution greeting a new period of upsurge and change in the cause of building a powerful socialist country. And he referred to the orientation and policy tasks for the future struggle and called for concluding the year 2023 with a proud victory by waging a stubborn and substantial struggle till the end of the year.

When Kim Jong Un finished his speech, all the participants gave enthusiastic cheers and applause, full of emotion and joy at having received the ever-victorious action programme for dynamic strengthening of the matchless national power of socialist Korea, an immortal programme promoting the building of an ideal society for the people.

His significant speech serves as a militant banner and a great revolutionary document bolstering in every way the invincible might of our Republic, a true independent power and a genuine people's power, and dynamically propelling the fresh victory and great advance of the cause of building a socialist power of Juche.

The session discussed the draft laws of the DPRK on ensuring the rights of the disabled, irrigation and public servants as next agenda items.

Deputy Kang Yun Sok, vice-chairman of the SPA Standing Committee, made a report on the second, third and fourth agenda items.

The reporter noted that relevant draft laws reflect the principled issues arising in thoroughly guaranteeing the WPK's policy for ensuring the rights of disabled persons and the fulfillment of the programme for the rural revolution in the new era and further consolidating and developing the state social system.

He explained chapter by chapter the contents of the relevant draft laws, including the regulations for thoroughly ensuring the socio-political, economic and cultural rights of disabled persons and making sure that they enjoy a worthwhile life as masters of the state and society, the legal requirements for realizing the irrigation of agriculture at a higher level and ensuring the sustained and stable development of agricultural production and the regulations for ensuring the correct implementation of the Party and state's policies and improving the state management by building up the ranks of public servants.

The SPA Standing Committee brought up the draft law of the DPRK on ensuring the rights of the disabled, the draft law of the DPRK on irrigation and the draft law of the DPRK on public servants for discussion at the session, under Article 95 of the Socialist Constitution.

Speeches on the second, third and fourth agenda items were made by Deputies Kim Sung Du, Ho Song Chol, Pak Myong Son, Sin Kwan Bong, Jon Sung Guk and Ho Song Ho.

Speakers recognized that the law of the DPRK on ensuring the rights of the disabled provides all persons with disabilities with better working and living conditions and develops the trait of helping them throughout the whole society and thus makes it possible to display the advantages of the Korean- style socialist system to the full.

They also expressed their opinion that the law on irrigation is of important significance in propelling the increased grain production and the socialist rural development by accelerating the perfection of the overall irrigation system of the country and the law on public servants serves as an institutional guarantee for ensuring the smoothness of state activities by improving the political consciousness, practical qualifications, strong organizing ability and executive ability of public servants, the direct performers of the state administration.

After examining and supplementing the deputies' constructive opinions, the session adopted the ordinances of the SPA of the DPRK "On Adopting the Law of the DPRK on Ensuring the Rights of the Disabled", "On Adopting the Law of the DPRK on Irrigation" and "On Adopting the Law of the DPRK on Public Servants".

The session discussed "On reviewing the enforcement of the law of the DPRK on financial sector" as its fifth agenda item.

Deputy Pak Jong Gun, vice-premier of the Cabinet and concurrently chairman of the State Planning Commission, made a report.

The reporter analyzed and reviewed the success, experience, deviation and lesson drawn from the enforcement of the law on financial sector, with regard to the importance of the work to put the state financial system on a scientific basis in keeping with the requirements of the developing reality, and referred to the urgent practical matters arising in substantially propelling the development of the state's economy by reinforcing and perfecting the unified financial control system of the state.

Other speakers expressed their determination to make every sector and unit strictly abide by the requirements of the law on financial sector by redoubling their efforts, aware of the heavy duty before the Party, the state and the people and thus financially guarantee the implementation of the resolutions of the 8th WPK Congress.

At the session, a resolution on the fifth agenda item was adopted with unanimous approval.

The session discussed "On naming the National Aerospace Development Administration of the DPRK the National Aeronautics and Space Technology Administration of the DPRK" as its sixth agenda item and adopted a resolution on it with unanimous approval.

The session discussed the organization matter as its seventh agenda item. Members of the Cabinet were newly appointed.

An Kyong Gun was appointed as minister of Machine-building Industry, Ri Sun Chol as minister of State Construction Control, Jon Chol Su as minister of Land and Environment Protection, Kim Kwang Jin as minister of Food Procurement and Administration and Paek Min Gwang as president of the Central Bank Members of sectional committees of the SPA were recalled and by-elected.

Deputies Choe Kun Yong, Pak Chang Ho and Ri Yong Chol were by-elected as members of the Legislation Committee of the SPA.

Pak In Chol, chairman of the SPA, made a closing address.

The 9th Session of the 14th SPA successfully finished its work amid the revolutionary consciousness and enthusiasm of the participants to fully discharge their important obligations as representatives of the people and masters of administration, single-mindedly upholding the great Party Central Committee that is powerfully demonstrating to the whole world the dignity and mightiness of the DPRK with its extraordinary idea and leadership.