Respected Comrade Kim Jong Un Visits Nampho Dockyard

 

Pyongyang, March 21 (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, gave field guidance at the Nampho Dockyard on March 20.

He was accompanied by major senior officials of the WPK Central Committee.

The respected Comrade Kim Jong Un went round various production lines of the dockyard.

True to his on-site instructions, the workers, technicians and officials of the dockyard are pushing ahead with the work for modernizing production lines and expanding their production capacity in an all-out effort to implement the policy of the WPK on developing the shipbuilding industry in the new era.

While learning in detail about the rebuilding of the dockyard and expansion of its production capacity, he said it is a primary and important task for developing the national economy and bolstering the Juche-oriented naval forces for our state to accelerate the modernization of the shipbuilding industry and radically increase the overall shipbuilding capacity. He noted that we should open up a new era, when the shipbuilding industry undergoes a rapid change, and guarantee its change without fail.

He stressed again that, to this end, it is necessary to give top priority to the work of rapidly raising the level of modernization of the shipbuilding industry as a whole, while efficiently perfecting the structure of the industry and intensifying policy-oriented and technical guidance, and ensure a nationwide and full support to it in a sustainable way.

He set forth major targets to be attained in the technical updating and modernization of dockyards.

He repeatedly stressed that this dockyard, which is a reliable, large-scale shipbuilding base of the country and boasts a wonderful history and tradition of self-reliance, ought to become a core and engine also in the ongoing struggle to usher in a new era of development of the shipbuilding industry, and made relevant conclusions on the important issues arising in carrying out the huge plan for strengthening the material and technical foundations of the dockyard.

DPRK Missile Administration Conducts Test-fire of Latest Anti-aircraft Missile System

 

Pyongyang, March 21 (KCNA) -- The Missile Administration of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea conducted a test-fire of the latest anti-aircraft missile system on March 20 to examine the comprehensive performance of the system, which was put into full-scale production at a relevant munitions industry enterprise.

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, oversaw the test-fire together with major members of the Central Military Commission of the WPK.

The test-fire proved that the combat quick response of the latest anti-aircraft missile system was superior and the overall weapon system was highly reliable.

Saying that the Korean People's Army will be equipped with another major defence weapon system with laudable combat performance, Kim Jong Un extended thanks to the anti-aircraft weapon system research group and the relevant munitions industry enterprise for greatly contributing to bolstering up the national defence capabilities.

Respected Comrade Kim Jong Un Has Photo Session with Participants in Third National Meeting of Active Neighbourhood Unit Leaders

 

Pyongyang, March 21 (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, met and had a photo session with the participants in the third national meeting of active neighbourhood unit leaders on March 20.

The participants were filled with great excitement and joy, boundless happiness and pride as they were to have a photograph taken with the benevolent Marshal Kim Jong Un, whom they have always longed to see.

When the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un arrived at the venue of the photo session, all the participants broke into enthusiastic cheers of "Hurrah!" as a reflection of their highest respect and boundless gratitude, looking up with emotion to the dear father of the great socialist family who bestows on them the greatest glory to be cherished as their lifelong wealth.

Kim Jong Un warmly encouraged the exemplary neighbourhood unit leaders from across the country, expressing deep gratitude to them for devoting themselves to the work of neighbourhood units, finding exceptional honour and pride and worth of living in consolidating the basic units of the people's government and taking warm care of the convenience of inhabitants in their living.

Saying that there are many jobs for serving the people in our society but rare is the appellation neighbourhood unit leader, most closely and intimately linked to the people, he highly appreciated the lofty spiritual world and unknown efforts of the neighbourhood unit leaders, who are showing their sincerity for the inhabitants and turning their units into groups of patriots without claiming any honour or reward.

He said that dong and neighbourhood units constitute a cornerstone supporting our people-centred state and social system and the base of the inhabitants' living, and that the functions and roles of dong and neighborhood units serve as a motive force dynamically propelling the advance of our state towards its comprehensive development. He stressed that to strengthen dong and neighbourhood units precisely means consolidating the mass foundation of the people's government and harmony and unity in the neighbourhood units precisely means the single-minded unity of our society firmly united with affection and tender feeling.

Noting that the duties of the secretaries of dong offices and leaders of neighbourhood units are very important in making sure that the efforts our Party and government make for improving the people's living standards are led to the people's bright laughter, he said that they should become possessors of beautiful virtue and traits and genuine householders and kind-hearted eldest daughters-in-law, who are welcomed and visited first by everyone, in line with the characteristics of their work--working directly with the inhabitants--to make beautiful human relations and noble moral ethics pervade the whole villages and neighbourhood units like the air.

Expressing expectation and belief that the third national meeting of active neighbourhood unit leaders would serve as an important milestone for all the secretaries of dong offices and leaders of neighbourhood units to turn dong and neighbourhood units into a great single-minded family strong with patriotism and establish a noble and civilized socialist way of life throughout the whole society as genuine servants enjoying respect, trust and love from inhabitants, he had a photo session with them.

All the participants were filled with ardent enthusiasm to fully demonstrate the advantages of Korean-style socialism and make a tangible contribution to the prosperity and development of our great state by bringing about a fresh turn in the work of the neighbourhood units as required by the era of great changes with their lifelong desire to repay the great affection and trust bestowed on them by Kim Jong Un.

Russian Delegation of Security Council Arrives DPR of Korea

Pyongyang, March 21 (KCNA) -- A delegation of the Security Council of the Russian Federation led by Secretary Sergei Shoigu arrived here on Friday to visit the DPRK.

It was greeted by Pak Jong Chon, vice-chairman of the Central Military Commission of the Workers' Party of Korea and secretary of the WPK Central Committee, Kim Jong Gyu, vice-minister of Foreign Affairs, and Alexandr Matsegora, Russian ambassador to the DPRK, and staff members of his embassy. 

Russian Delegation of Security Council Visits Liberation Tower

 

Pyongyang, March 21 (KCNA) -- A delegation of the Security Council of the Russian Federation led by Secretary Sergei Shoigu on a visit to the DPRK laid a wreath at the Liberation Tower on Friday.

Present there were Pak Jong Chon, vice-chairman of the Central Military Commission of the Workers' Party of Korea and secretary of the WPK Central Committee, Kim Jong Gyu, vice-minister of Foreign Affairs, and Alexandr Matsegora, Russian ambassador to the DPRK, and staff members of his embassy.

The guards of honor of the Korean People's Army lined up at the tower.

The national anthems of the Russian Federation and the DPRK were played.

A wreath in the name of the secretary of the Security Council of the Russian Federation was placed at the Liberation Tower amid the playing of wreath-laying music.

The participants paid a silent tribute to the memory of the fallen fighters of the Soviet Army before looking round the tower.

Spokesperson for Ministry of National Defence of DPRK Releases Press Statement

 

Pyongyang, March 21 (KCNA) -- A spokesperson for the Ministry of National Defence of the DPRK on Thursday issued the following press statement titled "It is within the range of the option of the DPRK's armed forces to use the most deadly military means against the hostile forces seriously threatening the sovereignty and security of its state":

Recently the U.S. and the ROK military gangsters staged a special warfare drill aimed at "destroying the secret underground tunnel network" and "removing nuclear weapons" of someone as part of the large-scale war exercises Freedom Shield.

This proves that the joint military exercises of "defensive nature" much touted by the U.S. and the ROK are no more than a rehearsal of war of aggression aimed at invading and occupying the DPRK from A to Z.

During the period of Key Resolve and Foal Eagle joint military maneuvers in March 2016, the U.S. and the ROK staged the drills of "beheading operation" and "high-density strike" at strategic objects in accordance with OPLAN 5015. In 2017 they carried out "beheading operation" and "preemptive strike operation" drills targeting major military installations with a special unit more than 3 000-strong involved.

As the military provocations of the hostile countries are committed at the grave level that can never be overlooked and tolerated, clear is the stand of the DPRK's armed forces to counter them.

The DPRK's relevant law clearly stipulates what means and methods should be used in contingency to remove hostile forces threatening the existence of our state, and it is the mission of the armed forces of the DPRK to strictly observe and implement it.

All options for containing the U.S. and the ROK and for eliminating the source of provocation, if necessary, including the use of the most destructive and deadly military means, are under the consideration of our armed forces.

The accumulated reckless military moves of the U.S. and the ROK, seized with the daydream that they can jeopardize the sovereignty and security of a nuclear weapons state, can undoubtedly bring the gravest consequences they do not want.

The Ministry of National Defence of the DPRK strongly warns the U.S. and the ROK military to stop at once the irresponsible and dangerous military acts, issuing a warning once again about the catastrophic result to be entailed by the adventuristic saber-rattling of the hostile forces.

Permanent Representative of DPRK at UN Office and International Organizations in Geneva Issues Press Statement

 

Pyongyang, March 21 (KCNA) -- Jo Chol Su, permanent representative of the DPRK at the UN Office and international organizations in Geneva issued the following press statement titled "The U.S. act to use international body as a tool for implementing its strategy for hegemony can never be tolerated" on Friday:

The fact that the present U.S. Administration, which is bringing chaos and disorder to the international community with its unpredictable foreign policy, sent weird questionnaires to international organizations was out in the open, sparking off great uproar again.

It is reported that the questionnaires recently sent by the U.S. administration to UN organizations and non-governmental organizations contain dozens of questions on the influence of the activities of the relevant organizations on the security and economic fields of the U.S., their cooperative relations with organizations related to communism, socialism, totalitarian or anti-U.S. forces, and whether they have received funds from China, Russia, Cuba and Iran.

It is a product which can be cooked up only by the U.S., obsessed with the gangster-like hegemonic logic that all international relations should exist only for the interests of America, styling itself an ultra-privileged being reigning over the international community.

It is well known that the U.S. has earned an ill-fame as it has so far ignored international organizations including repeating its withdrawal from and entry into international organizations as if coming in and out of its own house and unhesitatingly wiretapping high-ranking officials of the UN.

However, the U.S. is trying to treat international organizations as an organ under the U.S. Department of State. This is far beyond arrogance and impertinence of the past, stunning the world people.

"Serious encroachment upon the internal activities of the UN bodies with independence" and "litmus paper examining the support for 'America first'" - these are the angry response of the international community to the U.S. questionnaires.

International organization, whose mission is to promote mutual exchange and cooperation among states and establish a fair international order, regards impartiality and objectivity as its fundamental principle for its specific feature and bans pressure and interference of a specific state.

If an international organization interferes in internal affairs of its member nation, raises unfair demand and gives pressure to it, following the demand of any individual country, it is already not an international body in a real meaning.

The questionnaires that can be called an "open threatening letter" prove that the U.S. is trying to subordinate the international organizations as the body executing "America first" policy which moves according to its baton and serves its interests.

The behavior of the present U.S. Administration which forces the international community to follow "America first" doctrine predicts the emergence of "McCarthyism" of the 21st century version.

Such behavior of inciting confrontation against the international trend aspiring after multiploidization deserves condemnation, and international community should remain vigilant so that the U.N. and other international organizations are not yielded to the unilateralism and arbitrary practices of the U.S.

Press Statement by Policy Section Chief of Institute for Japan Studies under DPRK Foreign Ministry

 

Pyongyang, March 20 (KCNA) -- The policy section chief of the Institute for Japan Studies under the DPRK Foreign Ministry on Thursday issued the following press statement titled "Japan's reckless possession of preemptive attack capability will only expose the archipelago as a common target of regional countries":

The geopolitical crises caused by the U.S. are increasing the danger of the outbreak of a new great war in different parts of the world. Against this backdrop, Japan, obsessed with the ambition for overseas expansion, has further accelerated its militarist moves, attracting the attention of the world public.

According to media, the Japanese government is mulling deploying home-produced long-range missiles for action in Kyushu area in the southwestern part of the archipelago in March 2026 in order to "secure the capability of attacking enemy bases".

Such missiles are modified version of type 12 surface-to-ship guided missiles possessed by the Japan Ground "Self-Defence Force", which are intended for attack even on the ground targets with about 1 000 km range, and the DPRK and the coastal areas of China are reportedly within their striking range.

Earlier, the Japan Ministry of Defence announced that it would deploy in 2026 high-speed gliding projectiles, a hypersonic weapon which proved successful in a test-fire. It also opened to public the research and manufacture of new-type ballistic missile with a range of 3 000 km.

Moreover, Japan secured the U.S approval for the sale of medium-range air-to-air missiles and long-range air-to-surface cruise missiles and is putting spurs on the building of long-range missile force while seeking to deploy the U.S.-made long-range cruise missiles Tomahawk.

This clearly shows that Japan's possession of preemptive attack capability, formulated through the revision of "national security strategy" at the end of 2022, is becoming a present perfect form and the descendants of the samurais, who had so far made a feint of being a "pacific nation" under the signboard of "exclusive defence" before the international community, have fully revealed their wild ambition of militarism.

Japan's possession of the capability for preemptive attack is an immediate product of the reinvasion policy to realize its ambition for the second "Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere", persistently pursued by Japan regarding it as a strategic goal while whetting a sword for revenge for 80 years since its defeat.

It is not a secret that the successive regimes of Japan have misled the public opinion with such absurd interpretation that the "possession of the capability of attacking enemy base" is within the limit of "self-defence", claiming that it is not the purport of the Constitution to sit and wait for self-destruction, and worked hard for its realization.

Not content with having staged joint military drills for aggression at all times by drawing unbidden guests from over continents and oceans into the Asia-Pacific region to constantly incite war fever, Japan is seeking to deploy even long-range strike means capable of rapidly attacking specific countries in the region any moment. This clearly shows that Japan's military expansion has been developed into an extremely grave stage.

Japan, a war criminal state which has much possibility to repeat its crime as it has totally denied and justified the past history of aggression, is going reckless to get the capability for preemptive attack on other country's territory beyond the borders of its archipelago in the near future. Such "bold action" is a dangerous provocation that will bring about constant escalation of tension by sowing the spark of new military conflict in Northeast Asia.

The rumor about "threat from its surroundings", so zealously clamored by Japan, is only for providing a pretext to cover up its reckless reinvasion war preparations going beyond its own defence demands, as illustrated by all-time high military spendings growing every year, frantic securement of preemptive attack means, constant strengthening of the Japan-U.S. military alliance and multilateral collusion and nexus with NATO forces.

Japan has worked hard to turn itself into a major military power, crying out for the "free and open Indo-Pacific", an expanded version of the "Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere". Such moves make one keenly realize that the "imperial army", which inflicted indelible wounds on the peoples in the Asia-Pacific region, is being reborn.

All the facts go to clearly prove once again that all military means and various forms of movement directly targeting the DPRK as well as the aggressive and challenging consciousness against it are an object to be wiped out and that the DPRK efforts for bolstering up the defence capabilities are an indispensable contribution to thoroughly containing the provocations of enemy countries and maintaining the strategic balance and stability in the region.

Japan's reckless possession of preemptive attack capability to put neighboring countries in the striking range while seeking a chance for reinvasion will, on the contrary, expose its archipelago to the attack by righteous regional countries as a common target. -0- www.kcna.kp (2025.03.20.)