tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18171186074550664602024-03-11T04:20:35.765+01:00Nigerian National Committee on the Study of Juche IdeaWelcome to the Website of the Nigerian National Committee on the Study of Juche IdeaProf. Alhassan Mamman Muhammadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08755512078327100562noreply@blogger.comBlogger2128125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1817118607455066460.post-14102937339548077282024-01-12T01:00:00.002+01:002024-01-12T01:00:18.711+01:00Respected Comrade Kim Jong Un Inspects Major Munitions Factories<p> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Pyongyang,
January 10 (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, inspected major munitions factories on January 8 and 9 to
learn about the production of weapons and equipment.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">He
was accompanied by Jo Chun Ryong, Kim Jae Ryong, O Su Yong, Kang Sun Nam, Kim
Jong Sik, Kim Yo Jong, Jang Chang Ha and other senior officials of the Party
Central Committee and armed forces organs.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">With
boundless trust and gratitude, leading officials and workers of major munitions
factories greeted the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un visiting the factories to
encourage them out in the struggle for attaining the huge production goal for
the new year.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Making
rounds of the factories, Kim Jong Un learned in detail about the production of
weapons and equipment.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">He
highly appreciated the factories for having turned out in the patriotic
struggle for the successful attainment of the munitions production goal, set
forth at the 8th Congress of the WPK and the 7th Enlarged Meeting of the 8th
Central Military Commission of the WPK, and for the sustained development of
the country's munitions industry to step up the production of major weapon
systems on a full scale and actively introduce new technologies into
production.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">He
expressed great satisfaction over the fact that the factories have successfully
carried out the plan for deploying new type weapons and equipment to the
first-line large combined units and major missile units.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Saying
with high appreciation that the fierce flames of struggle for implementing the
Party's policies and innovations in production created at the core munitions
factories of the country are a clear fruition of the remarkably high mental
power, wisdom and enthusiasm of our officials and workers defending the
munitions industry front, he called upon the major munitions factories to bring
about greater leaping progress in the struggle for bolstering up the defense
capabilities in 2024, too, by further elevating the surged spirit, mindful of
their important mission and duty of taking charge of the main front of
modernizing the Korean People's Army and bolstering up the self-reliant
military capabilities.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">He
stressed that the munitions industry should permanently hold fast to and
positively hasten the attainment of the goal for establishment of advanced
production processes, constant expansion of production capacity and innovative
modernization to produce more weapons and equipment in conformity with the
development-oriented demand of the steadily changing and developing national defense
science and industry in the new century and the objective and demand for
modernization of our army.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Pointing
out some shortcomings recently revealed in the organization of munitions
production, he indicated the task for rationally and effectively readjusting
the main production indices of munitions factories in a long-term view and on
the principle of specialization, independence, consideration of factory
capacity and priority over project for implementing the immediate policy.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Reiterating
that it is necessary to have a correct understanding of the strategic
importance of the production of major weapons and equipment prioritized by the
Party, he underscored the need to carry on the economic organization and
production guidance in a militant and revolutionary way so as to make this year
a year of radical turn in boosting the country's preparations for war.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">He
made an appraisal of the security environment of the DPRK and the regional
situation, stating the necessity and validity of the sustained store of
incomparably overwhelming strength.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Saying
that the historic time has come at last when we should define as a state most
hostile toward the Democratic People's Republic of Korea the entity called the
Republic of Korea (ROK) which has pursued a history of vicious confrontation
with bloodshot eyes to overthrow our regime and social system for nearly 80
years, he stressed that our state should recognize this unavoidable and
irrevocable reality as it is and properly settle the historic problem of
actively coping with the new phase of change and thoroughly countering
everything.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Predicating
that the ROK clan is our principal enemy, he said what the DPRK should
prioritize in the relations with the hostile state running high fever in arms
buildup while inciting the confrontation posture with the former is to bolster
up the military capabilities for self-defense and the nuclear war deterrent
first of all.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">He
said that we would by no means unilaterally bring a great event by the
overwhelming strength in the Korean peninsula but we have no intention of
avoiding a war as well. If the ROK dares attempt to use armed forces against
the DPRK or threaten its sovereignty and security and such opportunity comes,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt;">we
will have no hesitation in annihilating the ROK by mobilizing all means and
forces in our hands, he said, affirming that we have such will, forces and
capabilities and will continue to expand and strengthen them without delay in
the future, too.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">He
noted that the DPRK will invariably take its vivid action based on the
principle of righteous struggle, unless the gangster-like ruling quarters of
the ROK realize the mistake of the self-destructive anti-DPRK confrontation
policy, which is running counter to the desire of mankind for peace and
bringing misfortune on itself, and completely give it up. And he set forth the
revolutionary policies to be permanently held and carried out by the munitions
industry field in more strictly perfecting the country's war preparedness.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">All
the workers in the munitions industry, who have realized the steadfast will of
Kim Jong Un reflecting the principle of resolute counteraction against the
enemies and the revolutionary stand of our Party and government, are filled
with the ardent enthusiasm for firmly defending the sacred revolutionary cause
of Juche by surely attaining the fighting goals, set by the Party Central
Committee, with the absolute loyalty and the spirit of devoted implementation,
again fully aware of the momentous mission that the increased production of
military hardware precisely means the safeguard of dignity and sovereignty of
the country.<o:p></o:p></span></p>Prof. Alhassan Mamman Muhammadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08755512078327100562noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1817118607455066460.post-54285510288527872972024-01-08T02:56:00.000+01:002024-01-08T02:56:01.072+01:00Respected Comrade Kim Jong Un Inspects Major TEL Production Factory<p> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Pyongyang,
January 5 (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, inspected a major TEL (transporter erector launcher)
production factory bringing about a great upsurge in production every day while
remarkably raising the mental strength and patriotic enthusiasm of its
employees, true to the idea of the December 2023 Plenary Meeting of the Party
Central Committee.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The
respected Comrade Kim Jong Un was accompanied by his respected daughter.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">He
was also accompanied by Jo Chun Ryong, Jo Yong Won, Ri Il Hwan, Kim Yo Jong and
other senior officials of the Party Central Committee and leading officials of
the General Missile Bureau.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Looking
at the large TELs and various kinds of TELs produced by the factory, he learned
in detail about the production.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">After
acquainting himself with the factory's implementation of production plan last
year, he highly appreciated the officials and workers of the factory for
vigorously striving to attain a new production goal in the new year after
over-fulfilling the TEL production goal set by the Party Central Committee
through a dynamic drive for increased production and creation to glorify 2023
as a year of great changes in bolstering up the national defense capabilities.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">It
is encouraging to see the employees of the factory achieving shining successes
in the responsible production campaign for accomplishing the WPK's cause of
building a powerful army by turning all out for the campaign with the single
mind of patriotism after ideologically accepting the intention of the WPK
Central Committee that set the production of strategic missile TELs as the top
priority for bolstering up the national defense capabilities, he said, adding
that the cause of our Party is invincible thanks to the workers in the
munitions industry, who are full of patriotic enthusiasm and regard it as their
nature to remain unconditionally and absolutely loyal to the Party and the
revolution, like the workers of the factory.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">He
expressed great satisfaction at the fact that the factory has inspired great
enthusiasm for struggle by briskly conducting dynamic mass movements including
technological innovation movement and effectively organizing socialist
emulations among workshops, work-teams and operators, giving priority to
ideological education, and that the employees are keeping their workplaces
clean and tidy with warm love for their factory and creating a highly cultured
labor and production environment.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Stressing
that the factory's position and role are very important in implementing the
historic task of bolstering the national defense capabilities, being pushed
forward with nonstop, given the prevailing grave situation that requires the
country to be more firmly prepared for a military showdown with the enemy, he
indicated the tasks to be fulfilled by the factory.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Referring
to the importance of producing various TELs for tactical and strategic weapons
in ceaselessly bolstering the nuclear war deterrent of the country and the
operational demand of our army, he specified the immediate plan for production
of varieties of TELs, long-term production plan and task of production capacity
expansion.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Underlining
the need for the factory to make signal successes continuously in the
production to radically modernize our army, he took an important measure for
expanding the production capacity of the factory.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Saying
that the important factor governing the successful production is just the idea
and faith of those involved in production, he urged the factory to consistently
intensify the ideological education to instill into its employees the fighting
spirit displayed by the workers of Kunja-ri in the 1950s and the noble sense of
duty that they are standing in the forefront for strengthening the national defense
capabilities, thus raise their mental power to the maximum and focus all
manpower and potentialities on the dynamic campaign for implementing the
munitions industry policy of the Party.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Officials,
workers and technicians of the factory made a firm pledge to remain boundlessly
loyal to the sacred mission they assumed before the revolution by going all out
again for carrying out the TEL production plan with the spirit and mettle
befitting the heroic working class in the munitions industry, cherishing deep
in their minds the great trust of the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un who has
always placed their factory at the center of his mind, valued and prioritized
it most and entitled them to stand in the van of the strenuous campaign for
building the strongest national defense capabilities. <o:p></o:p></span></p>Prof. Alhassan Mamman Muhammadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08755512078327100562noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1817118607455066460.post-4640083988570956482024-01-03T22:18:00.005+01:002024-01-03T22:18:37.000+01:00Respected Comrade Kim Jong Un Visits Farm Machine Exhibition<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjK-3Cce-0uI8bhBnyIB9Mak5WRpT028j0cSC7MXdmGwMrrbzI-MpDTrvdAzHiYVg-MNKXQiy1jlaP2R4BSa92C4u-K4-L32MBIzFkkHnvsWIGA2pV12aiuSSas-gxJUwBRLncpJQ3b2DnTPkgO749EhpbVKMXYaENr1bUCfcp8WsJxcxwEhf4vVyfkpIwF/s900/H.E.%20VISIT%20FARM%20MACHINE%20EXHIBITION.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="504" data-original-width="900" height="352" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjK-3Cce-0uI8bhBnyIB9Mak5WRpT028j0cSC7MXdmGwMrrbzI-MpDTrvdAzHiYVg-MNKXQiy1jlaP2R4BSa92C4u-K4-L32MBIzFkkHnvsWIGA2pV12aiuSSas-gxJUwBRLncpJQ3b2DnTPkgO749EhpbVKMXYaENr1bUCfcp8WsJxcxwEhf4vVyfkpIwF/w552-h352/H.E.%20VISIT%20FARM%20MACHINE%20EXHIBITION.jpg" width="552" /></a></div><br /><p><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt; text-align: justify;">Pyongyang,
January 3 (KCNA) -- An exhibition of farm machines, "Farm machine industry
development-2023", is under way at the Three-Revolution Exhibition House.
The exhibition serves as an important occasion in clearly defining the
direction of the development of the country's agricultural machine industry
amid the great enthusiasm of all the people across the country who have made a
vigorous step for 2024 in the spirit of general offensive for making a leap
forward towards new victory true to the idea and spirit of the 9th Plenary
Meeting of the 8th Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">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
exhibition on January 2.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt;">He
was accompanied by senior party and government officials, including Kim Tok
Hun, Jo Yong Won, Ri Il Hwan, Kim Jae Ryong, Jon Hyon Chol, O Su Yong, Ju Chol
Gyu, Ri Chol Man and Yang Sung Ho.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">On
display at the venue of the exhibition are more than hundreds of kinds of farm
machines designed and manufactured in cooperation with the Agricultural
Commission and relevant fields, including various kinds of tractors,
rice-transplanters, unmanned helicopters for agriculture, wheat and barley
planters and mobile combined maize threshers.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Watching
the farm machines on display,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">the
respected Comrade Kim Jong Un learned in detail about their performance and
technical specifications.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">He
appreciated great efforts made by the relevant farm machine production units
and relevant units to produce efficient and high-performance farm machines
suited to our countryside's actual conditions with their own technical force.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">He
said it is most important to make a correct assessment of the existing
technical capability for manufacturing farm machines and, on this basis, work
out a long-term development plan in a scientific way with the view that quality
is priority and basic before the number in attaining the goal of mechanization
of agricultural work set forth by the programme for the rural revolution in the
new era.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Noting
that to bring about a radical improvement in the field of farm machine industry
at present is an urgent requirement of the revolution and an important
guarantee for implementing the programme for the rural revolution in the new
era, he clarified the principled issues for correctly adopting the strategy for
developing farm machines and accelerating the modernization of the farm machine
production sector and the creation of its capacity and the important tasks for
doing so.<o:p></o:p></span></p>Prof. Alhassan Mamman Muhammadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08755512078327100562noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1817118607455066460.post-28962150092794331462024-01-02T23:49:00.001+01:002024-01-02T23:49:21.536+01:00Respected Comrade Kim Jong Un Meets Major Commanding Officers of KPA to Give Them Pep Talk<p> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Pyongyang,
January 1 (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, met major commanding officers including the commanders of
the large combined units of the Korean People's Army (KPA) at the office
building of the WPK Central Committee on Dec. 31 last year to highly praise the
KPA's feats in 2023 and give them a pep talk.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The
commanders expressed their heartfelt thanks to Kim Jong Un for showing them
deep loving care and placing his trust in them again after glorifying 2023 with
eye-opening successes and events in bolstering up the national defense
capability with his outstanding military idea and energetic leadership and
clearly indicating a plan for army building at the historic December plenary
meeting of the WPK Central Committee.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">He
highly praised the feats performed by the service personnel in defending the
country and building socialism all the year round, regarding the boundless
loyalty to the Party and the people and the spirit of absoluteness and
unconditionality in implementing the orders and instructions as their
lifeblood, and extended his warm thanks and New Year greetings to all the
service personnel through the commanders.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Analyzing
in detail again the critical security environment on the Korean peninsula
inching closer to the brink of armed conflict as the days go by and the nature
of the U.S. and other hostile forces' military confrontation moves, he said
that the situation indicates the urgency to further sharpen the treasured sword
for safeguarding the security and peace of the DPRK and perfect the army's
regular military response posture.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Referring
to the importance of the great responsibility and role of the commanders who
are responsible for the destiny of the country and the people and standing
guard at the outpost for national defense, he stressed the need to make it a
fait accompli that armed conflict may occur any time due to the reckless
provocations of the enemy and thoroughly carry out the militant tasks assigned
by the WPK plenary meeting to the revolutionary armed forces.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The
more dynamically the Korean revolution advances, the more desperately the U.S.
imperialists and the ROK clan try to stop it, he said, stressing that our army
should frustrate any forms of provocations of the enemy without fail with firm
hostility toward the enemy and transparent viewpoint on the principal enemies,
and that if the enemy opt for military confrontation and provocation against
the DPRK, our army should deal a deadly blow to thoroughly annihilate them by
mobilizing all the toughest means and potentialities without moment's
hesitation.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">He
expressed belief that all the service personnel of the entire army would
register bigger successes in implementing the Party's line of building a
powerful army and its military policy with due self-confidence and pride that
their arms serve the most just cause in the world, bearing in mind the trust and
expectation of the Party and the people, and thus glorify 2024 as a new heyday
of strengthening the war preparations.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">All
the commanding officers made a firm pledge to remain absolutely loyal to and
obey the idea and leadership of the Party Central Committee and fully guarantee
the invincibility of the revolutionary cause, prosperity of the country and
happiness of the people with the irresistible military super-power, and thus
discharge their noble mission and duty as the armed forces of the WPK and the
vanguard of the class.<o:p></o:p></span></p>Prof. Alhassan Mamman Muhammadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08755512078327100562noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1817118607455066460.post-48238911544170437062024-01-02T23:45:00.001+01:002024-01-02T23:45:21.994+01:00Respected Comrade Kim Jong Un's Congratulatory Speech<p> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Pyongyang,
January 1 (KCNA)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">--
The respected Comrade Kim Jong Un made a congratulatory speech on December 31,
Juche 112 (2023).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">His
speech is as follows:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Comrades,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">We
will soon see out the year 2023, a year of continued struggle.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">We
have worked stoutly this year and achieved the successes we so desired and
wanted to achieve without fail, thus making it full of events that will open a
new epochal phase on the road of advance of our revolution.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Still,
I can hardly remember a year like this one, when our painstaking efforts have
led to such proud successes and conspicuous transformations.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">These
precious successes are a fruition of the strenuous and devoted efforts made by
all of you, members of the leadership body of the Party Central Committee,
present here.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">I
thank you, comrades, for all the efforts you have made this year.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">There
was no one who participated empty-handed in the December Plenary Meeting that
proudly reviewed the year 2023. Every one of you defended your post with a
sense of responsibility, working against overwhelming odds to perform your
tremendous tasks, and remained faithful to the mission the Party and the people
entrusted to you.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Tough
as the going has been, you have moved forward through the hardships. In the
course of this, you have been further tempered ideologically and mentally,
refined your traits and improved your abilities remarkably, gained valuable
experiences and lessons, and become further convinced of yourselves.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The
success that is no less precious than the immediately visible achievements we
made in 2023 is the fact that our leadership officials have become better
qualified, and this makes me happier than anything else.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">This
will provide a solid guarantee for the victory we will continue to achieve in
the new year.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">I
am confident that, if we press forward in the same staunch, proactive and
pioneering spirit in the new year, we will creditably perform the important
duty we have assumed for our revolution and people, and achieve more than what
is expected of us.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Comrades,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">More
tasks lie ahead of us.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">What
we have done so far is fairly trifling and small, as compared to our people's
happy life and future we are dreaming of.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">We
have no reason to rest on our laurels with what we have done nor the right to
feel satisfied with them.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Feeling
remorseful for failing to live up to the expectations of the people, we should
always be mindful of them and work hard to make 2024 a year of redoubled
efforts for the good of our great state and people.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">To
our great Democratic People's Republic of Korea,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">To
the health of all the people, members of the Party and service personnel of the
People's Army, who will be greeting the new year soon, and<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">To
the happiness and good health of all the families across the country, I propose
a toast.<o:p></o:p></span></p>Prof. Alhassan Mamman Muhammadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08755512078327100562noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1817118607455066460.post-64683724919603465892024-01-02T23:40:00.005+01:002024-01-02T23:40:37.899+01:00Respected Comrade Kim Jong Un Hosts Dinner for Members of Leadership Body of Party Central Committee<p> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Pyongyang,
January 1 (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), hosted a dinner for the members of the leadership
body of the Party Central Committee in the name of the General Secretary on
December 31, expressing deep thanks to them for showing boundless
responsibility, resolute fighting will and courage in the discussion at the
December 2023 Plenary Meeting of the Party Central Committee, which indicated
the direction of the historic advance of 2024, out of their transparent
readiness to remain true to their honorable responsibility and duty for the
Korean revolution.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The
respected General Secretary Kim Jong Un made a meaningful congratulatory
speech. </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Saying
that we have achieved the successes, which we had earnestly wished and desired
to surely attain, through a series of struggles and brought about significant
events for opening up a new turning phase in the course of advance of the
Korean revolution in 2023, he noted that such invaluable successes were
achieved thanks to the painstaking efforts and boundless devotion of all the
members of the leadership body of the Party Central Committee, appreciating
their year-round efforts.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">He
affirmed that if our leading officials accelerate their pace with firm and
active pioneering spirit in the new year, too, they would successfully carry
out their important duty they have assumed before our revolution and people,
and proposed a toast to the DPRK, health of all the people, all the Party
members, service personnel of the Korean People's Army and happiness and peace
of all families across the country seeing in the New Year.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">All
the participants drank their toasts, vowing to more thoroughly arm themselves
with the revolutionary idea of Kim Jong Un, top representative of the absolute
prestige and mightiness of the ever-victorious WPK, and more dynamically
struggle for the prosperity and development of our great state and the
well-being of our people.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Kim
Jong Un had a significant photo session with the members of the leadership body
of the Party Central Committee on that day.<o:p></o:p></span></p>Prof. Alhassan Mamman Muhammadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08755512078327100562noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1817118607455066460.post-72311624035491949662024-01-02T23:36:00.000+01:002024-01-02T23:36:01.775+01:00Respected Comrade Kim Jong Un Enjoys Grand Art Performance for New Year<p> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Pyongyang,
January 1 (KCNA) -- The hope-filled new year, Juche 113 (2024), has come to the
socialist homeland continuously adding new epic stories to its history as a
great powerful country, while advancing toward the successful implementation of
the fighting programme set forth by the 8th Congress of the Workers' Party of
Korea and the fulfillment of the great far- reaching target for the prosperity
and development of the DPRK and the wellbeing of its people.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Seeing
the year 2023 out, all the people review the proud year that witnessed great
changes specially recorded in the history of the country, convinced that the
future will be rosier with greater miracles and changes. And they express their
firm reverence for and trust in our great Party, the banner, organizer and
guide of all victories and glory.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">A
grand art performance for celebrating the New Year 2024 was given with splendor
at the May Day Stadium in Pyongyang, the capital city of the DPRK, amid great
excitement of all the people seeing in the New Year with the spirit of working
hard to hasten a new victory full of great confidence.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The
venue for the performance was filled with the pride and joy of the audience as
they recollected with deep emotion the proud advance of the year in which they
brought about eye-opening events by overcoming all difficulties,
single-mindedly united behind the Workers' Party of Korea.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">To
highlight the colorful prelude of the New Year celebration, figure skaters and
acrobats demonstrated their wonderful skills on the ice-rink.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">A
group of well-known drummers revved up the festive atmosphere through their
cheerful tune.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">A
ceremony of hoisting the national flag of the great DPRK, was held. All the
audience paid high tribute to the sacred national flag.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">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, enjoyed the
performance together with senior officials of the Party and the government.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Amid
the playing of the welcome music, Kim Jong Un appeared in the auditorium
together with his respected daughter and wife, being greeted with a thunderous
standing ovation of the audience.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">All
the participants raised stormy cheers of "Hurrah!", looking up to the
respected Comrade Kim Jong Un, the symbol of mightiness and heroism of Juche
Korea and great representative of the great dignity and brilliant honor who is
raising the national power and might of the DPRK to the eminence of the century
with his outstanding leadership and political ability and ushering in a new
dynamic era when a rich country with a strong army is being built by dint of
self-respect, self-sustenance and self-defence.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">He
waved back to the enthusiastically cheering crowds as a token of his warm
greeting of best wishes to all the audience and all the beloved people of the
country seeing in the New Year.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Among
the audience were Kim Tok Hun, Jo Yong Won, Choe Ryong Hae and Ri Pyong Chol,
members of the Presidium of the Political Bureau of the WPK Central Committee,
and other leading officials of the Party and government and officials of armed
forces organs.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The
performance was enjoyed by the participants in the 9th Plenary Meeting of the
8th Central Committee of the WPK, participants in New Year celebrations,
Pyongyang citizens, service personnel and students of the revolutionary
schools.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Members
of the diplomatic corps here watched the performance.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The
performance was given by artistes of prestigious art troupes, including the
State Merited Chorus and the Wangjaesan Art Troupe, students of art education
institutions in the city, ice sportsmen and children.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The
performance began with the prelude "We Sing of the Party." Put on the
stage were colorful numbers, including monumental songs of the times praising
the WPK, an invincible Party which unites all the people under the banner of
patriotism with its strong might of guidance and successfully leads
Korean-style socialism to an overall upsurge and development.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">There
came the last moment of the year and the bells began tolling solemnly to
celebrate New Year's Eve at 00:00 on January 1 along with the ignition of the
torch of celebration and the display of fireworks in the sky above the capital
city.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Children
presented bouquets to Kim Jong Un and leading officials of the Party and the
government and wished them a happy New Year.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The
venue of the celebration was overflowing with great happiness and boundless
excitement of seeing in the New Year with the benevolent father of the great
socialist family.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The
performance, which ended with the finale "Snow Is Falling on New Year's
Day", "We Are the Happiest in the World" and "Our National
Flag", redoubled the high revolutionary enthusiasm and fighting spirit of
all the people to bring earlier the rosy future of our powerful state with the
inexhaustible power of their unity based on loyalty and patriotism under the
ever-victorious guidance of the great Party Central Committee.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">At
the end of the performance, loud cheers of<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">"Hurrah!"
for Kim Jong Un rocked the venue again and fireworks were let off to gorgeously
decorate the nocturnal sky.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The
last night of the old year was beautifully decorated and the prelude to the New
Year was open magnificently. <o:p></o:p></span></p>Prof. Alhassan Mamman Muhammadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08755512078327100562noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1817118607455066460.post-20059941033500625132024-01-02T23:25:00.000+01:002024-01-02T23:25:25.250+01:00Report on 9th Enlarged Plenum of 8th WPK Central Committee<p> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Pyongyang,
December 31 (KCNA) -- The Workers' Party of Korea (WPK), the great guide of our
country and people, has defended the eternal vitality of socialism, the ideal
and future of mankind, and vigorously led its steady development, while
confirming the validity of the sacred mission and idea specified in its
programme through the indomitable struggle and precious victories.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Through
the struggle in 2023, a crucial and vital one in the overall development of
Korean-style socialism, the WPK clearly directed the future trend of advance
towards the fulfillment of the five-year plan and put the overall state
activities and public life on a steady upward track. This is a clear
demonstration of the seasoned leadership and courageous practical ability of
the WPK.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Thanks
to the outstanding leadership of our Party and the indomitable efforts of our
people intensely loyal to it, precious ideological and spiritual asset was
provided to dynamically promote the development of the state in the new era, a
scientific guarantee was established to definitely set the goal and direction
of the new year's struggle and accurately attain them and the mightiness and
invincibility of our great state were strikingly proved by entities of the rich
country with strong army.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The
year 2023 was a year of the most encouraging change in which the valuable
successes achieved by the staunch and tireless efforts of the years following
the milestone of victory set by the Eighth Congress of the Party were
accumulated and their might began to be fully displayed. And this greatly
encourages the patriotic enthusiasm and efforts of the Korean people aspiring
for a leap forward to a new victory.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">As
long as the militant banner of the glorious WPK is fluttering in the van, we
have nothing to fear and nothing is impossible for us to do and victory is
always in store for the DPRK though manifold trials are ahead of it. This is
the most precious review of the year 2023 and the unshakable will of our people
starting the march of the new year 2024.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The
historic 9th Enlarged Plenary Meeting of the 8th Central Committee of the WPK
took place at the office building of the Central Committee of the WPK, the
supreme general staff of the revolution, from December 26 to 30, Juche 112
(2023) to proudly review the victory of 2023 achieved by the Party and the
people through their united struggle and to map out the orientation and
policies for the development of the Party and state work for the new year.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Kim
Jong Un, general secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea, was present at the
plenary meeting.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">When
Kim Jong Un took the platform, all the participants broke into stormy cheers of
"Hurrah!", extending the greatest glory to him, outstanding leader of
our Party and state who ushered in a new era of great change on this land and
has demonstrated the dignity and prestige of powerful Korea before the whole
world with his noble mission of being responsible for the destiny of the
country and people through his energetic leadership activities day and night.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Attending
the meeting were members of the Presidium of the Political Bureau of the WPK
Central Committee, members and alternate members of the Political Bureau of the
WPK Central Committee and members and alternate members of the WPK Central
Committee. Present as observers were officials of departments of the Party
Central Committee, leading officials of ministries, national institutions,
leadership bodies of provincial level, cities, counties and major industrial
establishments and chairpersons of city and county agricultural management
committees who set an example in agricultural production.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The
presidium of the meeting was elected with members of the Political Bureau of
the Party Central Committee.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Upon
authorization of the Political Bureau of the WPK Central Committee, Kim Jong Un
presided over the plenary meeting.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The
plenary meeting put the following items on its agenda:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">1.<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>On the review of the implementation of
the Party and state policies in 2023 and the orientation of struggle in 2024<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">2.<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>On increasing the sense of
responsibility in the implementation of the socialist policy for schoolchildren<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">3.<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>On the work of the Central Inspection
Commission of the WPK for 2023<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">4.<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>On the fulfillment of the state budget
for 2023 and the draft state budget for 2024<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">5.<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>On a series of measures for
strengthening the leadership function of the Party at present<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">6.<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Organizational matter<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The
plenary meeting unanimously approved the agenda items.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The
plenary meeting discussed the first agenda item "On the review of the
implementation of the Party and state policies in 2023 and the orientation of
struggle in 2024".<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The
respected General Secretary Kim Jong Un made a historic report "On the
review of the implementation of the Party and state policies in 2023".<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Referring
to the importance and realistic significance of the struggle of 2023, full of
great events and satisfactory results, in deciding the success of the work of
the Eighth Central Committee of the WPK, he said in his report:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">This
year was a very important year for our Party and people who are making a
stubborn advance to implement the struggle programme set forth at the Eighth
Party Congress.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">In
this year’s struggle, decisive of the fate of the resolutions of the Party
Congress, we demonstrated once again the indomitable spirit peculiar to our
Party and people, who courageously carry out the revolutionary tasks which they
have determined by enlisting their own strength and potentiality to the
maximum, and in this course further augmented the overall national power of the
country.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">In
a nutshell, we achieved epochal successes in providing favorable conditions and
a solid springboard for further accelerating the future advance in all aspects
of socialist construction and the strengthening of the national power through
this year’s struggle, not merely passing the third year of the implementation
of the five-year plan that we had planned.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Years
after the Eighth Party Congress were recorded with unprecedented miracles and
changes, but there had been no year full of eye-opening victories and events
like this year.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">This
is by no means an easy change.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">This
year we had to start the advance for one year under the very difficult trials
and situation.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Even
after the three-year international public health emergency was lifted, all
sectors were subject to a lot of restrictions because of the strict anti-
epidemic measures taken by the state, and efforts were made to cope with the
harsh sanctions and pressure of the hostile and obstructive forces and to deal
with dangerous security environment. Furthermore, the urgent problem was to
solve the serious food shortage caused by the last year's poor farming.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The
situation raised the alternative question of whether to continue to advance
towards the attainment of the third year’s goal for the implementation of the
resolutions of the Eighth Party Congress or to direct everything towards
overcoming the difficulties that we faced. The Party <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Central
Committee's decision on it was, as we chosen together, an unremitting
continuous advance and a vigorous struggle.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">On
the basis of scientific analysis of the unfavorable situation at home and
abroad and the essential important tasks, the WPK Central Committee, through
the Sixth Plenary Meeting of the Eighth Party Central Committee, confirmed a
bold goal and positive strategy, assigned them to the whole Party and
forcefully promoted their implementation, thus ensuring the orientation of
development and successful implementation of this year’s struggle.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The
report reviewed the remarkable successes made in the overall national economy.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The
12 goals for the national economic development were all attained with 103
percent of grain production, 100 percent of electric power, coal and
nitrogenous fertilizer, 102 percent of rolled steel, 131 percent of nonferrous
metal, 109 percent of logs, 101 percent of cement and ordinary cloth, 105
percent of marine products, 106 percent of railway freight transport and 109
percent of houses under construction. And the overall economy witnessed clear
production growth, including 220 percent of motor production, 208 percent of
transformers, 121 percent of bearings, 140 percent of electric zinc, 121
percent of lead, 113 percent of paper, 110 percent of salt, 109 percent of
cosmetics, 100 percent of flat glass and 104 percent of magnesia clinker, and
plan discipline was established.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Compared
with the total growth of the economic sector in 2020, the previous year of the
8th Party Congress, the production of important indices largely went up in 2023
by raising the production of iron trioxide 3.5 times, pig iron 2.7 times,
rolled steel 1.9 times, machine tools 5.1 times, cement 1.4 times and nitrogen
fertilizer 1.3 times and the GDP grew up 1.4 times.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The
report estimated the over-fulfillment of the goal of grain production, the
dominant height of decisive significance in the overall economic development
and the guarantee of people's living, as the most precious and valuable success
achieved in the economic work for 2023.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The
General Secretary said that the meeting for year-end account settlement and
income distribution showing great enthusiasm and confidence of the officials
and working people in the agricultural sector took place in succession at farms
throughout the country, adding that it served as an important occasion in
bringing about a great revolution in the spiritual state of the farmers and
this is a genuine change of the greatest importance in the struggle for
attaining the grain production goal in 2023 and for the sustained agricultural
development in the future.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Referring
to the letters sent to the Party Central Committee by many units across the
country for donating the grain they prepared with sincerity as the patriotic
rice, he proposed with respect to extend thanks to those units in the name of
the plenary meeting of the Party Central Committee, saying that our Party holds
such simple and sincere patriotism of the agricultural workers more valuable
than myriads of tons of grain.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The
plenary meeting fully supported his proposal.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The
report noted that the <i>Kwangchon</i> Chicken Farm was built as a standard and
model of the modernization of poultry sector, modern wheat processing factories
were built in Sariwon and Haeju cities and Nampho Municipality, the
Hwangju-Kindung waterway project, the desalination project of Lake Kangryong
and the building of the surface setups in the tideland covering thousands of
hectares of area was completed and the solid foundation was laid for attaining
the goal of reclaiming 300 000 hectares of tideland. All those successes are a
clear proof of the validity of the rural revolutionary programme in the new
era, the agricultural policy of our Party and the leadership of the Party
inspiring the whole country to the struggle for the fundamental change in the
agricultural production without flinching from trials and difficulties, it
stressed.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The
report appreciated the remarkable successes made in the housing construction
for the people, an important state affair our Party has given top priority to
since the 8th Party Congress.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The
construction sector built another 10 000 flats in Hwasong District to provide a
guarantee for making citizens of the capital city move into new houses on the
occasion of the coming Day of the Sun and the young builders dynamically pushed
ahead with the construction of more than 4 100 flats in the Sopho area, thus
building a new youth monument called Jonwi Street.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Our
People's Army, which regards the infinite loyalty to the Party and the people
and the spirit of absolutely and unconditionally implementing the orders and
instructions as its lifeblood, not only conducted the housing construction in
the capital city but also built more than 20 000 flats in the Komdok area for
the past four years, thus forming a new mountain gorge city. They also made it
possible to perfectly complete the construction of the Kangdong Greenhouse Farm
by February holiday in 2024.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The
plan for rural housing construction this year is more than twice that of 2022,
more than 58 000 flats. At least 40 cities and counties have already completed
the construction and other cities and counties will finish the planned housing
construction by the spring of the new year as a whole.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The
report noted that the key industrial sector brought about a remarkable increase
in production and many readjustment and reinforcement projects were completed
and other encouraging successes were made in the course of the struggle to
attain the 12 major goals for national economic development.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The
workers of the Ryongsong Machine Complex made unprecedented innovations in
wonderfully manufacturing large compressors by turning the production of
machine products entrusted to them by the Party Central Committee into the
process of creating the second Chollima spirit and a process of mass
technological innovation. They thus dealt a telling blow to defeatism and
mysticism about technique in the economic field and proved the validity and
vitality of the Party's policies in a powerful practice.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The
Party Central Committee highly appreciated the heroic feats of the workers of
the complex who successfully finished the production of large compressors
before the plenary meeting by displaying the spirit of self- reliance and
fortitude while manufacturing lots of custom-built equipment.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Referring
to the fact that the construction of the energy-saving oxygen heat blast
furnace and the installation of oxygen separators with a capacity of 15 000
cubic meters per hour at the Kim Chaek Iron and Steel Complex, the project for
building induction furnace at the Hwanghae Iron and Steel Complex, the
construction of a vertical furnace for oxidizing roasting pellet at the
Chongjin Steel Plant and the development of the Sohaeri branch mine under the
Unryul Mine were completed and went into operation, the report said that 2023
is a year in which the metal industrial sector made big strides in putting the
sector on a Juche and modern basis.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The
chemical industrial sector produced and supplied nitrogenous fertilizer before
farming process and built a nutrient solution factory at the Sunchon Chemical
Complex for greenhouse farms in the west coastal area. It also finished the
project for establishing urea synthesis process on an expansive basis and
reinforcing the cleaning process and completed the power transmission line
project at the Namhung Youth Chemical Complex to provide a practical guarantee
for considerably increasing the fertilizer production.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">It
is a very significant success that the power industry has perfectly fulfilled
its monthly production plan according to demand while laying a solid material
and technical foundation for thermal power stations and increasing the
generating efficiency of hydroelectric power stations and pushed ahead with the
work to build an optimized power system on major transmission lines, thus
reducing the huge loss in transmission of electricity and establishing the
process of processing ultra-high-pressure towers.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The
torch of the socialist patriotic movement for increased coal production in the
new century was kindled at the Jagang Provincial Supply Coal Mine under the
Kaechon Area Coal Mining Complex and the flames of joint innovations flared up
in the coal-mining industry with the movement as a firing point. This was a
starting point for the overall drive for increased production of the national
economy and a great strength of our Party.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The
report said that the economic sectors including mining, building materials,
forestry, light industry, fishery and railway transport put spurs to
implementing the readjustment and reinforcement strategy while carrying out the
national economic plan without fail and thus make a breakthrough for definitely
increasing the present and long-term production, and the IT, land and
environment and urban management sectors pushed ahead with the urgent and basic
projects for boosting the material and technical potentials.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Reviewing
2023 as a year in which efforts to bring about new innovations and changes in
the field of science and technology have been intensified, the General
Secretary said that the proudest scientific and technological achievements were
made in the field of space science and technology.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Our
scientists and technicians, having accepted the Party's strategic plan and
intention as their unshakable faith, buckled down to conquering space with our
wisdom and technology at any cost and brought about an eye- opening event of
succeeding in the launch of reconnaissance satellites finally after repeated
failures.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">This
is a perfect demonstration of the revolutionary mettle and clever brain ability
of our scientists and technicians who have surely occupied any fortress of
science to meet the demands of the Party and the revolution and increase the
national power of the country.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">This
year, a great revolution has been made in the educational work for building an
educational power and a talented nation. This is a proud success that is
incomparable to anything.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The
educational sector, shouldering the responsibility for the far-reaching plan of
the country, the prospect of national development and prosperity, pushed ahead
in real earnest with the project for improving the educational structure, which
had existed for the past several decades, to give more advanced and practical
education to the students and brought about fresh and innovative, considerable
change in the contents, forms and methods of education.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">And
the Pedagogical Institute, a centre for education scientific research which
reliably guarantees the development of the country's education, was newly built
and the science library of Kim Il Sung University was renovated on a modern
basis. More than 160 schools and kindergartens were built or renovated as model
standards throughout the country, and so on, significant progress was made in
consolidating the material and technical foundations of the educational sector
this year.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The
report noted that the public health and sports sectors also made unique
contributions to bringing the new change in 2023.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Pharmaceutical
factories, medical supplies factories and specialized facilities for preventing
diseases, which are of great significance in the promotion of people's health
and the preventive and curative medical care, were newly built to further
consolidate the material and technical foundations of the public health sector
and create a favorable environment for the economic development and the
people's stable life.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Our
sportspersons, who took part in international games nearly four years after the
outbreak of global health crisis, won many medals at the 19th Asian Games, the
22nd World Taekwon-Do Championships and the 2023 International Weightlifting
Federation Grand Prix and broke the world records one after another, thus
flying our national flags in the sky above the world to greatly encourage all
the people in the country.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The
report said that all provinces have made a great leap forward in developing the
regional economy and creating the people's living and high civilization by
dynamically conducting the work for implementing the Party's resolutions.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">In
South Hwanghae Province in particular, the city and county Party committees and
party organizations of the agricultural sector and officials, agricultural
workers and other people in the province, the masters of farming, made special
efforts to carry out the plan for grain procurement by raising the strong wind
of education and struggle to eradicate various evils in the past farming and
enhancing the role of the group for the promotion of scientific farming.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Each
province has striven to build sci-tech library, school uniform factory,
footwear factory and standard pharmacies and to remodel and modernize Koryo
medicines factories and push ahead with the implementation of the childcare
policy, true to the resolutions of plenary meetings of the Party Central
Committee. Such stirring atmosphere of struggle and the style of work has been
maintained in a sustained way all the year round in every province and, it
resulted in the emergence of new power stations, stockbreeding farms,
children's camps, outdoor theatres, universities, epidemic prevention centers,
condiments factories, forest science institutes, dairy cattle farms, air clubs
and many other objects that meet the long-term and immediate economic demand
and provide convenience of the local people in life as well as the
architectural aesthetic requirements of the new era. Consequently, the year
2023 was a year of radical change in which lots of proud creatures appeared in
different regions, too.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The
General Secretary reviewed the remarkably increased politico- ideological might
of the DPRK as the most significant success in the 2023 struggle.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">First
of all, radical advance was made in the state power activities and the work of
strengthening the people's power.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The
policy of strengthening the state nuclear force was enshrined in the
Constitution of the Republic at the 9th Session of the 14th Supreme People’s Assembly
held in September. This will be proudly recorded in the history of the country
as it was a political event that laid a legal foundation for guaranteeing the
security of our state and people forever, put the dignity and strategic
position of the country on the highest level and at the same time, dealt a
deadly blow at the enemy.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">As
a result of the active legal work to further subdivide and embody the laws and
regulations in conformity with the requirements of the Party’s policies and
reality and to find out all spaces in the legal regulation and take relevant
measures, more than 110 laws and regulations for every sector including the
laws of the DPRK on auditing, irrigation, education of prodigies, distribution
of production labor and public servants were newly enacted or amended and a
legal guarantee was established for further consolidating our advantageous
state and social system.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">As
the method of electing deputies to the people’s assemblies at all levels was
improved in a more democratic way to highlight the popular character of the
Republic and further strengthen the work of the power organs, the elections of
deputies to the provincial, city and county people’s assemblies held in
November turned into a process of further enhancing the people’s civil
consciousness and patriotic enthusiasm to be actively concerned for and
participate in the state affairs.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Meanwhile,
the first short course for the chairpersons of Provincial, City and County
People’s Committees, who are wholly responsible for the work of the people’s
power organs before the Party, state and people, was conducted seriously as a
work of the Party Central Committee. This served as an important occasion for
further enhancing the role of our power organs.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Although
we did not hold many conferences this year, we started the new year with the
delegates of the members of Korean Children’s Union (KCU) who attended the
Ninth Congress of the KCU and had a significant time of the yearend with the
participants in the Fifth National Conference of Mothers. This is the important
features of this year and is of great significance in highlighting the true aim
and character of our struggle.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The
report said that the patriotic movement of donating cereals and the movement
for donating warships and other socialist patriotic movements and revolutionary
mass movements were brisk amid the great enthusiasm of all the people to defend
the country and revolution and that multiple rocket launchers, loading vehicles
and buses named "Sonyon" (child), "Taehaksaeng Chongnyon"
(university and college students), "Jikmaeng" (trade unions),
"Nonggunmaeng" (union of agricultural workers), "Nyomaeng "(women's
union) and "Pusasu" were presented.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The
large ranks of patriots with the warm mind to think first of the Party,
revolution and country and to be helpful to the country to relieve it of its
difficulties have grown up in the course of the vigorous mass patriotic
movement. This is the greatest political success that can never be compared
with anything else.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Three
grand military parades, which took place on the occasions of the 75th founding
anniversary of the Korean People's Army, the 70th anniversary of the victory in
the Fatherland Liberation War and the 75th founding anniversary of the DPRK,
continuously surpassing the successive levels, and other large political and
military festivals fully demonstrated before the world the dignity and prestige
of the Party, state and people and the true feature of our single- minded
unity.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The
report reviewed the fresh improvement in the work for further increasing the
revolutionary appearance and fighting efficiency of our Party in 2023.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">In
the course of struggle to implement the five-point Party-building line in the
new era, the core and innovative system and methods of Party work were studied
and implemented to ensure the organizational and ideological consolidation and
far-sighted policy on strengthening the fighting efficiency of our Party.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The
work of organizing and dispatching powerful Party-member battalions throughout
the Party to help Ryanggang Province in the construction of rural houses and of
building up backward farms by departments of the Party Central Committee,
ministries and national institutions has been organized and conducted. This is
another precious stride forward in our Party work as it is a thoroughgoing
embodiment of our Party’s traditional work method to make superiors help the
subordinates and develop backward units together.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The
report said that great successes have been achieved in the struggle against the
enemy and in strengthening the defense capabilities for defending the
sovereignty and dignity of the country.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The
test-fires and launching drills of ICBM Hwasongpho-17 and Hwasongpho-18 were
successfully conducted several times in the course of further accelerating the
development of nuclear weapons, an important part of the national defense
capability and the super-powerful war deterrent. They verified their
reliability and superiority and confirmed the DPRK's long-term orientation for
building up the strategic force.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The
DPRK conducted in an offensive way major military activities including
launching drills of tactical ballistic missiles and cruise missiles to
overwhelmingly counter the enemies' frantic war drills, developed unmanned
reconnaissance planes and multi-purpose drones and launched a newly-built
submarine to strikingly demonstrate the matchless combat readiness and
development of the DPRK's armed forces.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Especially
the possession of space reconnaissance assets by successfully putting our first
reconnaissance satellite "Malligyong-1" into orbit is a great event
of making a decisive advance in carrying out the prior and important tasks for
modernizing the armed forces of the DPRK set forth by the 8th Party Congress
and putting the strategic strength of our state on a new high stage.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The
report said that the WPK has applied a proactive diplomatic strategy while
maintaining the strong independent stand and principle in its external work,
thus remarkably increasing the dignity and prestige of the country and reliably
defending the sovereign rights of our state from the vicious moves of the U.S.
and its vassal forces.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">In
total, 2023 is a year of great turn and change both in name and reality when
the DPRK left a great footprint in the glorious course of its development in
the efforts to improve the national power and to enhance the prestige of the
country, the General Secretary said, expressing his high respect for the heroic
struggle of the Workers' Party members, sincere working people and service
personnel who have dynamically pushed forward a new phase of prosperity and
development with their strong redoubled efforts true to the Party's idea and
leadership.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">He
extended warm thanks to the members of the entire Party, people across the
country and service personnel of the entire army who contributed to filling
2023 with successes of loyalty and patriotism, overcoming all sorts of
difficulties and hardships with firm trust in our cause and indomitable spirit.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">He
said that our Party and people have been convinced that they can certainly
fulfill the five-year plan aimed at laying the foundations for the development
of the national economy and advancing towards the sustained development through
the past three-year stubborn struggle.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">At
present, the revolutionary enthusiasm and fighting spirit of our people and
youths are very high and all sectors are rising vigorously with the great
positive changes made in their mental and moral state. This is a favorable
situation that has been won since the Eighth Congress of the Party as a result
of our strenuous and offensive struggle.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">This
is the most precious and powerful asset for the future progress and
development, and we can now be confident that we have overcome the most
difficult and extreme points in the struggle to carry out the tasks of the
Party Congress.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">In
general, our revolution opened up an era of the comprehensive development of
socialism, in which not only national defense but also all the economic and
cultural sectors arose simultaneously, the capital and the provinces have
changed all together and great changes have been made in the people’s
ideological and mental aspects as well as in cities, villages, mountains and streams
during the term of the Eighth Central Committee of the Party.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The
experience of the past three years is that if they work meticulously and
earnestly, maintaining the spirit of braving the manifold difficulties, under
the condition where the Party’s leadership system is strong and all the
people’s trust in it is steadfast, they can successfully accomplish the
important tasks of overcoming difficulties and developing changes.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">All
this proves that the programme of struggle clarified by the Eighth WPK Congress
is the most correct and powerful banner which vigorously pushes forward and
develops our revolution despite unprecedentedly harsh difficulties, and
inspires us with optimism and conviction that it will be successfully realized
by two-year-long consecutive struggles in the future.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The
report comprehensively saw through the work of the year from a critical and
developmental point of view, proceeding from the revolutionary stand of the WPK
which is more concerned with defects and lessons than successes and experience
for the rapider progress and development of the future, and analyzed and
reviewed the defects in it in a level-headed way.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The
General Secretary called upon all the participants in the plenary meeting to
fully discharge their responsibility and role in the work for 2024 to create a
history of new victory for the overall national prosperity, with the high pride
and self-confidence in the struggle of 2023 and deeply aware of the problems to
be surely solved in our future work.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Speeches
were made on the first agenda item.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Kim
Tok Hun, premier of the Cabinet, Choe Ryong Hae, chairman of the Standing
Committee of the Supreme People's Assembly, Ri Chol Man, department director of
the C.C., WPK, Kang Sun Nam, minister of National Defense, and Jo Yong Won,
secretary for Organizational Affairs of the C.C., WPK, examined and reviewed
the work in their fields and suggested the measures to the plenary meeting.
Leading officials in various sectors presented written speeches.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The
plenary meeting heard and analyzed the speeches and made relevant evaluations.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Kim
Jong Un made an important conclusion on the first agenda item "On the
orientation of struggle in 2024".<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Saying
that the successes achieved in the course of implementing the Party and state
policies in 2023 serve as another precious asset for our advance and
development, he referred to the orientation of the future struggle.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">We
have two years in carrying out the five-year plan.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">In
these two years we must prove with redoubled efforts that the policy of
struggle decided by the Eighth Congress of the Party and the advance we have
made so far are perfectly correct, and we must achieve greater successes and
sum up our struggle before the Party Congress.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Our
general orientation of struggle is to further expand and actively apply the
favorable situation and phase which we have won through a stubborn struggle,
thus successfully implementing the fighting programme of the Eighth Party
Congress and laying a springboard for a new advance in the future.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">On
the basis of the successes and experience of the past three years, we should
make the remaining two years an effective process of preparing for a new
development of the next stage, while steadily concluding the implementation of
the resolutions of the Eighth Party Congress sincerely.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">In
particular, we should direct main efforts into solving the problems that are
incomplete or a stumbling block in implementing the resolutions of the Party
Congress, from next year so as to further expand the successes achieved till
now and prove their worth, and turn all the planned tasks into brilliant
fruitions.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The
year 2024 is a decisive year of confirming the victory in attaining the
fighting goal set by the Eighth Party Congress by heightening the offensive
spirit on all fronts of socialist construction.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">In
other words, by the end of 2024, every sector and unit should secure an obvious
practical guarantee for the fulfillment of the five-year plan.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">With
confidence in having braved the most difficult and severe trials, we should
glorify 2024 with new and significant successes through a more mounting and
strenuous struggle.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Noting
that the primary problem is to strengthen the administrative and economic work
system and order of the state, the General Secretary specified the principled
issues and practical ways for the Cabinet to enliven the lifeline of the
national economy and propel the purposeful economic development in line with
its duty as the overall state management institution endowed by the
constitution.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">He
stressed the need for all sectors of the national economy to put spurs to the
growth of production, finish the work for readjustment and reinforcement and
concentrate efforts on 12 major goals by setting them in front in the new year,
too. He set forth the important tasks to be fulfilled in the key industrial
sectors including metal, chemistry, electric power, coal, machinery and railway
transport.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The
conclusion defined it as our Party's orientation of development for
machine-building industry at the present phase to make the Ryongsong Machine
Complex, a parent body of the machine-building industry, a standard and model
of modernization in the period of the Eighth Party Central Committee and, on
the basis of this experience, to modernize the Taean Heavy Machine Complex, the
Rakwon General Machine Enterprise and other major machine factories during the
period of the new five-year economic development plan and clarified the ways
for its implementation.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">It
referred to all the tasks for more dynamically promoting the construction of
the capital city and the rural housing construction, an important task started
under the historic decision made at the Eighth Party Central Committee, and to
the practical issues for realizing the grand long-term construction plan
envisaged by the Party Central Committee.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">It
also called on the land and environment protection and urban management sectors
to steadily push forward the phased tasks specified in the five-year plan and
on all the institutions and enterprises to dynamically conduct the work for
coping with disaster crisis on an annual basis.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The
General Secretary advanced the specific tasks and ways for steadily increasing
the agricultural productivity, including the work to definitely set the
strategy and the step-wise goals for the development of farm machines and
strongly promote the mechanization of the rural economy on the basis of survey
and evaluation of the country's overall agricultural infrastructure and
agro-technical capability, the work to complete the country's irrigation system
and the work to vigorously hasten the reclamation of tideland without letup.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">He
called for further stirring up the social atmosphere and climate of active
support to the rural areas throughout the country, establishing the strict
disciplines of food administration, and building modern wheat processing
factories in various regions and improving the wheat processing technology to
raise the quality of products in keeping with the increase of wheat production.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The
conclusion stressed the need for the light industry in 2024 to set it as the
primary task for improving the quality of consumer goods and condiments and
struggle for realizing it and referred to the tasks for stepping up the
modernization of light industrial and regional industrial factories, developing
the sericulture sector and improving the commercial, public catering and
welfare service work.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">It
also mentioned the tasks facing the fishing sector for activating the pelagic
fishing, increasing the varieties and species in the fish farming and
cultivation field and particularly conducting the offshore fishing on a mass
scale to boost the marine production, and the measures for providing the citizens
of the capital city with more civilized and affluent living conditions and
environment in the period of the 8th Party Central Committee.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The
General Secretary stressed the need for the cultural sector, which occupies an
important position in the present struggle towards the overall development of
socialism and should steadily advance in the van, to take a more vigorous step
forward in all aspects of cultural construction on the basis of the previous
experience and lessons gained in the last three years, especially in the work
of 2023.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The
conclusion set forth important goals and ways for accelerating the social
progress and the overall prosperity of the state with the steady development of
the sci-tech capability and practical vitality of attaching importance to
science and technology, including the establishment of a system for
purposefully setting up the pivotal and magnetic up-to-date sci-tech
development plan and concentrating scientific research forces on implementing
it and the integrated control over the country's development of science and
technology.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The
conclusion called for developing the contents and methods of education in a
more concrete, diverse and practical way including introducing the
research-type teaching methods and research-type study methods into specialized
subjects and in pedagogically ensuring the implementation of the Party's
policies and thus making the year 2024 a year of greater changes in putting the
country on the list of advanced states in education.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">It
stressed the need to correctly enforce our socialist public health policies and
further consolidate the material and technical foundations of the public health
sector. It called upon the fields of literature and art and media, which stand
at the van of the ideological and cultural front, to usher in a new heyday of
their development in 2024 and thus continuously elevate the high spirit of the
entire Party, the whole country and all the people. It also stressed the need
to steadily expand the proud successes registered in the sports field in 2023.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The
conclusion indicated the policy-oriented tasks facing the people's power
organs, public prosecution, public security organs and other law enforcement
organs in consolidating and developing the state and social system of the DPRK,
precious gains of the revolution and powerful political weapon, and the practical
ways for conducting the work of working people's organizations more vigorously
and powerfully.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The
General Secretary analyzed and evaluated the dangerous security environment in
the Korean peninsula on the brink of a nuclear war and the nature of the
hostile forces' military confrontation moves and clarified the important policy
decision to further accelerate the radical development of the national defense
capabilities.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">This
year, too, the U.S. and its vassal forces have still perpetrated vicious
anti-DPRK confrontational moves and the desperate efforts of the enemies have
reached the extremes unprecedented in history in their reckless, provocative
and dangerous nature.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The
U.S., which has caused instability and continued to aggravate the situation in
the Korean peninsula, is exposing various forms of military threat to our state
even at this moment when the year is falling.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The
U.S. has more persistently instigated the south Korean puppets and Japs, who
are playing the role as the most faithful stooge and "running-dog" in
carrying out its hostile policy towards our Republic, to seek to expand the
bilateral and tripartite cooperation and establish an anti-DPRK cooperation
system. Such moves have got more frantic this year, consonant with the
interests of the south Korean puppets who are seized with security uneasiness.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Openly
talking about "end of regime" in the DPRK, the U.S. president cooked
up the so-called "Washington Declaration", an anti-DPRK nuclear
confrontation program, together with the south Korean puppets and newly
organized and started the operation of the "Nuclear Consultative
Group" aimed at the joint plan and execution for the use of nuclear
weapons. Furthermore, he is zealously promoting the scenario for a nuclear war
against the DPRK under the eyes of the world by abusing the "NCG".<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The
U.S. has frequently met with Japs and south Korean puppets to promise long-term
conspiracy and collusion against the DPRK, discuss the countermeasures and
enforce annual tripartite military drills. Such provocative attitude of the
U.S., which is getting frantic with the strengthening of the triangular
cooperation system on the unreasonable pretext of coping with so- called
"threat" from the DPRK, is driving the situation in the Korean
peninsula into more unpredictable and critical conditions.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">What
should not be overlooked is the fact that the continuous introduction into the
Korean Peninsula of U.S. nuclear strategic means of all kinds, including the
super-large strategic nuclear submarine that entered the southern half of Korea
again in more than 40 years, the nuclear strategic bomber landed there for the
first time in history, and the frequent dispatch of super-large nuclear-powered
carrier task force, has turned south Korea completely into a forward military
base and a nuclear arsenal of the U.S. and joint military exercises of various
scales have been ceaselessly staged all the year round, setting the
"highest record" in history.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The
number of joint military exercises staged by the U.S. military gangsters with
Japs and south Korean puppets this year has doubled compared to that of last
year. This clearly shows that the U.S. aims at the military confrontation with
the DPRK at any cost and is getting more desperately hell-bent on the
preparations for it.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Only
a few days ago, the Yankees summoned south Korean puppets to Washington to hold
the second meeting of the "NCG" and announced to the world that they
would complete the "guidelines on nuclear strategic plan and
operation" and establish the "extended deterrence system" by the
middle of next year and conduct nuclear operation exercises during the
large-scale joint military exercises in forthcoming August. Timed to coincide
with this, they brought a nuclear-powered submarine into the Korean peninsula
again, making provocation even by the end of the year.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The
reality shows that the U.S. inveterate hostile acts against the DPRK are not
only confined to rhetoric threat or demonstration purposes but have evidently
evolved into a stage of execution which can lead to actual military actions and
thus trigger a conflict between the armed forces of both sides.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The
conclusion referred to the fact that the north-south relations, which had been
steadily deteriorating since the emergence of the Yoon Suk Yeol puppet regime,
have been further tainted with distrust and hostility due to the anti- DPRK
confrontation behavior of traitor Yoon getting evermore offensive recently and,
consequently, the September 19 North-South Military Agreement, which had been
playing a feeble mission of preventing armed conflict just for form's sake, was
scrapped.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">What
merits attention is that the Yoon Suk Yeol group of puppets is making a
suicidal attempt to achieve the "balance of power" with the DPRK and
stand in confrontation with it to the last by expanding the "UN
Command", an illegal ghost body, into a multinational war organization for
provoking the second Korean war.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The
enemies' provocative acts are getting ever more pronounced in the area along
the Military Demarcation Line and the whole puppet army is being reorganized
and reinforced in general while the brass hats of the puppet military have been
recently replaced by extreme warmongers one after another. Such radical
military moves getting more undisguised are also evidently a revelation of the
sinister attempt for a war of aggression.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The
General Secretary said that as shown by all the facts, the confrontation nature
of the U.S. and its top-class stooges has not changed even in the least but is
getting more undisguised and more vicious.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">When
we pay close attention to the confrontational military acts perpetrated by the
hostile forces while aggravating the dangerous security environment in the
Korean peninsula every moment, the word "war" is already approaching
us as a realistic entity, not as an abstract concept.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The
prevailing grave situation requires the DPRK to steadily step up the work for
getting the overwhelming war response capability and the full and perfect
military combat readiness to deter any form of provocation and action at a blow
since the enemies' desperate efforts get more serious.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The
People’s Army should closely watch and sharply control the hourly changing
acute security situation in the Korean peninsula and take more thorough
military measures to firmly safeguard the security of the state while always
coping with it in an overwhelming attitude. And it should rapidly respond to
any possible nuclear crisis and put continuous spurs to the preparations for a
great event to suppress the whole territory of south Korea by mobilizing all
physical means and forces including nuclear forces in contingency.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The
conclusion called on the munitions industry to reliably guarantee the
successful implementation of our Party's strategy for the development of the
national defense by further expanding the successes made in consolidating the
self-supporting foundation of the defense industry and in developing and
producing arms and equipment.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">It
stressed the need for the nuclear weapons field to lay a reliable foundation
for steadily increasing the production of nuclear weapons and wage a vigorous
struggle for carrying out the nuclear weapons production plan in 2024.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">It
also set forth the main targets and militant tasks for the field of missile
development and production.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The
conclusion clarified the task for the field of space development to launch in
addition three reconnaissance satellites in 2024 on the basis of the experience
gained in the successful launch and operation of the first reconnaissance
satellite in 2023 and referred to the nationwide full-scale measures for
dynamically accelerating the development of space science and technology.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">It
set it as the main task facing the field of shipbuilding to enhance the
underwater and surface combat strength of the navy by bringing about the second
revolution of the warship-building industry and to carry out at an early date
the task incomplete in attaining the major five-point goals for developing the
national defense capabilities. It also stressed the need for the unmanned air
industry and the detected electronic warfare sectors to develop and produce
various kinds of unmanned military hardware and powerful electronic warfare
means in conformity with the characteristics of modern warfare.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The
conclusion set forth the tasks for the militia defense force in charge of a
wing of the national defence to complete the combat preparations, including the
work to further enhance the operational control level of commanding officers of
the Worker-Peasant Red Guards as well as the combat capabilities of its members
by steadily improving the training contents and methods so as to positively
cope with the enemies' combat action methods.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The
General Secretary made a detailed analysis of the gigantic geopolitical changes
in international geo-political situation and balance of forces in 2023, the
main features of present international situation and the external environment
of the Korean peninsula. And he advanced the strategic and tactical policies to
be held fast to in the external affairs and clarified the need to newly
formulate the stands on the north-south relations and reunification policy and
make a decisive policy change in the work against the enemy.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The
field of external affairs should actively and tactically cope with the changing
and developing international situation and write a diplomatic history of the
DPRK which accords with the position of a powerful country on the principle of
defending the dignity of the Party, raising the national dignity and protecting
the national interests.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">He
set forth the tasks for concentrating the main efforts on the development of
relations with the ruling parties of socialist countries to further expand and
strengthen the external sphere of the country, further consolidating the
foundation of support and solidarity to the DPRK by further developing the
relations with the anti-imperialist independent countries opposed to the
hegemony strategy of the U.S. and the West under ever- changing international
situation and waging a dynamic anti-imperialist joint action and struggle on an
international scale.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">We
should consistently adhere to the anti-U.S. and anti-enemy struggle principle
of power for power and head-on contest and pursue the high-handed and offensive
toughest policy.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">This
year we reaffirmed the unshakable will to counter the frantic nuclear war
threat racket and all-out confrontation of the U.S. and its vassal forces with
nukes and all-out confrontation and inflicted insurmountable security crisis
and horror upon the enemies by the overwhelming exercise of the thorough war
deterrent.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Whatever
the enemies attempt and whatever they choose, it is our unshakable principle
and mode of struggle against the enemy to control by super-tough counteraction
beyond it and by the exercise of powerful ability overwhelming it.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The
conclusion put forward the line of making a fundamental turnabout in the sector
of work toward the south on the basis of a cool analysis of the bitter history
of the north-south relations which has repeatedly suffered only distrust and
confrontation.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The
Korean Peninsula is now constantly in the grip of an uncontrollable crisis due
to the reckless anti-DPRK confrontation hysteria and military provocations of
the U.S. and south Korean puppets.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">It
is a well-known fact that physical clash can be caused and escalated even by a
slight accidental factor in the area of along the Military Demarcation Line where
large armed forces of both sides are standing in confrontation with one
another, and no one can deny the fact that the two states, the most hostile
toward each other, are coexisting in the Korean peninsula at present.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Such
abnormal situation is not a random phenomenon like mutation in the light of the
successive puppet regimes' extension of their policies but an inevitable result
of the history of the north-south relations.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">For
a long period spanning not just ten years but more than half a century, the
idea, line and policies for national reunification laid down by our Party and
the DPRK government have always roused absolute support and approval of the
whole nation and sympathy of the world as they are most just, reasonable and
fair. But none of them has brought about a proper fruition and the north- south
relations have repeated the vicious cycle of contact and suspension, dialogue
and confrontation.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">If
there is a common point among the "policies toward the north" and
"unification policies" pursued by the successive south Korean rulers,
it is the "collapse of the DPRK's regime" and "unification by
absorption". And it is clearly proved by the fact that the keynote of
"unification under liberal democracy" has been invariably carried
forward although the puppet regime has changed more than ten times so far.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The
puppet forces' sinister ambition to destroy our social system and regime has
remained unchanged even a bit whether they advocated "democracy" or
disguised themselves as "conservatism", the General Secretary said,
and went on:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The
general conclusion drawn by our Party, looking back upon the long- standing
north-south relations is that reunification can never be achieved with the ROK
authorities that defined the "unification by absorption" and
"unification under liberal democracy" as their state policy, which is
in sharp contradiction with our line of national reunification based on one
nation and one state with two systems.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Even
at this moment, the south Korean puppets are unhesitatingly contending that the
DPRK and its people are territory and population of the ROK that should be
reclaimed, and it is shamelessly specified in the constitution of the ROK that
"the territory of the ROK contains the Korean peninsula and its attached
islands".<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The
reality urgently requires us to adopt a new stand on the north-south relations
and the reunification policy.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Now
we need to admit the reality and make the relations with the south Korean
puppets clearer.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">I
think it is a mistake we should no longer make to regard the clan, who publicly
defined us as the "principal enemy" and is seeking only the
opportunity of "collapse of power" and "unification by
absorption" in collusion with foreign forces, as the partner of
reconciliation and reunification.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">It
is not suitable to the prestige and position of the DPRK to discuss the issue
of reunification with the strange clan, who is no more than a colonial stooge
of the U.S., just because of the rhetorical word the fellow countrymen.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">South
Korea at present is nothing but a hemiplegic malformation and colonial
subordinate state whose politics is completely out of order, whole society
tainted by Yankee culture, and defence and security totally dependent on the
U.S.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The
north-south relations have been completely fixed into the relations between two
states hostile to each other and the relations between two belligerent states,
not the consanguineous or homogeneous ones any more.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">It
can be said this is the present address that shows the relations between the
north and the south today.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The
conclusion, lucidly looking into and recognizing the reality, stressed the need
to take measures for readjusting and reforming the organizations in charge of
the affairs related to the south including the United Front Department of the
Party Central Committee and to fundamentally change the principle and
orientation of the struggle.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Solemnly
declaring that if the U.S. and south Korean puppets stubbornly attempt a
military confrontation with the DPRK, the latter's nuclear war deterrence will
go over to a grave action without hesitation, the conclusion set forth the
important tasks for the fields in charge of the affairs with enemies and
foreign countries to make preparations in a foresighted way for keeping pace
with the powerful military actions of the Korean People's Army to subjugate the
whole territory of the south on the basis of making it a fait accompli that a
war may break out on the Korean peninsula any time due to the enemies' reckless
moves for invading the DPRK.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Expressing
belief that another great turn to be brilliantly recorded in the history of the
country would be effected in the overall work of the Party and the state and in
our socialist construction in 2024, too, by the indomitable fighting spirit and
efforts of millions of Party members, all the people and service personnel
across the country boundlessly loyal to the Party and the revolutionary cause,
the General Secretary ardently called upon all of us and other people of the
whole country to wage a more dynamic struggle with confidence in victory and
great enthusiasm.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">All
the participants expressed their absolute support and approval with
enthusiastic cheers of "hurrah!" and warm applauses at his important
conclusion, the guidelines for continuous innovation and leap forward for the
accomplishment of the cause of the Party and the cause of socialism.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">His
historic documents, which clarified the clear orientation of advance and
policies of struggle for the new year for surely implementing the strategy of
development of our own style through courageous and bold revolutionary
practice, will serve as an immortal militant banner in powerfully leading the
Korean revolution to a vigorous upsurge and bringing earlier a new era of
national prosperity.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The
plenary meeting discussed the second agenda item "On increasing the sense
of responsibility in implementing the socialist policy for
schoolchildren".<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Kim
Jong Un made a report.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">He
made a detailed analysis of the production and supply of school uniforms, bags
and shoes in 2023, going back to the situation of adopting the resolution to
supply school uniforms and bags of good quality for all the schoolchildren in
the country at the Fourth Plenary Meeting of the Eighth Party Central Committee
and of pushing ahead with its implementation on an annual basis.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">He
stressed once again that it is the consistent policy of the Workers' Party of
Korea and the eternal national policy of the DPRK that the Party and the state
supply necessities for schoolchildren in a responsible manner. He proposed the
principled issues to be maintained in the production and supply of school
uniforms, bags and shoes to be pushed forward by relevant organs including the
Ministry of Light Industry, Party and power bodies at all levels and school
uniform production units in different parts of the country as an undertaking
involving the entire Party and the whole country in the new year, too, and the
ways for implementing them.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Saying
that the work for our schoolchildren is a political work guaranteeing the rosy
future of the country before it is an economic and practical work and the
children's bright laugh is just a symbol of the socialist system and the image
of Korean-style socialism, he earnestly requested all officials to further
enhance their sense of responsibility and role in the important revolutionary
work that our Party takes all pains by maintaining the feature and fulfilling
the sacred duty of a genuine revolutionary.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The
plenary meeting discussed "On the work of the Central Inspection
Commission of the Party for 2023" as the third agenda item.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The
plenary meeting deliberated the work of the Central Inspection Commission of
the WPK for 2023 and recognized that the commission has successfully fulfilled
its duty in implementing the line of building discipline of our Party and in
guaranteeing the Party's work and activities financially and materially.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The
plenary meeting decided to form a state budget assessment group for examining
and deliberating the fulfillment of the state budget for 2023 and the draft
state budget for 2024 in the discussion for the fourth agenda item.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The
plenary meeting discussed "On a series of measures for strengthening the
leadership function of the Party at present" as the fifth agenda item and
unanimously approved a relevant resolution.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The
plenary meeting discussed the organizational matter as the sixth agenda item.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Members
and alternate members of the WPK Central Committee were recalled and
by-elected.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Sim
Hong Bin, Jo Yong Dok, Jong Yong Nam, Ri Chang Gil, Han Myong Su and Myong Song
Chol were by-elected as members of the C.C., WPK from alternate members. Pak
Jong Chon, Pak Song Chol, Choe Jun Ho, Kim Jong Sik, Jon Il Ho, Kim Myong Hun,
Jang Chang Ha, Ko Pyong Hyon, Ryu Sang Hun, Kim Chol Won and Kim Yong Hwan were
by-elected directly as members of the C.C., WPK.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Kim
Yong Su, Jo Yong Chol, Ri Chung Gil, An Kyong Gun, Ri Sun Chol, Kim Kwang Jin,
Paek Min Gwang, Jong Song Gil, Ok Chang Guk, Kuk Myong Ho, Ri Sang Do, Kim
Kyong Jun, Jong Mu Rim, Kim Yong Chun, Pak Myong Ho, Kim Chol Nam, Choe Kyong
Nam, Kim Jong Su, Ri Kyong Il and Kim Jong Gil were by-elected as alternate
members of the C.C., WPK.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Members
and alternate members of the Political Bureau of the WPK Central Committee were
recalled and by-elected.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Jo
Chun Ryong was by-elected as a member of the Political Bureau of the WPK
Central Committee from alternate member and Pak Jong Chon and Jon Hyon Chol
were by-elected directly as members of the Political Bureau of the WPK Central
Committee.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Kim
Chol Sam was by-elected as an alternate member of the Political Bureau of the
WPK Central Committee.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Secretaries
of the WPK Central Committee were dismissed and elected.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Pak
Jong Chon, Jo Chun Ryong and Jon Hyon Chol were elected secretaries of the WPK
Central Committee.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">A
vice-chairman and member of the Central Military Commission of the WPK were
recalled and by-elected.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Pak
Jong Chon was by-elected as the vice-chairman of the Central Military
Commission of the WPK.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">A
vice-chairman and members of the Central Inspection Commission of the WPK were
recalled and by-elected.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Kim
Chol Sam was by-elected as the vice-chairman of the Central Inspection
Commission of the WPK and Choe Jun Ho and Kim Chol Won as its members.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Department
directors of the WPK Central Committee were dismissed and appointed.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Kim
Jae Ryong, Jon Hyon Chol, Ju Chang Il, Kim Chol Sam and Ju Chol Gyu were
appointed as department directors of the C.C., WPK.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Chief
secretaries of the provincial Party committees were dismissed and appointed.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Kim
Yong Hwan was appointed as the chief secretary of the North Hamgyong Provincial
Committee of the WPK and Pak Song Chol as the chief secretary of the North
Phyongan Provincial Committee of the WPK.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Some
senior officials in government organs and major posts were dismissed and
appointed.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Ri
Chol Man was appointed as vice-premier of the Cabinet and chairman of the
Agricultural Commission, Kim Myong Hun as vice-premier of the Cabinet, Kim
Kyong Jun as minister of Land and Environment Protection, Kuk Myong Ho as
minister of Railways, Jong Mu Rim as minister of Public Health, Ri Sang Do as
minister of Mining Industry, Ri Chung Gil as chairman of the State Commission
of Science and Technology, Kim Chol Won as director of the Central Public
Prosecutors Office, Jon Il Ho as president of Kim Jong Un University of
National Defense and Ko Pyong Hyon as chairman of the Second Economy
Commission.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The
plenary meeting held panel study and consultative meetings for two days for
drafting a thorough and correct plan for carrying out the tasks for the new
year on the basis of the idea and spirit of the important conclusion made by
the General Secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Members
of the Political Bureau of the WPK Central Committee guided the panel study and
consultative meetings.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The
study and consultative meetings studied and discussed in an enterprising way
the issues of further consolidating and expanding the achievements made in the
struggle in 2023 for implementing the resolutions of the Eighth Congress of the
Party and raised innovative and constructive opinions.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The
18th Meeting of the Political Bureau of the 8th Central Committee of the WPK
was convened on Dec. 30.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The
Political Bureau of the WPK Central Committee examined the opinions integrated
at the panel study and consultative meetings and decided to amend and
supplement the draft resolution to submit it to the plenary meeting.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">It
also decided to examine the implementation of the state budget for 2023 and the
draft state budget for 2024 deliberated by the state budget assessment group
and to report them to the plenary meeting.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The
Political Bureau of the Party Central Committee decided to present the major
goals to the plenary meeting on the basis of the view that it is important for
ensuring the growth of the whole economy while consolidating and maintaining
the success of 2023 to put forward the 12 major goals of key importance in
developing the economy and improving the people's living standard and direct
efforts to them in the new year, too.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Kim
Tok Hun, premier of the Cabinet, reported the results of the meeting of the
Political Bureau of the Party Central Committee.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The
plenary meeting unanimously adopted a resolution "On carrying through the
year 2024 tasks for the five-year plan set forth by the Eighth Party
Congress".<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The
plenary meeting finally examined the fulfillment of the state budget for 2023
and the draft state budget for 2024 and approved submitting it to the 10th
Session of the 14th Supreme People's Assembly.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Kim
Jong Un affirmed that the historic December Plenary Meeting decided on the
direction of the struggle for 2024 in a more prudent manner and adopted
relevant resolutions in conformity with the requirements of the revolution and
the objective and subjective situation, thus providing a powerful weapon of
struggle for making the overall development period of Korean-style socialism
have a firm aspiration and achieving greater successes by bringing about a
dynamic upsurge in the revolution.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Noting
that it is the main idea and main spirit of the current plenary meeting to more
dynamically struggle for attaining the goals set forth by the 8th Party
Congress in unity with patriotism, the General Secretary stressed that we
should carry forward to 2024 the 2023 glory of achieving the most valuable
victory and successes with redoubled courage and vigor, full of confidence in
our strength and our cause, together with the great people.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">When
all the Party organizations and officials faithfully fulfill the sacred mission
and duty they have assumed before the state and people, rallied close around
the Party Central Committee, the manifold ordeals and difficulties will be
overcome and our cause of dynamically advancing for realizing the grand ideal
and goal will be further accelerated, he noted.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Taking
the oath solemnly on behalf of the Party Central Committee that he would always
be faithful to the revolutionary idea and cause of President Kim Il Sung and
Chairman Kim Jong Il, he expressed belief that the high enthusiasm of all the
participants ahead of the new struggle in 2024 would surely lead to bold
practice and proud fruition.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The
2023 December Plenary Meeting of the WPK Central Committee successfully
completed its historic and responsible discussion amid the high political
consciousness and surging enthusiasm of all participants to demonstrate to the
whole world the invincibility of the Korean revolution advancing with great
ambition and ideal and dynamically guide the successful implementation of the
programme of struggle of our Party.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The
members of the leadership body of the Party Central Committee, who stood at the
starting point of the important struggle to provide a sure guarantee for the
fulfillment of the five-year plan, take a firm pledge to fulfill their
responsible mission entrusted by the Party and the people by laying more
favorable foundations and circumstances for consolidating and further
developing the phase of overall development of socialist construction during
the term of the 8th Party Central Committee, true to the leadership of the
General Secretary of our great Party.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The
9th Plenary Meeting of the 8th WPK Central Committee that will shine along with
2023, the great year of victory, will be recorded long in the history of our
Party as a significant political event that redoubled the faith and optimism in
the truth of our idea and our cause and its bright future, proved through
trials and miracles, and fully demonstrated the unbreakable and proud might of
our state. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>Prof. Alhassan Mamman Muhammadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08755512078327100562noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1817118607455066460.post-92078017989991394602024-01-02T22:42:00.000+01:002024-01-02T22:42:00.734+01:00SECOND-DAY SITTING OF 9TH PLENUM OF 8TH WPK CENTRAL COMMITTEE HELD<p> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Pyongyang,
December 28 (KCNA) -- The second-day sitting of the 9th Plenary Meeting of the
8th Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK) took place on
Wednesday amid the deep interest and expectation of all the Party members and
other people of the country looking at the strategic stronghold of our
revolution after hearing the news of the convocation of the December 2023
Plenum with great excitement.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The
respected General Secretary Kim Jong Un made an important conclusion on the
direction of struggle for 2024.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">In
the conclusion, he defined it as the general orientation for future struggle to
successfully implement the programme set forth at the Eighth Congress of the
WPK by further amplifying and making the most of the favorable condition
created through the unyielding struggle in the past three years and to lay a
springboard for a fresh advance in the future. And he set forth the militant
tasks to be carried out by all the fields of the revolution and construction in
2024, a decisive year for securing a vivid practical guarantee for the
fulfillment of the five-year plan.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">He
stressed the issues to be prioritized in steadily expanding the successes in
socialist construction including the strengthening of the state administrative
and economic work system and order and the further enhancement of the Cabinet's
responsibility and role and clarified the important tasks for the new year to
be dynamically pushed forward in the key industrial sectors such as metal,
chemistry, electric power, coal and machinery and in the overall economic
fields including light industry and construction and the ways for carrying them
out.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">He
stressed the Party and state measures for accelerating the rural development
including the rural housing construction, an important construction project
started by the historic resolution of the 8th WPK Central Committee, the issue
of stabilizing the agricultural production on a high level by continuously
directing big efforts to farming and the essential and vital matters for
steadily improving the land and environment protection and the urban management
and providing the citizens of the capital city with more civilized and affluent
living conditions.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The
conclusion also set the priority goals for the development of the regional
industry and the fishing industry and indicated the orientation for expanding
and developing the external economic work.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The
General Secretary indicated the tasks and ways for the cultural field,
including science, education, public health, literature and art, media and
sports, to make a steady leap forward on the basis of this year's successes and
referred to the practical issues for remarkably enhancing the role of the
people's power organs and law enforcement organs and more dynamically
organizing and conducting the work of the working people's organizations.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">He
set forth the militant tasks for the People's Army and the munitions industry,
nuclear weapons and civil defense sectors to further accelerate the war
preparations, on the basis of in-depth analysis of the grave political and
military situation in the Korean peninsula which reached extreme due to the
anti-DPRK confrontation moves of the U.S. and its vassal forces unprecedented
in history.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">He
clarified the independent principle of the WPK to expand and develop the
relations of strategic cooperation with the anti-imperialist independent
countries and dynamically wage the anti-imperialist joint action and struggle
on an international scale under the rapidly changing world geo-political
situation and indicated the orientation of the external affairs and the work
towards the south.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The
conclusion underlined the key issues for further consolidating the
organizational and ideological foundation of our Party and refreshing the
Party's ideological work as required by the developing situation.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The
General Secretary's important conclusion was fully supported and approved by
all the participants as it clarified the new year's orientation of advance and
guidelines of practical action for steadily and prudently implementing the
Korean-style development strategy through more courageous and resolute struggle
despite the ever-increasing challenges and difficulties.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The
plenary meeting continues to discuss the agenda items. <o:p></o:p></span></p>Prof. Alhassan Mamman Muhammadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08755512078327100562noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1817118607455066460.post-55409052067741685752023-12-27T16:48:00.000+01:002023-12-27T16:48:08.840+01:009th Plenary Meeting of 8th WPK Central Committee Held<p> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Pyongyang, December 27 (KCNA) </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">-- The year 2023 is a
year that the whole Party and all the people have united around the great Party
Central Committee and worked heart and soul to demonstrate the mightiness,
solidity and invincibility of the DPRK with eventful victory and signal development.
It has recorded heroic annual to be immortal in the history of the country, and
fully proved that the dignity of a genuine power and the fame of a strong one is
on the orbit of independence, self-sustenance and self-defense advancing
unyieldingly.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Under
the subjective and objective situation heated with arduousness and fierceness,
the power and the prestige of the DPRK have grown stronger than ever before
with the passage of the half period of the implementation of the five-year plan
which had never been smooth.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">In
the course of the struggle to implement the five-point Party-building line in
the new era, the core and innovative system and methods of Party work were
studied and implemented to firmly ensure the far-sighted policy of the WPK. And
the DPRK's policy of nuclear force was specified in the Socialist Constitution,
the basic law of the state, thus bringing about a great political event to
firmly lay a strong institutional and legal foundation for defending the state,
self-respect and national interests.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Thanks
to the attainment of the main goals of the five-year plan for the development
of national defense, new strategic weapons were developed one after another,
the whole of national defense capabilities rapidly advanced and space
reconnaissance assets were possessed. As a result, the DPRK has been
unswervingly put on the position of a military power.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">On
the agricultural front, the dominant height for national economic development,
the huge annual irrigation construction target decisive of substantial and
profitable development was fulfilled ahead of schedule and a rare harvest was
achieved. And the successes on 12 major goals were made one after another.
Modern new streets, dwelling houses boasting of high civilization and various
edifices were spruced up in the capital city and other parts of the country,
thus making the whole year seethe with the ceremonies of moving into new houses
and inauguration events.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Forcing
through the most responsible and vital course of the Korean revolution with
high spirit of self-respect and indomitable spirit, the DPRK people bear in
mind the truth of history that the seasoned leadership of the Party Central
Committee is the lifeline guaranteeing the overall prosperity and development
of Korean-style socialism.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The
ranks of the general onward march that are confidently looking forward to the
future of building a rich country with strong army on the road of following the
great Party Central Committee are full of strong spirit and stubborn spirit
without moment's conceit and marking time, and the irresistible and
inexhaustible might peculiar to our state and people is stretching to the
bright future with this bold advance.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The
Party Central Committee, which has taken the important duty to vigorously guide
the implementation of the grand programme set forth by the Eighth Party
Congress by maintaining the spirit of advance in 2023 and waging a more highly
expanded struggle, greeted its crucial moment to review this year's remarkable
successes and adopt the orientation and policy for the development of the Party
and state affairs in the New Year 2024.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The
December 2023 Plenary Meeting of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of
Korea (WPK) was convened at the office building of the WPK Central Committee on
December 26 with the great expectation and interest of all the Party members,
working people and service personnel who aspire after dynamic steps toward
greater victory focused on the supreme general staff of the Korean revolution.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Kim
Jong Un, general secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea, was present at the
plenary meeting.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Attending
it were members of the Presidium of the Political Bureau of the C.C., WPK,
members and alternate members of the Political Bureau of the C.C., WPK, and
members and alternate members of the C.C., WPK.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Present
as observers are officials of departments of the Party Central Committee,
leading officials of ministries, national institutions, leadership bodies of
provincial level, cities, counties and major industrial establishments and
chairpersons of city and county agricultural management committees who set an
example in agricultural production this year.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The
presidium was elected with members of the Political Bureau of the Party Central
Committee.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Upon
authorization of the Political Bureau of the WPK Central Committee, Kim Jong Un
presided over the plenary meeting.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The
plenary meeting put six major agenda items including the review of the
implementation of the Party and state policies in 2023, the orientation of
struggle in 2024, the implementation of the state budget in 2023 and the draft
state budget for 2024 and a series of issues for strengthening the Party's
leadership function at present.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The
plenary meeting unanimously approved the agenda items and went into the
discussion of the first agenda item.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The
respected Comrade Kim Jong Un made a report on the implementation of the Party
and state policies in 2023.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The
report proudly appreciated the eye-opening victories and events achieved in all
fields for socialist construction and the strengthening of the national power
in 2023, a year of great importance in the course of our Party and people to
realize the fighting programme put forward by the Eighth Party Congress. And it
reviewed the Party Central Committee's determination made at the critical
situation of the developing revolution, its responsible leadership practice and
locomotive role.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The
report introduced in detail the development indices of the overall national
economy which is clearly proving that the comprehensive development of
socialist construction is being pushed forward in real earnest and in an
accelerated way, and referred to the proud successes achieved in the field of
culture including science, education, public health and sports.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">It
estimated a new change and progress made in Party building, state power
activities, politics, national defense and diplomacy.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The
General Secretary in his report defined 2023 as a year of great turn and great
change both in name and reality, in which the DPRK left a great trace in the
glorious course of development in the efforts to improve the national power and
enhance the prestige of the country, and extended warm thanks on behalf of the
Party Central Committee to all the Party members, people and service personnel
who have dynamically pushed forward with a new phase of prosperity and
development, overcoming all difficulties and hardships with firm trust in our
cause and indomitable spirit.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The
report analyzed and reviewed in depth a series of deviations revealed in the
implementation of the Party and state policies this year and their causes and
lessons from a developmental point of view.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Hearing
in earnest the historic report of the respected General Secretary, who clearly
indicates that the overall work of the Party and the state is being dynamically
pushed forward with firm aspiration for development, all the participants
hardened their confidence in sure victory and were determined to guarantee the
successful implementation of the fighting programme of our Party through bold
and substantial work, aware of the important duty they have assumed before the
Party and the revolution.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Then
followed speeches and written speeches of leading officials in various fields.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The
speakers made a strict analysis of the work of their fields this year in the
light of criticism and proposed the practical measures to the plenary meeting.
They expressed their determination to devote themselves to fulfilling their
responsibilities with a sense of heavy pressure and sense of responsibility as
befitting the leading personnel who are shouldering the destiny of the Party's
decisions and the success of the overall national prosperity at the most
important and decisive time in the history of the development of the DPRK.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The
plenary meeting continues. <o:p></o:p></span></p>Prof. Alhassan Mamman Muhammadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08755512078327100562noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1817118607455066460.post-25611321083693411832023-12-21T19:08:00.001+01:002023-12-21T19:08:37.548+01:00Respected Comrade Kim Jong Un Has Photo Session with Participants in 5th National Conference of Mothers<p> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Pyongyang,
December 9 (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, had a significant photo session with the participants in the 5th
National Conference of Mothers on Dec. 8.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Present
there were Kim Tok Hun and Ri Il Hwan.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The
hearts of the participants were full of joy and excitement as they are to have
a significant photo of glory taken to be kept as their most precious heirloom
in great happiness of them who rose to the platform of the boundless respect
and honor of the whole country while receiving the warm blessings of the
benevolent Marshal Kim Jong Un whom they yearned for so much.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">When
the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un arrived at the venue, all the participants
raised stormy cheers for the great father of the large socialist family who
convened a grand meeting for them, who had fulfilled their due responsibility
and duty of motherhood for their families and society, and shows all privileges
and warm loving care for them.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Kim
Jong Un was presented with bouquets of fragrant flowers by participants in the
conference in reflection of the unanimous best wishes of all the mothers across
the country.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Waving
back to the enthusiastically cheering participants, he extended warm greetings
to the participants in the conference and all other mothers across the country
who have devoted themselves to the sound growth of their beloved children,
harmony of their families and the rosy future of the country.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">He
said that the heroic feats performed by tens of millions of sons and daughters
of the Republic who recorded the history of the Korean revolution with victory
and glory are a precious fruition of the boundless affection, love and devotion
of the strong and considerate mothers who have brought up the pillars of the
country and become the roots for ensuring the steady continuity to the cause of
Juche and that all the wealth provided on this land is densely permeated with
the jewel-like patriotic loyalty and precious sweat of our resourceful and
diligent women.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The
family affairs precisely mean the state affairs and the great socialist family
will further prosper only when every family, a cell of society, is strong and
viable, he said, adding that the noble life of the mothers in this country
cultivating the freshness and beautiful future of society came to further shine
as great pride and honor of all children who grow to be upright and as the
inexhaustible strength of our Party and state with the 5th National Conference
of Mothers as an occasion.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">He
had a significant photo session with the participants in the conference, again
wishing health and happiness to all the mothers who have displayed the mental
and moral traits of the Korean women best in the world while invariably taking
the road of devotion for their families and younger generation and for the
prosperity and development of the country, cherishing deep in mind the dearest
and sacred call, mother.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">He
also had a photo of love taken with the school children who carried out the
honorable mission as a congratulatory group of the Korean Children's Union
(KCU) of the 5th National Conference of Mothers on the same day.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The
respected fatherly Marshal kindly waved his hand to the KCU members jumping up
and down for great joy.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Embracing
schoolchildren following him with tears in their eyes, he gave them warm
blessing, hoping that they would more stoutly grow up to be the masters of the
future responsible for the country, always bearing in mind the earnest wish of
mothers as they added joy and fresh strength to all mothers with their bright
and cheerful looks at the conference.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">When
the photo session was over, stormy cheers rocking heaven and earth broke out
again.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">All
the participants made their firm resolve to firmly inherit the family and
national customs of loyalty and patriotism and make a tangible contribution to
the building of a prosperous power, cherishing as their lifeline the great love
and trust of the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un who put them on the peak of
glory and happiness in the world along with the precious title of communist
mother.<o:p></o:p></span></p>Prof. Alhassan Mamman Muhammadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08755512078327100562noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1817118607455066460.post-87981898062202685472023-12-21T19:01:00.000+01:002023-12-21T19:01:31.423+01:00Respected Comrade Kim Jong Un Meets and Congratulates Soldiers of Second Red Flag Company under General Missile Bureau<p> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Pyongyang,
December 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, invited to the office building of the Party Central Committee the
soldiers of the Second Red Flag Company under the General Missile Bureau, who
participated in a launching drill of ICBM Hwasongpho-18 and congratulated and
encouraged them on December 20.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The
soldiers were greatly excited and delighted to enter the yard of the Party
Central Committee with their glorious colors in high spirit of fully
demonstrating the might of nuclear strategic force of the DPRK in the launching
drill to be specially recorded in the history of the development of the
strategic force under the personal guidance of the respected Comrade Kim Jong
Un.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Attending
a photo session were Kim Jong Sik, vice department director of the WPK Central
Committee, and Jang Chang Ha, general director of the General Missile Bureau.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">When
Kim Jong Un appeared at the venue of the photo session, all the missile
soldiers broke into cheers in token of the most enthusiastic respect, looking
up to him, the absolute strength of powerful Juche Korea and representative of
the great dignity.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Kim
Jong Un congratulated the soldiers of the company on showing by practical
action the steadfast stand of the Party, government, army and people of the
DPRK to stand against and counter with the U.S. and successfully carrying out
the Party's battle order to demonstrate the reliability and militant might of
the nuclear strategic force of the DPRK by resolutely and proudly conducting
the launching drill of the most powerful ICBM which greatly shocked the U.S.
imperialists and their top class stooges, the wreckers of peace and stability,
who have committed self-destructive acts all the year round, obsessed with the
incurable hysteria of confrontation with the inviolable DPRK.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Saying
that he was deeply impressed with the combat efficiency of the company which
displayed high mobility and rapid attack capability in the launching drill, he
expressed warm thanks to the company, reflecting the trust of all the people in
it.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">He
said that the resolute military activity conducted by the company this time
true to the Party's battle order was a demonstration of loyalty and strong
stand of the DPRK's armed forces defending the sovereignty of the country and a
clear explanation of the offensive counteraction mode and the evolution of the
nuclear strategy and doctrine of the DPRK not to hesitate even a nuclear attack
when the enemy provoke it with nukes.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Saying
that defending of the country's dignity, sovereignty and interests can be
certainly guaranteed only by strong power, he added that it is the genuine defense
capability and defense of durable peace to have the real capability for
preemptively attacking the enemy anywhere and the war posture, making any enemy
feel fear.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">He
said that the duty of the company is very important, adding that the company
should always bear deep in mind the heavy responsibility for safeguarding the
final fort for defending the sovereignty and social system of our state and
strive to steadily improve its combat efficiency as a force performing a part
role of the strategic forces of the country.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Expressing
expectation that the company would reliably carry out its sacred special
mission of preventing a war and defending peace by fully preparing itself for
fulfilling its mission of nuclear war deterrence anytime, he paid tribute to
the brilliant honor of the Second Red Flag Company of the General Missile
Bureau, a pride of the Party and the state, and had a photo session with the
reliable soldiers.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The
combatants of the company made a firm pledge to always remain faithful to the
order of the great Party Central Committee and carry out in a responsible
manner the important mission the company assumed before the Party, the country
and the revolution.<o:p></o:p></span></p>Prof. Alhassan Mamman Muhammadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08755512078327100562noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1817118607455066460.post-3137001313731365892023-12-21T18:55:00.000+01:002023-12-21T18:55:03.593+01:00Clear Display of DPRK Strategic Forces' Toughest Retaliation Will and Overwhelming Strength Launch Drill of ICBM Hwasongpho-18 Conducted<p> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Pyongyang,
December 19 (KCNA) -- The Central Military Commission of the Workers' Party of
Korea (WPK) gave an order to take a powerful warning measure under the grave
situation, in which the hostile forces' anti-DPRK military threat that has
persisted for the whole of this year is getting evermore undisguised and
dangerous even at this moment of year-end December.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">On
December 15, the U.S. and the military gangsters of the Republic of Korea held
a nuclear war confab called the second meeting of the "Nuclear
Consultative Group" in Washington and openly revealed their intention to
conduct large-scale joint drills under the simulated conditions of an actual
war of "nuclear retaliatory strike" at the DPRK, again crying out for
the "end of its regime".<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Such
reckless behavior of the enemies, posing evident threat to the security of the
Korean peninsula and the region under the eyes of the world in the coming year,
is further touching off the strong resentment of the government and armed
forces of the DPRK and their will to take the toughest retaliation.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The
enemies have determinedly strained the regional situation by staging various
kinds of escalated military drills targeting the DPRK every month since
January, recording the largest-ever level. And they are now loudly announcing
the planned war drills aggressive in nature to be further detailed in the new
year. The present situation clearly shows the inveterate confrontation stand of
the U.S. and its predominant stooges keen on their unchangeable instinctive and
constitutional ambition for aggression and predicts a black augury of total destruction
of the security environment in the Korean peninsula to be further aggravated.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">What
should not be overlooked is the fact that the U.S. again dispatched its
nuclear-powered submarine Missouri to the Korean peninsula, as an extremely
provocative action, on Dec. 17 to pose a more grave threat to the security
environment of the DPRK and the region, loudly advertising about it, not
content with the frequent deployment of nuclear war hardware of various kinds
including nuclear strategic bombers, super-large strategic nuclear submarine
and nuclear carrier in the Korean peninsula to turn it into an assembly base
for all the U.S. nuclear strategic assets.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Due
to the confrontational maneuvers of the U.S. and its puppet military gangsters
who are escalating the tension on the Korean peninsula, going in and out the
region like their house, the territory of the DPRK and its boundary area are
exposed to serious danger every moment and its security and interests are
extremely violated. This grave situation is urgently requiring the DPRK to
inevitably turn over to a changed action, a more offensive counteraction.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Under
the decision of the WPK Central Military Commission on neutralizing the
enemies' intentional and premeditated confrontational military threats with our
strong behavioral warning, a drill of launching ICBM Hwasongpho-18 was staged
as an important military action to clearly show the DPRK's nuclear strategic
forces' overwhelming counteraction will and matchless strength to the enemies.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">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, watched the
launching drill of an ICBM unit on the spot.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Accompanying
him were commanding officers of the DPRK General Missile Bureau.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The
drill was aimed to review the combat readiness of the DPRK's nuclear war
deterrence and confirm its mobility, combat capability and reliability.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The
respected Comrade Kim Jong Un listened to the plan for the launching drill,
acquainting himself with the preparation for launch in a standby district
beforehand.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Then
he mounted the central command observation post to approve the launch of a
strategic weapon, and General Jang Chang Ha, general director of the General
Missile Bureau, issued a launch order to the Second Red Flag Company.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The
moment, a huge body full of the absolute will and strength to mercilessly
retaliate against the hostile forces obsessed with the ambition for nuclear
confrontation with the DPRK began soaring into the sky with a shower of fire in
its tail, making a deafening explosion.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The
missile traveled up to a maximum altitude of 6 518.2 km and flew a distance of
1 002.3 km for 4 415s before accurately landing on the preset area in the open
waters off the East Sea of Korea.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The
launching drill had no negative effect on the security of the neighboring
countries.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Through
the drill, the combat capability of ICBM unit was highly estimated. And also
verified once again were the rapid response posture of the strategic armed
forces of the DPRK and the reliability of the most powerful strategic core
striking means of the DPRK's military muscle.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Expressing
great satisfaction over the results of the launching drill,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Kim
Jong Un said with pride that the successful drill is a practical demonstration
of the actual condition and reliability of the formidable striking capabilities
and absolute nuclear war deterrent possessed by the DPRK's armed forces.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">He
said that the launching drill sent a clear signal to the hostile forces, who
have fanned up their reckless military confrontation hysteria against the DPRK
all the year round and are frantically maximizing it till the end of this year
despite the repeated stern warnings and denunciation by the DPRK. Noting that
it was an occasion to clearly show what action the DPRK has been prepared and
what option the DPRK would take when Washington makes a wrong decision against
it, he appreciated that the drill once again and strikingly displayed the
DPRK's will for toughest counteraction and its overwhelming strength.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The
U.S. imperialists and their vassal forces' vicious ambition for confrontation
will not abate of its own accord, he said, stressing the need for the DPRK to
never overlook all the reckless and irresponsible military threats of the
enemies destroying the basis of peace and security in the Korean peninsula and
to strongly counter them with more offensive actions by adopting a more
evolutionary and threatening way when the enemies continue to make a wrong
choice.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">He
inspected the launching drill and set forth some new important tasks for
accelerating the development of the DPRK's nuclear strategic forces.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The
ceaseless bolstering of the national defense capability and the overwhelming
counteraction are the consistent and immutable revolutionary policy and
fighting spirit of the DPRK that can never change to defend the national
dignity, sovereignty and interests. The nuclear strategic forces of the DPRK
will perfect their military posture with more accuracy and confidence to
resolutely suppress any grave military crisis and war crisis that may come at
any moment.<o:p></o:p></span></p>Prof. Alhassan Mamman Muhammadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08755512078327100562noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1817118607455066460.post-84028179985461026222023-12-21T18:49:00.000+01:002023-12-21T18:49:19.308+01:00Speech of DPRK Representative to UN at Open Meeting of UNSC<p> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-no-proof: yes;">Pyongyang, December 20 (KCNA) -- The representative of the
Democratic People's Republic of Korea to the United Nations made a speech at an
open meeting of the UNSC, which was held at the UN headquarters on Dec. 20
(Dec. 19 in U.S. local time) as regards the DPRK's launch drill of ICBM
conducted on Dec. 18.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-no-proof: yes;">The speech is as follows:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-no-proof: yes;">The U.S. and other hostile forces have persistently committed
acts of military threat against the DPRK throughout this year. They are
becoming all the more undisguised and extremely dangerous until this moment in
December close to the year-end. The ICBM launch conducted by the DPRK this time
is a warning counter-measure in the face of the grave situation.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-no-proof: yes;">This notwithstanding, the U.S. and a few countries blindly
following it forcibly convened this meeting again to be recorded as a shameful
one in the history of UN, while illegally and unlawfully taking issue with the
DPRK which exercised the undeniable just and legitimate right of a sovereign
state to self- defence recognized by international law including the UN Charter
and equally conferred on all UN member states.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-no-proof: yes;">I strongly denounce and categorically reject the unfair
abnormal practice repeated again at the UN Security Council to deal unjustly
with the legitimate exercise of the right to self-defence of the DPRK, at the
brigandish demand of the U.S. and its followers.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-no-proof: yes;">Only ten days ago, right here in this place, the U.S. wielded
the veto on the draft resolution on the settlement of the Middle East situation
on the ground that it "failed to mention the right of Israel to
self-defence", patronizing and shielding the Israel's crime of civilian
mass killings as a "legitimate exercise of the right to the
self-defence". Such being the case, it is a mockery of and disregard for
the UN Charter and the height of tragicomedy in itself as the U.S. today picks
on the DPRK's exercise of the right to self-defence taken as a warning
dimension to cope with its military provocation.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-no-proof: yes;">Had it not been for the intolerable provocation of the U.S.
and ROK which introduced the nuclear-powered submarine into the region of the
Korean peninsula, talking about the "end of regime" of the DPRK,
against the aspirations and desire of the international community to send out
this complex and unhappy year in tranquility, the representatives of the UN
member states would not have sat in this absurd and unwarranted room to argue
for and against the just exercise of the right to self-defence of a UN member
state, while wasting precious time more needed for discussion of such
substantial issues directly related to the maintenance of international peace
and security as the mass killing atrocities of Israel, just around 10 days
ahead of the new year.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-no-proof: yes;">At this juncture close to the year-end of 2023, the
international community needs to seriously reflect upon whether the situation
of the Korean peninsula this year could have reached such an extreme phase as
today, if the U.S. and ROK had stopped the acts of military provocation against
the DPRK, waking themselves from the illusion of the "extended deterrence
posture".<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-no-proof: yes;">As witnessed by the world, this is bound to be recorded as
the most dangerous year when the military security landscape of the Korean
peninsula and the region plunged into an unprecedentedly serious crisis due to
the frenzy of reckless military confrontation of the U.S. and its followers.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-no-proof: yes;">From the beginning to the end of the year, the U.S. conducted
joint military exercises of clear aggressive nature one after another together
with ROK such as "Ssangryong", "Combined Joint Fire Annihilation
Drill" and "Ulji Freedom Shield". It also framed up the
"Washington Declaration" which made it a policy to use nuclear
weapons against the DPRK and set in motion the so-called "nuclear
consultative group" whose mission is to plan, operate and implement the
preemptive nuclear attack.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-no-proof: yes;">This year, the U.S. introduced 6 nuclear-powered submarines
including the strategic nuclear submarine "Kentucky" into the area of
the Korean peninsula under the disguise of the "enhanced regular
visibility of strategic assets". It also pushed in nuclear aircraft
carrier strike groups in succession such as "Nimitz" and "Ronald
Reagan" and deployed "B-1B" and "B-52H" strategic
bombers on more than 20 occasions.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-no-proof: yes;">The area of the Korean peninsula has literally been turned
into a general depot of the strategic nuclear assets of the U.S. and the most
unstable zone of nuclear war danger, due to the deployment of nuclear strategic
assets and large-scale joint military exercises conducted incessantly by the
U.S. all the year round.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-no-proof: yes;">This reality clearly shows that the vicious cycle of the
aggravated situation in and around the Korean peninsula is attributable to none
other than the U.S. and ROK which unilaterally heighten the level of military
tensions, both in rhetoric and action.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-no-proof: yes;">Certain countries lend ears only to the one-sided argument of
the U.S. and ROK that they were compelled to strengthen “extended deterrence
posture” under the pretext of countering the so-called “nuclear threats” from
the DPRK. This is a typical example of extreme double standards which turns
back on the truth.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-no-proof: yes;">The international community needs to think at least once
about the security concerns of the DPRK on the opposite side of the U.S. and
ROK.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-no-proof: yes;">The U.S. and ROK brought in vast aggressive armed forces
including nuclear submarines and strategic nuclear bombers which are more than
enough to reduce the whole territory of a state to ashes and are conducting
provocative nuclear war exercises before us and at any time. If this is not a
violation of the DPRK’s security interests, then what is it?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-no-proof: yes;">Who would surrender to an enemy attacking with a sword?
Whichever country would remain indifferent or defenseless towards the
large-scale military exercises waged by an enemy state at its doorstep?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-no-proof: yes;">Such a man without a future as the lame duck U.S. president
may remain indifferent to it, but never in the case of the DPRK which is a
dignified sovereign state.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-no-proof: yes;">Anyone who thinks reasonably can easily judge that the DPRK’s
counter- measures vis-a-vis the security threats from the U.S. and ROK are
absolutely reasonable, normal and reflective response.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-no-proof: yes;">Overwhelmed by the high-handedness and arbitrariness of the
U.S., the UN Security Council has now been reduced to a mechanism of injustice
that openly allows such brigandish logic and double standards as to call into
question “who did it” instead of “what was done”.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-no-proof: yes;">The prevailing reality shows that the biggest threat to the
international peace and security is coming from the UN Security Council itself.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-no-proof: yes;">As long as the illegal and unlawful acts of double standards
of the U.S. and its followers are allowed, the UN Security Council has no moral
and legal qualifications to deal with the issues on the international peace and
security.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-no-proof: yes;">If the U.S. and its following forces again seek to divest our
state of its sovereignty clamoring about implementation of the unlawful and
unwarranted "sanctions resolutions" of the UN Security Council
against the DPRK, it will inevitably invoke the just exercise of the right to
self-defence of a sovereign state enshrined in the UN Charter.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-no-proof: yes;">We take this opportunity to send our stern warning once again
to the U.S. and ROK. If they continue with their reckless and irresponsible
military threat in an attempt to infringe upon the sovereignty and security
interests of the DPRK, its armed forces will never remain an onlooker to it and
the provokers will be held entirely responsible for all the consequences
arising therefrom.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-no-proof: yes;">The DPRK will, in the future, too, continue to build up its
strategic power of a more advanced type to contain and control any threat from
the U.S. and its followers with immediate, overwhelming and decisive
counter-measures. It will also go hand in hand with the righteous international
community to establish a new independent and peaceful international order based
on the principles of respect for sovereignty, non-interference in internal
affairs, justice and equality.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>Prof. Alhassan Mamman Muhammadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08755512078327100562noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1817118607455066460.post-77815681608387252682023-12-21T18:38:00.001+01:002023-12-21T18:38:25.570+01:00Statement by Spokesman for DPRK Ministry of National Defense<p> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Pyongyang,
December 17 (KCNA) -- A spokesman for the Ministry of National Defense of the
DPRK on Sunday made public the following statement titled "The hostile
forces' any attempt to use nuke will face a preemptive and deadly
counteraction":<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The
U.S. and the military gangsters of the Republic of Korea, who have aggravated
the situation in the Korean peninsula with their reckless military provocations
such as deployment of nuclear strike means and large-scale joint military
drills throughout this year, are going to finish the end of the year with a
preview of a nuclear war.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The
U.S. and ROK warmongers held the second meeting of the "Nuclear
Consultative Group (NCG)" in Washington on Dec. 15. They opened to the
public that they would complete the "guidelines on nuclear strategic plan
and its operation" and the establishment of "extended deterrence
system" by the middle of next year and conduct a nuclear operation drill
during the large-scale joint military exercises Ulji Freedom Shield in August
of next year.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">This
is an open declaration on nuclear confrontation to make the use of nuclear
weapons against the DPRK a fait accompli in case of emergency and examine the
operational procedures for its implementation in an atmosphere of real war.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The
revolutionary armed forces of the DPRK strongly denounce the reckless military
moves of the U.S. and the military gangsters of the ROK who are maximizing the
tension in and around the Korean peninsula with hostile and provocative acts
against the DPRK until the end of the year.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Clear
is the intention of the U.S. which dispatched the nuclear-powered submarine
Missouri to the Korean peninsula as soon as it hatched a dangerous plot for a
nuclear war in Washington.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Such
critical situation pressurizes our armed forces to opt for more offensive
countermeasure.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The
unstable political and military situation this year, which started with the
entry of the U.S. Air Force B-1B strategic bomber in January and has ended with
the visit of a nuclear-powered submarine of the U.S. Navy in December, clearly
shows it is none other than the U.S. and its vassal forces that unilaterally
escalate the military tension in the Korean peninsula by rhetoric or conduct.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Every
moment, the crisis of nuclear conflict in the Korean peninsula is turning into
the issue of a point of time, not the issue of possibility as the adventurous
military doctrine of the U.S. presupposing the use of nuclear strike means has
developed into a more dangerous way.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The
security environment on the Korean peninsula has not yet been stabilized due to
the reckless military threat of the U.S. and the ROK.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The
DPRK will never overlook the provocative act of the U.S. which is introducing
nuclear strategic means into the Korean peninsula again with the approaching of
the year-end and the beginning of the new year, going against the aspiration
and desire of the regional and international community for detente, peace and
stability.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The
armed forces of the DPRK will thoroughly neutralize the U.S. and its vassal
forces' attempt to ignite a nuclear war and thus reliably ensure peace and
security in the Korean peninsula and the region and faithfully fulfill their
constitutional duty to defend the sovereignty and territorial integrity of the
country and the rights and interests of its people.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The
hostile forces' any attempt to use armed forces against the DPRK will face a
preemptive and deadly counteraction.<o:p></o:p></span></p>Prof. Alhassan Mamman Muhammadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08755512078327100562noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1817118607455066460.post-77996474895487806822023-12-21T18:26:00.001+01:002023-12-21T18:26:44.581+01:00Respected Comrade Kim Jong Un Visits Kumsusan Palace of Sun<p> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Pyongyang,
December 17 (KCNA) -- All the people in the DPRK are ardently yearning for
Chairman Kim Jong Il, who is always alive as their sun, giving inexhaustible
vitality to their all-out drive for the victorious advance and accomplishment
of the cause of building a powerful socialist country, with their deepest
reverence oriented to the Kumsusan Palace of the Sun, the sacred temple of
Juche, on the occasion of the 12th anniversary of his demise.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">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 Kumsusan Palace of the Sun on December 16.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Accompanying
him were Kim Tok Hun, Jo Yong Won and Choe Ryong Hae, members of the Presidium
of the Political Bureau of the WPK Central Committee, other senior Party and
government officials, leading officials of the<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Party
Central Committee and officials of ministries, national institutions and armed
forces organs.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The
Kumsusan Palace of the Sun, where President Kim Il Sung and Chairman Kim Jong
Il, the sacred images of dignified and powerful socialist Korea and eternal
leaders of our Party and revolution, lie in state, was wrapped in the solemnest
atmosphere.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">A
floral basket from the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un was laid before the
statues of Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Also
laid before the statues were floral baskets in the names of the Central
Committee of the WPK, the State Affairs Commission of the DPRK, the Standing
Committee of the Supreme People's Assembly of the DPRK and the Cabinet of the
DPRK.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Kim
Jong Un paid high tribute to the statues of President Kim Il Sung and Chairman
Kim Jong Il.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">At
the hall where Kim Jong Il lies in state, Kim Jong Un made a deep bow of best
wishes for immortality to Kim Jong Il who performed the exploits of great
significance in human history, waging a heroic struggle under the uplifted red
flag of Juche during his long revolutionary guidance, and thus laid a solid
foundation of dignity and prosperity for the WPK and the DPRK to win a victory
after another forever.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">All
the visitors made a solemn pledge to surely achieve a new victory of the
revolutionary cause of Juche with redoubled fortitude and resolute executive
power in the van of the sacred struggle for the overall prosperity and epoch-
making development of their socialist state, remaining single-mindedly loyal to
the idea and leadership of Kim Jong Un.<o:p></o:p></span></p>Prof. Alhassan Mamman Muhammadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08755512078327100562noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1817118607455066460.post-80683950757739688192023-12-21T18:21:00.000+01:002023-12-21T18:21:10.520+01:00Press Statement by Jo Chol Su, Director- General of International Organizations Department of Foreign Affairs of DPRK<p> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">A
recent UN General Assembly (UNGA) meeting adopted 60-odd resolutions on
disarmament.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Among
them, the resolutions under the themes of “Steps to building a common roadmap
towards a world without nuclear weapons”, “Towards a nuclear-weapon-free world:
accelerating the implementation of nuclear disarmament commitments” and
“Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty” carried contents of picking on the DPRK
over its measures for bolstering self- defensive capabilities which fall under
the sovereign rights of our state. Thus, the DPRK delegation expressed its
strong opposition and voted against it.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">In
particular, we have taken the initiative in voting on the relevant paragraph of
the resolution “Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty” from last year. This is
to make clear that its anti-DPRK paragraph banning an exercise of its right to
self-defence does not reflect the general will of the international community
in opposition to the nuclear test.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Last
year, six countries abstained in the voting. But this year, 4 countries
including the DPRK voted against it, with 6 abstentions. This is clearly
recorded in the resolutions adopted at the meeting and the UNGA official
documents on the results of the voting on the paragraphs.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">All
these facts show the number of countries that understand and support the
righteous stand of the DPRK increasing.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Nevertheless,
the U.S. is employing its mouthpiece to avoid such a fact and only creates a
sensation about the draft resolution as a whole, seriously distorting the fact
as if friendly countries including China and Russia have taken a stand against
the DPRK.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The
U.S. is now in its vicious attempt to mislead public opinion while escaping
stark reality. This is nothing but a last resort to cover up its criminal act
of persistently obstructing the international efforts for nuclear disarmament
in every way possible, and to shift the blame of the international community
onto the DPRK.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The
U.S. voted against most of the 20-odd draft resolutions on nuclear disarmament
put to the vote at the UNGA meetings. This fact alone clearly shows who is the
very one that has systematically undermined the nuclear disarmament mechanism.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The
UN forum where impartiality and equity should be ensured is now being turned
into a theatre of confrontation against the DPRK for the U.S. and other hostile
forces. Such a disturbing reality reminds us once again of the immutable truth
that we have no right to budge even an inch from our righteous decision to
safeguard our rights to sovereignty, existence and development.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">As
stated time and again, we will continue to exercise our legitimate sovereign
rights to the full in the future too, no matter what others may say. And we
will take all necessary steps to defend the sovereignty of our state and its
security interests from all sorts of threats and disruptive moves by hostile
forces, and bring regional peace and international justice.<o:p></o:p></span></p>Prof. Alhassan Mamman Muhammadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08755512078327100562noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1817118607455066460.post-43737244621466041062023-12-21T18:18:00.001+01:002023-12-21T18:18:33.075+01:00Statement by Spokesperson for Korea Association for Human Rights Studies<p> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Pyongyang,
December 9 (KCNA) -- A spokesperson for the Korea Association for Human Rights
Studies made public the following statement on Saturday:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Recently
the U.S. has incited hostility towards the DPRK more extremely than before
while staging various sorts of fanatical anti-DPRK "human rights"
rackets.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Standing
on the van of it is Julie Turner, "special envoy on north Korea's human
rights issues" of U.S. Department of State.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Her
anti-DPRK actions for the past months clearly show that she is not a
"special envoy on human rights" with human rights issues as her
regular business but a "vanguard" in carrying out U.S. hostile policy
towards the DPRK and a "confrontation special envoy" meddling in
others' internal affairs and provoking confrontation.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The
so-called protection of "defectors from the north", expansion of
inflow of information and intensifying of punishment over "human rights
violation" brought up by Turner is a manifestation of an aggressive
attempt to lay foundations for toppling down the system and government
ultimately by demonizing the dignified DPRK and producing psychological
instability and discontent within it.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">This
is the essence of the U.S. repeated policy on "human rights" of the
DPRK.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The
U.S. is, indeed, the world's worst human rights abuser to be blamed by the
international community as it has made the whole world noisy with its foreign
policy for hegemony and interference in internal affairs of other countries and
caused the humanitarian crisis of the bloodshed in the Middle East and other
parts of the world.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The
present reality in which human rights cannot be protected if state sovereignty
is violated clearly proves that sovereignty means human rights and that the
protection of sovereignty and the provision of human rights are inseparable.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The
greatest threat to the DPRK's provision of human rights is coming from the U.S.
hostile policy towards the DPRK, and it is the only way of defending and
promoting the genuine human rights of the Korean people to remove all sorts of
hostile threats from the U.S. and eradicate the root of the U.S. illegal
hostile policy.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Under
any circumstances human rights can never be a tool for implementing the
hegemonic policy of a particular state.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The
DPRK will firmly defend the independent rights and interests of the Korean
people from the encroachment on sovereignty and human rights by the hostile
threatening forces including the U.S., and actively join in the efforts of the
international community for the provision of international justice and genuine
human rights. <o:p></o:p></span></p>Prof. Alhassan Mamman Muhammadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08755512078327100562noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1817118607455066460.post-41227675143519310622023-12-21T18:12:00.001+01:002023-12-21T18:12:12.433+01:00Respected Comrade Kim Jong Un Makes Important Speech at 5th National Conference of Mothers<p> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Pyongyang,
December 5 (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, on December 4 made an important speech at the 5th National
Conference of Mothers "On Duty of Mothers for Their Families and
Society":<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Dear
mothers,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">On
behalf of the Party Central Committee and the government of the Republic, I
once again warmly congratulate the participants in the 5th National Conference
of Mothers and the mothers who received the Communist Mother Honor Prize at the
conference.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">I
am very pleased that the conference of mothers is held with splendor at a proud
time when the year 2023 is to be concluded with precious victories and
epoch-making successes and that the whole country could extend greetings of
thanks in chorus to the mothers who have made numerous exertions for many
years.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">In
the glorious history of our country which advances by winning victories through
all sorts of hardships, there are soldiers with arms, scientists with clear
heads, devoted workers and diligent farmers.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">But,
on the highest peak of all of those glories and honors, there are always Korean
women who are the best in the world, all the mothers of this country.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The
credit for the brilliant today of our country goes to our mothers who are
ordinary and simple and the strongest before any difficulties and have become
the genuine models of always devoting themselves unhesitatingly to the road of
patriotism as well as the roots for bringing up a large number of heroes in all
parts of the country.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The
period between the 4th and 5th national conferences of mothers coincides with
the 10-odd years, the most arduous and grimmest period in the history of our
Party and country.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Clearly
imprinted in those trying days and months is the group of righteous and strong
mothers who have overcome hardships, regarding all pains for the country and
their children as pleasure, in order to be always upright before them.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Thanks
to the mothers who endure obediently all sorts of difficulties and affliction,
believing that anything our Party is determined to do is all right, we could
decide on and push ahead with such grand undertakings as another great cause of
nation-building, and all those projects could be crowned with successes by the
devoted efforts of the mothers who became admirable assistants and faithful
servants to their husbands and children.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">But
for mothers who have backed up the Party policies without a change of mind,
reliably supported the arms of faith held by their sons and daughters and
kindled the raging flames of patriotic movement throughout the country while
enduring for scores of years the harshest trials that women of other countries
could hardly stand even for a few days, we could not have continued to advance
steadily and vigorously along the road of strengthening the national power.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">When
I hear the news of good deeds done by many youths who volunteered to work at
difficult and labor-consuming worksites and devote themselves, including those
young builders performing new miracles at the construction site for a new
street in the Sopho area which is showing its magnificent appearance from day
to day, I am thrilled to heart at the thought of our mothers who supported the
good choice of their children and encouraged them heartily.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">In
fact, the mothers should be praised by the times only for the painstaking
efforts and merits they have made while giving birth to many children and
bringing them up in the days of insufficiency and difficulties and doing all
sorts of troublesome work to take care of their husbands and parents-in-law.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">But,
with such great worries and work, our mothers are taking full responsibility
for a post of the revolution, a part of socialist construction like men, and
cultivating the freshness and beauty of our society with their thoughtfulness
and kindness.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Mothers
have been standing not only on the agricultural and light industrial fronts to
which our Party attaches importance, but also on the scientific research bases
and spark-flying construction sites. And the names of mothers can be found in
the front ranks of patriotic meritorious persons who have stirred up the times
and their love and affection can be felt in the strong breathing of the country
which is overcoming the cold wind of trials and opening up a future with
virtues and beautiful traits.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Their
jewel-like patriotic mind and precious sweat shine in the bright laughter and
happy tears of the great socialist family sharing difficulties and hardships
with each other, and they can be deeply felt in the absolute strength and proud
edifices of the Republic.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">All
of what we have had and are proud of at present -- all of those symbolizing the
high prestige and mightiness of the Republic will remain forever along with the
history made by the mothers of Korea with noble mind and the feats they have
performed with resourceful and diligent efforts.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">I
would like to extend once again my warm thanks to all the mothers of the
country who have become great strength to our Party in the grim annals of the
revolution, as they always did in the past, and devoted their pure and ardent
patriotism and loyalty to the prosperity of the country.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Respected
mothers,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The
future of a country and a nation is reflected first in the ideological and
spiritual qualities of mothers and is built from the minds and hands of
mothers.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Nearly
one century has passed since our revolution was pioneered.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">We
can no longer see those mothers of anti-Japanese guerrilla origin who turned
out in the sacred war for national liberation, leaving their beloved children
under the eaves of other's house, and those mothers who dedicated all their
children and even daughter-in-law to the revolution and who wrote epics of the
Chollima era, holding aloft the communist slogan "One for all and all for
one!". The generations, who have known about them only through videos and
books, have become mothers now.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">However,
the beautiful mental world peculiar to the Korean mothers is being invariably
carried forward and the history of noble life dedicated to the future is going
on.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">This
is precious for the future of our Party and state just like lifeline and blood
vessel.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">If
the mothers have a firm mind, the cornerstone of the country is solid, and if
the spiritual world of mothers is noble, the baton of the revolution will be
steadily carried forward and the nature of Korean-style socialism will remain
unchanged.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We hold the conference of mothers with
splendor as now because the future of Korea is shining brightly amid the steady
inheritance of the proud history and tradition of mothers which have been
carried forward generation after generation.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">In
the minds and appearances of mothers, we read the noble view of life that one's
life is for younger generation and one's devoted efforts will result in a
prosperous country where posterity will lead a happy life, and we are looking
back upon the traces of their beautiful lives again.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Everyone
has a mother and memories of childhood spent under her warm and benevolent care
as well as of unforgettable images.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Among
them, what children do not forget forever are their mothers' whole life of
devotion, in which mothers had been always busy doing everything for their
children but nothing for themselves, and the tears shed by mothers who were
very happy to see their children do a good thing for the country or gave a
whipping to their children when they did a sinful act even a bit.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Through
their examples, mothers taught their children that the political integrity
given by the Party is more precious than the physical life they gave, and that
the life they devote is more valuable than the life they enjoy. Our younger
generation realized the real meaning of life and patriotism in the teachings
and appearances of the mothers before the books.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">It
is certain that a good child is to be grown up under the care of a good mother.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The
generation, who were born and grew up under the care of such mothers,
witnessing the traces of their mothers from aside and learning the real worth
of life, hands over the baton of patriotism and loyalty to the next generation
and that baton is handed down generation to generation. This is a law-governed
historical process in which the future of our country is built.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Our
mothers are, indeed, truly precious persons who link the new generation with
the same blood of patriotism and are the first builders of the beautiful
future.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Dear
participants,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">It
is the primary revolutionary task to prepare well the younger generation to be
the main force of our society and to hold up our powerful state.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">As
the first step is important in human life, family education takes the first
place among family education, school education and social education, and the
influence of mother is particularly important in family education.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">For
that reason, the Party has attached greater importance to the congress of the
children’s union and the conference of mothers than other conferences, and the
Party Central Committee directly organized this conference with deep care and
much efforts.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Expecting
that this conference will be a practical occasion for all mothers to be more
deeply aware of their responsibility and duty before the family and society and
successfully fulfill them, I would like to inform you of the important policies
of the Party and government and to make some requests.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">As
you know, the economic situation of the country was difficult and the
obstructive moves of the enemies were unprecedentedly vicious, but we have made
countless changes incomparable with those we made ten-odd years ago and we are
going to make a stubborn struggle with a higher ideal and goal in the future
and thus make an unimaginable development after another ten years.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">As
all our people actually see, listen and feel, the major policies being pursued
by our Party and government at present are the gigantic works to create better
living conditions and more civilized living environments.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The
most essential requirement of people’s life is the problems of food, clothing
and housing. The struggle to implement the Party’s programme for the rural
revolution in the new era is a historic cause of solving the food problem for
the people in a perfect and sustained way in the near future and, at the same
time, of modernizing the countryside, which had been a pronoun of centuries-old
backwardness.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">To
accomplish this cause at an early date, the Party and the government offer the
countryside lots of farm machines and farming supplies by mobilizing the
important sector every year even in times of shortage and difficulties and,
this year, launched large-scale projects to restore and perfect the irrigation
facilities across the country, which had not been touched for decades, and thus
made big stride in laying foundations for agricultural production.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">At
present, our agricultural sector is pushing ahead with the work to go over to
the farming with focus on rice, wheat and barley, develop the animal husbandry
and the fruit farming and build large-scale greenhouse farms. This work is for
gratifying the desires of mothers who wish to provide their children and
families with tasty and nutritious food all the time.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Saying
that the reclamation of tidelands falls under the same category, he noted that
President Kim Il Sung highlighted the need to reclaim the tideland on the west
coast without fail in order to feed all the people with rice and that our army
addressed itself to the project for reclamation of tideland in a bid to
complete it in seven to eight years.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Though
it is a hard and grand nature-remaking project, we should complete in our
generation it to be flawless for all ages. Then, the future generations will
benefit from it forever, without knowing what the lack of farmland and the food
problem are like.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">For
the issue of raising children - the foremost concern of mothers - we have done
not a few jobs and have a promising prospect.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Now
I feel very fulfilled that our Party and government, with much efforts, managed
to feed all the children of the country with dairy products everyday, fully
provide all the schoolchildren with "Sonamu"-trademarked school bags,
uniforms and things and give a facelift to children's palaces, camps and halls.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">However,
not content with this, we put forward a policy of making a great revolution in
education and are striving for its implementation to ensure that our rising
generations receive the best education under the best and advanced educational
conditions and circumstances in the world during all school from kindergarten
to university.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">While
putting titanic state efforts into establishing a new chemical industry and
creating the production capacity of chemical fibre in order to satisfactorily
settle the clothing problem for people, we actively encourage such development
levers as an exhibition of advanced garments to develop in a more civilized way
the costumes of all the people including mothers.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Recent
years saw more gigantic construction projects than ever on a nation- wide
scale, and what is most important here is to solve the housing problem for
people at a high level.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Under
the resolution of the 8th WPK Congress, the project for building 50 000 flats
in the capital city has been carried out for three years so that over<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">10
000 households of the capital moved into new houses every year. And modern
rural houses fit for an ideal society have taken their shapes across the
country from last year to be offered to agricultural workers one after another.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">By
carrying out a construction project to remodel the provincial, city and county
seats to meet the requirements of modern civilization, we intend to bring about
a new world where the whole country from the capital city to local areas and
mountain villages has undergone radical changes.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">And
we plan to solve the problems of domestic water, cooking fuel, public
transport, lift, heating for the citizens of the capital city first and, on
this basis, satisfactorily tackle the necessary living problems including the
problem of providing domestic water for local cities.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Noting
that the important policies planned by the Party and the government at present
include a project for building general hospitals equipped with modern, advanced
medical service facilities in every provincial seat, he went on to say:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">In
addition, various important popular policies are on the table and I believe
that if all these come to fruition, a truly fundamental change will be made in
the life of our people.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">All
mothers should fulfill their responsibility and duty assumed before society and
families with confidence in and optimism about the prospects of our socialist
construction and a changed ideal society to come in the near future.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">They
have heavy mission to bring up their children to be pillars of socialist and
communist construction and masters of future society.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The
first step of a revolutionary is taken under the care of the mother and his
true growth can be guaranteed by his mother's care.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">No
one can replace mothers for their position and duty.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">If
mothers fulfill their responsibility as educators, faster and more remarkable
progress will be made in making the young people and all other members of the
society communist persons.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">First
of all, mothers themselves should become communist mothers who have noble and
beautiful moral qualities.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Unless
a mother becomes a communist, it is impossible for her to bring up her sons and
daughters as communists and transform the members of her family into
revolutionaries.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">There
is a saying that if you want to judge a man, you should judge his mother, so
there is a large difference between the outlooks on life and the world of the
children who grow up under the care of mothers who devote themselves to the
society and the collective and are willing to help those suffering pain, and of
the children who grow up, seeing their mothers devote all energies to only
their children and families.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">So,
the traits of all our mothers should be the virtues of helping others tide over
their difficulties and sharing others' sorrow and the humanity of sharing their
happiness with their neighbors and rejoicing at others' success as their own
one.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The
harmony of the families our mothers defend and tend also has a great effect on
the growth of their children.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Mothers
should always bear in mind that it is a great thing for the country to manage
their household affairs carefully and promote the happiness and harmony of the
families as housewives, and make an effort to become a meticulous mother, a
grateful wife and a kind-hearted daughter-in-law.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">If
a mother truly wants her children to be fine persons, she should train her
children consciously through the revolutionary struggle and the practice of
socialist construction.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The
posts for national defense and the sites of socialist construction are
revolutionary universities which give the children valuable experiences of life
that cannot be gained in the yard of their families and cultivate the spirit of
loving their comrades and the collective and the will and ability to surmount
the difficulties.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">It
will be mothers' greatest pleasure to see their children growing up as pillars
of the country while realizing in the struggle and life how precious our Party
and social system are.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">With
their inborn true feelings of flogging their kids with tears in their eyes to
bring them up as honest persons, mothers should have no hesitation in making
their beloved children work in the difficult and labor-consuming posts and
workplaces.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">For
mothers, another important thing is to always pay deep attention to their
mental and moral lives.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The
children, who were well-mannered and innocent when they were young, grow up to
be unmannered and become tainted with a bad thing if their mothers pay less
attention to them who are older.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Mothers
should give regular education to their children so that they can study and lead
an organizational life well and lead a sound moral life not only when they are
young but also after they have entered university and society.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Some
mothers pay attention to their children's studies while neglecting their
education in courtesy and morality, including the polite way of speaking, and
their use of words and deeds different from our own style. Some other mothers
think that they perform their responsibility as mothers when they bring their
children up in a special way, providing special clothing for them.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The
struggle against alien practices now intensifies in society. Only when mothers
actively join in the struggle, can all such practices be eliminated.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Mothers
should take an active part in socialist construction and exert a revolutionary
influence on their children by setting practical examples.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Though
the word working woman is an everyday word, it means the brilliant honor and
clear expression of a communist woman who devotes herself to our cause with a
firm confidence in the truthfulness and victory of the cause.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Mothers
should go beyond the bounds of their homes and take an active part in public
life to devote their sincere patriotic sweat and make innovations at factories
and workplaces. By doing so, they should be socialist working women of whom
their children are proud and live a worthwhile life under the love and trust of
the collective.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">They
should also fully discharge their duty as citizens by actively doing good deeds
that will contribute to the prosperity of the country, including assistance to
the army and the grand construction sites.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">It
is important for mothers to know well about the acuity and cause of the present
grave situation and the key to the great change under such circumstances, he
said, stressing the need for mothers to have pride and self- esteem in the
victory we have achieved and fully understand the validity and truth of our
Party's policies which can never be denied with anything and thoroughly reject
all the attempts and hypocrisy of the enemy.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">He
said that when all mothers clearly understand that it is patriotism to give
birth to many children and do so positively, our cause of building a powerful
socialist country can be hastened faster.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">He
called upon the Party organizations and working people's organizations
including the women's union to positively lead and help mothers to fulfill
their duties for families and society.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">If
children rely on their mother’s care, their mothers rely on the care of the
organization.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The
organization's constant warm care will be an encouragement to our mothers who
have more troubles, worries and difficulties than others owing to incomplete
living condition.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Our
Party hopes that not a few special mothers but all mothers of the country would
lead a worthwhile life in the same ranks towards communism.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Even
though some mothers have led a humdrum or dishonorable life so far, they can
emerge model mothers and innovators thanks to the sincere efforts of
organizations in future and then it will be the great delight.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The
Party organizations and women’s union organizations should organize and guide
the work properly so that mass movements involving mothers become voluntary
work based on patriotic enthusiasm and duty proper to a citizen.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Referring
to the principled issues arising in expanding the ranks of communist mothers,
he stressed that the Party organizations and women's union organizations should
enlighten and sincerely help mothers to voluntarily get aware of their duties
before families and society and give birth to many children and bring them up
with devotion.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">It
is necessary for the Party Central Committee and provincial, city and county
Party committees to always pay attention to the women’s union organizations so
that they can perform their role properly, bearing in mind that the work of the
women’s union is an important part of our Party work, and solve the problems
arising in the women’s union on a priority basis and guard strictly against the
overburdens imposed on it.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Party and power organs and economic bodies
should ensure that the benefits of the state such as giving priority to
families with many children in allotment of dwelling houses, foods and
commodity supply and medical service are correctly realized, and apply special
subsidies in order to contribute to the life in actuality and take more
preferential treatments in various aspects.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Dear
mothers!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">It
is the long-cherished desire of our Party to provide our people, who are the
best people in the world and have endured more sufferings and troubles than
anyone else, with a happy and highly-civilized life as soon as possible. This
reflects the dream our mothers have had generation after generation.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">It
is the most glorious and honorable task to bear in mind the mothers’ dreams and
wishes for bringing up their children well in the beautiful land of socialism
and communism and realize them to the utmost.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Our
Party will make more dynamic struggle to achieve everything desired by the
toughest and most beautiful mothers in the world and their beloved sons and
daughters as soon as possible.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Dear
mothers!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">I
regard it as the greatest pride that our mothers are the most honest and
greatest in the world.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">It
is a great blessing and fortune for the sons and daughters of this country to
call such good mothers their mother.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Heartily
wishing all the mothers of the country good health and happiness, in reflection
of the minds of all the sons and daughters in this land, I declare the 5th
National Conference of Mothers closed.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>Prof. Alhassan Mamman Muhammadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08755512078327100562noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1817118607455066460.post-28427742111188611732023-12-21T18:04:00.002+01:002023-12-21T18:04:39.751+01:005th National Conference of Mothers Closes<p> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Pyongyang,
December 5 (KCNA) -- The 5th National Conference of Mothers continued on
December 4.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The
congratulatory group of the Korean Children's Union entered the venue of the
conference and recited a congratulatory poem "We extend glory to the great
mother".<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The
congratulatory poem revved up the atmosphere of the conference as it eulogizes
in an excited tone the world of the sincerity and devotion of the mothers of
this country that were deeply rooted in the foundation of the powerful mightiest and the high prestige of the country.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Then
speeches continued at the conference.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The
speeches were concluded amid the enthusiastic sympathy and applause of the
participants.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The
newly-enacted Communist Mother Honor Prize was awarded to the women who made
distinguished contributions to the prosperity of the country by fulfilling
their responsibility and duty as mothers for society and families, cherishing
boundless loyalty to the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK) and ardent patriotism.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Upon
authorization by the Central Committee of the WPK, Kim Tok Hun, member of the
Presidium of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the WPK,
vice-president of the State Affairs Commission of the Democratic People's
Republic of Korea and premier of the Cabinet, conferred the diplomas of the
Communist Mother Honor Prize, certificates of gifts and gold rings to Ri Hwa
Suk, a farmer of the Tokjung Farm in Koksan County, Ri Hyang Suk, a worker of a
repair workshop of the Posan Iron Works, Kim Yong Ok, a worker of the Songgan
County Goat Farm, Kim Yong Hwa, a dependent in Kumsan Workers' District of
Jaeryong County, Kwon Kum Bok, a teacher of Sinhwa Senior Middle School in
Anbyon County, Jo Kum Som, a dependent in Janghung-ri of Toksong County, Ri Yon
Hui, a farmer of the Hwapho Farm under the South Phyongan Provincial Rural
Economy Committee, Jo Son Ae, a dependent in Sinjong-ri of Kapsan County, Pok
Hye Ok, a dependent in Ponggang-ri of Orang County, Han Kum Suk, a worker of
the steel workshop of the Chollima Steel Complex, Han Myong Hui, a dependent in
Kallimgil-dong<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">No.
2 of Mangyongdae District, An Myong Sil, a wife of a military person of the
Korean People's Army (KPA) Unit No. 479, Nam Kil Hyon, a dependent in
Ryonghung-dong No. 1 of Taesong District, Ri Yong Hui, a dependent of an
employee of the KPA Unit No. 582, Sin Ok Hui, chief of Ohang-dong office in
Sunam District of Chongjin City, Ko Ryon Sun, a dependent in Toksan-ri of
Jongphyong County, Kim Hui Suk, a dependent in Kwangmyong-dong of Unjong
District, Ri Hwa Suk, a worker of Sariwon Baby Home, Nam Hwa Ok, a teacher of
Hungrim Senior Middle School in Yonan County, and Ryang Jong Hui, a dependent
in Rasim-dong of Rajin District.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">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, made an important
speech "On Duty of Mothers for Their Families and Society".<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The
respected Comrade Kim Jong Un in his speech repeatedly and highly appreciated
the undying feats of the most just and strong mothers who have become the
genuine patriotic examples and the roots for bringing up many heroes in the
glorious history of the country advancing while winning victory despite severe
difficulties, and warmly congratulated once again the participants in the
conference and the mothers who were honored with the Communist Mother Honor
Prize at the conference on behalf of the Party Central Committee and the
government of the Republic.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Saying
that it is the primary revolutionary task to prepare well the younger
generations to be the main forces of our society and to support the powerful
state, he elaborated on the important guidelines to be held fast to in
fulfilling the responsibility and duty all the mothers have assumed before
society and families with confidence and optimism in the prospect of our
socialist construction and the changed ideal society to come in the near
future.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">He
clarified the steadfast will of the WPK to more dynamically struggle, regarding
it as its honorable duty to exert itself to the utmost to realize the dream and
desire of mothers to bring up their children well on the beautiful land of
socialism and communism. He sincerely wished the mothers across the country
good health and happiness along with the hearts of all their sons and daughters
on this land, and declared the 5th National Conference of Mothers closed.<o:p></o:p></span></p>Prof. Alhassan Mamman Muhammadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08755512078327100562noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1817118607455066460.post-23177964418323995672023-12-21T17:47:00.001+01:002023-12-21T17:47:47.577+01:00Statement by Spokesperson for NATA of DPRK<p> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Pyongyang,
December 4 (KCNA) -- A spokesperson for the National Aerospace Technology
Administration (NATA) of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea issued the
following statement under the title "Illegal double standards can never be
allowed in space, common asset of mankind" on Monday:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">It
is a space-level tragicomedy that the U.S., going frantic with illegal
denunciation and sanctions moves over the exercise of the DPRK's sovereignty,
has shown behavior based on double standards by launching a spy satellite of
the "Republic of Korea" (ROK) in a shameless manner.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The
U.S., zealously patronizing the possession of aggressive military muscle of its
anti-DPRK stooges, impudently argues that the ROK's satellite launch is
different in its character in the aspect of "observing international
law" while asserting that the DPRK's satellite launch is a
"threat" to the regional peace and stability.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Ten
years ago, the U.S. claimed that south Korea's satellite launch is different
from that of north Korea as the former has no military intention. And now we
wonder how absurdly the U.S. would justify the launch of the ROK's spy
satellite which has clear military purpose.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Today's
tragic situation, where the legality of satellite launch is judged by whether
it is conducted by the DPRK, an independent sovereign state, or by the ROK, a
subordinate and pro-U.S. state, makes it possible to clearly understand who is
the arch criminal wrecking peace and stability on the Korean peninsula and
violating universal international norms.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">It
is as clear as noonday for what the spy satellite of the ROK, a military colony
of the U.S., will be used, in consideration of the military moves of the<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">U.S.
hostile to the DPRK and the region.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">If
the gangster-like logic of the U.S., that its stooge can do anything and a
country hostile to it can not exercise even the basic right as a sovereign
state, is connived and tolerated, global peace and stability will be exposed to
an irrevocable grave danger.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">It
is absolutely intolerable that such brigandish American-style standards are
imposed even on space, an asset common to mankind.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">To
hold the stronger "fist" tightened with a brighter "eye" to
cope with the<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">U.S.
high-handed practices and hegemonic ambition is the most important prerequisite
for defending the legitimate rights of the DPRK and ensuring the regional
security.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The
DPRK's activities for space development will be conducted more dynamically in
accordance with the general will of all the Korean people and equal universal
authority of sovereign states granted by the UN Charter and other international
laws, not with any legality standards or norms set by someone.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The
National Aerospace Technology Administration of the DPRK will perfectly carry
out, under the state's strategic space development plan, its important duty to
create the aerospace reconnaissance capability for closely monitoring and
grasping the military moves of the U.S. and other hostile forces which are
getting ever-more undisguised with each passing day.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>Prof. Alhassan Mamman Muhammadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08755512078327100562noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1817118607455066460.post-882207026029938402023-12-21T17:42:00.001+01:002023-12-21T17:42:19.069+01:00Fifth National Meeting of Mothers Opens<p> <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt; text-align: justify;">Pyongyang,
December 4 (KCNA) -- The proud history and traditions created by the mothers of
the DPRK along with the valuable feats of tens of millions of sons and
daughters guide the rising generations to communism, build up the tremendous
strength of the DPRK resplendent with victory and glory and provide steady
continuity to the revolutionary cause of Juche.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Under
the care of the Workers' Party of Korea that always remembers the exploits of
the mothers who glorify the good family and national customs of socialist Korea
with their warm maternal affection and boundless devotion and puts up them on
the peak of blessing and respect, the Fifth National Meeting of Mothers was
opened with splendor in Pyongyang, the capital city of the DPRK on Dec. 3.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The
meeting was attended by the mothers who contributed to beefing up the national
power and making the large socialist family prosperous by successfully bringing
up their children as reliable pillars of the country, heroines who gave birth
to many children, mothers who take care of orphans and women's union officials
of Pyongyang and local areas.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The
meeting will introduce the positive examples displayed among mothers for the
past ten years after the Fourth National Meeting of Mothers and discuss the
tasks and ways for making sure that our mothers fulfill their responsibility
and role assumed before society and family.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Kim
Jong Un, general secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea and president of the
State Affairs of the DPRK, appeared on the platform of the meeting.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The
moment, all the participants raised stormy cheers of "Hurrah!" for a
long time with the greatest reverence, looking up in tears to the great father
who puts forward them as genuine heroines giving a boost to the era of a
dignified powerful country and as pride of the Party and the state while
glorifying the humble and ordinary life of mothers as the most sacred and noble
call of a communist mother.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The
respected Comrade Kim Jong Un expressed warm respects to the mothers of the
whole country who regard all pains for the coming generations as pleasure and
add gigantic power and boundless vitality to the Korean revolution with deep
loving care and affection while linking the destiny of family with the one of
the country in weal and woe.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">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, Ri Il Hwan, Kim Jae Ryong and Pak Thae
Song, members of the Political Bureau and secretaries of the WPK Central
Committee, and other cadres of the Party and the military, heroines who gave
birth to many children, officials of working people's organizations and
relevant sectors and mothers who rendered distinguished services in training
the rising generations and making the country prosperous.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Kim
Jong Un made an opening address.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The
great socialist family is firm and the country is growing stronger as the small
fences of the families which mothers have taken good care of with patriotism
are supporting the country firmly as cornerstones, he said, highly appreciating
that this is the immortal feats the mothers of the DPRK performed for the
Party, revolution and country. And he extended his best wishes to the
participants in the meeting and all other mothers of the country on behalf of
the WPK Central Committee and the DPRK government.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">He
clarified the intention of the Party Central Committee which attaches great
importance to the 5th National Meeting of Mothers and declared the meeting
opened, expressing belief that the meeting would mark an epochal occasion in
making all the mothers, well aware of their mission of the times and their
duty, devote all their wisdom, strength and passion to the patriotic cause for
the victory of Korean-style socialism.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Hearing
in tears of emotion the address overflowing with affection and trust of the
tender-hearted father who values as pearls and jewels the pure conscience and
selfless efforts the women dedicated to the prosperity of the country and who
gives the highest glory and honor to them, all the participants raised
enthusiastic cheers with their passion to devote themselves to the good growth
of the rising generations and the bright future of the country true to the
noble intention of the great Party Central Committee.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The
national anthem of the DPRK was played after the meeting was declared opened.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Introduced
at the meeting was the fact that the Central Standing Committee of the Union of
Democratic Korean Women in Japan, the General Association of Koreans in China,
the chairwoman of the Women's International Democratic Federation, the national
executive secretary of the Democratic Women's Movement of Portugal and the
chairwoman of the Argentine Women's Union sent congratulatory messages and
letters to the 5th National Meeting of Mothers.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Ri
Il Hwan, secretary of the WPK Central Committee, made a report at the meeting.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">He
said that the meeting is an auspicious event of great significance as it was
held with the approach of the victorious conclusion of 2023, an epitome of the
mightiness and rapid development of the DPRK.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Looking
at the mothers who are leading a worthwhile life while invariably carrying
forward the proud history and tradition of the Korean women's movement in the
new era of the revolution, we keenly feel the great honor and fortune of
holding Kim Jong Un in high esteem as the sun of destiny and the father of the
large socialist family, the reporter said, and continued:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The
4th National Meeting of Mothers was held in the historic year when the fighting
strategy of the new century of Juche was declared. This was a demonstration of
the firm will of the Party Central Committee to open up a rosy future for
building a powerful country by enhancing the role of our mothers with the
boundless loyalty to the Party and the revolution and patriotism.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Attaching
great significance to the position and duty of mothers in the struggle for the
uninterrupted progress of the revolution and prosperity of the country, Kim
Jong Un clearly indicated the orientation and tasks for bringing about fresh
improvement and development in all realms of ideology, spirit and life of our
mothers suited to the stirring era at the Sixth Congress of the Democratic
Women's Union of Korea, the Seventh Congress of the Socialist Women's Union of
Korea and other important meetings.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The
idea of successfully bringing up children to be reliable successors to the
revolution and masters of powerful Korea with high political consciousness and
noble cultural and moral traits, the idea of learning from the noble spiritual
world and fighting traits of the preceding generations of the revolution, the
idea of becoming genuine women revolutionaries and ardent patriots who devote
themselves to the socialist patriotic work and other ideas and policies on the
women's movement in the new era are the precious guidelines that enable our
mothers to fulfill their responsibility and role as a powerful force of the
development of state and society.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The
reporter said that Kim Jong Un has energetically led the Party organizations
and working people's organizations to steadily improve the work with mothers in
conformity with the changed circumstances and specific conditions.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">For
our mothers the past period of more than ten years was a fruitful and proud one
which will never be forgotten forever, he said, adding that our mothers have
supported the WPK with invariable loyalty and patriotism and firmly defended
the DPRK government and socialist system despite the heinous challenges of the
hostile forces and unexpected manifold disasters.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The
pure spirit and boundless devotion of mothers who brought up their sons and
daughters as staunch persons while shouldering the heavy burden of housekeeping
and gave continuity to the true nature and traits of our society were a
powerful driving force that has steadily supported the all-people struggle for
self-respect and prosperity, he said.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Noting
that what is cherished in the hearts of the mothers who are bringing up their
children well is pure conscience with which to think about the agony and worry
of the Party and the state before their comfort, and noble consciousness of
civic duty to contribute to consolidating the rank of the new generations who
will shoulder the future of the revolution, the reporter said full of pride
that more and more women cherish such a noble outlook on life.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Saying
that our mothers have discharged their duty as the first educators of children,
bearing in mind Kim Jong Un's teachings that the first step of a revolutionary
is taken under the care of mother, he pointed out that it is the remarkable
exploit of mothers that they provided firm continuity to the foremost tradition
of the Juche revolution by implanting the purest loyalty in the minds of their
children.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">He
also referred to the beautiful life of mothers who have raised their children
to be ardent patriots dedicating themselves at the important posts of defending
the state and building socialism and made the large socialist family more
harmonious.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">He
introduced that 11 heroines of the republic, over 50 labor heroines and more
than 3 500 meritorious persons of socialist patriotism have been produced among
our mothers after the Fourth National Meeting of Mothers.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">He
said that it is the fighting task and firm will of the Party to provide the
rising generations with the best life in the world by speeding up the overall
development of Korean-style socialism. He went on:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Very
important is the duty of mothers in accomplishing this gigantic cause, and only
when the mothers fulfill their responsibility and role, is it possible to
inject vitality in the advancing Korean revolution and the advantages of
socialism will be displayed more fully.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">If
the mothers have firm faith, the courage of sons and daughters across the
country will be redoubled and if the mothers unite firmly, the country will
advance at a greater pace.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">All
our mothers should become women revolutionaries and communist mothers in the
great era of Kim Jong Un to reliably support the far-reaching plan of a
dignified power with loyalty and patriotism, bearing deep in mind the mission
and duty they have assumed for their families, society, era and revolution.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Noting
that some non-socialist negative elements are being revealed among the rising
generations in society, the reporter said that it is closely related to family
education.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">He
called upon the mothers to give steady continuity to the revolutionary family
with more efforts to children education as befitting the first educators
responsible for the physical and mental growth of their children.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Saying
that they should be sensitive to the Party's line and policies and become good
teachers and models of their children by setting practical examples in the
struggle for implementing them, he called for working faithfully at their posts
and worksites with the noble desire to become the cornerstone and roots of a
thriving nation and thus leaving an indelible trace of their lives to be
remembered forever by the younger generations.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The
eternal harmony and prosperity of the large socialist family and the future of
the country prospering generation after generation depend on the role of our
mothers, he said, calling for working harder for the rosy future of great Kim
Jong Un's Korea, the bright laughter of their beloved children and Korean-style
socialism best in the world, bearing deep in mind the great honor and mission
bestowed by the times and revolution.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Speeches
were made at the meeting.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Listening
to speeches, the participants keenly realized how beautiful and noble the life
of love and devotion to the country and the younger generations is, and
hardened their determination to remain faithful to the duty of mother before
the Party and the revolution to the last.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">The meeting
continues.</span>Prof. Alhassan Mamman Muhammadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08755512078327100562noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1817118607455066460.post-69916854760018050712023-12-21T17:30:00.012+01:002023-12-21T17:33:25.932+01:00 Respected Comrade Kim Jong Un's Opening Address Made at 5th National Conference of Mothers<p> The full text of his opening address is as follows:</p><p><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt; text-align: justify;">Dear
participants in this Fifth National Conference of Mothers, who are present here
on behalf of the seven million mothers of our socialist motherland, the
Democratic People's Republic of Korea,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;">As
I have always revered and loved our dear mothers, I am very pleased to see you
at this significant meeting. To me, it is a really delightful and moving
moment.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;">First
of all, availing myself of this opportunity, I would like to extend the
greatest respect and offer my best regards to our mothers, who have put their
heart and soul into bringing up their children and rendered a great
contribution to achieving national prosperity.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;">Despite
the hardships and burdens, they had to endure constantly in their life, our
mothers have been concerned solely about how to support the country better and
look after their families. Standing here in front of you, I feel my heart
swelling with respect and reverence for them all.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;">Conference
of Mothers - this is indeed a meeting reminding everybody of their beloved
mothers and filling their hearts with deep gratitude for them.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;">Today,
converging on this venue are the warm blessings and feelings of respect from
all over the country. You must have undergone many painful trials and
shouldered heavy burdens of your own accord, before attending this conference
with a sense of unique pride and dignity.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;">Taking
so many heavy burdens upon your feeble shoulders, you have followed the road of
your own choice without seeking selfish interests or expecting any reward;
sometimes, you must have found yourself collapsing from exhaustion, but each
time, you gritted your teeth and rose up to live up to your pure conscience.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;">You,
mothers of our dear country present here, have always overcome all sorts of
mental anguish with a simple smile. For your ennobling spirit you are the most
beautiful and admirable in the world, though your facial beauty keeps fading
away because of the pains you have experienced.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;">In
moments of hardship or difficulty, one would think of their mothers before
anybody else, who gave birth to them, fed and clothed them, and helped them
with their first steps.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;">The
same is true of me. Whenever I have found it hard to tackle problems in Party
or state affairs, our mothers have come to my mind first.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;">Each
time, the thought of our mothers lifts me up and encourages me, the
strong-willed women who go against all overwhelming odds for the growth of
their children. Even in the face of trials, they have remained unchanged in
their confidence in our Party and have been invariable in their lifelong
commitment to the country’s prosperity. Thinking of these daring and self-
sacrificing women, I would renew my duty that I must keep going even in the
midst of exhaustion, sharpen my sense of responsibility and get a fresh
strength.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;">The
self-sacrificing devotion which all our mothers have displayed for the good of
this country and their spirit and strength have provided nourishment not simply
for their own families but for the future of their motherland as well, and this
has propelled our great socialist family to dynamically advance by dint of its
solid unity based on virtues and tender feeling.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;">Because
the small fences of families, which our mothers have built up with care out of
a feeling of patriotism, constitute the cornerstone that firmly supports the
country, our great socialist family is solid and our country continues to grow
strong.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;">This
is an immortal exploit performed by mothers of Korea for the Party, the
revolution and the country.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;">The
current conference is a platform of boundless tribute and congratulation to
them, on which the Party and state crown our patriotic and loyal mothers with
the laurels of all victories achieved on the onward march of the new era. This
is also a political festival which demonstrates once again the justness and
promising future of our cause which regards the coming generations that
represent the future of the country and mothers as sacred beings and places
them first in considering everything.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;">Availing
myself of this meaningful opportunity, I, on behalf of the Party Central
Committee and the Government of the Republic, would like to offer my hearty
gratitude and best wishes to all those present at the conference and to all
other mothers in the country, who are cultivating the happiness of their
families and the future of the country with warm feelings and affection and
silent devotion.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;">I
also offer my heartfelt thanks and encouragement to the overseas mothers who
are devoting themselves to handing down the traditions of the nation and
patriotism in alien lands, with their minds turned to the capital city of their
motherland, where this large gathering of mothers is being held at this moment.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;">Dear
mothers, As society develops and becomes cultured, the position and role of
women grow more important and mothers' share of contribution to strengthening
the national power and propelling the revolution becomes greater.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;">Now
we are confronted with a host of social tasks that our mothers should join to
tackle.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;">These
tasks include bringing up their children so that they will steadfastly carry
forward our revolution, eliminating the recently-increasing non-socialist
practices, promoting family harmony and social unity, establishing a sound way
of cultural and moral life, making the communist virtues and traits of helping
and leading one another forward prevail over our society, stopping the
declining birth rate, and taking good care of children and educating them
effectively. These belong to our common family affairs, which we need to deal
with by joining hands with our mothers.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;">In
view of our mothers’ position and role in their families and society as a whole
and the actual problems facing our state and revolution, the Party Central
Committee considers this conference to be no less important than a Party
congress or a plenary meeting of the Party Central Committee.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;">This
conference will make known the positive examples our mothers have set over the
past ten-plus years since the Fourth National Conference of Mothers, before
holding discussions on the tasks and ways for them to fulfill their
responsibilities and role they have assumed before society and their families.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;">Attending
this conference are nearly 10 000 women. They include those who gave birth to
many children, who have taken parental care of orphans and sent them to major
posts of national defense and socialist construction, who have raised their
children as performers of distinguished exploits and as talents, and who have
made a great contribution to promoting the good of society and the collective
while working faithfully without changing their jobs for several decades, as
well as the women’s union officials from the capital and different regions.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;">Fully
convinced that this conference will mark an epochal turning point in ensuring
that all our mothers, fully aware of their contemporary mission and
revolutionary duty, devote their wisdom, strength and enthusiasm to the
patriotic cause for the victory of our style of socialism, I declare the Fifth
National Conference of Mothers open.<o:p></o:p></span></p>Prof. Alhassan Mamman Muhammadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08755512078327100562noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1817118607455066460.post-53957776014087139632023-12-21T17:22:00.001+01:002023-12-21T17:22:37.989+01:00Deployment of U.S. Nuclear Strategic Assets Is Root Cause of Ever-escalating Tensions on Korean<p> <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt; text-align: justify;">Peninsula:
Int'l Affairs Analyst of DPRK</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Pyongyang,
December 2 (KCNA) -- Kang Jin Song, an international affairs analyst of the
DPRK, released the following article "Deployment of U.S. strategic nuclear
assets is malignant cause of vicious cycle of escalating tensions on Korean
peninsula" on Saturday:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The
nuclear war exercises racket of the U.S. and its followers gravely threatening
the security of the sacred DPRK and all the Korean people pushes the situation
on the Korean peninsula and its vicinity to the brink of explosion.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The
U.S. brought its nuclear carrier Carl Vinson and nuclear-powered submarine
Santa Fe to its Pusan operation base and Jeju naval base in the region of south
Korean puppets one after another on November 21 and 22. It launched tripartite
maritime exercises with Japan and the south Korean puppet forces in open waters
near Jeju Island on November 26.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">During
the exercises involving the nuclear carrier Carl Vinson, Aegis destroyers and
combat forces of the U.S. navy, the Japanese Maritime "Self- Defense
Force" and the south Korean puppet navy, the enemies stirred up extreme
fever for a nuclear war against the DPRK, staging anti-air drill and maritime
mobile drill in the situation simulating "north Korea's missile and
aircraft provocations".<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The
enemies seek to cover up their aggressive nature at any cost, insisting that
the exercises, which pushed the acute military confrontation on the Korean
peninsula region, the world's worst flashpoint, to the brink of a dangerous
nuclear conflict, were aimed to cope with the "situation where north
Korea's nuclear and missile threat is escalating".<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">But
the ground, maritime, air and underwater traces, left by the U.S. strategic
nuclear assets deployed for a black-hearted purpose, and the joint military
exercises staged against the DPRK all the year round, led by the U.S.
imperialist aggressor forces, indicate who is behind the ever-escalating
tensions on the Korean peninsula.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">This
year alone, the U.S. deployed its strategic nuclear submarine near the Korean
peninsula for the first time in 40-odd years and orchestrated the first ever
landing of its nuclear strategic bomber on the region of south Korean puppets,
continuing to renew the records of deployment of its nuclear war assets
including nuclear carrier on the Korean peninsula.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">According
to data available, the U.S. deployed the strategic nuclear submarine Kentucky
equipped with 80 nuclear warheads and nuclear-powered submarines Springfield,
Michigan, Annapolis and Santa Fe one after another in the Korean peninsula
region this year. It also deployed there such nuclear strategic bombers as
B-1Bs and B-52Hs 22 times.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The
U.S. nuclear carrier strike groups led by Nimitz, Ronald Reagan, etc., which
carry the forces huge enough to carry out a full-scale war, made their
appearances in the waters off the Korean peninsula three times.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The
number of large-scale joint military drills, including Freedom Shield joint
military exercises, Ssangyong joint landing drill and "combined joint fire
annihilation drill", staged by the U.S. in and around the Korean peninsula
with Japan and the south Korean puppet forces in a bilateral and multilateral
way as of now since the outset of this year, runs to over 60.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">At
present, U.S. nuclear strategic assets are deployed once every ten days and one
warring side's nuclear war drills precisely targeting the other side are staged
once every five days in the area of the Korean peninsula. There is no such
place on this planet.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The
U.S. deployment of nuclear strategic assets and the anti-DPRK nuclear war
drills led by the U.S. imperialist aggressor forces are escalating to the
degree giving such mistaken impression that the base and homeport of U.S.
nuclear strategic assets were shifted from Anderson Air Force Base on Guam and
Yokosuka Port of Japan to the area of the Korean peninsula. This is damning
evidence proving that the U.S. is the arch culprit of ever-escalating tensions
on the peninsula.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Nevertheless,
the U.S. has misled public opinion, always disguising itself as
"victim" of escalating tension on the Korean peninsula. Not content
with this, it deliberately linked the recent U.S.-Japan-puppet south Korea
joint naval exercises with the DPRK's reconnaissance satellite launch, while
crying out for someone's "provocation" and "threat" like a
guilty party filing the suit first. This is the height of impudence never to be
understood by anyone.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">If
a belligerent side brings huge nuclear war assets near the boundary with the
other side in the world's biggest hotspot, and if the former is the undoubted
worst-ever war state, it is an inevitable option and a very natural exercise of
the right to self-defense for the latter to opt for the possession of
reconnaissance capability to monitor and grasp the nature of the actions of the
hostile forces.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The
DPRK accelerates its drive for possessing reconnaissance satellites, instead of
communication satellite, meteorological satellite or prospector satellite,
after setting it as the major target, while exercising its right to space
exploration, universal right of a sovereign state recognized by international
law. This is directly related to the moves of the U.S. destroying stability of
the Korean Peninsula and its vicinity.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">If
satellite launch, an internal affair of a sovereign state, should be
questioned, the U.S., the world's biggest satellite possessor, will have to
stand in the dock of the UNSC for frantically monitoring other countries with
its countless spy satellites and intelligence assets above the Korean peninsula
and its vicinity.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">That's
why the fair international community, including those countries around the
Korean peninsula, is becoming increasingly vocal unanimously urging the U.S. to
withdraw its pressure policy such as joint military exercises and deployment of
nuclear strategic assets as regards the present military and political
situation in the region where vicious cycle is repeated.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The
U.S. should reflect on its sinister behavior shown in front of other's gate
before impudently interfering in the exercise of the legitimate right to self- defense
of a sovereign state and think seriously about the consequences to be entailed
by it.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The
biggest hotspot in the world is not an abstract expression. The Korean
peninsula and its vicinity are the biggest danger zone in the world where the military
conditions for the first ever outbreak of a thermonuclear war are fully mature
in actuality.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Under
the present international military situation, in which armed conflicts and
bloodshed break out frequently in the hotspots across the world in recent
years, due to the ever-escalating U.S. hegemonic military policy, there is no
guarantee that the Korean peninsula will not become the next war theatre.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Given
that hostility among the forces around the Korean peninsula is worsening, the
U.S. frantically deploys its nuclear strategic assets there, betraying morbid
repugnancy toward the inviolable exercise of the right to self-defense of the
DPRK. This is very dangerous as such moves may result in breaking the last
psychological pillar of the responsible nuclear weapons state seeking to deter
the outbreak of a war and restore stability in the region.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">This
is not imaginary concern but a stark reality which no one can deny.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">In case an unexpected
clash happens in the Northeast Asian region around the Korean peninsula, the
U.S., which has continuously put pressure on the security space of the DPRK by
escalating military threat and blackmail, will be held wholly accountable for
the catastrophic situation.</span>Prof. Alhassan Mamman Muhammadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08755512078327100562noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1817118607455066460.post-82909915615376988722023-12-21T17:18:00.001+01:002023-12-21T17:18:16.415+01:00Spokesperson for Foreign Ministry of DPRK Releases Press Statement<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Pyongyang,
December 2 (KCNA) -- A spokesperson for the Foreign Ministry of the DPRK on
Saturday released the following press statement titled "It is the
sovereign right of the DPRK to firmly defend the state's sovereignty, security
and interests from hostile forces' encroachment":<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">As
already clarified, the DPRK's satellite launch is an essential process in
building up the country's defense capability and an important step conducive to
improving the security environment on the Korean peninsula as an occasion of
bringing a new phase in the military activities of the armed forces of the DPRK
to firmly defend its security.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Nevertheless,
the U.S. has perpetrated acts of encroaching upon sovereignty and hostile acts
of taking sanctions against the DPRK by rallying its followers such as Japan,
the Republic of Korea and Australia, while unreasonably pulling up the DPRK
over its exercise of just and legitimate sovereignty.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Explicitly
speaking, the object of sanctions is not the DPRK which has exercised its
deserved sovereign right but the U.S. and its servants keen to deprive
sovereign states of their legitimate rights, wantonly violating regulations of
the international law including the UN Charter.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The
unilateral and illegal sanctions of the U.S. seriously violating the UN Charter
with sovereign equality, non-interference in internal affairs and respect for
the right to self-determination as its core and other principles of
international law are the main factors undermining the international order
based on equity and multilateralism.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The
illegal sanctions racket of the U.S. and its followers is nothing but a
"sedative" to calm down the growing uneasiness and impatience over
the ever-declining U.S.-led hegemonic order, and cannot have any effective
effect on the DPRK's exercise of sovereign right at present and in the future.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">In
the present world where the U.S. is precisely being regarded as injustice and
evil, the accusations and sanctions of the U.S. only show a proof of the
justness of the line chosen by the DPRK and an expression of the strong force
of our state.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The
U.S. should respect the sovereign decision of the DPRK to freely exercise the
right to space development any UN member nations can enjoy, neither interfere
in nor obstruct it, and only doing so is a correct choice capable of removing
even a part of the present external crisis facing the U.S.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">In
order to defend the sovereignty and interests of the state from the hostile
forces' illegal encroachment on the sovereignty of our state, ensure peace and
security and protect the right and interests of its citizens, the Foreign
Ministry of the DPRK declares that it will apply countermeasures to
individuals, institutions and organizations of the U.S. and its vassal forces
involved in the drawing and execution of the sanction policy toward the DPRK, according
to the Law of the DPRK on Countermeasures in coordination with its relevant
institutions.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt;">No matter what others
may say, the DPRK will proudly and perfectly exercise its sovereign right
including satellite launch and make every possible effort to defend the
sovereignty, security and interests of the state and ensure peace and security
of the Korean Peninsula and the region from all threats and obstructions from
outside.</span> </p>Prof. Alhassan Mamman Muhammadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08755512078327100562noreply@blogger.com0