Kim Jong Un Inspects Island Defence Detachments of KPA

Pyongyang, August 18 (KCNA) -- Supreme Commander of the Korean People's Army Kim Jong Un, first secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea and first chairman of the DPRK National Defence Commission, inspected island defence detachments stationed in the biggest hotspot in the southernmost part of the southwest front.

The first leg of his inspection was the defense detachment on Jangjae Islet near from Yonphyong Island.

Having no time to have breakfast, he arrived there by a wooden boat of 27 h.p. despite rough waves without any prior notice.

The service members of the defence detachment who had been busy with combat preparations after starting their routine service welcomed the supreme commander with admiration, joy and great excitement.

The family members of the service personnel ran towards him upon hearing their enthusiastic cheers. They threw themselves into the arms of the supreme commander, tears of excitement rolling down their cheeks.

He kindly patted the children standing by their mothers on their cheeks, asking them what their fathers were doing. He held six-month-old baby Jong Hang Myong in his arms.

He posed for a picture with the family members of the service personnel.

He took deep care of the living of the service members, looking round their bedrooms and education rooms of the detachment.

Jangjae Islet is far from the land but it is a position of the revolution and the lives of the service persons are linked with the blood vessel of the Party, he said, adding he came there to see how they do their service on the islet, a life not easy for everyone.

Noting that the islet in the southernmost part of the southwest front is the one of the spots to which he attaches the greatest importance, he said the everyday spent by the soldiers is a patriotic one contributing to the prosperity of the country.

All of the service members standing guard over the post on the remote islet of the country without being known to others are revolutionaries and patriots, he noted, underscoring the need to provide good living conditions to them so that they may not long for the life on the land.

Then he mounted a watch post, brushing early morning dew.

He learned in detail about the deployment of the firing positions and the targets of the detachment.

He gave detailed instructions to bolster up the military hardware of the detachment and increase the density of fire to cope with the frantic arms build-up by the nearby enemy.

He said that once a war is ignited, the soldiers of the detachment should play a big role, calling on them to keep their firing equipment fully ready for combat actions with the transparent idea of devotedly defending the country and indomitable faith.

He stressed the need for the soldiers to keep themselves fully ready go into action upon the issue of the order to fire and instructed them to deal fatal blows at the enemy forces when they kick off firing, still failing to come to their senses.

Saying he entrusts the islet, the gateway of the southwest front, to the service members of the detachment, he gave them a pair of binoculars, an automatic rifle and machine gun as gifts.

He had a picture taken with the service members and military families.

The next leg of his inspection was the detachment of the KPA defending Mu Islet.

This is a proud detachment as its service members retaliated against the reckless shelling of the south Korean puppet warmongers through merciless counter-action, thus putting Yonphyong Island in flames and demonstrating the spirit of artillerymen of the KPA.

He went round bedrooms and education rooms of the detachment to learn about the supply of water, electricity, etc. He took a benevolent measure for the living of the servicepersons in the hotspot. It is necessary to take care of the living of the service personnel on islets with greater attention than any other units, he noted, calling on the commanding officers of the higher unit to help them at all times so that they may feel at home on the islet.

He walked a steep road which remained slippery because of raining in the previous day to mount the watch post.

On his way to the post he saw traces of shells fired by the enemy from Yonphyong Island and highly appreciated the feats the servicepersons of the detachment performed by demonstrating the might of arms of Mt. Paektu without allowing the enemy side to hurt even a single soldier that day.

The enemy troops on Yonphyong Island recklessly fired shells at the islet without knowing from where the deadly blows were dealt and they were hit hard by the telling shells fired by the service personnel of the detachment here with towering hatred, he noted.

He proposed to award the title of hero to artillery piece No. 1 and the title of heroic defense detachment to the Mu Islet Defense Detachment for demonstrating the mettle of KPA artillerymen before the enemy.

He carefully watched Yonphyong Island clearly visible from the post.

He expressed great satisfaction, saying he came there to examine the combat posture of the detachment if it is capable of countering the enemy deploying additional weapons of various types on the island.

This islet is not only biggest hotspot on the Korean Peninsula but a very sensitive area on which the world attention is focused and where the interests of many countries are intermingled, he noted.

Noting that the U.S. and south Korean puppet forces often stage provocative war drills in those waters of the sea, he said such moves of the enemies are reckless ones that deserve condemnation as they are threatening peace and stability of not only the DPRK but of the region and the rest of the world.

He ordered the servicepersons of the detachment to be vigilant against every move of the enemy and not to miss their gold chance to deal at once deadly counter-blows at the enemy if even a single shell is dropped on the waters or in the area where the sovereignty of the DPRK is exercised.

He solemnly declared that if the enemy dares recklessly preempt firing and even a single shell drops on the territory of the DPRK, the KPA should lead the battle to a sacred war for national reunification, not confining it to a local war on the southwest region.

He also ordered it to turn the west sea into a graveyard of the invaders if they impose a war upon the DPRK.

He gave the servicepersons a pair of binoculars, an automatic rifle and a machine gun as gifts, expressing expectation and belief that they would register laudable feats in the sacred struggle for defending the country. He then had a photo session with the servicepersons and their families

He was accompanied by KPA Vice-Marshal Choe Ryong Hae, director of the General Political Bureau of the KPA, KPA General Kim Yong Chol, KPA Lieutenant General Pak Jong Chon, Major General An Ji Yong, and Hwang Pyong So and Kim Pyong Ho, vice department directors of the C.C., the WPK. -0-

Spokesman for DPRK Foreign Ministry Slams Ulji Freedom Guardian

Spokesman for DPRK Foreign Ministry Slams Ulji Freedom Guardian

Pyongyang, August 20 (KCNA) -- A spokesman for the Foreign Ministry of the DPRK Monday issued the following statement:

Dark clouds of a war are hanging over the Korean Peninsula in which the north and the south of Korea stand in the most acute military stand-off in the world.

The U.S. finally kicked off extremely provocative large-scale joint military exercises, defying the unanimous desire of the people at home and abroad for peace and stability on the peninsula.

Ulji Freedom Guardian, a military expression of the U.S. hostile policy toward the DPRK, is aimed at invading it, to all intents and purposes. Hurled into the war drills now under way across south Korea are huge aggression troops enough to fight a war according to the mode of an actual war to invade and seize the DPRK all of a sudden.

This large-scale saber-rattling kicked off by the U.S. in the wake of patronizing and instigating hideous hostile acts of the south Korean puppet regime to hurt the dignity of the supreme leadership of the DPRK is an undisguised military provocation.

In recent years the U.S. staged big joint military drills more often and in more intensive manner, pursuant to its new defense strategy to contain the DPRK and countries around it by force. The core of the new defense strategy calls for shifting the strategic focus to the Asia-Pacific region and putting Asia under control through massive arms buildup and military blackmail.

Its primary target is to bring down the DPRK by force and use the whole Korean Peninsula as a springboard for realizing the strategy to dominate Asia.

The prevailing situation requires the DPRK to bolster up the war deterrent physically and goes to prove that it was entirely just when it determined to fully reexamine the nuclear issue.

The DPRK's war deterrent serves as a just means for retaliation as it is capable of mercilessly punishing any aggressors no matter where they are on this earth.

This is an all-powerful treasured sword for protecting the sovereignty of the country and a powerful means for deterring the war on the Korean Peninsula. It also provides a firm guarantee for concentrating efforts on economic construction and the improvement of people's living standard.

It is a stark reality on the peninsula that talking alone cannot prevent a war.

The arms of the country guarantee its peace and prosperity.

The U.S. would be well advised to face up to the situation and roll back at once its anachronistic hostile policy toward the DPRK.

The U.S. persistent pursuance of its invariable hostile policy would only precipitate its miserable end.

It is the firm will of the army and people of the DPRK to counter the aggressors' preemptive firing with deadly counter-actions and achieve the country's reunification through this decisive war.

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DPRK Institutions Condemn Ulji Freedom Guardian Exercises Projected in S. Korea

Pyongyang, August 19 (KCNA) -- The provocative Ulji Freedom Guardian joint military exercises are to be staged throughout south Korea from August 20. 30 000-strong U.S. imperialist aggressor forces, huge forces of the south Korean puppet army and service personnel of foreign countries including Australia, the U.K., Canada, New Zealand, Denmark, Norway and France will take part in the military drills.

Bodies of the DPRK made public a joint statement on August 19 as regards the touch-and-go situation prevailing in the Korean Peninsula.

They are the Central Committee of the Democratic Front for the Reunification of Korea, Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of Korea, National Peace Committee of Korea and the National Reconciliation Council.

The statement said that the military maneuvers are a serious challenge to the public at home and abroad hoping for the peace and detente on the peninsula, and an unpardonable military provocation to the DPRK. It is also a declaration of an all-out war against it.

The statement went on:

The U.S. and the south Korean puppet regime are working hard to attain their goal for aggression at any cost by resorting to the direct use of armed forces and unleashing a war after their unsuccessful sanctions and blockade and failed attempt to stifle the DPRK.

The prevailing situation clearly shows who is the root cause disturbing the peace and security in the peninsula and who is the source and provocateur of a war.

The DPRK has Kim Jong Il's patriotism and single-minded unity more powerful than nukes.

Supreme Commander Kim Jong Un, great brilliant commander of Mt. Paektu, issued an order to the effect that if the U.S. imperialists and the south Korean puppet regime dare preempt reckless firing, it will not be confined to a local war and the DPRK will never miss the priceless golden opportunity but lead it to a sacred war for national reunification.

If they wage the reckless war games to invade the DPRK and even a single shell is dropped on its inviolable territory or waters, its revolutionary armed forces will deal a deadly counter-strike at them and wipe out the aggressors from this land through a nationwide holy war to give vent to the wrath and condemnation of all Koreans in the south and the north and achieve the historic victory in the great war for national reunification without fail. The Koreans are undergoing all sorts of sufferings and misfortune due to the national division. -0-

Songun Korea

Songun Korea

“The geopolitical position of the country is the same as ever, but the weak country of

yesterday which was trodden underfoot as a theatre of wrangling among big powers to expand

the sphere of their influence, has now been turned into a proud political and military power and

our people are demonstrating their dignity as an independent people whom no one dares to

provoke.

 “These miraculous changes that have taken place in the destiny of our nation are not just a

fortuitous event which resulted from the lapse of time but an inevitable outcome of history

brought about by the great President Kim Il Sung and General Kim Jong Il, who pioneered and

led the Songun revolution.”

They are some passages from the speech supreme leader Kim Jong Un of the DPRK delivered

at the military parade held in celebration of the centenary of the birth of President Kim Il Sung,

father of socialist Korea, in April 2012.

One century ago Korea was a weak colonial country. Its national sovereignty was cruelly

infringed upon by the great powers and it had to undergo hardships of a stateless nation trampled

upon by the Japanese military because it had no military strength to defend itself.

The sufferings of the Korean nation were put to an end by Kim Il Sung, pioneer of the Songun

revolution.

He set out on the road of struggle to save the destiny of the country and nation early in his

teens. In the course of groping for the path of the Korean revolution he initiated the Juche idea

that one is responsible for one’s own destiny and one has also the capacity for hewing out one’s

own destiny, and clarified the fundamental principle of the Songun idea that the destiny and

prosperity of the country and nation are all guaranteed by force of arms. Starting from this, he

organized the guerrilla army units without state backing or a regular army, and waged a grim

anti-Japanese war. In the course of the 15-year-long bloody war, he showed the truth that the

national liberation struggles in colonial countries against the imperialist occupationists must be

conducted by force of arms and set examples of their materialization.

He achieved the historic cause of Korea’s liberation on August 15, 1945.

After liberation Kim Il Sung gave top priority to the founding of a regular army and the

building of the defence industry. Thanks to this, Korea could inflict serious defeat on the US

imperialists who started the Korean war on June 25, 1950 and safeguard its national sovereignty

and dignity with honour.

After the war he put forward the line of simultaneously building the economy and defence and

policies of turning the entire army into a cadre army, modernizing it, arming all the people and

fortifying the whole country and led the efforts for their implementation, thus frustrating the

constant provocations of the US imperialists.

The cause of Songun pioneered by Kim Il Sung was brilliantly inherited by Kim Jong Il.

Kim Jong Il started Songun-based leadership by giving inspection to the Seoul Ryu Kyong Su

Guards 105th Tank Division of the Korean People’s Army on August 25, 1960, and launched his

unique Songun politics in the late 1960s.

Entering the mid-1990s Korea had to experience the harshest ordeals owing to the intensified

anti-socialist offensive of the imperialists, following the collapse of socialism in several

countries and the death of Kim Il Sung, and severe natural calamities. To overcome the

prevailing difficulties he held higher the banner of Songun. From 1995 to December 2011, the

last days of his life, he inspected 2 492 army units, which prepared the service personnel into

those strong in ideas and faith, strengthened the country’ defence capabilities by giving top

priority to the development of the defence industry and turned the whole country into an

impregnable fortress.

The KPA has been developed into an invincible army capable of smashing the enemy’s attacks

and invasion at a breath, and won one victory after another in its showdown with the US. Korea

is now possessed of a strong nuclear deterrent to cope with the US’s threat of reckless nuclear

preemptive strike.

Thanks to its inexhaustible might of Songun, Korea is exercising sovereignty fairly in the

international arena at present and advancing along the road to independence and socialism

without seeking approval of others.

Korea’s Songun politics displays great strength not only in the political and military fields but

also in the economic and cultural sectors.

Upholding the slogan “Let us take upon ourselves both national defence and socialist

construction!” the KPA is making a breakthrough in the development of the country’s economy.

With the KPA taking the lead, and the people modelling after the revolutionary soldier spirit, the

traditional great army-people unity of Korea reached the highest stage. Supported by the

indomitable spiritual strength, Korea is working out world-startling miracles day by day in the

building of a thriving nation.

Korea has overcome the worst adversity and turned into an independent power from a weak

colonial country. The reality of Korea is the inevitability of history brought about by Songun. It

is not fortuitous that Korea is called Songun Korea.

Now Korea is led by Kim Jong Un who is identical with Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il.

Through the inspection of the KPA Seoul Ryu Kyong Su Guards 105th Tank Division, a

symbol of Songun, on the first morning of this year, he made a solemn declaration at home and

abroad his will to pursue the road of Songun.

And his speech Let Us March Forward Dynamically towards the Final Victory, Holding

Higher the Banner of Songun delivered at the military parade this April made the international

community reaffirm his will of Songun.

Saviour of Korean Nation

In the first half of the last century the Korean people were suffering under the yoke of

colonial slavery.

The Japanese imperialists, during the period of their military occupation of Korea from 1905

to 1945, killed a million Koreans, forcibly drafted 8.4 million of young and middle-aged Korean

people to work them like beasts of burden and took 200 000 Korean women to serve as sex

slaves for their army. They plundered Korea of its resources and cultural properties, and

prohibited Koreans from using their spoken and written language, even forcing them to change

their names in a Japanese style.

However, the Korean nation was finally liberated by General Kim Il Sung (1912-1994).

In 1925 Kim Il Sung, in his teens, left his country with a firm resolve never to return home

before winning national independence. In October the following year he organized the Down-

with-Imperialism Union (DIU), which was made up of Korean revolutionaries of a new

generation. The formation of the DIU whose immediate task was to overthrow the Japanese

imperialists and achieve Korea’s liberation and independence marked a new starting-point for

the national liberation struggle in Korea.

In June 1930 Kim Il Sung made a historic speech The Path of the Korean Revolution at a

meeting of Korean revolutionaries held in a region of Northeast China. In the speech he clarified

the principles of the Juche idea, which is nowadays known worldwide as the guiding ideology of

the era of independence, and advanced the line of anti-Japanese armed struggle based on the

Songun idea. The line served as an ideological and spiritual banner of the Korean revolutionaries

as it indicated that the cause of national liberation could only be accomplished by relying on

oneself and waging an armed struggle, not by depending on others or taking a peaceful approach.

On April 25, 1932, he founded the Korean People’s Revolutionary Army, the predecessor of

the present Korean People’s Army. With the founding of the KPRA the Korean people were able

to step up the national liberation struggle on the strength of their own armed force.

With a view to rousing the whole nation to the sacred war of their liberation and uniting them

into a single force, he formed the Association for the Restoration of the Fatherland in May 1936.

As a result, all the Korean people who loved their country, regardless of their differences in

ideology, political views, social strata and religious beliefs, were united as one under the banner

of the ARF, and the national liberation struggle could be conducted on a nationwide scale.

The anti-Japanese armed struggle in Korea was a do-or-die struggle waged against the

Japanese army which tried to dominate the world, hand in glove with fascist Germany. In the

light of both numerical and technical aspects, the Japanese empire was incomparably superior to

the Korean guerrilla army, with no state to back it in the rear or support from a regular army,

which was likened to being a “drop in the ocean” by the Japanese in those days.

However, Kim Il Sung led the 15-year-long armed struggle against the Japanese to victory. It

was his original military idea that the numerical, military and technical superiority of the enemy

should be defeated by means of the political and ideological, strategic and tactical ones of the

revolutionary army. Thanks to this military idea, the KPRA soldiers were fully prepared into

those strong in ideology and faith, with confidence in the justness of their cause and indomitable

fighting spirit, and correct strategies and tactics and many other unique combat methods were

created at every stage of the anti-Japanese armed struggle.

His definition of guerrilla warfare as the basic form of the national liberation struggle in

colonial countries is of special historic significance. It was a protean strategy that could defeat

the enemy with a lesser number of force while maintaining the initiative, though it had no state

rear or support from a regular army. His policies of combining large-unit operations properly

with small-unit actions and of establishing semi-guerrilla zones in parallel with the guerrilla

zones of the liberated-area type were superb strategic and tactical methods that made it possible

to actively launch the armed struggle.

Under the superb and adroit command of Kim Il Sung who turned a misfortune into a

blessing and adverse conditions into favourable ones, the KPRA dealt a telling blow to the

enemy in every battle. The Korean and Japanese people would unanimously say that the KPRA

appeared at an unexpected place and disappeared at an unexpected moment and that General

Kim Il Sung used the art of shortening distance.

The Korean people turned out in the sacred struggle against the Japanese, looking up to him

as the Sun of the nation and as the saviour of liberation, who would revive the Korean nation. At

last they attained the cause of national liberation on August 15, 1945.

Freed from colonial slavery, they set out on building an independent and sovereign state as

the masters of their destiny.

The exploits Kim Il Sung performed in liberating Korea will remain for ever in the minds of

the progressive mankind as well as the Korean people. 

 

Kim Jong Un Publishes New Work Calling for Embodying Kim Jong Il′s Patriotism

Pyongyang, August 3 (KCNA) -- The dear respected Kim Jong Un's talk with leading officials of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea "Let Us Effect Kim Jong Il's Patriotism and Step Up the Building of a Prosperous Country" on July 26, 2012 was made public.

The talk was carried by newspapers on August 3.

Kim Jong Un in his work said that leader Kim Jong Il was a peerless patriot who performed undying exploits to be recorded in the history of the country for all ages. Kim Jong Il warmly loved the country and the people more than anything else and devoted all his life to the prosperity of the country and happiness of the people, he added.

He went on to say:

Kim Jong Il's long journey of patriotic devotion undergoing arduous ordeals helped face-lift the country and laid the eternal foundation for a thriving nation.

His warm love for the socialist motherland and people and self-sacrificing devotion to the prosperity of the country and people's happiness are derived from his absolute trust in his own people and steadfast confidence in justice of the socialist system and victory of socialism.

His warm love and devotion are also prompted by his noble awareness and sense of mission that he was responsible for the destiny of the country and people whom President Kim Il Sung entrusted to him.

Patriotism that he had displayed is the noblest one which can be called after him only in the light of its essence and its tremendous vitality.

This patriotism constitutes the height of socialist patriotism.

Kim Jong Il's patriotism is the warmest love for our socialist motherland and people and the most energetic and self-sacrificing devotion to the prosperity of the country and people's happiness. It is genuine patriotism as he loved every tree and every blade of grass of the country.

Kim Jong Il's patriotism is based on the noble outlook on the country, people and posterity.

This patriotism is the precious mental legacy and practical example he left to the Korean people.

All the officials, party members and other working people should actively learn from noble patriotism of Kim Jong Il and embody it into practice just as it is.

They should faithfully carry forward and complete all the work Kim Jong Il had planned and tried to realize in his lifetime in order to materialize his idea and wishes in this land.

The greatest patriotism lies in defending the country. All the people should attach importance to the military affairs, sincerely learn them and devote their patriotism to the sacred war for defending the country if the enemy provokes.

Everyone should bravely turn out in the just struggle to achieve national reunification true to the noble patriotic idea of Kim Jong Il.

Kim Jong Un in the work set forth the tasks for party and working people's organizations and all the state-run bodies and social organizations to fulfill their responsibility and role in the work for learning from Kim Jong Il's patriotism and embodying it.

The country will emerge as a thriving socialist nation when the hot wind of learning from Kim Jong Il's patriotism prevails in the country and all the people fully embody it into practice, he stressed..

 

DPRK Will Take Corresponding Measures against Hideous Politically-motivated Terrorism: CPRK

Pyongyang, July 31 (KCNA) -- The Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of Korea (CPRK) issued the following statement on Tuesday:

As reported, there were press conferences with Pak Jong Suk and Jon Yong Chol shortly ago. Pak came back to the DPRK after being lured and abducted to south Korea by the south Korean puppet regime and Jon, a defector to the south, was arrested after infiltrating into the DPRK to destroy statues symbolic of the dignity of the supreme leadership of the DPRK and its monuments under the manipulation of the U.S. and the south Korean regime. The press conferences fully revealed the truth about the U.S. and the south Korean regime's allurement and abduction of residents of the DPRK and their attempted terrorism.

Now the service personnel and people of the DPRK and all other Koreans are expressing irrepressible resentment at those attempted terrorist acts and they have aroused concern and shock among the world people.

Their attempted terrorism is a blatant challenge to the dignity of the supreme leadership of the DPRK, a wanton violation of its sovereignty and a grave breach of international law.

This indicates that the hostile forces' moves for subversion and sabotage against the DPRK have entered a very dangerous phase of action. The above-said cases go to clearly prove once again that "defectors to the south" and "human rights in the north" much touted by the U.S. and the south Korean group of traitors are nothing but hypocrisy and their real aim is to do harm to the single-minded unity of the DPRK and bring down its social system.

Much upset by the disclosure of their crimes in the eyes of the world, the U.S. and the south Korean regime are letting loose a spate of sheer sophism that they "have no hostile intents", it is "an individual deed" and it is "a unilateral smear campaign of the north" in a bid to mislead public opinion, Worse still, they are making desperate efforts to conceal the recent cases by such base methods as killing and eliminating those involved in them.

With nothing, however, can they conceal or hush up their unethical and hideous crimes.

Moreover, it is becoming clearer with each passing day that the recent attempted terrorism was an organized and premeditated crime of the U.S. and the puppet regime.

Wicked traitor Kim Yong Hwan was recently arrested by the Chinese security authorities before being expelled to south Korea. His crime once again confirmed how desperately the regime is working to destroy and sabotage the DPRK.

All facts clearly prove that the U.S. and the puppet regime are the worst human rights abusers and chieftains of abduction and terrorism.

Now that the U.S. and the puppet regime are luring and kidnapping residents of the DPRK in wanton violation of international law and attempting nefarious terrorism against the dignity of the supreme leadership of the DPRK, it has a legitimate right to take all corresponding steps, pursuant to the DPRK Law and the International Convention on Human Rights and Anti-Terrorism.

The Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of Korea is authorized to solemnly state as follows in this regard:

The U.S. and the south Korean puppet regime should stop at once the act of luring and abducting DPRK citizens, make an official apology for the hideous politically-motivated, state-sponsored terrorism against the dignity of its supreme leadership and sternly punish the prime movers.

They should immediately disband anti-DPRK plot-breeding and terrorist organizations including the "Front for Liberation of North Korean People" and the "Society for Destroying Statues", despicable groups of traitors, and discontinue such base and reckless acts as bribing human scum and hurling them into crimes.

In case the DPRK's just demands are not met, there will follow corresponding measures including punishment of criminals involved in monstrous terrorism and other subversive and sabotage acts against the DPRK and the operations to lure and abduct its citizens.

We declare that among the targets to be punished will be Kim Song Min, representative of the "Radio Free North Korea" who is the prime mover of the recent attempted terrorism, Pak Sang Hak, representative of the "Federation of the Movement for Free North Korea" who is keen on abduction, terrorism and plots, Jo Myong Chol, former director of the "Unification Education Institute", and Kim Yong Hwan, a despicable renegade.

We will in the future, too, never allow those abductors, terrorists and saboteurs who dare hurt the dignity of the supreme leadership of the DPRK, encroach upon its sovereignty and threaten the safety of its citizens and their organizers and those involved in them to go scot-free even by scouring all parts of the earth.

The U.S. and the south Korean conservative group will be wholly accountable for all this.

It is an inviolable and legitimate right of the DPRK to devotedly protect the dignity of its supreme leadership and safeguard its sovereignty and the safety of its people.

Those who dare hurt the dignity of the supreme leadership of the DPRK and its social system and people will not be safe no matter where they are and they will not be able to escape merciless punishment of the army and people of the DPRK.

The U.S. and the rat-like Lee Myung Bak group should clearly understand that the steel-strong single-minded unity of all the service personnel and people of the DPRK is unbreakable as they are under the great illustrious commander. 

 

DPRK FM Spokesman Slashes at U.S. Anti-DPRK Smear Campaign

Pyongyang, July 31 (KCNA) -- A spokesman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the DPRK issued the following statement on Tuesday:

The U.S. authorities are vying each other to commit politically-motivated provocations against the DPRK.

The U.S. chief executive asserted that the DPRK's nuclear deterrent for self-defense "threatens the world" while its military chief made oft-repeated trumpeting about "provocations." Officials of the Department of State including its secretary groundlessly slandered the DPRK on the basis of a variety of wild rumors about its situation without their own judgments to distinguish truth from lies. They are still pulling up the DPRK over its launch of satellite for peaceful purposes in a clumsy bid to justify their hostile policy toward it.

The outbursts let loose by the authorities, prompted by their inveterate rejection and hostile intents on the ideology and social system chosen by the people of the DPRK clearly proved that the U.S. remains unchanged in its hostile policy toward the DPRK.

It is known to everybody that the U.S. is hostile to the DPRK. But the point is why the authorities of its administration are all out to kick up an unprecedented anti-DPRK smear campaign this time.

This reflects their fear of the fact that world people are rapidly growing stronger in their admiration and expectation for the rosy future of the DPRK led by the dear respected Kim Jong Un admired by the whole world. Also lurking behind this is their black-hearted intention to calm down bitter denunciation and pressure of the international community to the effect that it is impossible to ensure durable peace and stability on the Korean Peninsula unless the U.S. drops its anachronistic hostile policy toward the DPRK.

The U.S. claims that it has no hostile intent on the DPRK while malignantly slandering it. This is no more than sheer hypocrisy aimed to deceive the public, to all intents and purposes, because it is an incoherent one. This is proved by what the U.S. is now doing quite contrary to its claim.

It is busy staging large-scale joint military exercises against the DPRK one after another after massively introducing ultra-modern war means into south Korea and its vicinity.

While talking about "people's living" in the DPRK, the U.S. is persisting in its harshest and protracted sanctions and blockade against it, threatening its vital rights and barring it from developing the economy and improving people's living standard.

The U.S. is talking to the DPRK that its people would live well if it dismantles its nukes. This reminds one of a wolf preaching that it would not hurt sheep if the sheep has its horns curved.

It is the DPRK's steadfast option to counter the U.S. hostile policy with bolstered nuclear deterrent.

Now that the DPRK has powerful nuclear deterrent and strong munitions industry capable of steadily bolstering it, it is capable of putting spurs to the building of an economic power, undeterred by the U.S. persistent hostile policy.

The DPRK does not need any advice from others as it has strategy and orientation of its own style to develop the economy and improve the standard of people's living and ways to carry them out.

It will surely build a thriving socialist nation while countering the U.S. hostile policy with its toughest policy, with everybody holding arms in one hand and a banner of industrial revolution in the new century in the other. -0-