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Aggressors Will Meet Destruction: CPRK Secretariat

    Pyongyang, March 8 (KCNA) -- The Secretariat of the Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of Korea (CPRK) released the information bulletin No. 1021 on Friday:
    The army and people of the DPRK are poised for a final do-or-die battle in the spirit of annihilating enemies after the statement was made public by a spokesman for the Supreme Command of the Korean People's Army.
    The south Korean puppet military hooligans engrossed in confrontation and provocation are running reckless, unaware of the gravity of the situation and the ensuing catastrophic consequences.
    On March 6, the puppet Joint Chiefs of Staff let the chief of the operational department clarify south Korea's stand with regard to the statement of the Supreme Command of the Korean People's Army.
    The military hooligans described the Key Resolve and Foal eagle war drills as "annual exercises for defense" and called the DPRK's crucial measures a "provocation". They even blustered that they would "severely punish even the commanding forces" of the north, adding that "they are bracing for putting it into practice."
    They even bluffed that they would target the supreme headquarters of the Korean revolution, openly touting "punishing the commanding forces", a serious act of provoking an all-out war.
    In April last year, they openly aired the footage of missile attack, calling for "striking the window of office in Pyongyang."
    It is tragedy of the nation that the group of cursed traitors like Lee Myung Bak is still at large even though they deserve divine punishment for the heinous crimes they already committed against the nation.
    The enemies of the nation who dare point their finger at the sky can never go scot-free.
    It is the fixed determination of the army and people of the DPRK to certainly deal sledge-hammer blows at the group of traitors who seek to harm the headquarters of the revolution, which represents the supreme dignity of the DPRK.
    The puppet military group dares make rhetoric, unaware that the stronghold of confrontation and treachery Chongwadae, and Seoul will be blown up at a time when they attempt "punishing the commanding forces of the north".
    The DPRK solemnly stated to the world that from the moment when the Korean Armistice Agreement is ified due to the moves for provoking a war of aggression by the U.S. imperialists and the puppet warmongers, the DPRK will mount Korean style strike of justice at the provocateurs without hesitation.
    The revolutionary armed forces of the DPRK, already put on a high alert, are waiting for an order for great advance for national reunification, determined to blast the strongholds of aggression with prompt and fatal retaliation, should the provocateurs make even the slightest move.
    The reckless moves of the puppet warmongers for confrontation with the DPRK will accelerate their most miserable end.
    Neither the U.S. nuclear umbrella which the puppet forces trust in as the savior nor international cooperation will be able to save the group of traitors to the nation.
    The aggressors, provokers will meet a final ruin for provoking the DPRK for no reason. 

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Kim Jong Un Inspects Island Defense Detachments of KPA

Pyongyang, March 7 (KCNA) -- Supreme Commander of the Korean People's Army Marshal Kim Jong Un, first secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea and first chairman of the DPRK National Defense Commission, on Thursday inspected again the Jangjae Islet Defense Detachment and Mu Islet Hero Defence Detachment located in the biggest hotspot in the southernmost part of the southwestern sector of the front.
    The first leg of his inspection was the Jangjae Islet Defence Detachment near from Taeyonphyong Island.
    He went round soldiers' bed room and education room of the detachment to take deep care of their living.
    He mounted an observation post to hear a detailed report on the modernization of the post and the enemy targets on Taeyonphyong Island.
    He said that Jangjae Islet is one of the islets to which he attaches greatest importance as it is located in the southernmost part in the southwestern sector of the front, adding that once a battle breaks out, the soldiers of the detachment should play a big role.
    He stressed the need for the soldiers to keep themselves fully ready to go into action to annihilate the enemy any time an order is issued and instructed them to deal deadly blows at the enemies and blow up their positions if they fire even a single shell at the territorial waters or land of the DPRK.
    He had a picture taken with the service personnel of the detachment and their families.
    The second leg of his inspection was Mu Islet Hero Defense Detachment.
    He mounted an observation post before feasting his eyes on Taeyonphyong Island with keen attention.
    He received a report from the commander of the detachment on terrain conditions, distribution of forces and combat preparations of the detachment.
    He reconfirmed in detail reinforced firepower strike means and targets of the enemy deployed on five islets in the West Sea including Yonphyong Island defence unit and defined the order of precision strikes.
    He gave detailed instructions to more satisfactorily equip the detachment with weaponry, increase the density of firepower on targets and ensure intensive shelling in order to cope with the frantic arms build-up of the enemy entrenched under the very eyes of the soldiers.
    Learning in detail about the issue of providing army surgeons at the wartime suited to the specific conditions of the detachment and the issue related to the proposal for operation and combat, he took necessary measures.
    He was greatly satisfied to learn about the preparations for combat readiness of the Jangjae Islet Defense Detachment and the Mu Islet Hero Defense Detachment.
    He said that as he stressed during the previous inspection, this is not only the biggest hotspot in waters off the Korean Peninsula but a very sensitive area on which world attention is focused and where interests of many countries are intertwined.
    He ordered the soldiers of the detachments to watch every move of the enemy with vigilance and promptly deal deadly counterblows at him if a single shell is fired on the waters and land where the DPRK's sovereignty is exercised and thus make the first gunfire and shoot a signal flare for a great war for national reunification.
    He said all the service personnel of the ground, naval, air and anti-air and strategic rocket forces including the frontline units are fully ready to fight a Korean style all-out war, adding if the enemy makes any slight reckless provocation against the DPRK again in the sensitive waters, he will issue an order to start the just great advance for national reunification in all frontline areas, never missing the golden opportunity.
    He had a photo session with the service personnel of the detachment and their families.
    Accompanying him were Choe Ryong Hae, Jang Song Thaek, Kim Kyok Sik, Kim Yong Chol, Pak Jong Chon, Rim Kwang Il and An Ji Yong. 

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Second Korean War Is Unavoidable: DPRK FM Spokesman

    Pyongyang, March 7 (KCNA) -- A spokesman for the DPRK Foreign Ministry Thursday issued the following statement:
    The U.S. is now working hard to ignite a nuclear war to stifle the DPRK.
    Key Resolve and Foal Eagle joint military exercises kicked off by the U.S., putting the situation on the Korean Peninsula to the brink of war, are maneuvers for a nuclear war aimed to mount a preemptive strike on the DPRK from A to Z.
    The U.S. is massively deploying armed forces for aggression, including nuclear carrier task force and strategic bombers, enough to fight a nuclear war under the smokescreen of "annual drills."
    What should not be overlooked is that the war maneuvers are timed to coincide with the moves to fabricate a new "resolution" of the UN Security Council against the DPRK, pursuant to a war scenario of the U.S. to ignite a nuclear war under the pretext of "nuclear nonproliferation".
    It is a trite war method of the U.S. to cook up "a resolution" at the UNSC to justify its war of aggression and then unleash it under the berets of "UN forces."
    That is why the U.S. is hurling into the war maneuvers even armed forces of its satellite countries which participated in the past Korean War as "UN forces".
    After directing the strategic pivot for world hegemony to the Asia-Pacific region, the U.S. regards it as its primary goal to put the whole of the Korean Peninsula under its control in a bid to secure a bridgehead for landing in the Eurasian continent. It also seeks a way out of a serious economic crisis at home in unleashing the second Korean war.
    The U.S. is, indeed, the very criminal threatening global peace and security as it is staging dangerous war drills in this region, the biggest hotspot in the world and a nuclear arsenal where nuclear weapons and facilities are densely deployed.
    The DPRK has so far made every possible effort while exercising maximum self-restraint in order to defend the peace and stability on the Korean Peninsula and in the region.
    The U.S. is, however, responding to the DPRK's good will and self-restraint with large-scale nuclear war maneuvers and the "annual" war drills are developing into a real war. Under this situation the opportunity of diplomatic solution has disappeared and there remains only military counteraction.
    The spokesman for the DPRK Foreign Ministry states as follows upon authorization as regards the grim situation that was created on the Korean Peninsula seriously threatening the sovereignty of the country and its right to existence:
    First, now that the U.S. is set to light a fuse for a nuclear war, the revolutionary armed forces of the DPRK will exercise the right to a preemptive nuclear attack to destroy the strongholds of the aggressors and to defend the supreme interests of the country.
    The Supreme Command of the Korean People's Army declared that it would totally ify the Korean Armistice Agreement (AA) from March 11 when the U.S. nuclear war rehearsal gets into full swing. This meant that from that moment the revolutionary armed forces of the DPRK will take military actions for self-defence against any target any moment, not restrained by AA.
    Second, the farce for the adoption of "resolution on sanctions" against the DPRK being backed by the U.S. at the UN Security Council will compel the DPRK to take at an earlier date more powerful second and third countermeasures as it had declared.
    If the UN Security Council gives the green light to the U.S. in its moves for a war of aggression against the DPRK by adopting a new "resolution on sanctions", it will fully display the might of Songun it built up decades after decades and put an end to the evil cycle of tension.
    Third, given that it has become difficult to avert the second Korean war, the DPRK strongly warns the UN Security Council not to make another big blunder like the one in the past when it earned inveterate grudge of the Korean nation by acting as a war servant for the U.S. in 1950.
    The UNSC should immediately call into question the U.S. DPRK-targeted nuclear war rehearsals that pose a serious threat to the global peace and security, immediately disband the "UN Command" which is a tool for executing the U.S. war of aggression and take measures for ending the state of technical war.
    Justice can be defended only when strength is reacted with strength and nuke with nuke.
    Should the U.S. ignite a war in the end, it will cause flames of justice to flare up like an erupting volcano in which the aggressors will perish and the cursed Military Demarcation Line disappear for good. -0-

Spokesman for Supreme Command of KPA Clarifies Important Measures to Be Taken by It

Pyongyang, March 5 (KCNA) -- A spokesman for the Supreme Command of the Korean People's Army issued the following statement on Tuesday:
    On Dec. 12 last year the DPRK legitimately and successfully launched a satellite for peaceful purposes, ensuring international transparency, going beyond practice, and choosing a comparatively mild situation for it.
    Seizing the DPRK's satellite launch as an occasion for stifling it from the outset, the U.S. and its allies deliberately negated the DPRK's sovereignty over its satellite launch. They finally prodded the UN Security Council into adopting a "resolution on sanctions" before opting for high-handed hostile acts against the DPRK.
    These hostile acts are still going on.
    Under this situation the DPRK was compelled to take practical counteractions to defend the security and sovereignty of the country. On Feb. 12 it admirably and successfully conducted the third underground nuclear test for self-defence at the highest level as part of those counteractions.
    However, the U.S. imperialists and their allied forces including south Korea are making more persistent and desperate efforts to slap new tougher "sanctions" against the DPRK, far from drawing a due lesson.
    Not content with this, they kicked off again the Key Resolve and Foal Eagle joint military exercises to stifle the DPRK by force of arms by mobilizing huge armed forces of aggression. They will reportedly last for two months from March 1.
    Unlike last year the current joint military exercises will be participated in by super-large nuclear-powered carrier task force carrying at least 100 nuclear warheads, B-52H strategic bombers and other means of the U.S. imperialist aggression forces for making ground, sea and air nuclear strikes and its allied forces including south Korea, U.K. and Australia.
    From this point of view, the exercises cannot be construed otherwise than the most dangerous nuclear war maneuvers targeted against the DPRK and the most undisguised military provocation to be made by a group of all hues of hostile forces.
    This serious situation clearly indicates that the actions of the U.S., south Korea and other hostile forces to infringe upon the sovereignty of the DPRK are now leading to a military offensive for aggression, going beyond the level of outrageous economic "sanctions."
    In view of the prevailing situation, the Supreme Command of the KPA which is responsible for the national defence and security of the country and the destiny of the nation sent a meaningful warning message to the U.S. imperialist aggressor forces through the KPA Panmunjom mission on February 23. It warned them that if they ignite a war of aggression in the end, from that moment their fate will be hung by a thread with every hour.
    But, the joint military exercises have persisted and the U.S. and the south Korean puppet forces have become all the more undisguised in their base moves to kick up their "sanctions."
    Looking back on history, the Korean people have neither shot even a single arrow nor thrown a single stone at the land of the U.S.
    The U.S. is, however, working with bloodshot eyes to swallow up the DPRK, not content with having incurred the pent-up grudge of the Korean people which can never be settled.
    What matters is that the south Korean puppet forces steeped in worship and sycophancy toward the U.S. are dancing to its tune.
    Of late Kim Kwan Jin, puppet minister of Defense, and Jong Sung Jo, chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, inspected frontline army corps, fleet command and guided missile units where they blustered that a sort of military provocation is expected from the north and cried out for making "deadly strikes" and "preemptive strikes" at the "bases for provocations."
    As far as these guys are concerned, they are a group of traitors who pushed the inter-Korean relations to a collapse together with traitor Lee Myung Bak who knows nothing about politics and military affairs. They are military gangsters who go reckless, unaware of what their master U.S. has in mind, what is the intention of the neighbouring countries and what all fellow countrymen and nation desire.
    The puppet authorities, too, are crying out for the dismantlement of nukes and halt to provocation as dictated by their master, without knowing what is precious wealth for the nation. They move like a robot and repeat anything like a parrot.
    The sovereignty and dignity of the nation are violated and the supreme interests of the country are seriously threatened by the U.S., the sworn enemy of the Korean people, and maniacs of confrontation with fellow countrymen grouping worst traitors. The army and people of the DPRK can never remain a passive onlooker to this fact.
    The spokesman for the KPA Supreme Command is authorized to declare the following important measures:
    First, it will take the second and third strong practical counteractions in succession to cope with the high-handed war acts of the U.S. and all other hostile forces as it had already declared.
    The army and people of the DPRK never make an empty talk.
    It is the mettle of Songun Korea to do what it is determined to do.
    It won victories in the two wars and has advanced along the road of victory despite manifold difficulties.
    The army groups on the front, ground forces, the navy, air and anti-air units, strategic rocket units of the KPA, the Worker-Peasant Red Guards and the Young Red Guards have launched an all-out action according to the operational plan finally signed by the dear respected Supreme Commander Kim Jong Un.
    Now that the U.S. imperialists seek to attack the DPRK even with nuclear weapons, it will counter them with diversified precision nuclear strike means of Korean style.
    Those means are bound to be launched once their buttons are pressed, and the enemies' strongholds be turned into a sea in flames.
    This land is neither the Balkans nor Iraq and Libya.
    The army and people of the DPRK have everything including lighter and smaller nukes unlike what they had in the past.
    Second, the KPA Supreme Command will make the Korean Armistice Agreement totally ified.
    The war maneuvers being staged by the U.S. imperialists and the south Korean puppet forces are a vivid expression of their systematic violation of the AA.
    Accordingly, the Supreme Command of the KPA will completely declare invalid the AA, which has existed for form's sake from March 11, the day when the war maneuvers will enter into a full-dress stage.
    The DPRK will make a strike of justice at any target anytime as it pleases without limit, not bound to the AA, and achieve the great cause of the country's reunification, the cherished desire of the nation.
    Third, the KPA Supreme Command will totally stop the activities of the Panmunjom mission of the KPA which was tentatively established and operated by it as a negotiating body for establishing a peace-keeping mechanism on the Korean Peninsula.
    In this regard it will simultaneously make a decision to cut off the Panmunjom DPRK-U.S. military telephone.
    Our choice has become clear now that the moves of all hostile forces to encroach upon the sovereignty and dignity of the DPRK are reaching a dangerous phase.
    It is the unshakable stand of the army and people of the DPRK and the mode of counteraction of Mt. Paektu style to counter enemies coming in attack with a dagger with a sword, a rifle with an artillery piece and nukes with precision nuclear strike means of Korean style more powerful than them.
    The U.S. imperialists and their allies should not forget even a moment that they are standing at the crossroads of their life and death.
    A final victory is in store for the army and people of the DPRK who are all out to protect its sovereignty. 

Anniversary of Agrarian Reform Law Marked in DPRK

    Pyongyang, March 5 (KCNA) -- It has been 67 years after the Agrarian Reform Law was promulgated in Korea on March 5, Juche 35 (1946).
    On this anniversary, people in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea recall the undying feats President Kim Il Sung performed to gratify the Korean peasants' cherished desire for doing farming on their own land.
    The agrarian reform, which the President had sought from his early days of revolutionary activities, put an end to the feudal land ownership and exploitation in rural communities.
    During the anti-Japanese armed struggle, he authored celebrated works "The Path of the Korean Revolution" and "The Ten-Point Programme of the Association for the Restoration of the Fatherland", expounding the ideas and theories on the anti-imperialist, anti-feudal democratic revolution. And he saw to it that land was distributed to peasants free of charge in the guerilla zone.
    Soon after the country's liberation from the Japanese colonial rule, he considered the agrarian reform enforcement to be a primary task in carrying out overall democratic reforms and paid big efforts to its effect.
    Under the slogan "Land to the tillers!", he correctly defined the objects of land confiscation, seeing to it that land confiscation and distribution was done strictly free of charge.
    As a result, 1 000 325 hectares of the cultivated land were confiscated from pro-Japanese elements including traitors and landlords and 981 390 hectares of them distributed to 724 522 households.
    The reform served as a milestone in building an independent and sovereign state in Korea.