Kim Yo Jong Rebukes S. Korean Authorities for Conniving at Anti-DPRK Hostile Act of "Defectors from North"

Pyongyang, June 4 (KCNA) -- Kim Yo Jong, first vice department director of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea, Thursday issued a statement warning against the gravity of the situation as regards a senseless act of scattering anti-DPRK leaflets in the frontline areas by the "defectors from the north".

The full text of the statement reads: On May 31 I heard a report that so-called "defectors from the north" scattered hundreds of thousands of anti-DPRK leaflets into the areas of our side from the frontline areas.

What matters is that those human scum hardly worth their value as human beings had the temerity of faulting our supreme leadership and citing "nuclear issue". I wonder if the world knows what kind of riff-raffs those foolish "defectors from the north" are. It is height of irony.

Those fool who are almost illiterate wanted to talk about "nuclear issue" though they know no concept about it. This is like "a shop-boy near a temple chanting a sutra untaught". Human scum little short of wild animals who betrayed their own homeland is engrossed in such unbecoming acts to imitate men.

They are sure to be called mongrel dogs as they bark in where they should not. Now that the mongrel dogs are doing others harm, it is time to bring their owners to account.

 I would like to ask the south Korean authorities if they are ready to take care of the consequences of evil conduct done by the rubbish-like mongrel dogs who took no scruple to slander us while faulting the "nuclear issue" in the meanest way at the most untimely time. I detest those who feign ignorance or encourage more than those who move to do others harm.

The south Korean authorities must be aware of the articles of the Panmunjom Declaration and the agreement in the military field in which both sides agreed to ban all hostile acts including leaflet-scattering in the areas along the Military Demarcation Line.

There should be a certain degree of discretion, however deep the north/south hostile relations are and however much hostility the south harbors against its fellow countrymen in the north. It is hard to understand how such sordid and wicked act of hostility is tolerated in the south at a time as now.

Before long the nation is to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the June 15 joint declaration. If such an act of evil intention committed before our eyes is left to take its own course under the pretext of "freedom of individuals" and "freedom of expression", the south Korean authorities must face the worst phase shortly.

If they truly value the north-south agreements and have a will to thoroughly implement them, they should clear their house of rubbish, before thoughtlessly blowing the "supporting" bugle. Before making lame excuses, they should at least make a law to stop the farce of human scum to take thoroughgoing preventive measures against any inglorious things.

Clearly speaking, the south Korean authorities will be forced to pay a dear price if they let this situation go on while making sort of excuses. If they fail to take corresponding steps for the senseless act against the fellow countrymen, they had better get themselves ready for possibility of the complete withdrawal of the already desolate Kaesong Industrial Park following the stop to tour of Mt. Kumgang, or shutdown of the northsouth joint liaison office whose existence only adds to trouble, or the scrapping of the north-south agreement in military field which is hardly of any value.

Good faith and reconciliation can never go together with hostility and confrontation. They must have seen it several times in the world - expectation turning into hopelessness and hope ending in nothing. So they had better do what they should do if they do not want to face the worst phase.

Statement of Spokesman for International Department of C.C., WPK

Pyongyang, June 4 (KCNA) -- Rodong Sinmun Thursday carried a statement released by a spokesman for the International Department of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK) on June 3.

The state reads as follows: U.S. State Secretary Pompeo when interviewed by the U.S. media on May 31 termed China an actual threat. Saying that threat from China stems from the idea of the Communist Party, he reeled off rubbish that the U.S. would work with its partners in the West to make the world of the next century the one of the West where the U.S. "liberal democracy" rules. It is not the first time that he said nonsense about China over the issues of Hong Kong, Taiwan, human rights and trade disputes.

What should not be overlooked here is that he slandered the leadership of the Communist Party of China (CPC) over socialism. Branding the socialism led by the Communist Party as a dictatorship destroying the Western style idea, democracy and view on value, he cried out for building the world of the U.S. and the West free from the rule by the CPC.

His nonsensical remarks indicate the intention to do the same thing to socialism in the DPRK led by the WPK. Pompeo, who has been deeply engrossed in espionage and plot breeding against other countries, has become too ignorant to discern where the sun rises and where it sets.

He said that the Communist Party today is different from the one a decade ago, which shows his acknowledgement of socialism getting stronger under the guidance of the Communist Party and that he is nervous over the plight of the U.S. on the downhill side.

Demonstrators enraged by the extreme racists throng even to the White House. This is the reality in the U.S. today.

American liberalism and democracy put the cap of leftist on the demonstrators and threaten to unleash even dogs for suppression. Pompeo ought not to have such a pipe dream of undermining the Communist Party and socialism on their long victorious drive as what the successive rulers of the U.S. dreamt.

The Spirit of Mt Paektu

There are many nations in the world, and each nation has its own spiritual support. The spiritual support of the Korean people is the spirit of Mt Paektu. 

The spirit of Mt Paektu is an unyielding offensive spirit of braving obstacles and difficulties and a staunch fighting spirit of rising up no matter how often one may fall and fighting it out.

From olden times the Korean people have worshiped Mt Paektu and regarded it as their ancestral mountain. In the past a foreigner, who climbed Mt Paektu, wrote in his article: Mt Paektu is α and Ω of Korea. 

He had in mind that Mt Paektu is both the starting and ending points of Korea. The spirit of Mt Paektu was created at the time when Kim Il Sung (1912-1994) was waging the anti-Japanese war around the mountain, leading the guerillas; the first generation of the Korean revolution cherished this spirit as the core of their ennobling spirits. 

In March 2000, looking around the revolutionary battle sites in the Mt Paektu region, Kim Jong Il (1942-2011), chairman of the National Defense Commission of the DPRK, said that the Korean revolution was rooted in Mt Paektu and the spirit of Korea was the spirit of Mt Paektu. 

The spirit of Mt Paektu reflects the soul and mettle of thoroughgoing independence and the ennobling ideological spirit that runs through the history of the Korean revolution.

In the period between the late 19th century and the early 20th century, the national strength of Korea got deteriorated day by day as the ruling circles of feudal Joson dynasty were steeped in the worship of big countries, and in the end Korea had to ask this or that country to guard its royal palace because it had no proper army. Finally, it had to face the tragedy of national ruin by the Japanese imperialists.

 At that time the weak Koreans could not resist to the foreign forces even though they were bereft of their country, but only deplored their fate with tears and wails.  These Koreans became conscious of the spirit of independence as they heard the gun shots raised by the anti-Japanese guerillas fighting in Mt Paektu, and greeted the liberation of their country by defeating the Japanese imperialists who were boasting of being the “leader” of Asia.

It was because they cherished the spirit of Mt Paektu that the patriots of Korea could achieve the liberation of their country through the armed resistance against the one-million-strong Japanese troops for more than a decade without any backing of a state nor support by a regular army.

With this very spirit, Korea built the first-ever democratic and independent sovereign state in the East and created by dint of the Korean-style art of war the myth of defeating the imperialists boasting the “strongest” in the world.

After that Korea carried the postwar rehabilitation and socialist construction by the efforts of its own people and established independent, self-supporting and self-defensive socialism in conformity with its reality. 

Kim Jong Un, chairman of the State Affairs Commission of the DPRK, said: The blizzards of Mt Paektu are the real taste of the mountain; the revolutionary spirit of Paektu, the spirit of the blizzards of Paektu, reflects the noble spirit our army and people should always cherish in their hearts; if we cherish this spirit, we have nothing to be afraid of in the world and we have nothing we cannot do.

The spirit of Mt Paektu regards national independence and national self-respect as the lifeblood, and shows no mercy or forgiveness for the aggressive forces.

With this very spirit, the Korean people are waging an offensive for a frontal attack to achieve a breakthrough in confrontation with the hostile forces that are trying to stamp out their country’s rights to independence, existence and development politically, militarily and economically.

DPRK and June 19

On June 19, 1964, 56 years ago, Chairman Kim Jong Il of the National Defence Commission of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, started working on the Central Committee of the ruling Workers’ Party of Korea.

Since then, radical turns were brought about in the work of the WPK. Kim Jong Il developed the Party into an ideologically integrated whole.

In those days, when he started working on its Central Committee, leadership authority of the leaders of the ruling parties of the socialist countries was being abused and they were experiencing difficulties and hardships due to the manoeuvres by the modern revisionists.

Kim Jong Il raised the Juche idea authored by President Kim Il Sung, the founder of the WPK, as the invariable guiding ideology of the WPK, and ensured that the ideological unity of the Party was strengthened in every way possible, thus transforming it into an ideologically pure entity, organizationally complete whole and integral whole in action.

When the ruling parties of the socialist countries were dissolved in the late 1990s, he published several works, proving the scientific accuracy and truthfulness of socialism, so as to make the WPK hold high the banner of socialism.  Kim Jong Il developed the WPK into one which has a firm mass foundation.

He ensured that it became a motherly party which assumed the responsibility for the destiny of the masses of the people and took care of them.

Regarding “The people are my God” as his motto, he led all Party organizations and officials to go among the masses to share good times and bad with them, lend their ears to their demands and make devoted efforts for them so as to make the WPK’s policies and lines reflect the demands and aspirations of the people.

Thanks to his benevolent and all-embracing politics, the WPK achieved the single-hearted unity of the leader, Party and people for the first time in history and turned the whole society into a large harmonious socialist family.

As a result, the WPK was developed into a party which took root deep among the masses of the people, an invincible party enjoying absolute support and trust from the people. Kim Jong Il made the WPK acquire the ever-victorious leadership mode. 

 In the wake of collapse of socialism in several countries of the world in the 1990s, the allied imperialist forces imposed vicious sanctions to stifle and isolate the DPRK. In the face of the harshest-ever trials, he administered the unique Songun politics as the basic political mode of socialism and the leadership mode of the WPK, firmly safeguarding the sovereignty and dignity of the country from the manoeuvres of the allied imperialist forces; the DPRK strengthened its self-defence capabilities in every way possible, won victory in the unprecedented anti-imperialist confrontation and struggle to defend socialism and overcame all difficulties, thus laying firm foundations for building a powerful socialist country by dint of army-people unity. His exploits in Party building are carried forward by Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un.

Every year the DPRK celebrates June 19 in the same splendid way as it does October 10, the founding day of the WPK. 

Ever-victorious Path

From June 30 to July 2, 1930, President Kim Il Sung of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, then a young revolutionary, presided over a meeting of young revolutionaries of a new generation at Kalun in Changchun County, Jilin Province, northeast China.

In his report The Path of the Korean Revolution, he stressed, on the basis of the lessons of the past anti-Japanese mass struggles, that the Korean people are the masters of the Korean revolution, and that it is the most important for the Korean revolutionaries to adopt a steadfast stand and will to carry out the revolution by drawing on the strength of the Korean people and in conformity with the reality of Korea, clarifying that only then, can they formulate correct lines and policies and achieve the sacred cause of national liberation. 

In this historic report Kim Il Sung advanced the principle of the Juche idea that man is the master of his own destiny and he also has the strength with which to shape his own destiny. 

The meeting discussed many problems including party founding, the line of the anti-Japanese national united front, the character and mission of the Korean revolution and the fundamental standpoint to be maintained by the Korean communists in their struggle, the core of which was the Juche idea. 

Since then the idea was steadily developed and enriched in various stages of the revolution, including the anti-Japanese revolutionary struggle, and through a difficult and complicated practical struggle. 

Kim Jong Il (1942-2011), Chairman of the National Defence Commission of the DPRK, published on March 31, 1982 a treatise, titled On the Juche Idea, in which he developed the Juche idea into one philosophical idea with an integrated system of ideas, theory and method. On February 19, 1974, he formulated the Juche idea as Kimilsungism and proclaimed it as the ultimate programme of the WPK to model the whole society on Kimilsungism. 

He led the efforts to firmly arm the Korean people with the Juche idea and transform nature and society in line with the requirements of the Kimilsungism. 

Thanks to the leadership of Chairman Kim Jong Il, who held fast to the Juche idea as the guideline of the Korean revolution, the Korean people came to regard it as their faith and the country was continuously strengthened and developed under the unfurled banner of independence, self-sufficiency and self-reliant defence. 

Kim Jong Un, Chairman of the State Affairs Commission of the DPRK, formulated the Juche idea that was created by Kim Il Sung and developed by Kim Jong Il as Kimilsungism-Kimjongilism, and proclaimed it as the ultimate programme of the WPK to model the whole society on Kimilsungism-Kimjongilism. 

As the country has advanced under the banner of Kimilsungism-Kimjongilism, a politico-ideological power, which remains unperturbed in the face of worldwide political turmoil and of the unprecedented moves by the allied imperialist forces to stifle it, has been built on the land where once the worship of big countries and dogmatism were deeply rooted, and the country, having achieved the status of a strategic state that nobody can ignore, is invariably following the road of advance toward a powerful socialist country. 

As it has achieved the single-hearted unity based on the Juche idea, the country will exalt forever the dignity and prestige of an ideological power.

The Spirit of Mt Paektu

 There are many nations in the world, and each nation has its own spiritual support. The spiritual support of the Korean people is the spirit of Mt Paektu. 

The spirit of Mt Paektu is an unyielding offensive spirit of braving obstacles and difficulties and a staunch fighting spirit of rising up no matter how often one may fall and fighting it out.

From olden times the Korean people have worshiped Mt Paektu and regarded it as their ancestral mountain. In the past a foreigner, who climbed Mt Paektu, wrote in his article: Mt Paektu is α and Ω of Korea. 

He had in mind that Mt Paektu is both the starting and ending points of Korea. The spirit of Mt Paektu was created at the time when Kim Il Sung (1912-1994) was waging the anti-Japanese war around the mountain, leading the guerillas; the first generation of the Korean revolution cherished this spirit as the core of their ennobling spirits. 

In March 2000, looking around the revolutionary battle sites in the Mt Paektu region, Kim Jong Il (1942-2011), chairman of the National Defense Commission of the DPRK, said that the Korean revolution was rooted in Mt Paektu and the spirit of Korea was the spirit of Mt Paektu. 

The spirit of Mt Paektu reflects the soul and mettle of thoroughgoing independence and the ennobling ideological spirit that runs through the history of the Korean revolution.

In the period between the late 19th century and the early 20th century, the national strength of Korea got deteriorated day by day as the ruling circles of feudal Joson dynasty were steeped in the worship of big countries, and in the end Korea had to ask this or that country to guard its royal palace because it had no proper army.

Finally, it had to face the tragedy of national ruin by the Japanese imperialists. At that time the weak Koreans could not resist to the foreign forces even though they were bereft of their country, but only deplored their fate with tears and wails. 

These Koreans became conscious of the spirit of independence as they heard the gun shots raised by the anti-Japanese guerillas fighting in Mt Paektu, and greeted the liberation of their country by defeating the Japanese imperialists who were boasting of being the “leader” of Asia.

It was because they cherished the spirit of Mt Paektu that the patriots of Korea could achieve the liberation of their country through the armed resistance against the one-million-strong Japanese troops for more than a decade without any backing of either a state or support by a regular army.

With this very spirit, Korea built the first-ever democratic and independent sovereign state in the East and created by dint of the Korean-style art of war the myth of defeating the imperialists boasting the “strongest” in the world.

After that Korea carried the postwar rehabilitation and socialist construction by the efforts of its own people and established independent, self-supporting and self-defensive socialism in conformity with its reality. 

Kim Jong Un, chairman of the State Affairs Commission of the DPRK, said: The blizzards of Mt Paektu are the real taste of the mountain; the revolutionary spirit of Paektu, the spirit of the blizzards of Paektu, reflects the noble spirit our army and people should always cherish in their hearts; if we cherish this spirit, we have nothing to be afraid of in the world and we have nothing we cannot do.

The spirit of Mt Paektu regards national independence and national self-respect as the lifeblood, and shows no mercy or forgiveness for the aggressive forces. With this very spirit, the Korean people are waging an offensive for a frontal attack to achieve a breakthrough in confrontation with the hostile forces that are trying to stamp out their country’s rights to independence, existence and development politically, militarily and economically.

DPRK and June 19

 On June 19, 1964, 56 years ago, Chairman Kim Jong Il of the National Defence Commission of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, started working on the Central Committee of the ruling Workers’ Party of Korea. Since then, radical turns were brought about in the work of the WPK. Kim Jong Il developed the Party into an ideologically integrated whole.

In those days, when he started working on its Central Committee, leadership authority of the leaders of the ruling parties of the socialist countries was being abused and they were experiencing difficulties and hardships due to the manoeuvres by the modern revisionists.

Kim Jong Il raised the Juche idea authored by President Kim Il Sung, the founder of the WPK, as the invariable guiding ideology of the WPK, and ensured that the ideological unity of the Party was strengthened in every way possible, thus transforming it into an ideologically pure entity, organizationally complete whole and integral whole in action.

When the ruling parties of the socialist countries were dissolved in the late 1990s, he published several works, proving the scientific accuracy and truthfulness of socialism, so as to make the WPK hold high the banner of socialism. 

Kim Jong Il developed the WPK into one which has a firm mass foundation. He ensured that it became a motherly party which assumed the responsibility for the destiny of the masses of the people and took care of them.

Regarding “The people are my God” as his motto, he led all Party organizations and officials to go among the masses to share good times and bad with them, lend their ears to their demands and make devoted efforts for them so as to make the WPK’s policies and lines reflect the demands and aspirations of the people.

Thanks to his benevolent and all-embracing politics, the WPK achieved the single-hearted unity of the leader, Party and people for the first time in history and turned the whole society into a large harmonious socialist family.

As a result, the WPK was developed into a party which took root deep among the masses of the people, an invincible party enjoying absolute support and trust from the people. Kim Jong Il made the WPK acquire the ever-victorious leadership mode.

In the wake of collapse of socialism in several countries of the world in the 1990s, the allied imperialist forces imposed vicious sanctions to stifle and isolate the DPRK.

In the face of the harshest-ever trials, he administered the unique Songun politics as the basic political mode of socialism and the leadership mode of the WPK, firmly safeguarding the sovereignty and dignity of the country from the manoeuvres of the allied imperialist forces; the DPRK strengthened its self-defence capabilities in every way possible, won victory in the unprecedented anti-imperialist confrontation and struggle to defend socialism and overcame all difficulties, thus laying firm foundations for building a powerful socialist country by dint of army-people unity.

His exploits in Party building are carried forward by Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un. Every year the DPRK celebrates June 19 in the same splendid way as it does October 10, the founding day of the WPK.

Press Statement by Spokesperson for the National Coordination Committee for Anti-Money Laundering and Countering the Financing of Terrorism of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea

Recently,  the  United  States  is  letting  loose  an  unheard-of  vociferation about  “cyber threat”  from the  DPRK.

We  know  well  that  the  ulterior  intention  of  the  United  States  is  to  tarnish the  image  of our  state  and  create  a  moment  for provoking  us  by  employing a  new  leverage  called  “cyber  threat”  together  with  the  issues  of  nukes, missiles,  “human  rights”,  “sponsoring  of  terrorism”  and  “money laundering.”

The  previous  incidents  of  cyber-attack  which  the  U.S.  had  linked  to  us were  clearly  proven  to  be  the  acts  of  international  hackers,  and  even  the experts  in the  U.S.  have  officially admitted  them.

It  is  none  other  than  the  U.S.  that  does  not  hesitate  to  abuse  even  the modern  civilization  –  the  creation  of  humankind  –  as  a  means  of  plots  and fabrications  in  a  bid  to  taint  the  countries  of  their  “disliking”  with  all  sorts of slanders  and  disgrace.

Such farce  by  the  U.S.  is  nothing  new  to  us. To  put  it  clearly,  our  state  has  nothing  to  do  at  all  with  what  is  claimed by  the  U.S.  to  be  a  “cyber  threat.”

The  U.S.  should  be  clearly  aware  that  worthless  and  worn-out  plots  and fabrications  invented  continuously  by  themselves  will  no  longer  work against the  international  community.

COVID-19 and the DPRK

With COVID-19 driving the whole planet into extreme anxiety and terror, many people are puzzled by one thing: part or the largest of part of territory of the United States, China, Italy, Spain, Iran and other countries which have the highest number of people infected with and killed by COVID-19 are all situated at the latitudes between 30° and 45°N.

Is this just a coincidence?

It needs further study to answer this question, but there could be something. Then those who advocate geopolitics would feel happy with the fact that their theory has reached the realm of virus transmission.

Yet more surprising thing is that COVID-19 has failed to make inroads into the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea despite its geographic location at the same latitudes as China, the United States, Iran, Italy and Spain.

The DPRK has established an advanced public healthcare system while enforcing free medical service for nearly 70 years, and now an excellent anti-epidemic system is set up against emergencies. Moreover, its leadership took full emergency measures for establishing national emergency anti-epidemic system in the early days when COVID-19 was identified in Wuhan, China, and has wisely led the struggle for their successful implementation. Its people, who are rallied firmly behind their leader in mind and purpose, have acted as one true to Kim Jong Un’s intentions.

AU COMITE REGIONAL AFRICAIN POUR L’ETUDE DES IDEES DE JUCHE

A l’occasion du 35ème anniversaire de la fondation du Comité Régional

africain pour l’étude des Idées de Juche, l’Association des Hommes de

Sciences Sociales de Corée adresse les plus vives félicitations à tous les

partisans des idées du Juche dans la région.

Les flammes mondiales de vulgarisation des idées du Juche initiées par

la naissance de la première organisation d’étude des idées du Juché à

Mali en 1969, ont été doublés par la fondation du Comité Régional

africain pour l’étude des Idées de Juche qui a résulté l’enflammement de

pan-Afrique par air-Juche.

Le Comité Régional, depuis son très premier jour de naissance pendant

35 ans, a acquis de grands succès pour le développement indépendant de

l’Afrique par ses activités continuelles pour étudier et vulgariser des

idées du Juche ; tout le monde en est au courant.

L’Association des Hommes de Sciences Sociales de Corée profite de

cette occasion pour adresser nos vœux sincères de bonne santé et de

grand succès dans l’avenir à tous les membres du Comité Régional

africain pour l’étude des Idées de Juche qui sont toujours solidaires.

Veillez agréer nos salutations les plus distinguées.

Association des Hommes de Sciences Sociales de Corée

Juche 109(2020) Avril 15

Pyongyang

To African Regional Committee for the Study of Juche Idea

The Korean Association of Social Scientists extends our warm congratulatory greetings to all Juche-adherents in Africa on the occasion of 35th anniversary of foundation of the African Regional Committee for the Study of Juche Idea (ARCJI). The foundation of the world’s ever-first Juche idea study group in Mali (1969) was a spark that became a world-wide flame of enthusiasm for studying and dissemination of Juche Idea and with the foundation of the African Regional Committee that flame became a hot-trend for studying Juche Idea throughout Africa. Past 35years ARCJI achieved many successes in popularizing Juche Idea in Africa for the independent development of the continent and everyone is well aware of it. We, the KASS take this opportunity to wish you good health and wish you to achieve great successes in your work through deep cooperation among Juche-adherents in Africa.

Yours sincerely.

Korean Association of Social Scientist Juche 109(2020) April 15 Pyongyang

Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un Sends Educational Aid Fund, Stipends for Korean Children in Japan

Pyongyang, April 13 (KCNA) –

Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un sent educational aid fund and stipends amounting to 216.6 million yen to the General Association of Korean Residents in Japan for democratic national education of the children of Koreans in Japan ahead of the 108th birth anniversary of President Kim Il Sung.

The educational aid fund and stipends sent by President Kim Il Sung, Chairman Kim Jong Il and Kim Jong Un in 166 installments total 48 660 330 390 yen.

Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un Sends Wreath to Bier of Late Jong Il Sim

Pyongyang, April 8 (KCNA) –

Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un sent a wreath to the bier of the late Jong Il Sim, widow of DPRK Hero An Tong Su, on April 7, expressing deep condolences over her death.

He also sent a condolatory message to the bereaved family members of the deceased.

In the message he said that upon the sad news that Jong Il Sim passed away, he expressed deep condolences to the bereaved family members of the deceased.

Third Session of 14th SPA of DPRK Held

Pyongyang, April 13 (KCNA) –

The third Session of the 14th Supreme People's Assembly (SPA) of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) was held at the Mansudae Assembly Hall on Sunday.

The SPA deputies attended the session.

Seen on the platform was Choe Ryong Hae, member of the Presidium of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK), first vice-chairman of the State Affairs Commission (SAC) of the DPRK and president of the Presidium of the SPA, and Pak Pong Ju, member of the Presidium of the Political Bureau of the WPK Central Committee, vice-chairman of the SAC of the DPRK and vice-chairman of the WPK Central Committee.

Also seen there was Kim Jae Ryong, member of the Political Bureau of the WPK Central Committee, member of the SAC of the DPRK and premier of the Cabinet.

The platform was also taken by Ri Il Hwan, Choe Hwi, Ri Pyong Chol, Kim Tok Hun, Kim Yong Chol and members of the SAC of the DPRK and the Presidium of the SPA.

The chairman and vice-chairpersons of the SPA took their seats. The opening address was made by Chairman Pak Thae Song.

The agenda items of the Third Session of the 14th SPA of the DPRK were decided at the session:

1. On adoption of the law of the DPRK on recycling resources

2. On adoption of the law of the DPRK on tele-education

3. On adoption of the law of the DPRK on providing living conditions for discharged officers

4. On the work of the Cabinet of the DPRK for Juche 108 (2019) and its tasks of Juche 109 (2020)

5. On implementation of the state budget for Juche 108 (2019) and the state budget for Juche 109 (2020).

6. Organizational matter.

The first, second and third agenda items were discussed at the session. Deputy Thae Hyong Chol, vice-president of the Presidium of the SPA, made a report on the three agenda items.

He referred to the importance and significance of the laws to be discussed and adopted at the session, and explained the chapters of the laws.

He laid the adoption of the three laws before the SPA.

Ordinance of the SPA of the DPRK "On adoption of the law of the DPRK on recycling resources ", "On adoption of the law of the DPRK on tele-education" and "On adoption of the law of the DPRK on providing living conditions for discharged officers" were adopted with unanimous approbation at the session.

There was a discussion on the basis of an in-depth study of the reports on the fourth and the fifth agenda items.

The speakers said that the work of the Cabinet and the execution of the state budget for last year were correctly summed up, and that the tasks of the Cabinet for this year were clearly set and the state budget was properly worked out in the direction of implementing the decisions adopted at the 5th Plenary Meeting of the 7th Central Committee of the WPK and the joint resolution adopted at the Meeting of the Political Bureau of the WPK Central Committee. They voiced full support and approval.

In their speeches they analyzed and reviewed the successes, experience, mistakes and lessons in the work of their fields and units last year and referred to the methods of opening a broad avenue to the socialist construction and propping up the self-supporting economic power.

There adopted decision of the SPA of the DPRK "Report on the work of the Cabinet of the DPRK and on approving the implementation of the state budget for Juche 108 (2019)" and ordinance of the SPA of the DPRK "On state budget of the DPRK for Juche 109 (2020)".

The session discussed the sixth agenda item.

At the request of Deputy Choe Ryong Hae, first vice-chairman of the SAC and president of the Presidium of the SPA upon authorization of the Chairman of the State Affairs Commission of the DPRK, Deputy Choe Pu Il and Deputy No Kwang Chol were recalled from the membership of the SAC.

Also recalled were Ri Su Yong, Thae Jong Su and Ri Yong Ho. Deputies Ri Pyong Chol, Kim Hyong Jun, Kim Jong Gwan, Ri Son Gwon and Kim Jong Ho were by-elected as members of the SAC.

Upon authorization of the Political Bureau of the WPK Central Committee, Deputy Ko Kil Son was by-elected as the secretary general of the Presidium of the SPA and Deputy Kim Yong Hwan as a member of the Presidium of the SPA.

Members of the Cabinet were newly appointed.

Upon authorization of the WPK Central Committee, Deputy Yang Sung Ho was appointed as vice-premier, Deputy Kim Chol Su as minister of Natural Resources Development, Kim Jong Nam as minister of Machine-building Industry, and Ri Song Hak as minister of Light Industry.

Chairmen of the Subcommittees of the SPA were recalled and by-elected.

Deputy Kim Jong Ho was by-elected as chairman of the Legislation Committee of the SPA, Deputy Kim Tok Hun as chairman of the Budget Committee and Deputy Kim Hyong Jun as chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee.

Chairman Pak Thae Song made a closing address.

Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un Inspects Pursuit Assault Plane Group

Pyongyang, April 12 (KCNA) –

Kim Jong Un, chairman of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK), chairman of the State Affairs Commission of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea and supreme commander of the armed forces of the DPRK, inspected a pursuit assault plane group under the Air and Anti-Aircraft Division in the western area.

Accompanying him were Ri Pyong Chol, vice-chairman of the C.C., WPK, Army General Pak Jong Chon, chief of the General Staff of the Korean People's Army (KPA), and cadres of the C.C., WPK.

He was greeted on the spot by Kim Kwang Hyok, commander of the KPA Air and Anti-Aircraft Force, and commanding officers of the pursuit assault plane group.

The combat pilots were excited with honor, happiness and joy over the inspection by Supreme Leader of the Party, state and armed forces Kim Jong Un, whom they always missed, picturing him even during their flight.

Kim Jong Un learned about the readiness for sortie of the fighters and the performance of duties of airspace defence in the western area.

He expressed great satisfaction to the pursuit assault plane group which is reliably defending the territorial sky of the western area of the country while faithfully performing feats with a one-track mind to repay the trust of the Party and the country. He raised important tasks for further enhancing the combat efficiency of the group after praising their efforts.

He met ace pilots of the group to have a talk.

He repeatedly placed his great trust in them, saying that he entrusted the territorial sky of the country to them. He appealed to the combat pilots to wage a vigorous struggle to possess higher combat aviation and combat power by further equipping themselves with the Juche-oriented tactics indicated by the Party and ratcheting up flight drills with a do-or-die readiness to dedicate their lives to the Party and country.

He watched the drill of the group together with cadres who accompanied him.

The pilots were on cloud nine to make combat navigation before the eyes of the Supreme Leader whom they have been eager to see.

After the commander of the KPA Air and Anti-Aircraft Force gave an order to make a sortie, fighters thundered into the sky.

First, they buzzed the command post, where the Supreme Leader was standing, to extend to him, who has made ceaseless guidance to the frontline for the security of the country and well-being of people, the greatest glory and salute of boundless loyalty cherished by servicepersons of the KPA Air and Anti-Aircraft Force.

Then they conducted a drill of chasing, picking up and downing air targets. Watching the brave flight and combat activities made by combat pilots together with the cadres, he clapped his hands to express his great satisfaction.

Through the drill, our Party's reliable air fighters showed well that they are ready to make a sortie any moment they received an order, and they, possessed of the spirit of devotedly defending the country and self-blasting spirit, clearly manifested their will to defend the territorial sky by demonstrating their high abilities to perform duty, he said, adding he was deeply moved to see the tireless efforts and devotion of pilots who always remain loyal to the order and call of the Party. And he asked for sending his greetings to all the combat pilots and servicepersons of the group and their families.

The group was full of militant enthusiasm and surging spirit of a-match for-a-hundred indefatigable fighters to boldly fight any formidable air pirates by steering planes, fully loaded with bombs instead of fuel for return flight, through any unfathomable clouds and flames once ordered by the Supreme Leader.

All the combat pilots and servicepersons of the group made a firm determination to impregnably defend the Party Central Committee and the sacred territorial sky of the country at the cost of their lives as the air fighters loyal to the Supreme Leader, extending the greeting of boundless gratitude to him who has always treasured and loved them and taken warm care of and guided them with trust and affection.

Political Bureau of C.C., WPK Meets under Guidance of Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un

Pyongyang, April 12 (KCNA) –

A meeting of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK) was held on Saturday at the headquarters building of the WPK Central Committee.

Kim Jong Un, chairman of the Workers' Party of Korea, chairman of the State Affairs Commission of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea and supreme commander of the armed forces of the DPRK, took part in the meeting.

Attending the meeting were members and alternate members of the Political Bureau of the C.C., WPK.

Upon authorization of the Political Bureau of the C.C., WPK, Supreme Leader of the Party, state and armed forces Kim Jong Un presided over the meeting.

Agenda items of the meeting of the Political Bureau of the C.C., WPK were decided there.

1. On taking more thorough state measures for protecting life and safety of our people from the great worldwide epidemic disease

2. On the execution of the state budget for Juche 108 (2019) and the state budget for Juche 109 (2020)

3. On personnel affairs to be presented to the Third Session of the 14^th Supreme People's Assembly of the DPRK

4. On organizational matter

The first agenda item was discussed.

A report on the first agenda item was made. All the people across the country are making precious achievements in economic construction and major construction projects through a dynamic charge towards the 75th founding anniversary of the Party, true to the decisions made at the Fifth Plenary Meeting of the Seventh Central Committee of the WPK.

But the virus epidemic that broke out at the end of last year has rapidly expanded worldwide and has become a great disaster threatening the whole mankind, regardless of borders and continents. Such reality shows that it has become impossible to remove the danger of the virus infection in a short time and such environment can become a condition creating some obstacles to our struggle and progress.

Our country took strict top-class emergency anti-epidemic measures from the outset and established thorough-going organization, consistency and compulsoriness in the nationwide protective measures. It, therefore, has been maintaining very stable anti-epidemic situation.

The meeting of the Political Bureau called for consistently taking strict national countermeasures to thoroughly check the inroads of the virus in the light of the steady spread of the worldwide epidemic disease.

It studied and discussed matters of adjusting and changing some policy tasks in the work of implementing the decisions made at the Fifth Plenary Meeting of the Seventh Central Committee of the WPK in view of the prevailing internal and external climates.

It adopted the joint resolution of the Central Committee of the WPK, the State Affairs Commission of the DPRK and the Cabinet of the DPRK "On more thoroughly taking national measures for protecting the life and safety of our people from the worldwide epidemic disease".

The joint resolution detailed the goals of continuously intensifying the nationwide emergency anti-epidemic services and pushing ahead with the economic construction, increasing national defence capability and stabilizing the people's livelihood this year, and indicated the tasks facing every field and every unit including Party and government organs and working people's organizations and armed forces organs and ways of carrying them out.

It studied and approved "On the execution of the state budget for Juche 108 (2019) and the state budget for Juche 109 (2020)", the second agenda which is to be presented to the Third Session of the 14th Supreme People's Assembly.

It examined and approved the third agenda item "On the personnel affairs to be presented to the Third Session of the 14th SPA".

It discussed the organizational matter, the fourth agenda. It by-elected a member and alternate members of the Central Committee of the WPK.

Park Jong Chon was by-elected as a member of the Political Bureau of the C.C., WPK.

Ri Son Gwon and Kim Yo Jong were by-elected as alternate members of the Political Bureau of the C.C., WPK.

It re-called and by-elected members and alternate members of the Central Committee of the WPK.

Ri Thae Il, Ri Son Gwon, Jon Hak Chol and Kim Chol were by-elected as members of the C.C., WPK from alternate members and Pak Myong Sun was by-elected as a member of the C.C., WPK from a member of the Central Auditing Commission of the WPK.

Kim Jong Nam, Ri Song Hak, Jon Myong Sik, Sin Chang Il, Jang Yong Rok and Kim Sun Chol were by-elected as alternate members of the C.C, WPK.

The meeting re-called and by-elected a member of the Central Auditing Commission of the WPK.

Pak Yong Jin was by-elected as a member of the Central Auditing Commission of the WPK.

The meeting re-called and by-elected members of the Inspection Commission of the C.C., WPK.

Ri Kyong Chol and Won Hyong Gil were by-elected as members of the Inspection Commission of the C.C., WPK.

The Supreme Leader stressed that the fierce hot wind of revolution should be raised for the Party organizations at each level, cadres and Party members to thoroughly carry out the policy lines of the Party Central Committee with greater consciousness and strenuous efforts in line with the joint resolution of the meeting of the Political Bureau which presented new and important policies and tasks.

The meeting of the Political Bureau of the WPK Central Committee held under the guidance of the Supreme Leader serves as an important occasion in dynamically opening a broad avenue of the Korean-style socialism as it set forth the realistic tasks for timely and correctly resolving the important issues arising in the Korean revolution at present.

Kim Il Sung and Self-supporting Economy

As is well known, countries liberated from colonial rule after the Second World War followed the road of relying on big and developed countries for their “aid” or copying their economic models.

But the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea aspired after the construction of a self-supporting economy from the first days of nation building.

All that left after Korea’s liberation (August 1945) were only a backward economy damaged by Japan on its defeat in the war and empty national coffers, but the Korean people built a new country by their own efforts. They started building a self-supporting economy on the debris after the Korean War (1950-1953).

At that time, Kim Il Sung presented two principles as important tasks for economic construction. One was that the country can never escape the fate of being “indebted” if it depended on aid from others without accumulating its own assets, and accordingly it must build its economy by its own efforts. The other was that as long as the Korean people were determined to live independently, the pressure and blockade by the dominationists were inevitable, and accordingly they must have a strong material and economic strength with which to overcome the pressure and blockade.

Proceeding from these principles, Kim Il Sung put forward the basic line of socialist economic construction–developing heavy industry on a priority basis and simultaneously developing light industry and agriculture.

The hostile forces tried to check economic construction of the DPRK by means of political and military threat and double and treble blockades and sanctions; the great-power chauvinists, slandering its line of independent economic construction, tried to shackle it to Comecon, claiming for “socialist international division of labour.”

But no one could ever change his decision.

His country achieved socialist industrialization in 14 years, and built an advanced rural economy.

This shows that the DPRK’s self-supporting economy was built not with the help of propositions in any classic works but on the basis of Kim Il Sung’s ideas and plans, not by copying the experiences of others but in its own style in compliance with requirements of its revolution and opinions of its people, and not by relying on the strength and technology of any powers but on the strength of its own efforts and technology.

Once recalling those days in deep emotion, President Kim Il Sung said: If we had not built our own self-supporting national economy but lived on aid from other countries, we would not have achieved industrialization, and would now be begging big countries for aid.

Expanding the economic structure in a many-sided way, building its own solid raw material bases, equipping all the sectors of the economy with modern technology and bringing up its own native technological cadres–these are the main contents of the DPRK’s line of building a self-supporting national economy.

The present foundations of the DPRK’s economy are great. The raw materials and fuels of the metal industry, a buttress of the economy, are all based on the domestic natural resources. The high-level machine-building industry, which produces CNC machines, is also based on the country’s own technology. The same is true of the chemical, building-materials and light industries and agriculture. All the sectors of the national economy are based on domestic resources and technology. As the reality shows, the foundations of the national economy are solid and the economy’s modernized, scientific and information levels are rising day after day. On the basis of this, it is achieving a high rate of growth.

In 1994, the last year of his life, President Kim Il Sung met former US President Carter, and said: We are not afraid of sanctions; we have so far lived under sanctions; not even a day passed for us out of sanctions; however, we have lived on without much trouble up to now; never expect that we cannot manage to exist if we are put under more sanctions.

This demonstrates his self-confidence based on his experience of building a powerful self-supporting economy throughout his life.

Today the self-supporting national economy built by President Kim Il Sung serves as a precious asset in smashing straight through the vicious blockade and sanctions by hostile forces on the strength of self-reliance.

Stand-off Between Self-reliance and Sanctions

In the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, the Fifth Plenary Meeting of the Seventh Central Committee of the ruling Workers’ Party of Korea was held amid the great interest of the world.

At this meeting, Kim Jong Un, chairman of the WPK, said that the DPRK-US stand-off which has lasted from one century into the next has now boiled down to a clear stand-off between self-reliance and sanctions.

The summit meeting and talks between the DPRK and the US were held on three occasions and June 12 Joint Statement was adopted at the Singapore Summit, aimed at establishing a new relationship between the two countries. However, the present DPRK-US relations are still in deadlock. The US is intensifying comprehensive sanctions and military threat upon its dialogue partner while wasting time away under the signboard of peaceful dialogue and negotiations. The US double-dealing behaviour reveals the true nature of the “peace strategy” of the US style. In a nutshell, the US real intention is to capitalize on the DPRK-US talks, which reflect the aspiration of the DPRK and the world after peace, for achieving its ulterior political and diplomatic purposes for the upcoming presidential election and the stability of state affairs, and completely stifle and crush the country through harsher sanctions.

Under the prevailing situation, Kim Jong Un called the meeting, the main spirit of which is to make a breakthrough head-on in order to defend the sovereignty, right to existence and security of the country and open a pivotal phase. This is why the present DPRK-US relation has turned into a full-scale stand-off between self-reliance and sanctions.

Under the worst-ever sanctions and blockade, the DPRK has accomplished one achievement of self-reliance after another. This fact tells much about the prospect of this acute stand-off.

In the end of last year, the country completed the construction projects of the city of Samjiyon, Yangdok Hot Spring Resort, Jungphyong Vegetable Greenhouse Farm and Tree Nursery and Phalhyang Dam of the Orangchon Power Station. The agricultural sector exceeded the peak-year level even under unfavourable weather conditions. Construction of the Wonsan Kalma coast resort, Sunchon Phosphatic Fertilizer Factory, Tanchon Power Station and other major projects were pushed ahead, and multiple successes were achieved in all the sectors of the national economy, including the metal, coal-mining, building materials and light industries. All these are a deadly blow to the sanctions-almighty theory.

Since the emergence of the word sanctions in the present world, no other country has been suffering from and overcoming such stubbornly harsh sanctions and blockade as the DPRK has been. The development course of the DPRK aspiring to building a thriving socialist country proves that the country will never yield to the sanctions, and the more intensified the sanctions are, the firmer its people’s spirit of self-reliance and will to build an independent power grow.

Kim Jong Un is making breaches in the chain of sanctions and opening up a pivotal phase of building a powerful state of independence through mass campaigns for increased production and practising economy and by putting the national economy on a Juche-oriented, modern, IT and scientific footing, recycling, and attaching importance to science and technology and talents. His outstanding leadership and the single-hearted unity of the Korean people rallied firmly behind their leader are the source of the strength with which to work miracles in the full-scale stand-off between self-reliance and sanctions.

At the plenary meeting, Kim Jong Un said that the Korean people learned how to live on their own, deal with enemies and difficulties and defend their dignity and rights in the protracted and harsh environment unprecedented in history, and clarified that it is their firm revolutionary faith that they will defend the dignity of their country and defeat imperialism by achieving prosperity by dint of self-reliance and even by tightening their belts.

Upholding the slogan “Let us break through head-on all the barriers to our advance!” set forth by Kim Jong Un, the Korean people will surely achieve final victory by frustrating the sanctions by the hostile forces on the strength of self-reliance.