Press Statement of Kim Yo Jong, Vice Department Director of C.C., WPK

 

Pyongyang, July 14 (KCNA) -- Kim Yo Jong, vice department director of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea, issued the following press statement on July 14:

To thoroughly contain and frustrate the most hostile and threatening nuclear confrontation policy of the U.S. against the DPRK is the just right to self- defense to defend the Korean peninsula and the Asia-Pacific region from the disaster of a nuclear war, and no one has any justification for slandering the DPRK's launch of new-type ICBM.

The recent launch, conducted in the safest way, taking into full consideration any potential danger that may affect the security of neighboring countries, did not do any harm to international maritime and air security.

However, the UNSC held an open meeting again to unilaterally pick a quarrel with the DPRK's exercise of the right to self-defense, in disregard of the DPRK's just security concern and the U.S. criminal attempt to increase the possibility of an outbreak of a real nuclear war on the Korean peninsula and the region. This perfectly proved that it is a confrontation organization destroying global peace and stability and a new Cold War mechanism totally inclined to the U.S. and the West.

I express strong displeasure over and scathingly condemn the unfair and prejudiced behavior of the UNSC, which again called into question the DPRK's exercise of its just right to self-defense, which did not hurt anyone, under the unchanged and boring illegal pretext of violation of the UN "resolution".

Due to the aggressive provocations of the U.S. far beyond its constant military readiness, the situation on the Korean peninsula is now heading toward the threshold of nuclear clash and the outbreak of a nuclear war is not hypothetical but is becoming a miserable reality that countries in the Northeast Asian region have to face in the near future.

The U.S. has frequently staged joint military drills with clear aggressive character by mobilizing nuclear submarines, nuclear strategic bombers, and other various nuclear strategic assets under the pretext of the offer of the so-called "extended deterrence" and planned to put into the Korean peninsula a nuclear submarine with strategic nukes for the first time in more than 40 years, along with the operation of the U.S.-south Korea "nuclear consultative group", a nuclear war tool. Such military provocations of the U.S. are the most direct threat to the security of not only the DPRK but also all other Northeast Asian countries.

The UNSC, whose mission is to defend global peace and security, should have squarely confronted this fact and properly judged who threatens nukes and who is exposed to nuclear threats.

Ignoring such bounden duty, the UNSC connived at and fostered and even instigated the U.S. moves to exterminate the DPRK, an expression of extremely unfair and double-standard behavior. This is an irresponsible crime of pushing the whole of Northeast Asia and Asia-Pacific to the holocaust of a nuclear war.

As the UNSC deliberately ignores the U.S. dangerous nuclear threat and blackmail, the U.S. nuclear weapons, including strategic nuclear submarines will be more massive, often and openly deployed in the Korean peninsula under the mask of "lawfulness," and Northeast Asia will be soon turned into the world's biggest nuclear arsenal.

If an undesirable, unprecedented nuclear war breaks out in the Korean peninsula, the UNSC will be held accountable for it as it has worked hard to categorically restrain the DPRK from exercising its legitimate right to self-defense while being on the U.S. side.

Availing myself of this opportunity, I warn that the riffraff, accustomed to following their U.S. master blindly, joined in making public an anti-DPRK "joint statement" which is not recognized by anyone outside the arena.

The U.S. should be aware that the more it makes the DPRK feel unpleasant, the worse it finds itself in a dilemma.

Only when the U.S. withdraws its hostile policy toward the DPRK, can the DPRK's displeasure and the evil cycle of the situation, which no one wants, disappear.

However, the more the U.S. persists in its reckless and provocative confrontation option, refusing to reject it, the more the situation will lead to a very unpleasant direction for the U.S., and it itself will feel it every minute, every second, every hour, and every day.

The price the U.S. has to pay for its moves against the DPRK will never be low, and I do not conceal the fact that very unlucky things will wait for the U.S.

The U.S. should be aware that the DPRK's mode and scope of counteraction may be freer along with the increased "visibility" of deploying strategic assets on the Korean peninsula.

Now that the U.S. does not respond to the abandonment of its hostile policy toward the DPRK, the only solution to achieving peace and stability in the Korean peninsula and the region, the DPRK will further put spurs to building up the most overwhelming nuclear deterrence until the U.S. admits its policy failure and itself rolls back its line of confrontation with the DPRK.

 

Another Event of Great Significance Recorded in Developing Strategic Force of DPRK Test-fire of New-type ICBM Conducted

 

Respected Comrade Kim Jong Un Guides Test-fire of ICBM Hwasongpho-18

Pyongyang, July 13 (KCNA) -- As a part of the efforts to bolster the just right to self-defense to reliably defend the security of our state and regional peace from the disaster of nuclear war and thoroughly deter the dangerous military moves of the hostile forces, the General Missile Bureau conducted the test-fire of new-type ICBM Hwasongpho-18, the core weapon system of the strategic force of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) on July 12.

The test fire was conducted according to the strategic judgment and crucial decision of the Central Military Commission of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK) at a grave period when the military security situation on the Korean peninsula and in the region has reached the phase of nuclear crisis beyond the Cold War era as the U.S. and its vassal forces' unprecedented military provocations against the DPRK have been intensified.

The U.S. cooked up the "Washington Declaration", a programme for nuclear confrontation with the DPRK, in April. It is openly planning to discuss the use of nuclear weapons against our state through a meeting of the U.S.- south Korea "Nuclear Consultative Group" which will be the parent body of the U.S.-Japan-south Korea "tripartite nuclear alliance". It is driving the regional situation to the brink of an unprecedented nuclear war, while frequently deploying nuclear-powered submarine and nuclear strategic bombers around the Korean peninsula and its vicinity under the pretext of increased "visibility" of the U.S. strategic assets.

What merits more serious attention is that the U.S., resorting to extremely provocative aerial espionage acts even by encroaching upon the sovereign territory of the DPRK, is planning to bring nuclear weapons to the Korean peninsula again by sending a U.S. nuclear submarine carrying strategic nukes to south Korea for the first time after 40 years.

Such reckless military moves of the U.S. constitute a provocative act with an aggressive nature pushing the situation on the Korean peninsula to the actual situation of armed conflict from A to Z, far beyond the constant military readiness posture targeting its belligerent party, and have an irreversible negative impact on the regional military and political situation and security structure.

The present situation, in which the U.S. and south Korea's frantic confrontational attempts that will bring a new chain of nuclear crises to the Korean peninsula and Northeast Asia are nearing an intolerable critical point, requires the DPRK to put spurs to bolstering the capability for self-defense and strengthening the nuclear war deterrence for self-defense in order to deter the reckless political and military provocations of the hostile forces by physical force and to impregnably defend itself.

The test fire is an essential process aimed at further developing the strategic nuclear force of the Republic and, at the same time, serves as a strong practical warning to clearly show the adversaries, which makes clearer the policy of nuclear threat to the DPRK, the unwavering will to overwhelmingly counter them and the entity of physical strength, and to make the enemies clearly realize once again how risky and reckless their anti-DPRK military option is.

Kim Jong Un, general secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea and president of the State Affairs of the DPRK, personally guided the test-fire of a new-type ICBM Hwasongpho-18 on the spot.

The test fire was aimed at re-confirming the technical credibility and operational reliability of the new-type ICBM weapon system.

In consideration of the security of the neighboring countries and the stability of domestic in-flight multi-stage separation, the test fire was conducted in the way of setting the first stage as a standard ballistic flight mode and the second and third stages as high-angle flight mode and of confirming the technical characteristics of every component of the weapon system in the maximum range system.

When the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un mounted the central command observation post to approve the test-fire of a new-type strategic weapon, General Kim Jong Sik issued a launch order to the Second Red Flag Company under the General Missile Bureau in charge of the test-fire mission.

At that moment, a huge body began soaring into the sky with a shower of fire in its tail, making a deafening explosion signal the emergence of the entity of the strategic weapon fully loaded with the strength and technology of the DPRK.

The test fire had no negative effect on the security of the neighboring countries.

The missile traveled up to a maximum altitude of 6 648.4 km and flew a distance of 1 001.2 km for 4 491s before accurately landing on the preset area in the open waters of the East Sea of Korea.

All the new records confirmed through the test-fire proved the capability, reliability and military utility of the new-type strategic weapon system and verified the undoubted dependability of the nuclear strategic force of the DPRK.

The Hwasongpho-18 weapon system, equipped and operated by the strategic force of the DPRK under the long-term plan for building the state nuclear force, will perform its mission and duty as the most powerful, core main force means for thoroughly deterring and overwhelmingly responding to diverse threats of nuclear war and provocative acts of aggression against the DPRK and for reliably defending the security of the DPRK.

Expressing great satisfaction over the results of the test fire, the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un said with pleasure that this eventual success which fully demonstrated the might of the DPRK fully equipped with firm nuclear war deterrence for self-defense and the overwhelming offensive power serves as another important stride in developing the strategic force of the DPRK.

Noting that the present unstable situation in which the security environment on the Korean peninsula is being seriously threatened by the hostile forces every moment requires more intense efforts to implement the line of bolstering nuclear war deterrent set forth by the Eighth Congress of the WPK, he clarified again that there will be no change and vacillation in the strategic line and policy of the WPK and the DPRK government to steadily accelerate the development of more developed, effective and reliable weapon system.

Saying that as the reality shows, it is a recognized law that only more surprising events will be ceaselessly recorded in the DPRK's advance for bolstering the national defense capability, given the hostile forces' ever-escalating military threat and challenges, he reaffirmed that a series of stronger military offensives will be launched until the U.S. imperialists and the south Korean puppet traitors admit the shameful defeat of their useless hostile policy toward the DPRK in despair and give up their policy.

He set forth the strategic tasks for the sector of national defense science in dynamically promoting the bolstering of the nuclear strategic force of the DPRK.

He extended warm congratulations and thanks to all the scientists and technicians in the national defense scientific research field who made history of eternal victory for the times and future through the great success in the test of a new strategic weapon system ahead of the 70th anniversary of the significant day of war victory the great Korean people won by totally shattering the myth of the "mightiness" of the U.S. imperialists.

All the national defense scientists made a firm pledge to fulfill the important mission and duty, they assumed before the Party, revolution, country, and people.

Press Statement of Kim Yo Jong, Vice Department Director of C.C., WPK

 

Pyongyang, July 10 (KCNA) -- Kim Yo Jong, vice department director of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK), issued the following press statement on Monday:

A spokesman for the Ministry of National Defense of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) this morning sent a serious warning to the U.S. Forces' worrying air espionage acts which seriously recently and encroach upon the sovereignty, security and interests of the DPRK.

The great irony is that the south Korean puppet military group quickly denied the U.S. forces' serious infringement upon the sovereignty of the DPRK.

Now the Joint Chiefs of Staff of the "ROK" are styling themselves spokesmen for the U.S. Department of Defense or the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command.

The bad habit of quite often meddling in other's affairs and feeling itchy if they do not so seems to be inveterate characteristics of the clans of the "ROK" that both the politicians and military gangsters have.

How can they deny this hard fact, without batting an eye?

The intrusion into the DPRK's 200-nautical mile economic water zone by the reconnaissance asset of the hostile country with a radius of detection of more than 240 nautical miles is clearly a grave encroachment upon the sovereignty and security of the DPRK.

The sky above the economic water zone as well as the DPRK's water zone along the military demarcation line is not a theatre for U.S. military exercises where its reconnaissance assets can enter at will.

The puppet military should refrain from making far-fetched assertions and shut up.

From around 5 a.m. today a strategic reconnaissance plane of the U.S. Air Force again conducted aerial reconnaissance of the eastern part of the DPRK while intruding into the sky above the economic water zone beyond the military demarcation line in sea waters of the DPRK side in the sky over the waters more than 270 km east of Uljin ~ 430 km east of Thongchon.

The reconnaissance plane of the U.S. Air Force, which retreated by the responding sortie of the Air Force of the Korean People's Army (KPA), again intruded into the sky above the military demarcation line in sea waters under the control of the DPRK side in the sky above the sea 400 km east of Kosong of Kangwon Province at around 8:50 and made a grave military provocation of conducting aerial reconnaissance.

The KPA has already sent a strong warning to the U.S. forces' side.

A shocking incident would occur in the long run in the 20-40 km section in which the U.S. spy planes habitually intrude into the sky above the economic water zone of the DPRK beyond the Military Demarcation Line in sea waters.

We will not take a direct counteraction against the U.S. forces' acts of espionage outside the economic water zone of the DPRK side, but I repeatedly warn upon authorization that we will react with clear and resolute actions when they intrude into the economic water zone of the DPRK side beyond the military demarcation line in sea waters again.

If the U.S. has not yet realized what danger is directly coming to it in disregard of the DPRK's warning, the DPRK is not to blame for it.

Moreover, if it suffers even a disaster, it will be a natural outcome of its acts.

Press Statement of Kim Yo Jong, Vice Department Director of C.C., WPK

 

Pyongyang, July 11 (KCNA) -- Kim Yo Jong, vice department director of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK), issued the following press statement on Tuesday:

As regards the provocation by the U.S. forces, the military of the "ROK" again impudently took the lead in denying the encroachment on the DPRK's sovereignty, while shamelessly asserting that it was a "normal flight of the 'ROK' and the U.S."

The issue related to the relevant aerial area is the one between the Korean People's Army and the U.S. forces.

The military gangsters of the "ROK" should stop acting impudently and shut up at once.

The strategic reconnaissance plane of the U.S. Air Force illegally intruded into the economic water zone of the DPRK side in the East Sea of Korea eight times in the sky above the sea of 435 km east of Thongchon of Kangwon Province~276 km southeast of Uljin of North Kyongsang Province from 5:15 to 13:10 on July 10, to commit an aerial espionage act.

I have already notified beforehand the counteraction of our army upon authorization.

In case of repeated illegal intrusion, the U.S. forces will experience a very critical flight.

Article of Military Commentator of DPRK

 

Pyongyang, July 13 (KCNA) -- A military commentator of the DPRK released an article titled "Justifying impudent provocation will only bring about the dangerous result of escalating regional tensions" on Thursday.

The full text of the article said:

Entering July, the U.S. reconnaissance assets are steadily committing provocative espionage acts, which can no longer be overlooked. As a result, the military tensions on the Korean peninsula are inching close to the worst crisis.

Aerial reconnaissance means of the U.S. forces illegally intruded into the economic water zone where the sovereignty of the DPRK is exercised more than 30 times between July 2 and 10.

As regards the grave situation in which the U.S. provocative espionage is getting undisguised, the Korean People's Army (KPA) sent a clear and strong warning to the U.S. by dispatching air force fighters and expelling U.S. air force strategic reconnaissance planes. It also clearly warned that a special incident may occur if such action is done again.

This is a clear manifestation of the DPRK's will to defend peace and its patience to prevent military conflict that may lead to the worst crisis on the Korean peninsula where nukes and nukes are standing face to face and to control the present dangerous situation.

Nevertheless, the hostile forces are going reckless in their moves to justify their shameless military provocations while branding the DPRK's warning as "far-fetched assertion".

The south Korean puppet Joint Chiefs of Staff patronized the U.S. master's criminal act, insisting that it is an "unreasonable assertion contrary to the fact" that the U.S. air reconnaissance means illegally intruded into the economic water zone of the DPRK side and it is aimed to obtain a pretext of provocation.

The puppet forces that have nothing to do with the issue of the DPRK-

U.S. relations, made reckless remarks, prompted by the instigation of the

U.S. So, we clarified our stand again and again.

When its trick to cover up its criminal acts through its servant didn't work, the U.S. talked volubly and reluctantly before the eyes of the world that it is engrossed in a safe and responsible flying, navigating and carrying out operations together with its allies and partners in any places permitted by international law, and schemed to mislead the international opinion, trumpeting as if the DPRK was escalating tensions.

What merits serious attention is that recently the U.S. has urgently deployed a formation of B-1B strategic bombers from its mainland in Misawa air force base in Japan near the Korean peninsula through its successive provocative and shameless aerial espionage acts.

Some days ago, the U.S. increased the number of B-52H nuclear strategic bombers on Guam to eight. This time, its additional deployment of nuclear strategic asset around the Korean peninsula makes clear the intention of the U.S. Talking incoherently to justify the recent increasing air espionage acts.

The U.S. is now claiming that its spy plane has implemented the "freedom of navigation" in the sky over the open sea under international law.

The airspace that the U.S. insists on the sky over the open sea is the one above the economic water zone in the East Sea of Korea, where the sovereignty of the DPRK is exercised from A to Z and, therefore, it is part of the DPRK's airspace even an inch of which can never be conceded.

As the U.S. knows this well, it had so far restrained espionage in the sky over the water zone, and the DPRK, too, has not taken direct counteraction against the military acts committed outside the economic water zone.

Of course, it is not that there is no military danger when the RC-135S, a strategic reconnaissance plane with high observation and reconnaissance capabilities, takes acts outside the DPRK's economic water zone, but the DPRK has acted thoroughly in accordance with the requirements of international law.

After all, this time the U.S. branded the DPRK's just warning as a "groundless accusation," only to betray itself, its arrogant and self-contradictory behavior of abandoning its decades-long habitual practices without scruple.

The "denial" of the international legal position of the economic water zone impudently advocated by the puppet forces is nothing but a gangster-like sophism that interpreted the basic spirit and relevant provisions of the U.N. Convention on the Law of the Sea to suit their taste.

The convention clearly stipulates that the freedom of navigation in the economic water zone shall be guaranteed under the conditions that the security and interests of a coastal state do not encroach.

According to this logic, the puppet forces unilaterally set up "ship control zone" and "air defense identification zone" in the East, West, and South seas of Korea, and are making a great fuss, claiming that the flights of the warplanes of the neighboring countries in the sky above the vicinity of south Korea are "intrusion" while obstructing all the sailing of DPRK vessels.

According to the logic of the puppet forces, the intelligence, and reconnaissance activities of the DPRK's warships and fighters in the economic water zone or in the sky above the "air defense identification zone" of south Korea can be interpreted otherwise than the ones done as required by international law.

Japan, too, should be called into question as it pokes and pries whether the DPRK's projectiles are landed inside or outside of the exclusive economic zone whenever it tests projectiles.

The hostile forces should objectively look at such reality and clearly express their stand on it.

The situation on the Korean peninsula is a dangerous one in which fire and nukes could come to grips anytime, and so, it is as clear as noonday that the future situation will be developed into an unpredictable state as the hostile forces' moves to justify their impudent provocative moves are becoming more undisguised.

Sovereignty is, indeed, the dignity and life of the DPRK and its people and the DPRK's self-defense capability with the nuclear force as its pivot is fully ready to perfectly carry out the sacred mission and duty of defending its sovereignty without an inch of deflection anytime.

As those who are fond of playing with fire are destined to perish in the flames, it will be difficult to defend one's own sovereignty in the end if one does not respect the sovereignty of the other party.

Stressing again, the hostile forces should think to the maximum, being aware that to test the DPRK's will to defend its sovereignty is a dangerous act of expanding the continuous war into a nuclear war.

Press Statement of Department Director for Foreign Affairs of DPRK Ministry of Land and Environment Protection

 

Pyongyang, July 9 (KCNA) -- The department director for foreign affairs of the DPRK Ministry of Land and Environment Protection issued the following press statement on July 9:

Today mankind, exposed to serious ecological challenge and threat due to El Nino-brought extremely high temperature and natural disasters, has faced another calamity to be brought by discharge of nuclear-polluted water.

On July 4, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) released a "general assessment report" saying if the nuclear-polluted water of the Fukushima Atomic Power Plant in Japan is discharged into the Pacific, it will have "minimal" impact on such environmental factors as water quality, marine animals and sediments.

Japan is planning to discharge at least 1.3 million tons of nuclear-polluted water into the Pacific from this summer, putting forward the IAEA's "report" as "legal justification".

If a large quantity of nuclear-polluted water is discharged into the Pacific, radioisotope materials will diffuse into an area covering the half of the Pacific within 57 days and into the whole world in 10 years, and these radioactive materials include tritium and carbon-14 requiring a half-life of 5 000 years, which will have fatal adverse impact on the human lives and security and ecological environment by causing malignant tumors and other diseases.

What matters is the unreasonable behavior of IAEA actively patronizing and facilitating Japan's projected discharge of nuclear-polluted water which is so terrible to imagine.

IAEA is not a body for evaluating environment. There is no provision or clause in international law specifying that IAEA is entitled to allow a specific country or region to discharge nuclear-polluted water.

The World Health Organization specializing in ensuring human life, security and health currently exists and many environmental protection organizations express their opposition and concern over it. So the question is why IAEA, with no accredited authority, is zealously backing Japan's discharge plan.

No wonder, it has been reported that Japan offered one million euros to the IAEA personnel involved in the inspection of Japan's planned discharge of nuclear-contaminated water, and the Japanese government obtained the draft final report of IAEA beforehand and modified it. It is not fortuitous that such scandals are being brought to light one after another.

The IAEA director general, who pulled up a sovereignty state over the exercise of its legitimate right, is actively patronizing the illegal and unethical act of Japan to imperil the lives and security of humankind and ecological environment. This is just a typical expression of extreme double standards.

Japan, which had inflicted untold misfortune and pain upon Asian countries in the past century, is doggedly denying and embellishing its blood-stained past, far from making an apology and reparation. It even seeks to bring a calamity to humankind, a heinous crime that can never be pardoned for all ages, by bribing such a venal body as IAEA even today in the 2020s.

Worse still, the U.S. and south Korea openly express unseemly "welcome" to Japan's discharge plan that deserves condemnation and rejection, provoking strong anger of the public.

This goes to fully prove that the ecological environment of the earth has been exposed to a serious threat, due to a handful of ill-minded forces pursuing their geopolitical aim in disregard of human lives and security and ecological environment.

The dishonest elements of IAEA whose minds are seriously polluted by hegemony and corruption and the countries like the U.S. zealously patronizing them should be wiped off the earth immediately.

The just international community should not overlook such hideous, inhumane and anti-peace acts of the black-hearted forces to pollute this blue planet, the cradle of life for all humanity and their descendants, with nuclear- polluted water, but thoroughly foil them by dint of solidarity and unity.

Press Statement by Spokesman for DPRK Ministry of National Defence

 

Pyongyang, July 10 (KCNA) -- A spokesman for the Ministry of National Defence of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) Monday issued the following press statement:

Recently, the U.S. Defense Department officially announced its scheme to put strategic nuclear submarine into the operational waters of the Korean peninsula.

The deployment of the U.S. strategic nuclear submarine carrying nuclear warheads in the Korean peninsula means that the U.S. strategic nuclear weapons will appear in the peninsula for the first time since 1981.

This is a very dangerous situation as it will bring the regional military tension to a more critical state and may incite the worst crisis of nuclear conflict in practice.

The present situation clearly proves that the situation of the Korean peninsula is coming closer to the threshold of nuclear conflict due to the U.S. provocative military action.

The U.S. attempt to introduce strategic nuclear weapons into the Korean peninsula is the most undisguised nuclear blackmail against the DPRK and its neighboring countries and a grave threat and challenge to the regional and global peace and security.

All the facts show most clearly who commits provocation and who exercises self-restraint, and who threatens and who is threatened on the Korean peninsula.

It is necessary to make it clear once again who is to blame for the situation of military clash on the Korean peninsula that is approaching the worst crisis at present.

Whether the extreme situation, desired by nobody, is created or not on the Korean peninsula depends on the future action of the U.S., and if any sudden situation happens in the future, the U.S. will be held totally accountable for it.

The DPRK should show in the clearest way how it will take counteraction, in order to prevent the U.S. from doing such reckless acts with ease.

The demonstrative actions like the deployment of strategic assets by the

U.S. will never lead to the promotion of security but rather become a disaster of bringing more painful and worrying security crisis they themselves do not want.

It is impossible to overlook the fact that the U.S. is getting more frantic in its military espionage against the sovereignty of the DPRK.

Recently the U.S. has conducted hostile espionage activities in the Korean peninsula and its vicinity at an unprecedented level by intensively mobilizing various air reconnaissance means deployed in the Asia-Pacific operational theatre.

This month alone, RC-135, U-2S and RQ-4B, strategic reconnaissance planes and reconnaissance drone belonging to the U.S. Air Force, flew over the East and West seas of Korea in turn for eight straight days from July 2 to 9 to conduct provocative aerial espionage on the DPRK's strategic interior.

In particular, a strategic reconnaissance plane of the U.S. Air Force illegally intruded into the inviolable airspace of the DPRK over its East Sea tens of kilometers several times.

This year the U.S. sent various kinds of air reconnaissance means of its air force and navy, including strategic and electronic reconnaissance planes, into the airspace above the East and West seas of Korea and the Military Demarcation Line one after another. And it has got hell-bent on provocative information-gathering movement by letting high altitude strategic reconnaissance planes and drones fly north near the Military Demarcation Line.

Quite obvious is the intention of the U.S. which is concentrating its air reconnaissance assets on the Korean peninsula, timed to coincide with the fact that it has staged joint air drills with B-52H nuclear strategic bomber involved one after another and calls for entry into south Korea of its strategic nuclear submarine carrying nuclear weapons.

The U.S. has further intensified espionage activities beyond the wartime level by massively introducing air reconnaissance assets into the Korean peninsula where there exist a constant possibility of military conflict and the danger of a nuclear war is growing more serious. It is a clear threat to the sovereignty of the DPRK and a grave provocation plunging the regional situation into an irretrievable phase.

We are analyzing the true intention of the U.S. ostentatiously perpetrating such reckless military action threatening the DPRK, while watching every provocative move.

We are now maintaining our utmost patience and self-control, but everything has its limit. The present is the time when the U.S. is near the critical point to be concerned.

The U.S. needs to recall one again the tragic fate of its spy plane EC-121 in 1969 and its reconnaissance helicopter which intruded into the area of our side along the Military Demarcation Line in 1994 and what dangerous situation its RC-135 was placed in March 2003.

It is as clear as noonday what danger will be entailed by the fact that the enemy side's spy planes are coming nearer to the territorial sky of its belligerent party in the Korean peninsula where huge armed forces and nuclear weapons are standing in confrontation with each other.

The U.S. will surely have to pay a dear price for its provocative air espionage, frantically staged even invading the opposite side's air space without previous notice.

There is no guarantee that such shocking accident as downing of the U.S. Air Force strategic reconnaissance plane will not happen in the East Sea of Korea.

The U.S. daily-escalating serious military activity for various purposes and the regional security environment getting more overheated evidently foretells a possible conflict.

All the provocative moves of the U.S. should be stopped at once.

We send a serious warning to all the U.S. dangerous and provocative military actions getting evermore undisguised.

Respected Comrade Kim Jong Un Visits Kumsusan Palace of Sun

 

All the people in the DPRK are cherishing the memory of President Kim Il Sung, the outstanding leader and the father of the nation who carved out a new history of socialist Korea prospering with independence in politics, self-sustenance in the economy and self-reliance in national defence and demonstrated the dignity and might of the country before the whole world, with deep yearning and reverence for him on the occasion of the 29th anniversary of his demise.

The noble career and immortal exploits of President Kim Il Sung to shine for all ages of the Korean nation and revolution serve as the eternal strength of the mighty DPRK and as the ever-victorious banner powerfully encouraging our Party and people who are speeding up the historic advance toward a new horizon of overall national prosperity under the leadership of the Party Central Committee.

Kim Jong Un, General Secretary of the Workers’ Party of Korea (WPK) and President of the State Affairs of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, visited the Kumsusan Palace of the Sun on the greatest memorial day of the nation.

Accompanying him were Kim Tok Hun, Jo Yong Won and Choe Ryong Hae, members of the Presidium of the Political Bureau of the WPK Central Committee, and other members of the leadership body of the Party Central Committee, leading officials of the C.C., WPK and officials of armed forces organs, ministries and national institutions.

The Kumsusan Palace of the Sun where President Kim Il Sung and Chairman Kim Jong Il, the founder-builders of the great WPK and the DPRK and the sacred images of socialist Korea, lie in state, was wrapped in the sublime atmosphere.

A floral basket from respected Comrade Kim Jong Un was laid before the statues of President Kim Il Sung and Chairman Kim Jong Il.

Also placed before the statues were floral baskets in the names of the Central Committee of the WPK, the State Affairs Commission of the DPRK, the Standing Committee of the Supreme People’s Assembly of the DPRK and the Cabinet of the DPRK.

Respected Comrade Kim Jong Un paid high tribute to the statues of the President and the Chairman.

All the participants made a deep bow of best wishes for immortality to the President and the Chairman who laid an eternal foundation for the victorious advance and accomplishment of the cause of building a powerful socialist country, wisely leading our Party and people with the faith of Juche and iron pluck all their lives.

They made their firm pledge to fulfill their duty as leading personnel of the revolution in the van of all-people advance for implementing the resolutions of the Eighth WPK Congress and plenary meetings of the Party Central Committee, with optimism about sure victory and the redoubled fighting spirit under the leadership of respected Comrade Kim Jong Un and dynamically lead the innovative development of the DPRK.

  

All the Best Things for the Children

 

All the best things for the children–this is one of the principles of activity of the Workers’ Party of Korea and the government of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea.

According to it, all the best things are provided to children in the DPRK.

Take children’s palaces for an example.

There are many children’s palaces in the capital city of Pyongyang and other parts of the country. Typical examples are the Pyongyang Students and Children’s Palace on Jangdae Hill in downtown Pyongyang and Mangyongdae Schoolchildren’s Palace in Kwangbok Street also in the capital city.

Inaugurated in 1963, the former has a total floor space of 50 000 m² on an area of 110 000 m² and is 48m high. It has more than 500 study and activity rooms for learning knowledge of such sectors as social and natural sciences, art and literature, sports, industry and agriculture. There are also a 1 100-seat theatre, a gymnasium with an accommodating capacity of 500, an outdoor practice ground and a library housing hundreds of thousands of books. On the top of the tower building are an astronomical observatory and an observation platform. Numerous schoolchildren are developing their talents to their heart’s content here every day. The same is the case with the latter which was established in 1989 and renovated in 2015. There are over 100 halls for schoolchildren for a similar purpose on excellent sites across the country.

There are also children’s camps in scenic spots such as Lake Samji at the foot of Mt Paektu, which is the ancestral mountain of the Korean nation in the northern part of the country, the picturesque Mt Myohyang, Songdowon on the east coast and Mt Ryongak in the suburbs of Pyongyang.

In recent years those camps have been renovated in keeping with the trend of the architectural art and modern aesthetic tastes.

A typical example is the Songdowon International Children’s Camp (established in 1960) renovated in 2014. Found in the camp are the international friendship hall for children, campers’ buildings, indoor stadium, swimming pool, outdoor playground, outdoor wading pool, and outdoor archery ground. All the buildings and facilities are eloquent proof of the love for children in the country.

The birth of triplets is regarded as a sign of fortune for the country. Even before their birth, triplets and their mothers are put under the best medical care at the Pyongyang Maternity Hospital. After they are born, they are presented with ornamental silver daggers (for boys) and gold rings (for girls).

The Okryu Children’s Hospital which was built in 2013 is an up-to-date medical service centre for children. It is furnished with operating rooms, sick wards, and treatment rooms, classrooms for hospitalized children, playground and rest areas. Many cartoon pictures hanging on the walls in the hospital make the hospital reminiscent of a “fine art museum” and help the patients feel at ease. The patients follow their curricula during the period of inpatient treatment.

In the DPRK, parentless children enjoy a happy life at baby homes, orphanages, primary and secondary schools for orphans in Pyongyang and many other parts of the country.

The Pyongyang Baby Home and Orphanage inaugurated in 2014 are furnished with nursing rooms, education rooms, exercise rooms, intellectual game rooms and treatment rooms and various amusement facilities and equipment. What is important is that all living environment ranging from furniture and fixtures to amusement facilities and interior decoration is designed to keep the psychological features of children and contribute to their intellectual development.

In the country the state bears the responsibility for providing everything needed for the education and growth of children on a preferential basis.

All children across the country study free of charge under the universal 12-year compulsory education system. Branch schools have been built for a few students on remote islands and trains, buses and boats carry students in remote mountainous villages over a long distance to their schools. The WPK and the government adopted it as their eternal policy to supply dairy products and other nutritious foodstuff to all the children in the country and provide all the students with school uniforms and school things.

That all these things mentioned above are drawing special attention of the international society is not simply because of its architectural beauty or modern equipment, but because they are associated with the ennobling and boundless affection of Kim Jong Un, President of the State Affairs of the DPRK, for the rising generations.

We should spare nothing for the good of children, any loss incurred in doing things for the benefit of children should not be counted as loss and the more money the state pays for their interests, the brighter the future of the country will be—this is his view of the rising generations. True to this lofty view, all the best things of the country are provided to children before anybody else.

  

Secret of the Self-supporting Economy of the DPRK

 

The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea advocates building a self-supporting economy. How is it possible to build it?

 

Spirit of Self-reliance

The spirit of self-reliance is the first factor that promotes the building of a self-supporting economy.

This spirit is rooted in the Juche idea which was created by President     Kim Il Sung (1912-1994) and developed by Chairman Kim Jong Il (1942-2011). The Juche idea is, in a word, the idea that man is the master of his own destiny and he also has the strength with which to shape his destiny.

With this idea as the guiding idea, the Korean people have advanced the revolution and construction.

Looking back, the Korean people suffered indescribably severe damages in the Korean war (1950-1953) forced upon them by the US. In the case of the capital city of Pyongyang alone, everything was destroyed to the ground except for a few buildings. The US claimed that Korea would never be able to rise again even in one hundred years.

However, the Korean people completely rehabilitated the country’s economy in less than three years and realized socialist industrialization in a matter of 14 years. Later they continuously created world-startling miracles like the building of a 10 000-ton press, large-sized oxygen plants and the West Sea Barrage. A factor for all this was the spirit of self-reliance.

Today, the Korean people are constantly promoting the country’s economic development by relying on this spirit, not with the help of others or any external assistance.

 

Powerful Resources of Skilled Personnel

The DPRK chose the road of self-reliance also in preparing its own powerful resources of skilled personnel.

Soon after the country was liberated (August 15, 1945) from the Japanese military occupation (1905-1945), there was no university or college in the northern part of the country. The number of native scientists and technicians was ten or so. The cause of this was that the Japanese imperialists had enforced the colonial policy of keeping the Koreans in ignorance.

However, the DPRK has developed education rapidly and trained a great number of native technical personnel with its own efforts over the past seven decades. It introduced universal compulsory elementary education in 1956, universal compulsory secondary education in 1958, and universal 11-year compulsory education in 1975. As a result, by the 1980s, all the working people in the country possessed the general knowledge of a secondary school graduate and the country had over 1.3 million intellectuals and over 230 universities. How much effort the country directed to training its native technical personnel can be seen in the fact that the ratio between the population and intellectuals in the country was 12 to 1 in 1993, whereas it had been 700 000 to 1 immediately after liberation.

Recent years has witnessed continuous development of education in the country. Having extended the period of compulsory education to twelve years by adding another year, it is dynamically pushing forward the work of putting the contents and methods of education on a modern footing. Under the slogan of making all the people well versed in science and technology, the country is striving to turn all the members of society into intelligent workers possessed with the knowledge level of a university graduate, and into developers of science and technology. As a result, the number of holders of academic degrees and masters of invention is rapidly increasing.

What is noteworthy is the fact that all types of education is free and for the sake of the entire population. It is clear that these intellectuals trained under such educational system will reliably support the country’s self-supporting economy.

 

Reliable Foundations of the Economy

Even though its people have strong spirit of self-reliance and it has a powerful force of skilled personnel, it would be a daydream for a country to realize self-sufficiency in the economy without powerful economic foundations.

In this context, the DPRK has always paid close attention to laying reliable and powerful economic foundations.

First, it has created an independent, modern heavy industry. Second, it has expanded a multi-faceted and comprehensive economic structure. Third, it has built its own firm raw materials bases. And fourth, it has equipped all sectors of the economy with modern technology.

All these have proved highly beneficial throughout the history of the country’s economic development. After the line of developing heavy industry on a preferential basis while promoting light industry and agriculture simultaneously was advanced, the value of total industrial output was increased by 3.5 times between 1957 and 1960 and the industrial output increased by an annual average of 15.9 per cent between 1970 and 1979. By the end of the late 1980s, production boomed on an unprecedented scale in all sectors of industry.

Entering the 1990s the country was faced with harsh difficulties in economic construction due to the collapse of the socialist market, the imperialists’ vicious schemes against it and a succession of natural disasters. But it raised its position into a state of manufacturing and launching earth satellites by relying on its own self-supporting economic foundations. Moreover, the country remained unperturbed in the 2000s when many countries were floundering as giant banks and conglomerates were going bankrupt due to the global financial crisis.

A few years ago the Workers’ Party of Korea set forth a new five-year plan for national economic development at its Eighth Congress. In pursuance of this plan, serious efforts are made to consolidate the economic foundations of key industries including metallurgical and chemical industries and build 50 000 flats in Pyongyang, houses in the countryside and large-scale greenhouse farms for improving the people’s standard of living. And this will be inconceivable separated from the powerful foundations of its independent national economy which has been consolidated in the past several decades.