Kim Jong Un Guides Flight Drills of Unit 1017 of KPA Air and Anti-Air Force

    Pyongyang, June 18 (KCNA) -- Marshal Kim Jong Un, first secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea, first chairman of the DPRK National Defence Commission and supreme commander of the Korean People's Army (KPA), together with Ri Sol Ju visited Unit 1017 of KPA Air and Anti-Air Force honored with the Title of O Jung Hup-led 7th Regiment to guide flight drills.
    Kim Jong Un mounted the command post, received a report on the flight drill program and guided the drills.
    Watching successful diverse actions of airmen including take-off and landing and air combat, he said they were very good in training. He praised them for having acquired high flying skills as intended by the party.
    He expressed great satisfaction, noting that the airmen of the unit are fully ready to make sorties any moment.
    "I always think of the air routes covered by the pilots to reliably defend the sky of the country", he said, asking commanding officers to convey his feelings to them.
    He gave an instruction to further intensify the flight training in the future to fully prepare the pilots as death-defying corps and able combat pilots capable of skillfully fighting a modern war.
    He went round the newly built place for combat duty and the airshed visited by leader Kim Jong Il.
    Going round the monument to the field guidance provided by Kim Jong Il standing at the command of the unit, he instructed the unit to preserve well the photos of Kim Jong Il and take good care of the monument so as to let airmen and other service personnel always bear his undying feats deep in mind.
    He stressed the need for the pilots of the unit to make good preparations for the military parade for celebrating the 60th anniversary of the victory in the war.
    He expressed great expectation and conviction that the service personnel of the unit would put bigger spurs to rounding off the combat preparations and thus defend the sky of the socialist country as firm as an iron wall.
    He was accompanied by Choe Ryong Hae, Yun Tong Hyon and Hong Yong Chil. -0-

Kim Jong Un Gives Field Guidance to January 18 General Machinery Plant

    Pyongyang, June 18 (KCNA) -- Kim Jong Un, first secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea, first chairman of the DPRK National Defence Commission and supreme commander of the Korean People's Army, provided field guidance to the January 18 General Machinery Plant.
    He went round the room devoted to the education in the revolutionary history.
    Looking with keen attention at significant historic data and relics, he said that President Kim Il Sung and leader Kim Jong Il attached great importance to the plant as it plays an important role in the development of the nation's machine-building industry. He added that he always pays great attention to the production at the plant.
    After being told that the construction of the above-said room was not completed even in over two years, he said he learned about what was the main reason for the plant's failure to put production on a normal footing.
    The party has stressed that it is important to keep the ideological education ahead of production for raising the enthusiasm of the producer masses, he noted, strongly criticizing the party committee of the plant for failing to accept the party's policy ideologically.
    "I can’t understand what officials of the provincial party committee see at the plant and what they are guiding," he noted, warning them of their businessmen-like hackneyed way of thinking and work style.
    At the construction site of the room for the education in the revolutionary history he watched for a while piles of gravels, sand and blocks here and there. "I can't find proper words to express that mess," he added.
    After going round the Hall for Studying Kimilsungism-Kimjongilism, he noted that the provincial party committee should draw a serious lesson as regards the implementation of the party's policy on giving priority to the political and ideological education.
    Examining varieties of machines produced by the plant, he learned about the fulfillment of its plan.
    He went round the general assembling shop, processing shop, test shop, casting shop and various other places of the plant to learn about its technological updating.
    He seriously noted that production equipment of the plant are outdated in view of the requirements of the age of the knowledge-based economy and the plant is behind other industrial establishments in cultured practices in production and life.
    Learning in detail about the supply service, he felt heart-broken when he learned officials of the plant failed to take good care of the living of the employees as desired by the party.
    Setting forth tasks for the plant, he said:
    "The plant should glorify the leadership exploits of the great Generalissimos Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il.
    "It should dynamically conduct the ideological education to give fullest play to the mental power of the workers.
    "It should steadily push forward the work for putting the production processes on a modern and scientific basis.
    "The plant should launch a dynamic campaign to improve the supply service, working people's material and cultural standards and establish cultured practices in production and life.
    "The plant is faced with difficult and huge tasks, but it can surely implement them as it has revolutionary workers, the technical staff trained in practice, a wealth of experience and proud tradition."
    He expressed great expectation and belief that the workers of the plant would radically remodel it as required by the new century and bring about a great leap forward in the production of modern machines and successfully perform the role as vanguard and shock brigade in carrying out the economic policy of the party.
    He was accompanied by Choe Ryong Hae, Hong Yong Chil, Yun Tong Hyon and Han Song Ho. -0-

Kim Jong Un Gives Field Guidance to Namhung Youth Chemical Complex

    Pyongyang, June 19 (KCNA) -- Marshal Kim Jong Un, first secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea, first chairman of the DPRK National Defence Commission and supreme commander of the Korean People's Army, provided field guidance to the Namhung Youth Chemical Complex.
    First he went round the newly built production process of functional threefold greenhouse plastic sheet at the high pressure polyethylene shop.
    After being briefed on it before a map showing production processes, he went round the said process.
    He expressed great satisfaction over the fact that the workers of the complex have built a modern production process capable of mass-producing plastic sheet 0.06-0.12mm in thickness and 8-12m in width.
    He underscored the need not only to accumulate a wealth of experience but operate equipment in a responsible manner as the complex is the first to produce such sheet and, at the same time, steadily raise the workers' technical skills to keep production going at a high rate and improve the quality of the sheet.
    Then he moved to the fertilizer forwarding shop to learn about the fertilizer production.
    Watching fertilizers piled up highly at the shop, he said they look like heaps of rice bags. The complex providing fertilizers to agriculture is like an arsenal for the socialist agricultural front, he noted.
    Seeing the process in which fertilizers produced by coal gasification are put into plastic bags, he was very pleased, saying independence and Juche character have been fully established at the complex as fertilizers are produced by full use of anthracite abundant in the country.
    After learning about issues arising in increasing fertilizer production, he personally settled knotty problems.
    He made the rounds of the animal shed and the Chongchun Health Complex to learn in detail about supply service and the cultural and emotional life of the workers.
    At the animal shed, he praised the complex for greatly contributing to improving the diet of the workers by raising domestic animals in a big way.
    He highly praised Jon Kyong Son, chief secretary of the complex party committee, for his successful supply service to the employees before having a photo taken with him.
    At the Chongchun Health Complex, he was pleased that the complex provides the workers with ample conditions for cultural rest.
    He set forth important tasks to be fulfilled by the complex.
    He was accompanied by Choe Ryong Hae, Pak Thae Song and Kim Yong Nam, secretary of the South Phyongan Provincial Committee of the WPK. -0-

Kim Jong Un Visits Vegetable Greenhouses

    Pyongyang, June 19 (KCNA) -- Marshal Kim Jong Un, first secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea, first chairman of the DPRK National Defence Commission and supreme commander of the Korean People's Army, visited vegetable greenhouses of the Songhak Co-op Farm in Anju City, South Phyongan Province.
    He went round several greenhouses to learn about their construction and production there.
    He asked what kinds of vegetables they cultivate at present, how they ensure heating in winter, how they ventilate in summer and what quantities of vegetables they produce in a year.
    It is gratifying that the Songhak Co-op Farm built the vegetable greenhouses with large production capacity by itself, produces various kinds of vegetables and supplies them to the farmers, he said.
    He said he was pleased to learn that the farm built greenhouses by using locally available materials to suit the actual conditions of rural areas. He called on the farm to operate the greenhouses well so that its members may substantially benefit from them.
    He said that to build vegetable greenhouses in various places and effectively operate them is very important for overcoming seasonal limitation in vegetable production and providing the people with fresh vegetables all the year round.
    He stressed the need for a national institution to provide a standardized design for greenhouses to be built in provinces, cities and counties, organize contests among them and take measures for summing them up.
    It is necessary to boost the per-area yield of vegetables at greenhouses, he noted, underlining the need to build greenhouses to suit the local climatic and topographical conditions and put the production on a scientific and technological basis.
    He said that there should be good conditions including temperature, humidity, light and soil suitable for vegetables in greenhouse cultivation and a high yield can be expected when vegetables are distributed in greenhouses to suit the biological characteristics.
    He stressed the need for the Pyongyang Vegetable Science Research Institute to work out a scientific and technological guidebook to distribute it to all greenhouses and called on them to put vegetable cultivation on a scientific basis.
    If a greenhouse is to cultivate several kinds of vegetables a year, it is necessary to sufficiently apply chemical fertilizers along with organic compost, he said, underlining the need to establish a state system for supplying agricultural chemicals, fertilizers and seeds to the greenhouses.
    There will be no problem in the construction of vegetable greenhouses if vinyl sheet is mass-produced at the Namhung Youth Chemical Complex, he added.
    He expressed expectation and conviction that all fields and units would deeply understand the significance and importance of building vegetable greenhouses and make a positive contribution to successfully carrying out the WPK's policy on ensuring abundant diet of the people.
    He was accompanied by Choe Ryong Hae, Pak Thae Song and Kim Yong Nam, secretary of the South Phyongan Provincial Committee of the WPK. -0-

Ministry of People's Security Vows to Punish Defectors Keen on Escalating Confrontation

    Pyongyang, June 19 (KCNA) -- The Ministry of People's Security of the DPRK issued the following special statement Wednesday:
    The DPRK, a country dignified with independence and powerful with Songun, is enjoying the greatest dignity with a bright prospect of socialism of Juche.
    The world is looking enviously at the army and people of the DPRK dashing ahead toward the final victory in sight on the horizon at the "Masikryong Speed". Meanwhile, the moves to isolate and stifle the DPRK on the part of the dishonest and hostile forces have faced bankruptcy.
    A handful of human scum are moving desperately to deter this progress.
    Park Geun Hye and other present puppet authorities of south Korea are openly putting to the fore human scum belonging to the organizations of vicious defectors from the north, painting them as "experts in north Korean issue" and instigating stepped-up criticism.
    On June 18, south Korea fed Yonhap News and The Washington Post with articles contributed by defectors saying that copies of book "My Struggle" authored by Hitler were presented to officials in the DPRK as gifts and campaign is now under way to learn from the experiences gained in rebuilding the "Third Empire" that existed in Germany after the First World War.
    They even committed the thrice-cursed crime of belittling the matchless great personality of the leader of the DPRK reflected in his loving care for the future generations.
    The army and people of the DPRK regard it as shame to make mention of defectors from the north, a group of wild dogs in human form.
    The group of human scum marginalized in the bright world has become the main player in the confrontation farce under the patronage of the south Korean puppet group and brigandish U.S. imperialists. They even slandered and insulted the dignity and the social system of the DPRK, an act which can neither be overlooked nor tolerated.
    By origin, defectors are human scum who were deserted even by home folks and kinsmen being branded as elements subject to legal punishment in clean society in the DPRK for their crimes of murder, robbery, pilferage, embezzlement of state properties and corruption.
    South Koreans also know this.
    But the south Korean authorities try to escalate confrontation with the DPRK by using them and the U.S. seeks to overthrow the social system in the DPRK in reliance on them. This proves the poor plight of the Park Geun Hye regime and the U.S. politics.
    It is none other than the present puppet authorities of south Korea which seek to fan up confrontation wind despite their loud-mouthed ballad for "confidence" and "dialogue". And it is the U.S. which moves overtly and covertly to topple the social system in the DPRK despite its stereo-typed call for peace and security on the Korean Peninsula.
    No matter how desperately the puppet group of south Korea may try being gripped in extreme uneasiness and horror, they can never prolong their dirty remaining days. The U.S., which tries to attain its aggression aim in reliance on the group, is bound to face bankruptcy in its hostile policy toward the DPRK.
    The National Defence Commission of the DPRK on June 16 warned that all the future developments depend on the U.S. responsible option.
    The army and people of the DPRK are strongly calling for punishing those human scum as early as possible as they are going hysteric as servants escalating confrontation with fellow countrymen, far from trying to redress their crime-woven past with death.
    There are daily requests from home folks and kinsmen of those defectors for letting them kill human scum with their own hands.
    The Ministry of People's Security of the DPRK, reflecting the grudge of all its service personnel and people, is determined to take substantial measures to physically remove despicable human scum who are committing treasons at the instigation of the south Korean puppet authorities and the gangster-like U.S.
    Sordid human scum will never be able to look up to the sky nor be able to find an inch of land to be buried after their death.
    The U.S. and the south Korean authorities and wicked conservative media resorting to smear campaign against the DPRK in reliance on them will be made to meet merciless punishment of justice. 

Echo of June 15

An eye-opening event took place in Pyongyang, the capital city of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, in June 2000. The inter-Korean summit talks were held after 55 years of Korea’s division into the north and the south, and the historic June 15 North-South Joint Declaration was adopted on settling the reunification issue of the country independently and peacefully.

As soon as it was made public, the joint declaration was warmly welcomed, evoking sympathy of broad sections of international community as well as the entire Korean people. It brought about a dramatic change in accomplishing the cause of reunification of the Korean nation and ushered in a new era beyond imagination in the past on the Korean peninsula.

Dialogues and negotiations were held between the north and the south of Korea in the political, economic, cultural, military and other fields, producing good results in achieving reconciliation and unity, cooperation and exchange. The functions for Korea’s reunification, which had been organized separately in the north and the south, took place in Pyongyang, Seoul, Mt. Kumgang and other places as grand festivals of reunification, participated in by the delegates from the north, south and abroad, amid great expectations and interest of the whole Korean nation. Demonstrations of Taekwon-Do, the martial arts of the Korean nation, games of athletes from the north and the south, joint performances of artistes from the both sides, joint material exhibitions and seminars of historians, joint photo exhibitions and the like took place in Pyongyang and Seoul. The scene of the joint entry of the sportspersons from the north and the south with the flag bearing the map of Korea at the opening ceremony in the Sydney Olympics in September 2000 touched many people in the world. Such scenes showing the will of the Korean nation to reunify their country could be also witnessed in the 14^th Asian Games in September 2002, the Athens Olympics in August 2004 and the 15^th Asian Games in December 2006.

Air, land and sea routes which had been blocked for over half a century were relinked and separated families and relatives in the north and the south had meetings of emotional reunion. Many south Korean people visited Pyongyang to enjoy the mass gymnastics and artistic performance Arirang that is recorded in the Guinness World Records as the greatest in scale in the world, and went sightseeing tours to Mts. Paektu, Kumgang and Myohyang and other scenic spots in the north.

Humanitarian activities between the north and the south were promoted on an extensive scale, and an industrial park jointly run by the north and the south was established in Kaesong along the Military Demarcation Line dividing Korea, inviting over one hundred south Korean enterprises into the area for joint prosperity.

In 2007, the October 4 Declaration, the action programme of the June 15 Joint Declaration, was adopted, thus opening up a brighter prospect for the reunification movement of the Korean nation.

Remarkable changes in the north-south relations were brilliant fruition of the June 15 Joint Declaration in which both north and south Korea promised to achieve the country’s reunification and common prosperity of the nation by the concerted efforts of the Korean nation. The Korean people, therefore, called the era of such a marvellous reality, which had been unimaginable in the past, the “June 15 reunification era.”

However, the June 15 reunification era faced the serious challenge after Lee Myung Bak took power in south Korea.

The Lee Myung Bak group denied in an all-round way the June 15 Joint Declaration and the October 4 Declaration as soon as it took office, hindering in every way the promotion of the north-south cooperation, the precious fruit of the June 15 reunification era, and committing ceaselessly military provocations to drive the north-south relations into confrontation. Almost all the exchanges and cooperation between the both sides were cut off, and tourism on Mt. Kumgang, a symbol of the travel between the north and the south, was fully interrupted. The situation on the Korean peninsula was strained to breaking point when a war might start owing to the persistent pursuit of dependence on outside forces and showdown with the fellow countrymen by the Lee Myung Bak clan.

The acute north-south relations faced a more serious crisis by the present Park Geun Hye regime. The new regime, chiming in with the United States that accused the north of its peaceful satellite launch, was in front in the racket of international “sanctions” against the north, thus cutting off completely the work of cooperation of inter-Korean non-governmental organizations, which had been scarcely sustained. It slandered the dignity of north Korea, depicting the Kaesong Industrial Park which was a priceless fruition of June 15 Joint Declaration and was maintained even in grave situation, as the “source of money.” It even planned to make the peaceful industrial zone the hotbed of a war by committing a US commando into the area, for an alleged hostage rescue operation. These moves further drove the KIP to the brink of complete closure.

All the facts prove clearly that when the June 15 Joint Declaration is supported and put into practice the north and the south of Korea can advance towards peace and reunification, whereas the denial and frustration of the declaration will incur only confrontation and war. Everybody has acquired a palpable truth that the positive attitude towards the June 15 Joint Declaration is just reunification and the negative one a war.

The vital power of the June 15 Joint Declaration is eternal.

Now the Korean people are waging a nationwide struggle to hold fast to the June 15 Joint Declaration and bring about again the era of peace, reunification and prosperity. The south Korean people demand the observation of the joint declaration and its thorough implementation, condemning the south Korean rulers who drove the north-south relations into catastrophe.

The international community sincerely hope that the Korean people will achieve the reunification of their nation at an early date under the banner of the June 15 North-South Joint Declaration and consolidate peace and stability on the Korean peninsula.

Why Did the US Start the Korean War?

The United States started the Korean war on June 25, 1950, 60 years ago, by instigating the south Korean army to launch an all-out armed invasion against north Korea (the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea). The Korean war (June 1950-July 1953) was the fiercest after the end of World War II.

Why, then, did the US start the Korean war?

First, it started the war to realize its strategy for world supremacy.

In view of the geopolitical position of the Korean peninsula as a point of military importance in its advancing into the Asian continent, it availed itself of the end of WW II to set foot in south Korea in the guise of “liberator” in September 1945. While completely subordinating south Korea politically, economically and militarily by rigging up a pro-US regime, it revealed the plan to attack north Korea, saying that the scope of its occupation should be expanded into the whole of Korea. MacArthur, commander of the US forces in the Far East, said that he always recognized Korea as a military outpost of unlimited value. On the US part, the Korean peninsula was not only a point of strategic importance from which to deal military strikes to any region in the Far East, but “a bridge leading to the continent” and a “dagger” with which to cut off Asia, a “morsel.”

After WW II, the US regarded Korea as a front where capitalism confronts socialism and an important politico-military battlesite between the East and the West. In 1946 US President Truman defined Korea as an “ideological battleground” upon which all the successes of the US in Asia might depend. And he demanded that US troops be stationed in south Korea for long time enough to carry out their task and adequate personnel and funds be secured.

Having mapped out in this way a Korea policy with the main emphasis on dominating the whole of Korea the US applied political and diplomatic methods to implement this policy, and then opted for military invasion, i.e. war.

Second, the outbreak of the Korean war was related with the catastrophic economic crisis the US was faced with.

After World War II, a peaceful atmosphere prevailed in the US for a certain period; this resulted in low arms sales in the munitions industry, increasing unemployment and a vicious cycle of the economy as a whole.

The economic crisis that started in the autumn of 1948 grew worse in 1949: the industrial output decreased by 15 % as compared with the previous year; prices slumped; investments in the manufacture of machines and equipment decreased sharply; and some 4 600 companies went bankrupt in the first half of the year. As a result, the unemployed increased to 6 million, and 13 million people were expected to be fired in 1950. The profits of the monopolies, which amounted to 36.6 billion dollars in September 1948, dropped to 28.4 billion dollars in March 1949. The monopolies asked the government for a new, big needle for injecting a new life to the economy.

This request drove the US to the militarization of the economy and the expansion of armaments and this spilled over to the outbreak of the Korean war. The British magazine Economist commented that the US needed an occasion for overcoming the crisis and could not but fabricate a war.

Third, the Korean war was related with the crisis the Syngman Rhee regime in south Korea faced.

The crisis of the Syngman Rhee regime cobbled together by the US was characterized by the economic catastrophy, anti-government struggle of the people, surging spirit of peaceful reunification and the ruling machinery on the verge of ruin.

The political and economic crisis which surfaced in 1949, reached extreme in May 1950.

Owing to the US colonial enslavement policy and war preparations for 5 years, the number of enterprises was reduced by 36 % in the first half of 1949 as against that in 1939. The rural economy was also destroyed; the crop yield showed a drop of 5 million sok of grain as compared with that of the days before the liberation of the country. And owing to the inflations and skyrocketing prices, the people’s living further deteriorated.

Meanwhile, with the spirit of the people for an independent and peaceful reunification of the country mounting high, anti-Syngman Rhee forces appeared in the “National Assembly,” including the group that demanded south-north negotiations, and some right-wingers joined hands with them. The Syngman Rhee regime was as perilous as a light exposed to wind.

American book, An Untold History of Modern Korea, said as follows:

It would be most reasonable to figure that war was the last resort of crazy Syngman Rhee. As the last game the Syngman Rhee government drove the country into a civil war, unable to keep itself steady in the face of economic destruction, domestic unrest, harassment by the hostile National Assembly since his defeat in May (out of the 210 seats he barely managed to get 48 in the election to the National Assembly held on May 10, 1950) and then the people’s leanings towards the peace statement of the north.

It is an obvious historical fact that the US attempted through the Korean war to secure a point of strategic importance for realizing its world supremacy and saved itself and its stooge.