Kim Jong Un Visits Kumsusan Palace of Sun on Occasion of Day of
Sun
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Pyongyang,
April 15 (KCNA) -- Kim Jong Un, first secretary of the Workers' Party of
Korea, first chairman of the National Defence Commission of the DPRK and
supreme commander of the Korean People's Army, visited the Kumsusan Palace of
the Sun at 00:00, Tuesday, birth anniversary of President Kim Il Sung (Day of
the Sun).
He
was accompanied by Choe Ryong Hae, Ri Yong Gil, Jang Jong Nam, Kim Won Hong,
Choe Pu Il, Pyon In Son, So Hong Chan, Pak Yong Sik, Kim Tong Hwa and other
commanding officers of the armed forces organ.
Kim
Jong Un entered the hall where the statues of Kim Il Sung and leader Kim Jong
Il are standing.
A
floral basket in the name of Kim Jong Un was placed before the statues.
Also
laid before them was a floral basket in the name of the KPA.
Kim
Jong Un, together with other visitors, paid high tribute to the statues.
He
entered the hall where Kim Il Sung lies in state.
Kim
Jong Un, together with other visitors, paid homage to Kim Il Sung in the
humblest reverence for him.
He
went round the hall in which the orders Kim Il Sung received are on display.
Kim
Jong Un entered the hall where Kim Jong Il lies in state.
He,
together with other visitors, paid homage to Kim Jong Il in the humblest
reverence for him.
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Spokesman for DPRK
Foreign Ministry Blasts Anti-DPRK Human Rights Racket of U.S. and Its Allies
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Pyongyang,
April 18 (KCNA) -- A spokesman for the DPRK Ministry of Foreign Affairs gave
the following answer to the question raised by KCNA on Friday in connection
with the fact that the anti-DPRK human rights racket of the U.S. and its
allied forces has reached an extremely reckless phase:
These
days the U.S. is hurling its allied forces into kicking up a reckless
anti-DPRK human rights racket, holding an informal meeting on the "human
rights" issue in the DPRK and holding an open dialogue at the UN
Security Council.
Meanwhile,
the U.S. instigated the European Parliament to adopt a "resolution"
supporting the recommendation made by the "Commission of Inquiry"
on the human rights situations in the DPRK.
Such
frantic racket is aimed at tarnishing the image of the dignified DPRK at any
cost and bringing down the ideology and social system chosen by the Korean
people in the long run.
Prompted
by this aim the U.S. is working hard to discuss the "human rights"
issue of the DPRK as an official agenda item at the UN Security Council quite
contrary to the mandate stipulated in the UN Charter. Finding it difficult to
do so, it is talking such nonsense that it is advisable to discuss it by
adding the agenda item on the nuclear issue and there is also a way of
discussing it at the UN General Assembly.
The
European Parliament perpetrated such imprudent and base hostile action
against the DPRK as adopting what it called "resolution", pursuant
to the U.S. anti-DPRK hostile policy.
Great
irony was that they let such riff-ruffs as so-called "defectors to the
south" appear at UN Security Council and European Parliament in a bid to
stir up an atmosphere of accusing the DPRK.
As
far as those riff-ruffs the U.S. considered as "witnesses" are
concerned, they are the criminals who fled after committing thrice cursed
crimes against the country and its people. They are terrorists who stood up
against the social system in the DPRK where the popular masses are leading a
happy life as masters of the state and society.
When
time comes, their despicable true colors will be fully laid bare.
Then
the U.S. and the West will not be able to escape shame and disgrace they will
suffer for bringing those terrorists to the sacred human rights arena. At the
same time they will not be able to evade the blame for having hatched a plot
to slander and bring down a sovereign state together with them.
The
U.S. and the West had better put under control the worst human rights abuses
in their own countries and mind their own business.
The
more vociferous the U.S. and its allied forces become in their human rights
racket intended to hurt the prestige of our dignified Republic and its social
system, the stronger our single-minded unity will grow and the faster the
speed of our advance towards the final victory will become.
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Spokesman for DPRK FM Lays Bare Reactionary, Dangerous Nature of
Obama's Asian Junket
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Pyongyang,
April 21 (KCNA) -- The spokesman for the DPRK Foreign Ministry issued the
following statement on Monday:
It is reported that U.S.
President Obama is to tour Asia soon. Pursuant to the U.S. pivot to
Asia-Pacific strategy, his projected trip is a reactionary and dangerous one
as it is aimed to escalate confrontation and bring dark clouds of a nuclear
arms race to hang over this unstable region.
This strategy which the
Obama administration adopted under the signboard of "rebalancing"
in the Asia-Pacific region late in 2011 is, in essence, designed to focus
efforts on this region in a bid to encircle and contain its rivals and
maintain its political and military edge.
The U.S. is citing the
DPRK's "nuclear and missile threats" and "provocation" as
a pretext for hiding the hegemonic nature of the above-said strategy and
warding off the resistance of big countries in Eurasia.
"The Quadrennial
Defense Review Report" announced by the U.S. Department of Defense early
in March took issue with the DPRK over its "provocation" and
"threat", reconfirming that the U.S. would deploy 60 percent of its
naval force in the Asia-Pacific region till 2020, pursuant to the
"strategy for rebalancing in the Asia-Pacific region". During his
recent trip to a neighboring country, the U.S. secretary of Defense announced
that the U.S. would additionally deploy two Aegis in Japan till 2017, citing
"invasion" from the DPRK.
Touring south Korea and
China in mid-February, the U.S. secretary of State vociferated about the
DPRK's promotion of nuclear development and possible "provocation"
while blustering that the U.S.-south Korea joint military exercises would be
staged in the same period and by the same method in the future, too,
regardless of the crucial proposal made by the National Defence Commission of
the DPRK and the north-south high-level contact.
It is as clear as noonday
that Obama will trumpet about the same thing to accuse the DPRK this time,
too, just as he habitually did in the past.
Clear is the reason why the
U.S. is ceaselessly staging extremely offensive and aggressive joint military
exercises in south Korea only among various areas in the Asia-Pacific region
and steadily increasing their number and scale in a bid to deliberately keep
the vicious cycle of tensions. Its aim is to steadily rattle the nerves of
the DPRK and compel it to bolster up its nuclear deterrence, take military
retaliatory steps and thus label it a "bellicose country" and
justify Washington's military moves.
But the U.S. is seriously
mistaken.
The U.S. arms buildup in the
Asia-Pacific region and joint military exercises are not justified but facing
an unprecedentedly open rebuff of countries in the region.
Moreover, the DPRK is not
such a country which may allow itself to make even a slight concession or
seek any lucky chance over the fundamental issue related to the security of
the country and the nation for fear of the nonsensical label of
"bellicose country."
It is the policy stand of
the DPRK to redouble the efforts to bolster up justifiable deterrence for
self-defence in every way to resolutely counter the U.S. hostile action.
If the U.S. seeks hegemony
in the Asia-Pacific region as now and continues working hard to infringe upon
the interests of the DPRK under this pretext, this will bring adverse
consequences to the U.S. itself in the long run.
The U.S. reckless moves
will have a very negative impact on resuming the six-party talks and
realizing the denuclearization of the Korean peninsula for the present and,
moreover, inevitably spark a nuclear arms race in the whole region.
The nuclear arms race in
Northeast Asia which will prove more destructive than the nuclear issue in
Mid-east is bound to end up making a mess of the initiative for building a
"world without nuclear weapons" advocated by Obama.
The Obama administration
would be well advised to coolly examine its hostile policy toward the DPRK
whether it is in the final interests of the U.S., in actuality, when there is
still time for it.
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Kim Jong Un Guides First Meeting of Airpersons of KPA
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Pyongyang,
April 20 (KCNA) -- The first meeting of airpersons of the Korean People's
Army (KPA) was held with splendor here on April 15.
Supreme
Commander of the Korean People's Army Kim Jong Un, first secretary of the
Workers' Party of Korea and first chairman of the National Defence Commission
of the DPRK, guided the meeting.
The
meeting was a historic grand assembly attended by all airpersons of the KPA.
Displayed
on the platform of the meeting hall was the fighter of the KPA Air Force
which shot down the U.S. imperialists' large spy plane EC-121 when it
illegally intruded into the territorial air of the country on April 15, 1969.
Kim
Jong Un made an opening address.
He
pointed out that the enemies kicked off a combined air drill in the wake of
the large-scale combined landing exercise, pushing the situation to the brink
of a war and threatening peace on the Korean peninsula.
The
fact that the meeting of all airpersons of the whole army is being held in
Pyongyang, leaving the whole territorial air of the country open under the
grave situation in which the air over the south of the peninsula is covered
with blowfly-like aircraft of the imperialists signifies the victory of the
grit, pluck and mettle of the DPRK and proves that the mental power of the
heroic airpersons prevails over the enemies, he noted, and continued:
The
Central Committee of the WPK highly appreciates the patriotic devotion the
airpersons are making to protect the territorial air, while performing
mentally and physically difficult combat duties all the year round despite sweltering
weather and biting cold.
He
said the purpose of the meeting is to glorify the immortal exploits President
Kim Il Sung and leader Kim Jong Il performed in strengthening the
Juche-oriented air force, review the successes and experiences gained by it
and lessons drawn by it and fully prepare all airpersons including young
pilots as phoenixes and death-defying corps in the sky.
It
is also designed to let the whole country know about their patriotic devotion
and efforts and make the service personnel of the whole army learn from their
noble ideological and moral spirit and thus bring about a fresh turn in
rounding off the combat preparations and bolstering up the fighting
capability of the KPA, he said.
He
declared the meeting open, expressing belief that the meeting being held on
the occasion of the significant Day of the Sun (birth anniversary of
President Kim Il Sung) would mark a historic landmark occasion in developing
the air force of the KPA.
KPA
Army General Ri Yong Gil, chief of the KPA General Staff, made a report at
the meeting.
He
referred to the indefatigable efforts made by the peerlessly great persons of
Mt. Paektu to build the air force and deep loving care shown by them.
The
reporter recalled that Kim Il Sung declared before the whole world the birth
of the Juche-based air force by making the historic speech "Let Us
Create the Air Force of New Korea," adding that the President organized
the Korean Aviation Association before anything else right after the party
founding and became its first chairman, devoting his all to developing the
young flying corps of new Korea into a regular air force.
The
reporter also recalled that leader Kim Jong Il ceaselessly inspected flying
units and sub-units and airfields in order to develop the air force of the
KPA into elite one in the world and thus bolstered up the air force into
invincible combat force.
The
air force of the KPA is now fully displaying its invincible might under the
leadership of Marshal Kim Jong Un, the reporter said, adding:
Kim
Jong Un felt more painful than anybody else upon receiving a report that
airpersons died while performing their flight duties. He made sure that they
enjoyed an eternal life as they are always remembered by the party, the
country and its people even after their death.
The
reporter called upon all the commanding officers and airpersons to absolutely
trust and follow the Supreme Commander only and become Kim Jong Un's flying
corps of human bombs devotedly defending him.
The
reporter appealed to them to mercilessly blow up the citadel of aggression by
making prompt sorties like the lightning over Mt. Paektu and wipe out the
enemies to the last one once the Supreme Commander issues an order and thus
clearly show the world how the powerful revolutionary Paektusan Army puts an
end to the fate of imperialism.
At
the meeting speakers expressed their will to raise a strong wind of making a
leap forward in rounding off the combat preparations so that they may make
prompt sorties like thunder over Mt. Paektu to strike terror into the hearts
of the enemies anytime an order is issued and thus annihilate the bluffing
enemies by the air combat method of Korean style.
Kim
Jong Un heard their speeches with keen attention. During a break he met
servicepersons of Unit 447 of the KPA Air and Anti-Air Force who successfully
fulfilled their difficult flying combat duties and highly appreciated their
feats once again.
He
said the Central Committee of the WPK accepted with pleasure the solemn
pledge made by the participants.
He
noted that the development of the air force of the KPA would be unthinkable
without the dedication and efforts of the great Generalissimos Kim Il Sung
and Kim Jong Il.
He
emphasized that the spirit of devotedly defending the country displayed by 14
human bomb-like fighters of Unit 447 of the KPA Air and Anti-Air Force which
was stressed in the speeches is the spirit of the second and third Kil Yong
Jo and that such spirit is the precious mental treasure which can be hardly
obtained with anything.
He
said that the Party Central Committee highly appreciated the spirit displayed
by 14 human bomb-like fighters and made public at the meeting the decision to
award the title of DPRK Hero to airman Jong Chol Ju who died while performing
his combat duty and watches bearing the august name of Kim Jong Il to 13
others.
He
awarded the title of DPRK Hero to Kim Hye Yong, widow of Jong Chol Ju and the
watches bearing the august name of Kim Jong Il to Kim Chol, An Song Hyok,
Ryang Jong Ryong, Jon Sang Ryol, Kim Yong Chol, Jang Yong Ho, Jo Yong Chol,
Kim Chol Un, Han Chol Ho, Cha Yong Jin, Jong Yong Nam, Choe Chang Nam and Jo
Sang Gi.
He
set forth important tasks which would serve as guidelines for developing the
air force.
We
have latest weapons and powerful and modern military equipment making the
enemies tremble with fear but more powerful than them is the KPA's strong
spirit of defending the country and transparent ideological and moral spirit,
he said. We are not afraid of any formidable enemy as there are such fighters
strong in idea.
He
continued: The more zealously the enemies cling to the theory of weapons
being all-powerful, the more consistently we should hold fast to the theory
of ideology being all-powerful and put main emphasis on it. There is no enemy
we cannot beat, if we remain strong in ideology.
He
declared the meeting closed, expressing expectation and conviction that all
airpersons would become indomitable pilots performing their combat missions
in any adversity.
Present
at the meeting were Ri Yong Gil, Jang Jong Nam, So Hong Chan, Hwang Pyong So,
Ri Pyong Chol and Jang Tong Un.
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Kim Jong Un Enjoys Performance Given by Moranbong Band
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Pyongyang,
April 20 (KCNA) -- Kim Jong Un, first secretary of the Workers' Party of
Korea, first chairman of the National Defence Commission of the DPRK and
supreme commander of the Korean People's Army, together with Ri Sol Ju
enjoyed a performance given by the Moranbong Band on April 16 to congratulate
the participants in the first meeting of airpersons of the KPA.
Kim
Jong Un appeared in the auditorium.
Acknowledging
the enthusiastic cheers of the airpersons, he met with Ri Un Gyong, widow of
Hero airman Kil Yong Jo and family members of airpersons and warmly
encouraged them.
Through
female solo and pangchang "Longing for the Leader" and instrumental
music and song "We Always Think about the Leader" the performers
sang high praises of the undying feats of President Kim Il Sung, who
successfully led the cause of independence against imperialism and the
socialist cause with his outstanding idea, extraordinary leadership and noble
virtues, believing in the people as in Heaven all his life.
Female
duet and pangchang "Shine, Jong Il Peak", light music "The
Sound of a Horse's Hooves in Mt. Paektu", female solo and pangchang
"Thinking of the General", violin solo and light music
"Attraction and Reverence" and female solo "Cradle of My
Life" vividly represented the truth that the dignity and spirit of Kim
Il Sung's nation have been fully demonstrated and eternal foundations for
prosperity of Juche Korea provided thanks to the undying feats of leader Kim
Jong Il, who remained loyal to the idea and cause of Kim Il Sung.
Female
chorus "The People's Joy", female duet and pangchang "Our
Marshal" and female solo and pangchang "A Song of a Big Haul of
Fish" emphasized that immensely rosy is the future of Songun Korea as
there is the leadership of Kim Jong Un, who is building the strongest power
in the world where the dream and ideal of the people are being translated
into a reality, in order to realise the desire of the great Generalissimos
Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il.
The
audience clapped their hands with tears in their eyes when the benevolent
images of the peerlessly great men of Mt. Paektu who devoted themselves to
strengthening the air force, always finding themselves among the airpersons,
were projected on the background of the stage.
The
performance ended with a finale "We Know Nobody but You".
Kim
Jong Un warmly acknowledged the enthusiastic cheers of the performers and the
audience and congratulated the performers on their successful performance.
The
performance was enjoyed by Ri Yong Gil, Jang Jong Nam, So Hong Chan, Hwang
Pyong So, Ri Pyong Chol, Jang Tong Un and Kim Yo Jong, and the airpersons who
participated in the meeting and their families.
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Kim Jong Un Has Photo Session with Participants in First Meeting
of Airpersons of KPA
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Pyongyang,
April 20 (KCNA) -- Supreme Commander of the Korean People's Army Kim Jong Un,
first secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea and first chairman of the National
Defence Commission of the DPRK, had a photo session with the participants in
the first meeting of airpersons of the KPA on April 17.
Kim
Jong Un warmly congratulated the participants on the successful meeting and
had a photo session with them, saying that the meeting marked a new occasion
of turn in glorifying for all ages the undying feats the great Generalissimos
Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il performed in developing the Juche-based air force
and strengthening its combat preparations and fighting capacity in every way.
He
also had a photo session with servicepersons of Unit 447 of the KPA Air and
Anti-Air Force and their wives and couples of airpersons and airwomen of the
air force.
Present
there were Ri Yong Gil, Jang Jong Nam, So Hong Chan, Hwang Pyong So, Ri Pyong
Chol and Jang Tong Un.
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