Kim Jong Un Provides Field Guidance to Songchongang Net-Weaving Factory and Plastic Tube Shop

Pyongyang, July 18 (KCNA) -- Supreme Commander of the Korean People's Army (KPA) Kim Jong Un, first secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK) and first chairman of the National Defence Commission (NDC) of the DPRK, gave field guidance to the Songchongang Net-weaving Factory and plastic tube shop of Enterprise No. 1521 of the KPA.He looked round the mosaic depicting smiling President Kim Il Sung and leader Kim Jong Il.

He was pleased to see the mosaic erected by the officials and employees at their enterprise with profound reverence and the yard in front of it and its environment face-lifted. He went round the newly arranged room dedicated to the history of the enterprise. He said that the enterprise established under the far-reaching plan of the President made a great contribution to the development of the national economy under the loving care of Kim Jong Il in the past period.

Noting that the appearance of the net-weaving factory and plastic tube shop at the enterprise helps the enterprise emerge a general factory playing a big role in the building of a rich and powerful nation, he recollected the day he visited it last year. Going round the net-weaving factory and plastic tube shop, he acquainted himself in detail with production there and management activities.

He highly praised the enterprise for waging a dynamic drive to keep the production going at a high rate at the modern factory and shop newly built under the leadership of the party. He said that the factory and shop producing nets, ropes and plastic tubes badly needed by various fields including the fruit growing, fishery industry and construction are the nation's precious assets, though they are not big in their scale.

Saying that the demands for nets, ropes and plastic tubes are on the daily increase, he instructed the enterprise to boost their production depending on the production foundation already laid. "It is advisable for the factory and shop to improve the quality of products and their packing to be favored by the users and newly arrange a products show room," he said.

Going round the remodeled cultural hall, he asked how many seats it has and how it is being operated and appreciated its successful remodeling. Watching the visual aid materials displayed on the walls of the corridor of the hall, he underscored the need to effectively conduct the education of employees in various forms and by diverse methods and direct efforts to the education aimed to implant the anti-imperialist, anti-U.S. class consciousness into their minds as required by the prevailing situation, in particular.

He was accompanied by KPA Vice Marshal Hwang Pyong So, director of the KPA General Political Bureau, and Han Kwang Sang, department director of the C.C. the WPK, and Army Lieut. General Ma Won Chun, director of the Designing Department of the NDC.

Kim Jong Un Guides Performance of KPA Art Squad

Pyongyang, July 18 (KCNA) -- Supreme Commander of the Korean People's Army (KPA) Kim Jong Un, first secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea and first chairman of the National Defence Commission of the DPRK, guided the performance given by the art squad of the large-combined unit of KPA 324.

Put on the stage were colorful numbers of diverse forms such as male chorus "Revolutionary Armed Forces Uphold Leadership of Marshal Kim Jong Un Only", female solo "Voice of My Heart", poem recital "Marshal on Frontline", female sextet "Joy of the People" and trumpet and song "'I Know It,' Answer of Loyalty ".

The performers impressively represented the invincible might of the revolutionary armed forces of Mt. Paektu grown to be matchlessly strong army under the leadership of the supreme commander and the ardent loyalty of the service personnel serving the army with longing to see him. He said that the members of the art squad presented numbers of great ideological and educational values, expressing expectation and belief that the creators and artistes of the art squad would dynamically conduct revolutionary and militant performing activities in the future, too.

Noting art performances with strong influence and appeal are of weighty significance in the ideological education of the service personnel, he gave instructions which would serve as guidelines for the performing activities of the KPA.

U.S. and S. Korean Authorities Warned of Their Reckless Acts

Pyongyang, July 21 (KCNA) -- A spokesman for the Policy Department of the National Defence Commission of the DPRK on July 20 issued a statement condemning the U.S. and its followers for kicking up a campaign over the DPRK's legitimate measures to bolster up its capability for self-defence.

The statement said:

Strategic force units and other units of the ground, naval and air and anti-air forces of the Korean People's Army have recently conducted a series of drills with various missions under the simulated conditions of an actual war to bolster up the capability for self-defence such as the ones for ultra-precision tactical rocket firing and firing drills of diverse artillery pieces.

The service personnel and the people of the DPRK are greatly encouraged by the signal successes made in these drills of KPA units.

The peace- and justice-loving people in the world are expressing admiration at the shining successes of the service personnel and the people of the DPRK.

It is against this backdrop that only the U.S. and its ally the Park Geun Hye group and some other undesirable forces are behaving mischievously, revealing their sinister intentions. The U.S. grumbled as if tactical rockets of the KPA had gone into actions to strike its mainland, claiming "north Korea is posing an unusual and special threat to the U.S."

It is terming the routine drills of the KPA a politically-motivated low-profile provocation and successive military threats to the allies in the region.

The south Korean authorities are echoing the U.S. claim by asserting the tactical rocket firing and firing drills of artillery pieces by the KPA are a retaliation against their refusal of the DPRK's special proposal and its government's statement, a dangerous provocation to escalate the military tensions and a deliberate threat to them.

They went the lengths of letting the UN Security Council, a mechanism which has lost its impartiality long ago, kick up much fuss in a bid to mislead public opinion.

Some weak-willed countries are blindly joining in such odd charade. Clinging to the malodorous coattails of the U.S., they are going so reckless as to vie with each other to hug poor-looking Park Geun Hye.

In view of all these ridiculous ruckuses being staged by making profound confusion of right and wrong, the Policy Department of the NDC of the DPRK once again serves a strong warning to the U.S. and the south Korean authorities, their prime movers, reflecting the voices of the service personnel and the people of the DPRK.

The U.S. and the south Korean authorities should properly know what words "provocation" and "threat" mean before wagging their tongues.

If the tactical rocket firing of the KPA is a "provocation" to the U.S. and a threat to regional stability and peace, then what should be said of the countless number of strategic missiles launched by the U.S. and the DPRK-targeted war drills frequently staged by it together with the south Korean military gangsters after bringing its forces to other country?

The real provocations and threats made to the Korean peninsula are the whole gamut of political and military moves being pushed forward by the U.S., pursuant to its hostile policy toward the DPRK and its belligerent military strategy.

In other words, the reckless intrusions into the waters of the DPRK side perpetrated by the warmongers of the south Korean military almost every day at the instigation of the U.S. are typical provocations.

The U.S. and the south Korean authorities should not resort to brazen-faced brigandish acts reminiscent of a thief brandishing a club.

The U.S., an arch criminal making provocations and threats, is kicking up high-intensity war drills for aggression every day in the land, waters and sky of other country. The U.S. and the south Korean authorities who are hell-bent on confrontation with the compatriots in the north at the former's beck and call are terming the military drills for self-defence conducted by the DPRK in its own land, waters and sky a "provocation" and a "threat." What are suitable words to accuse such impudent and brigandish behavior?

This is nothing but a shameless act of a burglar rudely behaving in face of the master of a house trying to protect his house by himself.

Such hooliganism may work somewhere else but can never work in this land being safeguarded by the service personnel and people of the DPRK.

The more desperately the U.S. and the south Korean authorities resort to gangster-like hostile acts, the more deadly retaliatory actions of Korean style they will face. This will be like a bolt from the blue.

The DPRK has already done everything it could to mend the north-south relations and achieve the reunification, peace and prosperity of the country through its crucial proposal and open letter in January, special proposal in June and government statement in July.

What remains to be done at present is to make a final choice.

The U.S. and the south Korean authorities should no longer behave recklessly, daring talk about "provocation" and "threat" from someone.

If they persist in doing so, all the self-defensive deterrent forces of the DPRK will keep themselves fully ready to punish all undesirable forces in the world, strikingly demonstrate its invincible might and strongly counter their moves through its practical retaliatory actions of justice.

Kim Jong Un Guides Match for Examining Men's Football of National Sports Team

Pyongyang, July 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, guided a match for examining the men's football of the National Sports Team which will take part in the 17th Asian Games.

The National Sports Team played the match with the Jebi Team.

It trounced its rival 12:0.

Kim Jong Un expressed satisfaction over the fact that the men footballers of the National Sports Team fully displayed high football technique, mental power and persevering fighting spirit and had a photo taken with them.

The men footballers of the National Sports Team have conducted good training to take part in the games, he said.

Great are expectations and interest of our people in the games, he said, adding: "Sports persons should take part in the games and give full play to the noble spirit of sports, the stamina of the nation and the spirit of fair play and thus positively contribute to promoting reconciliation and unity of fellow countrymen, friendship and peace with various countries of the world."

"The participation of the DPRK's players in the 17th Asian Games offers an important occasion in improving the relations between the north and the south and removing distrust between them", he said, adding "it is our principled stand that the inviolable sports should not be a political bargaining chip of the undesirable forces".

He expressed expectation and conviction that sports persons of the DPRK including the men footballers of the National Sports Team who will take part in the games would put greater spurs to training.

Among the spectators were Choe Ryong Hae and Kim Yang Gon, secretaries of the C.C., the WPK, Hwang Pyong So, Ri Yong Gil, Hyon Yong Chol and other commanding officers of the KPA.

DPRK Foreign Ministry Blasts UNSC's Press Statement Critical of Its Launch of Short-range Missiles

Pyongyang, July 19 (KCNA) -- The UN Security Council at its informal consultative meeting held on July 17 staged a farce of publishing a press statement terming the DPRK's launch of even short-range missiles a "violation of its resolutions."

The Foreign Ministry of the DPRK in a statement on Saturday said all the military measures taken by the Korean People's Army including tactical rocket firing are an exercise of the right to self-defence to protect the sovereignty of the country and the security of the nation from the U.S. nuclear threats and moves for aggression from A to Z.

This year the DPRK made a series of positive peace proposals ranging from the crucial proposal of its National Defence Commission and its special proposal to the statement of its government and has taken practical measures pursuant to them, the statement noted, and continued:

The U.S., however, staged Key Resolve and Foal Eagle joint military exercises in succession together with the south Korean puppet forces and kicked off the largest-ever combined aerial drill in the wake of the large-scale joint landing exercises since 1993.

The UNSC persistently overlooked the U.S. madcap war maneuvers for aggression and nuclear threat and took issue with the inevitable option taken by the DPRK to cope with them and censured it. This is absolutely intolerable.

If the UNSC is to perform its mission for ensuring global peace and security, it should call into question the offensive, threatening and provocative joint military exercises of the U.S. and the south Korean puppet forces.

How the UNSC approaches the said exercises will be a yardstick to assess its impartiality and judge whether it can contribute to global peace and security both in name and in reality or not.

Now that the UNSC serves the purpose of the U.S. hostile moves against the DPRK, bereft of its impartiality, the DPRK is left with no option but to bolster up its muscle to protect itself by its own efforts.

No matter how fair-minded and just one may be, one is bound to fall victim to big powers if one is weak, and it is possible to protect genuine peace only when one builds its muscle strong enough to deter any force from provoking one. This is the lesson and truth taught by history.

The further the U.S. escalates its nuclear threat and blackmail, the greater efforts the DPRK will channel into bolstering up its nuclear deterrence for self-defence. As long as the U.S. and the south Korean puppet forces persist in their joint military exercises for aggression, the DPRK's counter-actions will be put on an annual and regular basis.

Any conflict which may take place in the course of the Korean People's Army's tactical rocket firing and other intensified retaliatory drills to cope with the U.S ceaseless war maneuvers in south Korea and its vicinity may spill over to a war.

In case an unpredictable situation is created on the Korean peninsula, the U.S. and the UNSC which instigated and patronized it will be wholly responsible for the development as it compelled the DPRK to take such inevitable option