KIM JONG UN INSPECTS PYONGYANG CHILDREN'S FOODSTUFF FACTORY

Pyongyang, December 16 (KCNA) -- Kim Jong Un, first secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK), first chairman of the National Defence Commission of the DPRK and supreme commander of the Korean People's Army (KPA), gave field guidance to the Pyongyang Children's Foodstuff Factory.

Going round the mosaic depicting President Kim Il Sung and the monument to field guidance provided by leader Kim Jong Il in the compound of the factory, he recollected with deep emotion the undying feats Kim Jong Il performed by visiting it on July 8, 2001 with loving care.

He said in an excited tone that the world knew no such great fathers as Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il who regarded it as the most important affair of the party and state to love children, calling them kings of the country and devoting everything to them all their lives.

He proposed erecting new mosaic depicting the President and Kim Jong Il with profound reverence so as to convey down to posterity their love for the children and future.

He went round the room dedicated to the history of the factory.

He recalled that the factory built under the care of the President turned into a comprehensive children's foodstuff production center for regularly producing and supplying foodstuff for babies in breast feeding and weaning periods such as powdered milk for babies, nutritious rice powder, varieties of powdered vegetables, powdered tangle and powdered fish, and soy-based milk and soy-based kefir good for the growth and development of children and pupils under the wise guidance of Kim Jong Il.

He told the officials and employees of the factory to intensify the education through the immortal exploits performed by Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il for its development so that they may keep production going at a high rate and their love for the children may always reach them.

He went round the product show room, soy-based milk shop, nutritious rice powder shop, the shop for powdered milk for babies and other places of the factory to learn about in detail the production and management of the factory.

He said the production should not be stopped at the factory even a moment because to put the production on a normal footing at the factory was not a simple economic and business matter but a matter concerning the sense of moral obligation towards Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il.

Noting that the hostile forces are working hard to prevent the laughter of children from being heard, he underscored the need to boost the production of children's foodstuff so as to show them how the DPRK protects the children's happy life and defends socialism.

He gave an instruction to raise the quality of foodstuff to the highest level and develop new varieties of foodstuff for the growth of the children by comparing the foodstuff of the factory with the world famous infant's food and making an analysis of them with an ambition for holding world supremacy in foodstuff production.

He underlined the need to put all production processes on an automated, unmanned, germ-free and dust-free basis by learning from the foodstuff factories of the KPA which turned into model and standard of foodstuff factory in the country. He called for perfectly updating the factory by the 70th founding anniversary of the WPK.

He had a photo session with the officials and employees of the factory.

Accompanying him were Choe Ryong Hae, secretary of the WPK Central Committee, KPA Vice Marshal Hwang Pyong So, director of the General Political Bureau of the KPA, An Jong Su and Han Kwang Sang, department directors of the C.C., the WPK, Ri Jae Il, first vice-department director of the C.C., the WPK, and Jo Yong Won, vice-department director of the C.C., the WPK.

US WILL FACE DPRK'S TOUGHEST COUNTERACTION: FM SPOKESMAN

Pyongyang, December 15 (KCNA) -- The spokesman for the Foreign Ministry of the DPRK Monday gave the following answer to the question put by KCNA as regards the U.S. madcap "human rights" racket against the DPRK:

The U.S. has recently become all the more pronounced in its "human rights" offensive against the DPRK.

In the last one week alone, the U.S. secretary of State, the assistant secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs, the assistant secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights and Labour, the "special envoy for human rights issue of North Korea" and the U.S. special representative for North Korea policy vied with each other to unhesitatingly let loose a string of invectives against the DPRK, taking issue with it over its "human rights issue".

The U.S. Department of State announced a detailed standard to provide funds to the anti-DPRK "human rights" organizations and the U.S. Congress adopted a "bill" calling on the administrator of the U.S. State Intelligence Agency and the U.S. secretary of State to spy on the internal affairs of the DPRK and gather information critical of it, becoming all the more undisguised in their moves to escalate confrontation with the latter over "human rights".

Such moves go to prove that the U.S. is regarding the "human rights" racket against the DPRK as a lever for bringing down its ideology and social system, politicizing it and stepping up it in a premeditated manner.

These actions mean that the U.S. reneged on the September 19 joint statement of the six-party talks which calls for respect for sovereignty and peaceful coexistence between the DPRK and the U.S.

Now that the U.S. is leaving no means untried to bring down the social system of the DPRK, the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula will completely lose its meaning.

The DPRK agreed on denuclearizing the Korean Peninsula not to allow the U.S. to swallow it up but to have the nuclear threat of the U.S. to the DPRK defused and peace and security on the peninsula ensured.

Now that the confrontation between the DPRK and the U.S. over human rights is high on the agenda, any dialogue on the nuclear issue is meaningless.

The U.S. is talking this or that about the release of Americans who had been detained in the DPRK. But the release was nothing but a cleaning work done by it to start confrontation with the U.S. over human rights, not to want dialogue with it.

In fact, the DPRK has more things to talk over human rights than the U.S.

It is the U.S. that is finding itself in a tight corner due to the disclosure of brutal tortures practiced by the CIA and the scandals of racial discrimination perpetrated by white policemen. It is again the U.S. and its lackeys who suffered shame while floating wild rumors about youngsters of the DPRK who returned home after being abducted by flesh traffickers.

This time U.S. Secretary of State Kerry made such disgusting gesture as openly praising a swindler, defector from the north, whom he has used for the anti-DPRK "human rights" racket. This clearly proved that he is going reckless, keen on moves hostile to the DPRK.

Former U.S. Secretary of State Powell was taken in by lies told by the CIA engrossed in gathering intelligence and inventing pretexts through tortures. But today Kerry is behaving like a fool, believing in the lies told by a "defector from the north."

The DPRK has already sent a video clip disclosing the true colors of the above-said swindler to Kerry through a relevant channel.

Washington's policy aimed to topple the social system of the DPRK over its "human rights issue" is no more than a daydream.

The U.S. will have to experience the toughest counteraction of the DPRK against its hostile policy towards the DPRK and be held wholly accountable for the derailing of the denuclearization on the Korean Peninsula.

KFPD REJECTS ANTI-DPRK FORCES' ACCUSATIONS

Pyongyang, December 17 (KCNA) -- The hostile forces against the DPRK held a "hearing on the human rights situation in north Korea" at the British parliament on Dec. 10, World Day of Human Rights. They prodded such human scum as "defectors from the north" into asserting that a "systematic elimination of the disabled was taking place in north Korea" and spread sheer sophism that the DPRK is set to send its team to Paralympic Games, etc. to conceal its "policy of eliminating the people with disabilities".

A spokesman for the Central Committee of the Korean Federation for the Protection of the Disabled (KFPD) made public a statement on Tuesday in this regard.

This is an intolerable abuse of the DPRK and an unbearable insult and mockery of the disabled people, the statement noted, and went on:

The DPRK government has consistently respected the human dignity of the disabled and provided them with all conditions and circumstances so that they may enjoy equal social and political rights with the ordinary people and take active part in the state and social activities.

The Central Committee of the Democratic Blind Alliance of Korea was formed in February, Juche 37 (1948) and has since conducted brisk activities. Since its founding the DPRK has taken a series of legal and institutional steps for preferential state treatment and protection of the disabled and spared no investment in implementing them.

The Central Committee of the KFPD was founded in 1998 with an objective of sincerely helping the state shape and implement the policies of protecting the disabled and controlling and guiding the work for protecting the disabled in an integral manner.

Sanatoriums are found everywhere for the disabled so that they are given free functional rehabilitation service. The modern Munsu Functional Rehabilitation Clinic appeared in Pyongyang City in 2013 to render comprehensive functional rehabilitation service to the disabled.

The DPRK Law on the Protection of the Disabled adopted on June 18, 2003 and amended and supplemented in November, 2013 provides a legal guarantee for their rights.

It has been confirmed by foreign experts and media persons of AP, APTN and other Western media through their visits and news coverage activities that the rights, dignity and interests of the disabled are satisfactorily ensured both on a legal basis and in their life thanks to the correct policy of the DPRK government.

The hostile forces' racket over "issue of the disabled" is nothing but a poor attempt to stir up the atmosphere of international pressure on the DPRK over its "human rights" even by picking up a new "human rights issue".

The reckless trumpeting made by "defectors from the north" to get a petty amount of dollars is not worth even a passing note. But it is more ridiculous for politicians of Britain and other Western countries to chime in with their propaganda, utterly ignorant of the reality.

Those hostile forces had better stop at once their mean and poor smear campaign for meeting their sinister political purposes.

KIM JONG UN VISITS KUMSUSAN PALACE OF SUN

Pyongyang, December 17 (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 visited the Kumsusan Palace of the Sun Wednesday, the third anniversary of demise of leader Kim Jong Il.

Visitors included senior officials of the party, state and army, chief secretaries of the provincial committees of the WPK, members of the central guiding bodies of the party in Pyongyang, deputies to the Supreme People's Assembly in Pyongyang, leading officials of armed forces organs, ministries and national institutions and officials of the party Central Committee.

Kim Jong Un entered the hall where the statues of President Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il are standing.

A floral basket in the name of Kim Jong Un was placed before the statues.

Also laid there was a floral basket in the joint name of the C.C. the WPK, the Central Military Commission of the WPK, the NDC of the DPRK, the Presidium of the SPA of the DPRK and the Cabinet of the DPRK.

Kim Jong Un together with visitors paid high tribute to the statues in the humblest reverence.

He entered the immortality hall where Kim Jong Il lies in state.

He together with visitors paid respectful homage and made deep bow to Kim Jong Il in the humblest reverence.

The visitors went round the hall where orders Kim Jong Il received are on display, the mourners' hall and halls which house a car, electric car, boat and train coach used by him.

MEMORIAL SERVICE HELD ON OF KIM JONG IL'S DEMISE ANNIVERSARY

Pyongyang, December 17 (KCNA) -- A solemn national memorial service was held in Pyongyang on Wednesday, the third anniversary of demise of leader Kim Jong Il.

Present at the service was 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.

Among those present there were Kim Yong Nam, Choe Ryong Hae, Pak Pong Ju, Hwang Pyong So and other senior officials of the party, state and army, chairperson of a friendly party, officials of the party, armed forces and power bodies, social organizations, ministries and national institutions, heroes and those who had the honor of being received by the peerlessly great men of Mt. Paektu and merited persons from across the country, service personnel of the Korean People's Army and the Korean People's Internal Security Forces, bereaved families of the revolutionary martyrs, working people, overseas Koreans and those related to the revolutionary activities of the peerless great men of Mt. Paektu and the chief of the Pyongyang mission of the Anti-Imperialist National Democratic Front.

Present there were foreign diplomatic envoys and representatives of international organizations here, staff members of the military attaches corps here and other foreign guests.

All the participants paid silent tribute in the humblest reverence to Kim Jong Il.

Kim Yong Nam, member of the Presidium of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the WPK and president of the Presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly of the DPRK, made a memorial address.

Kim Jong Il, who was born as a son of the guerillas in the biting cold of the thick forest of Mt. Paektu, hewed the arduous revolution with the soul and spirit of Mt. Paektu till the last moments of his life, accomplishing the greatest cause no one in the world could ever do at that time, Kim Yong Nam said, and went on:

He made a pledge of history to glorify the DPRK, true to the noble intention of President Kim Il Sung, standing on Ryongnam Hill aglow with sunrise in his early years. He regarded it as his lifelong mission to carry forward the President's cause through generations and worked heart and soul to perform it.

He formulated the revolutionary idea of the President as Kimilsungism and indisputably proved its invincibility and truth. He guaranteed the absolute authority and prestige of the President in every way and thoroughly established the President's monolithic ideological system, monolithic leadership system.

Always finding himself on the forefront of the anti-imperialist military confrontation and national defence over more than half a century, he led to steady victories the unheard-of confrontation with imperialism and the U.S., and the battle for defending socialism.

He settled lots of contemporary difficult and complicated problems in a perfect manner and at the best level while steering the historic cause of developing in all fields socialism centered on the popular masses which was set up by the President.

From the very day he embarked upon the road of revolution he always shared joy and sorrow with the service personnel and people. He made ceaseless journeys to mix with the people, going in jumper till the last moments of his life.

He took warm care of revolutionary soldiers and led them forward, regarding them as the most precious revolutionary comrades.

He provided undying ideological and theoretical guidelines promising the everlasting victory for the era of independence and Songun and enriched the treasure house of the history of human thought.

He laid powerful political, military and economic foundations for the rosy future of Songun Korea for all eternity.

It was his greatest exploit on behalf of the country and its people, times and history that he successfully settled the issue of succession to the leadership, the basic issue in accomplishing the revolutionary cause of Juche.

He provided the eternal foundation for the ever-lasting prosperity of the glorious era of Kim Jong Un and sowed seeds for the prosperity of the generations to come. These immortal exploits will shine forever with the triumphant advance of the great Paektusan nation.

Kim Yong Nam called on all the people to dynamically advance towards the final victory of the revolutionary cause of Juche under the wise leadership of Kim Jong Un, holding aloft the unfurled flag bearing the immortal beaming images of Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il.

Choe Ryong Hae, member of the Presidium of the Political Bureau and secretary of the WPK Central Committee, made a speech to vow loyalty on behalf of the WPK; KPA Vice Marshal Hwang Pyong So, director of the General Political Bureau of the KPA, on behalf of the KPA; and Jon Yong Nam, chairman of the Central Committee of the Kim Il Sung Socialist Youth League, on behalf of the youth.

They said the revolutionary career and undying feats of Kim Jong Il, who laid eternal foundation for steady victories of the glorious era of Kim Jong Un, leaving unprecedented traces in the history of the nation spanning 5,000 years, are shedding rays as the most precious wealth of Kim Il Sung's Korea.

They called on all the party members, service personnel and people to devotedly implement the last instructions of Kim Jong Il and surely build the great Paektusan nation where his lifelong intention and wishes will come true on this land.

Then the artillery salute boomed in memory of Kim Jong Il.

Memorial services took place in all provinces, cities (districts) and counties and at industrial complexes on Wednesday.

FM URGES EUROPEAN COUNTRIES NOT TO PEDDLE "HUMAN RIGHTS ISSUE"

Pyongyang, December 17 (KCNA) -- The spokesman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the DPRK answered a question raised by KCNA on Wednesday in connection with the disclosure of European countries' conspiracy with the U.S. in its human rights abuses.

At a time when cruel tortures committed by the CIA against inmates in its secret prisons were disclosed recently to come under fire by the international community, the information that European countries had conspired with the U.S. in them was brought to light. This is sparking great uproar.

According to it, 21 European countries including Britain actively cooperated with the U.S. in its human rights abuses as evidenced by the facts that they allowed the CIA to set up secret prisons and interrogation bases and Okayed inmates' passage through their territories and their stay there.

EU and European countries have so far often found fault with other countries over their alleged human rights violations, behaving as if they were a "model" in protecting the human rights. And they have zealously joined the U.S. in its "human rights" campaign against the DPRK.

But, this time, it was disclosed that most of EU member states became servants in the U.S. brutal human rights abuses. This brought to daylight the fact that the signboard of "human rights protection", which was professed as one of its major pillars of EU policies, was only ostentation and proved to be a smokescreen to conceal a political hypocrisy peculiar to Europe.

The European countries are now faced with a strong condemnation and pressure at home and abroad. There come strange voices from several European countries that they only gave a green light to CIA to operate secret prisons but did not grant a right to torture prisoners. There also comes a spate of discontent among them. Those countries grumble that they demanded the deletion of their cooperation in U.S. acts of torture but it was opened to public as it was.

In the final analysis, Europe has been reduced to a servant fated to sit in the dock for acting under the baton of the U.S. It scuttled the human rights dialogue with the DPRK, which had been smoothly under way a decade ago, under the wire-pulling of the U.S. over the DPRK's nuclear issue.

Recently alone, EU recognized the DPRK's will to seek an international cooperation in the field of human rights. But, pressurized by the U.S., EU behaved so recklessly as taking the lead in adopting the "human rights resolution" against DPRK, which is based on lies told by a few human dregs at the UN General Assembly.

European countries should be well aware of their own situations where they have lost even elementary qualifications to peddle the "human rights issue" of somebody. They would be well advised to bear in mind that they would only harm their own interests and lose their faces if they follow others without independent viewpoints.

If European countries are truly concerned for the protection of human rights, they should learn how to behave themselves and stop peddling "human rights issue" in the DPRK peppered with fabrications, though belatedly, and opt for calling the extra-large scale human rights violations by the U.S. into question at the UN and on other international fora.

By doing so, Europe can only redress its past and become a genuine champion of human rights as claimed by it.