Respected Comrade Kim Jong Un Sends Wreath to Liberation Tower on 77th Anniversary of National Liberation

 

Kim Jong Un, General Secretary of the Workers’ Party of Korea and President of the State Affairs of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, sent a wreath to the Liberation Tower on August 14 on the occasion of the 77th anniversary of Korea’s liberation.

Upon authorization, Ri Il Hwan, member of the Political Bureau and secretary of the Central Committee of the Workers’ Party of Korea, laid the wreath sent by the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un before the tower.

Present at the wreath-laying ceremony were Choe Hui Thae, chairman of the Pyongyang City People’s Committee, Im Chon Il, vice-minister of Foreign Affairs, Jo Chol Ryong, vice-chairman of the Korean Committee for Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries and chairman of the DPRK-Russia Friendship Association, and officials concerned.

The participants paid tribute to the martyrs.

Press Statement of DPRK Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs

Pyongyang, August 14 (KCNA) -- Kim Son Gyong, vice-minister for international organizations of Foreign Affairs of the DPRK, made public the following press statement on Sunday:

According to a news report, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres visited south Korea recently and remarked that he "expresses full support for the complete, verifiable and irretrievable denuclearization (CVID) of the DPRK" and that "this target is important in achieving the regional peace and stability."

I cannot but express deep regret over the said remarks of the UN secretary-general that grossly lack impartiality and fairness and go against the obligations of his duty, specified in the UN Charter, as regards the issue of the Korean peninsula.

So far, we had never expected that the successive UN secretary-generals including the previous one, except an exceedingly few ones, would be able to speak for our fair stand on the issue of the Korean peninsula without prejudice, for their political inclinations and work backgrounds, and the same goes even now.

However, the recent remarks of the UN secretary-general can never go down with us, and we make it clear that they cannot represent the impartial stand of the international community.

It is clearly specified in the UN Charter that the UN secretary-general should not request or accept orders from the government of a specific country but refrain from doing any act that may impair his or her position as an international official who is liable only to the UN.

The so-called CVID, touted by the U.S. and its vassal forces, is just an infringement upon the sovereignty of the DPRK as it demands the unilateral disarmament, and Secretary-General Guterres perhaps knows well that the DPRK has totally rejected it without any toleration.

Nevertheless, he raised the antiquated story of "CVID". The fact goes to prove that the UN secretary-general shows sympathy to the anti-DPRK hostile policy of the U.S. and its vassal forces, out of his post.

To make clear once again, the DPRK's access to nuclear weapons is its inevitable choice to defend the security of its state and people and ensure its independent development from the hostile policy and nuclear threat and blackmail of the U.S. which has imposed untold misfortune and sufferings on the Korean nation for the past seventy-odd years.

The history of confrontation between the DPRK and the U.S. shows that the durable peace and stability in the Korean peninsula can never be ensured unless the U.S., the world's biggest nuclear weapons state and the world's only nuclear criminal, abandons its illegal and cruel, hostile policy towards the DPRK completely and irrevocably.

The secretary-general, the chief of the UN body which has to regard international justice and equality of sovereignty as the fundamental principle of its activities, should always maintain fairness, impartiality and objectivity in the international affairs including the issue of the Korean peninsula in any case.

We advise Secretary-General Guterres to be careful in making such dangerous words and deeds as pouring gasoline on flames, instead of doing things helpful to the settlement of the issue under the extremely acute situation on the Korean peninsula.

Japan Should Think twice of Consequences of Possession of “Capability for Counterattack”

 

Japan has been speeding up its moves towards the possession of the “capability for counterattack”.

It is a universal knowledge that “capability for counterattack” is only a term devised for covering up the aggressive nature of the “capability to attack enemy base”, the prerequisite of which is preemptive strike on the opponent.

Japan specified the possession of the “capability for counterattack” in its “2022 White Paper on Defense” for the first time. And it is seeking to legalize this as its state policy by specifying it in its “national security strategy” as well, to be amended by the end of this year.

Japan is gradually hastening its schemes for amendment of the constitution, increased defense expense and arms build-up in revenge for its defeat under the pretext of “total defense”. It is crystal clear that if it even possesses the “capability for counterattack”, it will emerge as dangerous force of reinvasion destroying peace and stability in the region.

More serious is the fact that Japan spreads far and wide rumors about the non-existent “threat” from us, and with this as justification; it seeks to possess the “capability of counterattack”.

In recent days, an official of the Japanese defense ministry said: Big advance in North Korea’s nuclear and missile technology cannot be overlooked at least for the sake of security of Japan and the region; all options inclusive of the “capability of counterattack” are currently under review.

This clearly is a warlike act to legalize the possession of capability of preemptive strike and aggressive strike aiming at us.

Being engrossed in finding an excuse for preparation of its reinvasion, Japan might not have time to think whom it is now provoking.

Our country is no longer Korea of a century ago when Japan used to violate its sovereignty at will, and our people’s animosity towards Japan is growing with each passing day.

Japan would be well-advised to think twice of the consequences to be entailed from stabbing at the open wound of our people, driven by its inveterate repugnance towards our Republic.

Perilous Incitement to Revanchist and Wild Ambition for Reinvasion

 

Every year, the ultra-right conservative politicians of Japan are swarming to Yasukuni Shrine to stage a farce of paying homage in memory of the day of defeat.

Cabinet members starting from the prime minister and even politicians are brazenly visiting Yasukuni Shrine to pay tribute. This is a rash act of no avail to bring back the militarist specters and also a perilous act of crime against the demand of the international society wishing Japan on a path to genuine peace.

Yasukuni Shrine is the very place which preserves the mortuary tablets of those who died after running wild for conquest of the continent and annihilation of other nations, the A-class war criminals at that who reduced Japan to a super-large criminal state against humanity.

Then why is Japan desperately attempts to bring back the specters of militarism even in defiance of a torrent of protest and denunciation from the international society?

Japan is the only country, as a war criminal state and defeated nation in the WWII, which still evades liquidation of its past crimes.

Should Japan truly intend to bid farewell to its crime-ridden past with sincerity and start anew, there would be no need for it to pay tribute to Yasukuni Shrine.

The ultra-right conservative politicians are devoured entirely by one thing

– a wild ambition to achieve its old dream of “Greater East Asia Co- Prosperity Sphere” succeeding the will of its ancestors.

It is for this reason that Japan is imbuing new generation with militarist idea, while making desperate efforts to assume an appearance of “war state” and “aggressive state” by making amendments to the “peace constitution” in a bid to “legalize” the right of belligerency and entry into a war and possessing even the “capability to attack enemy base”.

As the Japanese conservative politicians persist in bringing back the specters of militarism in violation of historical truth and justice, they will only fall into the precipice of international isolation and destruction.

Cha Hye Gyong

Researcher of Institute for Studies of Japan Ministry of Foreign Affairs, DPRK

Genuine Life Brought by Liberation

 

The Japanese imperialists in the past enforced brutal colonial rule occupying Korea for nearly half a century and inflicted indescribable pain and misery on our people.

Under the tyranny of the Japanese imperialists, Korean people were deprived of their own language and even their family names and given names. They were driven out to an alien land to live there for they had not even an inch of ground to be buried. Since they were deprived of their own country they had no other choice but to suffer humiliation of raising other’s flag even after winning at international stages.

At the gloomy time when the nation’s soul was trampled underfoot by the Japanese imperialists and even the country name Korea dimmed on the world map, the peerless iron-willed brilliant commander Comrade Kim Il Sung achieved liberation of the fatherland through twenty-year-long arduous anti-Japanese revolutionary struggle. So the path to national revival opened up on this land and our people have begun to enjoy genuine life.

To attain the long-cherished desire of the people eagerly aspiring toward a motherland and an army that could firmly protect their destiny, President Kim Il Sung accomplished the cause of founding the party immediately after the liberation and founded the country and army of the people placing our people as proud masters of independent and sovereign country, and gave eternal vitality to our motherland.

Afterwards, democratic reforms, including land reform, nationalization of major industries, gender equality and proclamation of the Labor Law were enforced one after another. So the age-old desire of the peasants for land was gratified, the workers became masters of factories and women went out to build a new society exercising equal rights with men.

Taxation system was completely abolished and our people could enjoy a happy and worthwhile life receiving all the social benefits such as eight-hour working system, maternity leave, recuperation and relaxation system, free medical service and free education.

Thus, our people, who had been suffering under the yoke of colonial slavery, were reborn in the new Korea retrieved by

President Kim Il Sung and a genuine home of people was built on this land with the enforcement of democratic reforms.

Today, the blessed life that our people have enjoyed to their hearts’ content in the socialist motherland, patriotic heritage handed down by President Kim Il Sung, is thriving more than ever in the warm embrace of respected Comrade General Secretary who is endowed with boundless love for the people.

Pioneer of National Liberation Struggle

  

The history of mankind can also be called the history of the masses of the people searching and groping for the genuine path to their freedom and emancipation.

In the early 20^th century, the oppressed peoples in the colonial countries in Asia and other continents waged vigorous struggles to put an end to the colonial rule by the imperialists and win national independence. 

As they dogmatically approached the preceding theory that the cause of national liberation in the colonial countries depends on the victory of the revolution in the suzerain countries, some countries tried to win independence by relying on the revolution in suzerain countries or big powers. Some others resorted to reckless struggles, believing that if they dealt a blow to the colonial rule by means of demonstration, uprising and riot, they could achieve their national independence.

However, their struggles experienced only failures and frustrations.

  After embarking on the road of revolutionary struggle for the country and people in his teens, Kim Il Sung strived hard to find a new path for national liberation struggle, in the course of which he discovered the truth that a country should carry out its revolutionary struggle independently in keeping with its specific conditions, not relying on others, and the masters and makers of the revolution are the masses of its people. Based on it, he created the Juche idea that the masses of the people are the masters and motive force of the revolution and construction. Since then the national liberation struggle of the Korean people entered a new stage.

Actually, the Korean revolution was an epitome of the cause of human liberation as it embraced all the tasks for the cause of national liberation struggle in colonial countries.

Having put forward the idea that national liberation could be achieved only on the strength of the resistance based on all-people unity, he put forward the slogan “Let us carry out the Korean revolution by our own efforts!” and led the Korean people to solve, by their own efforts, all the problems of national liberation struggle, to start with providing the conditions needed for the armed struggle.

Under his leadership, the Korean People’s Revolutionary Army waged an anti-Japanese armed struggle for 15 years without any home front or backing of a regular army, and finally achieved the historic cause of national liberation.

The flames of national liberation struggle flared up more fiercely across the world, with the result that many colonial countries in Asia, Africa and Latin America achieved national independence in the 1960s and 1970s. 

 Unable to find a way out for his country’s national liberation struggle facing difficulties, Samora Machel, chairman of the Mozambique Liberation Front (Frelimo) and commander-in-chief of the Mozambican People’s Liberation Army, visited the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea in September 1971 to meet President               Kim Il Sung, who had defeated two imperialist powers in one generation.

When he met Machel, Kim Il Sung told him his opinions on the ways and means for winning victory in national liberation struggle, saying that they should take the initiative at all times even though the enemy went on the rampage and telling him the experiences had gained during the days of the anti-Japanese armed struggle.

Machel, after returning home, built up the internal forces of the Frelimo, set up secret guerrilla bases in the forests and delivered blows at the enemy by relying on them, thus putting an end to the colonial rule of hundreds of years and achieving national independence.

Declaring the complete independence of his country, he said at a conference: Thanks to the help President Kim Il Sung gave us, we were able to cut off the chains of colonial slavery which had shackled us as well as our ancestors and greet our liberation; let us extend thanks to him also on our ancestors’ behalf.

There are other stories.

Kim Il Sung performed great exploits also for the national liberation struggle in Zimbabwe, Uganda, Namibia and Angola. 

The chairman of the Nepalese Committee for Afro-Asian Solidarity, saying why people should attach particular importance to Korea’s liberation and approach it in relation to the world although many countries had freed themselves from colonial rule since the end of the Second World War, stressed:

It is because Korea’s liberation has exerted a decisive influence not only on the independent development of the Korean nation but also on the worldwide change. In the centre of this historical change was always President Kim Il Sung. The 20^th century was a course in which the world had been changed by dint of his ideology.

The exploits of President Kim Il Sung, who made a great contribution to accomplishing the cause of independence for mankind by opening a new era in national liberation struggle in colonial countries, will shine for ever.

 

Future of the DPRK reflected in Paintings of Children

  

Recently, the 31st International Competition and Exhibition of Children’s Painting and the 8th Asian Exhibition of Children’s Painting were held in Russia and China.

Tens of pieces of paintings of the children of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) took the first, second and third place at the exhibitions and their exceptional talents attracted attention of many participants.

DPRK children’s works were highly praised at the exhibitions as they run through with the themes of national tradition, love for nature, dynamic and true life.

This served as another occasion for the world to know the reality of the DPRK, the kingdom of children, and the bright future of the socialist system.

Media of several countries of the world reported that the Korean children fully demonstrated at the exhibitions their hopes and talents coming into full bloom under the superior socialist system of education.

While watching the works of prodigies, the audience expressed their great envy and admiration as follows: It is today’s reality where gifted children can hardly display their talents if their parents cannot afford it. There are still many poor prodigies in the world. Children are receiving a superior education and growing up happily under the ardent love of the esteemed General Secretary Kim Jong Un who always puts them in the first place and spares nothing for them even in the protracted global health crisis. These children, masters of future, will make Korea’s tomorrow brighter.

In human history, there have been educators who dedicated all their assets and life to the education of younger generation. And not a few politicians pledged to enact social welfare policy for children. But we cannot find such a benevolent father as the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un both in the past and present world.

He has a lofty affection and love for the children and firmly protects their bright future even in the face of manifold trials.

So all the children in DPRK, regardless of whoever and wherever they may be, are living their dreams and honing their talents to their hearts’ content in the advanced education system which discovers children’s budding talent even before their parents find it and train them to be the up-and-coming talent and genius.

The DPRK future will be brighter and rosier thanks to the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un, who is building up a grand flower garden of love for future.

Full-Service Ship and Water Park Tell

  

There is a full-service ship, named Mujigae, plying between Okryu and Taedonggang bridges on the picturesque Taedong River in the central part of Pyongyang, the capital city of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea.

The sightseeing vessel can accommodate over a thousand guests at a time, and offers Korean and famous foreign dishes. It has a variety of service facilities such as a Korean restaurant, coffee house, soft drinks stand, revolving restaurant and shop.

Saying that if a full-service ship furnished with various service and cultural facilities was built and put between Okryu and Taedonggang bridges on the Taedong River, it would serve as another cultural recreation centre for the people, Kim Jong Un, President of the State Affairs, went over its designs several times and solved problems arising in its building. Then he proposed naming it Mujigae (Rainbow).

One day in September 2015, he visited the newly-built ship and said: I feel relieved of the accumulated fatigue as I think that people will enjoy themselves cruising the Taedong on board it; I am happiest when the assets for the wellbeing of the people is created one after another.

There is also the Munsu Water Park. Sprawling 109 000 square metres on the bank of the Taedong River, the modern water park consists of indoor and outdoor pools with different slides, gym and other facilities. People can enjoy themselves there all year round.

Kim Jong Un personally proposed its construction and chose its site.

He paid close attention to all the details–taking measures against the winter cold, providing facilities and ensuring the best service for the people.

According to a designer who was engaged in the water park project, once   Kim Jong Un examined the formation plan of the park at dawn and visited the construction site again early in the morning. In this way he went over as many as 113 formation plans for the water park.

 

Anecdotes of the Days of the Anti-Japanese Struggle

  

During the days of the arduous anti-Japanese armed struggle in the first half of last century when Korea was under the military occupation of Japan (1905-1945), President Kim Il Sung (1912-1994) always shared weal and woe with the people without expecting any special favour or privilege for himself.

 

Commander Is also a Son of the People

One day in early April, 1933, the guerilla unit led by Kim Il Sung was having a rest in front of a farmer’s house in the vicinity of Liangshuiquanzi on the shore of the Tuman River. 

There was a wounded soldier in the unit. The guerrillas wanted to bring him into a warm room and knocked at the door of the house. But there was no answer.

Kim Il Sung covered the wounded soldier with his overcoat and took an axe to chop firewood.

Following him, some soldiers swept the yard and others hurried to make fire to prepare a meal.

Having never seen the guerrillas before, the host of the house and his wife had taken the guerrillas for Japanese soldiers and hid themselves inside the house. But after seeing what the guerrillas were doing, they ran out of the house.

Kim Il Sung courteously said hello to the old man, offered him a cigarette and asked about the living conditions of his family. 

He asked why they, apparently old-time farmers, were not raising chickens and could not buy fur caps for their children.

The man answered that it was because they were ill-starred.

Kim Il Sung explained that it was all because of the inhuman exploitation and plunder by the Japanese imperialists and landlords that the Koreans and Chinese were living in poverty like his family, and that the only way to be well off was to fight against the Japanese imperialists. 

Before leaving the house, Kim Il Sung gave some money to the old man.

It was only at that time when the old man came to know that he was General Kim Il Sung. He was surprised that the commander had chopped firewood himself. 

With a smile on his face Kim Il Sung said: The commander is also a son of the people; why should I not do what others do?

 

Price of Potato Paid

In the second half of April 1933, the food situation in the Wangqing guerrilla zone was very difficult.

Two guerrillas who had been dispatched on a mission to obtain food had to come back with empty hands for the enemy’s control was strict. After thinking much, they went to a harvested potato field. While digging the frozen earth hoping to collect remaining potatoes, they happened to find a potato cellar. 

They could not find the owner of the cellar, so they came back to the guerrilla zone each carrying a sack of potatoes.

On learning this, Kim Il Sung called the soldiers to him, and said: There is a strict rule in the guerrilla army which should never be violated in any circumstances however harsh they might be; it is the revolutionary discipline with regard to the masses of the people; how can we be called an army for the people and revolution if we lay hand on the people’s property on the excuse that our food situation is difficult; when we founded the Anti-Japanese People’s Guerrilla Army, we named it so in the sense that we should not forget the people even a moment, and put forward the revolutionary slogan “As fish cannot live without water, so the guerrillas cannot live without the people”; we should never put our hands on the property of the people even though we should die of hunger and cold; this is the strict rule of the guerrilla army which is made up of the sons and daughters of the people and fights for the interests of the people.

As they were remorseful for what they had done, Kim Il Sung told them to find the owner of the potato cellar, apologize to him and generously pay him for the potatoes.

It took them a long time to find the owner. They apologized to him and offered him a liberal amount of money for the potatoes even though he declined.

 

Price of an Axe Paid

It happened when the anti-Japanese guerrilla army was staying for several days in a village called Liangshuiquanzi on the shore of the Tuman River. 

Kim Il Sung stayed in the house of an old Chinese man. Every morning he would wake up earlier than the host and hostess, clean the house inside and outside, go to the Tuman and bring water from the hole he made on the frozen river.

One early morning he went to the river to fetch water. It was a very cold day and the water hole was frozen hard. When he had nearly finished making a hole in the ice, the head of the axe slipped from the handle and fell into the hole.

 He raked about for hours with a long pole with hooked prongs on its end, but it was in vain because the river was so deep. Though it had happened while he was doing the host a favour, he did not give up his search.

His soldiers told him that it would do if they paid the host for the axe.

Kim Il Sung said to them that no amount of money would be able to make up for the host’s loss of his cherished tool. He continued to search for the axe, but he could not find it.

Having nothing else to do, he generously paid the host for the axe and apologized to him again.

In May 1959, he asked a group of visitors to the battlefields of the anti-Japanese armed struggle in northeast China to find the whereabouts of the old man and apologize once again in his place.

August 25 and the Meaning of the Day for the DPRK

 

 

August 25, 1960 is the day when Chairman Kim Jong Il (1942-2011) commenced his leadership over the revolutionary armed forces of his country, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. The DPRK celebrates this day as a meaningful one.

 By leading the Korean People’s Army for several decades since then,     Kim Jong Il safeguarded the security of the country and regional peace and turned the DPRK into a world-class military power.

One of the important meanings of August 25 is that the day was a watershed in the effort to make the KPA an army loyal to the Workers’ Party of Korea and the leader. As is acknowledged by many military experts of the world, the spirits unique to the KPA including the thoroughgoing spirit of defending the country and the spirit of devotedly serving the people were formed and consolidated under the leadership of the WPK and Chairman Kim Jong Il.

When he inspected Seoul Ryu Kyong Su Guards 105^th Tank Division of the KPA on August 25, 1960, he attached the greatest importance to making the KPA an army absolutely faithful to the leadership of the WPK.

After his inspection of the tank division, he directed special attention to consolidating the WPK organs and other political bodies in the KPA and intensifying the ideological education of the service personnel. In the course of this the WPK’s command system, Kim Jong Il’s command system, was thoroughly established in the KPA.

Since the mid-1990s when the imperialists’ aggressive manoeuvres grew ever more undisguised and the country’s economic situation was difficult, Chairman Kim Jong Il firmly safeguarded socialism by placing the KPA in the vanguard. He continually visited KPA units, leading the service personnel to reliably defend the foremost posts of the country, and on the other hand, he dispatched them to major sites of economic construction so as to ensure that the KPA played a great role in laying a firm foundation for building the country into a socialist power.

Another meaning of August 25 is that the day made it possible to remarkably consolidate the fighting efficiency of the KPA and the nation’s defence capability, to creditably defend the sovereignty and dignity of the country.

Kim Jong Il energetically led the work for strengthening the fighting efficiency of the KPA with extraordinary strategic wisdom and outstanding art of command.

The DPRK always emerged victorious whenever the US made provocative manoeuvres including the incident of Pueblo, a US armed spy ship, and the incident of EC-121, a US large espionage plane, in the 1960s. The country owed these victories to his wise leadership.

There is another example.

In 1983 the US conducted the Team Spirit 83 joint military exercise which was planned to be climaxed with the landing of air-borne troops on an imaginary point in north Korea and gave wide publicity to the landing drill. Later the US, to its utter surprise, came to know that their dropping point was identical with the point Kim Jong Il had selected for the KPA to conduct an anti-air-borne troops drill.

Kim Jong Il directed great efforts to developing the national defence industry and thereby provided a guarantee that the KPA can win victory in confrontation with any enemy. With a noble sense of duty to defend the destiny of the country and people to the end, he channelled primary efforts into developing the national defence industry even in the period when the imperialists’ manoeuvres to isolate and stifle the DPRK went to extreme. Under his leadership the national defence industry of the DPRK developed into a modern and self-sufficient industry which can make necessary military equipment by its own efforts. In addition, the DPRK became a nuclear power. This ensured the strategic balance in the region and consolidated peace and security of the Korean peninsula.

In those days the US media organs commented that if a war broke out, over 70 percent of the population of south Korea would be killed and the total amount of loss would be worth 21 020 440 million dollars. The world media unanimously voiced that the formidable war deterrent of the DPRK improved the situation and safeguarded peace on the Korean peninsula.

 

 

Brilliant Victory Gained by Great People of DPRK National Meeting of Reviewing Emergency Anti-epidemic Work Held

  

Respected Comrade Kim Jong Un Makes Important Speech at Meeting

Pyongyang, August 11 (KCNA) -- All the people of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) are dynamically opening up a new phase of the comprehensive development of socialism and the building of the state anti-epidemic capability full of confidence and optimism about sure victory, successfully securing the favorable situation in the war against the malignant pandemic disease under the leadership of the great Party Central Committee.

In the course of putting an end to the severest pandemic-brought health crisis ever after the foundation of the country, the leadership and fighting efficiency of the Party and justice and scientific accuracy of the state anti-epidemic policy have been more clearly proved, the politico-ideological superiority of the Korean-style socialist system and the organizing ability and the might of unity peculiar to it fully displayed, and the people's trust in the Party Central Committee and their revolutionary faith and fighting will further deepened.

A national meeting of reviewing the emergency anti-epidemic work, convened by the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK) and the Cabinet of the DPRK, took place in the capital city of Pyongyang on Wednesday.

Kim Jong Un, general secretary of the WPK and president of the State Affairs of the DPRK, guided the meeting.

When the respected General Secretary appeared at the platform of the venue of the meeting, all the participants broke into enthusiastic cheers for him, peerless leader, who has vigorously led the Party, state and people to the final victory of the great anti-epidemic war with his tireless and devoted efforts and noble love for the future, out of his heavy duty for taking care of the destiny of the country and the people.

Attending the meeting were Kim Tok Hun, member of the Presidium of the Political Bureau of the C.C., WPK, vice-president of the State Affairs Commission of the DPRK and premier of the Cabinet, Pak Jong Chon, member of the Presidium of the Political Bureau and secretary of the C.C., WPK, and Ri Il Hwan, Pak Thae Song, Kim Yo Jong, Ri Chang Dae, Pak Su Il, Kim Yong Hwan and other senior officials of the Party and the government, officials in the anti-epidemic and public health sectors, the Party representatives and members of the Party guidance teams dispatched to border areas, commanding officers of the army units performing the blockade duty, members of the emergency anti-epidemic commands at all levels, the volunteers who contributed to the emergency anti-epidemic work, and officials of the relevant departments of the Party Central Committee.

Ri Yong Gil and officials in the emergency anti-epidemic sector of the Ministry of National Defence were present at the meeting.

The national anthem of the DPRK was solemnly played.

The respected Comrade Kim Jong Un made an important speech at the historic meeting that declares victory in the maximum emergency anti- epidemic campaign.

After making a general analysis of the anti-epidemic situation that has been encountered since the activation of the maximum emergency anti- epidemic system, he, on behalf of the Party Central Committee and the government of the DPRK, solemnly declared the victory in the maximum emergency anti-epidemic campaign for exterminating the novel coronavirus that had made inroads into our territory and protecting the lives and health of the people. He also offered warm congratulations and greetings of thanks to the people and the service personnel of the People's Army across the country who successfully concluded the great anti-epidemic campaign.

Affirming that the priceless victory gained by us constitutes the victory of our Party's anti-epidemic policy, the victory of our state's counter-crisis strategy, the victory of the tenacity and the single-minded unity peculiar to our people and the great victory brought by the advantageous Korean-style socialist system, he highly praised the workers in the anti-epidemic and public health sectors across the country and army medics for having dedicated all their strength, wisdom and sincerity to the hard and active work for bringing earlier the victory in the maximum emergency anti- epidemic campaign for protecting the security of the state and the people's wellbeing from the grave health crisis.

Analyzing and reviewing the invaluable successes, experience and lessons gained and drawn in the efforts for ceaselessly carrying out this year's plans in agricultural, constructional and key industrial sectors and for maintaining smooth progress in the overall state work under the emergency crisis situation, he clarified the principles and important tasks to be fulfilled in further consolidating the victory in the maximum emergency anti-epidemic campaign, maintaining the steel-strong anti-epidemic barrier and intensifying the anti-epidemic work until the end of the global health crisis.

Calling on the participants to creditably guarantee the security of the state and the people and dynamically accelerate the great historic cause for the comprehensive development of Korean-style socialism with firm conviction and optimism in our struggle and future, he wished all the most esteemed and beloved people good health and all the families across the country wellbeing.

When the General Secretary of the WPK concluded his speech, all the participants raised thunderous cheers of "Hurrah!" repeatedly, recollecting in tears the great exploits and devoted service for the people he has made to bring about a shining victory to be etched in history, steering the great and acute anti-epidemic war in the van with his death-defying will for the people's happiness and wellbeing.

The meeting heard a report made by Kim Tok Hun, member of the Presidium of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the WPK, vice-president of the State Affairs Commission of the DPRK and premier of the Cabinet.

Then, Ri Chung Gil, department director of the C.C., WPK who is commander of the state emergency anti-epidemic headquarters, Kim Yong Hwan, chief secretary of the Pyongyang City Committee of the WPK who is commander of the Pyongyang City emergency anti-epidemic division, Ri Yong Gil, minister of National Defence who is deputy commander of the emergency anti-epidemic division of the Ministry of National Defence, Ri Song Hak, vice-premier of the Cabinet, and Kim Yo Jong, vice department director of the WPK Central Committee, took the floor.

Saying with pride that our country had prevented the inroads of the malignant virus for two years and three months to hit a new record in the history of the anti-epidemic work despite the global health crisis and that it restored the complete stability in the anti-epidemic work in a short period, the reporter and speakers stressed this is a miracle unprecedented in the world's public health history.

They recalled that the Political Bureau of the Party Central Committee led by the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un, in its capacity as the de facto general headquarters for the anti-epidemic work, had led the anti-epidemic war to a great victory by focusing all the manpower, materials and sci-tech forces of the country on the anti-epidemic work after turning it into a sacred war for protection of the people just since the outbreak of the most serious emergency in which the malignant virus made inroads into the country.

Noting that the remarkable success in the great anti-epidemic war is the brilliant victory of the Party Central Committee's outstanding and seasoned guiding ability and of the people remaining faithful to the Party's idea and leadership, they extended warmest thanks in reflection of all the people's unanimous desire to the General Secretary who has reliably defended the security of the country and the people's wellbeing in the unprecedented health crisis.

They expressed their resolutions to demonstrate the dignity and might of our state to the full by thoroughly carrying into practice the new orientation of the anti-epidemic policy and tasks set forth by the Party Central Committee and putting spurs to the struggle for the comprehensive development of Korean-style socialist construction, keeping in mind the unshakable faith that only victory and glory are always in store on the road of following the General Secretary.

The national meeting of reviewing the emergency anti-epidemic work, held under the guidance of the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un, served as a grand gathering of the victors who demonstrated once again the power and spirit of heroic Korea vigorously advancing toward the bright future of Korean-style socialism in the face of any tempests of history, closely rallied in one mind around the great Party Central Committee, and as an important occasion for opening up a new development stage in building up the state anti-epidemic capability.

Respected Comrade Kim Jong Un Meets Officials and Scientists in Anti-epidemic and Public Health Sector

 

Pyongyang, August 11 (KCNA) -- Kim Jong Un, general secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea and president of the State Affairs of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, on August 10 met and congratulated exemplary officials and scientists in the anti-epidemic and public health sector who contributed to winning victory in the maximum emergency anti-epidemic campaign.

The participants could hardly repress their surging emotion resulting from the great happiness that they came to meet at the venue of the glorious meeting with the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un who reliably protected the wellbeing of the country and the people and demonstrated before the world the indomitable stamina of socialist Korea by bringing about a miraculous victory to be specially recorded in the world health history with his far-sighted wisdom and tirelessly energetic leadership.

Kim Jong Un gave pep-talks to those officials and scientists, who made a special contribution to the combat against the malignant epidemic during the maximum emergency anti-epidemic system, true to the popular and scientific anti-epidemic and health policies of the Party and the government, warmly taking hands of them one by one.

He said with high appreciation that the workers in the anti-epidemic and public health sector are the genuine patriots in our era, little different from the brave frontline fighters who devotedly defended the security of the country and the people at cost of their blood during the Fatherland Liberation War, as they have exerted all their energy, wisdom and sincerity on the struggle for protecting the lives of the people entrusted by the Party and the state.

Noting that they had played the biggest role in successfully defusing the serious epidemic spread crisis in the country and restoring the stable anti- epidemic situation, he said that the Party Central Committee holds the loyalty to the Party and the revolution, the devotion to the people and the responsibility for duty displayed by the red anti-epidemic and health workers of the Party more valuable than anything.

Saying that the Party's expectation for the workers and scientists in the anti-epidemic and public health sector, the defenders of our social system which is the best in the world and the reliable protectors of the people's lives, is very high, he stressed the need for them to enhance their responsibility and role in the work for ensuring that our people lead a long life in good health under the substantial benefits and protection by the best public health and anti-epidemic systems.

Expressing his belief that all the participants would meet the demands of the times and the revolution and make a positive contribution to the advance and development of the country by registering bigger successes in the anti-epidemic campaign while further consolidating the already-achieved victory with their invariable loyalty and spirit of devoted service to the people, he had a meaningful photo session with them.

Presenting their deep gratitude to him who personally brought about a great victory, being active as the commander-in-chief of the anti-epidemic war but bestows all honors on them, the participants pledged to work hard as befits a genuine communist who thoroughly embodies the advantages of our Party's policy and our social system in the anti-epidemic and public health practice, regarding the great trust of the Party Central Committee as the most valuable asset for life.

Respected Comrade Kim Jong Un Has Photo Session with Participants in National Meeting for Reviewing Emergency Anti-Epidemic Work

 

Pyongyang, August 11 (KCNA) -- 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 (DPRK), had a photo session with the participants in the national meeting for reviewing the emergency anti- epidemic work on Wednesday.

Attending the photo session were Kim Tok Hun, member of the Presidium of the Political Bureau of the WPK Central Committee, and Ri Chung Gil and Choe Kyong Chol.

The participants were filled with great excitement and joy of having a significant photo taken with the respected General Secretary

Kim Jong Un at the supreme temple of Juche, which would be kept as the honor all their lives, on the historic day that witnessed the declaration of a great victory in the maximum emergency anti-epidemic campaign for tiding over the grave health crisis by dint of the tremendous might of the single- minded unity of all the civilians and service personnel closely rallied around the great Party Central Committee.

When the General Secretary arrived at the venue of the photo session, all the participants raised thunderous cheers of "Hurrah!"

Looking up to the General Secretary with tears of great excitement in their eyes, all the participants paid the highest tribute to him, recollecting the painstaking efforts he made to firmly defend the dignity and security of our state and people, continuing his great journey of devoted service at the forefront for protecting the people out of his noble sense of duty and intense love for the country and the people, and with his great foresight, iron will, extraordinary decision and outstanding guidance.

The General Secretary extended his warm militant salute to the participants who have put the idea and determination of the Party Central Committee into thorough practice in the van of the all-people anti-epidemic front, upholding the Party line and policies as absolute truth and heartily responding to them.

Saying that the victory gained by our people is a historic event that once again showed the world what the greatness of our state, the indomitable tenacity of our people and the beautiful national customs we are proud of are like, he stressed that the strength of the unity of the Party and the people in one idea and faith and the bonds of kinship serves as the invincible revolutionary asset of Juche Korea that no other country can ever have or imitate and as a powerful treasured sword for breaking through any unprecedented hardship.

Expressing expectations that all the participants would consolidate the might of the most advantageous Korean-style socialist system in every way by turning the priceless victory in the maximum emergency anti-epidemic campaign into new source of energy for redoubled efforts to accelerate the bolstering of the state anti-epidemic capabilities, he had a photo taken with them.

All the participants renewed their firm will to dynamically accelerate the great historic cause of comprehensive development of socialism, more firmly defending the security of their precious country, life and hopeful future by dint of the indomitable spiritual strength and heroic mettle displayed to boldly overcome the worst-ever crisis under the guidance of the respected General Secretary.