DPRK NDC STATEMENT BLASTS U.S. WAR MOVES

Pyongyang, June 25 (KCNA) -- The National Defence Commission (NDC) of the DPRK issued a statement Thursday, 65 years since the U.S. imperialists ignited a war of aggression on this land. Many generations have replaced by others and the era has also changed but fragile state of ceasefire which is neither war nor peace persists on the Korean peninsula, the statement said, adding the U.S. imperialists' war moves have become serious by the minute.
Far back in the 1950s when the Cold War started, the U.S. launched the war with an intention to wipe out the DPRK after setting it as target "A" in the secret "War Plan A,B,C" and then to stretch the tentacles of aggression to the vast areas of China and the former Soviet Union, targets "B" and "C". The U.S. ambition still lingers on the Korean peninsula as a ghost of aggression and war. This is reflected in the U.S. hostile policy toward the DPRK, war acts pursuant to it and strategic move for laying a siege to the Asian continent.
The U.S. design to politically isolate and stifle the DPRK has reached extremity pursuant to the strategy.
Far from drawing a lesson from the defeat in the war in the 1950s, the U.S. has intensified isolation, blockade and suffocation of the DPRK in a bid to ignite the second Korean war. As the U.S. imperialists' moves have reached a serious phase that can no longer be overlooked, the NDC of the DPRK said as follows:
We state to the world that the army and people of the DPRK will launch a nationwide anti-U.S. struggle on a new higher stage to foil the U.S. imperialists' hostile policy toward the DPRK and their unprecedented moves to isolate and stifle it.
June 25 indicts the U.S. imperialists for their ferocity, cruelty and barbarity and makes the army and people of the DPRK to give vent to the pent-up wrath and hatred. What matters is that the U.S. imperialists are working with bloodshot eyes to make the past crime-woven history repeat itself by igniting another war, far from apologizing with their knees bent for their thrice-cursed crimes. The U.S. is bracing for a nuclear war and even a modern germ warfare to exterminate the Korean people.
The new stage of the anti-U.S. struggle will lead to a just confrontation for ending the long history of the DPRK-U.S. stand-off for the victory of the DPRK.
2. The U.S. should, though belatedly, repeal its hostile policy toward the DPRK that can never come true, and raise a white flag before history and the Korean people.
The army and people of the DPRK are not what they used to be in the past when they had no state, being under the jackboots of outsiders as they had not enough rifles and swords. The U.S. had better face up to the reality and stop running amuck. It would be the best policy for it to immediately repeal its desperate hostile policy toward the DPRK. It has to withdraw the war scenario targeting the DPRK and stop the reckless nuclear war racket which it has kicked up on the land and in the sea and air. The U.S. had better look back with a cool head what its hostile policy toward the DPRK has entailed.
It should pay heed to the warning of the DPRK that it is ready for a conventional war, nuclear war and cyber warfare. The only way for the U.S. to take is to make apology before the army and people of the DPRK and hoist a white flag.
3. We appeal to the world to turn out in the worldwide anti-U.S. struggle to dismember the gangster U.S. imperialists.
The U.S. is the most shameless chieftain of aggression and war and ill-famed architect of provocation and destruction. It is not time to get afraid of the U.S. bluffing, blindly add voice to the U.S. unreasonable and brigandish sophism and dance to the tune of the U.S. acts of destruction and disturbance. It is still not time to take to flunkeyism and submit to the U.S. to echo whatever it says. Whoever truly hopes for global peace and regional stability has to set right at an early date the dangerous situation on this planet plagued with bloodshed, disputes and upheavals by the U.S. imperialists.
Asia should turn out to cut off the U.S. right hand, Africa should rise up to cut off the U.S. left land, the Mid-east has to cut off the U.S. ankles and Europe has to cut off the U.S. neck. The whole world has to pool efforts to dismember the fatty monster U.S. imperialists. The U.S. is just like a paper tiger easy to be crushed and set on fire.
Whoever truly wishes for durable peace in the world, welfare of humankind and lasting security of posterity has to turn out in the anti-U.S. struggle in high spirits. The DPRK will invariably stand in the van of the worldwide just struggle against the U.S. to build a peaceful world and defend genuine life of humankind.

KIM JONG UN WATCHES NIGHT NAVAL FIRE STRIKE DRILL OF KPA

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, watched night naval fire strike drill of navy warship sub-unit and ground artillery sub-units.

Involved in the drill were ground artillery sub-units under the KPA 10th Corps and various type combat warships of the East Sea Fleet of the KPA Navy.

Kim Jong Un was briefed on the real time sea monitoring and firepower command system device newly studied and developed by the KPA before mounting an observation post.

He heard the reports of the commander of the KPA 10th Corps and the commander of the East Sea Fleet of the KPA Navy on their determination to fulfill their duties to make night firepower strikes and issued an order to start the drill.

Naval bombardment was kicked off and various type ground artillery pieces including multiple rockets opened fire at the "enemy" warships intruding into the waters of the DPRK all of a sudden under the cover of pitch darkness and dense fog.

He was pleased to watch the artillery pieces and warships mercilessly hit the naval targets through rapid firing and volley of firing. He appreciated their high concentrated firing, adding shells seemed to have eyes.

He was satisfied with the successful night fire strike drill staged under the operational plan and intention of the supreme command.

The drill could prove successful thanks to the positive efforts made by the commanding officers of the KPA to bring about a turning phase in rounding off the combat preparations.

Noting that the KPA's study and development of the real-time naval monitoring and firepower commanding system are of weighty importance in staging trainings under the simulated conditions of an actual war and putting them on a scientific and modern basis, he said the KPA has settled military scientific and technological issues capable of putting all enemy moves under control and wiping out all of them in the territorial waters of the country.

He highly praised the officials and researchers of the unit managed by Nam In Bok for contributing to providing a firm military guarantee for successfully defending the territorial waters and conducting naval battles.

He set forth the tasks to be fulfilled which would serve as guidelines for taking the Juche-based military idea of Generalissimos, Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il and their behests as the eternal guiding principles and carry out them to the letter and developing the KPA into elite revolutionary powerful army.

KIM JONG UN ENJOYS ART PERFORMANCE GIVEN BY KPA SERVICE PERSONNEL

Pyongyang, June 15 (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, enjoyed an art performance given by the art squads of KPA Units 526, 762, 534 and 380 which proved successful at the second contest among art squads of the KPA corps.

Put on the stage were diverse numbers.

The performers sang high praises of the undying exploits President Kim Il Sung and leader Kim Jong Il performed by laying an eternal foundation for the prosperity of thriving Korea under the uplifted banner of Songun, and made an impressive artistic representation of the proud service personnel of the KPA dynamically advancing toward the final victory under the commandership of Kim Jong Un.

The audience was mesmerized by the performance.

Kim Jong Un was greatly pleased to enjoy the performance high in its ideological and artistic value staged by the art squad members with art pieces of high cognitional and instructive significance as they vividly reflected the political matters advanced by the Party.

He extended the thanks of the supreme commander to the creators and artistes of those units for successfully staging the performance with pieces representing the ardent love of the service personnel for the homeland and their ambition to perform feats.

Noting the art squads of the KPA corps are playing the role of a mike of the Party, he indicated tasks to be fulfilled by them.

He called for creating and staging more pieces conducive to fully training the service personnel of the KPA to be core elements equipped with Kimilsungism-Kimjongilism, those dealing with the issues that should be always held fast to in the ideological education of the KPA including the five-point education, those helpful to raising the revolutionary and class awareness and those dealing with the relations between the army and the people, the unity between officers and men and revolutionary optimism.

Among the audience were Hwang Pyong So, Pak Yong Sik, Ri Yong Gil, Ryom Chol Song, Yun Tong Hyon, Pak Jong Chon and service personnel of the KPA.

KIM JONG UN WATCHES NEW TYPE ANTI-SHIP ROCKET LAUNCHING DRILL

Pyongyang, June 15 (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, watched a drill of firing new type anti-ship rockets.

The rockets, which were developed at the ultra-modern level, are being deployed at the naval units of the KPA to go into action.

At an observation post he received a report on the drill plan and gave an order to start the drill.

Then rockets soared into the sky in order.

Kim Jong Un watched with great attention the flight of the rockets on a display.

The highly intelligent rockets safely flew at the designated altitude, accurately detecting and hitting the "enemy" warship.

He expressed great satisfaction, saying the rockets accurately hit the target and their capability for discerning target is very high.

Saying the capabilities of the new type anti-ship rockets being deployed at the naval units of the KPA to go into action have been fully demonstrated through the drill, he noted with great pleasure that it marked another fresh milestone in bolstering up the Juche-based naval force and the KPA navy's operational capability has been remarkably increased with the drill as a momentum.

Ultra-modern strike means of Korean style have been studied and developed one after another recently to completely contain the hostile forces, he said, adding that this is a proud fruition of the devoted efforts of the scientists, technicians and munitions industrial workers in the field of defence science.

He indicated tasks to be fulfilled to further beef up the KPA navy and bring the defence science and technology of the country to a world level.

STATEMENT OF THE GOVERNMENT OF THE DEMOCRATIC PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF KOREA (15 June 2015)

The DPRK government Monday released a statement to mark the 15th anniversary of the north-south summit, the first of its kind in the history of national division, and the publication of the June 15 joint declaration.

Leader Kim Jong Il provided the Pyongyang summit and adopted the June 15 joint declaration true to the noble intention of President Kim Il Sung who dedicated all his life to the cause of national reunification. It marked a historic event which brought about a turning-point in improving the north-south relations and achieving national reunification, the statement notes, and continues:

The publication of the June 15 joint declaration made it possible for the north and the south of Korea to defuse the distrust and confrontation which had lasted for more than half century and greet a new era advancing toward reconciliation, unity and reunification by concerted efforts of the Koreans.

Had the north-south relations made steady advance along the way indicated by the June 15 joint declaration, eye-opening changes and successes would have been achieved in the drive for national reunification, the desire of the Korean nation.

However, the north-south relations were brought back to the era of confrontation in the past due to the despicable moves of the Lee Myung Bak conservative group which totally denied the north-south joint declarations and this catastrophe has reached a grave phase at present.

Upon the authorization the DPRK government in its statement clarifies the following stand, prompted by the will to save the north-south relations from a serious crisis and bring about a landmark turn in national reconciliation and unity:

1. It is necessary to have a firm stand to improve the north-south relations and solve the reunification issue independently by the concerted efforts of the Korean nation.

It is the basic spirit of the June 15 joint declaration to solve issues related to the inter-Korean relations and the matter of the country's reunification independently by the concerted efforts of the Korean nation responsible for it.

The north and the south should settle all the issues arising in improving the inter-Korean relations and achieving reunification in line with the interests and desire of the nation with strong national self-respect.

The south Korean authorities should stop soliciting "international cooperation" to hurt the fellow countrymen in the north by relying on outside forces, not leaving the national issue to their tender mercy.

They should come out for improving the inter-Korean relations and solving the reunification issue by the concerted efforts of the Koreans.

2. The south Korean authorities should not seek "unification of social systems" inciting distrust and confrontation between the north and the south.

Now that differing ideologies and social systems have existed in the north and the south for the past seven decades, any attempt to achieve reunification under one social system would bring nothing but confrontation and war.

The north and the south recognized the common points in the north-proposed federation of lower stage and the south-proposed confederation in the June 15 joint declaration and agreed to work for reunification in this direction.

The south Korean authorities should clearly understand that the co-existence and co-prosperity of the north and the south irrespective of ideology and social systems are the most reasonable and realistic way for national reunification.

3. The south Korean authorities should stop north-targeted war exercises in collusion with the U.S.

The south Korean authorities staged ceaseless war rehearsals against the north such as Key Resolve and Foal Eagle joint military exercises in league with the U.S., chilling the desire of all Koreans for reunification and scuppering the golden chances for improving the inter-Korean relations.

The inter-Korean relations can never improve nor can the Korean peninsula get rid of the danger of a nuclear war as long as these military threat and provocations persist.

The south Korean authorities should halt such dangerous act as leaving the life and safety of the Koreans exposed to the war shambles of aggressors as a shock brigade in carrying out the U.S. strategy for dominating the Asia-Pacific region.

There is no need for them to feel any uneasiness and fear of the DPRK's self-defensive deterrence for protecting the dignity, stability and peace of the nation but they should discontinue acts of treachery of taking issue with it.

They should put a definite end to all military drills with the U.S. and come out for defending peace and stability on the Korean peninsula by the concerted efforts of the Korean nation.

4. It is necessary to create a climate for mending the north-south relations.

Slandering each other is a venomous practice fostering distrust and hatred towards fellow countrymen and such practice, if unchecked, may lead to physical conflict and war.

The south Korean authorities should not just pay lip-service to "confidence-building " and "improvement of relations" but stop all provocations of rattling the nerves of the DPRK and slandering it.

The south Korean authorities should boldly remove the legal and institutional barriers blocking north-south contacts, visits, exchange and cooperation and create environment favorable for repairing the relations.

5. The north and the south should take practical measures to implement the historic north-south joint declarations.

The June 15 joint declaration and the October 4 declaration are valuable agreements made at the summits of the north and the south for the improvement of the relations and co-prosperity and solemn promises made by the north and the south authorities to the nation.

If the north-south joint declarations should be denied and their implementation suspended because of regime changes, no issue can be settled between the north and the south in the future.

The south Korean authorities should not just pay lip-service to respect for the June 15 joint declaration and the October 4 declaration but prove it in practice.

The south Korean authorities should bear in mind that they are now standing at the crossroads: Whether they join hands with the north to repair the inter-Korean relations or they will meet the same miserable end as what their predecessors did while standing in confrontation with the north to the last.

Consistent is the stand of the DPRK to pave a wide avenue to independent reunification by bringing about a great turn in the north-south relations.