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No 41/24 October 26, 2024
1. Vice Foreign Minister of DPRK Clarifies Stand on Rumor of Troop Dispatch to Russia 2. Press Statement of External Policy Office Chief of DPRK Foreign Ministry 3. G7 Is Developing into Global War Contractor Group: KCNA Commentary
Vice Foreign Minister of DPRK Clarifies Stand on Rumor of Troop Dispatch to Russia Pyongyang, October 25 (KCNA) -- Kim Jong Gyu, vice foreign minister of the DPRK in charge of Russian affairs, gave the following answer to a question raised by KCNA on Friday as regards a rumor that the troops of the Korean People's Army are dispatched to Russia which is recently drawing public attention in the world: I heeded the rumor of the dispatch of KPA troops to Russia, which the world media is building up public opinion. The DPRK Foreign Ministry does not directly engage in the things of the Ministry of National Defence, and does not feel the need to confirm it separately. If there is such a thing that the world media is talking about, I think it will be an act conforming with the regulations of international law. There will evidently exist forces which want to describe it as illegal one, I think.
Press Statement of External Policy Office Chief of DPRK Foreign Ministry Pyongyang, October 26 (KCNA) -- The chief of the External Policy Office of the Foreign Ministry of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea Saturday released the following press statement titled "The U.S. will be held wholly responsible for pushing the situation on the Korean peninsula to an uncontrollable one": Amid the extreme tension prolonging on the Korean peninsula due to the recent crucial provocation of the ROK against the DPRK, the U.S. more openly reveals its military confrontational attempt against the DPRK. From October 21, the U.S., together with the ROK military warmongers, has staged a large-scale joint air drill Freedom Flag by drawing the Australian Air Force into the Korean peninsula. And it has resorted to extreme confrontation hysteria, openly claiming that the purpose of the drill is aimed at the DPRK. The U.S. and the ROK are trumpeting that they would master the compound operation capability by mobilizing fighters and drones for the first time and conduct exercises for increasing the survivability in airborne infiltration into an enemy's position through the large-scale joint air drill which integrates the annual combined joint formation drill and a joint air drill Vigilant Defense. The military drill of the U.S. and the ROK, which shows the offensive and aggressive nature more vividly in its scale, content and character, is a very dangerous military provocation aimed at preemptive and surprise strike at the DPRK. The U.S. is staging "joint air re-supply drill" and "joint river-crossing drill" with the ROK and a large-scale marine corps' joint military drill Keen Sword with Japan. At the same time, it is further escalating the military tension while dispatching the super-large nuclear carrier George Washington task force around the Korean peninsula. We strongly denounce the U.S. hostile act of resorting to reckless military demonstration with its allies, not content with the present political and military tension on the Korean peninsula which is exposed to the danger of a touch-and-go explosion, as a clear threat and a grave provocation to the security of the region. The U.S. can never cover up its criminal nature of driving the situation on the Korean peninsula into an uncontrollable one with any rhetoric. It is a fact known to the world that the ROK committed illegal and grave provocation of openly infiltrating military attack means into the sky above a sovereign state under the shelter of "military cooperation" with someone. The DPRK keeps in sight the dark shadow of the U.S. which is hidden behind the fearless provocative acts of the ROK. The U.S. has patronized the ROK's scattering of political motivational rubbish over the territory of the DPRK as the so-called "freedom of expression" and instigated the bellicose hysteria of its ally with frequent deployment of strategic assets and ceaseless joint military drills. The U.S. confrontation history will be exactly recorded and calculated. If a situation that no one wishes is created on the Korean peninsula, the U.S., the arch criminal and mastermind escalating the tension in the region, will be held wholly responsible for it.
G7 Is Developing into Global War Contractor Group: KCNA Commentary Pyongyang, October 25 (KCNA) -- G7 that has come under worldwide criticism recently held a meeting of defense ministers in Napoli of Italy for the first time in its history. At the recent confab attended by the defense ministers of G7 and even representatives of the European Union and NATO under the manipulation of the U.S., they made public a "joint statement" inciting the inter-camp confrontation, while making reckless remarks that the "framework of international security has been plunged into graver danger" by such independent and sovereign states as the DPRK, Russia and China. G7, formed as a group for the interests of a few countries to facilitate the "economic buildup" of the West in the 1970s, held a meeting of defense ministers, the first of its kind, which is unfit for its "mission and duty". The "moneymaking group", which is not entitled to represent the international community and "supervise or control" the sovereign states in terms of its structure, impudently dealt with global security. This shows that G7 has turned definitely into a "club of war", not a "club of economy". It is a vivid manifestation of the double standards, a wanton challenge to international peace and an open declaration of new Cold War in the world that they justify the expansion of their defense industry and term sovereign states' exercise of legitimate rights "threats", while talking about "incompatibility-brought confrontation". Today G7 has become the primary political servant for ensuring the U.S. hegemony. G7's grave moves to further foster and expand the war of aggression under the pompous signboard of "international security and prosperity" are getting ever more undisguised in the Korean peninsula. G7's interference in the Korean peninsula issue actually means the military expansion of NATO, the global war alliance. NATO has invited the puppet ROK to its summit since 2022 and its secretary general was recently closeted with puppet Yoon Suk Yeol to discuss the intensified "cooperation system" against the DPRK. Meanwhile, Western countries, NATO member states and member states of G7, which account for the backbone of the U.S.-led “UN Command”, are directly involved in the war drills for aggression against the DPRK. Western countries are working hard to make the flames of war in Europe spill over into Asia, claiming "Asia and Europe are inseparable in terms of security". This grave reality seriously teaches that G7 has rapidly developed into a global "war contractor group". The U.S. is now scheming to establish an axis of war serving its strategy for hegemony by rallying all its servants, including G7, in which war criminal states that inflicted huge damage on mankind in the last century hold a majority, and NATO, the worst-ever group seeking military confrontation. G7 is committing an act of robbing others in broad daylight without shame and getting increasingly vocal in condemning someone's measures for bolstering up self-defensive capabilities. It had better look at its despicable image reflected in the eyes of the international community before pointing an accusing finger at others. The more desperately G7, which is no more than a "shadow" of the U.S., slanders the DPRK's policy of the state nuclear force, bereft of reason, the more clearly it will betray its criminal colors as a harasser of peace, confrontation maniac and war merchant. Explicitly speaking again, those who seek to deprive the DPRK of its inviolable right will have to pay a high price for it.
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