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No 65/23 August 10, 2023
1. 7th Enlarged Meeting of 8th Central Military Commission of WPK Held
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3. Structures Associated with the Exploits of the Young People of Korea
4. Mural Tombs of Koguryo–World Cultural Heritage
7th Enlarged Meeting of 8th Central Military Commission of WPK Held
Pyongyang, August 10 (KCNA) -- The Central Military Commission of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK) convened an enlarged meeting to discuss an important issue of making the army more thoroughly gird for a war given the grave political and military situation prevailing in the Korean peninsula.
The 7th Enlarged Meeting of the 8th Central Military Commission of the WPK took place at the office building of the Central Committee of the WPK on August 9.
Kim Jong Un, general secretary of the WPK, chairman of the Central Military Commission of the WPK and president of the State Affairs of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), guided the enlarged meeting.
Attending it were members of the Central Military Commission of the WPK. And present there as observers were commanders of the Korean People's Army (KPA) services, commanding officers of the frontline corps and units in charge of important duties, and cadres of the relevant departments of the WPK Central Committee.
The enlarged meeting analyzed the military moves of the chief culprits of deteriorated situation that disturb peace and stability in the Korean peninsula and its vicinity, and decided on the plans for offensive military countermeasures to thoroughly deter them. It also discussed as its major agenda item the issues of making full war preparations to neutralize at a blow the enemy attack with overwhelming strategic deterrence and launch simultaneous offensive military actions in contingency.
The present situation, in which the hostile forces are getting ever more undisguised in their reckless military confrontation with the DPRK, requires the latter's army to have more positive, proactive and overwhelming will and thoroughgoing and perfect military readiness for a war.
The meeting examined a plan of forming frontline operation groups reinforced to overwhelmingly contain and destroy the enemy with absolutely superior military strategy, tactics and muscle in contingency, and the operational tasks to be fulfilled in carrying it out. It also deeply studied and discussed the military measures for diversifying the operational executive capabilities of frontline units and mapping out more detailed operational plans.
On the basis of the results of the discussion, the Central Military Commission of the WPK issued important military action guidelines applicable to the enlarged and changed operational sphere and plans of the frontline units of the KPA. It also unanimously decided on the military and practical issues arising in proactively conducting actual war drills for fulfilling the new strategic mission and making full preparations for carrying out the operation plans any time.
The respected Comrade Kim Jong Un signed the written order on the important military measures discussed and decided by the Central Military Commission of the WPK.
He deeply summarized and analyzed the present situation of the Korean peninsula and its vicinity and made an important conclusion on further stepping up the war preparations of the KPA in an offensive way.
Saying that to prepare a strong army is the key to implementing the military strategic plan of the Party Central Committee for containing the enemy's use of military muscle in advance and neutralize all forms of its attack at once in case of the outbreak of a war, he called for securing more powerful strike means for carrying out the mission of war deterrence and continuously intensifying the work for deploying them in the units for action in a mobile way.
He also called for actively conducting actual war drills to efficiently operate newly deployed latest weapons and equipment to ensure that they would display the maximum effect in combat, and radically increasing the KPA's capabilities for fighting a war by making it keep its mobilized posture for combat all the time.
Saying that the munitions factories have a very important duty to strengthen the KPA in terms of military technology, he underlined the need for all the munitions industrial establishments to push ahead with the mass-production of various weapons and equipment in real earnest to satisfy the operational demand of the KPA undergoing modernization, and set forth the goal for the expansion of the weaponry production capacity and the weaponry production plan.
The enlarged meeting dealt with the organizational matter of dismissing General Pak Su Il from the post of the chief of the General Staff and appointing Vice Marshal Ri Yong Gil as new chief of the General Staff, and of dismissing, transferring to other posts or newly appointing some leading commanding officers.
It also discussed a series of important tasks facing the armed forces of the DPRK, including the issue of making preparations for the successful militia parade marking the 75th founding anniversary of the DPRK.
The 7th Enlarged Meeting of the 8th Central Military Commission of the WPK serves as a significant occasion in providing a firm military guarantee for victory in war by setting forth the substantive programs for the KPA to overpower the enemy by taking firm strategic and tactical initiative in modern warfare.
A dwelling house is a place where people would really feel at home.
A British newspaper recently reported on the shortage of dwellings emerging as a serious issue in Scotland: The number of the homeless living in the open and that of living in vulnerable conditions are on the steady increase there.
15, 000 households are reportedly living in temporary shelters, and 7, 010 out of them have at least one family member in need of government aid.
The thing is, among them, there are 4, 272 people with mental disorders, 903 with physical disability, 529 with learning disability, 1, 491 suffering from diseases, 1, 758 drug or alcohol addicts, and 110-odd pregnant women.
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights stipulates that everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself and of his family, including food, clothing, housing and medical care. And the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights stipulates that the States Parties to the Covenant recognize the right of everyone to an adequate standard of living for himself and his family, including adequate food, clothing and housing, and to the continuous improvement of living conditions.
Though the Scottish government expressed its “will” to take emergency relief measures, commenting that it is an issue of a serious concern that so many families are living in temporary shelters and so many pregnant women are in need of assistance, there’s still this question of possibility, considering that the capitalist society, a money-almighty society, gives precedence to monopolistic high profits of the capitalists and egoistic profit-making and pleasure over the guaranteeing of the most basic right to existence of the popular masses.
Capitalist countries have a number of glittering streets as well. However, as a European proverb goes, “all that glitters is not gold”. Shantytowns are shadowed by skyscrapers; miserable situation where the homeless have no other choice but to wander around or live in rented rooms beneath the advertisement board for rapid economic development; the commonplace occurrence of marching demonstrators, the enraged people who rise up and out in the streets - these are the reflections of the anatomical chart of the capitalist society.
In contrast, downtown quarters of socialism such as Changjon Street, Mirae Scientists Street, Ryomyong Street, Songhwa Street and Kyongryu-dong are built one after another boasting of their shiny appearances in the urban areas of our country and villages of socialist fairyland are showing off their characteristic beauties in the rural areas – all under the wise leadership of respected Comrade Kim Jong Un.
Houses are vacated in capitalist countries due to skyrocketing house rent and ordinary people do not even dream about moving in. In our country however, dwelling houses built at great expense by the state are allocated to ordinary working people free of charge – a dreamlike reality.
New streets and fairyland villages are now built one after another boasting of socialist civilization. They are indeed the precious outcome of the noble outlook on people and the supreme desire of our respected Comrade Kim Jong Un who upholds our people as the most precious being in the world to embrace them warmly and take care of them tenderly. Under his warm care, our people will lead a happy life, fulfilling their cherished desires on this land.
Structures Associated with the Exploits of the Young People of Korea
There are many structures named after the word youth in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea.
In early 1970 a railway project connecting the eastern and western parts of the DPRK was launched according to the initiative of President Kim Il Sung (1912-1994).
The amount of work was enormous: building 88km of roadbed, removing 3 130 000m3 of earth, building 11 tunnels and 42 bridges, installing over 260 structures, setting up 9 railway stations, laying 479km of communication cables and laying 83km of railway. The project period was supposed to be at least six years.
However, the young builders accomplished 50% of the entire project within seven months.
They conquered the rugged Masikryong Mountains whose peaks rise more than 1 000 metres above sea level on average, blasting 300 000m3 and 600 000m3 of earth at a time.
More than 9 340 technical innovation plans and advanced work methods were conceived and introduced, saving labour and increasing the speed of the project by 2-3 times. The project was finished in a little over one year, not six years.
In appreciation of the exploits of the young builders, Kim Il Sung named the new railway Ichon Youth Railway Line, and sent a congratulatory message to them.
During the project 50 young people were awarded citations of President Kim Il Sung, and 13 Labour Heroes and many recipients of state decorations were produced.
The building of a road between Pyongyang and Nampho began in November 1998.
The days were trying; the allied imperialist forces were attempting to stifle the socialist DPRK and natural disasters hit the country for several consecutive years.
Tens of thousands of young people from all over the country volunteered for the project true to the far-reaching plan of the Workers’ Party of Korea.
As they lacked machinery, they built the roadbed with sledge hammers and gads.
During the nearly 700 days of the project, the builders piled up 14 000 000m3 of earth, built many bridges and other structures, paved several million square metres of road and created a 30m-wide green area on both sides of the road, planting 1 330 000 trees of 60 species. They planted turf on 800 000m2 of ground, created 75 000m2 of flowerbed, improved 33 places of rivers and streams, planted grape vines in an area of 163 636m2, and set up over 60 new villages by building 3 600 houses, all along the road.
In October 2000, in order to convey the exploits of the young people, the then Presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly of the DPRK issued a decree on naming the road as the Youth Hero Road.
Building the Paektusan Hero Youth Power Station in the northern part of Korea was a nature-harnessing project unprecedented in terms of the amount of workload, and it was to be conducted under the most difficult conditions in the history of building hydropower stations in the DPRK.
Kim Jong Un, president of the State Affairs of the DPRK, visited the construction site in April 2015, illustrating the detailed ways to step up the project and giving the task to complete it by the 70th anniversary of the Workers’ Party of Korea, which was founded on October 10, 1945.
The young people worked day and night to live up to his trust; when they were short of means of transport, they transported building materials with bags and sledges, and when machinery were not available, they built dams and dug waterway tunnels inch by inch breaking rocks with sledge hammers and gads.
Thus, they managed to carry out within some 120 days the amount of work equal to what they had done in the previous 10 years.
On his visit to the construction site in September 2015 before the commissioning of the power station, Kim Jong Un spoke highly of the exploits of the young people, and suggested naming it the Paektusan Hero Youth Power Station.
A new street is under construction in the Sopho area, the northern gateway to Pyongyang, the capital of the DPRK.
It is an important project to build a street of more than 4 000 flats in the area, which is being carried out in addition to the project to construct 10 000 flats in the city in 2023 according to the plan of building 50 000 flats in the city, set forth at the Eighth Congress of the WPK.
Speaking at the ground breaking ceremony of the project in February this year, Kim Jong Un said: Our Party has decided to arrange a new theatre of activity, a grand theatre for our young people, where they can fully display their burning patriotic zeal once again in the course of giving a spur to the comprehensive development of socialist construction; it has decided to entrust the Socialist Patriotic Youth League and Paektusan Hero Youth Shock Brigade with the whole of the project.
Miracles
and innovations are being created each day in the construction site by many
young people who have volunteered from all parts of the country.
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Mural Tombs of Koguryo–World Cultural Heritage
Among the cultural heritage of the Korean nation are the mural tombs of Koguryo (277 BC -668 AD), the first feudal state of Korea.
The tombs, showing high skills of architecture and painting of the people of Koguryo, are preserved well according to the DPRK policy on national relics.
The 28th session of the UNESCO World Heritage Committee decided in July 2004 to register 63 mural tombs of Koguryo as world cultural heritage for the diversified structure of coffin chambers and the rich contents of the murals.
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