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No 29/24
Aug 26, 2024
1. Respected Comrade Kim Jong Un Inspects Construction of
Regional-Industry Factories
2. Respected Comrade Kim Jong
Un Oversees Performance Test of Drones
3. Press Statement of
Spokesperson for DPRK Foreign Ministry
4. White Paper of Disarmament
and Peace Institute of DPRK Foreign Ministry on NATO's Criminal Colors
5. Statement by Chief of
Foreign News Section of Department of Press and Information of DPRK Foreign
Ministry
Respected Comrade Kim Jong Un Inspects Construction of
Regional-Industry Factories
Pyongyang, August 26 (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, gave field
guidance at various regional-industry factories under construction on August 24
and 25.
He was accompanied by Jo Yong Won, Pak
Jong Chon, Kim Jae Ryong, Pak Thae Song, O Su Yong, Ju Chang Il, Kim Chol Sam
and Kim Hwa Song, leading officials of the Central Committee of the WPK.
He was greeted by commanding officers of
the military units involved in the construction of industrial factories in the
relevant regions.
Watching the plans for layouts of
industrial factories and greenery in the regions, he was briefed on the
progress made in construction projects by the commanding officers. Then he
inspected the construction sties.
It seems as if I pressed the detonator
at a groundbreaking ceremony heralding the arrival of a new era of regional
development a few days ago, but factories have already taken shape, he said,
expressing great satisfaction over the fact that the overall construction
project has been carried out at over 80 percent.
Examining carefully whether the
construction of factories was done as specified in the production line designs
to ensure smooth operation of equipment and maximum labor productivity, their
interior walls were insulated to retain heat and exterior tiling was done impeccably,
he estimated the quality level of construction.
Saying that builders should never
neglect the improvement of quality in construction, a policy requirement, as
they may done so, carried away by the single desire to finish the construction
of factories earlier, he called for building the regional-industry factories,
which the Party promised to the people and the People's Army pledged to present
to them as gift, to be impeccable even in the distant future. To this end, it
is necessary to make higher demands on the field commanding officers and
construction control organs and further enhance their roles, he added.
Watching the soldier-builders' skilled
work for a while, he instructed the accompanying officials to provide them with
better working and living conditions and further intensify the frontline-style
agit-prop activities to give full play to their mental power.
He underlined the need for the
provincial, city and county Party organizations and people's committees at
different levels to conduct the preparatory work, such as establishment of raw
material supply bases and training of skilled workers, in a responsible manner
so as to keep the factories in full-capacity operation after the completion of
their buildings so that the regional people would benefit from them.
Setting forth a new policy of
accelerating the implementation of the historic cause of regional rejuvenation
by pushing ahead the building of public health facilities, sci-tech learning
spaces and grain management stations, simultaneously with the on-going
construction of regional-industry factories, in order to hasten the
accomplishment of the Regional Development 20×10 Policy for bringing about a
remarkable improvement in the regional economy and people's living standard, he
clarified the decision of the Party Central Committee to make crucial measures
to carry it out.
Pointing out that the Party made a
crucial decision in such a harsh period as now as it is indispensable to
bringing earlier a new era of epochal development and comprehensive development
to all regions at the same time, he said that it would be most reasonable to
complete the sci-tech learning spaces and finish the framework construction of
hospitals and grain management stations, occasioned by the deployment of
People's Army units in the relevant regions for construction of their
industrial factories, and take state-sponsored measures to inaugurate the
hospitals and grain management stations later in yearly order.
It is arising as the most essential task
to be fulfilled without fail to successfully build large-scale modern hospitals
in cities and counties of the regions, where the modernization level of public
health faculties are relatively lower than those of the capital city, so as to
promote the health of the regional people, he said, giving detailed
instructions that in order to carry out the huge task, it is necessary to take
measures to give precedence to the construction of their buildings, in parallel
with the regional-industry factories' on schedule, and furnish them with
necessary equipment, according to future state plans.
Underlining the need to build sci-tech
learning centers, he said our purpose of urbanizing the rural villages is to
transform as early as possible the regional people on a working-class pattern
and make them progressive and well-versed in science and technology, not merely
to model the countryside on urban architectural beauty. As a practical way, it
is necessary to set up "sci-tech learning centers" in every city and
county and disseminate knowledge needed in various fields, he said, adding it
is an important affair conforming to the Party policy to build a country
developing with science and technology.
Giving an instruction to commonly call
various facilities for processing and storing grain "grain management
stations", he said that they should be completely rebuilt under the direct
control of the state, not merely in a passive attitude of repairing the
existing facilities, in order to properly store and manage grain harvested with
much effort without waste, and provide the people with well-processed grain, in
particular.
As the construction of regional-industry
factories is proceeding on a full scale across the country and the system of
construction force, supply of materials and command have been established in
relatively good order, it is the best choice in terms of time and profit to
push ahead with the simultaneous construction of modern hospitals, sci-tech
learning centers and grain management stations in every city and county on that
occasion, he affirmed repeatedly, adding that when the regional development
policy becomes a comprehensive one of covering public health, science and
education, not confined to the construction of only light industry factories,
it can make sincere and tangible contributions to the improvement of the
material and cultural life of the regional people and drastically raise the
efficiency of regional development.
There would be no remaining manpower as
it would be too much to build all the new dwelling houses with the rural
construction forces in cities and counties only, but if the vital undertakings
are neglected, the efforts for regional development will end in vain, he
stressed, adding our Party made a bold decision, reposing its trust in our
army, the faithful defender, supporter and implementer of the Party policies,
the pioneer of high civilization in the new era and the creator of people's
happiness. He set forth detailed orientation for the army units mobilized for
the construction of regional-industry factories to properly organize and
allocate manpower and meticulously draw up the construction timetable to
successfully carry out their new tasks.
He said that leading officials of
relevant sectors would deeply study detailed plans and ways for implementing
the bigger ten-year goal for regional development before discussing, examining,
deciding and adopting them at a plenary meeting to be held in December, and
successfully carry out them in yearly order.
The tasks are huge and the conditions
are difficult, but if we work harder, we can surely realize our ideal, and it
is the spirit peculiar to the Korean revolutionaries to assume heavy duties by
themselves in hard times, he said, adding the regions and rural villages will
get rid of their centuries-old backwardness literally and undergo complete
transformation and the appearance of our state be changed beyond recognition 10
years later when the grandiose goals will be attained. Appealing for finding
the worth of doing revolution and tiding over the current ordeals, picturing
that day, he expressed his conviction that the grand projects, which will serve
as a great stride in hastening the regional rejuvenation and transformation,
will come to fruition without fail.
His field guidance at the construction
sites of regional-industry factories will be etched in history as an important
occasion, in which an important guideline and militant banner for enriching the
Party's Regional Development 20×10 Policy and developing it onto a new high
stage was brought about, and as another political event of epochal significance
in the leadership activities of the WPK remaining boundlessly faithful to the
original duty it assumed at the time of its foundation to reflect the people's
desire and demands in its policies and fulfill them.
Respected Comrade Kim Jong Un Oversees Performance Test of Drones
Pyongyang, August 26 (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, oversaw a
performance test of various drones organized by the Drone Institute of the
Academy of Defence Sciences on August 24.
He was accompanied by Jo Yong Won, Ri
Pyong Chol, Pak Jong Chon and other senior officials of the WPK Central
Committee.
The respected Comrade Kim Jong Un
got firsthand information on the drones under development by the Drone
Institute.
The drones to be used within different
striking ranges are to perform a mission to attack any enemy targets on the
ground and in the sea.
The drones of various types correctly
identified and destroyed the designated targets after flying along different
preset routes.
Developing different types of drones and
steadily increasing their combat performance take an important share in
preparing for a war in view of the trend of world military science and combat
experience on battlefields, Kim Jong Un said, adding that it is necessary to
develop and produce more suicide drones of various types to be used in tactical
infantry and special operation units, as well as strategic reconnaissance and
multi-purpose attack drones.
Calling for constantly developing not
only underwater strategic weapon systems like a nuclear torpedo but also
various types of unmanned underwater suicide attack craft in conformity with
the characteristics of our country as a maritime nation, and opting for
proactively introducing artificial intelligence technology into the development
of drones, he specified the tasks and ways to this end.
Expressing satisfaction over the
tactical and technological specifications and data of the newly-developed
drones, he stressed the need to more intensively conduct tests for their combat
application and equip the units of the Korean People's Army with them as early
as possible.
Officials, scientists and researchers of
the Drone Institute under the Academy of Defence Sciences were filled with
surging emotion, looking up at him who personally oversaw the test on the spot
and indicated the path to be followed by them in enhancing the combat
efficiency of drones and developing the drone industry, and hardened their
determination to thoroughly carry out the important tasks set forth by him and
thus make a positive contribution to bolstering up the country's military
capabilities for self-defence.
Press Statement of Spokesperson for DPRK Foreign Ministry
Pyongyang, August 24 (KCNA) -- A
spokesperson for the Foreign Ministry of the Democratic People's Republic of
Korea released Saturday the following press statement "We will resolutely
cope with any type of nuclear threat posed by the U.S.":
Recently, a spokesperson for the U.S.
National Security Council officially admitted the fact that the U.S.
administration revised its "nuclear weapons employment planning
guidance" in March last, clarifying the stand that the revision is not
aimed at a specified country. However, the spokesperson expressed
"concern" over the rapid development of nuclear force of the DPRK,
Russia, China and other sovereign countries.
This is nothing but a childish red
herring to justify its dangerous nuclear-use strategy aimed at military
deterrence and maintenance of geopolitical hegemony against other countries and
evade criticism of the international community.
The DPRK Foreign Ministry expresses
serious concern over and bitterly denounces and rejects the behavior of the
U.S. which is pursuing the unilateral nuclear edge while going against the
desire of the international community for global peace, stability and detente
by continuously fabricating someone's "nuclear threat".
The coordination of nuclear posture of
the U.S., which has kept the world's biggest nuclear arsenal, has a serious
negative impact on the global nuclear balance, security environment and nuclear
disarmament system.
In June, too, an official concerned of
the U.S. National Security Council made clear who is the target of the U.S.
administration's "nuclear weapons employment planning guidance",
saying that the guidance underscores the need to simultaneously deter the
independent sovereign states including the DPRK.
The present U.S. administration put
forward a deceptive "policy of no-first use of nuclear weapons" as
part of its election commitments. But, in fact, it denied this policy in the
"nuclear posture" issued after its emergence, and has spent astronomical
amount of money on modernizing the nuclear force every year.
In particular, the U.S. developed the
structure of alliance with its satellite countries in the Asia-Pacific region
including the ROK and Japan into a nuclear-based military bloc. And it has
operated even a group aimed at using nukes against a sovereign state, contrary
to the UN Charter and other universal international law principles.
The situation goes to prove that the
U.S., which likes to talk about non-existent "nuclear threat" from
others, is the most irresponsible actor and rogue state triggering a nuclear
arms race and increasing the possibility of nuclear clashes worldwide.
Had the U.S. neither made nor used
nuclear weapons, the concept of "nuclear threat" would not have
appeared on the earth at all.
The nuclear threat to the international
community has come from the U.S. not only in the 20th century but also in the
21st century, and its origin and orientation will remain unchanged in the
future, too.
Other sovereign states' efforts for
bolstering up their defence capabilities to cope with the ever-increasing
nuclear threat from the U.S. can never be a pretext for its nuclear arms
buildup for aggression and provocative coordination of nuclear posture.
No matter how desperately the U.S. may
exaggerate the "nuclear threat" from other countries, the DPRK will
push forward the building of nuclear force sufficient and reliable enough to
firmly defend the sovereignty and security interests of the country on its
fixed timetable, and this is the most essential and legitimate exercise of the
right to self-defence to ensure the regional peace and security and protect
itself.
The DPRK will as ever bolster up its
strategic strength in every way to control and eliminate all sorts of security
challenges that may result from the U.S. dangerous nuclear posture
readjustment, and resolutely counter any type of nuclear threat.
White Paper of Disarmament and Peace Institute of DPRK Foreign
Ministry on NATO's Criminal Colors
Pyongyang, August 24 (KCNA) -- The
Disarmament and Peace Institute of the Foreign Ministry of the Democratic
People's Republic of Korea on Saturday released a white paper, as regards the
75th anniversary of effectuation of the North Atlantic Treaty, to disclose the
atrocious criminal colors of NATO, which has forced wars and sacrifices on
innocent sovereign states for over 70 years and still now lays a grave obstacle
to the world peace and security environment.
Pointing out that NATO is a war alliance
based on the extreme ambition for hegemony, the white paper said:
It is known to everyone that NATO is a
military bloc established on the U.S. initiative allegedly to cope with the
"Soviet Union's threat" and "communist aggression" after
the Second World War.
It will be hard to explain why NATO,
cooked up under the pretext of "regional collective defense" with a
geographical concept of the North Atlantic Ocean artificially termed, is now
stretching its tentacle of aggression to different parts of the world.
The 75-year history of NATO, stained
with merciless massacre and war records, goes to prove that it is a criminal
group of heinous hegemonic forces obsessed with the ambition for domination
over the whole.
It is well evidenced by the
"strategic concepts" raised by NATO after the end of the Cold War.
The dissolution of the Warsaw Treaty
Organization on March 31, 1991, which had existed for 36 years, meant collapse
of the East-West cold war structure. After all, NATO came to lose the
justification for its existence to "defend the free world from communist
threat".
Under such situation, NATO got hell-bent
on laying a legal foundation to hold hegemony in the international military and
political arena by expanding the mission and duty of the organization, which
had been confined to the "regional collective defence", to
"ensuring world security".
The bloody footprints of NATO's
aggression, marked in East Europe, Asia and Africa in succession after the
disappearance of the East-West confrontation structure in ideology with the end
of the Cold War, were by no means attributable to their ideological difference.
The present Ukrainian crisis is the
latest instance eloquently proving the unchangeable sinister intention of NATO
to dominate the world and hold global supremacy.
After the dissolution of the former
Soviet Union, NATO made its commitment to the world never to seek the expansion
of alliance targeting Russia
But it discarded its promise to the
international community and has doubled its body by accepting 16 countries on
seven occasions since 1999.
Despite repeated concerns and warnings
of Russia, NATO pushed ahead with its continuous advance toward the East while
seriously violating security interests of the sovereign state and, moreover,
tried to draw even Ukraine bordering Russia into the sphere of its influence. Such
reckless moves for expanding its sphere are the main factor that brought the
present security situation to Europe
Now, NATO is inciting the hirelings of
the Kiev authorities to attack the territory of Russia with arms offered by the
U.S. and the West, out of its sinister plan to spread the flames of the
Ukrainian battlefield to the Russian mainland at any cost. Recently, it is
feigning ignorance of such dangerous military acts as an attack on nuclear
power plants.
More than 900 days of the Ukrainian crisis,
which has been going on for years accompanied by the unprecedented risk of a
nuclear war outbreak, can be called a long-length drama of history that has
clearly shown once again to the world people the sinister intention of NATO
which does not hesitate to gamble any terror only for its geopolitical
interests.
NATO is the world's biggest war alliance
in view of its scale and duration of existence or its anti-peace evil deeds
recorded in history.
The white paper disclosed the fact that
NATO is making desperate efforts to bring a new war cloud to the Asia-Pacific
region.
In June 2022, NATO adopted a new
"strategic conception" specifying the future strategic direction,
with the Madrid summit in Spain as an occasion. In the "conception",
it defined China as a "systematic challenge" and Russia as "the
most grave and direct threat".
In the past, NATO tried to expand its
jurisdiction to such world issues as WMD proliferation, terrorism, cyber attack
and climate change through revision of the "strategic conception".
But it had never formulated specific countries as strategic foes.
Considering that NATO's "strategic
conception", published for about ten cyclic years, is a major document
second in importance after its treaty as it is intended to regulate the organization's
long-term action guidelines, the adoption of new "strategic
conception" suggests that NATO has definitely turned its course to the
Asia-Pacific region.
In particular, politicians of the U.S.,
little short of the chief of NATO, are now openly making an ill-bodying
assertion that the treaty should interpreted on an extension basis or revised
so that the application scope of the alliance's collective defense can be
expanded to the U.S. territory in the Pacific including Hawaii.
Besides, NATO is amplifying the
"theory of threat from Russia and China" under the pretext of the
Ukrainian situation and the situation of the Straits of Taiwan on different
occasions, including the Vilnius Summit in 2023 and the Washington Summit in
2024. It is also trying to "justify" its advance into the
Asia-Pacific region, claiming "the Atlantic and the Pacific are
inseparable in terms of security".
It is the truth proved by history and
reality that if NATO, which has been branded as a war machine by world people,
enters any region, there is nothing good from A to Z.
NATO, which has been stretching out its
feet to the Asia-Pacific region, is now mobilizing various strategic assets for
the U.S.-led joint military drills in the region, including the RIMPAC joint
military maneuvers and Balikatan. This is why the war machinery called NATO is
running all the year round in the Asia-Pacific region, which should have been
the hub of global peace and prosperity.
What should not be overlooked is that
NATO has often slandered the DPRK's legitimate measures for bolstering up its
capabilities for self-defence and intensified military infiltration into the
Korean peninsula and its vicinity under that pretext.
All the circumstances go to prove that
the plan for the "expansion of NATO into the rest of the world",
worked out by the U.S. to realize its ambition for world domination after the
termination of the Cold War, is being pushed forward with through the
"expansion of NATO into Asia-Pacific region", and that the main
course of the "aggressor fleet" called NATO has been turned towards
the Korean peninsula.
If NATO, the world's largest group
sharing nukes, continues its "crusade" towards the hot spot with
nuclear weapons states as the main targets, the whole world will move a step
and a step nearer to the threshold of a nuclear war.
Not content with driving the security
environment of the whole of Europe to an extreme phase, NATO is running amuck
to bring new dark clouds of war to the Asia-Pacific region. It is, indeed, the
worst group of confrontation in history.
The white paper stressed that the DPRK
will redouble its responsible efforts to ensure balance of forces in the
region, deter the outbreak of a new war and contribute to global peace and
security in coping with the present military and political environment that is
getting serious in its vicinity and the prospective security challenge.
Statement by Chief of Foreign News Section of Department of Press
and Information of DPRK Foreign Ministry
Pyongyang, August 23 (KCNA) -- The chief
of the Foreign News Section of the Department of Press and Information of the
DPRK Foreign Ministry on Thursday issued a press statement "To definitely
keep military balance is prerequisite for peace and stability", which
said:
Amid the ongoing large-scale U.S.-ROK
military exercises, Ulji Freedom Shield, the U.S. Department of State approved
the sale of 36 AH-64E Apache attack helicopters and components to the ROK.
Claiming that the sale would improve the
ROK's military capability, the U.S. military clarified a contradictory stand
that it would not change the fundamental military balance in the region.
Media and experts are focusing on the
future impact on the security situation in the Korean peninsula, estimating that
if the sale is fulfilled, attack helicopters will be newly deployed in the ROK
and the performance of Apache helicopters, purchased from the U.S. and deployed
for operation in 2017, will be improved.
We strongly oppose and reject the U.S.
and its vassal forces' arms buildup posing a grave danger to the regional
security environment and escalating the military tension and warn them
seriously of the consequences to be entailed by it.
One side's arms buildup against the
other side, whether its scale is large or small, may affect military and
political situation in the region.
Amid the ever-escalating political and
military tension in the Korean peninsula due to the U.S.-ROK large-scale joint
military drills, the U.S. announced the sale of offensive weapons to the ROK.
This is a reckless provocative act of deliberately increasing the security
instability in the region.
The U.S. is now getting more active in
its arms sale to Japan, ROK and other allies in the Asia-Pacific region, and
this is a challenge to security in the region that cannot be overlooked.
Last year, too, the U.S. concluded a
"security of supply arrangement" with the ROK military aimed at
prompt supply of military goods, after deciding to deliver such various kinds
of ultra-modern lethal war equipment worth of astronomical amount of money as
25 F-35 stealth fighters, 36 SM-6 fleet-to-air interceptor missiles and 42
AIM-9X Sidewinder air-to-air missiles.
It also offered six latest P-8A Poseidon
sea-patrol planes to the ROK in June this year and is going to hand over in
December the first supplies of 12 new-type MH-60R sea operational helicopters
to delivered to the latter.
Besides, it has recently eased its
military technology and arms export control on UK and Australia and got more
undisguised in the sale of weapons to its allies in the Asia-Pacific region,
including Japan and Taiwan.
The security crises in different parts
of the world clearly prove that the U.S. offer of lethal weapons is a key
factor in escalating military confrontation and contradiction in the region and
disturbing the military balance and thus increasing the danger of a new
conflict.
The prevailing situation urgently calls
for thoroughly ensuring the military balance in the region by increasing the
defence capabilities in every way in direct proportion to security challenge
and threats that may result from the U.S. arms sale.
To thoroughly reject and strongly
counter the imbalance of strength imposed by the U.S. and its followers is a
prerequisite for defending the sovereign interests of our country and ensuring
the regional peace and stability.
Since the U.S. is keen on the provision
of war hardware and lethal equipment to its allies in the region, the DPRK's
strategic deterrence will be further strengthened to protect the national
security and interests and the regional peace.
The DPRK will steadily conduct the
necessary military activities for self-defence to control the military
imbalance and instability that may be caused by the military moves and delivery
of lethal equipment of the hostile forces getting more reckless with passage of
time.
