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No 50/24
1. Respected Comrade Kim Jong Un Inspects Sinpho City Offshore Farm in South Hamgyong Province under Construction 2. Respected Comrade Kim Jong Un Makes Speech at Opening Ceremony of Military Hardware Exhibition Defence Development-2024 3. Press Statement of Kim Yo Jong, Vice Department Director of C.C., WPK 4. Press Statement of Spokesperson for DPRK Foreign Ministry
Respected Comrade Kim Jong Un Inspects Sinpho City Offshore Farm in South Hamgyong Province under Construction Pyongyang, November 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, visited the Sinpho City Offshore Farm under construction in the Phungo-dong area in the city of Sinpho, South Hamgyong Province, to acquaint himself with the progress made in its construction, creation of its culture grounds and preparations for their management and operation. Accompanying him were major cadres of the Central Committee of the Workers’ Party of Korea, leading cadres of design and construction units, Jang Kyong Guk, chief secretary of the Sinpho City Committee of South Hamgyong Province of the WPK, and other senior officials of the city. The respected Comrade Kim Jong Un, chairing a historic consultative meeting on regional economic development on July 15, set forth a revolutionary policy of putting the material and cultural life of the regional people on a track of radical development by working out a proper plan for exploiting and utilizing the economic resources and overall potentialities of each region in keeping with its actual conditions and by taking practical measures to decisively boost the regional economy with strong national support. To confirm its feasibility, he gave a task for building a new model of offshore farming on a trial basis. According to his instructions, the construction of the Sinpho City Offshore Farm has been propelled for several months as a major target of the regional construction policy. With firm resolve to thoroughly implement the Party’s regional economic development policy, soldier-builders and officials, technicians and employees of the farm have simultaneously pushed ahead with the construction of buildings and culture grounds and preparations for their management and operation. As a result, the overall construction project has been carried out at over 70 percent along with the completion of 100 hectares of culture grounds, where scallops and kelp are being farmed on a trial basis. Under a goal to put its modern offshore farming on the highest scientific level, the farm has proactively introduced new farming techniques and methods to ensure the survival rate of a fast-growing species of scallop at 80 percent and provide a scientific and technical guarantee for increasing its production. It has also achieved important successes in applying advanced techniques to kelp farming. Thanks to the direct care and solicitude of the Party Central Committee, the farm is being furnished with essential production means, equipment and implements, including various fish farming materials, plastic boats and aquaculture mother ships, and the manufacturing and securing of sets of equipment to be installed at the processing grounds is proceeding at the final stage. Saying that to secure the motive force of regional economic development by fully exploiting various resources and natural and geographical environments of regions, in addition to the main construction projects in each region specified by the Regional Development 20×10 Policy, also takes an important share in the Party’s regional economic development policy, he repeatedly stressed the need to help all regions lay the foundations for developing independently by effectively developing and using their own natural and economic resources. To this end, it is important to first map out correct long-term development orientation and plan for each city and county to make the most of their conditions and environments for their own economic development, he added. Through the designing of this farm, the industrial facility design sector has grasped and put into practice new concepts of design based on the proactive application of various space-using methods, focusing on functions and management convenience, by eliminating such a previous mode as planning the plane uniformly without considering scientific accuracy and practicability, he said, appreciating this trend as a positive change that has resolved stagnation in designing industrial facilities. But our overall construction still fails to strictly go through all the processes, ranging from the working out of the requirements of the construction progress to designing, deliberating, approving and budget planning, according to scientific and legal procedures based on the construction law, he said. Pointing out that in recent years, architectural designs have revealed not a few such taste-oriented undisciplined practices of not ensuring economic profitability as laying stress only on the visual effect, rather than the uses, capacities and functions of the relevant facilities, and fixing scales without proper calculations, he cited their typical examples. Saying that the overall design sector should base itself on an improved work system on the principle of properly calculating the economic efficiency and profitability, reflecting on designs the way of obtaining optimum results and enhancing the utility-specific functions of relevant structures, he stressed the need to further strengthen the system of inspecting, deliberating and approving designs. He instructed the relevant national agencies to establish a well-regulated system for disseminating the latest sci-tech data of advanced shallow-sea culture and push ahead with improving the technical skills of the relevant units’ employees. After learning about the progress made in construction, he concluded that it is necessary to send more skilled workers in order to successfully complete the project, which is being pushed ahead as a major policy-oriented project this year, before the forthcoming December Plenary Meeting of the WPK Central Committee, and gave relevant instructions. Calling for properly building and managing the Sinpho City Offshore Farm to turn it into a model of offshore farming and propagate its experience across the country, he noted that the state should responsibly provide coastal cities and counties with conditions for revitalizing aquaculture. He stressed repeatedly that in order to implement the Party’s regional development policy, it is necessary to create maximum possibilities for the regions to achieve their development, after making scientific calculations on the basis of a comprehensive survey of all resources across the country. His field guidance at the offshore farm under construction serves as an important occasion that provided a firm practical guarantee for all regions to work out a clear development strategy and set long-term goals for radically improving the scientific character and efficiency of their development and to actively push ahead with their implementation from an innovative and creative standpoint in the drive for carrying out the historic cause of regional rejuvenation, which is being dramatically expanded and intensified.
Respected Comrade Kim Jong Un Makes Speech at Opening Ceremony of Military Hardware Exhibition Defence Development-2024 Pyongyang, November 22 (KCNA) -- The following is the full text of the speech made by the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un at the opening ceremony of the military hardware exhibition Defence Development-2024 on Nov. 21: Dear comrades and friends, In a stirring period, when the precious successes achieved in various fields of state work and socialist construction through a vigorous struggle in 2024 are approaching us, an exhibition has opened here today, introducing the successes gained in the defence sector this year. First, I extend warm thanks to the persons in the relevant sectors and others, who have made efforts for the preparation of this exhibition. The exhibition hall is really wonderful. Seeing the exhibition hall encapsulating remarkable development of the defence capability of our state that has given a new feeling in less than one year, we can give a satisfactory appraisal to the work of the defence industry for making a steady and rapid growth. I extend thanks to Full Generals Kim Jong Sik and Jang Chang Ha, Chairman Ko Pyong Hyon, Presidents Kim Yong Hwan and Jon Il Ho and other leading cadres in the defence sector, the defence sci-tech group and the officials and workers at the munitions industry enterprises under the Second Economy Commission, who have made greater contributions than others for achieving remarkable successes in the development of our armed forces every year. In recent years fundamental changes have been brought about in our defence sci-tech field, and many knotty problems in this sector have been resolved correctly by our internal forces, our defence sci-tech group. While witnessing the process of these changes in person, I have become more confident of the practical abilities of this group and confirmed the promising nature and inexhaustible potential of our Democratic People’s Republic of Korea that is justifiably matchless in the sector of the brain industry. I am confident that this is an outcome of the perfect combination of the good qualities of our nation with the policy of training the group of brains in a correct way and enlisting them in a concentrated way. The weapon systems on display here all differ in their missions, but I attach special meaning to the fact that they are crystallization of the modern defence sci-tech strength and economic potential of the defence industry, and that these have been developed by our own resources, ie our internal forces. Great changes have taken place in recent years, indeed. All these we are seeing today are a proud record of the successes achieved again in a year in the defence industry revolution in the new era, which our Party has planned and is dynamically pushing forward. And with this, we have demonstrated on a larger scale the righteousness and vitality of our Party’s idea of self-reliant defence–defending the state, the people and the revolutionary cause by our own efforts–and made a decisive stride in attaining the goal of building up the defences, advanced by the Eighth Congress of the Party. What makes the current exhibition weightier in the practical aspects and more significant in the political and military aspects is that these exhibits are fruition gathered in defence development by exercising our right to self-defence on the principle of countering power with power and of head-on contest in 2024, when the hostile attitude of the United States and its allied forces for confrontation and their adventurist military records exceeded the peak year level. These brilliant successes we have achieved in the defence sector year after year afford us glimpses at its development potential and speed, which fairly convince us that we are possessed of definite capability and a guarantee for security to cope proactively with not only the various threats the enemies are posing to us now but also the security threats we are likely to face in future. Our defence industry has at last been upgraded as a cutting-edge one that can offer the most suitable and thoroughgoing support for military activities as required in each stage, each period and each situation of our revolution; it has also been built up as a strategic fortress that firmly guarantees the position of our state as a world-class military power. Our cutting-edge defence sci-tech sector and the technological foundations of our munitions economy are also exerting important effects on, and playing the leading role in, transforming the structure of the national industry as a whole. Comrades, The military hardware on display here represent what we have achieved this year, 2024, and yet, until they presented their majestic appearance here, they witnessed arduous courses accompanied by painstaking and pioneering research work in renewing each of their records, whose value can hardly be measured by the lapse of time alone. We can compare these military hardware with world-class ones of their kinds in terms of design, manufacturing skills, grade of materials or combat and technical specifications, but it is hard to fully estimate their true value. In an attempt to suffocate and destroy our self-reliant defence industry completely, the hostile forces have pursued unprecedentedly cruel sanctions and blockade against us, leaving us in difficulty and in short supply of everything. But the Party and the people have adhered to the view that strengthening the defence capabilities is the supreme expression of their patriotism and consciousness of the revolution, and fully aware of their great expectations, our defence sci-tech group and workers in the munitions industry have worked with devotion to live up to them, regarding doing so as their duty. Their ennobling spirit is embodied in the weapons here. For this reason, our military hardware, in terms of the righteous purpose and character, the indomitable spiritual strength and unheard-of fighting spirit embodied in them, has thousands of times greater–utterly incomparable–power than those the military-industrial complexes of imperialist countries manufacture in pursuance of massacre, destruction and economic profit. Comrades, Today our Republic has risen as a powerful axis exerting an influence on political and military developments around the world. It owes this status to the absolute dignity and strength it has gained thanks to its revolutionary ideology, cause of justice and perseverance. However, without the extraordinary wisdom and courage and undying perseverance that would surpass those which we have displayed in clearing a thorny path and going through the successive stages by leaps and bounds, we can neither cope with the ever-changing reality nor guarantee our foreseeable future. As we are witnessing now, our planet is in the grip of confusion and violence, the worst ever since the end of the Second World War. The United States is growing more brazen in trying to place the whole world under the sphere of its interests, and the consequent contradictions and confrontations of every hue have passed all critical points to develop into too unjust, horrible wars and catastrophic disasters. This is literally a pandemonium, in which some reckless and high-handed powers violate international norms, regardless of their obvious purpose of, and orientation towards, respecting the territories and sovereignty of all countries and nations and defending global peace and security. Nearly a century ago, fascisms in Europe and Asia colluded with each other to throw the world into turmoil. Likewise, the reactionary forces in the West and East, allied under the baton of the US imperialists, are now attempting to establish a rapacious and tyrannical world order. This is a present reality. In particular, the United States is expanding the nuke-sharing military alliance system to contain our Republic’s rapid rise, which is an insurmountable obstacle in the way of implementing its policy of dominationism, and to retain and increase its influence over its vassal countries. On the other hand, it is going to great lengths to ratchet up the military pressure and provocations against our country by deploying around it a vast array of strategic strike means and troops of its allies. The Korean peninsula has never been under such a critical situation as the present, in which there is a growing likelihood of a most destructive thermonuclear war breaking out amid the acutely dangerous confrontation between the belligerents. Another fact that we must point out here is that this extreme tension in the peninsula is by no means something caused by the misunderstanding of each other’s rival. We already did everything possible in the bilateral negotiations with the United States, and what we were eventually convinced of was not the superpower’s will to co-exist with us but its domineering stand and unchangeably aggressive and hostile policy towards the DPRK. American politicians still say, as they are wont to do, that the United States has never been hostile. This odd-sounding rhetoric has long been rejected by the world as anything but plausible. The US imperialists’ and their vassal forces’ wild ambition to obliterate our ideology and system at any cost and destroy our people to the last one has never changed. Rather, they are recklessly manoeuvring to realize this ambition in this century. In the present world where military conflicts are growing rampant, a country which gave up building its own defence capability cannot be called a sovereign state; a weak country will fall victim to tyranny and is bound to be ravaged by foreign invasion. All facts convince us, with each passing moment of the day, that the greatest defence capability with which to overpower the enemies is just the key to safeguarding peace and guaranteeing durable stability and development. Our Party and government will never remain an onlooker to any encroachment upon our state’s sphere of security, and we make clear once again that we will never lower the weight of military balance on our side by ourselves. We will go on with resolute actions for removing all manner of military threats to our state and people and thoroughly break the enemies’ will to use armed forces by steadily developing our defence capability and exercising our legitimate right to self-defence. Comrades, It is an indispensable and consistent demand of our Party’s line of building up the self-reliant defence to bolster up our strength without interruption and limit and steadily raise the tremendous capabilities of deterring and fighting a war to defend the sovereignty, interests and security environment of our state in a responsible manner. The enemies, too, keep whetting their sword for evolution. Accordingly, only when we make a more unequalled leap forward can we prevent military conflicts with the enemies and take the strategic initiative in controlling the political and military situation. We should not content ourselves with the present mightiness but push for infinite mightiness. In this aspiration and will lie the true mightiness of our state and the sure guarantee for its security. Our main purpose of holding this military hardware exhibition is not merely to look back on the history or to congratulate ourselves on the current level. It is to highlight more clearly the necessity for us to step up the important change of defence capability and markedly enhance its strategic position and role by bringing about leaps forward in the self-reliant defence industry at any cost. I think that as long as there exist the forces attempting to infringe upon our sovereignty and the enemies persist in their vicious moves, we should continue to upgrade various kinds of military hardware and make them cutting-edge as much as the security environment of our state requires us and as many as the changes in the current wars show us. Given the new aspects of modern warfare and the enemies’ war tactics that are transforming in a dangerous way day after day, we should develop our defence capability more aggressively and limitlessly while promoting technological modernization of our army and equipping it with a larger number of powerful means. Rapid development of science and technology is continuously transforming the world, and this transformation of enormous significance greatly affects the security of every country. That it must acclimatize to the change of the objective world and cope with it rapidly and promptly is the character of the main duty and development orientation of our defence science sector today. Military capability should be constantly upgraded. Stagnation in increasing overwhelming military strength means the start of the defence capability becoming inferior. Our Party and government will show more concern to search for answers to this end, mapping out a greater number of long-term projects and implementing them actively. Comrades, To remain more faithful to the line of self-reliance in national defence, whose scientific accuracy and power have been clearly proved through the prolonged revolutionary practice, and make steady, invariable and more vigorous advance–herein lies the eternal security and future of our state and our people. Pioneering this road and the will to pioneer the road constitute our boundless worth of life, pride and honour. Our Party and government will make all their efforts to increase more advanced capability of military technology, powerful military strength, thus safeguarding our glorious motherland, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, on the strength of reliable defence capability. I hope that all those attending this event will have a pleasant time looking round the exhibition with due pride in our defence capability and with optimism for and confidence in the limitlessness of its development. Thank you.
Press Statement of Kim Yo Jong, Vice Department Director of C.C., WPK Pyongyang, November 26 (KCNA) -- Kim Yo Jong, vice department director of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea, issued the following press statement on November 26: On Nov. 26, various kinds of political agitation leaflets and dirty things sent by the ROK scum were dropped again in different areas near the southern border of the DPRK. The security forces organs in the areas have blocked the relevant districts and are conducting the work for searching, gathering and disposal. We strongly denounce the despicable acts of the ROK scum who committed the provocation of polluting the inviolable territory of the DPRK by scattering anti-DPRK political and conspiratorial agitation things again.
Press Statement of Spokesperson for DPRK Foreign Ministry Pyongyang, November 22 (KCNA) -- A spokesperson for the Foreign Ministry of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea Friday released the following press statement: A "resolution" distorting and fabricating the human rights situation in the DPRK was railroaded at the Third Committee of the 79th Session of the UN General Assembly on Nov. 21. The DPRK Foreign Ministry brands the farce of adopting of the "human rights resolution" led by the U.S. and its followers as a grave politically-motivated provocation encroaching upon the dignity and sovereignty of the DPRK, and strongly denounces and rejects the farce. Not content with branding the DPRK's exercise of its legitimate sovereign rights to defend its security and people's interests as "human rights abuses", the U.S. and its followers took issue with the legislative measures to defend our sound culture and ethics from the U.S. and the Western corrupt and immoral cultural poisoning. This is a wanton violation of the basic spirit of the UN Charter whose core is the respect for sovereignty and non-interference in internal affairs of countries. We express serious concern over the fact that the practice of adopting of resolution at the Third Committee of the UN General Assembly is turning into a political means for interfering in the internal affairs and damaging the image of independent and sovereign states which are raising voices of concern about the unethical atrocities of the U.S. and the West. Taking ourselves of this opportunity, we again call attention to the fact that the UN whose original mission is to promote reconciliation and unity among countries is being abused as a tool for confrontation to trample down the dignity of sovereign states and stamp out their sovereignty by the U.S. high-handed and arbitrary practices. The behavior of the U.S. and its followers who are abusing the universal concept of human rights and international human rights norms for attaining their sinister geopolitical purposes while inciting the inter-camp confrontation, a direct product of the Cold War way of thinking is now acting as a harmful factor challenging the aspiration and efforts of the international community for the protection and promotion of genuine human rights. It is an insult to the inviolable human rights that the U.S., the chieftain of institutional human rights abuses fostering serious and widespread violation of human rights stunning the world, arbitrarily judges and slanders the human rights situation of sovereign states with its yardstick of human rights. No matter how the hostile forces may be the master of confusing right and wrong and hatching plots, they can never cover up the true human rights situation in the DPRK which gives top priority to the dignity, right and interests of the popular masses and regards them as absolute. Protection of human rights apart from the national sovereignty is nothing but an empty talk. It is an exercise of the normal and legitimate right of a sovereign state which no one can slander for the DPRK to take all necessary measures for defending its sovereignty and protecting the security and interests of its citizens as it has been exposed to the serious, political and military threats by the U.S. and its allies. The DPRK will never overlook the daily-increasing hostile acts of the U.S. and its followers but make every effort to defend the socialist system of the DPRK which its people value as dear as their lives and their genuine rights.
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