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No 42/25 June 11, 2025
1. Respected Comrade Kim Jong Un Gives Field Guidance at Construction Site of Kusong City Hospital 2. Entry into U.S. Is Not Matter of Our Interest: International Affairs Analyst
Respected Comrade Kim Jong Un Gives Field Guidance at Construction Site of Kusong City Hospital Pyongyang, June 10 (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 the construction site of Kusong City Hospital on June 9. He was accompanied by Jo Yong Won and Ri Hi Yong, secretaries of the Central Committee of the WPK, and Kim Jae Ryong and Kim Yong Su, department directors of the Central Committee of the WPK. The respected Comrade Kim Jong Un was greeted on the spot by officials of the construction unit and design institutions. Making the rounds of the construction site, he learned in detail about the progress made in the construction. The Kusong City Hospital is one of the hospitals which are under construction on different scales on a demonstration basis in three cities and counties in 2025, according to the decision of the Eleventh Plenary Meeting of the Eighth Central Committee of the WPK. Kim Jong Un said that at present the construction sector, a major sphere of our struggle and the main front symbolizing the steady advance and development of our state, is continuously expanding and developing, and the fulfilment of the huge construction plan designed by our Party indispensably requires the rapid and qualitative strengthening of the construction workforce. Construction, which proves with definite entities the leap forward towards civilization and rejuvenation we aspire to, is carried out from start to finish by the construction workforce, the mainstay of the gigantic creative struggle, he said, adding that it is our Party's view that the preparation of the workforce means a sure guarantee for the construction revolution in the new era. Saying that the historic task of rapidly establishing a national system for expanding and strengthening the workforce in a qualitative way should be tackled correctly, he underscored its importance repeatedly. Strengthening the workforce is not an immediate short-term issue but a strategic task in the ten-year construction struggle for regional rejuvenation, he noted. He pointed out that although large workforces of the People's Army have been dispatched to the huge construction fronts formed by our Party at present and their revolutionary enthusiasm is growing day by day, the efficiency of using the workforces is not ensured at the proper level due to the non-specialization and inexperience in the organization and command of construction. In order to ensure a vigorous advance of gigantic construction to which our Party and state are directing much effort, a rapid state measure should be taken for the qualitative strengthening of the workforce with the main emphasis put on training skilled workers, he said, adding that, to this end, an intensive short course will be organized for the present to improve the practical abilities of officials in the construction sector of units at all levels. Kim Jong Un said that the intensive short course for officials at all levels in the construction sector to be held after the Twelfth Plenary Meeting of the Eighth Central Committee of the Party should deal with the urgent problems arising in carrying out the construction revolution, including the establishment of a well-regulated system of training skilled workers. He said that the gigantic struggle for the implementation of our Party's regional development policy should be a revolution to fundamentally and ultimately put an end to the centuries-old backwardness and laggardness of the regional areas and, at the same time, a process of transforming the old customs, outdated culture and obsolete technology that remain in the construction sector in line with the new era and a historic process of training all the builders to be creators of new culture and new civilization and genuine socialist builders. We have a guards hero unit, that is a unit of competent construction educators with excellent construction potentiality, and if all the experience and models being created by them in construction are positively applied to the construction enterprises at all levels and military construction groups, amazing progress will be made in carrying out our Party's construction policy, he said, adding that this problem can also be solved through the technical short course. Saying that it is a key issue to train the reliable technical forces necessary for the assembly of equipment as the hospital is, unlike dwelling houses and industrial buildings, a functional building in which the terminals of the infrastructure, medical equipment and appliances and all other things should be technically compatible with one another, Kim Jong Un set forth a series of important tasks, which should be carried out in the construction field without delay, including the issue of examining the establishment of an enterprise specializing in medical equipment assembly and the issue of further increasing the proportion of construction work done by machines and steadily improving the level of modernization of equipment.
Entry into U.S. Is Not Matter of Our Interest: International Affairs Analyst Pyongyang, June 10 (KCNA) -- Kim Myong Chol, an international affairs analyst of the DPRK, issued the following article titled "Entry into the U.S. is not a matter of our interest" on June 9: Recently, the U.S. announced a measure to designate the peoples of 19 countries as the subjects of ban to entry into the U.S. under the pretext of "threat" to its national security. The arrogant acts of the U.S., which is self-righteous, exclusive and racist, are now faced with strong denunciation and rejection of the international community. Of course, it is a matter belonging to the sphere of sovereign rights of a relevant country to restrict and control the entry of foreigners. Nevertheless, the above-said measure taken by the U.S. is incurring a censure of the international community because it is used as a malicious political tool for discriminating and pressurizing other countries. Great irony is that there is strange interpretation that the Democratic People's Republic of Korea was not included in the subjects of the U.S. ban on entry and this measure may reflect the U.S. administration's carrot stand towards the DPRK to open the door to the resumption of dialogue between the two countries. This cannot be interpreted otherwise than one-sided judgment not knowing well the past and present relations between the DPRK and the U.S. In 2017, the first term of office, the present U.S. administration included the DPRK in the list of countries subject to entry ban to the U.S. for the unjust reason that it refused to cooperate with the U.S. government and did not meet the demand for sharing information, and maintained it throughout its ruling. This year when the second term of office began, the U.S. re-designated the DPRK as an "uncooperative state in combating terrorism" and extended again the effect of the measure for totally banning the U.S. citizens' trip to the DPRK. The reason why the U.S. does not include the DPRK in the list can be explained only by the U.S., whether it is purely for technical reason or for political purpose. But one obvious fact is that we are not interested in the least in the matter of entry into the U.S. Even if the present U.S. administration has not placed the DPRK intentionally on the list of countries subject to entry ban, the DPRK is not interested in it and has no reason to be glad. The U.S., which is the most hostile country to the DPRK and where xenophobia and racial discrimination have been established as a social climate and all sorts of social evils flood, can never be welcomed as the destination of the DPRK citizens' trip. Shortly ago, the vice-president, the second-ranking person of the present U.S. administration, denounced a U.S. university for lacking "ideological diversity" and made absurd sophism about the political system of the DPRK. This is another typical example why the DPRK has repugnance for the U.S. If the present U.S. administration thinks that the DPRK will accept the allowing of the entry into the U.S. as a "gift" which it neither thinks nor wants, it is miscalculation. It is not the matter of the DPRK's concern that the U.S. unilaterally makes illegal regulations outside and places the DPRK in them or not. I think that the Democratic People's Republic of Korea will, in the future, too, not welcome the entry of Americans into it. This is a just and legitimate exercise of sovereign rights to defend the state and social system and the welfare of the people from all hostile threats of the U.S. and is quite different from the U.S. prejudiced prohibition measure on entry with malicious intention. The DPRK will not evaluate the U.S. actions on the basis of someone's hopeful observations or subjective interpretation. It will face the U.S. on the basis of the reality and by relying on its own independent judgment.
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