2025-12-25 KOREAN NEWS

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1. Respected Comrade Kim Jong Un Guides Building of Nuclear-powered Strategic Guided Missile Submarine

2. Respected Comrade Kim Jong Un Observes Test-fire of New-type Anti-Air Missiles

3. Regional-industry Factories and Leisure Complex Inaugurated with Splendour in Jongphyong County

4. Press Statement of Spokesperson for DPRK Ministry of National Defence

Respected Comrade Kim Jong Un Guides Building of Nuclear-powered Strategic Guided Missile Submarine

Pyongyang, December 25 (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, guided the building of an 8 700-tonnage nuclear-powered strategic guided missile submarine on the spot.

The respected Comrade Kim Jong Un was accompanied by leading officials in the sectors of the warship-building industry and the defence science research and production.

Kim Jong Un went round the site of building the nuclear-powered submarine and received a report on its progress.

Workers, scientists and technicians in the warship-building field, all out in the glorious struggle for implementing the WPK's policy of modernizing the navy, are pushing ahead with the building of a strategic nuclear attack submarine, one of the five-point major tasks for developing the defence capabilities set forth at the 8th Congress of the WPK, by fully displaying the great power of self-reliance and inexhaustible patriotic enthusiasm.

Kim Jong Un stressed once again the importance and significance of building a strategic nuclear attack submarine in carrying out the self-reliant defence policy of the WPK and the government of the DPRK.

Noting that our defence policy is literally a defensive policy based on the strongest offensive power, he said that to this end, we regard the super-powerful offensive capability as the best shield for national security in developing the armed forces.

Saying that it is the noble mission and duty of the current generation to further strengthen the nuclear shield that represents the prestige and honour of the DPRK and absolutely guarantees its security and to consolidate the irreversible position, he stressed that the WPK and the government of the DPRK will remain unchanged in their determination to permanently ensure the peaceful environment and absolute security of the country by composing the nuclear forces that the enemy can't help fearing.

We have built in every way the nuclear shield capable of reliably defending our national security and secured the capability for expanding it to the extent necessary for ensuring the national security environment, he said, adding that the completion of a new nuclear submarine will serve as an epoch-making crucial change that further assures ourselves and even the enemy of the war deterrent level the DPRK has reached. He clarified the steadfast will and the strategic and tactical policy to steadily push forward with the nuclear weaponization of the navy.

The Party Central Committee is pleased to see the warship-building sector achieving signal production successes, true to the WPK's line of building up the naval force in the new century, he said, adding that the strategic nuclear attack submarine to be considered as an important component of the nuclear war deterrent will constitute the greatest immortal feats of the working class, defence scientists and technicians, the driving force of the DPRK, for the times and history.

He affirmed that the present world is by no means peaceful and such situation and the prospective threats to be posed highlight undoubtedly the decision made by the DPRK with regard to the future security of the country as the most just option and the manifestation of its will to safeguard its sovereignty and interests in a responsible manner.

Saying that the nuclear submarine development plan of the ROK, which Washington has agreed on at the solicitation of Seoul recently, will worsen the instability in the region of the Korean peninsula, he stressed that the DPRK regards it as an offensive act severely violating its security and maritime sovereignty and a threat to its security that must be countered.

Given the negative security situation that has come as present reality only, it is an urgent task and indispensable option to further accelerate the radical development of the modernization and nuclear weaponization of the naval force of the DPRK, he said.

Attack destroyers and nuclear submarines recently under construction will make a leap forward in bolstering up the combat capabilities of our fleets and contribute to defending the strategic sovereignty and security of our country, he said, adding that the DPRK will develop the navy and its strategic components in a constant and diverse way, steadily increase and expand the speed and scale of building various surface and underwater warships and continuously equip them with different offensive weapon systems.

Noting that the WPK and the DPRK government will stay definitely unchanged in their national security policy and their principle of deterring the enemy, he said it is needed to make the enemy understand with no doubt that they will be surely forced to pay a dear price when they violate the security of the DPRK's strategic sovereignty and that they will face a merciless retaliatory attack if they try to select a military option. The DPRK will continue to show such capabilities and this goes just as the responsible exercise of the true nuclear war deterrent and a reliable shield for defending sovereignty, he added.

That day, he learned in detail about the on-going research on the new underwater secret weapons under development and clarified a strategic plan for reorganizing the naval forces and establishing new units.

 

Respected Comrade Kim Jong Un Observes Test-fire of New-type Anti-Air Missiles

Pyongyang, December 25 (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, observed a test-fire of new-type anti-air missiles.

The Missile Administration of the DPRK conducted a test-fire of new-type high-altitude long-range anti-air missiles under development in the East Sea of Korea on December 24.

This is the first test-fire for estimating the tactical and technical features of the high-altitude long-range anti-air missile system in development.

The launched missiles accurately hit the mock targets at an altitude of 200 km.

The test-fire is a part of the routine activities of the Missile Administration and its affiliated anti-air weapon system research institutes for the technical optimization of the national anti-air defence means.

The respected Comrade Kim Jong Un extended congratulations on the successful test-fire.

 

Regional-industry Factories and Leisure Complex Inaugurated with Splendour in Jongphyong County

Pyongyang, December 25 (KCNA) -- Now that the whole country is pulsating with excitement at great transformation and fresh hope, an inauguration ceremony of the regional-industry factories and leisure complex, newly built in Jongphyong County for the Regional Development 20×10 Policy, took place with splendour on December 24.

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, attended the inauguration ceremony.

When he arrived at the venue for the ceremony, the participants raised deafening cheers with reverence for the great leader of the people.

The respected Comrade Kim Jong Un received a report on the completion of the project from the commanding officer of the military unit involved in the construction of the regional-industry factories and leisure complex in the county.

Present at the ceremony were members of the central leadership body of the WPK, commanding officers of the large combined units of the Korean People's Army, officials and working people in South Hamgyong Province and Jongphyong County, soldier-builders and employees of the regional-industry factories and leisure complex.

Ri Il Hwan, secretary of the Central Committee of the WPK, addressed the ceremony.

Saying the joy of great transformation in the new era of regional construction has also come to Jongphyong County, the speaker warmly congratulated the county citizens on the better life and new culture they will lead with the inauguration of modern regional-industry factories and leisure complex.

Thanks to the noble intention and sincerity of the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un that the people's wish is the wish of the Party and the struggle for bringing wellbeing earlier to the people should be intensified nonstop, the construction of regional light industrial factories, the level of which are as good as those in the capital city, has been pushed forward at the state expense, and the regional-industry factories, which are more advanced than those built last year, have appeared in 20 cities and counties across the country, he said.

He noted that the leisure complex in the county is a valuable creation embodying the high intention of Kim Jong Un to bring about a sure change in the cultural progress of the regions by providing the conditions for enjoying advanced civilization not only in material life but also in all aspects of mental and cultural life.

The speaker expressed belief that the officers and men of the construction units, who successfully built the regional-industry factories and leisure complex in Jongphyong County in the high revolutionary spirit peculiar to the People's Army remaining absolutely loyal to the order of the Party and earnest in fulfilling its desire, would perform brilliant feats in every site of the further expanded regional construction under the uplifted glorious colors of theirs.

Kim Jong Un unveiled the monument to the inauguration of the regional-industry factories and leisure complex.

Lovely children presented him with bouquets of fragrant flowers reflecting the unanimous gratitude of the county citizens.

Kim Jong Un met some working people in the county and commanding officers of the construction units who participated in the inauguration ceremony, and shook hands with them one by one as a token of his warm encouragement.

He went round the leisure complex.

Going round various parts of the library and the general commercial district, he stressed the need to run and manage the complex effectively as befitting its characteristics as a public leisure centre for improving the regional cultures of life, study and commerce and training the regional citizens to be pioneers and creators of new culture.

Saying that the true significance of the regional revolution lies in raising the people's ideological consciousness and cultural level to the one corresponding to the new era and continuously setting higher goals and levels of creation, he clarified a series of tasks related to the next year's construction of leisure complexes in 20 cities and counties.

Then he visited the regional-industry factories.

There was an inauguration ceremony.

Kim Jong Un cut the inauguration tape.

He visited the Jongphyong County Foodstuff Factory.

When deciding on the Regional Development 20×10 Policy, there were certainly some individuals being skeptical about its implementation even among cadres as the plan for regional development was largest ever in its scale, but not only those cadres but also all our people are now convinced of the validity of the Party policy, practical power for its implementation and its bright future, witnessing the domains of construction further expanding with each passing year and the inauguration season which has come without fail this year like last year.

He said that the popular masses' deeper trust in the Party and absolute confidence in its policy are, indeed, the greatest success registered in the struggle of two years for bringing about fundamental changes in the regions.

He earnestly requested the officials and employees of the regional-industry factories to regard the people's demands and evaluation as an absolute criterion and conduct management and operation in a responsible manner so as to keep the production going at a high rate.

He sincerely hoped that the new leisure complex and regional-industry factories in the county would make a substantial contribution to the economic development of the county and improvement of the living standards of its citizens.

 

Press Statement of Spokesperson for DPRK Ministry of National Defence

Pyongyang, December 25 (KCNA) -- A spokesperson for the Ministry of National Defence of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea released the following press statement on December 24:

Recently, the U.S. is getting more undisguised in its attempt to permanently fix a grave nuclear instability element in the security environment of the DPRK.

A nuclear attack submarine of the U.S. Navy entered the Pusan operation base of the ROK on Dec. 23, under the pretext of its crew members' rest and replenishment of munitions.

The repeated emergence of the U.S. strategic asset 46 days after the entry of the nuclear carrier George Washington strike group belonging to the U.S. Seventh Fleet into the ROK on November 7 constitutes a grave act of causing instability and escalating military tensions in the Korean peninsula and the region.

The U.S. reaffirmed its commitment to offering the ROK "extended deterrence" by mobilizing all defence forces including nuclear weapons at the fifth U.S.-ROK "nuclear consultative group" meeting recently held in Washington. Worse still, it has given the green light to the ROK's development of nuclear submarine and is frequently deploying its nuclear submarines there. Clear is what this fact hints at against the regional security structure.

This is a warning that the U.S. is getting closer to the critical level in its attempt to gain strategic advantage in the region by making its military alliance with the ROK more surely evolve into a nuclear confrontation bloc sharing its nuclear weapons.

Given that the U.S. confrontational intention to cement the structure of a nuclear-to-nuclear collision with the DPRK has been confirmed once again, the DPRK remains unchanged in its practical will to strongly propel the development of the defence capabilities for ensuring its prospective interests and defending security at present and in the future.

Nothing will change no matter how frequently the U.S. brings its nuclear submarine to highlight the visibility of its nuclear attack forces.

The U.S. nuclear threat that persists in the vicinity of our state is pushing us into securing earlier the strategic retaliatory capability for wiping out such threatening entities within the scope of our maritime sovereignty.

We will consider countermeasures corresponding to the U.S. nuclear muscle flexing, according to the doctrine of mutual containment between nuclear weapons states, and the way and time of their implementation will be chosen on the principle of symmetry and asymmetry.