THE EMBASSY OF THE DEMOCRATIC
PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF KOREA TO SWITZERLAND
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No 70/26
1. Ceremony of Welcoming DPRK Party and Government Delegation Held
2. Premier of DPRK Cabinet Pak Thae Song Meets Li Qiang, Premier of PRC State Council
3. Press Statement of DPRK Foreign Ministry Spokesperson
Ceremony of Welcoming DPRK Party and Government Delegation Held
Pyongyang, July 12 (KCNA) -- A ceremony was held at the Great hall of the People in Beijing on July 11 to welcome the Party and government delegation of the DPRK led by Premier Pak Thae Song, member of the Presidium of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea, vice-president of the State Affairs Commission of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea and premier of the DPRK Cabinet, on an official visit to the People's Republic of China.
Seen at the venue for the ceremony were the national flags of the DPRK and the PRC, the guard of honor of the Chinese People's Liberation Army (CPLA) and the military band.
Present at the ceremony were Kim Song Nam, member of the Political Bureau and secretary of the C.C., WPK, and members of the Party and government delegation of the DPRK.
Also present there were Li Qiang, member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and premier of the State Council of the PRC, Wu Zhenglong, member and secretary-general of the State Council of the PRC, Zheng Shanjie, head of the National Development and Reform Committee of the PRC, Wang Wentao, minister of Commerce of the PRC, and officials concerned.
When the Party and government delegation of the DPRK arrived at the Great Hall of the People, Li Qiang warmly greeted it.
The national anthems of the DPRK and the PRC were played.
Pak Thae Song, together with Li Qiang, reviewed the guard of honor of the CPLA.
Premier of DPRK Cabinet Pak Thae Song Meets Li Qiang, Premier of PRC State Council
Pyongyang, July 12 (KCNA) -- Pak Thae Song, member of the Presidium of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea and premier of the Cabinet of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, had talks with Li Qiang, member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and premier of the State Council of the People's Republic of China, at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on July 11.
Pak Thae Song said that the DPRK-China Treaty of Friendship, Cooperation and Mutual Assistance is a firm political and legal guarantee for dynamically promoting the development of the friendly and cooperative relations between the two countries, adding that the complicated international political situation requires the two parties and two countries to continue to give full play to the spirit of the treaty with defending the unity, cooperation and common interests for the victorious advance of the socialist cause as the core.
Noting that the DPRK-China friendly relations have reached a new high level thanks to the direct interest and wise leadership of Comrade Kim Jong Un and Comrade Xi Jinping, he stressed that the DPRK would make positive efforts to steadily strengthen the DPRK-China friendship and solidarity, true to the noble intention of the top leaders of the two parties and two countries.
Li Qiang said that China and the DPRK are neighbors sharing destiny and defending and helping each other, adding that General Secretary Comrade Xi Jinping paid a state visit to the DPRK to achieve important shared understanding and provide strategic guidelines on deepening the China-DPRK relations with Comrade General Secretary Kim Jong Un.
It is the consistent and steadfast policy of the Chinese party and government to successfully defend, consolidate and develop the China-DPRK relations, he said, expressing the will to steadily preserve the spirit of the China-DPRK Treaty of Friendship, Cooperation and Mutual Assistance so as to maintain close ties through high-level visits and expand and develop the political mutual trust and practical cooperation and thus promote the wellbeing of the peoples of the two countries and make positive contributions to the peaceful development of the region and the rest of the world.
The talks discussed the issues of expanding and developing exchange and cooperation in all spheres according to the agreement reached by the top leaders of the DPRK and China at the historic Pyongyang summit.
The talks proceeded in a comradely and friendly atmosphere..
Present at the talks from the DPRK side were Kim Song Nam, member of the Political Bureau and secretary of the C.C., WPK, and other leading members of the Party and government delegation of the DPRK, and from the Chinese side were Wu Zhenglong, member and secretary-general of the State Council of the PRC, and other officials of the Ministry of Commerce and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the PRC and the International Liaison Department of the C.C., CPC,.
That day, Li Qiang, premier of the State Council of the PRC, hosted a reception in welcome of the Party and government delegation of the DPRK.
Press Statement of DPRK Foreign Ministry Spokesperson
Pyongyang, July 11 (KCNA) -- A spokesman of the DPRK Foreign Ministry issued the following press statement on Saturday:
At the recent NATO summit, the U.S. and its vassal forces denounced the DPRK's exercise of its just sovereign right as a "threat", and more openly showed their intention for inter-camp confrontation through the NATO's arms buildup and the intensified military cooperation with their Asia-Pacific allies.
The U.S., Japan and the ROK had a separate confab, at which they talked about "complete denuclearization of the DPRK" and "response to cyber threat". And the secretary general of NATO expressed the intention to intensify NATO's interference in the affairs of the Asia-Pacific region, maliciously finding fault with the normal development of relations among sovereign states including the DPRK.
The U.S.-led NATO allies and their partners incited the confrontation throughout the NATO summit. This clearly proved that the North Atlantic Treaty Organization is a war and confrontation body that goes against the international peace and security in all parts of the world, including the Asia-Pacific region and the European region, while pursuing exclusive geopolitical interests.
The Foreign Ministry of the DPRK expresses serious concern over the fact that the U.S. and its vassal allies are adding an element of instability to the international situation through massive arms buildup, while being so engrossed in the unfounded and malicious politically-motivated denunciation of sovereign states and the strengthening of a military bloc of aggressive nature, and strongly condemns and rejects it.
"The DPRK's denuclearization" is an agenda which reached an irreversible and final conclusion both theoretically and practically.
The U.S., Japan and the ROK's call for "denuclearization", which completely lost the timeliness and practical feasibility, can never affect the position of the DPRK, and the reality faced by the forces who have denied it for decades is a sufficient answer to this.
The concept of denuclearization should be applied on a priority basis to the attempts of Japan and the ROK to go nuclear by themselves in an extremely dangerous phase under the active patronage of the U.S. and to the ambition for nuclear confrontation of NATO member states sharing the U.S. nukes.
NATO is systematically exacerbating the security environment of Europe through the implementation of its reckless easternward advance policy and expansion of its support for the neo-Nazi forces to maintain illegal justification for its existence which should have been extinct with the end of the Cold War, and creating instability in the Asia-Pacific region by shifting its responsibility on to other countries. Its provocative moves can never be overlooked.
The reckless acts of the confrontation forces posing a destructive threat to the world security mechanical structure give a realistic justification to the renewal and expansion of the physical deterrent to confront them.
The DPRK will reliably defend the national sovereignty and security interests and the regional peace and stability by building up at an accelerated pace the strength capable of deterring the enemy countries' ever-increasing attempt for collective confrontation and their military threats and exercising its sovereignty in a responsible manner.