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No 103/26
Oct 21, 2026
1. Respected Comrade Kim Jong Un Goes round Venue of Garment and
Footwear Exhibition in Light Industry
2. Press Statement of Spokesman for Association of Korean Victims
of Forcible Drafting and Their Bereaved Families
3. Military Muscle-Flexing Will Meet with Reaction Based on Power:
KCNA Commentary
4. Press Statement of Kim Yo Jong, Department Director of WPK
Central Committee
5. Press Statement of Kim Yo Jong, Department Director of C.C., WPK
Respected Comrade Kim
Jong Un Goes round Venue of Garment and Footwear Exhibition in Light Industry
Pyongyang,
October 20 (KCNA) -- Respected Comrade 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, went round the venue of a garment and
footwear exhibition in light industry on October 19.
He
was accompanied by leading officials of the Party and the government.
Comrade
Kim Jong Un was greeted on the spot by senior officials of the Light
Industry Department of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea.
On
display at the National Garment and Footwear Exhibition-2026 to be held under
the theme of "Enthusiasm for developing new products and improving their
quality" are more than 70 700 garments of over 30 kinds and over 170 000
pairs of shoes of over 60 kinds which were manufactured by more than 270
garment, footwear and bag production units, including major light industry
factories and the newly-built city and county garment factories to suit the
tastes of the Korean people and the world trend of development.
Comrade
Kim Jong Un went round with satisfaction the venue of the exhibition
which comprehensively shows the features of the development of the light
industry sector which is promoting the improvement of the material and cultural
welfare of the people and making rapid progress.
Saying
that the national light industry goods exhibition which has been held in every
October is intimately settled in the cultural and emotional life of our people,
he appreciated that the current exhibition has been prepared, making another
progress in scale, content and form, which are different from last year's.
He
said that all aspects including the brand and display, to say nothing of the
shape, colour and quality of the products on display clearly show the rapid and
substantial development of the light industry sector which is waging a hot
emulation while concentrating efforts on improving the quality and developing
new products, adding that the current exhibition eloquently signifies the
daily-increasing cultural level of our people and the development of our light
industry.
He
said that dozens of kinds of smart and quality garment and footwear products
presented by the city and county garment factories and other regional light
industry factories newly built under the Party's policy of regional development
are squarely competing with the products of the central-level factories, adding
that this is a clear demonstration of the validity and vitality of the Party's
policy aimed at eliminating the differences between the central and local areas
and between urban and rural areas and achieving simultaneous and balanced
development of the whole country.
Comrade
Kim Jong Un said that progress in light industry should lead the noble
and beautiful trend, civilization and development of our society by further
accelerating the vigorous development trend of light industry so that the
foundations of light industry, which have already been established in the
central and local areas and are being expanded every year, can meet the
people's growing cultural and emotional requirement and ensure their colorful
life.
Saying
that it is most important for the light industry sector to give precedence to
designing of the products and develop it, Comrade Kim Jong Un stressed
the need to organize design festivals and exhibitions in various forms and
methods, learn about the cultural tastes of the working people through them and
introduce them into production, thus increasing the economic effectiveness and
scientific accuracy of the production of goods.
He
set forth the orientation and tasks for the development of light industry
including the issue of encouraging the development of peculiar national
costumes of Korean style, the issue of producing more diverse light industrial
goods with elements symbolic of the national flag of the DPRK to inspire the
people with patriotism and make patriotism permeate the daily life of society,
the issue of widely publishing and disseminating various kinds of picture
albums and magazines introducing new garment and footwear products on an annual
basis, the issue of raising the hot wind of emulation among the production
units at all levels with their monopoly indices and the issue of consistently
ensuring the quality in the production of schoolchildren's uniforms, bags and
shoes.
Press Statement of
Spokesman for Association of Korean Victims of Forcible Drafting and Their
Bereaved Families
Pyongyang,
October 20 (KCNA) -- A spokesman for the Association of Korean Victims of
Forcible Drafting and Their Bereaved Families on Oct. 20 released the following
press statement "Japanese politicians' tribute to Yasukuni Shrine to
revive souls of militarists should never be tolerated":
Shortly
ago, right-wing conservative politicians of Japan made offerings and visits to
the Yasukuni Shrine again, occasioned by the autumn ancestral rite day.
The
current chief executive of Japan made offerings to the shrine two times on the
occasion of the April spring ancestral rite day. And on the day of Japan's
defeat, she made a bow toward the shrine on her way to the venue for a national
memorial service for the war dead. She again made an offering to the shrine
during the autumn ritual period.
Meanwhile,
about 70 dietmen belonging to the Association of Dietmen for Visiting
"Yasukuni Shrine" flocked to the shrine, led by cabinet members, to
pay tribute to the late militarists buried at the shrine and prayed for their
souls' revival.
This
constitutes Japan's categorical denial of its past blood-stained history of
aggression and a manifestation of its lunatic militarism, a dangerous attempt
to realize the daydream about the "Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity
Sphere" at any cost by inciting revanchism through society. No excuse or
pretext can justify this.
The
international community has opposed the Japanese politicians' tribute to the
shrine and taken it seriously for decades, but the ruling politicians of Japan
have persistently paid tribute to the shrine on every occasion to spread
venomous militarism throughout Japan.
Visitors
to the shrine pray for repose of the dead war maniacs and human butchers,
punished by history for the hideous massacres they had committed by
spearheading the invasions of other nations in the last century, and even
praise them as "gods who brought comfort to the country" and
"heroes". So its existence is just a serious matter.
What
should not be overlooked is the fact that the Japanese reactionaries work hard
to turn Japan into a war-capable nation after throwing away such signboards, so
far put up as symbols of a "pacifist nation," as "exclusive
defense", "three principles of arms export" and "three
non-nuclear principles", and even talk about "creation of an
environment for realizing the prime minister's tribute to the Yasukuni
Shrine" to fan up the flames of neo-militarism.
The
present chief executive of Japan is so impudent that she told the Diet there
was no reason for her to reflect on the past crimes as she does not belong to
the generation directly responsible for them. This shows her true colors as a
descendant of militarism.
Now
that an ultra-right politician, armed with militarism to her marrow of bone,
has taken power, other politicians do not feel guilty about the past crimes but
visit the Yasukuni Shrine to praise the war criminals as "patriots"
who laid down their precious lives for the peace and prosperity of Japan and
swear revenge for Japan's defeat. And they regard it as a "demonstration
of their existence". This is the political climate of Japan.
Far
from redeeming the sinful past, the Japanese politicians ceaselessly visit the
Yasukuni Shrine dedicated to the top class war criminals, who inflicted untold
misfortune and sufferings on the Korean people and other Asian peoples in the
last century, and those killed on battlefields of aggressive war. This is an
intolerable mockery of and insult to the victims of the Japanese imperialists'
wars of aggression and their bereaved families and an unpardonable challenge to
international justice and peace.
We
cannot repress our surging indignation against the reckless moves of the
Japanese authorities that continue rubbing salt into the unhealed wounds of the
victims by distorting the history of aggression and insulting them, far from
feeling guilty about the atrocities of the Japanese imperialist brutes and
reflecting on them. And on behalf of all the victims and their bereaved
families, we vehemently denounce the authorities.
The
Japanese politicians should show the international community, desirous of
justice and peace, their correct attitude towards history and make sincere
apology and reparation for the thrice-cursed crimes, mindful that they would
get nothing but the fate of Tojo for their group visits to the shrine.
Military
Muscle-Flexing Will Meet with Reaction Based on Power: KCNA Commentary
Pyongyang,
October 20 (KCNA) -- New danger of war is prevailing in the Korean peninsula and
the rest of Northeast Asia due to the large-scale joint military exercises
launched by the ROK and Japan with the U.S. on October 19.
The
reckless moves of the enemy states, aimed at gaining the superior strength,
foretell the escalation of regional military tensions, and constitute the root
cause of adding a new element of instability to the security environment of
regional countries.
The
U.S. forces in the ROK will participate in the large-scale field mobile war
exercises Hoguk to be conducted by the warmongers of the puppet ROK until
October 30. During the exercises, two rounds of joint field mobile training,
postponed during Ulji Freedom Shield war game in August for its earlier
conclusion, will be reportedly conducted.
The
ROK did not conceal the aggressive and provocative nature of Hoguk by
announcing that it would intensify cooperation and actual war simulation in the
spheres of ground, sea and air, and conduct such field mobile drills as
simulated battles between units, in the light of recent warfare, during the
exercises.
Timed
to coincide with the war racket of the ROK, Japan, too, launched the
largest-ever joint military drill Keen Sword with the U.S. across the Japanese
archipelago on October 19 with the involvement of about 45 000 troops, 6 100
vehicles, 40 warships and 260 planes.
In
particular, the U.S. nuclear carrier Theodore Roosevelt strike group will take
part in the drill and the U.S. new-type anti-ship missile system NMESIS will be
deployed in Japan for the first time.
Against
this backdrop, the commander of the U.S. forces in the ROK and those concerned
of the U.S. Eighth Army, cried out for responding to the DPRK's "evolved
threat," openly revealed their design to drastically expand the joint
military drills through the additional introduction of dispersive drill mode of
the U.S. and the ROK, and betrayed their intention to accelerate the deployment
of the U.S. Army multi-domain mobile task force in the ROK and turn it into the
frontline logistic base.
The
reality goes to clearly prove that the ROK and Japan are going to stand in the
forefront of the "proxy war" against the DPRK and other regional
countries under the active backstage manipulation of the U.S. aimed at forming
the Asia-Pacific version of NATO.
Recently,
the ROK staged provocative military drills such as a maritime infiltration
drill and Ssangyong, all of which were aimed at mastering the war-fighting
capability, and enacted a "special law" to introduce nuclear
submarines.
Japan,
too, is working hard to revive militarism, as evidenced by the fact that it
specified "new mode of operation" and "increased capability for
attacking enemy bases" in its 2026 Defense White Paper and is going to
spend the largest-ever military expenditure and mobilize type 25 surface-to-ship
guided missile with a range of 1 000 km for the Keen Sword joint military
exercises.
The
ROK and Japan are getting undisguised in their reckless moves for escalating
military confrontation, occasioned by the U.S. pursuance of the strategy for
"modernized alliance". This constitutes a major factor of aggravating
the danger of war on the Korean peninsula and wantonly violating the security
environment of the DPRK and other neighboring countries.
According
to its new national security strategy and defence strategy, the U.S. seeks to
let the ROK and Japan steadily increase their war-fighting capabilities under
the pretext of deterring rival nations in the first island chain and use them
as shock brigades for realizing its Indo-Pacific strategy.
The
present situation, in which the hostile forces get frantic in their military
moves to infringe upon the security interests of the DPRK and undermine the
regional strategic stability, highlights the validity and justness of the
DPRK's indispensable self-defensive efforts to deter them.
Bolstered
deterrent is required to deal with ever-escalating threats, and repeated
provocations are bound to meet with such prompt reaction as bolstering of
stronger capabilities.
To
cope with the security environment on the Korean peninsula that has been put in
new danger by oft-repeated U.S.-Japan-ROK military provocations, the DPRK will
continue to remind them of its will to defend sovereignty through ceaseless
upgrading, bolstering and responsible demonstration of its reliable war
deterrent for self-defence.
The
DPRK is unshakable in its stand to control and manage all threats to its
security sphere, given the immutable reality that the enemy states'
ill-intended moves for military confrontation will never come to an end or
diminish.
Tit-for-tat
principle based on strong power will be applied to cope with the muscle flexing
of the enemy states.
Press Statement of Kim
Yo Jong, Department Director of WPK Central Committee
Pyongyang,
October 19 (KCNA) -- Kim Yo Jong, department director of the Central Committee
of the Workers' Party of Korea, released the following press statement "We
don't say empty words about protection of our sovereignty" on Oct. 19:
Now
the situation of the southern border is very unstable.
A
grave situation is prevailing along the southern border due to the reckless
behavior of the ROK military gangsters.
The
warmongers of the ROK military are seriously threatening the safety of our
service personnel by firing warning shots at them with automatic rifles and
large-calibre machine guns under such unreasonable pretext that the personnel,
involved in fortifying the southern border, "crossed the borderline".
Such provocations began in August, alongside warning loudspeaker blaring. They
committed 2 870 rounds of provocative loudspeaker warning and 201 warning shot
provocations from August 1 to October 17.
Such
enemy provocations, more openly perpetrated in the wake of a fabricated
"mine explosion farce", have gone beyond the red line.
The
provocative loudspeaker blaring frequently comes from the posts in the
deployment areas of the 7th and 15th Infantry Divisions of the Second Corps and
the 21st and 22nd Infantry Divisions of the Third Corps of the ROK army. The
provocative warning shots mostly come from the 278 military policemen post in
the demilitarized zone under the 21st Infantry Division of its Third Corps. In
actuality, provocative loudspeaker blaring was committed 998 times and warning
shots 91 times in the period between Oct. 1 and 17.
Notably,
the ROK military gangsters committed grave provocations escalating tensions by
repeating provocative loudspeaker warning over 350 times and warning fire
60-odd times from October 15 to 17 in different areas adjacent to the southern
border.
All
the facts prove that the Lee Jae Myung regime, which exhibited
"appeasement appearance," advocating "reconciliation" and
"peace" from the outset of its office, has far outpaced the die-hard
conservative regime of Yoon Suk Yeol, ill-famed for openly pursuing anti-communism,
in escalating confrontation with the DPRK.
The
main purpose of the military gangsters' such provocations is to
"showcase" their "tough response" and disturb the
fortification of our southern border.
But
such reckless provocations will surely boomerang on the perpetrators, extremely
imperiling the situation and bringing a terrible disaster on them.
To
cope with the prevailing situation, our military leadership is examining the
issues of deploying more tactical strike means along the southern border as a
preemptive and suppressive measure to deal with contingency, and of resuming
the loudspeaker broadcasting against the ROK, and considering other necessary
and appropriate measures.
We
seriously warn the ROK military gangsters against their reckless acts of
aggravating the situation by constantly threatening the border security of the
Democratic People's Republic of Korea and the safety of our service personnel.
Seoul
will surely regret and face uncontrollably terrible danger, for such useless
bravery of the military gangsters.
Explicitly
speaking once again, we do not say empty words about the protection of our
sovereignty.
Press Statement of Kim
Yo Jong, Department Director of C.C., WPK
Pyongyang,
October 21 (KCNA) -- Kim Yo Jong, department director of the Central Committee
of the Workers' Party of Korea, released the following press statement on Oct.
21:
Today
I inspected the border together with Marshal Pak Jong Chon.
The
Korean Central News Agency misreported the date in its article.
I
inspected several places of the border early this morning, not yesterday.
The
border has been clearly blocked and turned into a fortress more thoroughly.
This
clearly proves that the history miswritten by us for a long time is being
corrected and the current and future security of the DPRK guaranteed
qualitatively.
Our
head of state stressed that it is a terrible tragedy that the DPRK borders the
most despicable and disgusting enemy in the world and, therefore, the border
should be a permanent line never to be crossed.
Our
army is carrying out a crucial and great undertaking in the face of the enemy's
persistent threats.
A
great history of peace will soon begin.
If
the border is fortified, the danger of military conflict in this area will
undoubtedly be eliminated.
The
armed rogues committed provocative warning loudspeaker blaring and shots again
in at least two spots today.
Our
tactical hunting teams are taking new positions, and within October, the
loudspeakers for psychological warfare against the ROK will be in operation
along the whole border.
This
is the most just measure and appropriate response.
Let
us suppose that we open responsive fire on the enemy as a warning in the case
like today.
The
situation along the border will escalate into an unimaginably terrible phase.
We
gird ourselves thoroughly for contingence, exercising great restraint.
If
the enemy's warning shot provocation results in doing actual harm to the our
territorial security and our service persons' safety, going beyond the level of
warning, our border guards will show no mercy for the armed gangsters bereft of
reason.
