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No 109/26
Nov 04, 2026
1. Respected Comrade Kim Jong Un Gives Field Guidance at Nampho
Shipyard
2. Press Statement of Kim Yo Jong, Department Director of C.C., WPK
3. Press Statement of Kim Yo Jong, Department Director of C.C., WPK
4. DPRK Missile Administration Tests Major Weapon System
5. DPRK Military Commentator on Japan's Moves to Acquire Capability
for Making Preemptive Attack
Respected Comrade Kim
Jong Un Gives Field Guidance at Nampho Shipyard
Pyongyang,
November 4 (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, gave field guidance at the Nampho Shipyard
on November 2.
He
was accompanied by Jo Chun Ryong, secretary of the C.C., WPK.
He
was greeted at the shipyard by leading officials of the Shipbuilding Institute
and the shipyard.
The
Nampho Shipyard is pushing ahead with the project to modernize its overall
production lines and also making progress in the building of a new warship,
under the tasks of the warship building sector set forth by the Second Plenary
Meeting of the Ninth Central Committee of the WPK and the decision made at the
First Enlarged Meeting of the WPK Central Military Commission.
Comrade
Kim Jong Un learned in detail about the master plan for updating the
shipyard and then about the economic organization for the modernization project
and the progress in the project.
He
referred once again to the opinion of the WPK Central Committee on the
historical need to accelerate the expansion of capacity of the Nampho Shipyard
and other major shipyards and their technical upgrading.
The
strategy for developing the shipbuilding industry set forth by the Party
Congress clearly indicates the specific orientation for expanding the capacity
of the existing shipyards and increasing the operation rate of all the
shipyards, he said, adding that the implementation of this strategy means the
updating of major infrastructure of the state which is of key importance in
rapidly developing the country's marine industry for the future economic
prospect, defending the security of the sea border and maritime sovereignty and
exercising the strategic deterrent.
In
particular, it is vital and important requirement of the times to rapidly
bolster up the surface and underwater combat power for defending the national
sovereignty in the sea under various threats, he said. Stating that the
necessity to completely upgrade the combat power of the navy at present is
attributable to the circumstances which compels us to contain the nuclear
blackmail and threat of the enemies in the region, the source of creating the
new geopolitical situation and substantially and gravely affecting the national
security, he said that the timely adopted development plan in the shipbuilding
industrial sector is a responsible option in view of the national prosperity
and security and an expression of action for the just will to ensure the prosperity
and development of the country and defend its peace.
Saying
that the advanced and hi-tech shipbuilding base is essential for building a
powerful naval force which no one can provoke, Comrade Kim Jong Un
stressed the need for the shipyard to set the standard goal of modernization in
terms of raising the higher efficiency in the aspects of quality and
productivity and in the direction of saving manpower and establish an
intelligent integrated production system which comprehensively controls the
whole course of shipbuilding, thus opening a new path and creating model
experience in the development of the shipbuilding industry.
He
set forth the important principle and tasks for modernizing the shipyard,
including the issues of highly automating all the elements of production
process, constructing one more ground dock to create the capacity for building
and repairing ships at the same time, and correcting the irrational matters in
the layout of the shipyard's buildings.
He
also stressed the need to pay due attention to employing more promising
talented persons in the field of designing and building the ships and
increasing the number of those engaged in that field.
Saying
that our inviolable maritime sovereignty is guaranteed only by the most
responsible efforts and practical and advanced defence technology, he affirmed
that if all shipyards of the country are modernized as planned by the Party
Central Committee, a great revolution will take place in the development of the
shipbuilding industry.
That
day, Comrade Kim Jong Un went round the warship building site of the
Nampho Shipyard.
He
said that the building of latest-type warships in succession is a proof of the
actual development of our shipbuilding sector, which increases confidence in
the prosperity and development of our shipbuilding industry. He noted that if
the talented shipbuilding group is combined with excellent advanced technology
at once, our country will take a seat on the front row of the world's most
powerful shipbuilding industry.
He
expressed great satisfaction, looking at a warship under construction which is
incomparably huge and browbeating than the destroyer built last year.
The
new warship, designed to carry out its complex operational mission in
consideration of the present-day warfare, the world trend of development and
the specific situation of our country on the basis of comprehensive analysis of
the development history of warships which many countries have updated through
many repeated research in the historical changes, is being built into a combat
system with the one and only capabilities from the designing stage, he said,
referring to the important military significance of an aggregate of the huge
combat power.
Comrade
Kim Jong Un stressed that the necessity to possess the most developed
and powerful warship is proved without words by the recent geopolitical
environment and hostile acts of the enemies, and therefore, the urgency is
being highlighted than ever before and it is because we should defend the
country, ensure sovereignty and deter all threats.
He
asked the workers of the Nampho Shipyard and all the builders involved in the
modernization of the shipyard to respond to the sacred mission entrusted by the
revolution with their consistent devotion and responsible efforts for the security
and prosperity of the country.
His
field guidance to the Nampho Shipyard serves as a warm encouragement to the
development and might of our shipbuilding industry, which is playing a key role
in attaining the strategic target for developing the national industry and
bolstering up the national defence capabilities through radical leap forward
and revolutionary acceleration, and a significant occasion in adding confidence
and courage to its sky-high spirit and advance.
Press Statement of Kim
Yo Jong, Department Director of C.C., WPK
Pyongyang,
November 4 (KCNA) -- Kim Yo Jong, department director of the Central Committee
of the Workers' Party of Korea, released the following press statement on
November 4:
As
already mentioned, the continued hostile signal of the U.S. to our state
compels the DPRK to reconsider the U.S. entity in various aspects.
The
so-called "cryptocurrency hacking case by the DPRK" is no more than a
tip of iceberg that shows the essence of the U.S. hostile policy toward the
DPRK.
Recently,
the U.S. again called for someone's "denuclearization" at a
tripartite diplomatic gathering with Japan and the ROK and has set new records
of anti-DPRK hostility day by day in all aspects of denuclearization, human
rights, cyber, sanctions and military affairs, evidenced by the staging of
joint military drills under various missions, the imposition of unilateral and
multilateral sanctions and the publication of "Trafficking in Persons
Report".
We
do not regard the "Binance" hacking incident as any accidental and
sudden case or isolated private scheme, but as an extension of Washington's
invariable hostile policy toward the DPRK.
Clearly,
the U.S. malicious attempt to get a political and strategic profit by abusing
the case is producing a political side effect.
We
have already and repeatedly clarified that the U.S. abandonment of its hostile
policy toward the DPRK is a major premise and key to solving all problems, and
in this context it is needless to say that the U.S. recent act is a clearly retrogressive
one.
It
is our clear stand that we have no need to sit face to face with such
unreliable and hostile persons who refuse to abandon their policy of
confrontation while talking about dialogue, prefer war drills and strengthening
of military alliance to peace and evade respect for the sovereignty, rights and
interests of the other party while preaching about improved relations.
To
the hostile signals that the United States continuously sends, we do not know
how to respond otherwise.
In
the present reality when new records are being set in the implementation of the
U.S. hostile policy toward the DPRK, it is natural that new records should be
created in our reflective counteraction.
The
choice for peace includes dialogue of course, but this is not surely equated
with national interests for us.
Press Statement of Kim
Yo Jong, Department Director of C.C., WPK
Pyongyang,
November 3 (KCNA) -- Kim Yo Jong, department director of the Central Committee
of the Workers' Party of Korea, released the following press statement on
November 2:
Recently,
the cryptocurrency worth billions of U.S. dollars was stolen at the world's
largest cryptocurrency exchange "Binance". As regards this
extra-large incident, the U.S. has made a trite provocation of linking it with the
Democratic People's Republic of Korea again.
The
FBI is trying to brand the DPRK as a "cyber criminal state", claiming
that it obtained information that a hacking organization "supported"
by the DPRK was involved in the incident.
But
the U.S. assertion is an absurd rhetoric and nothing new.
This
is not the first time that the U.S. has attempted to spread misunderstanding of
the DPRK in the international community, blindly linking the DPRK with the
"cyber crime" incidents whenever they occur on an international
scale.
Last
year, the U.S. also tried to blame the DPRK for the hacking incident at the
cryptocurrency exchange called "Bybit".
It
is a grave political provocation against the DPRK that the U.S. misleads the
international public opinion as if all the cyber crimes in different parts of
the world are our deeds.
This
is a sinister attempt to damage the international image of the DPRK and
undermine its dignity and national prestige and another grave violation of the
sovereignty of the DPRK in the new sphere.
It
is the consistent policy stand of the DPRK government to resolutely oppose all
sorts of malicious acts in cyberspace, the wealth common to the mankind, and
resolutely reject any attempt to politicize the cyber issue and use it as a
means of interfering in the internal affairs with other countries.
The
international community needs to recall once again the fact that as soon as the
present U.S. administration took office last year, it announced that it would
confiscate illegally stolen cryptocurrency assets and use them as a state's
strategic reserve.
If
it carefully examines who will get the large amount of the so-called stolen
cryptocurrency when the latter is retrieved, it may get a clue about who is
behind the hacking incident.
On
this occasion, we confirmed Washington's hostile attitude toward the DPRK once
again and are closely monitoring a variety of persistent provocations of the
U.S. against our state.
We
have issues to reconsider in diverse aspects as regards the very unpleasant
U.S. hostile attitude.
DPRK Missile
Administration Tests Major Weapon System
Pyongyang,
November 3 (KCNA) -- The Missile Administration of the Democratic People's
Republic of Korea conducted the tests to assess the power of a dispersal
warhead of a strategic cruise missile and its flight feature for vertical
strike on November 2.
Full
General Kim Jong Sik, member of the Central Military Commission of the Workers'
Party of Korea and first vice department director of the Central Committee of
the Workers' Party of Korea, guided the relevant tests.
Announcing
the result of the test to assess the power of the dispersal warhead, the
Warhead Institute of the Missile Administration said it confirmed that the
middle-sized dispersal warhead tipped on the cruise missile is capable of
turning into ashes a target area of 5 to 6 hectares with its highest-density
power.
And
the Cruise Missile System Institute of the Missile Administration noted that it
perfected the capability to deliver a vertical strike against the target by
improving the terminal maneuverability of the cruise missile, taking into
consideration the natural and geographical characteristics of the targeted
area.
The
general director of the Missile Administration said:
The
necessity of developing a variety of weapon systems is urgent than ever before.
It is because our armed forces should defend the security of the country and
deter all sorts of threats. As today's tests showed, various combat functions
of such strongest weapon system will help defend the DPRK from potential
threats from outside and renew the military capabilities of the state. These
tests are an important test and also demonstrate the practical combat power.
The
Missile Administration said the tests were a part of the routine scientific
research to increase the power of combat systems.
DPRK Military
Commentator on Japan's Moves to Acquire Capability for Making Preemptive Attack
Pyongyang,
November 3 (KCNA) -- A DPRK military commentator made public the following
article "Intolerable is the moves of the neo-militarist forces of Japan to
acquire the capability for making a preemptive attack inviting a vicious cycle
of the escalation of the regional tension" on November 3:
Japan,
a defeated nation accelerating its transformation into a warfighting state
after throwing off the veil of "pacifist state", persists in its
moves to acquire the capability for making a preemptive attack. It is further
escalating the geopolitical tension.
Its
latest example is the participation of the type 25 surface-to-ship guided
missile launcher of the Ground Self-Defence Forces in the largest-ever joint
military drill Keen Sword staged in different parts of Japan from October 19 to
29, involving 45 000 troops from the Self-Defence Forces and 12 000 soldiers
from the U.S. army.
It
is a well-known fact that Japan remodeled the Ground Self-Defence Forces' type
12 surface-to-ship guided missile with a firing range of 200km into the type 25
one with a firing range of over 1000km last year and deployed the relevant
equipment in Kumamoto Prefecture of Kyushu area bordering the DPRK and China in
March this year.
However,
it was reported that Japan relocated the type 25 surface-to-ship guided missile
launcher and the relevant equipment in the training grounds in Nagasaki and
Saga prefectures for the first time during the drill to share the information
about a target simulating the enemy's warship with the U.S. forces and confirm
the launching procedure.
What
is more serious is that Japan did not hide the fact that the drill simulating
the missile launch was aimed to test the rapid deployment of the offensive
weapon system with the coast of China and the DPRK in the striking range and
the capability for the anti-warship operations when it opened the drill to the
media.
This
year the moves of the neo-militarist forces of Japan to acquire the capability
for making a preemptive attack on neighboring countries have assumed more
radical, undisguised and regular aspects.
Between
May and September alone, Japan launched the type 88 surface-to-ship guided
missile and test-fired Tomahawk long-range cruise missile in succession on the
northern coast of the Luzon Island of the Philippines and in the Pacific Ocean,
and the U.S. forces' mid-range missile launching system Typhon was involved in
the large-scale joint military drill it staged with the U.S. and Australia.
Such
ever more unscrupulous military moves go against the international law and
domestic law disallowing Japan to possess a war potential and the right to take
part in any war or right to belligerence. They clearly prove that the moves of
the war criminal state to turn itself into a military giant have entered an
extremely dangerous phase as it is crazy about the deployment of the long-range
offensive weapon for action, not content with its scheme to acquire the
capability for making a preemptive attack, advocating the "story of
threats from neighboring countries".
Japan
has massively procured different kinds of long-range strike means with
heightened unexpectedness of attack and drastically increased operational
radius and accelerated its moves to deploy them for action in multi-domain
spaces such as ground, sea, underwater and air. This is the present reality of
Japan's moves to acquire the capability for making a preemptive attack.
It
is an uneasy opinion of the international community aspiring after justice and
peace that Japan's military power has completed its transition from
"defence" to "attack" and Japan's rush with right-wing
inclination is creating a direct and realistic threat to regional peace and
stability.
The
moves of the neo-militarist forces of Japan to possess the capability for
making a preemptive attack, which is running amuck, obsessed with the dizziness
of reinvasion, are a cancer-like factor that brings about a vicious cycle of
escalating tension in the region.
The
more desperately Japan is keen on possessing the capability for making a
preemptive attack and the more frantic it is in its provocative and aggressive
military drills with outside forces, the more closely its archipelago will
approach serious, realistic and inevitable security crisis.
