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No 92/26
Sep 19, 2026
1. Respected Comrade Kim Jong Un Guides Work of Defence Industry
2. Press Statement of Kim Yo
Jong, Department Director of C.C., WPK
3. Press Statement of
Spokesperson for DPRK Foreign Ministry
Respected Comrade Kim Jong Un Guides Work
of Defence Industry
Pyongyang, September 19 (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, learned about the production at major munitions industrial
enterprises from September 16 to 18.
He was accompanied by Vice-Chairman Pak
Jong Chon and member Kim Jong Sik of the Central Military Commission of the
WPK, Yu Chang Son, director of the Artillery Bureau of the General Staff of the
Korean People's Army, and Ri Pyong Chol, Ri Il Hwan, Kim Yo Jong, Kim Jae Ryong
and O Yong Jae, who are cadres of the Central Committee of the WPK, and leading
officials in the sector of defence science research.
Comrade Kim Jong Un learned in
detail about the production of each enterprise.
In hearty response to the decisions of
the Ninth Congress of the WPK, the major munitions industrial enterprises
turned out in attaining the new year's production goals. They are steadily
increasing the revolutionary enthusiasm and making upsurge in production,
recording high results every day.
Comrade Kim Jong Un warmly
encouraged the working class who are reliably stepping up the radical growth of
our munitions industry and its more independent and advanced development
through their energetic and devoted labour struggle, always full of
revolutionary zeal.
He expressed great satisfaction over the
fact that the major munitions industrial enterprises are fulfilling their plans
for the production of combat equipment on the most important indices of urgent
military significance in a responsible manner without fail and, as a result,
the huge plans issued by the Party Central Military Commission are being
successfully carried out one by one.
He appreciated the major munitions
industrial enterprises for carrying on without an inch of deflection the
projects for expanding the production capacity assigned by the Party to meet
the requirements of the all-round plan for reorganizing and modernizing the
artillery combat force of our army.
Stressing that the fulfillment of this
year's production plans is most essential in attaining the new Five-Year Plan
aimed at fresh progress and leap forward in the building of a powerful army and
the defence industry, he said that the major munitions industrial enterprises
should continue to consolidate the current trend in production and dynamically
and simultaneously conduct a series of technical infrastructure reinforcement
for promoting the long-term munitions production plans.
He said that the building of a powerful
artillery force is the core for deterring and fighting war, adding that our
artillery should have the most concentrated and destructive, massive and
versatile offensive capability and responsibly perform the two missions of
deterring and fighting war. He stressed that the achievements made by the DPRK
in all fields to modernize all components of the national defence capability
including artillery are meaning a significant change in the composition and
means of our armed forces and their plan for countering a war. Stating that the
enemy's military systems would be gradually damaged and useless by action of
the irresistible might which we have already possessed or will soon possess, he
said that the munitions industrial enterprises at all levels under the Second
Economy Commission should play a bigger role in carrying out the strategic
policy of the Party on building the most powerful army and the country's
munitions industry should be further expanded and strengthened.
He said that the production success at
the major munitions industrial enterprises is not merely significant for
increased production but it is of weighty significance as it is undoubtedly a
product of the will and efforts of the working class to defend our sovereign
security, and this is a great contribution for the state.
Stressing that major munitions
industrial enterprises have a very pivotal role to play in steadily augmenting
the country's war deterrent and war-fighting capability, he encouraged them to
vigorously continue their patriotic production drive for steadily equipping our
army with the most powerful and overwhelming strategic strength.
He clarified important policy-oriented
tasks for the enterprises' production and management, including the issue of
steadily accelerating the expansion of production capacity and the
modernization of technical processes, raising the level of artificial
intelligence of offensive and defensive combat weapon systems and putting the
armor and automation of artillery weapons on a higher stage and the issue of
bettering the conditions and environment for production.
Comrade Kim Jong Un expressed
expectation and belief that all the officials, technicians and workers serving
at important core factories would continue to fully display their inherent
creation spirit and fighting spirit and thus powerfully propel the radical
strengthening of our armed forces.
Press Statement of Kim Yo Jong, Department Director of C.C., WPK
Pyongyang, September 19 (KCNA) -- Kim Yo
Jong, department director of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of
Korea, issued the following press statement "The prejudiced viewpoint and
double standards of the IAEA are the main factor that incurred the collapse of
the international nuclear non-proliferation system" on Sept. 19:
With the 70th Session of the IAEA
General Conference held in Vienna of Austria as an occasion, the IAEA's chronic
prejudice and double-standard behavior was revealed again.
On September 17, the IAEA forcibly
adopted an anti-DPRK "resolution" to call into question our state's
self-defensive and legitimate nuclear activities, disregarding the grave situation
in which the DPRK's security environment is exposed to constant nuclear threat
of outside forces.
Such meaningless and inefficient
"resolution", which the IAEA is cooking up every year at the
instigation of the U.S. and the West, is not something new for us and has no
effect on the DPRK's position as a nuclear weapons state.
The nuclear activities of the DPRK, a
nuclear weapons state outside the NPT which withdrew from the IAEA through
legal routes decades ago, are not object of jurisdiction of the IAEA and, the
agency has no authority or qualifications to interfere in them.
Therefore, we never recognize any
anti-DPRK "resolution" cooked up in the arena of the IAEA.
On the other hand, the IAEA has
consistently kept silence, failing to say a right word about the undisguised
nuclear proliferation act of the U.S., a depository of the NPT, and the grave
plan for the introduction of nuclear submarine by the ROK, a non-nuclear state.
This is another typical example clearly
showing the extreme two-faced nature and prejudice of the agency.
As a result, the IAEA vividly revealed
its true nature as a Western power organization, unfortunately and completely
being deprived of its representative character and impartiality as a UN
specialized organization and representing only the interests of the U.S. and
its allies.
The double standard of the IAEA is not
confined to the Korean peninsula but is being witnessed in Europe, Oceania, the
Middle East and other parts of the world.
The fact that the U.S. deployed nuclear
weapons in Europe and shared them with NATO member states, while wantonly
violating the non-proliferation obligation of NPT stipulating that nuclear
weapons and their management should not be handed over directly and indirectly
to anyone, the fact that it actively dragged the ROK and Japan in its plan for
nuclear weapons use and its implementation under the pretext of "offer of
extended deterrence" and the fact that it is planning to provide nuclear
submarine technology for the ROK - all those facts do not become the subject of
discussion and concern of the agency in any case.
Moreover, the agency is disregarding
Japan's unusual excess accumulation of weapons-grade nuclear materials under
the patronage of the U.S. despite the protest of the international community.
The two-faced nature of the agency has
led to the creation of a new "nuclear non-proliferation standard"
whereby the nuclear activities of a relevant country are regulated as
"legitimate" or "illegal" according to whether the nuclear
issue is of the West or not. This is the present reality of the nuclear
non-proliferation system led by the U.S. and the West.
In fact, the IAEA has certainly been
reduced to the U.S. atomic energy organization, and it is no exaggeration to
say that the international nuclear non-proliferation system has degenerated
into the U.S.-led nuclear proliferation system.
The injustice, prejudice and double
standards of the IAEA are the main factors eroding the nuclear
non-proliferation system on a global scale, and the U.S. open nuclear
proliferation behavior being committed in parallel with this is a serious
threat disturbing international peace and security and increasing the danger of
outbreak of a nuclear war.
The main mission of the IAEA is to
provide all member states with the right to peaceful use of nuclear power and
to block the military use of nuclear technology, and it is by no means to
connive at and foster undisguised nuclear proliferation.
In my personal view, the IAEA might save
its disgraced face even a bit if it takes courage to say a single right word
about who is the chieftain of undermining the nuclear non-proliferation system.
The further the IAEA interferes in the
sovereignty and internal affairs of the DPRK, a non-member state, the worse its
reputation and fame will be damaged, and it should judge by itself who will
benefit from it.
Conniving at the nuclear threat and
proliferation of the U.S. and other hostile forces and asking the DPRK to
abandon its nuclear weapons are just like telling us to give up our existence
and right to live.
We will not in any case mortgage our
sovereignty and security rights to the "tolerance" of the U.S. and
the West.
The present grave geopolitical
situation, in which the international nuclear order is at the brink of complete
collapse due to the radical nuclear arms buildup and undisguised nuclear
proliferation of the U.S. and to the double-dealing behavior and lack of
principle of the IAEA, requires the DPRK to make a more responsible option.
It is the most important matter for the
national security to ensure that the credibility of the nuclear force is not
questioned in any case for the DPRK which is constantly exposed to the nuclear
threat of the hostile forces.
Press Statement of Spokesperson for DPRK Foreign Ministry
Pyongyang, September 19 (KCNA) -- A
spokesperson for the Foreign Ministry of the Democratic People's Republic of
Korea released the following press statement on Friday:
The hostile forces cooked up and made
public a "resolution" against the DPRK at the 70th Session of the
IAEA General Conference on Sept. 17.
In the "resolution", they
picked quarrel with the DPRK's legitimate and self-defensive exercise of
sovereignty, arguing that the DPRK cannot have nuclear weapons under the NPT,
they express serious concern over the DPRK's sustainable nuclear activities,
and all nuclear weapons and nuclear programs should be abandoned in a complete,
verifiable and irreversible way.
The DPRK has not been a member of the
NPT and the IAEA from long ago and, therefore, it is illegal and the height of
impudence to talk about the position of our state and its efforts to bolster up
the defence capabilities.
The DPRK's position as a nuclear weapons
state does not need the recognition of the U.S., the West and the IAEA. It is
guaranteed by the actual nuclear deterrent and irreversibly and permanently
fixed by the supreme law of the state.
Pitifully, the "resolution"
cooked up by the U.S. and the West has no effect on the DPRK's position as a
nuclear weapons state.
No matter how desperately the hostile
forces may try to deny our constitutional position in and around the IAEA, the
position of the DPRK as a nuclear weapons state, which is permanently and
absolutely settled by the law, is irreversible.
It is the DPRK's invariable line of
national defence to more offensively implement its strategic and long-term
plans for building reliable self-defensive deterrent to cope with the
ever-worsening international security environment.
As a responsible nuclear weapons state,
the DPRK will as ever firmly defend the sovereignty and fundamental interests
of the state and thoroughly guarantee peace and security in the region and the
rest of the world by deterring all challenges and threats from outside by
overwhelming force.
