THE EMBASSY OF THE DEMOCRATIC
PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF KOREA TO SWITZERLAND
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No. 58/22 July 12, 2022
1. DPRK and Ten Years of Development of Its National Defence Capabilities
3. War Veterans Respected in DPRK
4. Lifelong Devotion to Iron Production
5. Ancient Relics Found in Rason City of DPRK
DPRK and Ten Years of Development of Its National Defence Capabilities
Today the world is in turmoil. But there is a land free from the words war, dispute and refugee. That is the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea.
Kim Jong Un, President of the State Affairs of the DPRK, has developed his country into a socialist power that no one can belittle.
Over the past ten years, he has fully displayed his outstanding leadership abilities.
We should continue to grow stronger; we must not be satisfied or rest on our laurels concerning the strength we have built up for defending ourselves; we must make our military supremacy more secure so that we can stand up to anyone–this is his intention.
He has developed the Korean People’s Army into an army strong in ideology and morality.
He gives precedence to developing the army into the one that is firmly equipped with the revolutionary ideas of President Kim Il Sung and Chairman Kim Jong Il and achieves victory with the spiritual and moral strength. Whenever he visits the army units, he first looks round the rooms dedicated to education by means of revolutionary relics and rooms for education of soldiers, leading the service personnel to glorify the military ideas and army building exploits of the preceding leaders.
He has accelerated the work of developing the military technology of the KPA.
He ensures that efforts are directed to training a larger number of officers capable of skilfully commanding units of the arms and services at all levels, and that the level of modernization of combat training by the units is raised, so that all the units and sub-units can fully perform any combat missions.
Clarifying that the key to this end is in improving the quality of training, he has stoked the flames of intensive training across the army.
He has personally guided the strike drills of the services and arms of the KPA to cultivate the strategic and tactical qualification of their commanding officers and develop their capabilities for commanding operations. Thanks to his guidance, a dramatic change has been brought about in the forms, contents and methods of training in the KPA. Amid the brisk movement to become crack shots, a movement launched by him, the service personnel are prepared as masters of modern warfare and elite soldiers who are highly capable of fighting a real combat.
Kim Jong Un has paid close concern to developing the military hardware and other material means of the KPA.
His country has had to overcome harshest-ever difficulties and pressure in the current century, but he has led his country to possess all the absolute weapons, a monopoly of nuclear powers only in several years and then make a leap forward to develop and manufacture unknown weaponry of the Juche type.
He does not know the word impossible; but the words steady advance and leap forward make sense with him. This is a fact recognized by the international community.
Under his guidance, the sectors of national defence science and munitions industry of the DPRK have achieved world-startling successes in developing state-of-the-art military hardware of new generations.
The country succeeded in the test-fires of a new-type tactical guided missile and newly-developed long-range cruise missile, anti-aircraft missile and new-type SLBM in succession last year and succeeded in the test-fires of hypersonic missile and new-type ICBM Hwasongpho-17 this year.
The military parade, held in celebration of the 90th anniversary of the founding of the Korean People’s Revolutionary Army in Kim Il Sung Square in Pyongyang, the capital city of the DPRK, on April 25 this year, vividly showed the war deterrent possessed by the DPRK.
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The EU has recently taken a “bold” measure to ban the imports of Russian coal and oil. But it has never dared to submit a new sanctions bill on banning imports of Russian gas.
There is a good reason for that.
That is because the economic situation in European countries is worsening day by day as the largest-scale sanctions imposed on Russia by the EU since the outbreak of the Ukrainian crisis are bringing about an adverse effect.
“The Guardian”, “Frankfurter Allgemeine”, “The Wall Street Journal” and other major media reported that inflation rate in February in the Euro-zone which recorded 5.8%, the highest of ever, spiked to 8.1% in May, and that the enterprises in the metallurgical and chemical sectors have shut down one after another or made a drastic cut in production. They also reported that the European countries are now in a position where they have to release even their gas reserves for winter which have been stored up only 52% of their annual demands, in order to cope with gas shortage.
Against this backdrop, Russia suspended gas supplies in May to five EU member states which refused its request to pay the price for gas purchasing in rubles. And it took a measure recently to cut off gas supplies to Italy, Germany and France by 50%, 60% and 100%, respectively. These put European countries in a dilemma.
Given circumstances, as media comments, the EU is continuously demanding that the U.S. and Middle East countries scale up gas production to replace the energy from Russia, but it has yet to come up with any solution.
Meanwhile, voices are being heard in the European political circles that the sanctions against Russia have backfired. The minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade of Hungary, for instance, clarified his government stand at the Energy Council of the European Union that it will not support the embargo on gas imports from Russia under any circumstances.
“El Mundo”, “El Español”, CNN and other media commented that the U.S. reaped a huge profit during several months since the onset of the Ukrainian crisis by increasing its sale of home-made liquefied natural gas to Europe with an excuse that it will replace the Russian-made gas.
Above facts show as it stands that the EU only helped satisfy geopolitical and economic interests of the U.S. at the expense of its huge economic loss though it actively joined the U.S. in its sanctions and pressure upon Russia to show off what it called unity of the West.
Sanctions will only have a boomerang effect, instead of solving the problem.
Choe Hyon Do, Researcher of Korea-Europe Association
War Veterans Respected in DPRK
Pyongyang, July 12 (KCNA) -- It is a national custom of the DPRK to respect the war veterans and treat them kindly.
All the people across the country regard it as their moral obligation to take responsible care of the health and living of the war veterans, the revolutionary forerunners, with all their sincerity.
Pyongyang City has made sure that all its officials regard it as their routine to show deep care for the work with war veterans by conducting an organizational and political work to take warm care of their life and render assistance to them.
In North Phyongan Province, officials have often visited the war veterans' homes and helped them enjoy life without any inconvenience.
In particular, Yomju County established a system of regularly supplying daily necessities to the war veterans, providing them with a large amount of tonics and medicinal materials.
In North Hamgyong Province, a lot of good deeds have been done to improve the war veterans' life and promote their health. The social trait of preferentially treating the war veterans and persons of wartime merits is further displayed in Chongjin City, Onsong County, Kilju County and other areas.
The same is true of South Phyongan Province, North Hwanghae Province, South Hwanghae Province, Kangwon Province, South Hamgyong Province, Ryanggang Province and Nampho City.
Lifelong Devotion to Iron Production
“Let us make the name of our baby contain the letter ‘Chol (chol means iron–Tr.),’ be it a son or a daughter. Then, I’ll like any of such names.” This is what a veteran researcher said to his wife fifty years ago.
He is Professor and PhD Pak Kyong Ryong, Merited Scientist at the Metal Engineering Faculty of Kim Chaek University of Technology. Though he is nearly 80 years old, his attachment to iron has never diminished.
It was in the late 1960s that Pak established relations with molten iron for the first time.
During his university days, he had a dream of working as a field technician and producing molten iron to his heart’s content. That was why he was so pleased when he was dispatched, after graduating from Kim Chaek University of Technology, to the Posan Iron Works as a member of a research team for solving the problems arising in running a revolving furnace of the works.
It was easier said than done to conduct research on the spot, a research related with fire. It was not an easy job to observe with the naked eye the forms and sizes of flames and the state of mixture of molten iron and slag, and take necessary measures.
However, he devoted himself to the research.
He was the head of a family, too. But he, as a scientist, thought first of his duty he had assumed before the country. One day when he strove to establish the method of continuous steel-making process of granulated iron, staying day and night at the production site, he came to the capital city of Pyongyang so as to obtain the relevant data for his research. When he was about to leave his home in the city, his wife Kim Suk Yong asked him when he would return home.
He made no answer, but stroked the hair of his sleeping child, wearing a smile on his face.
That was an expression of his love as the husband and father.
His research was not all plain sailing; it went through twists and turns.
He suffered a series of setbacks in the test of iron production relying on new raw materials, in particular. When the test met several rounds of failure, some of his fellows were totally dispirited. Pak said to them: If one gives in to one’s failure and is disheartened, it may become one’s habit. If we scientists fall into this habit, the advance of the country will get slow that much.
This was his lifelong creed, as well as conscience as a scientist.
Finally, he succeeded in his research after repeated failures.
He played a big role in increasing Juche-based iron production by applying the technology of blowing by furnace-body burner to the revolving furnace.
Busy as he was with his research work, he wrote more than ten books including Techniques of Producing Iron with Fuels of Our Country, Complete Book of Ferrous Metallurgy and Coke-free Metallurgy.
On the morning of New Year’s Day in 2022 the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un had a photo session with meritorious persons and labour innovators. Among them was Pak Kyong Ryong.
Ancient Relics Found in Rason City of DPRK
Pyongyang, July 11 (KCNA) -- Shortly ago, relics dating back to the Bronze Age have been unearthed in Chodo of Haeyang-dong, Rajin District of Rason City in the DPRK.
The Archaeological Institute of the Academy of Social Sciences discovered a tomb dating back to the Bronze Age while conducting the survey of historical relics in liaison with officials from the cultural heritage protection field in Rason City.
Buried inside the rectangular tomb lying east and west was a wooden coffin. It was some 50cm deep and human bones and relics came into sight from 30cm deep and shells were 10cm deep underneath them.
The skulls and joint bones found there are estimated to belong to a man and a woman aged 20 to 30. The skulls show that the man's is brachycranic and the woman's is close to brachycranic.
Anthropological characteristics of the skulls are peculiar to ancient Koreans in the Bronze Age.
More than 20 pieces of relics were found at the tomb.
The discovery goes to prove once again that the Koreans are a resourceful and homogeneous nation that has independently lived in the same territory with one and the same blood, language and culture from ancient times.