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1. Press Statement of Kim Yo Jong, Vice-Department Director of CC, WPK
2. Press Statement by Director General of Department of U.S. Affairs of DPRK Foreign Ministry
3. Increased Defense Expense Is an Act Against Public Sentiment
4. NATO Secretary General's Trip Instigates Creation of Asian Version of NATO
5. Crime Against Environmental Protection
Press Statement of Kim Yo Jong, Vice-Department Director of CC, WPK
The U.S., which has exposed the whole continent of Europe to the grave danger of war and caused big and small concerns, is now further crossing the red line.
It has made a "special contribution" to instigating the unstable world crisis to be continued by providing Ukraine with a large amount of military hardware. It recently made public that it would supply its MBT to Ukraine, only to make clearer its confrontation stand against Russia.
Lurking behind this is the U.S. sinister intention to realize its hegemonic aim by further expanding the proxy war for destroying Russia.
The world would be brighter, safer and calmer now, if it were not for the U.S.
The U.S. is the arch criminal which poses serious threat and challenge to the strategic security of Russia and pushes the regional situation to the present grave phase.
I express serious concern over the U.S. escalating the war situation by providing Ukraine with military hardware for ground offensive, and strongly denounce it.
The U.S. and other Western countries are wrecking the global peace and the regional security while handing military hardware running into astronomical sum of money over to Ukraine in total disregard of Russia's concern about security. Therefore, they have neither right nor justification to slander sovereign states' exercise of the right to self-defense.
The U.S. is mulling mobilizing the military potentials of its top-class stooges on the anti-Russian front, to say nothing of those of the Western countries.
The Ukrainian battlefield is by no means a desert in the Middle East where the U.S. MBTs went on the rampage 20 years ago.
I do not doubt that any military hardware the U.S. and the West boast of will be burnt into pieces in the face of the indomitable fighting spirit and might of the heroic Russian army and people.
No matter how desperately the imperialist allied forces may try, they will never weaken the heroic stamina of the Russian army and people with high patriotism, stubbornness and strong mental power.
We will always stand in the same trench with the service personnel and people of Russia who have turned out in the struggle to defend the dignity and honor of the state and the sovereignty and security of the country.
Press Statement by Director General of Department of U.S. Affairs of DPRK Foreign Ministry
As regards the press statement of Kim Yo Jong, vice-department director of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea which denounced the U.S. decision on supplying MBTs to Ukraine, a spokesperson for the National Security Council of the White House on Jan. 27 said that the U.S. would continue to provide Ukraine with that it needs to defend itself from Russia's "brutal war of choice" against Ukraine.
It is an absurd and sheer sophism as it is an extension of the illogical, deformed and gangster-like way of thinking of the U.S., which frequently introduces nuclear strike means into the Korean peninsula under the pretext of providing "extended deterrence" against "provocation" of someone.
Had the U.S. not infringed upon the just security interests of Russia and accelerated the eastward advance of NATO step by step, the present situation of Ukraine would not have been created.
The U.S. is working hard to supply such offensive weapons as MBTs to Ukraine at any cost in disregard of the just concern and criticism of the international community. This is an unethical crime aimed at keeping the international situation unstable.
The U.S. again talked about the groundless rumor of "arms dealing between the DPRK and Russia", in a foolish attempt to justify its offer of weapons to Ukraine.
It is an illegal act to call into question the legitimate right to national defence of a sovereign state. Moreover, trying to tarnish the image of the DPRK by fabricating a non-existent thing is a grave provocation that can never be allowed and that can not but trigger its reaction.
We clearly warn the U.S. once again on this occasion.
The U.S. should be mindful that it will face a really undesirable result if it persists in spreading the self-made rumor against the DPRK.
Increased Defense Expense Is an Act Against Public Sentiment
After revising 3 major documents on its security including the “national security strategy” in December last year, Japanese government has decided to drastically increase its defense expenses within next 5 years by raising its quota to over 2% of GDP.
No sooner had the Japanese government announced its decision to increase its defense expenses than it promptly triggered strong vigilance and concern from its neighboring countries.
There is also growing discontent within Japan as their government is seeking to secure the financial sources by means of unilaterally increasing taxes on corporation, income and cigarette without giving them enough explanation for increased defense expenses and gaining an understanding of the people.
Overall socio-economic activities are on the wane, prices are rising and the living conditions are worsening in Japan owing to the disaster caused by malignant pandemic lasting for years. Such being the situation, what the Japanese people are in urgent need is not to see defense expenses increased but to see their economy be recovered and people’s life stabilized.
As universally acknowledged by the world, the northeast Asia has become a theater of unprecedented military confrontation owing to the U.S. strategy for hegemony, and the situation in its vicinity is exacerbating due to Japan’s reckless military expansion.
Japan is now in its defiant attempt to increase its astronomical defense expenses to equip itself with ultramodern armaments for preemptive attack. This is indeed an act of adding fuel to the fire, and it will only disturb the peace and security of the region.
It is obvious that Japan’s increased defense expense, far from improving its security environment, would only cause instability of the region. It would also cast a shadow over the prospect of recovery of its economy and add a big burden to people’s living.
Japanese government would be well-advised to look back upon on the lessons of history that it will come to a tragic end if it persists in its unpopular policy against the public sentiment.
Ri Pyong Dok, Researcher of the Institute for Studies of Japan, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, DPRK
NATO Secretary General's Trip Instigates Creation of Asian Version of NATO
Pyongyang, January 30 (KCNA) -- Kim Tong Myong, a researcher of the Society for International Politics Study in the DPRK, released an article titled "Is the trip of the secretary general of NATO aimed to instigate the creation of the Asian version of NATO?" on Jan. 29, which said:
It was reported that the secretary general of NATO embarked upon his trip to south Korea and Japan.
The high-ranking chief of the military organization which turned Ukraine into a theatre of proxy war is flying into the Asia-Pacific region of the eastern hemisphere across the sea and land, which is not even part of its operational sphere. This fact itself gives rise to concern.
It is well known that NATO has long made persistent attempts to expand its sphere of influence limited to European defense to the Asia-Pacific region, which rose to be the strategic center of the world.
NATO stages bilateral and multilateral joint military exercises under various titles by introducing armed forces of its member states including aircraft carriers and fighters under the pretext of opposing the so-called "change of status quo by force". It is also mulling extending its influence to the Asia-Pacific region in the way of expanding and strengthening cooperation with such exclusive security allies as AUKUS, Quad and Five Eyes.
In particular, NATO has put unprecedented spurs to the strengthening of bilateral relations with south Korea and Japan in recent years, regarding them as a key link in realizing its ambition for hegemony.
This is proved by the fact that the chairman of the military committee of NATO visited south Korea and Japan respectively in April and June last year to discuss closer partnership and military cooperation and, at the end of June, south Korea and Japan participated in the NATO summit in Madrid of Spain for the first time ever.
Meanwhile, in May last year the Cooperative Cyber Defense Centre of Excellence under NATO registered south Korea as its full member and in October a delegation of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly was dispatched to south Korea to discuss the strengthening of bilateral cooperation.
South Korea signed a huge sales contract for arms including heavy tanks, self-propelled guns and fighters valued at tens of billions of U.S. dollars with Poland, a member state of NATO, and Japan agreed to jointly develop the next generation fighters with Britain and Italy. This clearly proves to what extent the NATO's sinister intention to use south Korea and Japan for expanding its influence has reached.
NATO, which specified Russia as the "greatest and direct threat" and China as a "systematic challenge" in its new "strategic concept" last year, is now openly stretching its long arm to south Korea and Japan. Its aim is quite clear.
It is the general orientation sought by the U.S.-led NATO to cook up Asian version NATO serving the maintenance of its hegemonic position and order in collusion with its vassal forces.
It is quite natural that over the recent worrying moves of NATO, countries in the region have warned that NATO seeks to apply the method of collective confrontation in Asia-Pacific, which had already been used in Europe, and south Korea and Japan should not introduce NATO forces into the Asia-Pacific region.
It is as clear as noonday that the secretary general of NATO flying to south Korea and Japan, at the time when the Ukrainian crisis has entered a new critical stage with the U.S. and Western decision on supplying tanks, will shore up the "theory of threat from China" to emphasize again the need to build Asian version of NATO and put pressure on them for their passive military support to Ukraine.
It is a matter of time that the military hardware of south Korea and Japan flowing into NATO are seen in the Ukrainian battlefield.
South Korea and Japan trying to attend to their own business by inviting unbidden guests to the region should be well aware that they are getting closer to the extreme security crisis, far from defusing security uneasiness.
It will be nothing good if NATO, a synonym for war and confrontation, puts its military boots on the region.
The trip of the NATO secretary general to south Korea and Japan is a prelude to confrontation and war as it brings the dark clouds of a "new Cold War" to the Asia-Pacific region.
Regional countries and the international community should remain highly vigilant against the frequent footsteps of NATO toward Asia-Pacific.
Crime Against Environmental Protection
In defiance of strong opposition at home and abroad, Japanese government is planning to discharge the nuclear waste water from Fukushima nuclear power plant from spring this year.
The accident at Fukushima nuclear power plant in 2011 has leaked a huge amount of radioactive material which is 140,000~190,000 times high as that of 1979 Three Mile Island accident in the U.S., wreaking havoc on the people in the region and global environment.
It has been already scientifically expounded that the nuclear waste water contains radioactive toxic substances like tritium which go beyond the tolerable limits.
Moreover, the specialists have reached an identical viewpoint that once the toxic substances are discharged into the sea currents on the coast of Fukushima, they will reach most of the Pacific, to say nothing of the Korean sea within tens of days, spreading over the entire waters of the world in a few years.
It is natural that a large number of Japanese people including Japan National Fishermen’s Cooperative Association are bitterly criticizing the government for its irresponsible handling of the matter.
The international society is also dead set against Japan in its plan to discharge nuclear waste, which would seriously endanger the life of humankind, delivering at the same time a one-two punch to marine environment.
Neighboring countries and Pacific island countries regard that the discharge of nuclear waste is not simply confined to the internal affairs of Japan. They take it as a serious issue directly linked with the survival of the humankind. And they are urging Japan to take serious consideration of the demand of the international community which is only just and rational, enter into negotiations with the countries concerned and relevant international organizations and resolve the issue in a way that is strictly open, transparent, scientific and safe.
Japanese authority, however, is defiantly trying to discharge the nuclear waste water into the sea pursuing only its selfish interests. This is a crime which runs counter to the efforts of international society.
Japan should pay heed to the strong demand of humankind and international society, and withdraw at once its dangerous plan to discharge the nuclear waste water which only brings disaster.
Kim Sol Hwa, Researcher of the Institute of Studies for Japan, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, DPRK
Korean kimchi is widely recognized as healthy food both at home and abroad: It has specific taste mingled with aromatic and pungent flavor, which is all the more refreshing. Moreover, it contains vitamins, essential amino acids and minerals.
With the interest in kimchi mounting worldwide, UNESCO registered the recipe for kimchi – the popular food of ours – as the world’s intangible cultural heritage. Recently, a foreign health magazine gave a detailed account of Korean kimchi, one of the five healthy foods of the world.
In our country a mass kimchi production facility – the Ryugyong Kimchi Factory – was inaugurated in the suburbs of Pyongyang City six years ago. There, production of kimchi is fully industrialized to mass-produce various kimchi of choice, even tastier than those prepared by the average household and therefore deserving publicity as one of the world’s best foodstuffs.
Permeated there is also dedication of our respected Comrade Kim Jong Un to providing our people with civilized and affluent life.
Respected Comrade Kim Jong Un said that a modern kimchi factory with a higher level of industrialization and a larger production capacity should be built in order that Pyongyang citizens be supplied with tasty kimchi all the year round on a regular basis. He then personally named the factory to be built as the “Ryugyong Kimchi Factory” and resolved all the issues arising from its construction.
When visiting the Ryugyong Kimchi Factory in June 2016, he gave officials concerned precious teachings to turn the factory into a model factory, an exemplar factory of kimchi factories in our country and also took relevant measures of warm care.
He visited the soon-to-be-inaugurated factory again on January 11, 2017 and made some very valid points: Producing tasty kimchi is of great importance in further developing our national food culture with the ever-increasing level of civilization of our people; now that kimchi has already gained the reputation as one of the world’s five healthy foods, officials and staff in the factory should produce such a quality kimchi that deserves publicity as the world’s best foodstuff.
Now bright faces of mothers buying packed kimchi at the Ryugyong Kimchi Factory counters can be found in every corner of Pyongyang city set against the beautiful wintry scenery.