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No 13/23 February 20, 2023
1. Press Statement of Kim Yo Jong, Vice-Department Director of C.C., WPK
2. Press Statement of Kim Yo Jong, Vice Department Director of C.C., WPK Issued
3. ICBM Launching Drill Staged in DPRK
4. Multiple Rocket Launching Drill by KPA
5. “Reckless Killing” - Main Occupation of U.S. Police
Press Statement of Kim Yo Jong, Vice-Department Director of C.C., WPK
Pyongyang, February 19 (KCNA) -- Kim Yo Jong, vice-department director of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea, issued the following press statement on Sunday:
If all the countries truly worry about the situation on the Korean peninsula and wish for peace and stability, they should never tolerate the high-handed and arbitrary practices of the U.S. to turn the UNSC with heavy responsibility for the international peace and security into a tool for its heinous hostile policy toward the DPRK.
And they should not connive at the sinister attempts of the U.S. and its followers to make a sovereign state give up its legitimate rights to self-defence, but let them know that such acts are in vain.
This time, too, the opponents to the DPRK committed an undisguised infringement upon its sovereignty for no ground.
The U.S. and south Korea are openly showing their dangerous greed and attempt to gain the military upper hand and predominant position in the Korean Peninsula, crying out for extended deterrence and combined defence posture on the trite pretext for coping with any threat. This further endangers the situation every moment, destroying the stability of the region.
The U.S. would be well-advised to stop saying that it is not hostile toward the DPRK and the door to dialogue is open, hoodwinking the world, and to give up its foolish trick for earning the time through dialogue. And it should stop all the actions posing threats to the security of our state and refuse to tarnish the DPRK's dignity, always thinking twice for its own future security.
South Korea, too, had better think of the consequences to be entailed by its reckless acts.
We tell its fools that our ICBM will not be aimed at Seoul.
We still have no intention to stand face to face with them.
Upon authorization, I warn that we will watch every movement of the enemy and take corresponding and very powerful and overwhelming counteraction against its every move hostile to us.
Press Statement of Kim Yo Jong, Vice Department Director of C.C., WPK Issued
Pyongyang, February 20 (KCNA) -- Kim Yo Jong, vice department director of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea, issued the following press statement on Monday:
As expected, the way the fools think and play in every occasion is incurring laughter of the world.
In fact, we are now watching the south Korean idiots making a show of themselves as a spectacle rather than a response.
And again, I feel an impulse to scoff at them.
As I watched yesterday alone, their speculation, guess, freewheeling assessment and so on were very disgusting.
I would like to make some cutting remarks about it.
A so-called senior researcher of a south Korean military institute appeared before the press to let loose rubbish that it took 9 hours and 22 minutes for us to conduct the missile launch after the written order on it, calculating only the time as if he had nothing to do, in a bid to undervalue the preparedness of the DPRK missile forces.
They present a variety of unusual analysis as if they are really stupid or persons of small caliber who make too much analysis.
I don't know if they would take some comfort from such farfetched defamation and assessment.
We did not make public the full text of the written order issued by our supreme leadership.
To make public one thing on this occasion, the written order on the missile launch issued on the day includes the contents that the surprise launch should be conducted at a favorable and appropriate moment in the afternoon after completely closing the area around the launching site and taking such safety steps as evacuation of personnel and other equipment in the morning.
Accordingly, our servicepersons took important military action at the most appropriate time, specified in the order--the time between 15:30 and 19:45 in consideration of visible distance under weather conditions and when seven scout planes of the enemy involved in air reconnaissance landed.
I think that the south Korean military would evidently explain, today or tomorrow and as they always used to, that they detected the sign of the north's missile launch in advance and were conducting intensive monitoring with intelligence assets.
And they will defend the fact that their scout planes didn't fly at the time by saying that they were monitoring with so-called special means and methods under "close cooperation between intelligence authorities of south Korea and the U.S." and that it is difficult to give detailed explanation for fear of possible exposure of military intelligence assets and for other reasons.
The concept of a surprise launch doesn't mean the time that it takes between the issuing of a launch order and the launching.
I cannot but mention the system of fuel ampoule.
Those, who have never made it themselves, went so absurd and stupid as to comment on other's technology at will after seeing some sci-tech data.
A so-called honorary researcher at a sci-tech policy institute made oft-repeated remarks again that the warhead's reentry appeared to be a failure judging from a photo posted by Japan.
Those absurd guys fail to distinguish a warhead from a detached second-stage projectile in the photo and seem ignorant about the reason why the distance between the two in the case of vertical launch naturally gets close.
As I explained the other day, if the warhead's reentry fails, we can't receive signals from the warhead till it has landed.
Such argument, made by those rookies who are lack of the said common sense and pretend to be experts, will not change in fact the crisis facing the U.S. and south Korea as they want and will cause confusion in getting a correct understanding of the dangerous situation, though it may bring some consolation to them.
We have possessed satisfactory technology and capability and, now will focus on increasing the quantity of their force.
They had better rack their brains to take measures to defend themselves, instead of doubting or worrying about other's technology.
We are well aware of the movement of U.S. forces' strategic strike means recently getting brisk around the Korean Peninsula.
We are carefully examining the influence it would exert on the security of our state, and we are going to make it an established fact, once again on this occasion, that we will take corresponding counteraction if it is judged to be any direct or indirect threat.
The frequency of using the Pacific as our firing range depends upon the U.S. forces' action character.
We affirm once again that there is no change in our will to make the worst maniacs escalating the tensions pay the price for their action.
ICBM Launching Drill Staged in DPRK
Pyongyang, February 19 (KCNA) -- An ICBM launching drill was conducted on the afternoon of February 18.
The Missile General Bureau guided the drill, and involved in it was the First Red Flag Hero Company which has rich launching experience among the units operating ICBMs.
The company is a firepower company with the most excellent combat capability among those sub-units wholly responsible for the strategic mission. It performed a proud feat by launching a new-type ICBM Hwasongpho-17 on November 18, 2022.
The drill was suddenly organized without previous notice under an emergency firepower combat standby instruction given at dawn of February 18 and a written order by the Chairman of the Central Military Commission of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK) at 8:00 a.m. of the day.
Specified in the written order on launching drill carrying a personal signature of the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un were the contents that the First Red Flag Hero Company of the Missile General Bureau should be mobilized in a drill using ICBM Hwasongpho-15 and, through a sudden launching drill, the reliability of the weapon system should be reconfirmed and verified while getting the combat preparedness of the DPRK nuclear force recognized and proving confidence and guarantee for correct operation, reactivity, reliability, effectiveness and combat capability of the components of the state nuclear deterrence.
On the honorable combat orders, the First Red Flag Hero Company conducted a high-angle launch of Hwasongpho-15 through the maximum range system at Pyongyang International Airport on Saturday afternoon.
The missile traveled up to a maximum altitude of 5 768.5 km and flew 989 km for 4 015 seconds before accurately hitting the pre-set area in open waters of the East Sea of Korea. The company got an "excellent mark" at the assessment.
The WPK Central Military Commission highly appreciated the actual war capacity of the ICBM units which are ready for mobile and mighty counterattack.
It gave all the missile units, assigned to a strategic task for coping with the military circumstances prevailing in the Korean Peninsula, an order to thoroughly maintain their strengthened combat readiness.
The surprise ICBM launching drill, conducted in the present situation under which the military threats of the U.S. and south Korea are getting serious to the extent that can not be overlooked, is an actual proof of the DPRK strategic nuclear force's consistent efforts to turn its capacity of fatal nuclear counterattack on the hostile forces into the irresistible one as well as a guarantee for and a clear proof of the sure reliability of our powerful physical nuclear deterrent.
Multiple Rocket Launching Drill by KPA
Pyongyang, February 20 (KCNA) -- Relevant multiple launch rocket sub-units under the Korean People's Army long-range artillery unit on the western front conducted a multiple-rocket launching drill at 7:00 a.m. Monday.
The U.S. and the south Korean puppet forces staged another combined air drill with ten-odd war planes including B-1B strategic bomber and F-35 stealth fighter on February 19.
The enemies are persistently resorting to such military demonstrations, not concealing that the air drill was done in response to the ICBM launching drill by the DPRK on Feb. 18.
The U.S. and the south Korean puppet forces have already staged such combined air drills several times this year alone, escalating the military tension.
The enemies are estimating themselves that they demonstrated the combined defense capability and posture through the prompt introduction of combat force for extended deterrence, while stating that they would continue to increase the frequency and intensity of deploying U.S. strategic assets in south Korea in the future, too.
On the order to conduct power demonstration firing, relevant multiple launch rocket firepower sub-units of the KPA long-range artillery unit on the western front set virtual targets 395 km and 337 km away from the launching points respectively and fired two shells of 600 mm multiple rocket launchers towards the East Sea on the morning of Feb. 20.
At the same time, other sub-units conducted firepower training at the tunnel positions without live firing.
The 600 mm multiple rocket launcher, involved in the firing, is the latest type of multiple launch precision attack weapon system of the KPA. It is a tactical nuclear attack means boasting of the great might powerful enough to assign only one multiple rocket launcher with four shells so as to destroy an enemy operational airfield.
At the donation ceremony held at the end of December last year, the Academy of Defence Science and the Nuclear Weapons Institute expressed their firm view that the power of four multiple rocket launcher shells can reduce to ashes the enemy's operational airfield to paralyze its function.
Through today's firing drill with the involvement of super-large multiple rocket launchers, the tactical nuclear attack means, the KPA fully demonstrated its full readiness to deter and will to counter the U.S. and south Korean combined air force bragging about their air superiority.
“Reckless Killing” - Main Occupation of U.S. Police
Police are normally referred to as the executors of law who are responsible for safety of the relevant country and maintaining its public order.
But, there is a country where police pose a serious threat to the life safety of innocent people and even kill them.
It is the United States which professes to be a “law-governed state”.
Failure to adopt proper gun-control measures in the country are leading to frequent gun-related criminal violence. Worse still, the police who are supposed to check this are, on contrary, enforcing the law discriminatively and killing innocent people without mercy, thus to increase social unrest.
On January 28, the U.S. newspaper “Washington Post” reported that an average of more than 1,000 people gets killed by the police in the U.S. every year.
This shows that the police with a mission to protect the lives and property of the people are running about as master killers.
According to the U.S. media, more than 6,300 civilians have been shot dead by the police since 2015. But only 91 police officers, one percent of the persons involved in the killing, were arrested. And even after George Floyd incident where the black man lost his life in police violence, the number of civilians who are murdered by the police reaches several hundreds.
What is more shocking is the fact that the mortality rate of the black people by the police who are openly committing violence behind the signboard of “rule of law” is two times as high as that of the white people while the rate of using violence against the black people by the police is 3.6 times as high as that of the white people.
The American media website “Christian Science Monitor”, reporting on this in November 2021, said that the white people are 10 times more likely to be judged as self-defense when they killed the black people, as compared with the times when the black people killed the white people.
This shows that the black and those in low-income bracket are the main target of police violence and that they are much more likely to be killed by police than any other race and social organization.
The U.S. is a human slaughterhouse where the police get away with murder and are even acquitted as “victims”. It clearly reveals the groundless and reactionary nature of the “American brand of rule of law”.
The U.S., where human life is held cheap and killing of people is legalized, does not open its mouth without taking issue with “human rights” of other countries. This can’t but be a folly which is quite preposterous and presumptuous.