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No 58/23 July 25, 2023
1. Press Statement of Minister of National Defence of DPRK
2. Legendary Tales of the Victorious War and 70 Years Later
3. Victors’ Generation Shines Forever in Warm Embrace
4. Demonstration of the Power of the Nation’s Strategic Forces
Press Statement of Minister of National Defence of DPRK
Pyongyang, July 20 (KCNA) -- Kang Sun Nam, minister of National Defence of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), issued the following press statement on July 20:
In defiance of the repeated warning by the DPRK and serious concern of the international community, the U.S. and the group of traitors of the "Republic of Korea" (ROK) held a meeting of the "nuclear consultative group" on July 18 to discuss the plan for using nuclear weapons against the DPRK.
In particular, the hostile forces posed the most undisguised and direct nuclear threat to the DPRK by bringing an Ohio-class strategic nuclear submarine to the Pusan Port operation base, which means strategic nuclear weapons have been deployed on the Korean peninsula for the first time after 40 odd years.
This shows that the U.S. scenario for a nuclear attack upon the DPRK and its implementation have entered the most critical stage of visualization and systemization and the phase of a military clash on the Korean peninsula has surfaced as a dangerous reality beyond all sorts of imagination and presumption.
Among the nuclear-armed nations of the world, the U.S. is the only country which openly made it its policy to use its nuclear weapons against a specific country. No one will be able to deny the gravity and dangerousness of the security environment facing the DPRK in the light of that fact alone.
The U.S. and the traitors of the "ROK" are widely advertising the deployment of gigantic strategic nuclear weaponry of the U.S.
We correctly know why such weapons have found themselves on the Korean peninsula and where they came from.
As the U.S. and the "ROK" gangsters have gone beyond the "red line" in their military hysteria, now is the time for the DPRK to make clear once again its corresponding action choice and response direction.
The military security situation in the area of the Korean peninsula, which has undergone a fundamental change due to the reckless military moves of the U.S. and its followers, more clearly indicates what mission the nuclear weapons of the DPRK should carry out.
Through this press statement, I remind the U.S. military of the fact that the ever-increasing visibility of the deployment of the strategic nuclear submarine and other strategic assets may fall under the conditions of the use of nuclear weapons specified in the DPRK law on the nuclear force policy.
The DPRK's doctrine on the use of nuclear weapons allows the execution of necessary action procedures in case a nuclear attack is launched against it or it is judged that the use of nuclear weapons against it is imminent.
The U.S. military side should realize that its nuclear assets have entered extremely dangerous waters.
I seriously warn once again the U.S. and the "ROK" military gangsters' group daringly touting the "end of regime" in our country.
To the U.S. and the "ROK", any use of their military muscle against the DPRK will be their most miserable choice by which they will have no room to think of their existence again.
The armed forces of the DPRK will responsibly carry out their important mission for defending the country's sovereignty, territorial integrity and fundamental interests and preventing a nuclear war on the Korean peninsula and in the Northeast Asian region by thoroughly deterring and repelling the crazy maneuvers of the U.S. and its stooges to use nuclear weapons on the Korean peninsula.
Legendary Tales of the Victorious War and 70 Years Later
July 27, 2023 marks the 70thanniversary of the victory of the people of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea in the Fatherland Liberation War (1950-1953). The victory is etched in the world history of war.
Legendary Tales of the Victorious War
In 1950 the Korean war, the fiercest war since the Second World War, broke out.
At that time no one ever thought that the DPRK, founded two years before, would defeat the United States, which had been boasting of being the “strongest” in the world with a history of victory in 110 wars since its founding.
As the world media described, the war was a confrontation between rifle and atomic bomb.
But the result of the war turned out to be the opposite. The DPRK, a small country in the East, created a miracle by defeating the multinational forces, which pounced upon a country in the name of the United Nations for the first time in the world.
After switching over to an immediate counteroffensive, the Korean People’s Amy drove the enemy to the end of south Korea within a little over a month.
On the other hand, the United States hurled into the Korean front its forces armed with the latest weapons–one-third of its ground force, one-fifth of its air force, most of its Pacific Fleet–as well as the troops of 15 of its vassal states, south Korean puppet army and even the remnants of the former Japanese army; the military budget during the war totalledUSD164billion. This notwithstanding, it sustained a loss nearly 2.3 times greater than that it had suffered in the four-year war in the Pacific, and signed an armistice agreement.
By defeating the enemy, who were superior in terms of number of troops and technical equipment, by dint of their ideological and spiritual, strategic and tactical superiority, the Korean people defended the freedom and independence of their country and frustrated the US attempt to dominate the world with the Korean peninsula as a springboard, defending global peace and security.
Mark Clark, commander of the US Far East Command who had signed the armistice agreement, said that the north Korean army could win victory thanks to outstanding command of General Kim Il Sung, who had achieved great exploits in the resistance of many years against the Japanese army until the defeat of Japan in the Second World War.
70 Years Later
Seventy years have elapsed since ceasefire was achieved on the Korean peninsula. But the peninsula still remains as one of the hottest spots in the world.
After the armistice agreement was reached, the United States implemented none of the items of the agreement and tenaciously pursued a hostile policy against the DPRK, driving the situation on the peninsula to the brink of war. It deployed nukes in south Korea, imposing undisguised and direct nuclear threat on the DPRK.
Entering the 21stcentury, it has put the DPRK on the list of targets of its preemptive nuclear strike, and staged nuclear war games every year in the areas near the country by mobilizing large forces including its strategic nuclear assets.
A country without an effective self-defence capability will inevitably be at the mercy of external military threats and, worse still, be unable to safeguard the existence of its own and of its people. This is an immutable law shown by the human history.
Over the past 70 years after the war, the DPRK had to overcome manifold difficulties in developing its economy and improving the living standards of its people because of the long-drawn-out military threat, sanctions and blockade.
The best option for the DPRK for both durable peace and further acceleration of building itself into a powerful socialist country was the line of simultaneously promoting economic construction and building up its nuclear forces.
The line of simultaneously promoting the two fronts was put forward at the March 2013 Plenary Meeting of the Central Committee of the ruling Workers’ Party of Korea.
True to the new strategic line, the defence scientists displayed their indomitable will in developing strategic weapon systems of their own style.
Within a few years the DPRK manufactured innovative versions of ICBM, thus making its military strength irreversible.
In April last ICBM of Hwasongpho-18 type made its appearance, demonstrating the level of development of the country’s strategic forces.
Display of military equipment at military parades held every year in the country is a proof of its military strength which the others could not belittle.
With this, the DPRK could frustrate the machinations of the hostile forces, who were trying to drag it to their arms race by aggravating the situation on the Korean peninsula, and speed up its economic construction.
This can be testified by the demonstration of the potential of its self-supporting economy, like setting up structures that reflect its people’s dreams and ideals and opening a new era of rural rejuvenation amidst severe difficulties like harsh sanctions, global healthcare crisis and successive natural disasters.
In the present world, where confrontation of strength is the order of the day, the country’s sovereignty and dignity and genuine peace can be assured only by an overwhelming defence capability–this is the creed of Kim Jong Un, President of the State Affairs of the DPRK.
In April last year in the speech at the military parade held in celebration of the 90thanniversary of the founding of the Korean People’s Army, Kim Jong Un said: We should continuously grow stronger; there is no satisfaction or accomplishment in cultivating strength for defending ourselves, and, whoever we confront, our military supremacy should be more secure.
The70-year-long postwar history of the DPRK, in which it defended its sovereignty and dignity and the safety and happiness of its people, further highlights the meaning of the 70thanniversary of victory in the war in the 1950s.
Victors’ Generation Shines Forever in Warm Embrace
At this time when the 70th anniversary of the great war victory is fast approaching, our people are paying their highest respects to the courageous defenders of the country in the 1950s.
Memories of all sorts, even the most vivid ones, sink into oblivion.
But regardless of the passage of time, the souls of the defenders of the country continue to live on in our people’s hearts and shine brighter with the ever-victorious history of our revolution.
The valuable life and feats of the victors’ generation shine ever more brightly because we hold in high esteem the great leader possessed of noble revolutionary comradeship and sense of moral obligation. On July 21, 2012, a few days prior to the 59th anniversary of war victory, respected Comrade Kim Jong Un earnestly said to the officials as follows:
The noble spirit and brilliant patriotic feats of the war veterans - they have remained loyal to the Party and the Leader from the days of the war through the days of post-war construction to the socialist construction - are valuable and precious beyond compare.
Not only from the sense of moral obligation but also as a human being, I regard the war veterans as my grandfathers and fathers, and respect and treasure them.
This appellation, filled with bonds of kinship, is the most valuable title given to our war veterans by respected Comrade Kim Jong Un.
Looking around the world, certain countries and politicians would praise the feats performed by the war-time generations who fought the war to defend their motherland and won the war, and would also provide the war veterans with preferential treatment and special privileges.
However, there has never been a state leader who respects and fondly regards the war veterans as his own grandfathers and fathers and provide them with tender loving care close to kinship.
For the past ten years, ardent love and care of respected Comrade Kim Jong Un for the war veterans have woven numerous moving stories:
He saw to it that the national conference of war veterans are convened almost every year and in grand style; he had the military uniforms of various services tailor-made for the war veterans - exactly the same as the ones worn by them during the Fatherland Liberation War; he personally selected the menu for the war veterans to participate in the national conference; as if he read the thoughts of the war veterans missing their comrades-in-arms fallen before the victory in the war, he arranged a photo session for them at the Fatherland Liberation War Martyrs Cemetery.
These are only a few of numerous touching stories told by our people.
Indeed, respected Comrade Kim Jong Un takes good care of the war veterans with a bond akin to a family and presents them before the world as enviable beings. In his warm embrace, the life of the generation of war victors will shine ever brilliantly, with their great spirit and valuable feats cherished deep in the hearts of the coming generations.
Demonstration of the Power of the Nation’s Strategic Forces
The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea conducted another test-fire of the new-type ICBM Hwasongpho-18 on July 12.
The test-fire was aimed at re-confirming the technical creditability and operational reliability of the new weapon system.In consideration of the security of the neighbouring countries and the safety of domestic in-flight multi-stage separation, the test-fire was conducted in the way of setting the first stage as a standard ballistic flight mode and the second and third stages as high-angle flight mode and of confirming the technical specifications of every component of the weapons system in the maximum range system.
The missile travelled up to a maximum altitude of 6 648.4km and flew a distance of 1 001.2km for 4 491 seconds before accurately landing on the preset area in the open waters off the East Sea of Korea.
The eventful success, which demonstrated the might of the DPRK that was fully equipped with the firm nuclear war deterrent for self-defence and the overwhelming offensive power, serves as another important stride in developing the strategic force of the country.
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