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No 69/23 August 21, 2023
1. Respected Comrade Kim Jong Un Inspects KPA Navy Unit
3. Factory for the Children
4. The DPRK’s Military Capability and a Military Parade
Respected Comrade Kim Jong Un Inspects KPA Navy Unit
Pyongyang, August 21 (KCNA) -- 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, inspected the Guards 2nd Surface Ship Flotilla of the East Sea Fleet of the Navy of the Korean People's Army (KPA) honored with the title of O Jung Hup-led 7th Regiment.
The respected Comrade Kim Jong Un was greeted by Admiral Kim Myong Sik, commander of the KPA Navy, and commanding officers of the fleet and the flotilla.
The respected Comrade Kim Jong Un looked back with deep emotion on the combat course of history followed by the unit associated with the great feats of our Party in leading the army.
He requested the unit to further intensify education through our Party's feats of leading the army, always set an example in preparations for combat and always take the lead in strengthening the navy.
Then he learned in detail about the state of the preparedness of warships of the surface ship flotilla for combat and war and the military service of the soldiers and the plan for updating the naval port.
After getting on the Patrol Ship No. 661 which will be on sea alert, he acquainted himself in detail with its weapons and preparations for combat, and highly praised the ship for maintaining high mobility and mighty striking power and constant preparedness for combat to cope with sudden situation.
That day he watched the seamen of the patrol ship staging a drill of launching strategic cruise missiles.
At the drill aimed to reconfirm the combat function of the ship and the feature of its missile system and make the seamen skilled at carrying out the attack mission in actual war, the ship rapidly hit target without even an error. As a result, the ship's regular posture for mobilization and offensive ability were perfectly appreciated.
Pointing to the important mission and duty of the KPA Navy for frustrating the enemy's will for war in emergency, carrying out the strategic and tactical plan of the Supreme Headquarters and defending the sovereignty and security of the country, Kim Jong Un advanced our Party's revolutionary policy for strengthening the Navy for making it an all-round and powerful Juche-based service group with rapidly improved combat efficiency and full modern means of surface and underwater offensive and defensive.
He said that we would put spurs to the modernization of naval weapons and equipment including the building of powerful warships and the development of shipboard and underwater weapon systems, holding fast to the line of developing the naval forces set forth at the 8th Congress of the Workers' Party of Korea, and thus achieve remarkable successes in radically improving the modernity and combat capability of the Navy in a short span of time.
He said that all the surface and underwater warship units of the Navy should thoroughly keep constant mobility and steadily increase the capability for actual war so that they can actively carry out their combat missions in the unfavorable circumstances by raising a hot wind of intensifying combat training with the viewpoint that training precisely means war preparations.
As is always emphasized, the victory or defeat in battle is attributable to the political, ideological, mental and moral superiority of the soldiers, he said, adding that what is really necessary in battle is not the numerical and technical superiority of weapons and equipment but the overwhelming ideological and spiritual strength of the soldiers who handle them. There can be neither unbeatable enemy nor failed battle for a soldier armed with the indomitable spirit, and it is important for the present generation to steadily carry forward the tradition and spirit peculiar to the KPA without an inch of deviation, he said.
He expressed belief that only victory and glory are in store for the Navy as the indomitable fighting spirit of the naval fighters of the preceding generations including heroes Kim Kun Ok and Chae Jong Bo, who have long recorded the invulnerable heroic spirit in the brilliant combat course of the Navy, inspires the sailors of the new generation to victory and the great Juche idea illuminates the course of victory.
He expressed expectation and belief that all the sailors would more firmly prepare themselves to be frontline soldiers of national defence and death-defying corps of the sea, fully displaying the spirit of devotedly defending the country, thus defending and reliably demonstrating the great reputation and honor of the heroic sailors of the preceding generation who worked miracles unprecedented in the world history of naval warfare.
Receiving his deep trust, all the service personnel of the unit pledged to firmly prepare themselves to be brave warriors who are firmly defending the sovereignty of the DPRK and the security and happiness of its people and recording the route of loyalty to the country's sea by consolidating the tremendous might of the heroic KPA Navy, bearing in mind the mission of defending the country instilled by him.
Looking back on the history of wars, the most serious victims of the terrible disturbances of war were none other than the innocent children.
Everywhere in the world, where dark clouds of war have been casted, undoubtedly witnessed orphans having lost their parents and wandering in hunger, and their dreams and hopes faded away in the flames of war.
The words “war and orphans” have been recognized as an inseparable combination. Afterwards, it ended up as war orphans, leaving them as an unsolvable issue to all countries that went through a war.
However, even in the difficult times of the Korean War which presented a miserable scene unprecedented in the history of world wars, there was a father who highly regarded every single orphan as the future of fatherland and carefully looked after them and raised them up – he is none other than the great Comrade Kim Il Sung.
On August 20, 1951, President Kim Il Sung who worked around the clock, bearing all of the heavy burdens of war, called an official to give him a task of sending the war orphans to fraternal countries.
He said as follows:
To tell the truth, many countries were obliging and offered to look after the war orphans. But being so loath to part from them, I was going to bring them up on our own at all costs and did not make a courageous decision. During the period of strategic and temporary withdrawal of our armed forces, the U.S. imperialists occupied some parts of the northern half of our Republic and massacred a large number of our patriots and innocent inhabitants, producing numerous war orphans. To make matters worse, the enemies are continuously making barbarous bombing raids. Given the circumstances, it is very difficult to predict what kind of misfortune might befall the orphans. So, I have decided to have our war orphans brought up in the fraternal countries until the end of the war at least.
In January that year, he had already seen to it that a Cabinet decision was adopted on the establishment of schools for bereaved children across the country, and afterwards he built nurseries, primary schools and vocational schools for war orphans. As if it were not enough, he personally brought a child who had lost parents to the supreme headquarters and took care of and bestowed love on that child.
As such, he was so loath to part from the orphans he had doted on, but to keep their dreams and hopes safe, he decided to send them to foreign countries.
That day, he gave detailed teachings on several issues including the issue of sending our teachers and guides together with the war orphans when they were sent to foreign countries and the issue of providing new clothes, underwear, socks, shoes, caps, daily necessities and stationery with them.
Thanks to the great love, the bereaved children and war orphans could enjoy a safe life and study without any least inconvenience in a peaceful foreign country during the whole period of war decisive to the destiny of the country, and could grow up to play the leading role in the post-war rehabilitation and construction.
Today, our children are growing up into the reliable pillars who would shoulder the future of the socialist power where the peace and safety are firmly guaranteed as they hold respected Comrade Kim Jong Un who is just the same as President Kim Il Sung in high esteem as their father.
The Ryongbong School Things Factory in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea produces Haebaragi-brand school things, which are favoured by all children in the country. The products are supplied to them free of charge.
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The DPRK’s Military Capability and a Military Parade
On July 27, 1953, the DPRK honourably defended its independence and freedom by repulsing the armed invasion by the US-led imperialist allied forces. The military parade held in celebration of the 70th anniversary of victory in the Korean war (1950-1953) demonstrated the power of justice and inexhaustible military capability of the country.
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