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No 71/23 August 24, 2023
1. Respected Comrade Kim Jong Un Inspects Kumsong Tractor Factory
2. Press Statement of DPRK Foreign Ministry Spokesman
3. Press Statement of DPRK Defence Minister
4. DPRK Ambassador to China Publishes Article
Respected Comrade Kim Jong Un Inspects Kumsong Tractor Factory
Pyongyang, August 24 (KCNA) -- Kim Jong Un, general secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK) and president of the State Affairs of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, inspected the Kumsong Tractor Factory on Aug. 23.
Accompanying him were Jo Yong Won, member of the Presidium of the Political Bureau and secretary of the WPK Central Committee, O Su Yong, member of the Political Bureau and secretary of the WPK Central Committee, and Kim Yo Jong, vice department director of the WPK Central Committee.
The respected Comrade Kim Jong Un was greeted on the spot by the director of the Vehicle Industry Guidance Bureau under the Ministry of Machine-building Industry and leading officials of the relevant sector and the factory. Looking round the remodeled room for education in the revolutionary history and room dedicated to the factory's history, he highly appreciated the fact that the factory has conducted in an effective way the education in the undying leadership feats of President Kim Il Sung and Chairman Kim Jong Il who devoted themselves to the development of the Juche-based tractor industry. And he asked the officials and employees of the factory to fulfill their noble mission and duty in the struggle for implementing the programme for the rural revolution in the new era, with the pride of living and working at the glorious working place.
Then, he went round different parts of the factory to learn in detail about its renovation and modernization and production.
When visiting the Kumsong Tractor Factory in November 2017, he said that the factory is a historic one associated greatly with guidance feats of the President and the Chairman. And he set forth a vital task for turning it into a core and advanced factory which plays a leading role in realizing the comprehensive mechanization of agriculture and can serve as a model of the vehicle industry and into a factory where cultured way of production and life is perfectly established, and personally settled the important problems for carrying it out.
He also indicated the detailed orientation and ways for turning the factory into a world-level one, ranging from the issues of designing, modernization of production processes, professional construction unit and labor force to the issue of forming an executive commission for updating and a group of designers and dispatched able construction forces. And over the past five years, he has paid deep attention to the factory, taking important Party and state measures to push ahead with its modernization project.
True to his on-the-spot instructions and the resolutions of the plenary meetings of the Party Central Committee, the officials and employees of the factory, together with soldier-builders, finished the first-stage updating project in close cooperation with scientists, technicians and workers at the relevant units last year. They are now stepping up the second-stage project while striving to develop and make modern tractors and farm machines in a larger quantity.
Kim Jong Un acquainted himself with the updating of equipment, the creation of production capacity and the construction conducted during the first-stage modernization project.
He highly praised the factory for having realized in the main the automation of major production lines, through its strenuous efforts to attain the modernization goal without fail, and laid a foundation for producing tractors with less cost price, practical efficiency and fine appearance by conducting a dynamic mass technical innovation movement to improve the performance of tractors and solving lots of technical problems arising in the production of parts.
And he appreciated the fact that the factory has manufactured and installed new efficient equipment and steadily updated equipment to raise the productivity and precision and ensured the full operation of equipment in the work by arousing the enthusiasm of employees, thus expanding its annual tractor production capacity and producing various kinds of modern farm machines.
He also expressed satisfaction over the fact that major production buildings were newly built or renovated on a modern basis through a dynamic construction project to renew the factory better as required by the developing reality and provide good working environment and the work to arm the employees fully with modern science and technology has been conducted in an effective way through the normal operation of sci-tech learning space.
He seriously examined the second-stage modernization now under way at the factory and set again the goal to be attained by it.
Stressing that to map out a realistic strategy for the development of farm machines and make a radical leap forward in the farm machine industry is the most urgent issue in solving the food problem, the foremost fundamental in our grand revolutionary struggle for achieving the great cause of building a rich country with strong army and, at the same time, an important work for the eternal prosperity of the Korean revolution, he said that very important is the duty of the Kumsong Tractor Factory which holds a key position no one can substitute for in realizing the comprehensive mechanization of agricultural production.
When the practicality and efficiency of modernization now under way at the factory are closely examined, there is progress to some extent, but irrational problems exist in view of the prospective development of the farm machine industry envisaged by the Party Central Committee, he said, and indicated in detail the scale and target of modernization to be held fast to and carried out thoroughly by the factory in the new struggle.
He said that the factory should not confine its modernization target only to the visible goal for current agricultural production, but set a practical target for freely and satisfactorily producing and supplying efficient and quality tractors and farm machines suited to the specific conditions and requirement of our countryside by establishing the farm machine production process with comprehensive and modern features in keeping with the world standard and providing a large-scale production base and stubbornly attain it.
All the farm machine production sectors should be updated to activate the production and thus radically increase the country's agricultural productivity and this is an important matter which brooks no delay, he said. And he gave a task for the relevant field to survey in detail the estimation of the country's overall agricultural infrastructure and agricultural technical capability and present the data on it so that the long-term farm machine development strategy can be discussed and deliberated at the 9th Plenary Meeting of the 8th WPK Central Committee to be convened at the end of the year.
He expressed expectation and belief that the officials and employees of the factory, by carrying forward the proud tradition of the Chollima workers of the preceding generation who made the first tractor with their bare hands, fully displaying the spirit of self-reliance, would vigorously turn out in the struggle to attain the goal set forth by the Party Central Committee and thus become reliable models in the van of the drive for developing the country's machine industry and carrying out the rural technical revolution.
Responding with a pledge of devoted implementation to the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un who visited their factory again and showed deep trust in them and redoubled their high sense of honor and important mission in defending the outpost of the rural technical revolution, all the officials and employees of the factory made a firm pledge to fulfill their heavy responsibility and duty for the farm machine production front in the ongoing worthwhile historic advance for opening up a new era of rural development.
Press Statement of DPRK Foreign Ministry Spokesman
Pyongyang, August 24 (KCNA) -- A spokesman for the Foreign Ministry of the DPRK issued the following press statement on Thursday:
The sea, the origin of living things and common wealth of mankind, is facing a serious crisis of nuclear pollution.
The Japanese government decided on Tuesday to discharge nuclear-polluted water from the Fukushima Atomic Power Plant into the sea despite opposition and warning of the international community.
It is undeniable that the discharge into sea of polluted water containing large quantities of radioactive materials is an unethical act of destroying the geo-ecological environment and of threatening the existence of mankind.
Japan would well know about the disastrous consequences to be entailed by its dangerous discharge of nuclear-polluted water as it is the only country which suffered a nuclear attack and experienced a disaster on Bikini Island.
Japan is deceiving and mocking at the international community by claiming that the nuclear-polluted water has been filtered by the poly-nuclide clearing equipment to "clean water". But it has been scientifically verified that the "clean water" still contains a large amount of extremely dangerous radioactive nuclides including cesium, strontium and ruthenium as well as tritium.
This was acknowledged by the Tokyo Electricity Company, an operator of the Fukushima Atomic Power Plant, in September 2017.
In May last, cesium of 180 times the standard value was detected in the body of fishes caught in the waters off Fukushima Prefecture, sparking off great uproar of the international community.
It serves itself as a clear proof of the dangerousness and disastrous consequences of the nuclear-polluted water that Japan is impatient to pour it into the Pacific, despite the strong denunciation from the world people.
Experts are raising their concern while saying if the nuclear-polluted water is discharged into the coastal waters of strong stream off Fukushima, it will spill into the half of the Pacific in 50-odd days and, after a few years, spread to the seas of the whole world to cause great harm to humankind for thousands of years. This is not a trivial matter.
Insisting on its stingy calculation method that costs and labor are low, peculiar to it, Japan is going to doggedly discharge the nuclear-polluted water into the sea, in disregard of the strong protest and warning at home and abroad. It is an unethical crime of Japan which does not hesitate to impose a nuclear disaster upon mankind for its selfish purpose.
This is the double-dealing attitude of Japan which is trumpeting about "nuclear threat" from neighboring countries and advocating the "nuclear-free world".
The horrible discharge of nuclear-polluted water is by no means an issue to be tolerated as the U.S., a nuclear war criminal and the principal nuclear offender, and its vassal forces provide "guarantee".
The neighboring countries and the international community are now closely watching the impudent conduct of Japan to pollute the sea common to mankind with nuclides and the sinister behavior of the forces actively patronizing it.
Japan should immediately withdraw its decision on dangerous discharge of nuclear-polluted water seriously threatening the lives, safety and future of mankind.
Japan will be held wholly accountable for all the catastrophic consequences to be entailed by its unethical crime unsettled forever.
Press Statement of DPRK Defence Minister
Pyongyang, August 24 (KCNA) -- Kang Sun Nam, minister of National Defence of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) made public the following press statement on Thursday:
At the summit of the U.S., Japan and the "Republic of Korea" (ROK) held at Camp David on Aug. 18, there was a confab in a bid to boost cooperation among the three parties for the restoration of Ukraine.
Biden, at a joint press conference after the summit, incited another atmosphere of confrontation against Russia, saying that the international community needs to jointly respond to Russia's invasion of Ukraine and that such a situation may occur in Asia.
This is a typical example of the desperate efforts by the Biden group to fuel the atmosphere of supporting Ukraine and recover from their political defeat by mobilizing their Asian stooges as the counteroffensive operations launched by the Zelenskiy group with an absurd wild ambition for "recovery of territory" have been defeated one after another by the superb tactics of the Russian army.
The Ukrainian crisis is an inevitable product of the hegemonic ambition of the U.S. which has been hell-bent on ceaseless military threat and pressure policy by mobilizing its NATO allies, systematically encroaching upon Russia's strategic security and interests while regarding Russia as the main enemy to bring down at any cost.
The U.S., the arch criminal who has brought untold turmoil to the continent of Europe, summoned its puppets, who are thousands of kilometers away from Kiev and not familiar with the essence of the situation, to discuss so-called cooperation. This is an intolerable mockery of and insult to international peace and security and human life.
The recent confab brought to light the U.S. sinister intention to lay big siege to China and Russia by tightly binding the hands and feet of Japan and the "ROK", the primary bullet shield for realizing its greedy ambition for world domination, to the Asian version of NATO.
Judging from the past, the "ROK" and Japan must presumably have accepted the U.S. demand for active military aid to Ukraine as they have no choice but to follow their master, not daring to calculate whether the master's demand will bring peace or irreversible security crisis to them.
The international community is now becoming increasingly vocal denouncing the U.S. and its followers who have been engrossed in provocation while escalating the tense situation in the region of Northeast Asia, which has been already strained through the exclusive factional spawning and inter-camp confrontation.
Taking this opportunity, we clarify once again our clear stand to the U.S. which is trumpeting about violation of UN "sanctions" and claims that the DPRK supports the cruel aggressive war of Russia, spreading the "rumor of DPRK-Russia arms dealings" again with the Russian defence minister's visit to the DPRK as an occasion.
Not content with sending the notorious lethal weapons including cluster bombs to the Ukrainian battlefield, the U.S. is driving the Ukrainian crisis to the brink of world nuclear war by handing over even F-16 fighters to the Zelenskiy puppet regime. It has no legal right and moral justification to slander the normal cooperation between sovereign states in the field of national defence for peace and security in the region and the rest of the world.
The DPRK has never recognized the "sanctions resolutions" of the UN Security Council cooked up by the hostile forces to stamp out its sovereignty and right to existence. And the definition of someone's "aggression", made by the U.S. and the West with their gangster-like logic and standards, does never work on us.
Seeing the enemies uneasy about what kind of entity of strong power may be produced again by the cooperation and exchange between the world military powers in clearly smashing the U.S.-led unipolar world order, we came to reconfirm the orientation and way of more definitely overpowering our foes.
Even if the U.S. and its stooges seek the "joint counteraction" to cope with threat from someone, we remain unchanged in our will and determination to resolutely take the overwhelming and preemptive armed counteraction, never pardoning any military moves against the DPRK.
We will redouble the militant friendship and solidarity with Russia in the just struggle against the common enemy, extending full support and solidarity once again to the just cause of the Russian people for defending their sovereign right and realizing international justice.
We are firmly convinced that the day will surely come when the heroic Russian army will write another glorious page in the history of the great war victory amid the material and moral support and encouragement of the righteous and progressive forces surpassing the U.S.-led Western group.
DPRK Ambassador to China Publishes Article
Pyongyang, August 24 (KCNA) -- The DPRK ambassador to the People's Republic of China on August 24 made public the following article titled "There is only one China in its land":
The U.S. attempt to persistently interfere in the Taiwan issue, China's internal affairs, is going beyond the red-line to further aggravate the situation in the Asia-Pacific region than ever before.
The U.S. clearly recognized that Taiwan is part of the People's Republic of China through the three joint communiques adopted in the past, but what the international community witnessed is the true picture of the U.S. opposing and denying it.
This is proved by the fact that the U.S. is stubbornly resorting to the moves to manipulate "two Chinas" by politically and militarily shielding the "Taiwanese independence" separatist forces and staging dangerous military drills around Taiwan targeting China, throwing the world public into confusion as if China's "invasion of Taiwan" is imminent.
Recently the U.S. administration announced "Weapons Aid Package" for providing Taiwan with weapons worth 345 million U.S. dollars and allowed the "vice-president" of Taiwan to "pass" through the U.S. And the tripartite summit talks held among the U.S., Japan and south Korean puppet regime adopted a document containing the strong opposition to the unilateral attempt to change the situation in the Indo-Pacific region so as to incite the anti-Chinese atmosphere. The facts clearly and obviously show who is the root cause of the deteriorated situation of Taiwan Strait.
As already specified, resolution 2758 of the UN General Assembly adopted in October 1971 made it clear that Taiwan is an inseparable part of the People’s Republic of China.
The U.S. illegal acts of regarding the issue of Taiwan as a lever for checking China while wantonly violating the UN Charter and international law on respect for the right to self-determination of a sovereign state are quite contrary to the trend of the times and the desire of mankind for equity, justice and peace.
Then, why is the U.S. persistently using the "Taiwan card" to push the regional situation to an extreme phase of instability?
It is the U.S. sinister intention to internationalize the Taiwan issue and build a pretext for collective moves to restrain China for carrying out the Asia-Pacific strategy and thus weaken its energy to quench strategic influence of China, a socialist power.
The military and political situation in the Taiwan Strait is now inching to the brink of a war due to the U.S. vicious anti-China confrontation moves.
No one can remain a passive onlooker to the robber who ran into the house with a knife.
The peace and security of the Taiwan Strait should be safeguarded by the People's Republic of China, the master of Taiwan island, not by outside unbidden guests.
The Chinese People's Liberation Army has staged various kinds of military drills one after another in the waters and the sky around Taiwan. This is a legitimate military action for self-defence to firmly defend the sovereignty and national interests of China.
The 1.4 billion Chinese people's determination and will to accomplish the sacred cause of national reunification at any cost is getting stronger in direct proportion to the U.S. and its followers' frantic interference in the Taiwan issue.
If the U.S. persistently promotes division and infringes upon other's sovereignty with illegal double standards and opts for the way of confrontation between camps and wrecking peace in disregard of the above fact, all of them will serve as a prelude to the U.S. unpleasant future.
The Democratic People's Republic of Korea bitterly denounces the U.S. and its followers for extremely aggravating the situation in the Taiwan Strait through irresponsible and unilateral forcible measures and strongly supports all the measures taken by China to achieve the national reunification on the principle of one China.
Taiwan is a part of China forever and there will always be one China on the land of the Chinese nation.