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No 74/23 September 4, 2023
1. Respected Comrade Kim Jong Un Inspects Pukjung Machine Complex and Major Munitions Factory
2. Counteraction Drill for Important Purpose Conducted in DPRK
3. Japan Should Set Proper Course
4. Peerlessly Great Men's Feats for NAM Development
5. Great Kanto Earthquake
Respected Comrade Kim Jong Un Inspects Pukjung Machine Complex and Major Munitions Factory
Pyongyang, September 3 (KCNA) -- Kim Jong Un, general secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea and president of the State Affairs of the DPRK, inspected the Pukjung Machine Complex and a major munitions factory.
He was accompanied by Secretaries Jo Yong Won and Kim Jae Ryong, Department Director Jo Chun Ryong and Vice Department Directors Kim Yo Jong and Choe Myong Chol of the WPK Central Committee.
He was greeted by leading officials of the complex and the munitions factory on the spot.
He appreciated the workers of the complex for boosting production, true to the Party's policies of national defence and economic construction.
Looking round various production lines of the complex, he learned about the current state of technical equipment and the orientation of its technological updating. He expressed full support and great satisfaction, acquainting himself with the production goals to be fulfilled by the Party members and other working people of the complex till the end of the year. Noting that the complex is playing an important role that no others can replace in developing the shipbuilding industry of the country and strengthening the naval forces of the DPRK, Kim Jong Un put forward the revolutionary policy on ushering in a new era of the shipbuilding industry to the complex.
He affirmed that a future plenary meeting of the Central Committee of the WPK would set forth an important line of the modernization of the complex and the development orientation of the shipbuilding industry of the country.
Saying that the WPK firmly believes the revolutionary working class of the complex, he expressed his great expectation and conviction that the Party members and other working people of the complex with the brilliant fighting tradition of taking the lead in implementing the Party's policies of national defence and economy by fully displaying the revolutionary spirit of self-reliance with the spirit of devoted implementation in every decade of the revolution would heartily accept the new crucial decision of the Party Central Committee reflecting the important requirements of our revolution and unconditionally respond to it with elated enthusiasm.
Then he inspected a major munitions factory.
He expressed satisfaction over the progress made in the technical updating of the factory and indicated the orientation of establishing additional production capacity.
Stressing the importance of the position and role of the factory in bolstering up the armed forces of the DPRK, he expressed great expectation and belief that the workers of the factory would uphold the Party's policy of the national defence development with high abilities and through strong practice, cherishing intense loyalty to the Party and the revolution and patriotism.
Counteraction Drill for Important Purpose Conducted in DPRK
Pyongyang, September 3 (KCNA) -- After their adventurous large-scale joint exercises, the enemies staged again a joint guided missile firing and aerial bombing drill involving tens of different fighters for two days from August 31 to continuously escalate tensions and more openly reveal their military confrontation scheme against the DPRK.
The recklessness and dangerous nature of the confrontation hysteria recently betrayed by the U.S. and the gangsters of the "Republic of Korea" are unprecedented in history.
The Central Military Commission of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK) issued an order to conduct a relevant military drill to fully demonstrate the action will and capability to deter the enemies' attempts for a war of aggression.
In its written drill order, the WPK Central Military Commission stressed the importance of the drill and sent militant encouragement to the missile soldiers, affirming that the great power of the DPRK will soon reduce into misgivings the so-called self-pride and relieved feelings about the superiority of the combined air forces which the enemies seek to demonstrate continuously.
A firing drill for simulated tactical nuclear attack was conducted at dawn of September 2 to warn the enemies of the actual nuclear war danger.
A high-spirited strategic cruise missile-armed unit of the Korean People's Army in the western region of the country conducted the relevant military activities.
Prior to the drill, there was an inspection of the procedures for authenticating the nuclear attack order and the rapid operation normality of the technical and mechanical devices of the launch approval system, and two long-range strategic cruise missiles tipped with mock nuclear warheads were fired in an actual war environment according to rapid approval procedures.
The missile sub-unit involved in the drill fired the long-range strategic cruise missiles toward the West Sea of Korea from the mouth of the River Chongchon. The unit successfully carried out its nuclear strike mission by making sure that the missiles flied along the pattern "8" flight track simulating the distance of 1 500 kilometers for 7 672-7 681 seconds respectively and their warheads detonated at a preset altitude of 150 meters above the target island.
The Central Military Commission of the Workers' Party of Korea repeatedly stressed the need to take offensive actions for affording the understanding of the DPRK nuclear force's deterrence, calling on all the service personnel of the nuclear force to maintain high alertness and mobilized posture and make the U.S. and the military gangsters of the "ROK" more clearly understand the situation that has reached a serious threat through the overpowering exercise of the war deterrence.
The nuclear force of the DPRK will bolster up its responsible combat counteraction posture in every way to deter war and preserve peace and stability.
Japan Should Set Proper Course
Pyongyang, September 2 (KCNA) -- Kim Sol Hwa, a researcher of the Institute for Japan Studies of the DPRK Foreign Ministry, issued the following article "Japan should set proper course" on September 2:
Japan's dangerous arms buildup has gone beyond the limit that can no longer be overlooked.
It can be illustrated by the fact that the U.S. recently approved the sale of air-to-surface missiles and related equipment at the repeated request of Japan.
Japan is planning to purchase 50 missiles at the cost of 104 million U.S. dollars. The above-said missile is a long-range cruise missile (JASSM) with a range of about 900 km.
Not content with this, Japan is speeding up the development of its domestic long-range missiles.
For instance, it has stepped up the mass-production of high-speed gliding projectiles and the development of hypersonic guided missiles while extending the range of type 12 surface-to-ship guided missile, a cruise missile delivered to the ground "Self-Defense Force", to over 1 000 km and remodeling it to ensure its operation in the air and the sea, to say nothing of ground.
It is an open secret that Japan has steadily renewed and expanded its military muscle into attack type by throwing off the principle of "exclusive defense" under which Japan is constitutionally bound to give up war and has no right of war potentials and belligerency and it is allowed only to possess "the minimum defense capability" if necessary.
Japan is working hard to secure the capability for preemptive attack by massively deploying long-range missiles with the extended range and thus turn it into a country capable of fighting a war. Such behavior reminds one of the eve of the Pacific War in the past.
It is by no means fortuitous that a Japanese media deplored that Japan has come again to the "point of irrevocable return" for war or may have gone beyond it, saying that "2023 would be the eve of a new war".
All facts clearly show that Japan is buckling down to the implementation of the security strategy, the undisguised doctrine of preemptive attack and war guidelines revised at the end of last year, and that the engine of "reinvasion ship" built by Japanese militarism started operation.
What merits a serious attention is that the U.S., chieftain of aggression and war, systematically brings the "spearhead" of reinvasion to the hands of Japan keen on turning itself into a military giant, with a view to using Japan as a shock brigade for carrying out its Indo-Pacific strategy.
While praising Japan's access to "counterattack capability" as the possession of "ability for bolstering up its deterrence in the region", the U.S. revealed its attempt to strengthen the military alliance on the basis of it. And it is mulling introducing 400 Tomahawk long-range cruise missiles with a range of about 1 600 km into Japan. There are much more examples showing its sordid intention to use Japan as the cannon-fodder for a war of aggression.
Japan, which completely removed the veil of a "pacifist state" with the backing of the U.S., is seeking to revive the "Imperial Japan" which dreamed of dominating the world after occupying the vast Asian continent in the past. This is no more than a daydream.
Those countries in the region which Japan seeks to put in the firing range of long-range missiles are not the weak countries a century ago when Japan ran amuck, putting them on the altar for realizing the ambition for the "Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere".
Japan should prudently decide the course of its choice whether to run headlong into the abyss of ruin through its absurd arms buildup or to establish good-neighborly relations with neighboring countries and co-exist peacefully.
If Japan raises the anchor of the "reinvasion ship", despite the repeated warnings of the regional community, it will be a matter of time for it to face a wreck.
Peerlessly Great Men's Feats for NAM Development
Pyongyang, September 1 (KCNA) -- It has been 62 years since the founding of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM).
Regarding the anti-imperialist independence as its ideal and making it a fundamental principle not to join any bloc, the NAM has constantly enhanced its international influence under the positive support of the countries aspiring after independence over the past years.
The NAM has fulfilled its role as an anti-imperialist independent, anti-war peace-loving force despite of the dominationists' vicious obstructions and severe upheavals of history. Such proud course of its development is associated with the immortal feats of President Kim Il Sung and Chairman Kim Jong Il.
When the NAM was faced with trials due to the maneuvers of the imperialists and their followers tenaciously clinging to division and estrangement moves and military threat and blackmail, for fear of its strengthening influence in the international arena, Kim Il Sung clearly showed the road ahead of it with his scientific insight and far-sighted view.
As a revolutionary step, he saw to it that the DPRK joined the NAM and played a key role in its development, and wisely led the work for the NAM to further strengthen its cohesion and decisively smash the imperialists' maneuvers with its united strength.
In a critical period when even the existence of the NAM was in question owing to the rapid change in international situation, Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il guided the work for the NAM to strengthen its unity and always remain faithful to its mission.
Under the leadership of the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un, the DPRK has destroyed the imperialists' high-handed and arbitrary practices and more vigorously struggled for independence, justice and peace, thus making a significant contribution to the vital advance of the NAM.
The DPRK, a dignified membership of the NAM, will as ever strive to resolutely oppose the aggression and dominationism and realize independence, peace and the international justice in coalition with all non-aligned countries.
Great Kanto Earthquake
At 11:58 on September 1, 1923, a massive earthquake measuring 7.9 on the Richter scale hit the Kanto area of Japan, burning down more than 694 000 houses and leaving over 99 300 people killed, more than 43 400 missing and over 52 000 injured either slightly or seriously.
The catastrophic earthquake was vividly recorded in history, not because the scale of damage was huge. The words “great Kanto earthquake” are still remembered by the Korean people as a synonym for a “massacre of Koreans.”
The victims were extremely dissatisfied with the government which did not take any relief measures.
The Japanese government cooked up the massacre of Koreans resident in Japan as a measure to tide over the serious socio-political crisis caused by the earthquake.
It instigated press organs to aggravate national antagonism by widely spreading false and deceptive propaganda that the “Koreans are planning to revolt” and “trying to exterminate the Japanese and seize Japan,” and issued an order to kill all the Koreans, appearing on the road or hiding in houses or other places, irrespective of age and sex.
According to this, not only the Japanese army and police but also such government-patronized organizations as vigilante corps and young people’s corps turned out in full force to kill Koreans. They set up checkpoints everywhere to pick out Koreans. They made the passers-by pronounce difficult Japanese words and, if any of them did not pronounce correctly, beheaded or disemboweled them mercilessly on the spot. Furthermore, they made people tie kerchiefs around their heads or suddenly clubbed them to distinguish Koreans by the tying method or scream.
After selecting Koreans, they bound and brought them to a dam and shot them as the targets of the performance test of newly-developed machine-guns or threw them into burning coke ovens. They even stabbed them with sticks, bamboo spears, knives, iron hooks and bladed spears or tied them on light poles, gorged out their eyeballs, cut off their noses, before stabbing their bellies to death. Some forcibly lined up children and cut off their necks before the eyes of their parents, and then stabbed their parents to death. Others cut off the arms of the survivors with saws.
In this way, they killed more than 23 000 innocent Koreans in a little over ten days.
The massacre of Koreans in the wake of the great Kanto earthquake was by no means a spontaneous incident or an individual terrorist act instigated by some high-ranking officials. It was an indiscriminate massacre planned, organized and perpetrated by the Japanese government as part of an effort to find a way for remaining in power in inciting national chauvinism.
A century has passed since then.
However, the Japanese authorities are still denying the state responsibility for the massacre of Koreans in Kanto, claiming that “there exist various views on it” and “it is the issue to be solved by historians.”
While running anti-DPRK smear campaigns for instilling inveterate repugnance and hostility towards the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, they are also justifying the suppression of Chongryon (General Association of Korean Residents in Japan) and Koreans in Japan and seriously threatening their lives, rights and interests.
No matter how many years have passed and how many times one generation has been replaced by another, the Korean people still remember the massacre of Koreans by Japan during the great Kanto earthquake and other unethical crimes it had committed against the Korean nation, and they will make it to pay dearly for them.