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No 89/23 November 13, 2023
1. Spokesperson for DPRK Foreign Ministry Issues Press Statement
2. Press Release of IDP of DPRK Foreign Ministry
3. Japan Can Never Evade State Responsibility for Hideous Crimes against Humanity
4. Hysteria of "Aristocrat" Group Can Not Block Progress of Human Society
5. Press Statement of Director-General of African, Arab and Latin American Affairs Department of DPRK Foreign Ministry
6. Future of Country Seen in Children’s Laughter
Spokesperson for DPRK Foreign Ministry Issues Press Statement
Pyongyang, November 11 (KCNA) -- A spokesperson for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the DPRK released the following press statement on Saturday:
During the recent Asian tour, U.S. Secretary of State Blinken expressed ungrounded "concern" over the equal and normal development of the relations between the DPRK and the Russian Federation, talking about "additional actions" against the two countries and the "theory of Chinese role".
The DPRK reconfirmed that the present U.S. administration is steeped in morbid repugnancy toward the development of relations between independent sovereign states which are forged on the basis of recognized principles of international law including the sovereignty equality, mutual respect, non-interference and mutual benefits.
The irresponsible and provocative remarks of Blinken only escalate the dangerous political and military tension in the Korean peninsula and the region and, moreover, do not help relieve the U.S. of its "concern".
If he is truly concerned about the security of the "Republic of Korea" and the Ukrainian crisis, he should also attach importance to the security concerns of the DPRK and the Russian Federation and, if he is truly concerned about the "violation of resolutions" of the international non-proliferation system and the UNSC, he should sincerely pay attention to the international community's concern over the U.S. illegal policy of "sharing nuclear weapons" with its allies and the extreme double standards of the UNSC.
The only way for relieving the U.S. of its "concern" about the DPRK's exercise of its rights as a sovereign state and the DPRK-Russia relations is to abandon the hostile policy toward the two countries and the Cold War mentality and withdraw the political provocations, military threats and strategic pressure on the DPRK and Russia.
The equal and reciprocal cooperation among the DPRK, the Russian Federation, the People's Republic of China and other independent sovereign states is playing a pivotal role in defending peace and stability not only in the Korean peninsula and the region but also in the world.
The U.S. underestimation of the righteous international community's solidarity and unity is the main cause of the failure of its present miserable foreign policy.
The U.S. secretary of State assured that the U.S. can take an effective part in the Indo-Pacific region, but the only solution for defusing the military tensions and restoring peace in the region is the U.S. absence which is essential in the practice of international relations.
The U.S. should be accustomed to the new reality of the DPRK-Russia relations.
No matter what others may say, the friendly and cooperative relations between the DPRK and Russia aspiring after independence, peace and friendship will steadily grow stronger, and any attempt of the U.S. and its vassal forces to wreck peace and stability in the Korean peninsula and the region will be faced with strong and coordinated counteraction of independent sovereign states.
Press Release of IDP of DPRK Foreign Ministry
Pyongyang, November 13 (KCNA) -- The Institute for Disarmament and Peace (IDP) of the DPRK Foreign Ministry on Monday issued the following press release "The dissolution of 'UN Command' is an essential requirement for preventing the outbreak of a new war and defending peace and security in the Korean peninsula":
The U.S. and the puppet south Korean military gangsters are going to hold the first meeting of defense authorities of puppet south Korea and member states of the "UN Command" in the region of south Korean puppets on November 14.
This confab, to be held under the manipulation of the U.S. secretary of Defense, will reportedly adopt a "joint declaration" showing the will of "UN Command" member states to cope with contingency in the Korean peninsula.
The "UN Command", which should have been dissolved decades ago, is now revealing its aggressive nature again, seeking to cook up a declaration of confrontation simulating the second Korean war. This shows that the security terrain of the Korean peninsula is being more definitely turned into a war-oriented structure by the U.S. and its followers.
The Institute for Disarmament and Peace of the Foreign Ministry of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) clarifies the following stand, considering it necessary to arouse the attention of the international community to the ghostly entity "UN Command" aggravating the situation of the Korean peninsula and the illegality of its activities:
First, the "UN Command" is an illegal war organization fabricated by the U.S. to send more aggression troops to the Korean front during the Korean War in the 1950s.
The U.S. instigated the Syngman Rhee puppet regime to launch an all-out armed invasion of the DPRK on June 25, 1950. And it cooked up "resolution" No. 82 of the UN Security Council, which branded the DPRK as an "aggressor", availing itself of the former Soviet Union's absence at the UNSC meetings taken in protest against the Taiwanese authorities' exercise of China's representative right at the UN.
Then, it cooked up in succession the UNSC "resolution" No. 83 "recommending the UN member states to offer necessary aid to the 'Republic of Korea'" and the UNSC "resolution" No. 84 calling for "attaching the armed forces of satellite states to the U.S.-led combined forces command and using the UN flag".
In this regard, on June 29 and July 6, 1950, the government of the Soviet Union sent to the UNSC its messages stressing that any resolutions adopted without approval of the Soviet Union and China, permanent member states of the UNSC, contrary to the UN Charter, would not be effective.
All the facts show that the U.S. introduced its followers into the Korean front by abusing the name of the UN, pursuant to its ulterior intention to "legalize" its war of aggression on the DPRK.
Second, the "UN Command" is no more than a U.S. tool for confrontation as it has nothing to do with the UN.
In fact, the "UN Command" came to appear since the U.S. arbitrarily changed the name of the "Combined Forces Command" led by it into the "UN Command" in its report on the activities of the "Combined Forces Command" submitted to the UNSC on July 25, 1950.
The UNSC meeting on January 31, 1951, after the Soviet Union's re-participation in the UNSC activities, adopted its resolution No. 90 on deleting the agenda "complaint against aggression on the 'Republic of Korea'" put by the U.S. on June 25, 1950. This is self-acknowledgement of the UN that the mobilization of multinational forces in the Korean War was wrong.
On June 24, 1994, UN Secretary-General Boutros Boutros Ghali admitted that the Combined Forces Command was not established as an appendage under the UNSC control and it is under the control of the U.S.
On December 21, 1998, UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan, too, stated that none of his predecessors had allowed any country to connect the name of the UN with the armed forces dispatched to the Korean War by the U.S. or its command. After that several UN officials repeatedly stressed that the UN Command is not an organization of the United Nations and it is not under the direction or control of the UN.
This being a hard fact, the U.S. has abused the signboard of the "UN Command" for its aggression forces. It is a wanton violation of international law including the UN Charter and a shameless insult to all the UN member states.
Third, the "UN Command" is an illegal organization which should have been dissolved decades ago in accordance with the resolution of the UN General Assembly.
The plenary meeting of the 30th session of the UN General Assembly on November 18, 1975 simultaneously adopted two resolutions on disbanding the "UN Command" and withdrawing the U.S. forces, in reflection of the just demand of the DPRK and the broad international community for the immediate withdrawal of the U.S. occupation forces from the region of south Korean puppets.
Resolution No. 3390(xxx)B, initiated by progressive member states of the UN, calls for unconditional and immediate dissolution of the "UN Command" and withdrawal of all foreign troops from the puppet region. Resolution No. 3390(xxx)A, proposed by the U.S., states that the "UN Command" should be disbanded from January 1, 1976 and the U.S. forces should be withdrawn from the puppet region if another mechanism is established to maintain the Armistice Agreement.
At that time the U.S. clarified the conditioned disorganization of the "UN Command" and its willingness for the pullout of the U.S. forces, as a last resort to avoid the immediate dissolution of the "UN Command". Anyhow, this evidently shows that they themselves recognized the "UN Command" as an entity to be disbanded.
Nevertheless, the "UN Command" has persisted for several decades and is now reviving as a U.S.-led multinational war tool. This is serious developments that endanger the security in the Asia-Pacific region including the Korean peninsula.
Moreover, the U.S. and the puppet south Korean forces are staging large-scale joint military drills of aggressive nature while deploying nuclear strategic assets in the Korean peninsula one after another. Timed to coincide with this, the defense authorities of member states of the "UN Command", a war tool for aggression, seek to discuss a joint counter-action plan which made the contingency on the Korean peninsula a fait accompli. This is a dangerous scheme to ignite a new war of aggression on the DPRK.
The confab of defense authorities of the "UN Command" member states, to be held by the U.S. and its vassal forces, goes to clearly prove that the U.S. has never changed in its aggressive nature to occupy the whole Korean peninsula by force of arms but already started to provide actual conditions for igniting the second Korean war.
The international community should heighten vigilance against the U.S. and its vassal forces' military moves for bringing a new war cloud to the Korean peninsula and the region and resolutely denounce and reject them to save the world from the holocaust of a thermonuclear war.
As in the past, the DPRK will fulfill its responsible mission in the future, too, to drive out the foreign forces and ensure lasting peace and stability in the Korean peninsula and the region.
The illegal and aggressive "UN Command" should be dissolved without delay, and this is an essential prerequisite for restoring the authority and impartiality of the UN and promoting peace and stability of the Korean peninsula.
Japan Can Never Evade State Responsibility for Hideous Crimes against Humanity
Pyongyang, November 13 (KCNA) -- Kim Sol Hwa, a researcher of the Institute for Japan Studies under the DPRK Foreign Ministry, issued the following article "Japan can never evade the state responsibility for the hideous crimes against humanity":
The Japanese authorities' recent shameless act of denying the history is further touching off the anti-Japanese sentiments of the Korean people.
The chief Cabinet secretary of Japan, who said on August 30 that a "record can not be found in the government to grasp the true relations" with the massacre of Koreans in Kanto, made reckless remarks once again on November 9 that "the government's view is that it is difficult to grasp the fact at present as there is not court record."
It is a stark historical truth recognized by the public at home and abroad that the massacre of Koreans in Kanto was a thrice-cursed national chauvinist massacre committed by Japan in an organized and planned way with the mobilization of its state power.
As regards the centenary of the great Kanto quake this year, data proving the involvement of the authorities have been disclosed at a time when various events took place one after another to honor the memory of the Korean victims and witnesses and material evidence disclosing the massacre were unearthed. So the Japanese public is becoming increasingly vocal demanding that the government admit the state responsibility for the massacre and make an apology.
Under such situation, the chief Cabinet secretary speaking for the government's stand has persistently denied the massacre, talking about "record". This is an intolerable insult to the victims and their bereaved families and a shameless act to evade the state responsibility for the hideous crimes against humanity.
The atmosphere of hostility toward the DPRK is rampant in the whole society of Japan and the DPRK-Japan relations are getting worse day by day. This is attributable to the principal statesmen of Japan who have no sense of guilty about the past crimes and are ignorant of elementary human ethics and morality.
Japan is making desperate efforts to erase its blood-stained past history. This is a clear proof of its will to repeat the history of aggression.
The persistent denial of the criminal acts can never cover up the truth of history, and Japan can never evade the responsibility for the crimes.
Hysteria of "Aristocrat" Group Can Not Block Progress of Human Society
Pyongyang, November 12 (KCNA) -- Following is the full text of "Hysteria of 'aristocrat' group can not block progress of human society", an article written by KCNA commentator Kim Yun Mi:
An old-age group of "aristocrats", who lost their power and peerage, met again to grumble at world affairs.
It is just the recent meeting of foreign ministers of the seven countries (G7) held in Tokyo.
Nonsense, let out by them who lavish huge money collected as taxes on going sightseeing across the world to idle time away with grumbling and backbiting, is not worth paying heed to it, but we can not help commenting on their rubbish that hurt the sovereignty and interests of the DPRK.
The meeting made public a "joint statement" that "incriminates" the entirely normal bilateral relations between the DPRK and the Russian Federation, independent and dignified sovereign states, and contains such utterly groundless rhetoric as "complete denuclearization".
Such poor group, which runs helter-skelter to preserve its anachronistic "existing order" on the verge of collapse by putting tens of thousands of entities and individuals across the world on the sanctions target list at its will, disturbing the development of sovereign states and committing aggression and war, has repeated such vicious behavior as taking issue with others, like a guilty party filing the suit first, talking about "economic threat", "pursuit of changing situation by dint of power", "damage to democracy" and "violation of human right".
The group is nothing but an armed puppet of the U.S. on the battlefield and a tool exclusive to the U.S. in the political arena. The result it has finally produced at the recent meeting is just the "model" of double standards, divisiveness and insult.
The group talked about "complete denuclearization" of the DPRK, something to be found in archaism dictionary, touted "Israel's right to self-defense" to encourage its brutal massacre in defiance of the essence of the Middle East situation. Worse still, it adds fuel to the flames of the current war in Europe, calling for "slapping heavy sanctions upon Russia and rendering stronger support to Ukraine." Not content with this, it showed such eccentric behavior as unhesitatingly shielding Japan's discharge of nuclear-polluted water, "welcoming the efforts based on scientific grounds" and talking about "proved safety".
It is the present state of the group of "aristocrats" that as a result of serving the U.S. like a tool, its international position and influence are being weakened with each passing day and it is facing the worst crisis due to the serious political and economic unrest and social division at home and abroad.
It is, indeed, an impudent act of the group to interfere in other sovereign states' internal affairs while discussing the world affairs at any time despite its poor condition unable to settle its own affairs.
Frankly, if the G7 led by the U.S. had respected other countries' sovereignty and prioritized the world peace and development, the situations in the Korean peninsula, Europe and the Middle East region would not have worsened as today and thorny problems would not have been spawned in different parts of the world.
The conclusion is that such a source of trouble as G7 only harmful to the normal development of mankind is best advised to disappear as soon as possible.
It is said that a dog's bark will never make a camel go astray.
No matter how the old-age group of "aristocrats" may raise its voice, the human society will advance forward along its own orbit.
Press Statement of Director-General of African, Arab and Latin American Affairs Department of DPRK Foreign Ministry
The Resolution “Necessity of ending the economic, commercial and financial embargo imposed by the United States of America against Cuba” was adopted with the approval of the overwhelming majority of the UN member states at the recent plenary meeting of the 78th session of the UN General Assembly (UNGA).
This is another brilliant victory achieved by the Cuban people in the course of 60-odd-year-long struggle for territorial integrity, sovereignty and socialist construction.
187 countries which account for the absolute majority of the UN member states have voted in favor of this UNGA resolution. This is a manifestation of the sentiment of the international community, opposing strongly the unilateral economic, commercial and financial embargo imposed by the U.S. against Cuba and supporting the Cuban people in their sacred cause of justice.
Only the U.S. and Israel vetoed the resolution.
Since the first day of the victory of the Cuban revolution, the U.S. has been imposing an all-out economic embargo on the former, in flagrant violation of the UN Charter and international laws, for the sole reason that the Cuban people are adhering to the ideals of anti-imperialism, independence and socialism.
Resolutions calling for an end to the U.S. blockade against Cuba have been adopted at the UN General Assembly with support of a majority of the UN member states every year since 1992. However, the U.S. has persisted in voting against those resolutions and pursuing sanctions and pressure to stifle socialist Cuba.
The cruel and inhumane blockade by the U.S. caused indescribable misfortunes and pains for the Cuban people for as long as more than half a century, leading to the economic loss of an astronomical figure.
According to the recent announcement of the Cuba’s foreign ministry, the economic loss incurred by the harsh U.S. sanctions and blockade comes to 405 million USD every month.
This single fact is good enough to vividly show the inhumane and heinous nature of the U.S. which seriously violates and threatens the fundamental rights to existence and development of Cuban people.
This year alone, the current U.S. administration continued listing Cuba as “state sponsor of terrorism” and decided to extend the sanctions against Cuba by another year, wielding the exclusive "Trading With The Enemy Act".
The coercive measures of the U.S. against Cuba are an outrageous violation of the UN Charter and international laws that stipulate the principles of respect for sovereignty, equality and non-interference in internal affairs. They are an intolerable criminal act.
The U.S. should look clearly at the ever-raging public sentiment of the international community, lift without further delay the unilateral and extraterritorial embargo on the economy, trade and finance of Cuba and remove it from the list of “state sponsors of terrorism”.
We will as ever continue to express full support for and solidarity with the Party, government and people of Cuba in their righteous struggle to safeguard the national dignity and sovereignty and gains of revolution, develop the economy and improve the people’s livelihood. We always stand ready to be with the Cuban people in the course of common struggle for anti-imperialism, independence and socialism. Pyongyang, November 13, Juche 112(2023)
Future of Country Seen in Children’s Laughter
It was 8 years ago, November 13, 2015 when Respected Comrade Kim Jong Un visited fully modernized Pyongyang Children’s Foodstuff Factory.
Respected Comrade Kim Jong Un looked around different places of the factory and acquainted himself in detail with its modernization, production, variety and quality of the products. He said in sincerity that it’s all for our children, the future generation of fatherland, to wage revolution braving harsh trials, and he is optimistic about the bright future even in today’s difficulties when he hears cheerful laughter of children.
He also earnestly instructed that the officials and workers of the factory should provide our children with a variety of delicious and nutritious foodstuffs, bearing in mind at all times that the normalization of production means laughter of children.
Respected Comrade Kim Jong Un saw the panoramic view of the factory and asked with a bright smile if it is the factory that he had visited one year before, and was pleased that the factory was finely built and completely transformed befitting the workplace visited by the great leaders. He said that the factory clearly proves the principle that nothing is impossible for determined hearts. Our people looked back with deep emotion upon the day when respected Comrade Kim Jong Un had visited the factory a year ago, revering his benevolent image.
As soon as he was reported by the officials concerned on the fact that raw materials were in short supply, he immediately visited the factory with a heavy heart in December, 2014.
On the spot he sternly said to the officials that we should not stop even a moment the production of children’s foodstuff and that the normalization of production is not merely an economic and technical matter but the one related to the moral obligations to the great leaders. He earnestly said that the factory should normalize the production for uninterrupted supply of nutrients to our children as the factory is permeated with immortal exploits of President Kim Il Sung and Chairman Kim Jong Il who devoted their all during the whole life regarding our children as the kings and queens of the country.
On that day, respected Comrade Kim Jong Un took necessary measures to provide raw materials for normalizing production, set ambitious modernization goals and took benevolent measures for completing automated, robotized, dust-free and germ-free production processes.
The laughter of children can never be cooked up.
As their laughter shows the happiness of every family and the future of the country, all parents in the world devote their affection to their children for their innocent laughter.
Indeed, as we hold in high esteem the benevolent father who protects the laughter of our children to bring altogether the affection of all parents in the country, the merrily happy laughter of our children will resound forever, adding to our conviction that the future of our country will get brighter in coming years.
