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No 90/23 November 21, 2023
1. DPRK Slams U.S. Risky Weapon Sale
2. Space Militarization Can Never Be Justified: DPRK Researcher
3. Children Reflect the Future
4. Guarantee of Bright Future
5. Two Contrasting Realities Seen Through Housing
DPRK Slams U.S. Risky Weapon Sale
Pyongyang, November 20 (KCNA) -- A vice general director of the General Armaments Bureau of the Ministry of National Defence of the DPRK gave the following answer to a question raised by KCNA on Monday over the fact that the U.S. decided to sell the latest weapons to Japan and the south Korean puppets in a more undisguised way:
Recently, the U.S. decided to sell 400 Tomahawk cruise missiles and associated equipment to Japan.
Besides, it decided to offer the south Korean puppets the astronomical worth of cutting-edge lethal weapons, including 25 F-35 stealth fighters, 36 SM-6 ship-to-air interceptors and 42 AIM-9X Sidewinder air-to-air missiles, and stroke the "security of supply arrangement" with the south Korean puppet military with the aim of quickening the supply of munitions.
The weapons, which the U.S. planned to offer its military allied forces in the region, are offensive ones as their range exceeds the sphere of the Korean peninsula in view of their operational and tactical features. Therefore, it is obvious who will be targeted and attacked.
The U.S. planned sale of weapons is a risky attempt to fuel the military tensions of the Korean peninsula and the Northeast Asian region and cause another arms race.
While creating constant instability in the region of the Korean peninsula through the visible increase of nuclear strategic assets and aggressive large-scale joint military drills, the U.S. pushes ahead with rearming Japan and the south Korean puppets. The present situation shows that threat to the peace and stability of the Korean peninsula has come from the U.S. and its followers.
The U.S. irresponsible offer of murderous weapons is a crime of exporting confrontation and war in a bid to sustain its unchallenged position at the cost of destroying world peace and stability.
The U.S. administration argues that its weapon sale will not change the military balance of the region, but bloody unrest has been witnessed wherever the U.S.-made weapons came, including the European continent and the Middle East region. This foretells a grave military and political situation to come to the Korean peninsula before long.
The unilateral arms buildup beyond self-defense is sure to incite others to beef up their military forces to respond to such military move.
We warn the U.S. that the bigger profit it makes through the reckless weapon sale, the worse security crisis it will suffer.
The DPRK will further step up the building up of war deterrent for enhancing its national strategic safety and powerfully controlling and managing the regional situation to cope with the instability of the Korean peninsula caused by the military conspiracy and collusion of the U.S. and its followers and their transaction of lethal war equipment.
Space Militarization Can Never Be Justified: DPRK Researcher
Pyongyang, November 21 (KCNA) -- Ri Song Jin, a researcher of the National Aerospace Technology Administration of the DPRK, on Tuesday released the following commentary titled "Any space militarization move aimed at preemptive strike can be justified with nothing":
The U.S. and its followers are further pushing ahead with their scheme to round off a satellite monitoring system on the strategic objects of the DPRK and its neighboring countries.
The puppet south Korean Defense Ministry recently announced that its first military spy satellite would be launched at the Vandenberg space force base in California on Nov. 30.
As officially recognized by the south Korean puppets, the above-said satellite launch is a part of the extremely dangerous military provocations to increase the capability for monitoring the strategic objects of the DPRK in depth and make a preemptive attack in case of emergency.
The puppet forces are now advertising that the U.S. Space X has planned to launch their five military spy satellites by 2025, boasting that such launch would help drastically bolster the capability of Kill Chain for preemptive strike.
This made it clearer that the spy satellite network to be developed and run by the puppet forces is not the defensive one for coping with "missile threats" from someone but the offensive one for their realization of aggression war.
The Japanese reactionaries, too, announced a plan to additionally secure four spy satellites by 2029 with the launch of a satellite for information gathering on January 11 next year as the start.
What is graver is the fact that such space militarization moves of the south Korean puppet forces and the Japanese reactionaries are being staged under the active patronage of the U.S.
During his recent junket to the region of south Korean puppets, the U.S. secretary of Defense summoned his stooges to scheme out the operation of the tripartite real-time missile warning data sharing system within the year and decided to involve the puppet forces in the U.S. early warning satellite system.
This has made the existing two-way system of sharing missile warning data between the U.S. and Japan, between the U.S. and the south Korean puppet forces and between Japan and the south Korean puppet forces develop into an isosceles triangle-style system with the U.S. as its angular point.
Clear is the intention of the U.S. hastening on a full scale the completion of satellite monitoring system in the region in collusion with its stooges. It is to increase the effectiveness and reliability of missile defense system by boosting the capability of intelligence gathering from regional countries, and thus take a strategic superiority over the DPRK, China and Russia.
In view of the fact that in a modern war the information warfare by reconnaissance is both a primary process for war preparations and a prerequisite on which depends the victory of war, it is full of suggestions from the U.S.-led moves for space militarization being intensified in the Korean peninsula.
The U.S. and its vassal forces' serious moves for space militarization are extremely unstable provocations escalating the arms race in the region and intensely damaging the global strategic equilibrium and security structure.
Nothing can justify the dangerous scheme of the U.S. and its allied forces to use the entire outer space as an aggressive war means for carrying out their strategy for world domination while openly calling for possible preemptive strike on someone.
The reality goes to prove that the possession of practical and effective capabilities of space-based reconnaissance and surveillance to cope with the hostile forces' moves for space militarization is an important way for exercising the war deterrent more clearly and promoting the strategic security balance in the region.
The U.S. and its vassal forces' reckless space militarization compels the DPRK to put more spurs to the space development for self-defense including the development of military reconnaissance satellite.
It is the DPRK's sovereign right no one can deny to bolster up its defense capabilities for protecting the national strategic security and interests and ensuring the regional peace and security so as to cope with the U.S.-led expansion of space monitoring system and missile defense system which are being integrated into dangerous offensive forces with the passage of time.
Children Reflect the Future
Today is World Children’s Day.
The UN General Assembly at its 9th Session in December 1954 designated November 20 as World Children’s Day with the purpose of exerting greater efforts for children’s rights and wellbeing.
Rise and fall of a country and nation depend on the destiny of their younger generation. So all the countries regard it as legal and moral duty of the state and society to protect children and ensure their rights. And social measures taken for children have become one of important criteria for evaluating the level of civilization of a given country and its human rights situation.
Now in the DPRK, under the warm care of respected Comrade Kim Jong Un who is the supreme incarnation of the love for the future, new stories about love for the bright smile and happiness of younger generation are told every day.
Respected Comrade Kim Jong Un said that if the new generation born on this land are well fed and raised healthy in a good environment from childhood, our society will be brimming over with as much vim and vigor in 20 or 30 years’ time and the national power of our Republic will gain in strength. He considers it to be the policy of greatest importance and cherished desire of the Party and state to bring up children to be strong and sound.
The guidance of respected Comrade Kim Jong Un gave rise to many palaces for children like the Okryu Children’s Hospital, baby homes, children’s homes, primary and secondary boarding schools. Also, the Mangyongdae School Children's Palace and the Songdowon International Children’s Camp have been refurbished in a modern style.
Many emotional events took place even amid the scarcity of many things: the universal 12-year compulsory education system was introduced and the grand meeting of children was held with splendor as an important state event.
As such, respected Comrade Kim Jong Un spares nothing for posterity and constantly gives them warm affection and love that cannot be compared to that of parents. As we hold respected Comrade Kim Jong Un in high esteem, our children are growing up strong with all blessings.
When we look around the globe, however, we witness the heart-breaking reality where many children wither away even before reaching their prime, being subjected to violence and maltreatment and falling victim to all sorts of social evils, immorality and depravity.
In Japan, the number of child abuses and suicides committed by schoolchildren of all ages is at an all-time high, and an unending series of inhuman acts are being committed like a mother killing her own baby with her own hands, which can be hardly imagined by a mother.
Meanwhile, in the U.S., where they clamor for human rights and advocate modern civilization, minors fall into bottomless pit of fraud, deception, depravity and dissoluteness before they grow up. And it is a daily occurrence that the minors commit all kinds of crimes including murder and incendiary.
Worse still, child trafficking and child forced labor have become a commonplace in this country.
The happy children of the DPRK enjoy all blessings in the world without any gloomy look on their faces. However, children in the capitalist societies fade away even before coming into bud. The sharp contrast between these images of children makes us realize the true meaning that flowers come into full bloom only under the bright sun.
Guarantee of Bright Future
November 20 is the day when the Convention on the Rights of the Child was adopted.
How we love children and how we protect their rights: This is not a matter restricted to individual families but a matter of vital importance that has a direct bearing on the development and future of respective countries and nations, and those of humankind in the long run.
Today, our country has set it as the most important national policy to give priority to affairs related to children and to ensure their rights and interests on a preferential basis.
The DPRK Law on the Protection and Promotion of Children’s Rights legally guarantees that the best things are allocated first and foremost to the promotion of health, and intellectual and moral education of children as well as their life necessities with the noble concept and ideal of “Children deserve the best”. With the legal guarantee in place, the system of nursing and upbringing of preschool children at the state and social expenses has been established, and thanks to the universal compulsory 12-year education system, all children are learning to their hearts’ content, giving full play to their potential.
Furthermore, supply of dairy products and other nutrients to all children across the country has been formulated as a major policy of the government of the Republic and its implementation is guaranteed by the state law. National investment to the education sector is also on the systematic increase.
At the same time, under the universal free medical care system, the state covers all costs related to prevention and treatment of diseases among children.
The happy faces of our children growing up happy enjoying all the benefits of considerate care and protection of the Party and the state are evoking envy and admiration of the world people.
At the 11th Global Festival of Journalism NOIDA 2023 held in India in February this year, the documentary “Children’s dreams and mothers’ happiness” won the award of distinction as it depicted the bright and delightful look of our children.
The Director of the International Chamber of Media and Literature and Art Industry of India, the host of the festival, expressed his excitement saying that he felt the noble spirit and patriotism in the Korean people; he could tell that the Korean people set a great store by posterity and also aspire after brighter future through the naive and innocent demeanor of the Korean children and the love and devotion of their mothers for them.
In May, the International Creation Festival “Children to children - 2023” was held in Krasnoyarsk City, Russia. At this festival, many people spared no praise for the paintings presented by our children, saying that they were indescribably charmed by Korean children’s paintings as they reflect their love for fatherland, and that they got to have a better understanding of Korea where teachers train children into versatile talents.
All things come to life under the warmth of the sun. Likewise, our children are growing up healthy into the pillars and future masters of the country, exercising their rights to their hearts’ content under the warm care and love of respected Comrade Kim Jong Un who spares nothing for the happy laughter of our children.
Two Contrasting Realities Seen Through Housing
A European organization released a report on the dire housing situation in Europe in September.
The report shows that as many as 895,000 homeless people are living on the streets or in emergency shelters in Paris, Barcelona, Dublin and other cities in Europe.
It added that the number of those wandering the streets of Europe every night equals that of the population of Marseilles of France or Torino of Italy.
Saying that housing is one of the biggest challenges in Europe, a senior official of the organization lamented that the world’s richest countries fail to effectively solve the housing issue.
This is no more than an example showing the reality of European countries facing a serious challenge of insufficient houses for the people, an essential part of their life.
In striking contrast to this, new streets which provide our people with homes of happiness are mushrooming in the DPRK, thanks to the lofty intention of the Workers’ Party of Korea (WPK) which regards it as its most important task and long-cherished desire to improve people’s well-being.
By the noble love of respected Comrade Kim Jong Un who is committed to providing citizens with more stable and civilized living conditions, ten thousand houses are newly built every year in Pyongyang, bringing an unbelievable reality where ordinary people are given excellent homes free of charge.
Happy faces of our agricultural workers moving into model rural villages of the new century are seen every day on TV, radio and in newspapers, adding to the happiness of all people.
The country where housing issue is completely solved – this is the ideal and goal pursued by our motherly Party whose love for the people is being materialized. This miraculous reality of the DPRK cannot be even imitated in capitalist countries, where money decides everything.