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No 92/23 November 27, 2023
1. Respected Comrade Kim Jong Un Visits NATA Pyongyang General Control Center to Learn about Operational Preparation of Reconnaissance Satellite
2. Respected Comrade Kim Jong Un Votes in Election of Deputies
3. Respected Comrade Kim Jong Un Gives Field Guidance to Ryongsong Machine Complex
4. Press Statement of Vice-Minister for Int'l Organizations of DPRK Foreign Ministry
5. American-style Gangster-like Doctrine Does Not Work on Korean Peninsula: KCNA Commentary
6. Wherein Lies the Root Causes of Social Instability?
Respected Comrade Kim Jong Un Visits NATA Pyongyang General Control Center to Learn about Operational Preparation of Reconnaissance Satellite
Pyongyang, November 25 (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 (DPRK), visited the Pyongyang General Control Center of the National Aerospace Technology Administration (NATA) on November 24 to review the operational preparation of the reconnaissance satellite and watched the aerospace photos taken on Friday.
He was accompanied by Kim Jong Sik, vice department director of the WPK Central Committee.
The NATA of the DPRK reported in detail to the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un on the fine-tuning process of 62 hours after the advance of the reconnaissance satellite into its orbit and the fulfillment of its present mission.
Kim Jong Un learned in detail about the photos of major target areas in the enemy region, including Mokpho, Kunsan, Phyongthaek, Osan and Seoul, and of various regions in the country, taken by the reconnaissance satellite while passing through the Korean Peninsula from 10:15 to 10:27 a.m. on Friday.
The NATA reported to him on the plan for photographing the enemy region and the additional fine-tuning process of the reconnaissance satellite on Saturday morning.
Respected Comrade Kim Jong Un Votes in Election of Deputies
Pyongyang, November 27 (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, attended the election of deputies to the provincial, city and county people's assemblies at the polling booth for the sub-constituency No. 26 of the constituency No. 55 in South Hamgyong Province on November 26.
When the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un arrived at the polling booth at the Ryongsong Machine Complex, the workers of the complex were excited to see him at their workplace on the significant day of election, raising stormy cheers of "Hurrah!".
Acknowledging their enthusiastic cheers, Kim Jong Un headed for the polling booth.
He was accompanied by Kim Tok Hun, Ri Il Hwan, O Su Yong, Kim Yo Jong and Hyon Song Wol.
He received voting cards from the chairperson of the sub-constituency committee and voted for Kim Chung Hyok, manager of the Songun Cast Iron Factory of the complex who is a candidate for deputy to the South Hamgyong Provincial People's Assembly, Ri Chol Hak, head of the Machine Workshop No. 3 of the complex who is a candidate for deputy to the Hamhung City People's Assembly, and Rim Chol, vice director of the Statistics Department of the Haean District who is a candidate for deputy to the Haean District People's Assembly of Hamhung City.
He met with the candidates for deputies and encouraged them to make positive contributions to building a thriving nation with high patriotic enthusiasm and creative efforts, always being aware of the trust of the workers of the complex and the people in Hamhung City and to become genuine representatives and true servants for the people who strive to defend and realize their rights, interests and requirements.
The workers of the complex and the people of Hamhung City were filled with ardent enthusiasm to fulfill their civic duty in the struggle to firmly consolidate our revolutionary power and make our socialist state centered on the popular masses more prosperous, cherishing the highest glory of participating in the election in the presence of Kim Jong Un.
Respected Comrade Kim Jong Un Gives Field Guidance to Ryongsong Machine Complex
Pyongyang, November 27 (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, gave field guidance to the Ryongsong Machine Complex on Sunday.
The respected Comrade Kim Jong Un was accompanied by Kim Tok Hun, Ri Il Hwan, O Su Yong, Kim Yo Jong and Hyon Song Wol.
He was guided by Ri Kyong Il, manager of the Ryongsong Machine Complex, and Jon In Chol, chief secretary of the complex Party committee.
With a single mind to repay with loyalty the great trust and expectations of the Party Central Committee which entrusted the production of custom-built equipment which is of great significance in the national economic development, the workers of complex are pushing ahead with the production of high-performance large compressors at the final stage by striving to implement the resolutions of the 6th Plenary Meeting of the 8th Party Central Committee.
Kim Jong Un looked round large compressors, the products of the revolutionary spirit of self-reliance and fortitude displayed by the workers of Ryongsong and their mass technological innovation, true to the idea of self-support set forth by the Party.
He expressed great satisfaction over the fact that the workers, scientists and technicians of the complex further doubled their confidence in their own strength and sci-tech abilities and dealt a heavy blow to defeatism and mysticism about technology through the production of the major custom-built equipment which would contribute to making our economy Juche-oriented.
Highly appreciating the spirit of the complex, a powerful enterprise, and its heroic tradition of devotedly implementing the Party's policies, he said that the whole country should learn from the spirit of advance and fighting mettle mounting in Ryongsong.
He indicated the orientation and ways for bringing the machine-building industry, which should lead and pull the overall economic sector in successfully fulfilling the five-year plan for national economic development, to the world level as early as possible, and set forth in detail important tasks facing the complex which would play a pivotal role in implementing them.
He expressed great expectation that the workers of Ryongsong, who have upheld our Party, our state and our system with great revolutionary upsurge in the grim annals of the revolution, would lead the overall development of socialist construction by creating the spirit of the new era, the Chollima spirit of the new era.
Upon receiving the warm love and trust shown by him, the officials and workers of the complex made a firm pledge to successfully finish the production of major custom-built equipment planned for this year by conducting a dynamic drive for creation and technology full of loyalty and patriotism and to make a report of victory to the 9th Plenary Meeting of the 8th Central Committee of the WPK.
Press Statement of Vice-Minister for Int'l Organizations of DPRK Foreign Ministry
Pyongyang, November 27 (KCNA) -- Kim Son Gyong, vice-minister for International Organizations of the Foreign Ministry of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), issued the following press statement on Monday:
The reason why the UN Security Council fails to fulfill its important duty to ensure global peace and security and get rid of its malfunction can be clearly seen in the "joint statement of 10 countries" issued by the U.S. and its followers.
The "joint statement," signed by some permanent member states of the UNSC gripped by extreme prejudice and double-standards and some UN member states accustomed to blindly follow the U.S. instruction instead of considering whether it is right or wrong, is nothing but a conspiratorial document without any effect in the light of international law and political influence.
The DPRK's reconnaissance satellite launch is a legitimate and just exercise of the right to self-defense aimed at correctly seeing through and thoroughly coping with the grave military moves of the U.S. and its followers, which are becoming more undisguised in their aggressive nature.
If the reconnaissance satellite "Malligyong-1" brought to space is a "threat" to the signatories of the "joint statement", are the nuclear carriers, nuclear strategic submarines and nuclear strategic bombers deployed on the doorstep of the DPRK by the U.S. 30-odd times this year "apostles of friendship and peace"?
Do the "ten countries", which accused the DPRK of using ballistic missile technology in launching the satellite, launch their satellites by rubber balloon or null gravity, not by a carrier rocket using the same technology as ballistic missile?
Such brigandish idea of the U.S. and its vassal forces that the DPRK is not allowed to exercise its due right to space exploration, a right belonging to all UN member states, is a typical expression of the most hideous and brazen-faced violation of sovereignty that denies the justification of the existence of the DPRK, before being the mere issue of partiality and double-standards.
Our stand is clear.
The U.S. finds its main interest and hobby in encroaching upon the sovereign rights of independent countries through high-handed practice and threat, but what the DPRK is interested in is its full exercise of the universal sovereign rights common to all countries like satellite launch.
No matter what critical statements and harshest-ever sanctions the U.S. and its vassal forces may issue or impose, they can neither check the DPRK's exercise of its sovereign rights nor get what they want.
To make it crystal-clear that the U.S. and the West's outrageous and illegal interference in the internal affairs of independent sovereign countries and employment of double-standards against them can never work, the DPRK will squarely, unhesitatingly and perfectly exercise its sovereign rights including satellite launch, and this will contribute to the establishment of a just and equal new international order.
If the U.S. and its vassal forces again seek to violate the sovereignty of the DPRK under the pretext of the utterly unlawful "resolution" of the UNSC, they will be held wholly accountable for any consequences to be entailed by it.
American-style Gangster-like Doctrine Does Not Work on Korean Peninsula: KCNA Commentary
Pyongyang, November 25 (KCNA) -- The U.S. is getting more frantic in its moves to sell ultra-modern weapons to the south Korean puppets than ever before.
Recently it decided to deliver to the puppet forces various kinds of ultra-modern lethal hardware of astronomical value, including 25 F-35 stealth fighters, 36 SM-6 ship-to-air interceptors and 42 AIM-9X Sidewinder air-to-air missiles.
Not content with this, the U.S. concluded a "security of supply arrangement" with the puppet military, aimed at rapidly providing war supplies, and thus seized the legal chain of holding the puppet forces more tightly under its military control and making them sacrifice for its unlimited greed.
It is well known to the world that the U.S. created disputes and hotspots in different parts of the world and massively introduced various kinds of lethal hardware to stack up blood-stained money.
However, the U.S. export of weapons to the puppet forces is not just for greedy and monetary purposes.
It is the sinister intention of the U.S. to arm the puppet forces with modern lethal weapons and use them as a shock brigade for carrying out its strategy against the DPRK and, furthermore, the U.S.-led "Indo-Pacific strategy" and thus hold military hegemony in the region and the rest of the world.
The fact that the weapons to be given to the puppet forces are offensive military hardware with a range far beyond the scope of the Korean peninsula in terms of operational and tactical characteristics highlights the aim sought by the U.S.
The U.S. has shown its card of selling ultra-modern weapons to the puppet forces, although it is in weak position due to the enormous assistance to the proxy wars in Europe and the Middle East. The aim sought by the U.S. is to ignite a new worldwide arms race with the Korean peninsula as a base and make the "rivals" including neighboring countries exhausted and thus maintain the collapsing "Unipolar World" at any cost.
After all, the U.S. sold its lethal equipment to gain a handsome profit and, at the same time, got a "running dog" to protect its "security", killing two birds with one stone.
In retrospect, the U.S. has "boasted" that even a bomb has not dropped on its land, although it made a big fortune in return for its crimes of destroying peace and security in different parts of the world.
But the U.S.-style gangster-like doctrine that the blood of others is its own money and doing harm to others leads to its "security" can never work on the Korean peninsula.
The U.S. and the puppet forces' farce of dealing in ultra-modern military hardware to turn the puppet region into the largest arsenal will only accelerate the DPRK's modernization of its strong army thousand times faster.
It is a fait accompli that a small spark on the Korean peninsula would lead to global thermonuclear war.
No one can vouch that the consequences will end up only by giving shame to the U.S. "pride".
The U.S. had better ponder over the catastrophic consequences to be entailed by the arms offer to the puppet forces.
Wherein Lies the Root Causes of Social Instability?
Since the outbreak of the Middle East crisis, anti-Israel protests are spreading in European countries. Against this backdrop, anti-Semitism and hate crimes against Muslims have become rampant, resulting in causing antagonism, hostility and disorder across the society.
The British newspaper “Independent” reported on November 18 that more than 100 rounds of protests were staged in all parts of Britain including the Prime Minister’s residence, calling for ceasefire in the Gaza Strip and that the major streets and places of Britain and Ireland are jammed with pro-Palestine protesters at every weekend.
The major press in Europe are carrying articles one after another that the flames of anti-Israel protests lit in Berlin with the Middle East crisis as an occasion are now spreading all across Europe.
BFM TV of France, BBC and Reuters of Britain and other media reported in succession that 400 more cases of crimes against Semitism have been committed as against the same period of last year in Britain where they have the second largest Jewish community after France and that the British authorities have allocated € 3.5 million to strengthen security in the places where Jews get together often. They also reported that Germany has recorded more than 1 800 cases of crimes against Semitism.
Meanwhile, the Ministry of the Interior of France released a report to the effect that the number of crimes against Semitism has increased twice as many as last year since the October 7 crisis in the Middle East. According to the report, more than 1 150 crimes against Semitism have been recorded and about 500 have been arrested. The President of France also expressed concern that the Middle East crisis could lead to domestic violence in France.
In London alone, more than 100 hate crimes against Muslims have been recorded during the last 18 days after the outbreak of the Middle East crisis.
The Middle East crisis not only stirs up social panic and anxiety in the European countries but also has a great impact on political situation at home.
The BBC and other major media of the UK reported that dispute between the leader of the Labor Party and several MPs over the issue of implementing ceasefire in the Gaza Strip has become more and more acrimonious, creating great distress to the former which was confident of victory in the parliamentary election next year.
With the parliamentary election just ahead, the coalition parties in the Netherlands, i.e. Labor Party and Green Left were engaged in the heated debate over the attitude towards the Middle East crisis.
This resulted in the leader of Green Left giving up his candidacy.
The major Western media and analysts argued that the armed conflict between Palestine’s Hamas and Israel is stirring up extreme anxiety and fear within the European countries and posing threats to stability and security in Europe.
They are unanimously commenting that the root causes lie in the erroneous Middle East policy of the West.