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No 54/24
1. Respected Comrade Kim Jong Un Visits Kumsusan Palace of Sun 2. Spokesman for DPRK Foreign Ministry Issues Press Statement
Respected Comrade Kim Jong Un Visits Kumsusan Palace of Sun Pyongyang, December 18 (KCNA) -- All the people across the DPRK are most reverently honouring the memory of Chairman Kim Jong Il, missing him more greatly with the passage of time, on the occasion of the 13th anniversary of demise of the leader, who dedicated his whole life to the accomplishment of the revolutionary cause of Juche holding aloft the red flag of Paektu. 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, visited the Kumsusan Palace of the Sun on December 17. Accompanying him were Kim Tok Hun, Jo Yong Won, Choe Ryong Hae and Ri Pyong Chol, members of the Presidium of the Political Bureau of the WPK Central Committee, other senior officials of the Party and the government, officials of the WPK Central Committee, leading officials of commissions and ministries and commanding officers of the armed forces organs. The Kumsusan Palace of the Sun, where the eternal leaders of our dignified Party, state and people lie in state, was wrapped in a solemnest atmosphere. A flower basket in the name of the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un was laid before the statues of President Kim Il Sung and Chairman Kim Jong Il. Also laid were the flower baskets in the name of the WPK Central Committee, the DPRK State Affairs Commission, the Standing Committee of the DPRK Supreme People's Assembly and the DPRK Cabinet. Kim Jong Un, together with other visitors, made a bow before the statues. At the hall, where the Chairman lies in state, he paid high tribute to the Chairman, praying for his immortality. All the visitors made a firm pledge to add eternal lustre to the new chapter of comprehensive development of the state by steadily bringing about epoch-making transformations and rejuvenation on all fronts of socialist construction, upholding single-mindedly the ideology and guidance of Kim Jong Un with pure loyalty.
Spokesman for DPRK Foreign Ministry Issues Press Statement Pyongyang, December 19 (KCNA) -- A spokesman for the Foreign Ministry of the DPRK released the following press statement titled "We will not impose any restrictions on defending and exercising the legitimate right granted to our sovereign state" on Dec. 19: Recently the U.S., together with G7 member states, the ROK, Australia, New Zealand and EU, cooked up and released a "joint statement" distorting and slandering the essence of the normal cooperative relations between the DPRK and the Russian Federation, getting hell-bent on creating the international atmosphere of sanctions and pressure on the DPRK. The hostile act of the U.S. and its vassal forces constitutes a serious threat undermining the foundation of international peace and security, which goes beyond a politically-motivated provocation wantonly infringing upon the sovereignty of sovereign states. The DPRK Foreign Ministry expresses serious concern and protest, denouncing and rejecting in the strongest terms the reckless provocation of the U.S. and its vassal forces, which have turned into a group of gangsters flouting the recognized principle of international law with sovereignty equality and noninterference in others' internal affairs as the core in a bid to secure their illegal hegemony and interests. The Ukrainian war has been prolonged and the security situation in Europe and the Asia-Pacific region has become more unstable. It is because of the misguided acts of the U.S. and the West persisting in their structure-destructive, hegemony-oriented and adventuristic military policy and policy of exclusive alliance. It is necessary to take notice of this - who gains profits and who suffers harm due to the "diplomatic legacy" of the outgoing U.S. administration leaving the arena of history in shame. The hostile forces' madness in response to the DPRK-Russia relations goes to prove that the strengthened cooperative relations between independent sovereign states are very effective in deterring the U.S. and the West's ill-intended extension of influence and ensuring the balance of power indispensable for defending global peace and security. The U.S. and its allies' threatening acts of causing instability and confusion in different parts of the world to fulfil their illegitimate and outrageous geopolitical ambition only add new justification and motive power to the DPRK's bolstering of its national power to more reliably guarantee the national security and global peace. If the U.S. persists in resorting to its anachronistic scenario in disregard of the changed reality, it will only bring to it repeated failures in dealing with the DPRK and a new source of trouble. The improper behavior of some Western countries, accustomed to being satisfied with the incidental interests resulting from their blind kowtowing to the U.S. and devoid of even the elementary courtesy in relations between countries, can never be welcomed by the DPRK. The DPRK will firmly safeguard its legitimate right as a sovereign state, put no restrictions on exercising it and continue to make crucial efforts to preserve regional and global peace and security.
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