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1. Respected Comrade Kim Jong Un Visits April 25 Hostel to Learn about Preparations for Education
2. Press Statement of Institute for American Studies of DPRK Foreign Ministry
Respected Comrade Kim Jong Un Visits April 25 Hostel to Learn about Preparations for Education
Pyongyang, August 17 (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, visited the April 25 Hostel on August 16 to learn about the preparations for the education of pupils from the flood-hit areas.
He was accompanied by Jo Yong Won, Pak Jong Chon and Pak Thae Song, secretaries of the Central Committee of the WPK, and Ju Chang Il and Han Kwang Sang, department directors of the Central Committee of the WPK.
According to the arrangement by the WPK Central Committee, some rooms in the April 25 Hostel have been turned into temporary classrooms for those pupils, a mobile educational group comprising teachers of preschool educational institutions, primary and middle schools in Pyongyang was formed, and preparations for new- term teaching are being made in real earnest.
The respected Comrade Kim Jong Un arrived at the April 25 Hostel and watched a demonstration lesson for a class of primary school pupils, which was organized as part of the preparations for new-term teaching of the pupils.
He acquainted himself in detail with the provision of educational equipment and school fixtures and saw school things for the pupils.
Watching with a broad smile on his face the pupils from various regions, who were engrossed in class, he said that he was proud that the Party Central Committee had made a prompt and correct decision to take measures for provisional education of children and pupils from the flood-hit areas and enforced it, and that we had taken very important steps even during the rehabilitation project in order to give the field of education and the whole society once again a correct understanding of the importance of the education of the rising generation.
Looking round temporary classrooms for junior and senior middle school pupils in the hostel, he earnestly called for paying special attention and sincerity to the pupils so that they can attend to their studies with diligence as all of them, who are to study there are children the people in the flood-hit areas left in the care of the Party and the government, placing their wholehearted trust in them.
Then he talked with the accompanying officials about the development of the country’s education.
The qualifications of teachers decide the quality of education, the proper growth of students is achieved according to the quality of education, and this is directly related to the advance speed and prospects of the country, he noted, adding that a radical improvement in education is, in essence, a radical improvement in teachers’ qualifications and a basic issue arising in giving full play to the advantages of the Korean-style educational policy. And he stressed the need to conduct a dynamic nationwide campaign to raise the qualifications of teachers of schools and kindergartens and thus firmly guarantee the eternal prosperity of the country.
It is the steadfast goal and invariable will of the Party to turn the country into a developed country in education, a talent power, that grows prosperous and strong by dint of education, he said, adding that everyone should always make painstaking and consistent efforts for the development of education and that the trait of attaching
importance to education and actively supporting it by the entire Party, state and society should be developed into part of the national traits peculiar to our state.
He said that education is an important undertaking for ensuring steady continuity of the generations of the Korean revolution and promoting the development of the country, stressing once again that the development of the country and the future of the revolution depends on how the younger generation is educated, so the Party and the government should not neglect the education of the rising generation even for a moment, no matter how difficult it may be. He continued that the Party would discuss the important issues arising in further consolidating the material and technical foundations of the educational field and putting the overall educational work on a new high and take strong measures to this end.
At a resting site at the hostel he met the schoolchildren from the flood-hit areas, who were provided with the new school uniforms and school things.
He helped them shoulder their schoolbags, and said with satisfaction that in new school uniforms they all look smart, and that their mothers who came up to Pyongyang with them would feel pleased. Then, he earnestly requested the schoolchildren to study harder and train themselves to bring delight to their families and country.
He stressed the need to make the children study well during the recovery from flood damage and properly arrange diverse schedules for experiencing so that they can bring back the days of their stay in Pyongyang as unforgettable and pleasant memories all their life.
He said he was very pleased to see the cheerful children in new school uniforms, adding that the children’s laughter is the dynamic breath and vibrant spirit of the advancing country and a symbol of the mightiness of the Korean-style socialism. He wished them a happy future.
Thanks to the benevolent care of the great father, who cherishes the absolute creed that he should pick even a star from heaven for the younger generation, only a happy smile will always spread on the faces of the children and the bell of learning to bring up the future of the prosperous country will resound far and wide on this land.
Press Statement of Institute for American Studies of DPRK Foreign
Ministry
Pyongyang, August 18 (KCNA) -- The Institute for American Studies of the Foreign Ministry of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea released the following press statement "To bolster up self-defensive power for defending security environment of Korean peninsula and region is urgent requirement of times" on August 18:
The U.S. and the ROK are going to stage Ulji Freedom Shield, large-scale provocative joint military exercises, from August 19 to 29.
Even vassal countries affiliated to the "UN Command" will reportedly take part in the exercises involving 48 rounds of various outdoor mobile training such as live firing and landing drills on the ground and in the sea and sky.
Thus, Ulji Freedom Shield fully betrays its dangerous colors as the biggest military training in the Asia-Pacific region and offensive multinational muscle- flexing involving even NATO member states.
The Institute for American Studies of the Foreign Ministry of the DPRK makes public this press statement to disclose the rash confrontational moves of the U.S. and the ROK escalating regional military confrontation and contradiction by kicking off such aggressive large-scale joint military exercises despite strong internal and external opposition.
Is Ulji Freedom Shield "defensive" and "transparent"
A spokesperson for the U.S. Department of State recently termed the U.S.-ROK joint military exercises "regular" and "defensive", touting their "transparency."
This is no more than rhetoric to cover up the dangerous and grave nature of their joint military drills and evade international community's criticism.
It is clearly recorded in the world history of wars that in preparation for a war, aggressor states followed a series of procedures, including adoption of war policy and military operation plan for its execution, advance deployment of forces, ceaseless simulated and actual war drills and war provocation.
The current U.S. administration has more openly pursued the policy of using nuclear weapons against the DPRK by specifying the "end of regime" of the latter as a goal in its "nuclear posture review" made public after its inauguration. It has put into practice its nuclear confrontation policy against the DPRK by releasing the "Washington Declaration", establishing a new U.S.-ROK "nuclear consultative group" and cooking up the "guidelines on nuclear strategic plan and its operation."
According to them, nuclear-powered submarines of the U.S. frequented the waters near the Korean peninsula in 2023, seven times as much as in 2022, and the number of flights of its fighters and bombers in the sky above it has quadrupled.
Against this backdrop, nuclear carrier strike groups are being deployed there one after another along with massive introduction of U.S. latest war hardware such as F- 35 stealth fighters and SM-6 ship-to-air interceptor missiles into the ROK.
F-16 fighters, which had been stationed in the Kunsan air base, were transferred to the Osan air base near Seoul to form a "super-powerful wing." And U.S. offensive military assets are concentrated on areas near the southern border of the DPRK.
Worse still, the number of outdoor mobile training, staged as part of Ulji Freedom Shield, increased to 38 in 2023 and 48 in 2024, and has turned into provocative special warfare ones, the keynote of which are "occupation of Pyongyang" and "beheading operation."
Notably, the above-mentioned military exercises, including a drill simulating a nuclear confrontation with the DPRK, bring to light clearer the provocative nature of Ulji Freedom Shield as a prelude to a nuclear war.
"Transparency" of the joint military drills touted by the U.S. is no more than trickery to deceive the international community.
Most of the countries, which are to "observe" whether the U.S.-ROK joint military exercises are staged in conformity with the requirements of the Korean Armistice Agreement, are member states of the "UN Command" or NATO member states under the control of the U.S. So it is clearly evident that it is utterly impossible to expect any neutrality or impartiality from them.
All facts prove that Ulji Freedom Shield is neither "defensive" nor "transparent" but the most offensive and provocative war drills for aggression in the world.
What impact have the U.S.-led joint military exercises had on international peace and stability
It is the typical method of the U.S. to pursue its unilateral and absolute security by infringing upon other countries' security and interests.
It is clearly evidenced by the fact that the U.S. and its vassal countries have staged more than 200 joint military drills in different parts of the world annually and they have become more threatening in their nature.
As for RIMPAC kicked off in 1971 against the former Soviet Union, the joint military maneuvers didn't disappear despite the end of the Soviet-U.S. Cold War but have developed into the world's biggest multinational maritime joint military drills under the pretext of "defeating" new "virtual enemy."
From late July to early August this year, RIMPAC was staged in the largest- scale ever, involving 40 warships, three submarines, 150-odd aircraft and 25 000 troops from 29 countries.
International security experts unanimously commented that the forms and contents of RIMPAC clearly prove that they are aimed at laying siege to and deter China.
U.S.-led joint military drills are being staged frequently also in the European region, distressed by the world's worst-ever security crisis brought by the Ukrainian situation, to spark off great concern of the international community.
The U.S.-led joint military exercises Steadfast Defender were staged in the largest scale ever since the end of the Cold War near the border of Russia from January to May this year with the involvement of more than 90 000 forces, at least 50 warships including aircraft carriers, 80-odd fighter jets and over 1 100 combat vehicles.
The exercises, aimed at restoring the ever-dampening atmosphere of supporting Ukraine among European countries and inducing NATO member states to increase military expenditure, fully show the hostile intention of the U.S. to militarily deter Russia and seize military hegemony in the region.
It is the fact never to be concealed and denied that the U.S.-led joint military drills are the grave root cause of escalating military confrontation and causing unabated instability across the world.
What is the best way to ensure peace and stability
Shortly ago, the U.S. secretaries of State and Defense and the assistant to the president for National Security of the White House, in an article they jointly contributed to the press, betrayed the sinister intention to seize military hegemony in the Asia-Pacific region by inveigling not only regional vassal countries including Japan and the ROK but also countries outside the region.
This shows that the U.S.-led joint military drills have nothing to do with "preserving regional security" touted by it and its allied forces but serve as a political and military means to take more countries on the confrontation chariot driven by it to realize its hegemony.
Actually, major NATO members are taking part in the U.S.-ROK joint military exercises recently under the signboard of member states of the "UN Command" and the military nexus between Japan, the ROK and NATO is getting further tightened.
The U.S., which included in its defense budgets the "Pacific deterrence plan" of drastically reinforcing its military presence in the Indo-Pacific region in recently years, has annually increased the allotment for carrying it out. This predicts that the
U.S. and its vassal countries would more openly engage in military intervention in the Korean peninsula and its vicinity.
The prevailing situation requires the independent and sovereign states to constantly maintain the balance of power for preventing a war by stockpiling the greatest deterrence for guaranteeing their sovereignty, security and interests in every way in the current and future uncertain security environment.
The more frequently the U.S. and its vassal countries commit collective military provocations, the stronger the deterrence of justice for neutralizing the threat from them and ensuring regional and global peace and stability will become.
We will continue to make crucial efforts to build up strong defence capabilities for creditably defending our state sovereignty, security, interests and territorial
integrity and change the security environment of the Korean peninsula and the region in our favour.
2. Press Statement of Institute for American Studies of DPRK Foreign Ministry
Respected Comrade Kim Jong Un Visits April 25 Hostel to Learn about Preparations for Education
Pyongyang, August 17 (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, visited the April 25 Hostel on August 16 to learn about the preparations for the education of pupils from the flood-hit areas.
He was accompanied by Jo Yong Won, Pak Jong Chon and Pak Thae Song, secretaries of the Central Committee of the WPK, and Ju Chang Il and Han Kwang Sang, department directors of the Central Committee of the WPK.
According to the arrangement by the WPK Central Committee, some rooms in the April 25 Hostel have been turned into temporary classrooms for those pupils, a mobile educational group comprising teachers of preschool educational institutions, primary and middle schools in Pyongyang was formed, and preparations for new- term teaching are being made in real earnest.
The respected Comrade Kim Jong Un arrived at the April 25 Hostel and watched a demonstration lesson for a class of primary school pupils, which was organized as part of the preparations for new-term teaching of the pupils.
He acquainted himself in detail with the provision of educational equipment and school fixtures and saw school things for the pupils.
Watching with a broad smile on his face the pupils from various regions, who were engrossed in class, he said that he was proud that the Party Central Committee had made a prompt and correct decision to take measures for provisional education of children and pupils from the flood-hit areas and enforced it, and that we had taken very important steps even during the rehabilitation project in order to give the field of education and the whole society once again a correct understanding of the importance of the education of the rising generation.
Looking round temporary classrooms for junior and senior middle school pupils in the hostel, he earnestly called for paying special attention and sincerity to the pupils so that they can attend to their studies with diligence as all of them, who are to study there are children the people in the flood-hit areas left in the care of the Party and the government, placing their wholehearted trust in them.
Then he talked with the accompanying officials about the development of the country’s education.
The qualifications of teachers decide the quality of education, the proper growth of students is achieved according to the quality of education, and this is directly related to the advance speed and prospects of the country, he noted, adding that a radical improvement in education is, in essence, a radical improvement in teachers’ qualifications and a basic issue arising in giving full play to the advantages of the Korean-style educational policy. And he stressed the need to conduct a dynamic nationwide campaign to raise the qualifications of teachers of schools and kindergartens and thus firmly guarantee the eternal prosperity of the country.
It is the steadfast goal and invariable will of the Party to turn the country into a developed country in education, a talent power, that grows prosperous and strong by dint of education, he said, adding that everyone should always make painstaking and consistent efforts for the development of education and that the trait of attaching
importance to education and actively supporting it by the entire Party, state and society should be developed into part of the national traits peculiar to our state.
He said that education is an important undertaking for ensuring steady continuity of the generations of the Korean revolution and promoting the development of the country, stressing once again that the development of the country and the future of the revolution depends on how the younger generation is educated, so the Party and the government should not neglect the education of the rising generation even for a moment, no matter how difficult it may be. He continued that the Party would discuss the important issues arising in further consolidating the material and technical foundations of the educational field and putting the overall educational work on a new high and take strong measures to this end.
At a resting site at the hostel he met the schoolchildren from the flood-hit areas, who were provided with the new school uniforms and school things.
He helped them shoulder their schoolbags, and said with satisfaction that in new school uniforms they all look smart, and that their mothers who came up to Pyongyang with them would feel pleased. Then, he earnestly requested the schoolchildren to study harder and train themselves to bring delight to their families and country.
He stressed the need to make the children study well during the recovery from flood damage and properly arrange diverse schedules for experiencing so that they can bring back the days of their stay in Pyongyang as unforgettable and pleasant memories all their life.
He said he was very pleased to see the cheerful children in new school uniforms, adding that the children’s laughter is the dynamic breath and vibrant spirit of the advancing country and a symbol of the mightiness of the Korean-style socialism. He wished them a happy future.
Thanks to the benevolent care of the great father, who cherishes the absolute creed that he should pick even a star from heaven for the younger generation, only a happy smile will always spread on the faces of the children and the bell of learning to bring up the future of the prosperous country will resound far and wide on this land.
Press Statement of Institute for American Studies of DPRK Foreign
Ministry
Pyongyang, August 18 (KCNA) -- The Institute for American Studies of the Foreign Ministry of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea released the following press statement "To bolster up self-defensive power for defending security environment of Korean peninsula and region is urgent requirement of times" on August 18:
The U.S. and the ROK are going to stage Ulji Freedom Shield, large-scale provocative joint military exercises, from August 19 to 29.
Even vassal countries affiliated to the "UN Command" will reportedly take part in the exercises involving 48 rounds of various outdoor mobile training such as live firing and landing drills on the ground and in the sea and sky.
Thus, Ulji Freedom Shield fully betrays its dangerous colors as the biggest military training in the Asia-Pacific region and offensive multinational muscle- flexing involving even NATO member states.
The Institute for American Studies of the Foreign Ministry of the DPRK makes public this press statement to disclose the rash confrontational moves of the U.S. and the ROK escalating regional military confrontation and contradiction by kicking off such aggressive large-scale joint military exercises despite strong internal and external opposition.
Is Ulji Freedom Shield "defensive" and "transparent"
A spokesperson for the U.S. Department of State recently termed the U.S.-ROK joint military exercises "regular" and "defensive", touting their "transparency."
This is no more than rhetoric to cover up the dangerous and grave nature of their joint military drills and evade international community's criticism.
It is clearly recorded in the world history of wars that in preparation for a war, aggressor states followed a series of procedures, including adoption of war policy and military operation plan for its execution, advance deployment of forces, ceaseless simulated and actual war drills and war provocation.
The current U.S. administration has more openly pursued the policy of using nuclear weapons against the DPRK by specifying the "end of regime" of the latter as a goal in its "nuclear posture review" made public after its inauguration. It has put into practice its nuclear confrontation policy against the DPRK by releasing the "Washington Declaration", establishing a new U.S.-ROK "nuclear consultative group" and cooking up the "guidelines on nuclear strategic plan and its operation."
According to them, nuclear-powered submarines of the U.S. frequented the waters near the Korean peninsula in 2023, seven times as much as in 2022, and the number of flights of its fighters and bombers in the sky above it has quadrupled.
Against this backdrop, nuclear carrier strike groups are being deployed there one after another along with massive introduction of U.S. latest war hardware such as F- 35 stealth fighters and SM-6 ship-to-air interceptor missiles into the ROK.
F-16 fighters, which had been stationed in the Kunsan air base, were transferred to the Osan air base near Seoul to form a "super-powerful wing." And U.S. offensive military assets are concentrated on areas near the southern border of the DPRK.
Worse still, the number of outdoor mobile training, staged as part of Ulji Freedom Shield, increased to 38 in 2023 and 48 in 2024, and has turned into provocative special warfare ones, the keynote of which are "occupation of Pyongyang" and "beheading operation."
Notably, the above-mentioned military exercises, including a drill simulating a nuclear confrontation with the DPRK, bring to light clearer the provocative nature of Ulji Freedom Shield as a prelude to a nuclear war.
"Transparency" of the joint military drills touted by the U.S. is no more than trickery to deceive the international community.
Most of the countries, which are to "observe" whether the U.S.-ROK joint military exercises are staged in conformity with the requirements of the Korean Armistice Agreement, are member states of the "UN Command" or NATO member states under the control of the U.S. So it is clearly evident that it is utterly impossible to expect any neutrality or impartiality from them.
All facts prove that Ulji Freedom Shield is neither "defensive" nor "transparent" but the most offensive and provocative war drills for aggression in the world.
What impact have the U.S.-led joint military exercises had on international peace and stability
It is the typical method of the U.S. to pursue its unilateral and absolute security by infringing upon other countries' security and interests.
It is clearly evidenced by the fact that the U.S. and its vassal countries have staged more than 200 joint military drills in different parts of the world annually and they have become more threatening in their nature.
As for RIMPAC kicked off in 1971 against the former Soviet Union, the joint military maneuvers didn't disappear despite the end of the Soviet-U.S. Cold War but have developed into the world's biggest multinational maritime joint military drills under the pretext of "defeating" new "virtual enemy."
From late July to early August this year, RIMPAC was staged in the largest- scale ever, involving 40 warships, three submarines, 150-odd aircraft and 25 000 troops from 29 countries.
International security experts unanimously commented that the forms and contents of RIMPAC clearly prove that they are aimed at laying siege to and deter China.
U.S.-led joint military drills are being staged frequently also in the European region, distressed by the world's worst-ever security crisis brought by the Ukrainian situation, to spark off great concern of the international community.
The U.S.-led joint military exercises Steadfast Defender were staged in the largest scale ever since the end of the Cold War near the border of Russia from January to May this year with the involvement of more than 90 000 forces, at least 50 warships including aircraft carriers, 80-odd fighter jets and over 1 100 combat vehicles.
The exercises, aimed at restoring the ever-dampening atmosphere of supporting Ukraine among European countries and inducing NATO member states to increase military expenditure, fully show the hostile intention of the U.S. to militarily deter Russia and seize military hegemony in the region.
It is the fact never to be concealed and denied that the U.S.-led joint military drills are the grave root cause of escalating military confrontation and causing unabated instability across the world.
What is the best way to ensure peace and stability
Shortly ago, the U.S. secretaries of State and Defense and the assistant to the president for National Security of the White House, in an article they jointly contributed to the press, betrayed the sinister intention to seize military hegemony in the Asia-Pacific region by inveigling not only regional vassal countries including Japan and the ROK but also countries outside the region.
This shows that the U.S.-led joint military drills have nothing to do with "preserving regional security" touted by it and its allied forces but serve as a political and military means to take more countries on the confrontation chariot driven by it to realize its hegemony.
Actually, major NATO members are taking part in the U.S.-ROK joint military exercises recently under the signboard of member states of the "UN Command" and the military nexus between Japan, the ROK and NATO is getting further tightened.
The U.S., which included in its defense budgets the "Pacific deterrence plan" of drastically reinforcing its military presence in the Indo-Pacific region in recently years, has annually increased the allotment for carrying it out. This predicts that the
U.S. and its vassal countries would more openly engage in military intervention in the Korean peninsula and its vicinity.
The prevailing situation requires the independent and sovereign states to constantly maintain the balance of power for preventing a war by stockpiling the greatest deterrence for guaranteeing their sovereignty, security and interests in every way in the current and future uncertain security environment.
The more frequently the U.S. and its vassal countries commit collective military provocations, the stronger the deterrence of justice for neutralizing the threat from them and ensuring regional and global peace and stability will become.
We will continue to make crucial efforts to build up strong defence capabilities for creditably defending our state sovereignty, security, interests and territorial
integrity and change the security environment of the Korean peninsula and the region in our favour.