No 44/25
June 16, 2025
1. Respected Comrade Kim Jong
Un Gives Field Guidance at Major Munitions Industry Enterprise
2. Press Statement by
Director of Institute for Japan Studies under DPRK Foreign Ministry
Respected Comrade Kim Jong Un Gives Field Guidance at Major
Munitions Industry Enterprise
Pyongyang, June 14 (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 at a major munitions industry enterprise on June 13.
Also visiting the enterprise were Jo
Yong Won, Kim Tok Hun, Ri Hi Yong, O Su Yong, Kim Jong Sik and other leading
officials of the WPK Central Committee, No Kwang Chol, minister of National
Defence of the DPRK, Choe Son Hui, foreign minister, Ko Pyong Hyon, chairman of
the Second Economy Commission, Kim Yong Hwan, president of the Academy of
Defence Sciences, commanding officers of the large combined units of the Korean
People’s Army and chief secretaries of the provincial committees of the
WPK.
Making the rounds of various production
sites of the enterprise, including press, spinning and assembly workshops, the
respected Comrade Kim Jong Un learned in detail about shell production,
capacity expansion and modernization projects in the first half of 2025.
He expressed great satisfaction over the
high enthusiasm for patriotic deeds and struggle displayed by the workers at
the enterprise, who are kindling the fierce flames of innovation by turning out
as one in the drive to greet the 80th founding anniversary of the WPK and the
Ninth Congress of the WPK with a proud success of increased military hardware
production.
He praised the successes in the
development of the enterprise, which has modernized itself on a high level by
making a reasonable redistribution of the overall production lines in hearty
response to the plan of the Party Central Committee on rapidly developing our
defence industry into a world-class, advanced industry. He underscored the need
to set development-oriented goals in order to meet the long-term demands of the
developing national defence capabilities, and set forth new tasks to be carried
out by the enterprise.
In order to satisfy all the requirements
of the national defence strategy and increase the output of new-type powerful
shells to meet the requirements of modern warfare, it is necessary to further
expand and reinforce the production capacity, arrange the production lines more
reasonably and steadily raise the level of putting production on an unmanned
footing, he said and advanced the tasks to this end.
The visitors accompanying him
appreciated the cultured way of living of the workers in the munitions industry
while looking round the ideological education bases in the educational district
of the enterprise where landscaping has been realized on a high level, and a
hall of culture, comprehensive neighbourhood-serving amenities, modern
childcare facilities and cosy houses in the living district of the workers.
Press Statement by Director of Institute for Japan Studies under
DPRK Foreign Ministry
Pyongyang, June 16 (KCNA) -- The
director of the Institute for Japan Studies under the DPRK Foreign Ministry on
Sunday issued the following press statement titled "It is the inevitable
moral responsibility and international legal obligation of Japan, a war
criminal state, to face up to the history and liquidate its past":
80 years have passed since the Japanese
imperialists, who had stained the continent of Asia with blood and imposed
unprecedented misfortune upon the peoples of the regional countries, knelt down
and declared their unconditional surrender.
According to recent media, there are
conflicting opinions in Japan on the issue of making public the prime
minister's press statement over the past war of aggression on the day seeing
the 80 years after the defeat of the Japanese imperialism.
Conscientious organizations and
personages are demanding that the government clearly clarifies its stand on
apology at an important historical point and, on the other hand, the
ultra-right conservative politicians are quibbling that Japan wrote finis to
the "diplomacy of apology" with the Abe's press statement issued
after 70 years of the war.
What should not be overlooked is that
the present Japanese prime minister is taking a confused attitude in this
regard and is trying to patch up by making public his personal opinion through
the review of the Second World War.
The "war review" to be
conducted by Japan is not a verification of the aggressive war crimes committed
in the past but an extremely inessential and confused one like the
institutional issue that the government failed to prevent the military's
individual action and the circumstances that the military caused civilian
damage at the reckless war.
In particular, the prime minister said
at the Diet's discussion on the issue of the press statement some days ago that
the civilian control method in which the "officer of the Self-Defense
Forces" is not allowed to appear in the Diet under the present
constitutional law is called to account. His remarks reveal the sinister scheme
to pave the way for the legalization of the "Self-Defense Forces"
with the "war review".
In front of the international community,
Japan is trying to pass the 80 years of its defeat with specious words like
"war review" and "achievements as a peaceful state", while
talking about the "termination of the diplomacy of apology". This is
an unpardonable mockery and insult upon the peoples of the DPRK and other Asian
countries that are suffering from the hideous crimes of the Japanese
imperialists and an open provocation to the international justice and
conscience.
The history has recorded many war
criminal states which had mercilessly destroyed the peace and civilization of
mankind by resorting to aggression against other countries and nations, but it
is only Japan which is subject to international criticism due to its persistent
distortion of history and evasion of settlement of its past.
The Abe's press statement, which the
right-wing conservative forces of Japan are trying to regard as a "review
of the past history of aggression", is run through with shameless sophisms
that the next generation should not be allowed to suffer the same fate of
making an apology and there is no more apology for the history of aggression,
far from making a frank and sincere apology for the past crimes,.
However much water has flowed under the
bridge, the Korean people clearly remember the thrice-cursed past crimes
committed by the Japanese imperialists against Korea, which inflicted huge
human, material, mental and cultural damage on it while perpetrating the
barbarous colonial fascist rule for over 40 years after occupying it with arms.
The Japanese imperialists brutally
massacred more than one million Koreans, hurled more than 8.4 million young and
middle-aged people into battle sites of aggression and slave labour sites by
forcibly abducting them and mercilessly trampled down the youth of 200 000
women by reducing them into sexual slaves of the Japanese army. Those were
hideous unethical crimes unprecedented in history.
The Japanese imperialists had made
desperate efforts to eliminate the family name, surname, language and words of
the Korean nation with the time-honored history spanning thousands of years and
brilliant culture on the earth while asserting that "the Japanese and the
Korean are of the same ancestry" and "Japan and Korea are one
community". It is none other than the Japanese imperialists to destroy and
plunder the precious cultural assets and rich natural resources of Korea at
random.
For the past 80 years since its defeat,
Japan has seriously threatened the sovereignty, right to development and right
to existence of the DPRK while persistently refusing to make an apology and reparation
for its crimes against the Korean people and pursuing its hostile policy toward
the DPRK. It has committed more crimes by encroaching upon the national rights
of the Koreans in Japan, descendants of the Korean victims of forcible
drafting.
A Japanese media once said that if the
documents accusing the criminal acts committed by the Japanese imperialists in
Korea and other Asian countries were piled up, they are as much as 20 000
meters high. And the data on the germ warfare of the notorious 731 unit and
other powerful evidence that are still being found disclose the crimes against
humanity committed by the Japanese imperialists, brutes in human skin.
History cannot be erased by ink, burned
by fire, or torn by sword.
The history of the aggressors and war
criminal state remains forever though Japan desperately tries to erase its past
crimes with all sorts of trickeries and evade its responsibility for them and
no statute of limitations is applicable even after 80 years and 800 years.
It is the unavoidable moral
responsibility of Japan, the war criminal state, and its duty before
international law to face up to the history and liquidate its past with the
80th anniversary of the Japanese imperialists' defeat in the war as a turning
point.
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