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No 03/25
January 17, 2025
1. Press Statement of Chief of
External Policy Office of DPRK Foreign Ministry
2. Regional-Industry
Factories Inaugurated in Yonthan County of DPRK
Press Statement of Chief of External Policy Office of DPRK Foreign
Ministry
Pyongyang, January 17 (KCNA) -- The
chief of the External Policy Office of the Foreign Ministry of the Democratic
People's Republic of Korea on Friday issued the following press statement
"We will contain the planned hostile military provocations and control the
unstable regional situation with more thorough exercise of the right to
self-defence":
From the outset of the year the U.S. and
its satellites are getting evermore undisguised in their military provocations
to pose a grave challenge to the security environment of the DPRK.
On January 6 and 9, the U.S. Air Force
strategic reconnaissance planes flew over the Korean peninsula several times to
perpetrate aerial espionage against the DPRK's strategic depth. On January 10,
the 4th U.S.-ROK "nuclear consultative group" meeting was held in
Washington to simulate a nuclear war drill on the Korean peninsula and an
increase in the visibility of deploying U.S. strategic assets.
On Jan. 15, B-1B strategic bombers of
the U.S. Air Force were deployed in the sky over the open sea near the Korean
peninsula to conduct a U.S.-Japan-ROK joint air drill. On the same day, the
U.S. and ROK air forces staged the first air live-shell firing drill for this
year.
The U.S. political and military
provocations, witnessed day after day in the Korean peninsula where huge armed
forces of warring countries are on high alert and the possibility of permanent
military conflict is wandering, are the direct root cause of inciting the
danger of armed conflict and disturbing the regional stability.
The U.S., which spent the end of last
year through the largest-ever war drills, entered the new year with military
provocations involving its satellite countries. This goes to prove that it is
the U.S. which has brought instability to the region, and heralds this year's
development of the military and political situation in the Korean peninsula
with a dangerous tendency.
The DPRK Foreign Ministry expresses
serious concern over the provocations of the U.S. and its allies that add
another factor of instability to the very serious tension in the Korean
peninsula, and clarifies once again that the DPRK's exercise of the right to
self-defence to defend the sovereign rights and security interests of the state
will be conducted more intensively.
The DPRK's access to a more overwhelming
war deterrent aimed at countering the U.S.-led hostile states' military threat
is an essential requirement for maintaining the balance of forces on the Korean
peninsula and ensuring the security of the regional situation.
As already clarified, the DPRK will
strongly deter any military provocation planned by the hostile forces and
firmly defend the security interests of the state and the regional peace and
stability by exercising more thoroughly and perfectly the right to
self-defence, pursuant to its toughest counteraction strategy.
Regional-Industry Factories Inaugurated in Yonthan County of DPRK
Pyongyang, January 17 (KCNA) -- Modern
regional-industry factories have appeared in Yonthan County, North Hwanghae
Province of the DPRK, as an outcome of the warm love and devotion of the
respected Comrade Kim Jong Un, who spares nothing for the people, and
his great ideal and ambition and ardent desire for comprehensive national
rejuvenation.
Their emergence in Yonthan County, a
place abundant in resources for traditional medicines and well-known for lots
of Aronia melanocarpa, helps the regional people enjoy a new life, keenly
feeling again the advantages of the Korean-style socialist system in which all
policies of the Workers’ Party of Korea and the state are being enforced
for the promotion of people's well-being.
An inauguration ceremony of the
factories took place on the spot on Jan. 16.
Present there were officials in North
Hwanghae Province and Yonthan County, soldier-builders and employees of the
factories.
Pak Chang Ho, chief secretary of the
North Hwanghae Provincial Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea, addressed
the ceremony.
Noting that the comprehensive regional
development was advanced as the most important political task of the Party and
the state last year and its brilliant entities sprang up in the year, he
stressed that they are a precious fruition of the noble love for the people and
the great revolutionary leadership of Kim Jong Un, who set forth the
grand action programme for regional development to provide the people with
civilized and happy living conditions and has devoted himself to its
implementation, visiting construction theaters across the country one after
another.
Jon Nam Chol, chief secretary of the
Yonthan County Committee of the WPK, in a speech expressed the will to ensure a
full operation of the factories, built under the loving care of the Party, by
making effective use of the natural and geographical advantages and resources
peculiar to a mountainous county, and thus make the validity of the Party's
policies and the inhabitants' affection for their region settle deep in their
life.
The managers of those factories cut the
inauguration tape amid the cheers and applause of the residents in the county.
Thousands of balloons rose up into the
air, beautifully decorating the clear and blue sky over the township, and
fireworks were set off one after another.
An art performance was given by the
provincial art troupe to celebrate the inauguration of the factories.
After the ceremony the participants went
round the modern factories.
That evening, there was a firework
display in celebration of the inauguration of the factories.