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PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF KOREA TO SWITZERLAND
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No 04/25
January 21, 2025
1. Kim Yo Jong, Vice Department
Director of C.C., WPK, Clarifies Stand on Issue of DPRK-Belarus Top-level
Meeting
2. Japan's Move to Establish
Independent Mission in NATO Is Dangerous Act of Adding New Instability to
Regional Situation
Kim Yo Jong, Vice Department Director of C.C., WPK, Clarifies Stand
on Issue of DPRK-Belarus Top-level Meeting
Pyongyang, January 20 (KCNA) -- Kim Yo
Jong, vice department director of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party
of Korea, clarified the stand of the DPRK on the issue of the DPRK-Belarus
top-level meeting through the Korean Central News Agency on January 20.
According to a report of TASS on January
17, the Belarusian president said that the DPRK and other Asian countries
proposed to Minsk organizing the top-level meeting for the discussion of the
issue of cooperation.
I know well that the Belarusian side has
been hoping for the top-level contact with the DPRK from at least two years ago.
But if I understand the context of TASS
report released on Jan. 17 as it is, it seems not to properly reflect the
desire of Belarus.
If I comment on the report of TASS on
the speaking of the Belarusian president that we proposed a top-level meeting
to Minsk for a discussion of the issue of cooperation, there is no such thing,
at least, as far as I know.
If Belarus hopes to develop a
cooperative relationship with the DPRK, it is important to clarify its
intention correctly.
I think that such veracity and frankness
should be the starting point in the relations between the two countries.
The DPRK would welcome with joy the
Belarusian side without any reason if it wishes to develop friendly and
cooperative relations with the DPRK from this stand.
Japan's Move to Establish Independent Mission in NATO Is Dangerous
Act of Adding New Instability to Regional Situation
Pyongyang, January 20 (KCNA) -- Kim Ryo
Won, an international security analyst of the DPRK, issued the following
article "Japan's move to establish an independent mission in NATO is a
dangerous act of adding new instability to the regional situation":
Shortly ago, Japan officially opened its
independent full-time mission in NATO under the pretext of "strengthening
security cooperation with NATO and promoting strategic solidarity between the
Indo-Pacific region, and the European and Atlantic regions".
Japan set up its independent mission in
NATO at a time when the security environment in the Asia-Pacific region is more
seriously threatened due to the U.S. provocative military hegemony. This is a
dangerous act of adding a new instability to the regional situation.
Japan is extremely escalating the
military tension in the region while tightening military confab and nexus with
NATO outside the territory, pursuant to the U.S. strategy for world domination
to expand NATO's sphere of influence into the Asia-Pacific region.
This is proved by the fact that Japan
has regularly participated in the conspiracy sponsored by NATO from 2022,
including the NATO summit. In particular, it conducted bilateral and
multilateral military drills on some pretext in the Japanese Archipelago and
its surrounding waters and the Pacific Ocean with the U.S.-led NATO member
states last year.
Japan is getting frantic with the bulk
purchase of long-range strike means including U.S.-made air-to-air missiles and
Tomahawk cruise missiles by legalizing the possession of capability for making
a preemptive attack and redoubling military spending. It is also getting
hell-bent on securing the war camp by drawing NATO into the Asia-Pacific
region. This is a critical development of the situation.
All facts clearly prove once again that
Japan, a war criminal state, is an anti-peace force threatening the
Asia-Pacific region and the rest of the world through its admission to
aggressive military blocs, undisguised arms buildup and ceaseless war drills.
The tightened nexus between Japan, the
root cause of the region which is sharpening a sword for revenge, while totally
denying the past history of aggression crimes till now, 80 years after its
defeat, and NATO, which is triggering off a war and armed conflict in different
parts of the world under reckless expansionist policy, is a serious threat to
international peace and security.
Japan should bear in mind that as long
as it brings the war cloud of reinvasion to the Asia-Pacific region in
collusion with NATO, it will face strong counteraction and strategic isolation
from neighboring countries.