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No 11/25 February 17, 2025
1. Respected Comrade Kim Jong Un Visits Kumsusan Palace of Sun on Day of Shining Star 2. Press Statement by Chief of Policy Office of DPRK Ministry of National Defence
Respected Comrade Kim Jong Un Visits Kumsusan Palace of Sun on Day of Shining Star Pyongyang, February 17 (KCNA) - All the people across the DPRK significantly greeting the greatest and auspicious February holiday of the nation with the pride and honor of ushering in a gigantic era of prosperity, in which the whole country changes under the guidance of the great Workers' Party of Korea, are paying the highest tribute to Chairman Kim Jong Il, the sacred image of socialist Korea and great sage of the revolution. 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 February 16, the Day of the Shining Star. He was accompanied by Pak Jong Chon and Ri Hi Yong, secretaries of the Central Committee of the WPK, No Kwang Chol, minister of National Defence of the DPRK, Kim Jae Ryong, department director of the Central Committee of the WPK, and Kim Yo Jong, deputy department director of the Central Committee of the WPK. The Kumsusan Palace of the Sun, where the eternal leaders of our Party, state and people are preserved in their lifetime appearance, was wrapped in a solemn atmosphere. A flower basket in the name of Kim Jong Un was laid before the statues of President Kim Il Sung and Chairman Kim Jong Il. Kim Jong Un, together with leading cadres accompanying him, paid high tribute to the statues of the President and the Chairman. At the hall where Kim Jong Il lies in state, Kim Jong Un paid homage to him praying for his immortality in the humblest reverence for him. He expressed his solemn will to devote himself to the sacred struggle for the eternal prosperity of the country, the security of the people and the promotion of their well-being, always remaining faithful to the revolutionary ideas and cause of the President and the Chairman.
Press Statement by Chief of Policy Office of DPRK Ministry of National Defence Pyongyang, February 15 (KCNA) - The chief of the Policy Office of the Ministry of National Defence of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea Saturday issued the following press statement titled "The DPRK's bolstering of its self-defensive capabilities is an essential requirement for deterring rivals' ever-increasing various provocative attempts and ensuring the security of the state": Some days ago, the commander of the U.S. Northern Command said that the DPRK has secured the capability to strike the whole of North America with nukes, adding that the DPRK's ICBM forces are posing a threat to the security of the U.S. mainland and its missile defense system. The U.S. is bringing a serious threat to the security environment of the Korean peninsula and the rest of the world while seeking reckless arms buildup and radical modernization of nuclear force. Therefore, the U.S. talking about the "threat" from someone is a brigandish sophism like a guilty party filing the suit first, making profound confusing of right and wrong. The strategic armed forces of the DPRK are the ones for defence to guarantee the security of the state and the strategic balance of the region. The U.S. describing this as a "threat" only proves that it is hostile to the DPRK. We express serious concern over the U.S. military's confrontational behavior to build up public opinion about the non-existent "threat" from the DPRK and justify the adventurous military ambition to gain the superiority of strength in the region under its pretext. The present U.S. administration is advocating the establishment of an offensive missile defense system aimed at preemptive attack on other countries and weaponization of outer space under the pretext of defending its mainland. Timed to coincide with this, the commander of the U.S. Northern Command is talking about "the threat from the DPRK". This clearly shows what its real purpose is. Shortly ago, the U.S. nuclear submarine openly entered the Korean peninsula, interested persons of the U.S. Space Force conspired with the Japanese and the ROK military gangsters to share information for detecting the ballistic missiles of the DPRK and conduct joint space exercises and the U.S. and the ROK militaries are planning to enforce the large-scale war drill Freedom Shield in March. All these facts become a good reason for the DPRK's bolstering of its corresponding defence capabilities to cope with the escalating military threat by rival states. If the U.S. has real concern about the security of its mainland, the only way to remove it is to thoroughly abandon its military threat and hostile policy toward independent and sovereign states. It is the just self-defensive right of a sovereign state to steadily develop the self-defence capability capable of effectively containing all the security threats of the present and future and ensuring the security of the state and the strategic balance of the region. The armed forces of the DPRK will as ever fully deter and control all kinds of challenges and threats from its rival countries by dint of powerful self-defence capability and faithfully discharge their mission for reliably defending peace and stability on the Korean peninsula and in the region.
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