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No 56/25 Aug 12, 2025
1. Spokesperson for DPRK Foreign Ministry on Israel's Attempt to Seize Gaza Strip 2. Firing Practice Contest of Artillery Sub-units of Large Combined Units of KPA Conducted in DPRK 3. DPRK Premier Inspects Various Sectors
Spokesperson for DPRK Foreign Ministry on Israel's Attempt to Seize Gaza Strip Pyongyang, August 12 (KCNA) -- A spokesperson for the Foreign Ministry of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea gave the following answer to a question raised by KCNA on Tuesday as regards the fact that shortly ago, Israel openly revealed its attempt to completely occupy the Gaza Strip of Palestine: A "decision" of the Israeli Cabinet on the complete occupation of the Gaza Strip of Palestine is a clear act of violating international law that plainly shows Israel's gangster-like intention to seize the internationally recognized territory of Palestine. The Gaza Strip is an inseparable part of the Palestinian territory and a unilateral attempt to change the population and sovereign position of the Gaza Strip can never be allowed. The DPRK bitterly denounces and rejects Israel's criminal act of seizing territory which aggravates the humanitarian crisis in the Gaza Strip and wantonly violates peace and stability in the Middle East region. We strongly demand Israel immediately stop the illegal armed attack on Palestinians and completely withdraw from the Gaza Strip.
Firing Practice Contest of Artillery Sub-units of Large Combined Units of KPA Conducted in DPRK Pyongyang, August 12 (KCNA) -- A firing practice contest of tactical artillery sub-units under the large combined units of the Korean People's Army was conducted on August 11 according to the combat drill plan of the KPA General Staff for perfecting the capability to fight a war and battle readiness of the entire army. The contest was aimed at strictly checking and judging the proficiency of the artillery sub-units of the tactical units in the fire support combat action method, and at generalizing the example of the excellent units to the entire army. The contest was overseen by Marshal Pak Jong Chon, vice-chairman of the Central Military Commission of the Workers' Party of Korea and secretary of the WPK Central Committee. He was accompanied by KPA Vice Marshal Ri Yong Gil, chief of the KPA General Staff. The commanding officers of the KPA General Staff reviewed the contest. The contest was attended by sub-units equipped with mortars of different calibers. The mortar sub-units, that held the fire positions via the unfavorable obstacle area under the fire command of the commanding officers of the large combined units, started to carry out the missions of hitting the different enemy targets and major facilities according to the tactical duty. Amid the rapid gun fire, the artillerymen hit and destroyed the targets in a fixed time with the crack-shot artillery marksmanship trained through intensive exercises for attaining the Party's training goals of hitting the targets without test firing. The firing practice contest fully verified the high combat ability and the regular combat mobilization that the artillery sub-units of the tactical units improved in the course of mastering rapid mobile and surprise operations as required by the Juche-based artillery tactics and of steadily increasing the efficiency and operation of the artillery weapon systems in keeping with the aspect and development of the modern warfare. Ri Yong Gil made public the standings of the large combined units. A citation of mater gunners was awarded to the 82 mm mortar battery of the 6th Battalion of the 55th Mechanized Infantry Brigade of the 9th Corps which won the contest with the highest score and medals and badges of master gunners to its soldiers. The firing practice contest of tactical artillery sub-units under the large combined units of the Korean People's Army served as an occasion to demonstrate the strong will of the army to thoroughly contain military gangsters in the land adjacent to the border and reliably defend the security and sovereignty of the inviolable state with overwhelming combat power.
DPRK Premier Inspects Various Sectors Pyongyang, August 12 (KCNA) -- Pak Thae Song, member of the Presidium of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea and premier of the Cabinet of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, made a field survey of the construction of the Samjiyon Tourist Resort and major enterprises in the city of Hamhung. Going round construction projects of the tourist resort, the premier gave a pep talk to the builders who are making devoted efforts to translate the noble plan of the Party Central Committee into brilliant reality. He stressed the need to make the best and effective use of the good construction time in keeping with the features of the area with high snowfall and low temperature in order to step up the projects. He also called for enhancing the responsibility and role of the designers, construction officials and supervisors, increasing the operation rate of the construction equipment, and taking more scrupulous measures for supplying manpower, equipment and materials. At the Ryongsong Machine Complex, the premier acquainted himself with its modernization project and production, and underlined the need to more dynamically plan and command the project and at the same time press ahead with the production of various kinds of compressors to steadily demonstrate the honor of the complex as a model of self-reliance and a powerful enterprise. The premier underscored the need for the Hungnam Fertilizer Complex to give fuller play to the spirit of the workers advancing to implement the decisions of the plenary meetings of the Party Central Committee so as to put the production of fertilizer on normal track, expand the variety of melamine resin products and speed up the construction of the line for producing slow effective granule urea fertilizer and of the base for producing catalysts. Earlier, the premier visited the State Academy of Sciences and the State Commission of Science and Technology, where he called on the scientific circle to turn out as one to reliably ensure the successful implementation of the five-year plan with remarkable sci-tech successes and to vigorously lead the development of the national economy, true to the intention of the Party. The field consultative meetings discussed the issue of giving top priority to the supply of materials for the construction of the Samjiyon Tourist Resort, the issue of finishing the modernization project at the Ryongsong Machine Complex by the appointed time and the issue of giving precedence to the supply of coal needed for the production of fertilizer. |
