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No 61/26
Jun 15, 2026
1. Press Statement of DPRK
Foreign Ministry Spokesperson
2. Press Statement of
Spokesperson for Tenth Department of DPRK Foreign Ministry
3. Chief of External Policy
Office of DPRK Foreign Ministry Comments on U.S. Sale of Military Hardware
Press Statement of DPRK Foreign Ministry Spokesperson
Pyongyang, June 14 (KCNA) -- A
spokesperson for the Foreign Ministry of the Democratic People's Republic of
Korea issued the following press statement on Saturday:
The U.S. and its satellite countries had
such confabs for nuclear war as a "nuclear consultative group"
meeting and "extended deterrence dialogue" and repeated their nuclear
threat against the DPRK and assertion about someone's
"denuclearization".
It is an unreasonable act and fantastic
daydream to call for nuclear disarmament of the other belligerent party in
meetings intended to set the use of nukes targeting the DPRK and other regional
countries as a policy and design a detailed plan for carrying it out.
The DPRK Foreign Ministry resolutely
denounces and rejects the U.S.-Japan-ROK moves for collective nuclear
confrontation and the sinister attempt of Western countries to force a
sovereign state to violate its constitution in the international arena, and
warns of the consequences to be entailed by their repeated provocations.
The U.S. and its vassal forces' absurd
accusation against the DPRK and their collaboration for posing a nuclear threat
to it can never affect the irreversible position of the DPRK as a nuclear
weapons state.
The "denuclearization" is an
irreversibly finalized agenda.
The U.S. is now busy with plot-breeding
moves for a war simulating the use of nuclear weapons while massively
delivering various kinds of military hardware, including latest air-to-air
missiles, to the ROK and Japan. The reality clearly proves the reason and
justness for our state to concentrate its efforts on bolstering up the capacity
for self-defence essential to ensuring its security.
The building up of nuclear shield on the
part of the DPRK is a legitimate process for deterring interference and threat
from outside, guaranteeing the national sovereignty and security and ensuring
the regional peace and stability.
In coping with the enemy countries'
daily-growing nuclear threat, our state is taking military and technical
countermeasures involving the possible capabilities and means of every category
in an all-round way.
The DPRK is firm and unshakable in its
determination to control and counter with nukes, on the principle of ensuring
security and defending peace by dint of powerful strength, the nuclear threat
by the enemy countries aimed to encroach upon its absolute and inviolable
sovereignty and security.
No matter how hard the U.S., Japan and
the ROK may tone up their rhetoric, it is impossible to change the present
position of the DPRK as a nuclear weapons state.
No one can recover the
"denuclearization" permanently disappeared in the current of the
times.
The expansion of the DPRK's nuclear
capacity and its self-defensive capability based on it are irreversible, and
this is a strong security guarantee for the regional stability and peace.
Press Statement of Spokesperson for Tenth Department of DPRK
Foreign Ministry
Pyongyang, June 13 (KCNA) -- A
spokesperson for the Tenth Department of the DPRK Foreign Ministry on June 13
issued the following press statement titled "As expected, the ROK is an
invariable enemy state obsessed with hostility and confrontation":
The chief executive of the ROK threw off
the bothersome mask of "peace".
The president of the ROK, on a visit to
Europe, had talks with top leaders of the European Union and made public a
joint statement employing provocative words that the DPRK's position as a
nuclear weapons state and its exercise of sovereign rights including the
DPRK-Russia military cooperation are "illegal" and that they would
never "recognize", but "strongly denounce" them.
This is a clear infringement on the
sovereignty of our state and a grave hostile act, and it is little short of
throwing away such camouflaged signboards as "respect for social
system" and "no-seeking after hostility" which the ROK has
talked so much.
It has already been highlighted at home
and abroad that the ROK regards hostility and confrontation as its foundation
and it can not exist even a moment without them.
The ROK is the first enemy state, which
can never exist without pursuing hostility toward the DPRK, and the U.S.
"dagger" for invading the DPRK and the rest of the Asian Continent.
This is just the entity and destiny of the ROK.
As its inevitable consequence, the U.S.
favorite "dagger" finally stuck out from the silk kerchief called
"peace".
Through the above-said confrontational
declaration, the chief executive of the ROK voluntarily proved before the world
that there can never be "peaceful coexistence" between the DPRK and
the ROK and the hostile relations will be maintained between them forever and
that the ROK is an accomplice with same ulterior motives as the Ukrainian
puppet forces.
That the chief executive of the ROK
displayed his unusual "frankness" shows that he lost his face to
resort the deceptive farce about "peace declaration" and "theory
on two peaceful states" any more.
Whatever the Seoul rulers say and do,
the DPRK will deem it a challenge and remain unchanged in its principle of
confronting the enemy aimed to definitely treat the ROK as a hostile state.
Chief of External Policy Office of DPRK Foreign Ministry Comments
on U.S. Sale of Military Hardware
Pyongyang, June 13 (KCNA) -- The chief
of the External Policy Office of the Foreign Ministry of the Democratic
People's Republic of Korea Saturday gave the following answer to a written
request of KCNA to comment about the U.S. approval to the sale of latest
air-to-air missiles and associated equipment to the ROK:
Despite reasonable concern of the
international community, the U.S. and the ROK are systematically tightening
their military collusion and nexus to drive tensions in the Korean peninsula
and its vicinity to an extreme.
It is a typical example that the U.S.
Department of State approved the sale of latest air-to-air missiles and
associated equipment worth nearly 300 million U.S. dollars to the ROK in the
way of "Foreign Military Sales".
Earlier, the U.S. administration
approved the sale of new-type helicopters for naval operation, attack
helicopters, precision guided bombs and other military hardware worth billions
of U.S. dollars in less than a month, more openly revealing its intention to
increase the ROK's military potentials and thus drive it to the advanced post
for intensified confrontation with regional countries.
This is only a part of the U.S.
strategic attempt to deliver various kinds of weapons and military hardware
worth 25 billion U.S. dollars to the ROK till 2030 and thus incite it to
military confrontation with the DPRK and other regional countries.
The DPRK Foreign Ministry strongly
denounces the U.S. and the ROK for rapidly accelerating arms buildup in a very
worrisome direction to destroy the military balance in the Korean peninsula and
threaten the regional security environment, warning of the grave consequences
to be entailed by it.
The U.S. arms export just means war
export and the introduction of U.S.-made weapons is little short of the
accumulation of tension and confrontation.
In fiscal year 2025 alone, the export
scale of weapons, the U.S. administration licensed through the "FMS"
and direct commercial sale mode, amounted to more than 330 billion U.S. dollars
and the number of arms transactions approved through the "FMS"
reached more than 16 000.
The massive arms supply by the U.S. to
the ROK, Japan and Taiwan is the root cause of aggravating military tension in
the Asia-Pacific region including the Korean peninsula and the Taiwan Strait,
and its scope is expanding worldwide, forecasting the unstable prospect of
global peace.
The gradually escalating U.S.-ROK
military conspiracy and the U.S.-led arms buildup of collective character
invite due vigilance and awakening among regional countries and serve as a
sufficient reason for reinforcing corresponding defensive measures.
Clear is the stand of the DPRK to remove
new threats and maintain the balance of strength in the region by steadily
updating and bolstering its deterrent for self-defence to cope with the
provocative arms buildup of the U.S. and its allies, and the DPRK will redouble
its responsible efforts to defend peace and security on the Korean peninsula
and in the region in the future, too.
