THE EMBASSY OF THE DEMOCRATIC
PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF KOREA TO SWITZERLAND
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No 73/26
1. Leading State Officials Visit Families of War Veterans on Occasion of Day of War Victory
2. Press Statement of DPRK Foreign Ministry Spokesperson
3. KCNA Commentary on Japan's Nuclear Policy
Leading State Officials Visit Families of War Veterans on Occasion of Day of War Victory
Pyongyang, July 25 (KCNA) -- Leading officials of the DPRK visited the families of war veterans on July 23 and 24 amid the reverence for the victorious wartime generation deepening across the country on the occasion of the 73rd anniversary of the victory in the great Fatherland Liberation War.
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, and other senior officials of the Party and government and armed forces organs warmly congratulated the veterans on the war victory day.
They talked about the boundless benevolence being shown by the Party for the war veterans, defenders of the great years and the paragons of life and struggle for all successive generations, who proudly wrote the first page of victory in the history of the Republic.
It is the due obligation and duty of the descendants to respect the victorious wartime generation who showed in practice how to defend and glorify the country, the leading officials expressed thanks, on behalf of all the people across the country, to the war veteran families who are devoting their sincerity to taking care of the war veterans.
The veterans earnestly asked the leading officials to remain loyal to the leadership of the Party Central Committee leading the country to eternal prosperity, extending deep thanks to the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un who regards them as dear teachers who made great history and brings the greatest glory and happiness to them.
Press Statement of DPRK Foreign Ministry Spokesperson
Pyongyang, July 24 (KCNA) -- A spokesperson for the Foreign Ministry of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea issued the following press statement on Friday:
The 59th ASEAN Foreign Ministers' Meeting, the 33rd ASEAN Regional Forum Foreign Ministers' Meeting and other ASEAN-related meetings, held recently in Manila, the capital city of Philippines, discussed the issues of ensuring regional peace and security and expanding cooperation among regional countries.
The DPRK respects the leading position and role of ASEAN to ensure regional peace and security on the principles of respect for sovereignty, sovereignty equality and non-interference in internal affairs and pays attention to the fact that ASEAN aspires after co-prosperity and unity as a regional community.
However, the U.S. and some countries following it are raising waves of confrontation while inciting division and antagonism, abusing the ASEAN arena as a space for justifying their evil intention, contrary to the general will of regional countries prioritizing peace, development, stability and cooperation.
The diplomatic authorities of the U.S., Japan and the ROK have resorted to the hostile rhetoric toward the DPRK, talking about "its denuclearization" and debated the issue of the Taiwan Strait under the pretext of "freedom of navigation". This proves the fact that the U.S., Japan and the ROK are the root cause of regional instability and the main obstacle to ensuring peace.
Southeast Asia can never be a region subjected to promoting the U.S. "security and prosperity" and the ASEAN arena should not be a field of searching for an opportunity of criticizing other countries and inciting hostility towards them.
The U.S.-Japan-ROK futile attempt to deny and infringe upon the constitutional rights of the DPRK can neither bring up for discussion again the issue of "denuclearization", which was irreversibly and finally concluded, nor affect the new mechanical structure of the region being built against the background of the present position of our state.
The crucial threat to be feared and guarded by the region and the international community is the exclusive security and economic bloc being formed, led by the U.S., and the attempt of Japan and the ROK systematically violating the nuclear non-proliferation system under the active patronage of the U.S. to go nuclear.
Consistent is the stand of the DPRK to develop friendly and cooperative relations with the ASEAN member states, which respect the sovereignty and right to development of our state and take friendly attitude to it, and make responsible contributions to ensuring regional peace and security.
The DPRK will as ever actively promote regional peace and development and cooperation on the principle of mutual benefit and co-prosperity, thoroughly deter any attempt of the hostile forces to encroach upon the inviolable sovereign rights of the state and firmly defend the core interests of national security.
KCNA Commentary on Japan's Nuclear Policy
Pyongyang, July 25 (KCNA) -- The present authorities of Japan are more openly revealing their ambition for nuclear weapons.
With regard to France's declaration of its plan to increase the number of nuclear warheads and the Finnish parliament's approval of a revised bill on allowing the deployment of nuclear weapons in its territory in contingency, the Japanese minister of Defence on July 17 advocated the need to change Japan's nuclear policy, saying that it is difficult for Japan to comment on the fact, but one thing that deserves comment is nuclear.
The minister of Defence, who is in charge of the security policy of Japan, unreservedly talked about the revision of nuclear policy. This is not just a slip of the tongue to the press or bombast from temerity.
No wonder, the Japanese chief executive told the House of Councilors shortly ago that revision of the "Three Non-Nuclear Principles" would be brought up for discussion alongside the revision of the three security-related documents including the national security strategy.
By making such shameless remarks, the Japanese regime has openly revealed its intention to go straight to adopt it as a major state policy decision to arm itself with nuclear weapons, which it has long dreamed of, instead of merely placing it under debate.
Japan's revision of nuclear policy just means the war criminal state's access to nuclear weapons.
As recognized by the international community, the revision of the "Three Non-Nuclear Principles" should never be Japan's "subject of debate".
Japan is a heinous war criminal state which plunged the Asia-Pacific region into a sea of blood, using warships, planes, cannons and bayonets for realizing the wild ambition to enslave all mankind a century ago. It is, at the same time, an inhuman criminal state which still denies its past crimes, distorts history and doggedly evades the legal and moral responsibility it assumes for the international community.
For the past 80 years since its defeat, the "Self-Defence Forces" of Japan have undergone a transformation from the "mainland defence type" to the "overseas attack type" aimed at launching a preemptive attack on other countries with its official right to the possession of the "capability of attacking the enemy base." The defence expenses are also hitting an all-time high every year under the deceptive veil of "exclusive defence," going far beyond the "minimum necessary limit" of a "pacifist state".
The successive rulers of Japan laid institutional and legal foundations for reinvasion bit by bit by adopting the "law on overseas dispatches", the "law to deal with contingencies in areas surrounding Japan", the "law on special measures for terrorism" and the "security legislation" alongside their persistent effort to revise the constitution.
In particular, the present ruling forces, which carried out the revision of the "Three Principles on Transfer of Defence Equipment and Technology" and its operation guidelines which stipulated the export of lethal weapons at the outset of their office, are now seeking to forcibly revise the "three principles of denuclearization". Such neo-militarist moves clearly prove that Japan, a defeated nation in Asia, is accelerating its transformation into a war state, regarding the current complicated situation as a golden opportunity for getting rid of all sorts of chains shackling its emergence as a military giant.
It is not secret that Japan has advanced nuclear technology and has stockpiled plutonium and enriched uranium that might be used in making many nuclear bombs and is capable of actualizing the mass production of nuclear weapons at any moment.
It is the immutable truth taught by history that nuclear weapons, for their tremendous destructive power, will turn into a means of tyranny against mankind if they are in the hands of injustice, but will be the greatest deterrent to injustice if they are in the hands of justice.
This is why the world people are getting increasing vocal in their demand that war criminal nation's wild ambition for nuclear weapons should be nipped in the bud for high possibility of repeating the offense.
82 local councils in the archipelago submitted a letter of opinion strongly urging the government and the diet to preserve the "three principles of denuclearization" and the public is blaming the authorities for seeking to "restore the politics deceiving the people." Such mounting criticism is a due denunciation and expression of resentment and protest against the dangerous act of the present ruling forces to make a new history of aggression by realizing their wild nuclear ambition.
The whole world should impose stern punishment on the vicious attempt of neo-militarism to bring nuclear holocaust to mankind under the revanchist ambition, carrying the signboard of the "world's only victim of atomic bombs" to gain sympathy.
Japan's pursuance of neo-militarism will inevitably result in digging its own grave, as those who forget the past repeat the past.