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No 79/26
Aug 12, 2026
1. Press Statement of Jang Kum Chol, First Vice-Minister and
Director General of Tenth Department of DPRK Foreign Ministry
2. International Affairs Analyst of DPRK on Japan's Policy of
"Using Atomic Power"
3. International Affairs
Analyst of DPRK on Japan's Policy of "Using Atomic Power"
Press Statement of Jang Kum Chol, First
Vice-Minister and Director General of Tenth Department of DPRK Foreign Ministry
Pyongyang, August 12 (KCNA) -- Jang Kum
Chol, first vice-minister and director general of the Tenth Department of the
DPRK Foreign Ministry, Wednesday issued the following press statement "The
ROK's scheme for possessing a nuclear submarine, which constitutes a new
dangerous element to the security in the Asia-Pacific region, will certainly
meet stranding":
The ROK's scheme for possessing a
nuclear submarine, which has recently entered the phase of practice, is
amplifying the instability of the regional security environment.
The ROK, which announced in May the
"Jangbogo-N Project" for the development and introduction of its own
nuclear submarine by the mid-2030s, is now intensifying its moves to implement
it.
At the first meeting of the "future
defense strategy committee" held at the naval submarine command in Jinhae,
South Kyongsang Province a few months ago, the chief executive of the ROK
justified the development of nuclear submarine, claiming that the plan for
building a nuclear submarine is an expression of the will to take
responsibility for peace and security on the Korean peninsula.
The ROK Ministry of National Defense,
too, clarified that the nuclear submarine will use low-enriched uranium fuel
and the whole process of development and building will take place at home.
Thus, it officially declared that the development of nuclear submarine has
switched over to the stage of practice from the planning stage.
Early in June, a U.S. delegation led by
the U.S. undersecretary of State for Political Affairs, which comprised
officials of the State Department, the Department of Energy and the Department
of Defense, visited the ROK to agree to accelerate the consultation on nuclear
submarine and establish a tripartite cooperation framework for the introduction
of small modular reactor between the U.S., Japan and the ROK. It is a typical
example of the fact that the prior environment necessary for the ROK's
development of nuclear submarine is being created.
The ROK's persistent attempt to possess
nuclear submarine can never be regarded as a defense measure to cope with
someone's "threat".
The ROK has secretly pushed ahead with
its plan for building a nuclear submarine since 2003, more than 20 years ago.
Such fact goes to prove that the ROK's ambition to possess nuclear submarine is
neither a "reflective measure" to respond to the DPRK's possession of
nuclear weapons nor a matter of defensive nature to cope with the
"regional threat".
Obviously, the ROK harbors another ambition.
The ROK raised the issue of enriched
uranium for nuclear fuel as an item of preferential solution prior to the
design, hull building and reactor development of nuclear submarine and demanded
the revision of the "U.S.-ROK Nuclear Agreement". The fact hints at
many things.
It is the final goal of the ROK to
secure the right to produce nuclear materials, free from the restraint of the
item on reprocessing nuclear waste fuel and prohibiting uranium enrichment, and
ultimately pave the way for making a leap forward to nuclear armament.
The secret intention of the ROK, which
is working hard to develop a nuclear submarine with its own nuclear armament in
sight, can never be diluted, no matter how it talks about the "nuclear
threat" from someone or "building up of self-defense
capabilities".
The ROK's possession of nuclear
submarine will inevitably result in nuclear dominoes in the Asia-Pacific
region.
Japan has already disclosed its ambition
not to exclude all possible options for the introduction of nuclear submarine,
throwing off the mask of the "Three Non-Nuclear Principles" with the
ROK's scheme to possess nuclear submarine as an occasion.
The ROK's scheme to possess nuclear
submarine is not a matter to be considered as the military ambition of a
country.
This is part of the U.S. great strategy
to build an axis of nuclear hegemony in the Asia-Pacific region with the
proliferation of nuclear submarine as a vehicle and thus restructure the
military balance in the global scale in favor of it.
The U.S.-Japan-ROK tripartite military
cooperation system, which is turning into a nuclear alliance, and AUKUS, the
U.S., UK and Australia nuclear submarine alliance, are already in existence in
the Asia-Pacific region.
The ROK's possession of nuclear
submarine will inevitably be a preparatory step for developing the
U.S.-Japan-ROK tripartite military alliance into the "second AUKUS",
and if the international community overlooks this, it will have no other choice
but to face the waves of confrontation made by the U.S.-led nuclear submarine
alliance in the Asia-Pacific region including the waters around the Korean
Peninsula, the Taiwan Strait and the South Sea of China.
The geopolitical security environment in
the Asia-Pacific region is facing a grave challenge due to the U.S. which
oversteps the conception of alliance and openly connives and encourages the
attempt of its allies to go nuclear and the ROK engrossed in greedy ambition.
The plan for developing a nuclear
submarine agreed by Washington which granted a request of Seoul will further
aggravate instability in the Korean Peninsula, and this constitutes a grave
challenge to the security of our state and its maritime sovereignty and a
security threat to be countered without fail.
The new reality of amplifying regional
instability reminds us why it is the first national strategic affair to possess
the most perfect and complex operational combat strength capable of reliably
defending the maritime sovereignty of the state while initiatively and
preferentially coping with any change of the security environment.
The possession of the unparalleled power
capable of neutralizing all sorts of existing or newly-emerging potential
threats and responding to any military attempt of the enemy states to provoke
the strategic sovereignty security of our state with the retaliatory attack
which make them impossible to survive and revive will be the most responsible
option for deterring a war.
International Affairs Analyst of DPRK on Japan's Policy of
"Using Atomic Power"
Pyongyang, August 12 (KCNA) -- Ri Myong
Nam, an international affairs analyst of the DPRK, Wednesday issued the
following article "What does the policy of 'using an atomic power', timed
to coincide with the Japanese high-ranking politicians' assertion of access to
nuke, suggest?":
At a recent cabinet ministerial
conference on the atomic power policy, Japan reportedly decided an action
guideline calling for "making the utmost use of atomic power for energy
security and decarbonization".
The essence of the guideline is to build
2~5 new nuclear reactors of the next generation by the 2040s and 11~14 reactors
by the 2050s as regards the fact that the reactors of most domestic atomic
power plants are superannuated, and to focus on investment, research and
development and training of talents to this end.
At a glance, it is illuminated as a
medium- and long-term plan for satisfying the daily-increasing domestic energy
demand, but in view of the relations with the policy of atomic power pursued by
Japan, the guideline contains a sinister and cunning strategic attempt that can
never be overlooked.
It is an open secret that Japan planned
to develop and use atomic bombs targeting the enemy states during World War II
and has persistently pursued the possession of nuclear weapons so far.
Japan's atomic power policy is an
extremely double-dealing and deceptive one as it has persistently pursued the
nuclear armament under the specious name of "peaceful use of atomic
power".
It is proved by the successive Japanese
rulers from the Kishi Cabinet in the 1950s to the Abe Cabinet in the 2010s
through Sato, Fukuta, Nakasone and Hata cabinets, who said that "Japan
would have nuclear weapons if the requirement for defense was imminent",
"Japan can have nuclear weapons for exclusive defense under the constitution,"
and "Japan is certainly capable of possessing nuclear weapons".
In fact, the Japanese government and the
"Self-Defense Forces" have never stopped the internal examination on nuclear
armament for the past decades, and it goes without saying that Japan's ambition
for nuclear armament is based on the vast amount of nuclear material and
nuclear technology seized through the operation of nuclear power plants at
home.
Under the active patronage and
connivance of the U.S., Japan is enjoying the privilege of extracting,
stockpiling and reusing plutonium by reprocessing spent nuclear fuel among
non-nuclear states. And it has now stockpiled 44.4 tons of plutonium and is
planning to complete the spent nuclear fuel reprocessing plant within this
year.
Nuclear power plants in Japan have
reportedly piled up large quantities of spent nuclear fuel rods which can be
used in extracting plutonium at any time and their quantities have already
approached the limit of storage capacity.
It is the opinion of experts that Japan,
which has secured huge quantities of nuclear material and possessed sensitive
nuclear technology for military purposes, has turned into a de facto
"quasi-nuclear weapons state" capable of making nuclear weapons
within several months once it is determined to do.
What should not be overlooked is the
fact that the Japanese government's decision on the nuclear power-related
guidelines is timed to coincide with the recent call for nuclear possession by
ultra-right politicians.
The present Takaichi Cabinet, which
emerged in October last year, is pushing ahead with neo-militarist internal and
external policies such as the revision of the "Three Non-Nuclear
Principles" and the possession of nuclear submarines, while the theory of
nuclear armament is openly being discussed among high-ranking politicians
including the minister of Defense and an assistant to the prime minister.
Japan is hell-bent on the deployment of
various kinds of ultra-modern military hardware including Tomahawk cruise
missile for actual war and the expansion of firing range with the back of its
American master keen on maintaining military hegemony in the Asia-Pacific
region. It is as clear as noonday that what the purpose of Japan is through a
decision on guidelines related to medium and long-term atomic power.
It is the real intention of the Japanese
ruling quarters in advertising "the maximum use of atomic power" to
maximize the striking power of military hardware deployed for action in
parallel with the building of military infrastructure possessed of preemptive
attack means far beyond the territory of the archipelago.
Even now when 80-odd years have passed
after the war, neo-militarist Japan is sharpening the sword of revenge while
persistently denying its past history of aggression and advocating the
"story of threats from neighboring countries". If Japan has nuclear
weapons, a catastrophe unprecedented in history will surely come true.
Japan's nuclear armament, another malicious
variable, seriously threatens the strategic security balance of the region
along with the U.S.-Japan-ROK cooperation system which is evolving into a
military bloc containing nuclear elements. The prevailing situation demands
that the independent states in the region bolster up the war deterrent capable
of overwhelmingly suppressing the dangerous military acts of the enemy
countries.
If Japan, a war criminal state
frantically dashing toward the threshold, hallucinated by militarism, persists
in its nuclear weapons ambition, it will surely reach the tragic end of ruin of
the whole of the archipelago.
The international community aspiring
after justice and peace should never tolerate Japan's reckless and dangerous
scheme for nuclear armament.
International Affairs Analyst of DPRK on Japan's Policy of
"Using Atomic Power"
Pyongyang, August 12 (KCNA) -- Ri Myong
Nam, an international affairs analyst of the DPRK, Wednesday issued the
following article "What does the policy of 'using an atomic power', timed
to coincide with the Japanese high-ranking politicians' assertion of access to
nuke, suggest?":
At a recent cabinet ministerial
conference on the atomic power policy, Japan reportedly decided an action
guideline calling for "making the utmost use of atomic power for energy
security and decarbonization".
The essence of the guideline is to build
2~5 new nuclear reactors of the next generation by the 2040s and 11~14 reactors
by the 2050s as regards the fact that the reactors of most domestic atomic
power plants are superannuated, and to focus on investment, research and
development and training of talents to this end.
At a glance, it is illuminated as a
medium- and long-term plan for satisfying the daily-increasing domestic energy
demand, but in view of the relations with the policy of atomic power pursued by
Japan, the guideline contains a sinister and cunning strategic attempt that can
never be overlooked.
It is an open secret that Japan planned
to develop and use atomic bombs targeting the enemy states during World War II
and has persistently pursued the possession of nuclear weapons so far.
Japan's atomic power policy is an
extremely double-dealing and deceptive one as it has persistently pursued the
nuclear armament under the specious name of "peaceful use of atomic
power".
It is proved by the successive Japanese
rulers from the Kishi Cabinet in the 1950s to the Abe Cabinet in the 2010s
through Sato, Fukuta, Nakasone and Hata cabinets, who said that "Japan
would have nuclear weapons if the requirement for defense was imminent",
"Japan can have nuclear weapons for exclusive defense under the
constitution," and "Japan is certainly capable of possessing nuclear
weapons".
In fact, the Japanese government and the
"Self-Defense Forces" have never stopped the internal examination on
nuclear armament for the past decades, and it goes without saying that Japan's
ambition for nuclear armament is based on the vast amount of nuclear material
and nuclear technology seized through the operation of nuclear power plants at
home.
Under the active patronage and
connivance of the U.S., Japan is enjoying the privilege of extracting,
stockpiling and reusing plutonium by reprocessing spent nuclear fuel among
non-nuclear states. And it has now stockpiled 44.4 tons of plutonium and is
planning to complete the spent nuclear fuel reprocessing plant within this
year.
Nuclear power plants in Japan have
reportedly piled up large quantities of spent nuclear fuel rods which can be
used in extracting plutonium at any time and their quantities have already
approached the limit of storage capacity.
It is the opinion of experts that Japan,
which has secured huge quantities of nuclear material and possessed sensitive
nuclear technology for military purposes, has turned into a de facto
"quasi-nuclear weapons state" capable of making nuclear weapons
within several months once it is determined to do.
What should not be overlooked is the
fact that the Japanese government's decision on the nuclear power-related
guidelines is timed to coincide with the recent call for nuclear possession by
ultra-right politicians.
The present Takaichi Cabinet, which
emerged in October last year, is pushing ahead with neo-militarist internal and
external policies such as the revision of the "Three Non-Nuclear
Principles" and the possession of nuclear submarines, while the theory of
nuclear armament is openly being discussed among high-ranking politicians
including the minister of Defense and an assistant to the prime minister.
Japan is hell-bent on the deployment of
various kinds of ultra-modern military hardware including Tomahawk cruise
missile for actual war and the expansion of firing range with the back of its
American master keen on maintaining military hegemony in the Asia-Pacific
region. It is as clear as noonday that what the purpose of Japan is through a
decision on guidelines related to medium and long-term atomic power.
It is the real intention of the Japanese
ruling quarters in advertising "the maximum use of atomic power" to
maximize the striking power of military hardware deployed for action in
parallel with the building of military infrastructure possessed of preemptive
attack means far beyond the territory of the archipelago.
Even now when 80-odd years have passed
after the war, neo-militarist Japan is sharpening the sword of revenge while
persistently denying its past history of aggression and advocating the
"story of threats from neighboring countries". If Japan has nuclear
weapons, a catastrophe unprecedented in history will surely come true.
Japan's nuclear armament, another
malicious variable, seriously threatens the strategic security balance of the
region along with the U.S.-Japan-ROK cooperation system which is evolving into
a military bloc containing nuclear elements. The prevailing situation demands
that the independent states in the region bolster up the war deterrent capable
of overwhelmingly suppressing the dangerous military acts of the enemy
countries.
If Japan, a war criminal state
frantically dashing toward the threshold, hallucinated by militarism, persists
in its nuclear weapons ambition, it will surely reach the tragic end of ruin of
the whole of the archipelago.
The international community aspiring
after justice and peace should never tolerate Japan's reckless and dangerous
scheme for nuclear armament.
