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No 99/26
1. Respected Comrade Kim Jong Un Sends Congratulatory Message to President of Russian Federation
2. Press Statement of DPRK Foreign Ministry
3. U.S. Is Acting Rashly: International Affairs Analyst
Respected Comrade Kim Jong Un Sends Congratulatory Message to President of Russian Federation
Pyongyang, October 7 (KCNA) -- Respected Comrade Kim Jong Un sent a congratulatory message to Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin, president of the Russian Federation, on October 7.
The message said:
My dearest friend, Comrade Vladimir Putin,
I extend my sincerest warm congratulations and best wishes to you on your significant birthday.
Over the past two decades the Russian Federation has firmly consolidated its dignity and position as a big power, written a new biography of epoch-making development and proudly ranked as a world-famous powerful and prosperous country under your outstanding and seasoned leadership.
All these are a precious product of devoted efforts and strong will of you who have always cherished the aspiration and expectations of the Russian people desirous of building a powerful state and remained faithful to your sacred mission, braving countless challenges and trials, and for this, you enjoy the great trust and support of the Russian people.
I am pleased to have good friendship with you and open up a new chapter for the development of the relations between our two countries.
It is the steadfast policy of the DPRK government and my unshakable option to attach importance to the comprehensive strategic partnership and alliance forged with the fraternal Russian Federation and to steadily expand and develop the joint work.
I reaffirm my invariable support for you and the Russian Federation, being firmly convinced that the Russian people's sacred war of justice for defending the sovereignty, security interests and territorial integrity of the country will surely end with their victory.
I offer my congratulations on the significant day, praying that victory and glory will be in store for you and your Russia.
Extending noble tribute and militant greetings,
I warmly embrace you, my dear comrade.
Press Statement of DPRK Foreign Ministry
Pyongyang, October 6 (KCNA) -- The Foreign Ministry of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea issued the following press statement "We will be more resolute and clear in exercising our sovereignty toward the most hostile state" on Tuesday:
New danger of war is prevailing along the southern border of the DPRK, bounded by the state most hostile toward it.
The ROK made public the "final investigation results", in which it forcibly linked with us the "mine explosion case" that occurred in a border area, and called for "responsive diplomatic and military steps" to be taken against our state with a "mine-removing operation" as the start.
As we already stated, the ROK fully betrayed and proved itself what the ulterior purpose of the farce plotted and orchestrated by Seoul is.
The "mine-explosion case" is a sinister obstructive move intended to brand our fortification of the southern border, downright exercise of the sovereignty, as a "military invasion" and delay and check it, and this is no more than a poor trick of the ROK military to shift the blame for its own accident onto us.
The ROK seeks to hold the DPRK accountable for the premeditated farce, fabricated and determined unilaterally by it, and tarnish the latter's international image. It is a grave provocation never to be overlooked and a wanton violation of our sovereignty that deserves sure punishment.
The Foreign Ministry of the DPRK categorically rejects the despicable attempt of the ROK and solemnly clarifies that our state will exercise its just sovereign rights in a more resolute and bold manner to ensure the security of the southern border.
We do not care about them trying to remove the mines irrelevant to us, and we have no reason to pay heed to such farce of the ROK.
However, if a jackboot or a spark of fire from the ROK goes even a millimeter beyond the border to violate our territory, the border guard forces of the DPRK will take immediate and powerful counteraction.
We make it clear that if a similar thing happens again in the ROK in the future, we are not responsible for it but the side, which sustained it, is entirely accountable.
As already clarified, the DPRK will never discuss with the enemy countries the issue of exercising its military sovereignty within its territory but defend its territorial sovereignty by thoroughly exercising its power, not by negotiations.
We take this opportunity to reaffirm that it is the official stand of the DPRK government.
The malicious attempt of the ROK to attain its sinister purpose through a mean farce can never work in any case.
The Democratic People's Republic of Korea will be most resolute and definite in exercising its sovereignty toward the relation with the most hostile state, in which any slightest tolerance, concession and connivance are disallowed.
U.S. Is Acting Rashly: International Affairs Analyst
Pyongyang, October 7 (KCNA) -- Kim Myong Chol, an international affairs analyst of the DPRK, released the following article "The U.S. is acting rashly":
"Peace and stability of the Taiwan Strait" is something always repeated by the United States and its allies in the international arena.
However, the U.S. has systematically destroyed regional stability and persistently escalated the situation under the pretext of "opposing unilateral attempt at change of phenomenon" in the Taiwan Strait.
The emergence of fighter jets sold by the U.S. on the island of Taiwan a few days ago is another typical example of the U.S. "peculiar contribution" to "peace and stability" of the Taiwan Strait.
The U.S. says that the sale of weapons to Taiwan is for "peace in the strait", but this is nothing but a shameless act of planting a bomb at the gate of other's house and asserting that the bomb is for ensuring the security of the house.
When the People's Republic of China and the U.S. established their diplomatic relations, the latter recognized the government of the former as the only legitimate government of China and Taiwan as a part of the former. But the U.S. made it its policy and obligation to sell weapons to Taiwan, irrespective of the change of its administration, and has supported the separatist forces pursuing "Taiwan's independence" and challenging the "one-China" principle.
In the past decade alone, the cost of munitions supplied by the U.S. to Taiwan in the form of overseas arms sales totaled more than 39 billion US dollars. This includes 11 billion US dollars, the largest-ever arms sales approved by the present U.S. administration at the end of last year.
Not content with this, the U.S. has made it a fait accompli to additionally sell weapons worth 14 billion US dollars to Taiwan.
Herein lies the reason why peace and stability have not been restored in the Taiwan Strait for decades.
Recently, the U.S. proclaimed the first island chain including Taiwan as the forefront for suppressing China. It seeks to deploy the latest missiles on an island of Japan closest to Taiwan and "internationalize" the Taiwan issue by making its warships and aircraft pass through the Taiwan Strait under the signboard of "freedom of navigation".
This proves once again that "peace and stability of the Taiwan Strait" touted by the U.S. is, in essence, "support for Taiwan's power-based independence" and that the "one-China" policy advocated by it is nothing but the one for "perpetuating the division of China by force".
The Taiwan issue is an internal affair of China, so how to settle it is entirely the affair of the Chinese people, and no outside forces have the right to interfere in it.
Obviously, the U.S. did up the wrong button on the Taiwan issue and has taken again a dangerous course whose consequences are difficult to imagine.
Some American fighters to be deployed in Taiwan may be a comfort to the separatists for a while, but it cannot bridge the striking gap between the both sides in terms of capability.
No matter what method the Taiwanese separatists employ and what support the U.S. renders to Taiwan, it can neither deny the fact that Taiwan is a part of China nor influence the basic recognition of the international community that adheres to the principle of "one China".
The U.S. should think twice whether it is ready to stand in frontal confrontation with the powerful national power of the People's Republic of China for the security of Taiwan and whether it can cope with its consequences. If it is worried about the consequences, it had better think and act rationally.
Justice is not afraid of confrontation with injustice.
No one should question the ability and will of the People's Republic of China to defend its sovereignty, territorial integrity and core interests.
China's effort to retake Taiwan is an indispensable and just sacred cause for making abnormalities normality, making injustice justice and making instability stability. It is an irrefutable law-governed historical process that the island of Taiwan becomes a part of China again.
The instability of the Taiwan Strait precisely means the crisis of the United States. Taiwan's return to China is a matter of time.