THE EMBASSY OF THE DEMOCRATIC
PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF KOREA TO SWITZERLAND
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No 98/26
1. Strategic Missile Launching Drill Conducted in Eastern Region of DPRK
2. Press Statement of Spokesperson for DPRK Foreign Ministry
Strategic Missile Launching Drill Conducted in Eastern Region of DPRK
Pyongyang, October 4 (KCNA) -- At dawn of October 3, a drill was staged to launch an intermediate-range strategic missile from an eastern region of the DPRK toward the East Sea of Korea.
The drill was conducted as part of the efforts to train the missile soldiers operating the hypersonic strategic weapon system in handling their equipment and evaluate the reliability, efficiency and mobility of the DPRK's war deterrent.
Respected Comrade Kim Jong Un, General Secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea and President of the State Affairs of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, oversaw the launching drill on the spot.
Among the spectators were Kim Jong Sik, first vice department director of the C.C., WPK, and Jang Chang Ha, general director of the Missile Administration of the DPRK.
Noting that it is a very important measure for ensuring national security and a responsible action of our army to build up the powerful and reliable nuclear deterrent through sustained verification of major components of the war deterrent, improvement of their performance and mastery of the capabilities for their successful operation and to show the counterattack means of our army in constant mobilization posture, Comrade Kim Jong Un said:
"Through today's launching drill, the strategic missile soldiers have fully demonstrated their professional qualifications and counterattack posture, clearly showing that they are very good at operating the major offensive weapon system and they are always available for mobilization. They also added confidence to our deterrent.
I highly appreciate commanding officers and soldiers of the missile unit who participated in the drill.
We must continue our responsible efforts nonstop to constantly and repeatedly make the enemy recognize the reliability and fatality of our strategic offensive means.
This is a form of exercising deterrent.
As always expressed clearly, such activities on our part are definitely aimed at more rapidly developing the country's nuclear war deterrent.
This is indispensable for protecting national security and stability in today's geopolitical environment. There will be no change in such view and line of ours.
We must deter various threats by dint of powerful deterrent and ensure a safer environment for the building and activities of our state."
The missile used in the drill was launched towards the northeast direction and hit the target point at 43°36' 28.04" latitude and 138°00' 47.02" longitude, 1 000 km away on the East Sea of Korea.
Comrade Kim Jong Un expressed expectation and belief that all the missile forces would remain faithful to their missions of defending the sovereignty and security of the Republic in a responsible combat posture.
Press Statement of Spokesperson for DPRK Foreign Ministry
Pyongyang, October 3 (KCNA) -- A spokesperson for the Foreign Ministry of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea released the following press statement on Saturday:
UN Secretary-General Guterres recently submitted to the 81st Session of the UN General Assembly a "human rights report" filled with hostile forces' vicious criticism and smear propaganda against the DPRK.
The act of Guterres, who unhesitatingly signed the groundless document cooked up by the U.S., Japan, the ROK and Western countries, clearly shows his position as the first spokesman, political instrument and puppet of the U.S. and the West, who has completely abandoned his duty and moral obligation as UN secretary-general having to deem impartiality and fairness vital.
The Foreign Ministry of the DPRK holds in contempt and resolutely denounces and rejects in the strongest terms the hostile forces reducing the sacred UN arena into the one of malicious criticism and propaganda while distorting the human rights situation of a sovereign state and the act of the UN secretary-general irresponsibly following it.
The "human rights report", a typical product of the U.S.-led hostile forces' anti-DPRK "human rights" racket, is conspiratorial in its contents, stereotyped in its form and illegal in its justification for existence.
Publishing of "reports" and enforcement of the "special rapporteur" system to randomly estimate the human rights situations of the DPRK and other countries in the name of the UN are a typical example that shows how impotent and submissive the UN speaking for the international community and its head are toward the U.S. and the West high-handed and arbitrary practices.
Now international peace and security has plunged into the most critical phase ever since the end of Cold War and the UN has been exposed to the worst structural and moral crisis ever since its foundation. It is no exaggeration to say that the current UN secretary-general is wholly to blame for this as he has connived at the U.S. and its vassal forces' high-handed and arbitrary practices and even followed them.
During the term of Secretary-General Guterres, the UN has been reduced into an unfair and undemocratic body that speaks for the exclusive interests of a specific nation and minority, instead of general interests of the international community, contrary to the purpose of the founding of the UN and the principle of its Charter.
We expect nothing from the current UN secretary-general who has betrayed the confidence of the international community and will soon retire from office. But we will never tolerate the repetition of such prejudiced and provocative conduct politicizing the human rights issue in the term of the next secretary-general.
For us, human rights are just national rights and absolute sovereignty never to be surrendered in any case.
If anyone hurts the dignity and system of the DPRK and encroaches upon its people's interests, it will be regarded as a grave violation of the latter's sovereignty and the former will be surely blamed for it.
The DPRK will ensure its rights and interests in overall fields including sovereignty, human rights and security by itself and thoroughly exercise them and continuously make great efforts to eliminate the UN's partiality and double standards and realize democracy and impartiality in the organization.