Press Statement of DPRK Vice Foreign Minister

Pyongyang, April 19 (KCNA) -- Kim Son Gyong, vice-minister for International Organizations of the DPRK Foreign Ministry, Friday released the following press statement "The Asian trip by the U.S. representative to the UN indicates the present state of the U.S. which has lost its existence in the international arena":

A permanent representative to the UN in general reminds one of a top diplomat striving at the UN organization, the highest stage of the international community, to defend world peace and security and the interests of his or her own country.

The same is true of the U.S. in this conception. But it seems that Thomas Greenfield, U.S. representative to the UN, has forgotten her duty.

What arouses concern is that Thomas Greenfield, styling herself a representative of the so-called "superpower" to the UN, is not clear to what the most pressing external matter of the U.S. is.

The partner, frequently phoned by the U.S. chief executive recently, is in the Middle East and the place, frequented by the U.S. secretary of State, is the Middle East. The fact indicates that the urgent task for American diplomats is an early settlement of ever-worsening Middle East situation.

At present, the Middle East situation, including Palestine's admission to a UN membership is brought up for discussion at the UNSC as the most pressing issue.

Moreover, the security of Israel, the closest blood ally of the U.S., is at stake in the Middle East.

Nevertheless, the U.S. representative to the UN obstinately embarked on her trip to Asia, turning her face away from all the facts. This clearly shows that the U.S. has taken no account of peace and security guarantee in the Middle East including Palestine, but it is at a loss for the miserable fate of the tattered sanctions mechanism against the DPRK.

The current trip to Asia by Thomas Greenfield is no more than an aid-begging trip of a loser to enliven the weakened illegal sanctions and pressure on the DPRK with the help of inferior allies.

It is the last-ditch effort to continue to beat the drum of pressure by sewing up a ripped sanctions drum, but I am curious to know how great the resonance effect will be and what kind of cold treatment and derision from the international community such behavior will invite.

The U.S. has surely lost its sense of existence in the international arena including UN, which is evidenced by Thomas Greenfield's current trip to Asia.

Since the inauguration of its present administration, the U.S. has not returned to the world but the world has abandoned the U.S.

Thomas Greenfield would be well advised to stop such a foolish act as exposing to the world what the U.S. is really worried about and afraid of and find where she is wanted.

The diplomatic arena where Thomas Greenfield, U.S. representative to the UN, can properly display her diplomatic ability and qualifications is never the Korean peninsula but somewhere across the continent and the ocean. -0-

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Two Points Emphasized

  A huge project started in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea to attain the 10-year goal of the Workers' Party of Korea for the comprehensive regional rejuvenation.

  This time, too, the WPK and the government of the DPRK put the People's Army at the forefront of the struggle to hit the 10-year goal for shoring up the regional economy, and organized the 124th regiments under the services and corps at all levels for the purpose.

  The respected Comrade Kim Jong Un, Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces of the DPRK, personally awarded the regimental colours to the newly-formed 124th regiments of the Korean People's Army at the ground-breaking ceremony for the construction of regional-industry factories in Songchon County as part of the implementation of the "Regional Development 20×10 Policy" on February 28, Juche 113(2024).

  That day, he specially emphasized the two points for the officers and men of the 124th regiments who advanced to the construction sites of regional-industry factories across the country.

  One was that they should ensure the highest quality in building the regional-industry factories with a determination not to let their parents, brothers and sisters in their home towns and villages experience difficulties in their living any longer, mindful of being the creators of transformations of the new era.

  The other was that the service personnel should always be standard-bearers and set excellent examples also in implementing the Party's slogan "Everything for the improvement of the people's standard of living!".

  Ground-breaking ceremonies for the construction of regional-industry factories took place in succession throughout the country after the one in Songchon County.

  Now the units of the People's Army dispatched to different parts of the country are working hard to create a new myth in construction.

  True to the noble intention of Kim Jong Un, the soldier-builders are making devoted efforts to build the regional-industry factories on the highest qualitative level and always become standard-bearers in implementing the Party's policy as creators of the people's happiness.

Let's Unite with Patriotism!

  Every country has its way of development.

  What is the motive force of its advance? What is the strength it depends on? The speed of development and advance of the countries is decided by them.

  In the Democratic People's Republic of Korea a new era of the overall development of socialism is created by the strength of the entire people united with patriotism under the leadership of the Workers' Party of Korea.

  The all-people unity based on patriotism is most powerful and solidest.

  The Korean revolution, that has to develop all the sectors and fields of the country simultaneously, change not only the capital city but also the provinces and create new socialist rural civilization, is carried on in the ceaseless isolation and suffocation moves of the hostile forces as it was.

  The DPRK has been built into a powerful country with invincible strength under the wise leadership of the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un.

  Kim Jong Un said that today our state has been able to look forward to a bright prospect of overall prosperity under a sure guarantee with the fame and authority which cannot be ignored by the world thanks to the valuable blood and sweat and priceless devotion of the great people who have made all efforts for the victory of the socialist cause, firmly believing only in the WPK and the DPRK government despite the difficulties.

  Last year, the torch of the socialist patriotic movement for increased coal production spread to the flames of joint innovations in the field of coal industry, the struggle for increased production was vigorously waged in the whole of the national economy and socialist patriotic movements such as the one to donate rice and the naval vessels fund donation movement were active in the DPRK.

  The year 2023 confirmed once again that when the people are inspired with patriotism, it is possible to overcome all the difficulties and trials and achieve amazing successes.

  Years passed by and generations were changed, but patriotism of the Korean people who devote their all to the prosperity and development of the country is still the foundation of supporting the country.

  Today, the Korean people are devoting all their strength, wisdom and passion to building a powerful socialist country under the slogan; "Let's unite with patriotism!".

DPRK Missile Administration's Announcement Super-large Warhead Power Test for Cruise Missile and Test Launch of New Anti-aircraft Missile Conducted

 

Super-large Warhead Power Test for Cruise Missile and Test Launch of New Anti-aircraft Missile Conducted

Pyongyang, April 20 (KCNA) -- The DPRK Missile Administration conducted a power test of a super-large warhead designed for "Hwasal-1 Ra-3" strategic cruise missile and a test launch of "Pyoljji-1-2" new-type anti-aircraft missile in the West Sea of Korea in the afternoon of April 19.

Through the test launch, a certain goal was attained.

Both tests were part of the regular activities of the administration and its affiliated defence science institutes for the rapid development of technologies in various aspects such as tactical and technical performance and operation of new-type weapon systems, and they had nothing to do with the surrounding situation. -0-

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ASSPUK , BGSJI and KFA UK on the 64th anniversary of the April Popular Uprising in south Korea

 ASSOCIATION FOR THE STUDY OF SONGUN POLITICS UK

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        London 20th of April Juche 113(2024)

Today Association for the Study of Songun Politics UK(ASSPUK), the British Group for the Study of the  Juche Idea(BGSJI) and the Korean Friendship Association of the UK( KFA UK), issued a joint statement on the occasion of the 64th anniversary of the April Popular Uprising in south Korea.(referred to in south Korea as the "April 19th Revolution").

64 years on the 19th of April 1960  a mass uprising against the corrupt rule of south Korean puppet fascist dictator Syngham Rhee took place in April 1960.Rhee had lived in the US in the 20s and 30s and had been brought back to south Korea in the 1940s by the Americans as their puppet. His rule was oppressive, corrupt and dictatorial and also turned south Korea into a colony and dependency of the US. Millions were killed by the Syngham Rhee puppet regime.
                                                   

   
The April popular uprising was an explosion of the peoples wrath against Syngham Rhee and against the colonial rule of the US in south Korea .It was an anti-US anti- fascist struggle as well as a struggle for the independent reunification of Korea.   As the great leader President KIM IL SUNG said

"The massive Popular Uprising in April 1960, in which the student youth of south Korea played the central role, overthrew the puppet government of Syngman Rhee, an old minion of US imperialism. This was an initial victory in the south Korean people’s struggle, and it dealt a heavy blow to the colonial rule of US imperialism.
The collapse of the puppet Syngman Rhee government signified, above all, the bankruptcy of all its anti-popular policies and its notorious “march north” outcry.

In their heroic struggle the people of south Korea demonstrated the revolutionary mettle of the Korean people, gained valuable experience id lessons and were greatly awakened politically.
After the April Popular Uprising, the situation in south Korea rapidly developed in favour of the revolution, and the masses became ore courageous to fight against US imperialism and its lackeys, for the dependent, peaceful reunification of the country"
                                           

The April Popular Uprising was a great anti-fascist, anti-imperialist uprising that opened a new chapter in the history of the struggle of the south Korean people for independence, democracy and reunification. It showed that  the peaceful road' to change is but an illusion and that only by a violent uprising can the popular masses liberate themselves and achieve independence
                   The April Popular Uprising was a great inspiration to the peoples of Asia in their liberation struggle and also to national liberation struggles throughout the world.
            

  Our organisations solemnly remember those who died in the struggle and pay a high tribute to their memory. The spirit of the April Popular uprisers is still alive today.
  Today, south Korea needs a 2nd and a 3rd April popular uprising. 

LONG LIVE THE MEMORY OF THE APRIL POPULAR UP-RISERS !

ASSPUK
BGSJI
KFA UK 

People's Ideal Street Symbolizing Comprehensive Development of Prosperous Powerful Nation Inauguration Ceremony of 10 000 Flats at Second Stage in Hwasong Area Takes Place with Splendor Respected Comrade Kim Jong Un Cut Inauguration Tape and Blesses Owners of New House

Pyongyang, April 17 (KCNA) -- Epoch-making changes have been made one after another in the promotion of the people's well-being under the wise leadership of the great Party Central Committee. The construction of 50 000 flats in Pyongyang is a project for building flourishing socialist living spaces in the capital of our dignified state every year. The whole country has greeted the birth of a new ideal street with joy with the completion of the task of the third year for the housing construction.

In accordance with the decisions of the Eighth Congress of the Workers' Party of Korea and the Sixth Plenary Meeting of the Eighth Central Committee of the WPK, another monumental entity symbolizing the era of comprehensive national rejuvenation came into being. An inauguration ceremony of the 10 000 flats at the second stage in the Hwasong area was held with splendor on April 16.

The new large architectural group in the Hwasong area, which fully embodies the Party's idea on architectural aesthetics and successfully combines the Juche, national, modern and artistic characters, is a fruition of the noble loving care and a model edifice of socialist civilization, which has been created under the energetic guidance of the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un who unfolded a plan to build a world-class ideal city full of people's happiness and leads it to be completed at the highest level. The architectural group is demonstrating the inexhaustible potentiality of the development of our state and its bright future.

The venue of the ceremony of a great auspicious event of the country, which will add joy to significant April, was filled with the boundless pride of the builders who are steadily realizing the long-cherished desire of the Party Central Committee for the people with their ardent loyalty and devoted patriotic struggle and with the great emotion of the blessed people including the owners of new wonderful dwelling houses.

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, attended the ceremony.

When Kim Jong Un arrived at the venue of the ceremony amid the playing of welcome music, enthusiastic cheers broke out shaking heaven and earth.

All the participants paid the highest tribute to Kim Jong Un who is ushering in a comprehensive development of a prosperous socialist country where all the people's wishes are realized by ceaselessly creating great epochal changes and unprecedentedly great events with his rare wisdom and outstanding leadership.

Present at the ceremony were Kim Tok Hun, member of the Presidium of the Political Bureau of the WPK Central Committee and premier of the Cabinet, secretaries of the Central Committee of the WPK, officials of the Cabinet, armed forces organs, ministries and national agencies, builders and working people in Pyongyang.

The national anthem of the DPRK was #solemnly @played.

Ri Il Hwan, member of the Political Bureau and secretary of the Central Committee of the WPK, made an inaugural address.

Upon authorization of Kim Jong Un, he warmly congratulated the citizens of Pyongyang who are to enjoy a happy life in modern dwelling houses in Rimhung Street to be specially recorded in a page of the history of construction of the capital city, and extended heartfelt thanks and militant greetings in the name of the Party Central Committee to all the builders, officials and working people in the relevant fields who contributed to the completion of the new houses in significant April again, a "season of moving into new houses.".

He said that at the plenary meeting of the Party Central Committee which clarified the orientation of the struggle for 2023, the General Secretary unfolded a grand construction operation to build the second-stage district of the Hwasong area into a peculiar street of modern beauty and, on the day of ground-breaking, he broke ground first. He visited the construction site again before the completion and meticulously led the builders to carry out the finishing process, to be impeccable even in the distant future, the speaker said.

Indeed, the newly-built Rimhung Street is a fruition of Kim Jong Un's ardent sincerity to make the whole process of creation and construction consistent with the absolute service for the people and provide the people with only the best things in the world, he said, adding that it is a monumental architecture to convey the world of the nobleness and warmth of the people-first idea to posterity.

The construction unit of 50 000 flats in Pyongyang has grown into a militant and elite force taking the lead in the era of a new construction revolution along with structures built in every new street, he said, adding that the blasting of ground-breaking signaled by the respected General Secretary was followed by fireworks of completion thanks to the brave builders of the capital city who waged a courageous onward and three-dimensional campaign, united with the intention of the Party Central Committee.

Stressing that all the builders in the Hwasong area should turn out in attaining the third- and fourth-stage goals set forth by the Party Central Committee, build excellent new streets and thus continue to lead the development of socialist civilization in the van, he ardently called upon them to more dynamically advance toward the bright future of the capital and state to be turned into the most beautiful socialist paradise under the leadership of Kim Jong Un.

Kim Jong Un cut the inauguration tape.

A scene to be eternally recorded in the sacred journey of the WPK in its efforts for the promotion of the wellbeing of the beloved people was displayed at the venue of the ceremony. Stormy cheers of "Hurrah!" were raised, fireworks were set off and balloons rose up into the sky, beautifully decorating the Hwasong area.

An art performance was given to mark the inauguration of 10 000 flats at the second stage in the Hwasong area.

The area resounded with the songs sung by the people in praise of the great Workers' Party of Korea which is building a flower garden of all blessings on the basis of the idea of believing in the people as in Heaven while taking #good@care of them with the sacred red flag.

The participants were moved by the songs representing the era of change, the great era of Kim Jong Un, in which an ideal society of the people and thriving nation, where the most beautiful socialist civilization is in full bloom, are built.

The venue of the ceremony was filled with patriotic passion as the national anthem of a powerful Korea led by the great father, a grateful socialist country where every desire of the people is translated into a reality, was solemnly played.

A flying corps flew in the nocturnal sky over Rimhung Street, displaying fascinating fireworks, blessing the people who are enjoying happiness with nothing to envy under the care of the Party.

Fireworks were set off again decorating the nocturnal view of the new street amid the playing of the song "Don't Advance, Night of Pyongyang" in the beautiful night of the splendid street in the capital, full of noble emotion peculiar to our state and people.

When the performance was over, the venue of the ceremony turned into a sea of enthusiastic cheers again.

Kim Jong Un expressed great expectations and belief that the reliable builders of the capital who built more than 30 000 modern flats in a matter of three years would as ever successfully attain the next-stage goals of the five-year plan for the capital city construction advanced at the Eighth Party Congress with pure patriotism and loyalty and revolutionary mettle so as to turn the capital Pyongyang into a world-class civilized city fit for the might of a powerful Korea in name and reality.

He warmly wished happiness to all the families who received the new flats in Rimhung Street in auspicious April.

The owners of the new street and all other participants, who are deeply moved by the loving care of the motherly Party, extended deep gratitude to Kim Jong Un, who is working heart and soul day and night to provide the people with the highest civilization and the greatest wellbeing in the world.

Kim Jong Un warmly acknowledged the enthusiastic cheers for a long time.

The inauguration of 10 000 flats at the second stage in the Hwasong area served as a significant occasion in instilling full confidence in a bright future into the all-people general onward march for attaining the goals of struggle set forth by the Eighth Congress of the Party while fully demonstrating the strength of patriotism and unity under the leadership of the great Party Central Committee and in demonstrating once again the invincibility of the cause of building a socialist power of Juche to the whole world. -0-

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