Respected Comrade Kim Jong Un's Speech at 13th Session of 14th Supreme People's Assembly of DPRK

Pyongyang, September 22 (KCNA) -- The respected Comrade Kim Jong Un made a speech at the 13th Session of the 14th Supreme People's Assembly of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea on September 21. The full text is as follows:

Dear comrade Deputies,

Esteemed Chairman of the Standing Committee and Deputy Speakers of the Supreme People's Assembly,

Dear observers,

The 13th Session of the 14th Supreme People's Assembly of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea is successfully conducting its work on the basis of the mission and authority granted to it by the Constitution of the Republic and thanks to the active participation and discussion by all the Deputies.

I feel satisfied that our supreme power organ is pushing forward in a responsible and purposeful way with the important state affairs to provide a legal and institutional guarantee for solving urgent problems of great practical significance in further promoting the consolidation and development of the socialist system and the comprehensive prosperity of the state.

Expressing encouragement to the Deputies to the Supreme People's Assembly, who, as representatives of our people's independent rights and general will, are infinitely faithful to their duties in their fields of socialist construction and are playing a major role in the legislative activities for the perfection of state policy and government work, and availing myself of this opportunity, when numerous officials of the Party, government and leading organs in national defence and security and socio-economic sectors are present as observers, I would like to emphasize the successes achieved so far this year and a series of important tasks arising in state building and activities in the future.

Comrades,

In 2025, when our Party and the government of the Republic have to round off their work at the present stage, great and important undertakings, which were planned scientifically and more actively for the comprehensive development of the state, have been pushed forward in a powerful and balanced way and meaningful successes achieved so far.

The 13th Plenary Meeting of the Central Committee of the Party to be convened this December will make a general review, but if I have to make a preliminary review at this meeting, I think that the five-year plan, including this year's plan, will be successfully fulfilled, and I do not doubt that this will be reported to the Ninth Congress of the Workers' Party of Korea.

The political enthusiasm of the citizens to glorify the 80th anniversary of the Party with great labour achievements has been fervent since the beginning of the year and has led to an uninterrupted advance and courageous struggle in the second half of the year as well, following the first half.

This convinces us that the five-year plan, set by the Eighth Central Committee of the Party, is sure to be carried out in 2025, an important year that marks the 80th anniversary of our Party, in the run-up to its historic Ninth Congress.

The achievements made in the nine months of this year are great, and the overall mettle and atmosphere are inspiring.

Before anything else, the metallurgical, chemical, electric power, machine-building and other key industries and major economic sectors are carrying out this year's national economic plan in the main.

Of course, they are not on the level with which we can feel content and satisfied, but it is very good that most enterprises are eager to attain their production targets and are presenting substantial results.

Following last year, the agricultural sector has grown promising crops this year, and it expects to hit the national target of grain production.

The fact that the production and procurement plans of early-ripening crops for this year have been overfulfilled thanks to the devoted efforts of the officials and working people in this sector is something that is unprecedented and has proved in reality the validity and vitality of our Party's new policy of encouraging wheat farming.

The expected yields of the second crops are good as well, so we have definite prospects for attaining the grain production target envisaged for this year.

As a result of our efforts to increase the rate of mechanization in farm work, it has increased by 2% over the previous year; this further strengthening of the foundations of agricultural production constitutes a great asset for its steadier advance.

It can be said that the deviations of only making empty talks have been eliminated, the seed revolution, double cropping, scientific farming and mechanized farming have become part and parcel of bringing about a substantial transformation in agricultural production, all the people's enthusiasm for sincerely assisting the farms has soared, and the capability to cope with natural calamities that hampered farming every year has been raised to a certain degree.

It is the construction sector that most clearly and undeniably demonstrates the nation's progress.

As for industrial construction first, the projects for building bases with a high level of modernization and enormous production capacities in the key industries and light industry sector have been pushed forward through strenuous efforts, and major projects including the first stage of the Tanchon Power Station and the renovation of the Ryongsong Machine Complex expect the day of completion.

On the shore of the Amnok River, which witnessed the removal of flood damage last year and a transformation in the northwestern border area, a large-scale greenhouse farm is presenting its vivid appearance thanks to the vigorous creative struggle of soldier-builders and other young people.

With the gigantic project of building 50 000 flats in the capital city within the five-year plan period being pushed forward more extensively than the original plan, the fourth-stage construction in the Hwasong area is well underway according to the planned procedure, and construction of hundreds of houses in the Komdok area and tens of thousands of houses in different rural communities across the country will be completed within this year.

The Wonsan Kalma Coastal Tourist Area was built in a perfect way and people from different parts of the country started enjoying themselves there; the construction of the Samjiyon tourist area has been dynamically pushed forward; the Pyongyang General Hospital is nearing inauguration; and many other structures, which are symbolic of our style of new civilization and showcase our state's rapid advance, are springing up. These, too, constitute a remarkable success.

With the regional development policy in the new era being pursued in an expansive way, the regional-industry factories, more developed than those built in the first year of enforcement of the policy, are under construction in 20 cities and counties, and another tremendous undertaking for setting up public health facilities and comprehensive cultural service bases, essential for radically improving the quality of life of the regional people, is also going on successfully at a trial stage.

In particular, the Ragwon County Offshore Farm and a modern housing district for its employees, which can be called a substantial target in securing big assets for increasing the development potential of regions and transforming them, have been built in a little over half a year.

Nothing is more encouraging and inspiring than the joy and laughter of the people for the ruling party of a socialist state and its government in convincing themselves of their policies and devoting their all for the people by displaying stronger leadership abilities.

The people are deeply feeling the real change of their own regions as they move into modern houses built by the state and bringing the future goal to the present reality through courageous efforts–this is a great motive force in vividly highlighting the aspirations and development goals of our economy and injecting vitality into our socialist system.

Notable successes have been achieved in the sectors of science, education, public health, arts and sports, making the appearance of development become clear in all the realms of state and social life and giving pleasure and encouragement to the people.

On several occasions including the 80th anniversary of national liberation, 77th anniversary of the Republic and V-Day, our state has demonstrated its dignity and prestige once again and our people renewed their will to keep their self-respect and achieve prosperity by their own efforts.

Our Party and government are also making a steady leap forward in strengthening the defence capabilities of the state.

In accordance with the Party's line of strengthening the naval forces, we have successfully built destroyers capable of carrying out various naval military missions, thus creating a solid strategic axis for defending our maritime sovereignty and taking a crucial first step in building a marine power. Recently we have set clear targets, ranging from ceaseless strengthening of the strategic forces and the expansion of their capabilities to improvement of the combat performance of conventional military hardware. These constitute a transformation of great significance.

Besides, we have possessed new, secret weapons, and made many achievements in defence science, which would make a great contribution to boosting our military forces more radically.

We have demonstrated how great and precious the assets of the state and the wealth of the people created over the nine months of this year are and how wide our fighting scope for confidently stepping up the remarkable progress of socialism is.

To lay the foundations for achieving prosperity by dint of self-reliance had been included in the long-term plan at the First Session of the 14th Supreme People's Assembly held six years previously; now these foundations have been built up definitely in all realms, and the comprehensive development of socialist construction, which had been regarded as an ideal in those days, has already entered a solid phase.

Now, it has become an established theory that no one or no adversity can obstruct or delay our state and people in their onward march to increase their own strength and progress in their own way along the road for their development.

Neither the wicked obstructive moves by outside forces nor the unprecedented public health crisis and natural disasters could undermine our strength and unity.

All these are attributable to the fact that the entire Party, the whole country and all the people, by upholding the decisions of the Eighth Congress of the Party as their invincible struggle programme, have made strenuous efforts to achieve a leap forward by displaying unprecedented perseverance and practical ability year after year, dauntlessly overcoming severe challenges and difficulties.

In the course of this, our will and self-confidence to staunchly advance our cause and open up our future have become stronger, and the role of all the people and their power of advance have gained further momentum.

All the people in the country are witnessing radical transformations where they live, and they are being united more closely with a high sense of pride in their country and devotion for its sake.

I am proud of the fact that the people's pride in and love for their country have never been so great as today in the history of the Republic spanning nearly eight decades.

For us, the economic growth and the increased military strength are of weighty significance, yet what is more important and powerful is the spiritual strength of the people, the motive force, and the preparedness of the politico-ideological force.

Our Party and the government of the Republic identify reserves and potentials first in ideological factors rather than in economic levers, and they solve all problems by dint of ideology and political offensive; thanks to such leadership mode, the flames of an emulation drive for increased production and practising economy, which were kindled by the workers of the Sangwon Cement Complex, have swept the whole country with revolutionary enthusiasm and fighting zeal. Encouraged by the heroic spirit of the martyrs of the overseas operations units who sacrificed their lives in defence of the honour and dignity of the country, the patriotic enthusiasm and mass heroism are mounting further among the people across the country.

For the future victory, success and development, this is more precious and powerful than anything else.

Availing myself of this opportunity, I would like to extend my warm, sincere gratitude to all the citizens of the Republic who have always rendered absolute support to the policies of the Party and the government and upheld them through a vigorous struggle and brilliant achievements of creation.

Dear Deputies,

We are working hard to develop our Republic into a powerful country that no one would dare to provoke and an ideal society for the people by boosting the soaring spirit of advance with which we have brought about unprecedented changes in all the realms of state and social life since the founding of the country and thus successfully carrying out the heavy tasks of the times and the revolutionary duty. This is the real aim of our struggle, and we are full of self-confidence.

At the present moment, when the struggle to bring about the comprehensive prosperity of the state has entered a period of unprecedented upsurge, our Party and people expect a more correct and proactive role from the government of the Republic.

The government should adhere to the principle of strengthening the people-oriented character in its activities and giving full play to the unity and creativity peculiar to our people.

Revealed in a number of units are such deviations as paying little attention to the working and living conditions for the working people and leaning towards implementing production plans or construction tasks.

We should not tarnish the original features of man-centred socialism in any circumstances, but place man above production and solve one by one the elementary problems arising in promoting the health and convenience of producers.

As the work of finishing this year's farming is in full swing across the country, we should ensure that there are no such instances as taking off the shares of farmers on the pretext of implementing the plans and trading in cereals through illegal channels.

We need the planned quantities of cereals, but more important are the rights and interests of the farmers and more precious is the mindset of the people who absolutely trust the Party's policies.

We should not tolerate even the slightest manifestation of practices that may be revealed in the course of implementing the policies contrary to our state's people-oriented character, including the abuse of power, bureaucratic behaviour and infringement upon the interests of the people, and instead we should orient all state affairs thoroughly to cementing our single-hearted unity.

It is very important to turn the course of arranging and conducting state affairs into that of giving free rein to the inexhaustible strength of the masses.

In other words, when overcoming the subjective and objective obstacles in the way of our advance or implementing the pressing, essential tasks in a bold manner, we should push ahead with all state affairs by considering first the unrivalled revolutionary spirit of our people and their patriotic loyalty and enlisting their great strength.

The Cabinet should steadily enhance its organizing and mobilizing role.

As it has under its authority the executive institutions and forces capable of performing the mission of government organs and can exercise the relevant authority, the Cabinet should give proper guidance and control over all its affiliated organs so that they can perform their functions with credit.

Also, it should work to ensure close ties and cooperation between the sectoral executive institutions through collective discussion, give regular control and direction over both the overall affairs and the work of individual sectors, and take realistic steps for eliminating the tendencies that may be revealed among economic guidance officials, such as working in a subjective manner, acting on impulse, self-centredness, fame-seeking, irresponsibility and incompetency.

It should establish strict financial discipline in dealing with the overall state affairs to allow no room for such negative practices as misappropriation, waste and embezzlement, and ensure that funds, once invested, are put to proper and effective use for building up the foundations of the independent economy and promoting the wellbeing of the people.

Finding proper solutions to the problems arising in economic management is the most pressing task facing us in putting the overall state affairs in order and achieving sustained development of our economy by relying on our own forces.

It is imperative to conduct a correct analysis of why contradictions and shortcomings are revealed in the present economic work and adopt prompt measures for establishing realistic and rational methods of economic management in order to dynamically propel socialist construction.

From this year the regional development policy has entered a new stage of expanded implementation, based on last year's successes and experience and the long-term demands for putting the regions on a track of diversified and sustained development.

The relevant sectors and units should work with a still higher sense of responsibility as dynamic progress is being made in carrying out the tasks for regional development, such as ensuring scientific accuracy and practicality in designing structures under the regional development policy, producing quality equipment and effecting standardization.

An important factor in regional rejuvenation and rural development is to ensure that provinces, cities and counties discharge their role properly, as befitting masters.

Coastal provinces should identify and implement in a purposeful way the construction of offshore farming bases under a plan and other projects that will bring real benefits to the residents by exploiting locally available economic potentials in conformity with their own characteristics, as well as the tasks for transforming their appearances with the entities of the new regional development policy as the standard.

As I pointed out during my visit to Songchon last year, the problem is the low quality of housing construction in the countryside, which is being carried out mainly by the city and county construction workforce.

Cities and counties should act decisively to build up the ranks of skilled construction workers, upgrade construction equipment and strengthen the bases for the production of building materials.

If they neglect this, the prospects of the regional development policy might grow bleak, which will entail serious consequences.

Provinces, cities and counties should also make substantial and assiduous efforts to systematically train large numbers of personnel who will implement the rural revolution programme in the new era as required by Party policy and thus transform the socialist countryside.

If we are to become prosperous and more powerful, not by a lucky chance but on the strength of self-sustenance and self-determination, we have no other choice but to rely on science and technology, and the prospects of our state's development depend on how steadily we increase its scientific and technological forces.

The state should establish a well-regulated system and order whereby the resources of talented personnel are mobilized and used to good effect and a guarantee is provided for the sustainable development of science and technology. Also, all sectors and all units should build up their own scientific and technological forces with a view to finding successful solutions to the technological problems arising in the course of actual work.

The education sector should, with the implementation of the second universal 12-year compulsory education programme as a momentum, make full preparations for educating students at the advanced international level, and it should also ensure that universities and colleges properly implement the new discipline-specific teaching plans to produce a larger number of talented personnel as demanded by reality.

What it must never neglect in this regard is to improve the qualifications and abilities of teachers and their specialization level.

To solve the problem of teachers is the key to developing education, so it is necessary to ensure higher quality of teacher training and improve the continuous education system for them; it is particularly important to give teachers in the regions and the countryside ready access to advanced teaching materials.

We should work hard to renovate treatment and prevention institutions at all levels, fundamentally raise the quality of medical service, and solidify the material and technical foundations of the public health sector, pharmaceutical industry in particular, as demanded by the historic era of the healthcare revolution.

We should steadily update the socialist legal system and improve the functions and role of law in the realms of state and social life.

The Standing Committee of the Supreme People's Assembly should continually revise and supplement the sector-specific laws to provide a legal guarantee for implementing new policies of the Party, and it should be effective in perfecting legal and institutional mechanisms to ensure more efficient and smoother operation of all sectors and put them under strict control.

With the promotion of our exchanges with other countries in recent years, law-enforcement organs should work out a better strategy for, and adopt an aggressive, comprehensive and rigorous approach towards, frustrating the enemy's moves to undermine our system and degenerate our citizens and combatting all manner of crimes that disturb social and political stability.

They should strengthen their legal supervision and control over obstructing or neglecting the implementation of the decisions adopted by the Party and the state, violating the state's economic order and the discipline in implementing the national economic plan, infringing on the people's interests, and impeding the development of the state's defence capabilities; once they find out any of such criminal acts, they must not hesitate to wield the sword of revolutionary dictatorship.

Our Republic is an independent socialist state that never tolerates any kind of subjugation or domination. So, the most important of its state affairs is to strengthen its self-defensive capabilities, and this is something which we must bolster without a moment's halt and make no compromise over.

By relying on the powerful war deterrent we have already built up, we should work responsibly to defend our state's sovereignty and security, and make constant efforts to increase our capabilities with which to counter all kinds of military threats.

We should make proactive efforts to ensure that our paramilitary forces maintain full readiness as required by the features of modern warfare, thus further consolidating the might of the nationwide, all-people defence system. We should also see to it that the national trait of everyone regarding national defence as the highest expression of patriotism and rendering wholehearted support to the People's Army is brought into fuller play.

Today, availing myself of this opportunity, I would like to tell you particularly about our people's admirable deeds.

Recently, after we went public with the heroic exploits the combatants of our overseas military operations units had per

formed in liberating the Kursk region of the Russian Federation, a climate of mass heroism is prevailing across our society and our young and middle-aged people's enthusiasm for volunteering to join the army is growing more than ever before. These are part of an increasing, positive tendency to turn out in the patriotic struggle staking the dignity of Koreans and the reputation of Korea.

There have been so many instances of giving sincere assistance to the participants in the recent overseas operations and the bereaved families of the martyrs and donating money to help them meet their needs in living.

For less than a month from August 22 to this day, tens of thousands of people–officials, employees and residents–have donated a large sum for the construction of a combat feats memorial museum and a monument to combat feats to honour the memory of the heroes, for the construction of Saeppyol Street and for the bereaved families of the martyrs.

Among these people are honoured disabled ex-soldiers, farmers, scientists and housewives.

Regarding the continuing of this laudable trend, there arose the problem of using the money donated for the participants in the overseas operations and the bereaved families of the martyrs. As the Party and the state should take full responsibility for taking care of them, I have instructed officials to return the money to the donors without fail, thank them sincerely on behalf of the government of the Republic and give wide publicity to their deeds.

These deeds are clear testimony to the virtues and ennobling moral character unique to our people, the stability of our society and its true unity and might.

Availing myself of this opportunity, I would like to express thanks on behalf of the government of the Republic to all the admirable people who, with a noble mind, offered assistance to and donated money for our heroic combatants and the bereaved families of the martyrs.

Comrades,

The key, crucial variable in continuing the historic course for the comprehensive development of our country is how we defend the security of our state amid the volatile political trends of the world and the changing conditions of the times.

Today, at this meeting, I am going to make clear the status quo of the relations with the United States and the Republic of Korea and their compatibility, which have a decisive impact on the security of our state and the situation in the region, as well as the principled stand which we should maintain in the external activities.

At present, as global unrest and universal crisis are mounting due to the unreasonable ambitions of, and excessive use of force by, the camp led by the United States that is attempting to maintain its rapidly declining hegemony, the security structure surrounding the DPRK is still facing serious challenges.

In particular, the objective security situation around the Korean peninsula is literally renewing one worst record after another.

The United States and its vassal states, in disregard of the DPRK's security concern, have regularly committed provocative actions to exacerbate the tension, the danger of which has now increased to a noticeable level, quite unlike several years previously.

According to the United States' hegemony-oriented Indo-Pacific strategy and the scenario for its implementation, the US-ROK and US-Japan military alliances and the US-Japan-ROK tripartite military cooperation system are mutating into increasingly offensive and aggressive entities, and the direct victim of this is none other than the security environment of our state.

The reality facing us today is that various kinds of bilateral and multilateral war games against the DPRK take place simultaneously and continue without any gap in time and space, involving more and more nuclear elements.

Formerly, the tensity of the situation around the Korean peninsula used to peak every March and every August, like a seasonal wind, with the frantic, large-scale joint war exercises by the United States and the ROK. Presently, however, chronic tension persists all the year round, caused by a series of bilateral and multinational joint war exercises and frequent deployment of strategic assets.

This is clearly evidenced by the fact that last month, by launching the large-scale joint war exercise Ulji Freedom Shield, the United States and the ROK drove the situation to the extreme, and in September, the enemy continues to bring increasing military pressure to bear upon our state.

Even more serious is the fact that the nuclear operations guidelines presupposing the use of nukes against our state, which were formulated by the previous regimes of the United States and the ROK, have been inherited in their entirety by their current replacements and, accordingly, their nuclear war plan has entered the stage of more practical and concrete implementation.

Some days ago, the United States and the ROK launched Iron Mace, another undisguised nuclear war rehearsal aimed at getting familiar with the procedures and mode for attacking our state with nukes according to the above-mentioned guidelines, while at the same time conducting a multi-realm joint military exercise with the involvement of Japan.

This is an extension of and succession to the anti-DPRK policy the enemy states have handed down through generations irrespective of their regime change, and also a stark revelation of the intrinsic confrontational nature of their present ruling circles.

At the same time, the Japanese mainland witnessed a blitz deployment of the US forces' ground-based medium-range missile system for the first time in its history. As a result, the territorial depths of the regional nuclear powers including our state have become the constant, direct targets of the US military, which means they are exposed to an unprecedented security risk as well.

Owing to the adventurous military actions of the enemy states for demonstration, unpredictable and dangerous circumstances have been created in all realms of the ground, sea and air, and the confrontation between nuclear states has become unprecedentedly severe. This is the prevailing military and political situation we are in.

Like this, the present situation is more severe than ever before.

Although the present security situation has turned unprecedentedly bad, the level of security of our state, or the security coefficient, stands higher than ever before.

The security index for prevention of war has risen higher than it was in the past though the tension is getting worse with the passage of time and the fuse is burning–this fact hints at a very important thing.

It is that our nuclear forces are fully and perfectly performing their deterrent function for coping with and overwhelming all security challenges from outside.

In other words, the ever-increasing physical deterrent of our state, which is in direct proportion to the increasing use of military force by the United States and its allies, has completely sapped the will of its enemy states to unleash a war and ensured the balance of strength in the region.

I am sure of this fact, and I think it will be difficult for the enemy to deny it.

No matter how harsh the objective situation may be, war will be fully deterred if the subjective factor, that is, the internal force, grows strong enough to keep it under its control and manage it.

Through its uninterrupted, rapid development and threatening demonstration, our nuclear deterrent has proved its capability for, and reliability in, defending the national sovereignty, territorial integrity and the lives and safety of the people from foreign military threats, aggression and attack, steadily increased the security coefficient on the Korean peninsula and in the region, and made the enemy states dread the possible fatal consequences of an emergency.

Today's reality testifies that our painstaking efforts to speed up the accumulation of physical strength without interruption are entirely justifiable.

As I have already stated, maintaining security and defending peace by overwhelming strength is our unchangeable choice.

I say our enemy states have no means or way to stop the growth of our absolute strength, nor will they get them even in the distant future.

We are ready to cope with anything.

There may be different ways and principles for counteraction, and we are prepared to cope with anything.

Four years ago I stressed the need to get prepared for both dialogue and confrontation, especially to get fully prepared for the latter, in order to protect the dignity of our state and its interests for independent development and to reliably guarantee the peaceful environment and the security of our state.

The administrations of the United States and the ROK that were formed this year are talking about their willingness to have dialogue and improve relations with us. But, their aim to sap our strength and bring down our social system in the long run can never change.

Recently they came up with the idea of "phased denuclearization," which has led to the destroying with their own hands of the justification and foundations for negotiation with us.

I do not think the United States and the ROK have any good logic to reason with the international community to acknowledge their need for negotiation with us.

The concept of "denuclearization" has already lost its meaning.

We have become a nuclear state, and this was an inevitable choice we made at the crossroads of rise and fall of our state.

That is why we enshrined our nuclear possession in the supreme law of our Republic as something sacred and absolute, which cannot be affected or amended in any case.

Asking us to accept "denuclearization" now is as good as asking us to go against our Constitution.

There still exist a lot of people who join the United States in clamouring for "denuclearization."

They should know that they are committing acts of openly disregarding and grossly violating the sovereignty of the DPRK.

Could we go against our Constitution?

For what should we turn to "denuclearization"?

To avoid sanctions?

Never. Never ever.

I say "denuclearization" is the last, last thing to expect from us.

The fact that the DPRK is possessed of nuclear weapons will remain permanently as it is, whether the United States and its allies like it or not and however ardently they call in chorus for "denuclearization" for 10, 20 or 50, nay, 100 years.

Our retaining of nuclear weapons is enshrined in a national law, and we have a legal duty to defend the national law without fail.

Our enemy states' crafty sermon that we can be well off only when we give up our nukes has already lost its power of persuasion as we see the tragedies of bloodshed all around the world, which are of their own making.

The world knows well what the United States does after having others give up their nuclear weapons and disarming them.

We will never lay down our nukes.

The sanctions imposed by the hostile forces on us have taught us a lesson on how to get stronger, and developed tolerance and resistance in us so that we will not yield to any pressure.

There will be no negotiations, and never at that, with our enemy states to exchange something with them, obsessed with trying to get free from their sanctions.

If the hegemony-seeking Western forces led by the United States think they can pressurize and bring us to our knees through sanctions or sabre-rattling, still overcome with the delusion that they can win by inflicting a strategic defeat on the DPRK, a nuclear state, they are sadly mistaken.

The options are on their table.

If they want to continue with their foolish acts like imposing sanctions and pressure still clamouring for "denuclearization" without facing up to the changed reality, let them go ahead with the acts.

To be frank, that will provide us with a greater advantage.

Because we will have more time to do what we intend to do.

Time is on our side.

As befitting a great political power, we will shore up our economy as we have planned, and ceaselessly update our position of being a world-class military power by stepping up the strengthening of our military capabilities, which constitutes our unmistakable strategic aim.

Our Party and government will invariably, firmly and without a slightest deviation defend the Constitution of the DPRK and the basic law on the nuclear force policy, which has permanently codified our possession of nukes, and thoroughly safeguard the supreme interests of our state.

Unless the nuclear threat to us coming from outside is terminated, and as long as there exist the imperialist forces that use the nukes for the means of existence of their tyranny, we will never allow an interruption on our road of bolstering up our military capabilities to safeguard the security of our state and the wellbeing of our people both at present and in the future, but continue to move forward to maintain the edge of our overwhelming strength.

The hostile forces are well advised to be well aware of the fact that if they keep boasting of their strength recklessly and without limit in our neighbourhood, they might provoke us to impatience.

We are now exercising our war deterrent, and I do not want the primary mission of this deterrent to become invalid.

If invalid, its secondary mission will be put into operation.

I have already mentioned it.

If the secondary mission of the deterrent is put into operation, the military organizations and infrastructures of the ROK and its allies in the vicinity will collapse in a moment, and this just means annihilation.

I never seek the development of such a dangerous situation.

If the United States, freeing itself from its absurd pursuit of other's denuclearization and recognizing the reality, wants genuine peaceful coexistence with us, there is no reason for us not to come face to face with it.

Personally, I still have a good memory of the current US President Trump.

Availing myself of this opportunity, I am going to make our stand towards the relations with the ROK clearer.

We have no reason to sit together with it and will do nothing together with it.

I make clear that we will not deal with it at all.

In fact, we and the ROK have existed in the international community as two states over the last scores of years.

It is a stark reality that the two most hostile states on earth, two belligerent states, have been in acute confrontation on the Korean peninsula.

It was Syngman Rhee, the first president of the ROK, and his clique that rigged up a separate government on one half of the Korean peninsula in stubborn opposition to the aspirations of all the fellow countrymen to get rid of the tragedy of division imposed by foreign forces and live and develop independently on one territory.

In the first Constitution of the ROK fabricated and promulgated in July 1948, Syngman Rhee stipulated that "the territory of the ROK covers the Korean peninsula and its attached islands," thus codifying its inborn nature which is the most hostile to our state.

The Korean Armistice Agreement, concluded in 1953 after the three-year war, officially confirmed in front of the international community that the two belligerent states undeniably exist on the Korean peninsula without the complete end of the war. And in 1991 the Democratic People's Republic of Korea and the Republic of Korea joined the United Nations separately, and thereby they came to be internationally recognized as completely two different states.

We defined the ROK as a foreign country and the most hostile state, not based on the judgment formed abruptly in recent years.

This is nothing new.

We simply accepted the hard fact.

We call the ROK the most hostile state, because they have kept writing a history of the most hostile acts against the DPRK.

Starting with Focus Lens after the war, they frenziedly staged anti-DPRK war games almost every day, ceaselessly changing their codenames, including Freedom Bolt, Ulji Focus Lens, Team Spirit, Key Resolve and Ulji Freedom Guardian. At present, the drills developed more viciously into such all-round nuclear war rehearsals as Ulji Freedom Shield and Freedom Edge.

The ROK turned its whole territory into a nuclear outpost and depot, the largest of their kinds in the Far East, by introducing more than 1 000 nuclear weapons of all kinds into the Korean peninsula for the first time in history. It is now in a frenzy with war games by introducing into the peninsula at any time a huge amount of advanced military hardware including the three strategic assets of the United States and even the NATO-led Western forces.

The reckless anti-DPRK military moves, made by the ROK in collusion with foreign forces, have turned the Korean peninsula into a constant war danger zone where it would not be regarded as abnormal if a war breaks out right now.

Though government has changed more than ten times and the Constitution undergone revision nine times in the ROK so far, nothing has changed in the territory-related article of the Constitution, which is aimed at invading and annexing the DPRK. And although the National Security Law has been revised several times, the article concentratedly reflecting hostility towards the DPRK has not undergone even the slightest revision.

We have detestably witnessed what the successive rulers of the ROK have pursued.

The history of fierce confrontation between the DPRK and the ROK spanning nearly eight decades and the present reality clearly show that the inborn wild ambition of the ROK, whether they advocate "democracy" or put on the mask of "conservatism," to make our system and government collapse has never changed and will never change, and that the enemy is the enemy.

Furthermore, in view of national interests, we have no intention to get reunited with the country which has entrusted its politics and defence to foreign forces.

The ROK is a deformed entity with hemiplegia and a colonial tributary whose all fields have been Americanized, a foreign country that has thoroughly become heterogeneous.

It is a matter of course that as water and fire can never fuse into one, the independent politics and the sycophantic and treacherous politics cannot concur, the independent defence and the subordinate defence cannot merge with each other, the self-reliant economy and the colonial contract economy cannot combine, and the socialist culture and the Yankee culture cannot go together.

The reunification of the two entities, which have become completely heterogeneous and mutually exclusive, can never be achieved unless one of them ceases to exist.

Reunification is never needed.

The recently formed Lee Jae Myung government of the ROK is advocating a "line of compromise" with us, talking about "improvement of relations" and "peace," in a bid to make a distinction between it and its preceding governments. But nothing has changed substantially.

In view of its wild ambition for "unification by absorption," it puts in the shade its preceding vicious "conservative" regimes, which set the anti-DPRK policy as a state policy.

In public they say they will "assiduously build a tower of confidence with patience" for "restoring the south-north relations without fail," but behind the scenes they are building higher the wall of confrontation by expanding and strengthening the war rehearsals for aggression such as nuclear operation drill and multi-realm joint military exercise aimed at a preemptive nuclear strike on the other party.

Actually, in the draft budget bill for next year, which the Lee Jae Myung government passed for the first time after they came to power, the military expenditure is expected to increase by 8.2 percent, far surpassing that of the Yoon Suk Yeol regime that earned notoriety for its confrontational fanaticism against the DPRK.

These days, they say that they will recognize our system and will not pursue "unification by absorption" but coexist with us peacefully. But the chief of his state security office explained quite exactly the true intention of the ruler some days ago.

At a round-table meeting on September 17, he made a remark of totally denying our system and Constitution by saying, "The denuclearization of the Korean peninsula is the ultimate goal traditionally pursued by the ROK and the United States, and it remains unchanged, whether anyone likes it or not."

Now the enemy is openly clamouring for an early resumption of dialogue, saying that the longer the suspension of dialogue gets, "the more boosted the nuclear and missile capabilities of the north will be."

The "three-stage denuclearization theory" of the current ruler, so-called "suspension-reduction-denuclearization," is nothing other than a copy from the "workbook" of his predecessors who dreamed of disarming us.

It will be only an expression of deep attachment and obsession to discuss reunification with such an enemy state, and such persistence cannot change anything in realty.

How can we and the ROK be reunified?

Has the world history ever recorded a case of unification between such two sworn enemy states?

Why should we pursue a reunification which cannot be achieved unless one of them ceases to exist?

We will enshrine in a national law that we and the ROK are two states sharing the border, which are heterogeneous from each other and which can by no means become one.

The government of the DPRK will, in the future, too, reliably defend the sovereignty, security and fundamental interests of the state and strongly promote peace and security in the Korean peninsula and the region surrounding it in a most responsible manner.

Comrade Deputies,

In carrying out all the tasks facing the government of the Republic, the rights and authority of our Deputies are by no means light, and this honour of participating in the discussion of state affairs in person is an expression of the great expectations of the Party and the people for your responsible role.

Having been elected by the people and entrusted with the administration of the state and having pledged to serve the people, you should cherish the people's trust, thoroughly ensure the implementation of state policies through more proactive and devoted efforts, and have your work reviewed before the state and the people by producing results of sincere state political activities.

To this end, you should, first of all, have a correct understanding of state policies and, on this basis, explain them to the residents in your regions and to the people at your units and set an example for them to follow in implementing the policies.

What is important is that you should unfailingly and perfectly carry out all the policies advanced by the Party and the state for your respective sectors and units through meticulous planning, effective arrangement and stubborn persistence.

A Deputy needs to have insight and traits befitting a political activist of the state, know how to lead the public sentiments and encourage the collective to keep up the atmosphere of unity and struggle, get into the habit of finding and doing anything good for the people, strictly observe the laws and regulations of the state, and lead a frugal life so that he or she will not lose respect and trust of the masses.

All of you, by making redoubled, devoted efforts, should achieve a succession of excellent results you can be proud of before the Party, the state and the people, and your images and achievements will leave a notable imprint on the record of our sacred advance towards the Ninth Party Congress.

Our Party and the government of the Republic will cherish ennobling ideals and wage an unyielding struggle to bolster the people's firm trust, and they will continually build up the self-confidence and strength with which to translate the people's cherished desires into reality, thus fulfilling the heavy tasks facing them at every stage.

Comrades,

For the Workers' Party of Korea, the government of the Republic and our people, the absolute lifeline is to remain faithful to the socialist line and hold higher the banner of socialism.

This is because the advantages and vitality of the socialism of our own choice, which we have defended and glorified by shedding our sweat, and even our blood, unsparingly, have been proved by history and reality.

In the course of experiencing a dramatic change in their destiny and braving all sorts of difficulties, our people have accepted socialism as a requirement of their lives rather than an ideal or political mode; while enjoying one substantial benefit after another, leading a collectivist life in which they help and lead one another forward and share weal and woe with one another, and witnessing the reality of their ever-prospering country, they have keenly realized that socialism and their destiny are inseparably linked.

Our Party and government have no right to give up socialism, which our people have chosen, trust and propel by themselves and which they regard as a truth and treasure more than their own lives. They are duty-bound to develop it in our own way and lead it to attain a succession of great victories.

There will be no change or deviation in the political platform of our Party and government, and we will surely defend and advance socialism, which embody our people's aspirations and ideals, thus promoting the great prosperity of our state and ensuring the eternal wellbeing of our people.

Our cause is invincible as it advances by relying on the extraordinary patriotic enthusiasm and inexhaustible creativity of the heroic people who remain faithful to the ennobling ideals, and our socialist state's history of development and prosperity will continue forever.

Comrade Deputies,

Let us accomplish the cause of socialism, which represents our great history, honour and bright future.

Let us work hard for the dignity and comprehensive prosperity of our Republic, holding aloft the banner of socialism that symbolizes our ennobling ideals and beautiful dreams.

Long live our great country, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea! -0-

www.kcna.kp (2025.09.22.)

Respected Comrade Kim Jong Un Makes Speech at Celebration of 69th Anniversary of Great Victory in War

 The respected Comrade Kim Jong Un made a speech "The Veterans of the Fatherland Liberation War Are the Most Heroic Generation of Our Republic" at the celebration of the 69th anniversary of the great victory in the War on July 27.

The following is the full text of his speech:

Esteemed comrade veterans of the Fatherland Liberation War,

Comrade lecturers and officials engaged in the administration of revolutionary relics associated with the victorious war, service personnel and students of universities and revolutionary schools present in this meaningful place with the revolutionary elders,

Dear Pyongyang citizens,

Dear all the other people,

Comrades,

This is the victorious July 27, which we have greeted again with a feeling of great pride and with precious memories.

Although as many as 25 203 days have passed since the birth of the epoch-making miracle, the delight in and glory of victory in the war are just as those of yesterday. As we have felt these feelings every year, our emotion and pride are also infinite again today.

Comrades,

I warmly congratulate you on the great Victory Day that brought imperishable glory and honour to our motherland.

Esteemed comrade war veterans,

The country's situation is difficult and recently we have experienced a public health crisis, but until today you have maintained sound in your precious bodies. I am very grateful for this.

Thank you, indeed.

Comrades,

At this moment the whole country is recollecting the glorious lives of the martyrs of the Korean People's Army and other revolutionary martyrs who dedicated their youth and lives in defence of the sovereignty and honour of their motherland, and is paying an ennobling tribute, praying for the immortality of their great souls and spirit.

Countless war martyrs, both sung and unsung, have left us and many war veterans are not with us in this place, but they all live in the embrace of the country they defended at the cost of their blood and lives, and they are greeting the glorious night with us at this moment.

Hoping that you, comrade war veterans, will live in good health and the conference of war veterans as glorious as this one will be held continuously, I, on behalf of the Workers' Party of Korea and the government, pay a noble tribute to the victors in the 1950s, who gave our people the privilege and infinite honour of celebrating the great victory in the war year after year, and extend warm greetings to the war veterans and other people of wartime merits across the country, who laid the foundation of the existence and development of our socialist state and are still giving us an encouragement as a spiritual pillar.

My gratitude also goes to the family members of the war veterans and to all others who are devoting their efforts and sincerity for the preservation of health and the living of the war veterans.

Availing myself of this opportunity, I pay a noble tribute to the martyrs of the Chinese People's Volunteers, who shed their precious blood without hesitation sharing the same destiny as our soldiers and people in the same trench against the imperialists' aggression. I also send warm greetings to the veterans of the Chinese People's Volunteers.

Comrades,

Of all the meaningful and auspicious holidays of our state, July 27 is an extraordinarily dignified holiday in that we celebrate victory.

For every country and people, there is no other proud and brilliant glory and honour than the victory in a do-or-die war.

The past Fatherland Liberation War was, for our Republic, a war for defending the existence of its territory and people, as well as a fierce confrontation, the first of its kind after the Second World War, between the two poles, the democratic camp and the imperialist camp.

The fact that the US imperialists hurled not only their troops but also a large number of troops of their vassal states to the Korean front shows the fierce nature and international character of the Korean war.

The fight by the young army of the newly-emergent, two-year-old Republic against the imperialist aggressive army of the United States, which was the most ferocious on the earth, and its vassal forces was the one against too heavy odds.

However, as etched in history correctly, the arrogant aggressive ambition of the United States to occupy our territory at a stroke and expand the sphere of its influence met at its first step an unprecedentedly strong counterattack and terrific bravery and was completely frustrated with the signing of an armistice agreement after their three-year desperate war.

The military capability of the US imperialists and their allies sustained a serious defeat in this war.

We defended the dignity, honour and sovereignty of our Republic, safeguarded the environment for the peaceful development of our state, checked the US ambition for world supremacy, and defended peace of mankind by preventing a new world war. Herein lies the great significance of the Fatherland Liberation War in the history of our nation and the world history of wars.

The great victory in the Fatherland Liberation War, in which we staunchly defended the most dangerous first line of the anti-imperialist struggle in an eastern part of the earth, is a victory of defenders over aggressors, a victory of justice and the progressive over injustice and the reactionary, and a victory of significance in human history, which proved the iron truth that no aggressors, however strong and superior they may be, cannot overwhelm an army and people that have turned out in a do-or-die resistance.

Those who wrought this legendary miracle are none other than you, war veterans present here, and the numerous comrades-in-arms you still recollect.

The numerous battles the brave defenders of the country fought under the hail of bullets and bombs in the war produced the priceless glory of victory, and the flag of our Republic, which they held in the vanguard of advance and which became redder by the precious blood of the sons and daughters of heroic Korea, became known to the whole world as a symbol of bravery, victory and justice and as an immortal banner of the anti-imperialist struggle.

Comrades,

The unyielding spirit of the war veterans, who unhesitatingly rose to the crisis of a life-or-death war in the grim times of the country, is felt more valuable now when the country is experiencing difficulties.

As everyone knows well, the veterans of the Fatherland Liberation War were quite ordinary young men and women, but they were laudable sons and daughters of the nation who were not ordinary at all in the battles for defending their country.

Simple as they were at workplaces and schools, they were courageous enough to volunteer to join the army and confront the aggressive army of the US imperialists. This was because they had a firm belief in their Party and government and a conviction that they would surely emerge victorious, as well as a strong will to safeguard their rights as the masters of their new country and new life.

With the love for their benevolent system, native homes, workplaces, parents and siblings and with the hatred against the enemy who were trying to deprive them of these all, our war veterans stoutly surmounted grim trials and heartrending pains of loss and displayed unequalled mass heroism, striking terror and despair into the hearts of the brutal and heinous invaders.

Our great Fatherland Liberation War clearly showed that something miraculous can be created when a people, though simple and ordinary, turn out in defiance of death to defend what belong to them.

Although they defended the dignity and honour, the territory and sovereignty of their country at the cost of their blood, our war veterans have continued to work selflessly, steadfastly, honestly and devotedly for their country throughout their lives, setting a model of a patriotic life for posterity. Herein lie the true features of a human being, ennobling traits, which can be found only in them.

Our priceless socialist system and our great state of today, which is growing stronger, are unthinkable separated from the imperishable feats of the veterans of the Fatherland Liberation War, both sung and unsung, and the pure devoted service of the victorious wartime generation.

Indeed, the war veterans are the most heroic generation that laid an unbreakable foundation of our Republic in the face of upheavals of history, and they are models of the great, unyielding Korean people.

The loyalty, bravery and patriotism you have demonstrated throughout your life are now pulsating in the hearts of the tens of millions of people. Because our revolution has the great and excellent features created in the flames of the grim war in the 1950s as its genetic quality, it is indomitably carving out its cause by its own efforts down through generations without any setback or retreat in the face of difficulties.

Comrades,

For us, the V-day is not merely a celebration day of commemorating and looking back to the chapter of resistance in the heroic era.

The day serves as a valuable and significant occasion for us to judge whether we can proudly say before the embodiment and witnesses of history, who brought about the greatest victory in the harshest and grimmest annals, that our current struggle is an inheritance of the great tradition and to renew confidence and courage, passion and mettle.

We are now entrusted with the heavy historic duty of exalting to the height of the current times the brilliance of the glory and honour which the victorious wartime generation achieved 70 years ago and of ensuring that they are stoutly inherited to the next generation.

Just as the victorious wartime generation did, so should we exert ourselves without let-up for the next generation.

To further consolidate the nation's defence capability on the strength of the heroic spirit displayed during the war is a fundamental guarantee for defending the national interests of the Republic and its independent development.

Our revolution has been in sharp confrontation with the United States which has bluntly resorted to nuclear threat against us since the Fatherland Liberation War. This historical environment demanded that we, above all else, raise our state's self-defence capability onto a due level, and we have realized this pressing historic task through an arduous struggle.

Our Republic has firmly safeguarded socialism and built up formidable self-defensive strategic potentials in the fierce confrontation with the United States, which spanned nearly 70 years after the war. This is a victory which is no inferior to, even greater than, the victory in the Fatherland Liberation War.

However, we cannot rest content with this.

The United States which did our nation the gravest harm in its modern history still perseveres with dangerous hostile acts against our Republic.

While instigating the south Korean authorities to suicidal anti-DPRK confrontation on the pretext of solidifying "alliance," the United States, in pursuit of military confrontation with us, persists in spreading groundless rumours of "threat" from us.

It is the US's habitual method of executing its policy to fabricate such rumours and spread them so as to make them sound authentic before using them as a justification for bringing pressure to bear upon us.

As they always did, the US imperialists have recently spread rumours against the DPRK in the international arena assiduously, describing our state as the "main culprit" in damaging the stability of the regional situation and as a "dangerous state."

The United States, while describing all the usual actions of our armed forces as "provocations" and "threats," is openly waging large-scale joint war games, which gravely threaten the security of our state. Such a double-dealing behaviour is just that of a gangster, and this is driving the DPRK-US relations to a limiting point, a point of fierce collision, which cannot be reversed any further.

The US imperialists are obsessed with making a "devil" of our state by manipulating the international understanding and opinion of it. This is nothing but a stereotyped method of camouflaging their aggressive nature as a world peace breaker and justifying their illegal hostile policy.

I have already made it clear that we should be ready both for talks and confrontation and more fully for confrontation in particular in order to reliably guarantee the security of our state.

The arrogant nature of the US imperialists has remained unchanged as ever.

We must confront the US imperialists to the end on the strength of ideology and arms.

I reaffirm that the Democratic People's Republic of Korea is thoroughly prepared to cope with any kind of military clashes with the United States.

If the United States continuously attempts to impair the image of our state and make a serious infringement of our security and fundamental interests, it will only compel itself to put up with greater uneasiness and crises.

The government of our Republic would like to take this opportunity to send a serious warning to the south Korean conservative regime and its hawks that run amuck, indulged in abnormal excessive covetousness and confidence in strength, and stand in the van of implementing the US's hostile policy towards the DPRK.

Even tonight, nay, at this moment, when the fireworks light up the nocturnal sky in celebration of the V-day, the hideous warmongers and rogues on the land south of the 250km-long front line, in a high fever of military craziness, are resorting to various military manoeuvrings, which are threatening our state.

The south Korean conservative regime which took office this year is resorting to the extremely atrocious confrontation policies towards their fellow countrymen and acts of worshipping big countries and selling the country. These policies and acts surpass those of any of the previous conservative regimes and driving the situation on the Korean peninsula into the brink of war.

The new south Korean regime has designated our government and army as their "archenemy" and, obsessed with useless fear that they must prepare themselves to confront their fellow countrymen, are raising the pitch of their malicious voices and resorting to all sorts of evil and inappropriate acts.

They are brazen-faced enough to advocate "peace based on strength" and "security based on strength," and have put up a bold front, claiming that they would not hesitate in launching a "preemptive strike" to neutralize the war deterrent of our state.

At this very moment, south Korea is growing more frantic to develop weapons and strengthen its defence industry in a bid to recover, even a little, its military inferiority as compared with ours, and it is planning to bring in nuclear strategic weapons of the United States in large numbers and expanding war drills under various pretexts.

However, we should see that the more frequent vainglorious remarks and various hues of shameful conducts recently made by the south Korean authorities with regard to their security come from their inevitable sense of uneasiness that they have to live under the very nose of a nuclear state.

This and that vainglorious remark by the south Korean authorities may be understood as reliable and steel-strong security and advanced military strength to the relief of their people, but to me, they are seen only as being so frightened and at their wits' end.

Having established the concept of what they call the "three military systems of the south Korean style," the south Korean authorities are making frantic efforts to promote their core fighting capacity. But south Korea cannot help but accept their military inferiority to us as their fate and it can never retrieve the inferiority at any time.

It is unreasonable and very dangerous self-destructive action to talk about military actions against our state which possesses absolute weapons that they are actually most fearful of.

If the south Korean regime and military ruffians think about confronting us militarily and that they can neutralize or destroy some parts of our military forces preemptively by resorting to some special military means and methods, they are grossly mistaken!

Such a dangerous attempt will be punished at once by a powerful force and Yoon Suk Yeol regime and its army will be annihilated.

The conservative regime of south Korea must admit before too late that it has already gone too far from its beginning, and that it should think seriously upon the actions that may invite danger to itself.

We correctly remember what Yoon Suk Yeol said and did on several occasions before and after taking office.

We have also listened to the recent imprudent remarks made by the military ruffians of south Korea, and are watching all the noteworthy military actions they conduct with the United States.

We can no longer sit around seeing Yoon Suk Yeol and his military gangsters' misdemeanours and blind bravery.

If they continue to commit the acts of today like aggravating military tension by carrying on picking a quarrel with our exercising of the right to self-defence and threatening our security by invoking the robber's logic, they will pay dearly for it.

If they are to get rid of the stigmas as a president on a chopping board and a regime exposed to the gravest peril, they should be more prudent and use their brains more than their mouths. And they are well advised to refrain from finding fault with us now and then; or not to deal with us at all may be a better way for them.

Comrades,

Our armed forces are now fully prepared to cope with any sort of crisis, and our state's nuclear war deterrent is also fully ready to demonstrate its absolute power accurately and promptly true to its mission.

I affirm that the safety of this land and the system and sovereignty of this country you, war veterans, defended at the cost of your blood are thoroughly guaranteed by more powerful self-defence capabilities and stout spirit.

We will grow stronger.

The government of our Republic will safeguard our state, people and sovereignty by dint of ever-growing, out-and-out military capabilities and a resolute anti-imperialist and anti-US spirit and approach to the south and the enemy.

The situation of our revolution, in which we should overpower and crush more thoroughly the enemy's desperate manoeuvres for arms race and dangerous military attempts, demands a more rapid change in our military capabilities. In order to carry out this responsible historic task, our Party Central Committee has recently decided on the tasks related to the strategy for developing the national self-defence capabilities, and is leading the effort for their accurate implementation.

War is a merciless conflict between forces. Its victory, however, always is in store for the side that is possessed of fervent love and strong faith. This truth can never be changed even in today's warfare, in which state-of-the-art military techniques are mobilized in full force.

Our People's Army will keep channelling its main efforts into fully displaying its political and ideological superiority, the source of its mightiness and invincibility. By doing so, it will grow into the world's strongest army that demonstrates its formidable striking power with a steadfast revolutionary spirit, unparalleled bravery and indefatigable fighting spirit.

As the victorious wartime generation did, so should all the people associate all their personal joys and sorrows with the destiny of the country, brave all hardships in the way of advance with the spirit of devoting sincerity on the patriotic road and strive for socialist construction with unyielding will.

When we achieve innovative successes at our posts and workplaces with thoroughgoing class consciousness, always mindful of the fact that the anti-imperialist class struggle is a struggle for defending not only our destiny but also our country, this will accelerate our creation and construction and deal heavier blows at the hostile forces.

Those who have to inherit the heroic spirit of the victorious wartime generation splendidly and adorn the future of the country with great victory are none other than our rising generations.

Our Party and government will always give priority to preparing the millions of young people to be ardent revolutionaries and patriotic fighters who will stoutly carry forward the spiritual baton bequeathed to them by the war veterans.

Like the war veterans who demonstrated how one should be brave in the theatres of war and defend their national flag, young people should all devote their burning hearts to the sacred road of national defence; they should also glorify theirs as another new heroic era by performing miracles and labour feats with youthful passion and mass heroism on all fronts of socialist construction.

The lecturers and officials across the country in the sector of administration of revolutionary relics associated with the victorious war must fulfil their responsibility and duties as powerful disseminators and educators in deeply implanting the outstanding exploits of Comrade Kim Il Sung and our Party that led the war to victory and the heroic fighting spirit of the defenders of the country in the 1950s in all the people, service personnel and rising generations.

Comrades,

Although time passes and rivers and mountains change, one generation is replaced by another, forming a single living organism with inexhaustible vitality connected with the heroic fighting spirit – this is the source of indomitable strength peculiar to our state and our people.

Our Republic that invariably carries forward the history and tradition of the great victory in the war will be ever-victorious.

The exploits of the war veterans, who saved our state and nation and defended their future in the grimmest years, will remain forever along with our Republic that will be ever prosperous.

Esteemed comrade war veterans,

By carrying forward the souls and spirit of the heroic wartime generation and struggling more powerfully and bravely, we will build without fail a powerful and prosperous socialist paradise on this land which you defended.

I say once again: Even if you do nothing more than remain healthy, that will be a great encouragement to us.

Asking you once again to be careful with your health, I sincerely wish every one of you a long life.

Comrades,

Long live our great July 27!

Long live the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, our glorious motherland!

HUMANE FEATURES OF KIM JONG Il

Kim Jong Il (1942-2011), the eternal Chairman of the National Defence 
Commission of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, is known to the world
as a strong-minded statesman who staunchly defended the sovereignty and dignity
of his country against the high-handedness and arbitrariness of the so-called only
superpower in the world.  
However, he was not merely a strong-minded and strict leader; many people
remember him as a tender-hearted man, a man with warm humane feelings. 
Here are some examples.
In July 1981 when the then director-general of the Asian Regional Institute of 
the Juche Idea was returning home after his visit to the DPRK, he got ill. So he had
been carried to a hospital in another country. When he was receiving medical 
treatment at the hospital, a doctor from the DPRK visited him to his great surprise. 
After receiving the report about his hospitalization, Kim Jong Il had sent the
competent doctor and many tonics to him. He also ensured that he met his son from India, saying that he might be missing his son during his days in the hospital in a foreign country. 
Among those who formed ties with Kim Jong Il are not only adults but children
including Jindallae (azalea in English). Her father, a Palestinian diplomat resident
in Pyongyang, had failed to father a child for a long time, but after receiving
medical treatment at the Pyongyang Maternity Hospital, his wife gave birth to a
girl. 
The parents sent a letter of thanks to Kim Jong Il and asked him to name their
daughter. Happy with their event, Kim Jong Il named it Jindallae after a beautiful
flower in Korea. On her birthdays, he would send gifts to her. 
One day, Jindallae sent him a letter on one of her friends, who felt downhearted
as she was going bald. Fully aware of her inner thoughts, he took detailed measures
to bring her friend to Pyongyang and give her special medical treatment. Her appearance turned to that of beautiful girl with downy hair, and bright smiles lit up on her face. 
Facts tell: Chairman Kim Jong Il was a man of humane feelings with which he
approached all the people, whoever they were, with warm and genuine affection.

Kim Jong Il’s View on Happiness

People’s delight is my delight and their happiness is my happiness–this was 
view on happiness cherished by Kim Jong Il (1942-2011), eternal Chairman of the
National Defence Commission of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. 
With the noble sense that people would be happy as much as he devoted, he
continued his super-intense on-site guidance trips for their good throughout his life.  
On these trips he had to encounter biting cold and heavy snow on the high
passes, scorching heat at the farms and downpour at the construction sites.
Sometimes he would leave for another round of on-site guidance in late evening or
early morning after spending the previous day giving on-site guidance at several
units. 

If people could lead a happy life, I have nothing more to wish for–with this
thought, he did not hesitate before any rough roads or trials. All the creations across the country, including a large number of renovated factories and enterprises,
large-scale crop fields rezoned in standardized shapes, modern stockbreeding bases and fishing stations, power stations and gravitational waterways are associated with his devotion. 
To save time, he would have a catnap in the running car or have balls of rice on
the road. 

He once told officials: 
What is life? It is one devoted for one’s country and fellow people. Our life is 
nothing but one devoted for the prosperity of our country and happiness of our
people. 
Seeing the increasing people’s wealth and their happy look, he found the worth
and joy of his life. He said that whenever he saw the people getting happier day by 
day, he hardened his mind to do more work for them. 
In order to bring greater happiness to the people, he speeded up his field
guidance in the last days of his life.

December 4, 2011 was Sunday. Though he was unhealthy, he visited the
amusement park at the Kaeson Youth Park, which was laid out as a base for
people’s cultural and leisure activities. That day it was especially cold, but he said
that if he visited it on such a day, people would come to it on fine days to enjoy
themselves. 
When officials asked him to have rest, he said that it was his invariable
determination and will to devote his all for the prosperity of his country and the
good of his fellow people, adding that he would only advance forward holding the
flag towards the future when the people would live with nothing to envy in the
world. On December 15, two days before his death, he visited the Kwangbok Area
Supermarket and acquainted himself with the goods to be supplied to the people. 
On December 17, he passed away on the train on his way to the people.

FOR INDEPENDENT REUNIFICATION OF COUNTRY AND DEVELOPMENT OF EXTERNAL RELATIONS

Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un mentioned in the third system of his report the important issues for independent reunification of the country and development of external relations.

The report studied the issues concerning the south in view of the prevailing situation and the changed times and clarified our Party's principled stand on the north-south relations.

As specified in the report, our nation is now standing on the crucial crossroads; whether to advance along the road of peace and reunification after breaking the serious deadlock in the north-south relations or continuously suffer the pain resulting from division in the vicious cycle of confrontation and the danger of war.

It is not exaggeration to say that the current inter-Korean relations have been brought back to the time before the publication of the Panmunjom Declaration and the dream for national reunification has become more distant.

Hostile military acts and anti-DPRK smear campaign aggravating the situation of the Korean peninsula are still going on in south Korea, dimming the future of the inter-Korean relations.

Judging that the present frozen north-south relations can not thaw by the efforts of one side nor be resolved by themselves with the passage of time, the report stressed that if one sincerely aspires after country's peace and reunification, being concerned of the destiny of the nation and the future of posterity, one should not look with folded arm on this grave situation but take proactive measures to repair and improve the present north-south relations in catastrophe.

The report clarified the principled stand on the inter-Korean relation as follows:

It is necessary to take stand and stance to solve the basic problems in the north-south relations, halt all acts hostile toward the counterpart and prudently deal with and honestly implement the north-south declarations.

The report referred to the main cause why the north-south relations which had developed on good terms in the past were frozen abruptly and brought back to confrontation.

Currently, the south Korean authorities are giving an impression that they are concerned about improvement of north-south relations by raising such inessential issues as anti-epidemic and humanitarian cooperation and individual tourism.

They are going against the implementation of the north-south agreement on guarantee of peace and military stability in the Korean peninsula in disregard of our repeated warnings that they should stop imports of latest military hardware and joint military exercises with the U.S.

Worse still, they are getting crazier about modernization of armed forces, labeling our development of various conventional weapons, which pertains entirely to the just exercise of our sovereignty, a "provocation."

If they want to find fault with it, they should first give an explanation for the chief executive's personal remarks calling for furthering the efforts for securing and developing latest military assets, saying that ballistic and cruise missiles with more correct and stronger power and longer range than the existing ones will be developed and a ballistic missile with the world's heaviest warhead was developed. They should also provide a convincing explanation for the purpose and intention in their continued introduction of cutting-edge offensive equipment.

The report seriously warned the south Korean authorities that if they continue to label our action "provocation" with a double-dealing and biased mindset, we have no other choice but to deal with them in a different way.

A new road toward improvement of the north-south relations based on firm trust and reconciliation can be paved only when the south Korean authorities strictly control and root out any abnormal anti-reunification conducts.

Whether the north-south relations can be restored and invigorated or not entirely depends on the attitude of the south Korean authorities and they will receive as much as they pay and try.

The report stressed that at the present moment there is no need to unilaterally show goodwill to the south Korean authorities as done in the past, and that we should treat them according to how they respond to our just demand and how much effort they make to fulfill the north-south agreements.

It made an analysis that whether the north-south relations may return to a new starting point of peace and prosperity in the near future as they were in spring 3 years ago, as desired by all compatriots, or not depends on the south Korean authorities' behavior.

The Supreme Leader in the report clarified the general direction and policy stand of the WPK on the overall development of external relations.

The report analyzed in depth the current international situation and the external environment of our Republic.

The major review and conclusion of our Party's external activities in the period under review are that the strategy of countering toughness in kind should be consistently adhered to against the hostile forces unwarrantedly running amuck and the big powers using high-handed practices.

After affirming this stance, the report set it as the general direction of the foreign affairs at present to extensively develop the foreign relations on a par with the strategic position of our state and thus reliably guarantee the socialist construction in political and diplomatic aspects.

Hence, it clarified the principled matters to be maintained in the field of foreign affairs.

It is needed to hold fast to the principle of independence in external activities, regarding it as the first mission of the Republic's diplomacy to defend the majesty of our Party, enhance the national prestige and champion the interests of the state.

We should wage offensive diplomacy to smash the maneuvers of the hostile forces seeking to violate our sovereignty and defend our state's rights to normal development.

We should put the focus of foreign political activities on containing and subduing the U.S., the fundamental obstacle to the development of our revolution and our foremost principal enemy.

The report stressed the need for the field of external affairs to adopt the strategy toward the U.S. in a tactical way and steadily expand the solidarity with the anti-imperialist independence forces, noting that the entity of the U.S. and the real intention of its policy toward the DPRK will never change, whoever comes into power in the U.S.

It also referred to the issue of frustrating the reactionary offensive of the enemies and exalting the position of our state by enhancing the role of the foreign propaganda sector.

It stressed the need for the field of foreign affairs to further develop the relations with socialist countries, consolidate the unity and cooperation with the revolutionary and progressive parties aspiring after independence and resolutely wage the joint struggle against imperialism worldwide so as to make the external environment of the state more favorable.

The report expressed the steadfast will of our Party to reliably defend peace and stability of the Korean peninsula and other parts of the world.

In this planet, there is no such country as the DPRK always exposed to war threat, so its people's desire for peace is very strong.

We have stored and steadily bolstered up the strongest war deterrent in order to defend ourselves and open up an era of genuine peace knowing no war forever.

Now that our national defence capabilities are in the level of preemptively containing the hostile forces' threat outside our territory, the future escalation of tensions on the Korean peninsula will lead to the instability of security on the part of the forces posing threat to us.

The report solemnly clarified the stand of the WPK to approach the U.S. on the principle of answering force with toughness and good faith in kind in the future, too, stating that a key to establishing new relationship between the DPRK and the U.S. lies in the U.S. withdrawal of its hostile policy towards the DPRK.

It reaffirmed that the DPRK, as a responsible nuclear weapons state, would not misapply the nuclear weapon unless the aggressive hostile forces try to use their nuclear against the DPRK.

The report on the work of the 7th Central Committee of the WPK clarified the foreign policy stand of the WPK to strengthen friendship and solidarity with all the countries in the world respecting the sovereignty of the DPRK and realize a genuine international justice. This, therefore, provided the strategic and tactical guidelines to further increase the DPRK's international authority and influence in the new forthcoming period.

Creation and Main Contents of Kimilsungism-Kimjongilism

Kimilsungism-Kimjongilism is a banner of struggle of the world progressive people who are advancing dynamically along the road of independence and progress, peace and prosperity. Respected Kim Jong Un said: “Kimilsungism-Kimjongilism is an integral system of the idea, theory and method of Juche, and a great revolutionary ideology representative of the Juche era. Kimilsungism-Kimjongilism is a revolutionary ideology of our era that was created by President Kim Il Sung, further developed by Chairman Kim Jong Il and formulated by respected Kim Jong Un. Usmana

 

Modelling the Whole Society on Kimilsungism-Kimjongilism is the Ultimate Programme of the Workers’ Party of Korea

Respected Kim Jong Un put forward the modelling the whole society on Kimilsungism-Kimjongilism as the ultimate programme of the WPK in the report delivered to the Seventh Congress of the WPK on the work of the Central Committee. Respected Kim Jong Un said. “Modelling the whole society on Kimilsungism-Kimjongilism is the ultimate programme of our Party.” Modelling the whole society on Kimilsungism-Kimjongilism is the revolutionary succession and development onto a new step of modelling the whole society on Kimilsungism which Chairman Kim Jong Il had formerly put forward and been realizing.

 

Contribution to the Anti-imperialist Cause for Independence

Kim Il Sung (1912-1994), eternal president of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, devoted his whole life to accomplishing the anti-imperialist cause for independence of mankind.

By brilliantly applying the philosophical principle of the Juche idea, which he had authored, to the national liberation struggle, he put forward the guidelines for the national liberation movement that the oppressed peoples of the world could achieve their genuine freedom and independence by their own efforts and struggle.

 

The Most Precious Heritage of President Kim Il Sung

The Juche idea, the guiding ideology of socialist Korea and the cause of global independence, is exerting a great influence on the developing era and the shaping of the destiny of human beings beyond the limits of time and space.

This ideological and practical wealth can be called the most precious heritage Kim Il Sung (1912-1994), eternal president of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, bequeathed to the Korean people and the progressive peoples of the world.

The Juche idea, on the basis of a scientific elucidation that man is the master of the world and plays the decisive role in transforming the world, shows the way for the masses of the people, the motive force of history, to shape their own destiny by their own efforts.