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No 60/25 Aug 20, 2025
1. Respected Comrade Kim Jong Un Visits Destroyer Choe Hyon and Learns about Training and Life of Sailors 2. Kim Yo Jong, Vice Department Director of C.C., WPK, Censures Seoul Authorities for Deceptive Attempt at "Appeasement Offensive"
Respected Comrade Kim Jong Un Visits Destroyer Choe Hyon and Learns about Training and Life of Sailors Pyongyang, August 19 (KCNA) - 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, visited the destroyer Choe Hyon on August 18 and acquainted himself with the course of the integrated operation test of the weapon system of the destroyer and the training and life of the sailors of the destroyer. Admiral Pak Kwang Sop, commander of the Navy of the Korean People's Army, greeted the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un on the spot. Kim Jong Un met the sailors of the destroyer Choe Hyon and acquainted himself in detail with the training and living conditions of them. And he set the goal of military and technical qualifications to be attained by the sailors for the operation of the new-type destroyer and expressed his view on the training mode for its realization. After receiving a report on the course of the sectional tests of the various weapon systems of the warship and the composition of the integrated operation system, he expressed satisfaction over the fact that the major tasks for making the navy high-tech and nuclear-armed are progressing on a stage-by-stage basis as planned. He underlined the need to complete the tasks slated for August and September and move on to the next stage, the process of assessing the performance and capability for conducting operations of the ship, in October as planned. That day, he received a report on the third Choe Hyon-class new-type multi-mission destroyer being built at the Nampho Shipyard and its long-term plan. And he had an important conversation with technicians and experts in the field of the shipbuilding industry. He said that it is the most important state affairs that not drops without delay from the viewpoint of the development of the DPRK armed forces and in view of the military theory based on the geopolitical peculiarities of the DPRK to extremely rapidly develop the capability for operations of our Navy which is performing its duty in the major space of national defence. He said that, as he had stressed before, the security environment around the DPRK is getting more serious day by day and the prevailing situation requires us to make a radical and swift change in the existing military theory and practice and rapid expansion of nuclearization. Labeling the U.S.-ROK joint military exercises being staged again from now as a clear expression of stand of openly revealing their intention to remain most hostile and confrontational to the DPRK, Kim Jong Un said that the U.S.-ROK intensified military nexus and the muscle-flexing are the most obvious manifestation of their will to ignite a war and the source of destroying the peace and security environment in the region. He said that the U.S.-ROK military exercises which had become habitual practice from long ago have always been provocative and dangerous in their nature but the gravity is increasing from the characteristics that they are recently plotting military nexus with the nuclear element involved. And such changing situation requires us to take counteraction with proactive and overwhelming changes, he stressed. He said that the DPRK will continue to bring about important and eventful changes in the position and activities of the DPRK Navy defending the core of the national sovereignty with unstoppable struggle and strenuous efforts and that the Navy will become a reliable force firmly performing a part in the composition of the state nuclear forces and the realm of nuclear use in the near future. It means that the combat strength of the DPRK Navy is growing more adaptable to the fulfillment of the national defence strategy and the use of war deterrent, he added. The most reliable and steadfast way and guarantee for controlling and keeping the security environment of the region and firmly defending the sovereignty and security of the DPRK are only to make enemies afraid of the DPRK, he said, adding that such view of the DPRK on controlling the situation and the national defence strategy will remain unchanged. He affirmed that important measures for the accelerated growth of the national defence capabilities will surely be taken continuously and the firm will and capabilities of the DPRK to defend the sovereignty and security of the country will be expressed through practical actions.
Kim Yo Jong, Vice Department Director of C.C., WPK, Censures Seoul Authorities for Deceptive Attempt at "Appeasement Offensive" Pyongyang, August 20 (KCNA) -- Kim Yo Jong, vice department director of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea, at a consultative meeting with major director generals of the Foreign Ministry of the DPRK on August 19 sharply criticized the essence of the deceptive "appeasement offensive" of the ROK government and its double character and conveyed the foreign policy plan of the head of state. Kim Yo Jong analyzed the behaviour of Seoul which is feigning that the ROK's policy towards the DPRK is making a "rapid U-turn" while saying that it respects the social system of the DPRK and will not seek any form of unification by absorption and has no intention of committing all hostile acts. She said that now the president of the ROK, whenever an opportunity presents itself, is talking about "pebble", "trust" and "patience" like a vagarious poet, saying that "mutual trust would be restored if little practices are piled up like pebbles" and Jong Tong Yong, a minister serving the ROK authorities, put forth a so-called five-point core tasks in a report on major work plan at a foreign affairs and unification committee of the National Assembly. Saying that it is like an endemic in Seoul where every regime and everyone have a dream and interpret it of their own accord and express "hope" and "idea" as they please, she disclosed the strange nature of the ones in the ROK and their sinister intention. She said: Commenting on the idea, every word and phrase of it is a fancy and a pipedream. It's like listening to a resolution speech. As the old saying goes that it takes two to wrestle, how can he put such a resolution into practice by himself alone? The ROK people seem satisfied only to hear a government official's resolution full of such unrealizable dreams. Certainly, we can see at once the "serious efforts" to create a good impression that something is changing for the "improvement" of the DPRK-ROK relations after Lee Jae Myung took power. The real intention is to show continuously that they are making steady efforts for peace. But no matter how desperately the stinky confrontational nature is swathed in a wrapper of peace, the awl in the sack can never be hidden. We have witnessed and experienced the dirty political system of the ROK for decades as well as the process of regime change from Moon Jae In to Yoon Suk Yeol and now we are sick and tired of it. To state the conclusion, the ambition for confrontation with the DPRK has been invariably pursued by the ROK, whether it held the signboard of "conservatism" or wore a mask of "democracy". Lee Jae Myung is not the sort of man who will change the course of history. We clearly remember that Jo Hyon and An Kyu Baek, the chiefs of diplomacy and defense, which form the basis of the Lee Jae Myung regime, openly said at a time when they were designated as candidates that they regard the north Korean regime and the north Korean army as their enemies. At this moment, the Lee Jae Myung regime is repeating the predecessors' gibberish of "defensive drill" even after staging the reckless U.S.-ROK war drill for aggression directly threatening the security of the DPRK. This is the part clearly illuminating the double character of the Seoul authorities who are carrying two faces under the hood. As I emphasized a few days ago, there is a clear purpose for the rulers of the ROK in producing amicable image. They also know that the DPRK-ROK relations desired by them will never come back. If they don't know, they will be idiots. They continue to tediously talk about peace and improved relations, being well aware that it is impossible to realize them, because they have an ulterior motive to finally shift the responsibility for the DPRK-ROK relations failing to recover on to the DPRK. We should not forget the fact that any one in the ROK is the top-class faithful dog of the U.S. In particular, we should pay attention to the fact that through the current joint military drill, which is being staged again while making a sign of reconciliation, the ROK is examining a new combined operation plan ("OPLAN 5022") for "removing" the nuclear and missile capabilities of the DPRK at an early stage and expanding the attack into its territory. Clarifying once again on this occasion, the ROK cannot be a diplomatic partner of the DPRK. The ROK, which is not serious, weighty and honest, will not have even a subordinate work in the regional diplomatic arena centered on the DPRK. The DPRK Foreign Ministry should seek a proper countermeasure as regards the relations with the most hostile state and the states listening to its instigation, based on the conclusion of our head of state who pointed out the essence of the ROK. At the consultative meeting, Kim Yo Jong conveyed the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un's foreign policy plan for taking a preemptive counteraction in a diplomatic way against the enemy states posing a lasting danger to the sovereignty and security of the DPRK and for controlling the rapidly-changing regional and international geopolitical situation in conformity with the national interests of the DPRK and held an in-depth discussion on the orientation of the immediate diplomatic activities.
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