Signboard of "Joint" Is "Disguise" of Belligerent Japan: KCNA Commentary

Pyongyang, April 12 (KCNA) -- The signboard of "joint" is recently emerging as a "term" frequently used in various military acts of Japan.

Shortly ago, Japan and the U.S. agreed on the joint production of the latest air-to-air missile AIM-120, occasioned by the U.S. secretary of Defense's visit to Japan. Such examples are numerous: on-going joint development of the next-generation fighter planes with the U.K. and Italy, joint development of new-type warships with Australia, joint research with the U.S. to put microwave weapons to practical use, joint maintenance and overhauling of U.S. warships and aircraft, etc.

Given the joint military exercises between the forces of different countries including NATO, which Japan is staging not only in the Asia-Pacific region but also in the far-off regions, it is not difficult to understand that the signboard of "joint" put up by Japan covers most of the military moves of the archipelago nation.

This does not merely mean the strengthening of Japan's external military cooperation.

Japan has been bound by various internal and external institutional mechanisms deterring its military expansion as a war criminal state which inflicted huge damage on the Asian people in the last century.

Now all the constraints have become a thing of the past. For example, Japan abolished the principle of banning weapons export it had observed for decades and has come up with the new "three principles of defense equipment transfer".

According to it, the items of export weapons are confined to non-lethal ones as it was done, but international joint development and joint production are exceptions.

As a result, the weapons of attack and destruction, which are against the "exclusive defense," can be developed, produced and sold under the signboard of "joint".

The aim sought by Japan through the trick deceiving the world is not only to earn money but to modernize its munitions industry, which supports its ambition for becoming a military giant, and to bolster up the militaristic state's war capability.

All the joint military actions of Japan are being conducted under this sinister intention.

This will lead to the emergence of an exclusive military alliance, a war bloc integrated in an all-round way, not merely a "single entity" of a dangerous war state keen on reinvasion in the Asia-Pacific region.

Herein lies the essence of the signboard of "joint" frequently put up by Japan.

Japan's trick to revive a war state and an aggressor state by circumventing the international community's vigilance and legal constraints with a plausible justification can no longer work.

Japan should be mindful that any "disguise" can never help it cover up its black-hearted intention and that its signboard of "joint" will only make it a "joint target" of regional countries. -0-

www.kcna.kp (2025.04.12.)

From Voice of Korea Season of Removal into New Houses in the Capital City

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Season of Removal into New Houses in the Capital City

  The season of removal into new houses came into being in the capital city of Pyongyang.

  The whole city seethes with removal into new houses in spring from 2022.

 Songhwa Street and Kyongru-dong, the Pothong Riverside Terraced Residential District, were built in April 2022, Hwasong Street and the Taephyong area dwelling houses in April and May 2023 and Rimhung and Jonwi streets in April and May 2024. 

  The respected General Secretary Kim Jong Un energetically led the work of drawing up the construction plan, giving personal guidance to a huge amount of draft formation plans, in order to turn the Hwasong area into a model in the layout of urban formation elements, a functional prototype of administrative district and a modern urban quarter embodying a harmony of architectural formative and artistic beauty and advanced civilization.

  Songhwa Street and Kyongru-dong, the Pothong Riverside Terraced Residential District, were built in April 2022, Hwasong Street and the Taephyong area dwelling houses in April and May 2023 and Rimhung and Jonwi streets in April and May 2024. 

  The respected General Secretary Kim Jong Un energetically led the work of drawing up the construction plan, giving personal guidance to a huge amount of draft formation plans, in order to turn the Hwasong area into a model in the layout of urban formation elements, a functional prototype of administrative district and a modern urban quarter embodying a harmony of architectural formative and artistic beauty and advanced civilization

  Researcher Kim Chol Nam at the Academy of Social Sciences said that the Hwasong area, a full-fledged urban administrative district, has turned into a centre and standard capable of leading the areas existing in the capital city to civilization and efflorescence, and continued:

  "On March 15, 2025, the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un said Ryomyong, Mirae Scientists and other new streets sprang up year after year, renewing the appearance of the capital city, but there has never been an urban quarter like the Hwasong area which has been erected on a large scale with perfect functionality in a short span of time and this is of great experimental significance in putting the new era of prosperity of Pyongyang on a higher level.

  He added that the precious experience gained in the construction of the Hwasong area, which set an example in the layout of urban formation elements, should be applied to the capital city construction field for accelerating the modernization of our style suited to the political character of our capital city and the world trend of architectural development."

  The third-stage 10,000 flats in the Hwasong area will be inaugurated in a few days.

  When the fourth-stage construction in the Hwasong area that started in February this year is completed, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea will become a country which has perfectly resolved the housing problem of the capital city.

From Voice of Korea New View of Armed Forces

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New View of Armed Forces

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  In general, people believe that the difference in military muscle is decisive of victory and defeat in a war.

  The Korean War in the 1950s, however, denied it and showed that one can always emerge victorious when one has a great spiritual strength.

  Today the aspects of modern warfare evolve incessantly and the advanced military and technical means develop constantly. It brings great changes to operations and combat actions.

  But the Democratic People's Republic of Korea gives priority to preparing its army ideologically and morally at present, too.

  The respected Comrade Kim Jong Un, Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces of the DPRK, visited Kim Il Sung University of Politics on February 24, 2025 and said that the foremost might and superiority our revolutionary armed forces should steadily adhere to and boost are none other than the political, ideological, spiritual and moral superiority of the army of the people.

  He noted that it has been an established theory to count soldiers and weapons as two elements of the armed forces in any century and any country and, from the historical point of view and in consideration of modern warfare, we can clearly see in practice the limitation of the military technology-centred theory ignoring the ideological building of the army.

 Saying that imbuing the army with ideology before arming it with military technology is the core of army building, he expressed his new view that soldiers, weapons and ideology are three elements of the armed forces.

  It is a conclusion he reached definitely once again that the arms devoid of ideology are little short of ironware and the basic way of building a powerful army lies in strengthening the political force of the army on a preferential basis and in a qualitative way.

   The Korean People's Army orients its building toward giving priority to making it strong politically, ideologically and morally and toward steadily training the combat ranks to be elite and then toward developing the military and technical equipment in all domains including the nuclear armed forces at the highest level.

The Greatest Crime of Sacrificing Korea to Aggressive War

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  The Japanese imperialists made Korea a colony in the last century. After the outbreak of the Sino-Japanese War in 1937 they resorted to more vicious suppression and plunder against the Korean people.

  With the "Law on National Mobilization" fabricated and promulgated on April 1, 1938, all the economic activities of the country were reorganized according to wartime requirement and a legal guarantee was provided for plundering necessary manpower and materials by high-handed pressure of the ruling organs.

  Lecturer Song Kyong Sim at the Central Class Education House cited detailed materials to expose the vicious and shameless "law" promulgated by the Japanese imperialists.

  "In order to replenish the working force the Japanese imperialists established the labor drafting, conscription and patriotic corps system largely in Korea and plundered Korea of her manpower resources in the way of forcibly emigrating the Korean people to Manchuria and other regions under the pretext of 'settler'.

  And they fabricated and promulgated various evil laws on the basis of the 'Law on National Mobilization' as a main law and used manpower of Korea in their war by force.

  They fabricated and amended evil laws including the 'law on special support of Koreans to the army', the 'personal service drafting law' and the 'women's volunteer corps law' in succession, and forcibly drafted and kidnapped the Korean people for hard labour irrespective of ages and sex.

  A Japanese book wrote that 'as the labour conscription assumed the character of forcible drafting, Koreans continued to escape'. A report submitted to the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Japan in July 1944 stipulated the forcible drafting in the Korean territory as 'kidnapping'. A document which recorded a meeting held at the Ministry of Health and Welfare of Japan in August 1942 wrote what was said by high-ranking personages admitting that the forcible drafting of Koreans was abduction. They said: 'Many Koreans were kidnapped on the Korean peninsula mainly for the project related to the military affairs and as they were taken and forced on hard labour, they tried to escape.'

  This proves that the labour conscription was conducted clearly in the way of forcible drafting and kidnapping."

The Japanese imperialists left no stone unturned to get not only human resources but also a great deal of materials for the war in the way of plundering Korea of her valuable resources without restraint.

  They made desperate efforts to plunder Korea of her natural resources by fabricating all sorts of "laws" such as "Korean Bank Law", "Sheep Breeding Plan", "Korean Rice Control Law", "Korean Munitions Production Responsibility System" and "Munitions Company Law".

 Due to the most barbaric and coercive plunder of human and material resources by the Japanese imperialists, many Korean people writhed in agony and a tremendous damage was inflicted on the socio-economic development of Korea.

  The Korean people will never forget the unpardonable immoral acts of the Japanese imperialists, but make them pay for the misfortunes and sufferings of the Korean nation.

From Voice of Korea The World and Korea - Historical Facts Victims of Aggressive War

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The World and Korea - Historical Facts
Victims of Aggressive War
In the last century, the Japanese imperialists occupied Korea and expanded the war of aggression to the continent. They turned Korea into their base for war supplies and mobilized all the human and material resources on this land to the aggressive war. In particular, they made every desperate effort to give

colonial slave education to the Korean children and make them cannon fodder for their war.
They frantically infused only the idea of servile submission into the minds of the children by fabricating and enforcing the "Primary School Ordinance" and "Private School Ordinance". They promulgated the "Elementary School Regulations" on March 31, 1941 in order to make the Korean children minions of their aggressive war.
Lecturer Choe Kyong Mi at the Central Class Education House said the evil law consisting of seven chapters and 92 articles is a concretized version of the "Elementary School Ordinance", and continued.
"The Japanese imperialists willfully merged and considerably reduced the existing subjects through the 'Elementary School Regulations'. They also ascribed their contents to infusing militarist spirit and servile obedience into schoolchildren.
And they attached importance to the subject of 'Physical Training' consistent with military drills and saw that 'martial arts' or 'gymnastics' were taught in its lesson.
They included army 'training' as a formal subject at the elementary schools from 1943 when the Pacific War and the Sino-Japanese War got fiercer. After all, all the subjects were militarized.
At that time, the Japanese imperialists gave rifles to the elementary school children and enforced military training such as march-past and shooting and even collective mock cavalry battle exercise every afternoon."
As said above, the Japanese imperialists forced the Korean people to fall victims to their aggressive war from childhood with the promulgation of the "Elementary School Regulations".
The Japanese imperialists can never be pardoned for the capital crimes they committed to make the Korean people their colonial slaves forever.

President KIM IL SUNG and Juche -speech of Dr Dermot Hudson to the meeting of the British Group for the Study of the Juche Idea and KFA UK 05.04.2025

 As we mark the 113th anniversary of the birth of the great leader President KIM IL SUNG, we think deeply about his achievements in leading the Korean revolution to victory and carrying out socialist construction  . Undoubtedly , one of his greatest achievements was the creation of the Juche Idea .

  Today the Tower of the Juche Idea stands tall and proud on the banks of the River Taedong . Juche is the guiding ideology of People’s Korea and is known all over the world .                                       

 

The Korea that President KIM IL SUNG had grown up in was a dark land without independence ruled by the barbarous Japanese imperialists .The people were doubly and triply oppressed by the Japanese imperialists , landlords and capitalists  . President KIM IL SUNG himself was born into a humble and poor peasant family in the village of Mangyongdae  and saw the contradictions of the existing order first hand .

  At an early age and following the example of his father , Kim Hyong Jik , he embarked on the road for the struggle for independence . However as a young man he found that the movement for independence was dominated by hidebound bourgeois nationalists who were divorced from the people . They indulged in bickering among themselves and also advocated all manner of false theories and ‘roads to nowhere ‘ such as trying to win independence with the help of big powers or trying to win independence through petitions etc and even ideas about ‘self-cultivation. The early communist movement in Korea was no better . It was split into warring factions , these were also divorced from the people . Each faction tried to lobby the COMINTERN or Third International .

   President KIM IL SUNG , a true genius of revolution , realised quickly that it was hopeless to conduct the struggle for independence in this way .Instead he thought that the struggle should be conducted on the basis of independence and by going among the people and enlisted their support , not just support but active participation . This was the basis of the great Juche Idea which stipulates that the popular masses are the masters of the revolution and construction .

 The Juche idea was outlined in embryonic form when President KIM IL SUNG addressed a meeting of the leading activists and cadres of the Young Communist League of Korea and the Anti-Imperialist Youth League in Kalun in June and July 1930. . He stressed that the Korean revolution should be carried out independently and by relying on the popular masses.

 In his speech,titled   'The Path of the Korean Revolution  ' he explained his ideas and put forward the Juche -oriented line of the Korean revolution.

In the speech he castigated the factionalists and flunkeys saying that

“Experience shows that in order to lead the revolution to victory, one must go among the masses of people and organize them, and solve all problems arising in the course of the revolution independently on one’s own responsibility in accord with the actual conditions, instead of relying on others."

 Drawing on this lesson we regard it as most important to take the firm standpoint that the masters of the Korean revolution are the Korean people and that the Korean revolution should by all means be carried out by the Korean people themselves in a way suited to the actual conditions of their country.”

   This was the basis of the Juche idea and its starting point. The idea that the masses are the masters of the revolution was first voiced at Kalun in 1930 . President KIM IL SUNG stressed that “ The masters of the revolutionary struggle are the masses of the people, and only when they are organized and mobilized can they win the revolutionary struggle.”.

  President KIM IL SUNG also defined the Korean revolution as being an anti-imperialist , anti-feudal democratic revolution rather than as being  a socialist revolution or a bourgeois revolution.

  In the speech, President KIM IL SUNG set forth the revolutionary line of armed struggle,  the original line of the anti-Japanese national united front and the Juche-oriented policy of party founding for the first time in the history of the national liberation struggle in colonial countries, and dynamically led the revolution along the road of Juche.

Thus the Juche Idea was born. It was authored by President KIM IL SUNG  in the fiery days of the anti-Japanese armed struggle . It was thanks to the Juche Idea that under the leadership of President KIM IL SUNG the Korean people were able to win independence and then build a new independent people’s country .

At a time when modern revisionism had emerged and the big power chauvinists were putting pressure on the DPRK , comrade KIM IL SUNG on the 28th of December 1955 made the classic speech  "On Eliminating Dogmatism and Formalism and Establishing Juche In Ideological Work” he defined Juche in a masterly but simple way saying that “ "What is Juche in our Party’s ideological work? What are we doing? We are not engaged in any other country’s revolution, but solely in the

Korean revolution. This, the Korean revolution, determines the essence of Juche in the ideological work of our Party. Therefore, all ideological work must be subordinated to the interests of the Korean revolution.”

Under the banner of the Juche, socialism centred upon the popular masses was built .The DPRK pursued independent and original policies rejecting dogmatism , revisionism and big power chauvinism .In the DPRK agriculture was co-operativised before mechanisation  because it was the demand of the working farmers .

Truly startling miracles were achieved .In the difficult period after the destruction caused by the US imperialists in the Korean War , the people of the DPRK performed such miracles as producing 120 000 tons of steel at a blooming mill with capacity of 60 000 tons and 270 000 tons of pig iron by equipment with a capacity of 190 000 tons, building a flat in a matter of 14 minutes, raising the gross industrial output value at 36.6 percent on a yearly average in 1957-1960 and realizing the socialist industrialization in a matter of 14 years.

The Juche-based socialism of the DPRK is people-centred socialism . The DPRK since its foundation in 1948 has always pursued people-oriented policies. This is another factor in the durability of Juche-based socialism .In People’s Korea there is free education , free health care,even free housing , low cost food and cheap public transport (the Pyongyang Metro is famous for being the cheapest underground rail network in the world ). Taxation was abolished in March 1974.In People’s Korea everything is for the people .At present the DPRK, led by Marshal KIM JONG UN is carrying out massive housing construction both in Pyongyang and in local areas.

Today’s People’s Korea is the proud outcome of the leadership of President KIM IL SUNG and the application of the Juche idea .

We will never forget the achievements of President KIM IL SUNG in authoring the Juche Idea.

Rodong Sinmun on Revolutionary Ideology of Respected General Secretary Kim Jong Un

Pyongyang, April 11 (KCNA) -- Rodong Sinmun in an article on Friday says that the revolutionary ideology of the respected General Secretary Kim Jong Un indicates the revolutionary and scientific policies for putting the dignity and national power of Juche Korea on the highest level.

As it clearly showed the road to be followed by us, our state could record only victories in its advance and our people could bring about series of changes and renovation in succession while strengthening the driving motive power and accelerating force toward the building of a powerful state, the article says, and goes on:

When all the people more firmly arm themselves with the revolutionary ideas of the General Secretary, our revolutionary ranks will grow and develop into the ranks of genuine patriots and the new era of comprehensive national prosperity will be more brilliant.

The General Secretary's revolutionary ideology is a great encyclopedia bringing about a substantial and multi-concurrent rejuvenation in overall state building.

It clearly indicates the policies for bringing about changes and renovation in all spheres of socialist construction and the improvement of people's living standards in a multi-stage, three-dimensional and offensive way.

His revolutionary ideology is the banner of advance and leaping forward as it clearly indicates the way for building on this land the most powerful country, the people's paradise, to be envied of the world, as soon as possible.

When all the people regard his revolutionary ideology as their steadfast faith and fully display the spirit of unconditionally, completely and correctly implementing it, innovative, rapid and new development standards and examples will be created continuously and the national power and prestige of our powerful country will be more strikingly demonstrated.

Our people will surely bring about a bright future of Juche Korea, with the revolutionary ideology of the respected General Secretary as the guideline, and enter ahead of others the communist society, dreamed and desired by mankind for centuries.

No force in the world can check the advance of our people holding aloft the slogan of faith "Let us arm ourselves firmly with the revolutionary ideas of the great Comrade Kim Jong Un!" -0-

www.kcna.kp (2025.04.11.)