BGSJI and KFA UK on the 66th anniversary of the start of Chairman KIM JONG IL's leadership over the revolutionary armed forces of People's Korea

   BRITISH GROUP FOR THE STUDY OF THE JUCHE IDEA 

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  20th of August  2025

The British Group for the Study of the Juche Idea and  the Korean Friendship Association  of  the UK  KFA UK  ),)issued the following joint statement, the 66th anniversary of the start of the  revolutionary leadership over the armed forces in the DPRK ; 

 On the 25th of August the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, the homeland of Juche, will celebrate the 66th   anniversary of the start of the revolutionary leadership over the armed forces which began when comrade KIM JONG IL gave guidance to the Seoul Ryu Kyong Su Guards no 105 tank division of the Korean People's Army(KPA). The No 105 tank division is an army unit of the KPA steeped in revolutionary history as it was the first KPA unit to rush into Seoul during the great Fatherland Liberation War of  1950-1953.   

  The  revolutionary leadership  over  the armed forces of the great generalissimo KIM JONG IL began at a time when the US imperialists were causing tension all over the world such as the Vietnam war and the Cuban missile crisis. The modern revisionists, the agents of the imperialists in the international communist movement and the socialist camp, had capitulated to imperialism and were even putting pressure on the DPRK to give up its anti-imperialist stand and disarm itself, melting down tanks and guns, under the banner of 'peaceful co-existence ' and 'peaceful co-operation' with the imperialists. The great generalissimo's KIM IL SUNG and KIM JONG IL  declared that the DPRK would not go down this road but would build up the people's revolutionary armed forces on the basis of self-reliance. 

    The great leader generalissimo KIM JONG IL carried forward the cause of Juche-army building and  revolutionary leadership pioneered by the great leader President KIM IL SUNG. During the five decades of his revolutionary leadership, the heroic Korean People's Army was built up splendidly in all fields not just in terms of weaponry and technique but in terms of ideology and morale. The KPA became the pillar of the Juche revolution.

                                             

                        

   Under the  revolutionary leadership of Chairman KIM JONG IL, the KPA  discharged its role of defender of the gains of socialism with honour. In the confrontation between the DPRK and the imperialist forces after the Fatherland Liberation War, the independence and security of the DPRK were safeguarded and the defence power increased.

  Thanks to the leadership over the revolutionary armed forces by the great leader President KIM IL SUNG and eternal Chairman KIM JONG IL, DPRK became a strategic state.

                                                           

 Marshal KIM JONG UN  has given energetic guidance to defence upbuilding and fresh achievements and victories have been scored and peace on the Korean peninsula has been secured.

Led by respected Marshal KIM JONG UN the Korean people will win the final victory over the US imperialists under the banner of the  revolutionary leadership over the armed forces 

Glory to the memory of the great leader comrade KIM JONG IL!

BGSJI

KFA UK 

Kim Yo Jong, Department Director of C.C., WPK, Clarifies Her Stand on Major International Affairs

 

Pyongyang, August 19 (KCNA) -- Kim Yo Jong, department director of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea, Wednesday expressed the following stand as regards the major international issues escalating the global security crisis:

The trend of the present unpredictable and complicated international situation is a source of the escalation of the geopolitical crisis in different parts of the world and serious concern of the international community aspiring after peace and stability.

As the evil cycle of confrontation persists in the Middle East, the epitome of conflict and chaos in the world, distrust and discord among regional countries further deepen, bloodshed lasts without cease and the unprecedented political and economic instability gets worse on a worldwide scale.

And the phase of prolonged armed conflict has entered a more serious stage in Europe owing to the reckless confrontational intention of the Western group to impose a strategic defeat on Russia by using Ukraine as an agent of a proxy war.

Even in the Korean peninsula, the biggest hotspot in the world for centuries, the regional security environment is facing constant challenges due to the U.S. and its vassal forces' attempt at geopolitical expansion and their greedy arms buildup.

The present situation of the world, where the vicious cycle of tension persists in not only the Middle East and Europe but also the Asia-Pacific region including the Korean peninsula due to the high-handed practice and the abuse of power by the hegemonic forces, calls upon all the countries to make their principled stand clearer in pursuing justice and equity and defending their national security and interests.

The DPRK remains unchanged in its view and stand that the U.S. and the West's threat to the security of Russia that has been systematically getting serious since the end of the Cold War is the main factor that triggered the present Ukrainian crisis.

The better future of Europe can not be realized apart from the core interests and will of the Russian Federation.

We think that uprooting the cause of the conflict is the main solution to putting an end to the Ukrainian crisis and ensuring sustainable and durable peace in the region. And we fully support the righteous action of the Russian government and people to defend the national sovereignty, security interests and territorial integrity.

Availing of this opportunity, I make clear that the theory of the "dispatch of additional troops" of our army, which the Zelenskiy group invented and propagates, is an ungrounded farce of Kiev and that the U.S. and the West are entirely responsible for the start of the Ukrainian crisis and its prolongation.

The overall cooperation between the Democratic People's Republic of Korea and the Russian Federation is strictly in accordance with the treaty on comprehensive strategic partnership between the two sides which is in conformity with the purpose and principle of the UN Charter and is a legal domain of exercise of sovereign right.

The DPRK constantly maintains concentration on its duty as a contracting party of the inter-state treaty between the DPRK and Russia in conformity with it allied nature and remains boundlessly faithful to it.

The DPRK is seriously following the reckless attempt of Japan for military expansion, a dangerous factor of causing imbalance of strength in the Asia-Pacific region including the Korean peninsula and consider it a potential and prospective threat.

The DPRK regards Japan's reweaponization as a serious threat. This means that the DPRK pays more attention to Japan and gets strong perception that it regards the latter as a military target. It also hints that Japan's security is in more dangerous state.

Our military leadership already started to regard it as part of its military strategy to deter and contain the threat of Japan, which is evolving into a serious security challenge, or do something more beyond it.

In other words, this means that if Japan tries to make a wrong choice, it will face immediate annihilating blow impossible to survive.

Japan's military development is a suicidal act taking oil to extinguish the fire.

We will constantly maintain a fundamental way of approach for removing danger and ensuring genuine peace and stability from the standpoint of strong power and on the basis of the stark reality that the greatest threat to the security interests of our state and the regional security environment is coming from the U.S.

As for the reduction of the U.S.-ROK joint military drill abruptly announced by the U.S. president a few days ago, we regard it as the one unworthy of comment and have no interest in it at all.

The reduction of the scale and duration of the drill does not mean the change of the nature of the military drill with a provocative and offensive feature.

This year alone, the U.S. and the ROK have conducted joint military exercises in different spaces and spheres without space-time gap, including the bilateral air drills Buddy Squadron in February, the combined small unit drill and large-scale joint military exercises Freedom Shield in March, the U.S.-ROK Navy combined salvage exercise, combined mine warfare exercise and the combined large-scale air drills Freedom Flag in April, combined air training Hercules Guardians in May and the combined logistics support drill and bilateral air drills Buddy Squadron in July.

This suggests that the drill which was recently said to be reduced is fully substituted for such drills.

This being a hard fact, the ROK claimed that the ongoing war drill is military one of a defensive nature simulating someone's attack and talked about the strengthening of the "firm ROK-U.S. alliance" and acceleration of introduction of a nuclear submarine, fully exposing its hostile nature.

We are paying more attention to the fact that the joint military drills between the U.S. and the ROK have been steadily staged and are still under way, not to the reduction or shortening of individual drills, and we are correctly seeing through the fact that this is an obvious expression of their obvious hostility toward the DPRK.

If the U.S. calculates that it can propagate its recent measure as the one of so-called good faith, they will not get desired answer.

As for the news from Washington that shortly ago, there was a communication between the leaders of the DPRK and the U.S., I am not aware of it at all, and perhaps it may be the only thing I do not know as regards the foreign policy of our supreme leadership.

I had already clarified several times that our head of state has good memories and feelings about Trump personally.

The relationship between those two leaders is still excellent.

It is well known to the world and not a matter to be surprised, I think.

However, the U.S. hostile policy toward the DPRK has remained unchanged and the U.S. and its followers are now violently conducting hostile military activities against the DPRK even this moment.

Likewise, I would like to stress that the exercise of the sovereign rights of the DPRK intended to contain the forces threatening its security is very reasonable, appropriate and essential and it has nothing to do with the excellent relations between the leaders of the two countries.

History and reality prove that it is possible to maintain balanced and stable security structure of the region when the DPRK has stronger deterrent. -0-

Korea’s liberation from Japanese imperialism -a key part of the worldwide anti-fascist armed struggle -speech of KFA UK Chairman Dr Dermot Hudson to the online meeting for Korea's liberation

August 15th is a day that has gone down in history as a great day for the Korean people and revolutionary peoples of the world  . It was on this day that Korea finally became free of Japanese imperialist colonial rule . The Korean people were liberated from the barbarous rule of Japanese colonialism on the 15th of August 1945 as a result of the 15 year long anti-Japanese armed struggle led by the great leader comrade KIM IL SUNG  . The fighters of the Korean People’s Revolutionary Army led by comrade KIM IL SUNG together with the Soviet Red Army who had joined the war against Japan 6 days before , routed the Japanese imperialist forces in Korea.

The decadent empire of the Samurais disappeared as if it never existed in the first place.Previously people had thought of the Japanese empire as being eternal .The Korean people were able to breathe again after the suffocating rule of Japanese imperialism .The chains of Japanese colonial slavery which had bound the Korean people for 36 years were shattered in one blow . Korean people  could again use their own language , something which the Japanese imperialists had denied to them . They became masters of their own fate. The Korean people danced for joy at the news of liberation.

The defeat of Japanese imperialism was a decisive contribution to the international anti-fascist struggle . Not only was Japan a close ally of Hitlerite Germany and fascist Italy but it was itself a fascist state under Tojo who embodied the Japanese form of fascism . The Communist Party in Japan had been banned  and trade unions dissolved .

Japanese imperialism had enforced a most ferocious colonial rule over Korea. The Japanese imperialists plundered Korea of not only rice but also gold and silver . They forced Koreans to work 12-14 hours a day and took many Koreans to Japan as forced labourers. About 1 million Koreans were killed by the Japanese imperialists . It was the Japanese holocaust but this is not talked about in the West . Another crime was that over 200,000 Korean women were forced into sexual slavery by the degenerate Japanese imperialists.

President KIM IL SUNG was the great hero who from an early age took up the struggle against Japanese imperialism.

As a young communist, patriot and revolutionary in the 1920s, he keenly realised the road of peaceful resistance, the road of dependence on big power and the road of factionalism were roads to nowhere, a massive dead end. So he set about waging the struggle against Japanese imperialist rule independently and in the spirit of self-reliance. He formed revolutionary organisations with the new generation of militant anti-imperialist youth such as the Down-With-Imperialism Union, the Young Communist League of Korea and the Anti-Imperialist Youth League. Believing that independence could only be achieved by the force of arms President KIM IL SUNG formed the Korean Revolutionary Army in July 1930. On the 25th of April 1932, the Anti-Japanese People’s Guerilla Army, later to become the Korean People’s Revolutionary Army, was founded and launched the anti-Japanese war which continued for more than a decade .

             The anti-Japanese armed struggle fully proved in practice the truth of  Juche that independence is achieved by the force of arms. During the anti-Japanese armed struggle, the great leader generalissimo KIM IL SUNG adhering firmly to the line of Songun rejected the illusions of the national reformists and opportunists that independence could be achieved by peaceful means or by begging for it.

The anti-Japanese guerrillas led by President KIM IL SUNG, fought in the spirit of self-reliance under the banner of the Juche idea. They seized weapons from the Japanese aggressors or manufactured their own. Some had hoped that the Soviet Union, the first socialist state, would supply them with a hand-grenade factory but this never materialised so they made their own hand grenades the 'Yongil bomb'.Of course today People’s Korea has its own nuclear Yongil bomb.

     The Juche-oriented guerrilla tactics of the great leader President KIM IL SUNG and the indomitable struggle of the Anti-Japanese People's Guerrilla Army (later the Korean People's Revolutionary Army ) tore the guts out of Japanese imperialism, defeating the million-strong Kwantung army of Japanese imperialism. The KPRA  fought battles at Pochonbo on the 4th of June 1937 and Musan on the 23rd of May 1939 just to mention two of the hundreds of battles fought by the KPRA.   On the 9th of August 1945, the KPRA under the command of comrade KIM IL SUNG commenced the final operation to liberate Korea from Japanese imperialist rule.  Units of the Korean People’s Revolutionary Army along with the Soviet Red Army wiped out Japanese imperialist troops at the same time Korean people staged armed uprisings against the Japanese imperialists .              

                                        

   The victorious liberation struggle of the Korean people led by General KIM IL SUNG, a gifted military strategist and ever-victorious iron-willed brilliant commander was an inspiration for the peoples of the colonial countries fighting for their independence and liberation. The 1968 World Cultural Congress in Havana adopted a document praising the anti-Japanese armed struggle waged under the leadership of the great leader comrade KIM IL SUNG.

    

With the victory of the Korean People's Revolutionary Army, commanded by the great leader generalissimo KIM IL SUNG, in August 1945 the Korean people finally gained their emancipation from the cruel shackles of Japanese colonialism and greeted a new life of independence, a life of hope for the future. At the same time, by defeating Japanese imperialism the Korean people destroyed the last link in the international fascist axis ; fascism had been defeated in Asia as well as Europe.

The Korean people under the leadership of President KIM IL SUNG smashed feudalism and completely eradicated the legacy of Japanese colonial rule building a new People’s Korea on the ruins of Japanese imperialism. Today People’s Korea led by respected Marshal KIM JONG UN is well known as the most independent country in the world and is building a powerful socialist country of Juche.

Long live the 81st  anniversary of Korea’s independence!

Contribution of Martin Lotscher KFA Switzerland to the online Meeting 14.08.2026

 Dear comrades of the Korean Friendship Association UK and the British Group for the Study of the Juche Idea,

On behalf of the Swiss Korea Committee (KFA Switzerland) and the Swiss Juche Idea Study Group, I send you our comradely greetings to your online meeting to celebrate the 81st Anniversary of Korea's Liberation.

August 15, 1945 was the happiest day of the Korean people. On that day the Korean People's Revolutionary Army (KPRA) commanded by the great Generalissimo KIM IL SUNG liberated Korea from the colonial rule of Japanese imperialism.

He gave the Korean people freedom, independence and democracy.

The Korean people was the happiest people of the world!

Korea's liberation encouraged all Asian peoples who were still fighting for their own liberation from the colonial yoke of imperialist powers.

The Juche-based struggle of the Korean people for independent liberation is the model of antiimperialist liberation struggle until today.

Dear comrades, we wish you a successful online meeting to celebrate Korea's Liberation Day!

Eternal glory to the great Generalissimo KIM IL SUNG, the Sun of Korea and heaven-sent liberator!

Eternal glory to the Korean people's victorious struggle for national liberation!

Martin Lötscher,

president of the Swiss Korea Committee (KFA Switzerland),

president of the Swiss Juche Idea Study Group

August 12, 2026

Speech of comrade Jeremy Bierenger KFA Germany to the online meeting for Korea's liberation 14.08.2026

 

Dear comrade Dr. Dermot Hudson,

Dear comrade Martin Lötscher,

Dear participants of this online-meeting,

Today we are here to celebrate the 81th anniversary of the liberation of Korea from Japanese colonial rule. I want to ask you, you people who are in majority born in Europe and live in Europe. What do you think when you hear book burnings? Here in Germany everyone thinks about the 1933 book burnings. Shortly after the nazis took power in Germany they started to burn progressive literature including works of Karl Marx, Erich Kästner and Kurt Tucholsky. A terrible crime with the goal to destroy knowledge and a way to stop people from education themselves.

But this was not the first time books were burned and destroyed in mass. The Japanese imperialists did the same with Korean books after they occupied the Korean peninsula. What kind of books did they destroy? Revolutionary ones? Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels? Anti-Japanese ones? They searched schools and even sacred temples to find and destroy Korean history books. Some books, knowledge about Koreas history and culture was lost forever. Because the goal of the Japanese occupiers was to destroy the Korean nation as a whole. No one should speak the Korean language, have Korean names or know Koreas history. And what did Germany do? Did they sanction Japan? Did they boycott it´s products or made an ultimatum? No the contrary! To the eternal shame of my people we allied ourselves with the Japanese imperialists and supported their imperialist wars.

The Korean People´s Revolutionary Army under the leadership of great leader President KIM IL SUNG alongside the Red Army liberated Korea on the 15th August 1945. For the first time in history the Korean people in the north of the Korean peninsula were free. Free from the colonial rule and free from feudal and capitalist oppression. They could finally decide their own fate. The liberation was followed by a number of democratic reforms: men and women were finally made equal, the land was redistributed in favour of the small farmers and the factories banks etc. were nationalized. Under the leadership of great men: President KIM IL SUNG, comrade KIM JONG IL, and Marshal KIM JONG UN the Democratic People´s Republic of Korea became a strong, independent and prosperous state. Even the mainstream-media can´t deny that anymore. The wall street journal called the DPRK „The world´s most surprising economic success story“, and the New York Times referred to the DPRK´s economic success as „Miraculous transformation“. And all this is despite the brutal US-American Embargo and despite the constant threat from western imperialism!

The past can´t be changed. We can not restore destroyed books and we can not bring back dead sons to their mothers. What we can do, we Germans and British is, we can apologize for our past mistakes and we can decide to go another way for the future. A way of partnership and collaboration with the DPRK.

I want to thank comrade Dr. Dermot Hudson, organisation secretary Alan Bolon and the whole of KFA UK for organizing this meeting and spreading the truth about People´s Korea.

Long live KFA!

Long live the DPRK!
Long live respected comrade KIM JONG UN!

Manse!

Speech of Alan Bolon to the meeting for the 81st anniversary of Korea's liberation 14.08.2026

 Dear participants of the Online Meeting marking the 81st anniversary of Korea's liberation: First, please accept my apologies for my absence, which is due to urgent family matters. Dear participants, please hear my message: 

 Today’s meeting offers an opportunity to reflect not only on the nature and significance of the events that took place 81 years ago but also—and I believe this is crucial—on the impact those events have on the present day, both for the Democratic People's Republic of Korea and for us personally. 

 You gather today to commemorate the liberation of the Korean people and to pay tribute to all those who fought for a free and independent Korea. This day is a time to reflect on the price paid for independence and to express gratitude to the heroic generations of Korea who did not yield during the darkest hours of the Japanese occupation.

 On this day commemorating the great Korean victory over the Japanese occupation, it is worth first highlighting the importance of honoring the historical legacy of the Korean people—a legacy that recalls the long years Korea spent under Japanese rule. This heritage stands as a glorious pillar of the strength possessed today by socialist, Juche Korea.

 Eighty-one years since liberation from Japanese occupation represents nearly a full century—a significant span of time for any country or nation. Yet, the true measure of time for a nation lies not merely in its passing, but in the deeds and achievements realized during that period—achievements that shape the present day—and in the case of the DPRK, these are immense. Eight decades of building the finest form of socialism—a socialism centered on human well-being and development—represent eight decades of forging a new type of socialist man: a free, conscious, and creative being, standing as the supreme entity to which the world is subordinate. 

 This process—briefly interrupted by Yankee aggression in 1950 and the victory over American imperialism—spanning these eight decades, demonstrates that the Korean path to socialism, initiated by the long struggle for liberation led by the esteemed Comrade Kim Il Sung—a path he forged first in his heart and in the fires of guerrilla warfare—is the only and most righteous path for all who harbor a yearning for freedom and independence in their souls. 

 When we look today at other countries around the world—where people suffer under the exploitation and oppression of capital, and where wealthy elite classes carve ever-deeper divisions while trampling upon the rights and freedoms of others (whose poverty is a direct consequence of those elites)—we feel all the more admiration and respect for the social, economic, and political model of People's Korea, founded upon the epoch-making Juche philosophy. It is precisely the idea of Juche—and the strength derived from it, rooted in authenticity and the power unleashed within the collective unity—that has been and remains the source of all the successes achieved by People's Korea. 

 The liberation of Korea from Japanese occupation—achieved at the cost of blood and the sacrifices of many Korean Heroes—brought a long-cherished freedom; immediately following this liberation, Korea embarked on the monumental task of building a state based on equality among all social classes, under the leadership of the proletariat. Just as the people of Korea had united in the struggle against the Japanese occupiers, so too did they remain steadfast after their victory, united as a disciplined collective characterized by high moral standards and active engagement. This high level of engagement stems not only from embracing the guiding force of the epoch-defining Juche philosophy but also from adopting the lessons and experiences of the Heroes who fought for Korea’s liberation in the anti-Japanese struggle—a struggle that culminated in the victory of 1945. This victory conveys the message that freedom is both a gift and, above all, a task—a task for us all. Please remember: A freedom is not granted once and for all; we must nurture and uphold it every day. 

 May the memory of this glorious day for the people of Korea—when the power of tradition and the legacy of the heroic deeds performed by the valiant Korean People's Army in the struggle against the Japanese occupiers find expression, united in patriotism—serve as a model and an inspiration for us in the fight for a new, just world free from exploitation and imperialist domination! 

 Glory and honor to the heroes who fell in the struggle to liberate Korea from the yoke of Japanese occupation!

 Long live the Democratic People's Republic of Korea! 

 With greetings to all of you and thankfully to the meeting: A l a n B o l o n Organization Secretary of the KFA UK

We Will Exercise Our Right to Self-defence for Neutralizing Military Threat from Hostile Forces through More Transparent Action: KCNA Commentary

Pyongyang, August 19 (KCNA) -- The large-scale U.S.- ROK joint military exercises, Ulji Freedom Shield, began in every part of the ROK on August 17. The drill poses the most immediate and open threat to the DPRK and the regional security.

The exercises will last for over 10 days, involving U.S. troops in the ROK and the ROK army as the mainstay of the exercises as well as extra-regional U.S. reinforcements and forces of member states of the "UN Command". And these frantic exercises cover all spheres of carrying out wartime operations including the ground, sea, air, space, cyber and psychological information. This is pushing again the tensions on the Korean peninsula to the threshold of a war.

In particular, all the major units under the U.S. 8th Army, including the 2nd Infantry Division, the 19th Sustainment Command, the 501st Military Intelligence Brigade, and the 35th Air Defense Artillery Brigade, are taking part in the drill. And various actual maneuvers of the drill include a combined arms live-firing exercise aimed at verifying the capability for joint precision strike and mobility, a combined wet gap crossing exercise and a joint logistic support maneuver for providing war supplies in contingency.

Nevertheless, prior to the exercises, the military warmongers of the U.S. and the ROK described the drill as "annual" and "defensive" one in public with the aim of hiding the aggressive and provocative nature of the largest-ever exercises.

Such drill, which has been staged for decades despite the changes of regimes in the U.S. and the ROK, cannot be regarded only as a bad habitual military practice of the enemy states. And we can never get used to it.

As everybody knows, the enemies' war drill differs in its mission, form, scale and training methods every time.

All the elements of the war drill have been developing into extremely dangerous ones, quite different from the past ones. And it is being desperately oriented towards improving the actual fighting capacity in the war exercises against the DPRK and gaining the decisive ascendancy in the security structure in the Korean peninsula and the rest of the region.

The main point of the drill is to perform "practical training reflecting the changing security environment" and to "improve effectiveness". And its scenarios are being tailored to adapt to new modern war manuals and ways analyzed in recent wars.

The U.S.-ROK command post training under the simulated conditions of contingency in the Korean peninsula, the field training exercise which was waged more than ten times and even the "all-government combined exercise" which the ROK is staging independently by enlisting more than 4 000 agencies and over 580 000 personnel across the country feature supplemented elements of ultra-modern operations such as AI, drone and cyber.

What is all the more serious is that the U.S.-led "UN Command" which played an auxiliary role in the Ulji Freedom Shield exercises only a few years ago is kick-starting in real earnest to revive its combat function and expand its role, talking about "contribution in new spheres such as intelligence, cyber and space" with the ongoing exercises as an occasion.

Prior to the drill, the deputy commander of the "UN Command" said that it would be the strongest deterrence when the countries sharing the same intention counter together and the strong combination of posture when the ROK-U.S. alliance and UN Command are added, making it a fait accompli to hurl into an actual war the largest-ever multinational aggression forces by misusing the name of the "UN forces" in case of contingency on the Korean peninsula as it did in the 1950s of the last century.

This is a development that can not be overlooked. It visually shows that the ROK bordering the DPRK is turning into not only the training ground of the U.S.-ROK military alliance but also a gathering place of multinational aggression forces and a test ground of modern warfare for occupying the security sphere of the DPRK and the independent countries in the region.

The dangerous escalation of the war drills staged by the U.S. and its vassal forces is posing a more serious threat to the security rights of the DPRK and this will lead to the further deterioration of the situation of the Korean peninsula and the Asia-Pacific region.

The present situation makes us keenly realize what we should do.

The DPRK's exercise of its right to self-defence will continue to completely neutralize the enemies' military threat until the enemy states give up their reckless dream of overwhelming someone by force and completely abandon their attempt to break the balance of strength in Northeast Asia and the Asia-Pacific region beyond the Korean peninsula.

It is necessary to counter the threatening maneuvers of the enemies which are getting serious as the time goes by with newly-developed strength.

The DPRK will always put all the enemies violating and threatening its sovereign security in the sighting range for precision and annihilating strike by its retaliatory means.

All the war drills for aggression staged by the enemy states in the Korean peninsula and the region will never produce the result desired by them. -0-