A comment on recent reports by the website NKNews

. Firstly , this is basically a third hand report . It is the NKNews Scumbags allegedly quoting what Moon Jae In said second , who in turn is quoting the DPRK apparently . No direct DPRK source is quoted . Secondly , I am old enough to remember back in 2001 or 2000 a similar report either from the US or south Korea that the DPRK was joining the IMF . There is no record of the DPRK applying to join the IMF. Thirdly , on nuclear weapons and economic development . Yes the DPRK is pursuing economic development in order to raise living standards and make the country strong . This policy was decided at the April 21st Plenary meeting of the 7th Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea . It should be noted that the core principle of the new strategic line is self-reliance , this would appear to preclude the DPRK from joining the IMF. When I was in the DPRK I asked my guide about the DPRK abandoning nuclear weapons . The reply I got was "No, no , no , we will only give up nuclear weapons when the US nuclear threat to the DPRK is ended and when the hostile policy is ended ". I told him that all the delegation believe that the DPRK should keep the nuclear deterrent eternally. Fourthly , the DPRK follows the people-orientated policy. This means more consumer goods and more leisure facilities , some may say this is a kind of reform but it is not . Moreover the kind of disastrous economic reforms that were carried out in the Eastern Europe socialist countries and China would go against the people-orientated policy. In fact Marshal Kim Jong Un has spoken about the need to lower prices of products to meet the needs of the people.Fifthly , NKNews is a fake news and disinformation agency of the CIA . At best it projects conjecture , rumour , speculation and gossip. 
Additional about the nature and activities of NKNews 
  Whilst in Pyongyang I got approached by NKNews , who had somehow managed to trick their way into the DPRK and were snooping around like spies . I had just been to the amazing mass game "Glorious Country " and was just speaking to an official of the DPRK Committee For Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries whom I had worked with in the past. I was suddenly aware of three non Korean figures glaring at me . They asked for an interview with me which I declined on principle ( and anyway there was not any time because I needed to get back to the coach and it was very crowded , literally tens of thousands of people and easy to get ).
I declined the interview because they have slandered UK KFA and KFA in the past . They also printed despicable lies about my good friend Alejandro Cao De Benos . Therefore it is quite impossible for me to accept such a request for an interview unless they first delete all the anti KFA articles from their website.
NKNews is a very sinister website consisting of fake news plus conjecture , specualations , rumour and gossip about the DPRK .It is apparently owned by a US based entity , the shadowy Korea Risk Group. This is likely to be a front for the CIA and other US intelligence agencies . The ownership of the Korea Risk Group is kept secret .
The staff of NKNews includes former US and south Korean army and intelligence officers . The founder of NKNews is known to have worked for a CIA linked entity the Marshall Fund .Others involved with NKNews appear to have come from upper class British families with links to diplomatic , military , and intelligence circles .
NKNews is a modern and specialist reincarnation of the CIA run news agencies such as Forum World Features which was exposed by Whistleblowers .
NKNews can be very crafty and cunning in their propaganda . For example in the run up to the September celebrations they run a story saying visitors to the DPRK would be charged 100 Euros to see the mass game "Glorious Country " ,implying that Juche Idea Study and friendship delegations would be charged .
Of course we were not. This is the craftiness ofNKNews , basically grey propaganda rather than black.
NKNews in the past supported the fascist regime of Park Geun Hye is in south Korea and even criticised UK KFA for picketing against her visit to the UK . Now that a new liberal regime in in power in south Korea , NKNews has to had to change its tone a bit and adopt new kinds of anti-DPRK propaganda , even try to appear objective and neutral , in order to retain funding and other support from the south Korean government