KIM JONG UN DECLARES CONSTRUCTION OF RYOMYONG STREET

 Kim Jong Un, first secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea, first chairman of the DPRK National Defence Commission and supreme commander of the Korean People's Army, declared the construction of Ryomyong Street and set forth the tasks for it on the spot, though he was very busy with his guidance over the 70-day campaign while decisively frustrating the enemies' anti-DPRK moves in the Paektu attack spirit.

The street is to be built in an area between the Kumsusan Palace of the Sun and Ryonghung Crossroads in Pyongyang.

Seeing the Kumsusan Palace of the Sun, the sacred temple of Juche where President Kim Il Sung and leader Kim Jong Il lie in state, and Ryongnam Hill where the leader made a historic oath "O Korea, I Will Add Glory to Thee", Kim Jong Un named the street to be built "Ryomyong Street" in the meaning that it is a significant place from where the dawn breaks for the Korean revolution.

He examined a layout of the street, a map showing the bird's eye view of it and its model board and gave instructions for building the street into a monumental edifice strikingly demonstrating the Workers' Party of Korea's idea of attaching importance to science and talents and the might of socialist Korea.

The essence of its construction is to splendidly build apartment houses for scientists and researchers including educators of Kim Il Sung University, nursery, kindergarten, laundry, post office and other public buildings and public service amenities, he said, stressing the need to push forward the construction of Building No. 3 of the university at the same time.

It is the Party's intention to build Ryomyong Street into an energy-saving and green street in the 21st century, he said, adding that the designing and construction units should set it as a goal to ensure the lighting and heating systems for the houses and public buildings with solar panels, geothermal energy and natural lighting and build rooftop greenhouses to go green.

Saying that he would dispatch the soldier-builders, who took part in the construction of Mirae Scientists Street, to the construction of Ryomyong Street by the order of the KPA Supreme Commander, he instructed the entire party, state and society to render positive assistance to the construction and the Cabinet, commissions, ministries and national institutions take the lead in this work.

The construction of the street is not merely for formation of a street but provides a political occasion of clearly showing the spirit of the DPRK bravely dashing ahead to surpass the world's level despite all sorts of sanctions and pressure by the U.S. imperialists and their followers, the appearance of the country advancing to realize the noblest ideal of the people and the truth that it is able to be well-off its own way, and nothing is impossible for it to do if it has a will, he said.

Noting that the construction of Ryomyong Street is a fierce battle with the U.S. imperialists and their followers, he called for completing the construction within this year to inspire the servicepersons and people with faith in sure victory and optimism and demonstrate once again the might of the DPRK to hew out its clear way, foreseeing its rosy future, and the traditions of ever-victorious Juche Korea that the world has neither understood nor can do.

He was accompanied by Jo Yong Won, Kim Yo Jong and Kim Chang Gwang, vice department directors of the WPK Central Committee.

LESSONS TO BE DRAWN FROM PREDECESSORS’ TRACK RECORDS

Amid a fierce election campaign between candidates from the Democrats and Republicans, there is no knowing who will be elected as the next US president. Whoever would be the next president, he or she needs to learn lessons from his or her predecessors. The biggest headache for the successive US presidents was the issue related to the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea.

EISENHOWER, THE FIRST PRESIDENT TO SIGN AN INSTRUMENT OF SURRENDER

The Korean war (1950-1953) was unleashed by the order of President Truman.

After igniting the war by instigating the south Korean puppet regime to make a sudden armed invasion of the north, the US hurled into it a huge armed force, including one-third of its ground force, one-fifth of its air force, most of its Pacific Fleet, troops of 15 vassal states and even the remnants of the former Japanese army.

It, however, sustained a loss nearly 2.3 times greater than what it had suffered in the four-year Pacific War: over 1 567 120 men including 405 490 US soldiers were killed, wounded or captured and tremendous amounts of war supplies were lost, including 12 220 aircraft. The US lost the war, the first of its kind, in its history.

The US signed an armistice agreement which was as good as an instrument of surrender.

The Republican President Eisenhower, had to wind up the war unleashed by the Democratic President Truman. Fifty-nine minutes after the Korean Armistice Agreement was signed, he appeared before the camera, and said that it was a tragically bitter moment.

JOHNSON, THE FIRST PRESIDENT TO SUBMIT A LETTER OF APOLOGY

 In January 1968 the US armed spy ship Pueblo, which had intruded into the territorial waters of the DPRK, was captured by the Navy of the Korean People’s Army.

The US dispatched legions of its troops including an aircraft carrier to the areas around the Korean peninsula. It seemed it would ignite a war at once. It demanded that the DPRK make an apology and send the Pueblo back, threatening to use every possible means including nuclear weapons if the latter rejected its demand. The DPRK answered, “Retaliation against ‘retaliation’ and an all-out war against ‘all-out war,’” and made its combat preparations perfect.

Disheartened by the resolute countermeasures, the US solemnly acknowledged before the whole world the hostile acts of espionage committed by the Pueblo against the DPRK, and signed a document, in which it assured that no US ships would intrude into the DPRK’s territorial waters in the future.

The then Democratic President Lyndon Johnson lamented that it was the first-ever letter of apology in the US history.

BILL CLINTON, THE FIRST PRESIDENT TO SEND A LETTER OF ASSURANCE

In the 1990s the US picked a quarrel with the DPRK over the latter’s “nuclear issue.” Fussing about the “suspicious nuclear development” by the DPRK, it instigated the IAEA to adopt a resolution on forced inspection of military sites in the country, and staged the Team Spirit joint military exercise, the largest of its kind, to bring military pressure upon it.

In this situation, an order of the Supreme Commander of the KPA to declare a semi-war state and a statement of the DPRK government on withdrawing from the NPT were made public.

Unable to find countermeasures against the unexpected reaction, the US came to the negotiating table. And the DPRK-USA Agreed Framework, in which the US made official assurances concerning the non-use of nuclear weapons and both sides agreed to solve the nuclear issue of the Korean peninsula in a peaceful way, was signed in October 1994. The Democratic President Bill Clinton sent Chairman Kim Jong Il (1942-2011) of the DPRK National Defence Commission a letter of assurance, in which he assured the DPRK leader that he would ensure the sincere implementation of the US commitments under the Agreed Framework.

BUSH FILS WHO TURNED THE DPRK INTO A NUKE POSSESSOR

Entering the new century, the Bush administration branded the DPRK as part of the “Axis of Evil” and, by mobilizing huge nuclear forces deployed in south Korea and its surrounding areas, continuously staged war rehearsals of various kinds. In this way, it resorted to nuclear threat and blackmail against the DPRK.

It nullified the DPRK-USA Joint Statement and the DPRK-USA Agreed Framework, and disclosed its intention to launch a nuclear preemptive strike against the non-nuclear DPRK in violation of the fundamental principles of the NPT. Thus, the process of the settlement of the nuclear issue and the denuclearization of the Korean peninsula fell into stagnation.

As the nuclear threat by the US went to extremes, the DPRK was compelled to build its war deterrent, and put its determination to action: it officially declared that it possessed nuclear weapons, and conducted an underground nuclear test.

The Republican President Bush produced another nuclear state in this world.

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Obama Who Placed the DPRK in the Front Rank of Nuclear-Armed Nations

President Obama advocated a nuclear-free world from his early days of presidency, and for this won the Nobel Peace Prize.

Contrary to his fame, he avoided, to the best of his abilities, resolving the nuclear issue and establishing a peace mechanism in the Korean peninsula, the most urgent in the world, clamouring about “strategic patience.”

The DPRK formally notified the US that if the latter assured that it would ease tension by replacing the Korean Armistice Agreement with a peace pact and would not stage aggressive nuclear war rehearsals, the DPRK would suspend nuclear test temporarily. But the US response was continuous aggressive war rehearsals against the DPRK.

Convinced that the US hostile policy had been unchanged, the DPRK took a resolute measure aimed at building up its nuclear deterrent for self-defence—the successful test of the first H-bomb on January 6 this year.

All in all, the Democratic President Obama, who advocated a nuclear-free world, placed the DPRK in the front rank of nuclear-armed nations.

The presidential candidates, whether they are Democratic or Republican, are well advised to bear in mind the lessons of their predecessors that the US policy of hostility towards the DPRK is doomed to failure.

Kim Jong Un Guides Ballistic Rocket's Reentry Environmental Simulation

Scientists and technicians in the defence industry of the DPRK succeeded in the development and local production of heat-resisting materials for rocket with their own efforts and technology after having made painstaking researches of years under the direct guidance of supreme leader Kim Jong Un.

Kim Jong Un, first secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK), first chairman of the DPRK National Defence Commission and supreme commander of the Korean People's Army, gave an order to conduct a test for estimating the heat stability of ballistic rocket warhead tip, designed and manufactured with indigenous efforts and technology, and the corrosion of heat-resistant coating material. And he guided an environmental simulation for reentry of the rocket warhead tip on the spot.

The simulation was conducted in such a way as to verify the thermodynamic structural stability of newly-developed heat-resisting materials through measurement of corrosion and temperature on the tip under high pressure and thermal flow caused by aerodynamic heating when a ballistic rocket reenters the atmosphere. The test results met the requirements of all the technical parameters.

The test proved that the tip's thermodynamic structural stability is ensured under the pressure equivalent to actual environmental condition and heat flow about five times stronger than the condition caused at the time of ballistic rocket reentry and, after all, it provided a sure guarantee for the reliability of the inter-continental ballistic rocket warhead reentry.

Very satisfied over the test results, Kim Jong Un said with high appreciation that the trustworthy scientists and technicians in the defense research field and workers in the munitions industry field true to the WPK's revolutionary line of simultaneously developing the two fronts have made long strides in the rocket industry and nuclear technology this year when the Seventh Congress of the WPK is to be held.

We have proudly acquired the reentry technology, possessed by a few countries styling themselves military powers, by dint of self-reliance and self-development, thus making great progress in the ballistic rocket technology that helps increase the independence of the country's defence capability and munitions industry and remarkably enhance the invincible might of the powerful revolutionary Paektusan army, he added.

The level of our advanced strike means, irrefutable in terms of science and technology, just shows the strength and dignity of our country, he said, stressing the need for the munitions industry to rapidly develop the defence science and technology and raise higher the level of putting the defence industry on a Juche-based, modern and scientific basis and thus develop and produce on the highest level more diverse and Korean-style military strike means and Juche-based rockets for realizing the Party Central Committee's idea on the military strategy and tactics.

Declaring that a nuclear warhead explosion test and a test-fire of several types of ballistic rockets capable of carrying nuclear warheads will be conducted in a short time to further increase the reliability of nuclear attack capability, he instructed the relevant field to make thorough prearrangement for them.

He was accompanied by First Vice Department Director Ri Pyong Chol and Vice Department Director Kim Jong Sik of the WPK Central Committee and General Kim Rak Gyom, commander of the KPA Strategic Force.