Kim Yo-jong, Department Head of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea, issues a statement(Pyongyang, August 20, Korean Central News Agency)
On the 20th, Kim Yo- jong, Department Head of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea, issued the following statement titled "The Pitiful Situation of Seoul, Unable to Play the War Games It So Enjoyed."
The Ulchi Freedom Shield, a large-scale U.S.-South Korea war demonstration held on Korean soil, was hit with a harsh frost as soon as it began.
With a single word from Trump suddenly ordering a reduction in training, Seoul was placed in the pitiful position of having to put away the "war game" it enjoyed the most.
In Korea, it is likely the first "calamity" in history to start without any prior discussion and immediately turn into a half-baked exercise with its body severed, an empty shell with the yolk missing, just like this time.
It is the fate of a scarecrow army that has entrusted its command authority to its master that it cannot utter a single word of protest even when the U.S. military backs down without any mutual coordination, following the unilateral directives of the U.S. Commander-in-Chief; and the reality of Korea is a country whose national security is shaken entirely by a single reduction in joint military exercises, a country that entrusts its defense and security to foreign powers yet boasts that it "has an overflowing capacity to defend itself."
Korea’s plight, having been left in a state of despair after being unable to play the "war games" they most wanted to play, clearly illustrates the master-servant relationship structure of the "US-Korea blood alliance" they boasted of.
As is acknowledged by all, this sudden incident is a deserved disaster caused by the unrealistic and anachronistic delusions and security views of the South Korean authorities, who, blinded by faith in their masters, ceaselessly made a fuss about trying to change the dynamics of the region controlled by nuclear-armed states.
This is exactly what is meant by karma.
The politicians of Seoul are trying to cover up their embarrassing situation of being ignored by their superiors by making excuses such as "a turning point to a new phase" or "a new starting point that can bring about a change in relations," but anyone can see that these are nothing but lame excuses.
Lee Jae-myung’s double standards—flattering Trump in front with embarrassing remarks such as expressing "respect" for his "decision to reduce exercises" and calling it a "much-deep, major decision" while turning his back to talk about "self-reliant defense" and "securing independent military power" in preparation for the "worst-case scenario"—clearly reveal Korea’s anxious and contradictory mentality.
The fact that U.S. security aid is no longer free is a reality the world is witnessing right before its eyes.
To win the favor of a heartless master, even offering up the entire land would probably not be enough.
I think it would be better to take this opportunity to properly learn about one's thoroughly subservient situation and find the answer to survival.
It is time for the "puppets" to realize for themselves the fated plight of having nowhere to go. (End)
http://www.kcna.kp/kp/article/detail/c95033ab45276e25a696bbe1d21b1ba2The exercise of our right to self-defense to neutralize the military threat of hostile forces will be expressed through more explicit actions.(Pyongyang, August 19, Korean Central News Agency)
The large-scale joint military exercise between the U.S. and South Korea, "Ulchi Freedom Shield," which poses the most direct and blatant threat to the security environment of our country and region, is being carried out across South Korea starting on the 17th.
Taking advantage of the frenzied exercises being carried out for more than ten days across all domains of actual wartime operations—including land, sea, air, space, cyber, and psychological intelligence—with the main force consisting of US Forces Korea and South Korean troops, joined by US reinforcements from outside the region and member state forces of the United Nations Command, the already tense situation on the Korean Peninsula is once again reaching the "imminent threshold" of war.
In particular, this exercise will involve all major units under the U.S. Eighth Army, including the U.S. 2nd Infantry Division, 19th Support Command, 501st Military Intelligence Brigade, and 35th Anti-Aircraft Artillery Brigade, and will carry out various types of live-fire exercises, such as combined arms live-fire training to verify combined precision strike and mobility capabilities, combined river crossing training, and logistics support training for supplying war materials in times of emergency.
Nevertheless, the U.S. and South Korean military warmongers who appeared in public on the eve of the exercise once again tried to downplay the aggressive and provocative nature of the U.S.-South Korea joint military exercise, which had mutated into the worst in history, by adding cliché explanations such as it was "annual" or "defensive."
Joint military exercises, which have persisted for decades regardless of regime changes in the U.S. and South Korea, can never be viewed merely as a bad military practice of adversaries, and one certainly cannot become accustomed to them.
As is well known, the enemy's war exercises do not follow a simple process of preparation and review.
All components, including content, format, scale, and training methods, are undergoing perilous evolutions that differ from the previous ones, and this is being desperately pursued to enhance the combat effectiveness of the anti-North Korea war exercises and to secure an advantage in the security structure of the Korean Peninsula and the region.
This exercise also places emphasis on "realistic training reflecting the changing security environment" and "enhancing effectiveness," and new modern warfare manuals and methods analyzed through recent war trends are being constantly updated and applied to the exercise script.
The U.S.-South Korea command post exercises simulating a contingency on the Korean Peninsula, more than 10 field maneuver exercises, and even the "Integrated Government Exercise" conducted independently by South Korea by mobilizing over 4,000 agencies and 580,000 personnel nationwide are being expanded with elements of advanced operations such as artificial intelligence, drones, and cyber.
What is even more alarming is that the U.S.-led United Nations Command, which played a supporting role in the Ulchi Freedom Shield exercises until just a few years ago, is using this exercise as an opportunity to talk about "contributions in new domains such as intelligence, cyber, and space," and is now fully setting in motion the revival of the United Nations Command's combat functions and the expansion of its role.
Ahead of the exercise, the Deputy Commander of the "United Nations Command" made it a fait accompli that, in the event of a contingency on the Korean Peninsula, the largest-ever multinational offensive force would be deployed in actual combat under the guise of the "United Nations Command," just as in the 1950s, by boasting that "like-minded nations standing together is the strongest deterrent" and that "the posture becomes strongly combined when the U.S.-Korea alliance and the UN Command are combined."
This represents an undeniable development that clearly demonstrates that Korea’s territory, sharing a border with our nation, is transforming from a mere training ground for the U.S.-Korea military alliance into a rallying ground and a modern warfare arena for multinational aggression forces aiming to attack the security territories of our country and independent nations in the region.
The dangerous expansion and intensification of war exercises perpetrated by the United States and its followers poses a more serious threat to the security of our Republic, and this is bound to lead to a further deterioration of the situation on the Korean Peninsula and in the Asia-Pacific region.
The current situation clearly indicates what we must do.
Until our adversaries abandon their reckless delusion of overwhelming anyone by force, and until they completely give up attempts to disrupt the balance of power in Northeast Asia and the Asia-Pacific region beyond the Korean Peninsula, the exercise of our right to self-defense to thoroughly neutralize the enemies' military threats will be expressed through increasingly clear actions.
It is necessary to respond to the increasingly evolving threatening behaviors of adversaries with new, evolved power.
Adversaries who infringe upon and threaten the sovereignty and security of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea will be within the constant targeting range of annihilating retaliatory measures.
All aggressive war exercises carried out by enemy nations on the Korean Peninsula and in the region will absolutely not bring about the results desired by their implementers. (End)
Kim Yo-jong, Department Director of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea, Announces Position on Major International Issues(Pyongyang, August 19, Korean Central News Agency)
Kim Yo-jong, Department Director of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea , expressed the following position on the 19th regarding major international issues that are exacerbating the global security crisis.
The recent trends in international affairs, which are becoming increasingly unpredictable and complex, are amplifying geopolitical crises around the world and raising serious concerns within the international community that desires peace and stability.
In the Middle East, which can be seen as a microcosm representing the conflict and chaos of the world, the vicious cycle of confrontation continues, deepening the rift of distrust and discord among the countries in the region, and bloodshed continues unabated, escalating unprecedented political and economic instability in the international landscape.
In Europe, the prolonged phase of the armed conflict is entering a more serious stage due to the reckless confrontational attempts by the Western group to force a strategic defeat on Russia by using Ukraine as a proxy for warfare.
Even in the Korean Peninsula region, which has been the world's largest hotspot for centuries, the regional security environment is facing constant challenges due to the geopolitical expansionist attempts and excessive military buildup by the United States and its followers.
The current global situation, in which a vicious cycle of tension has become permanently entrenched due to the coercion and abuse of power by hegemonic forces extending from the Middle East and Europe to the Asia-Pacific region including the Korean Peninsula, requires each country to clarify its principled position in pursuing justice and fairness and safeguarding national security and interests.
Our view and position remain unchanged that the security threats from the United States and the West, which have systematically increased targeting Russia since the end of the Cold War, are the fundamental factor causing the current Ukraine crisis.
A better future for Europe cannot be formed independently of the core interests and will of the Russian Federation.
We consider that the only fundamental solution to ending the Ukraine crisis and guaranteeing sustainable and lasting peace in the region is to eliminate the root causes of the conflict, and we fully support the just actions of the Russian government and people to safeguard the sovereignty, security interests, and territorial integrity of the state.
Taking this opportunity, we make it clear that the rumor of "additional troop deployment" by our army, devised and spread by the Zelensky clique, is a completely baseless hoax by Kyiv, and that the responsibility for the origin and prolonged nature of the Ukraine crisis lies entirely with the United States and the West, which established the premise and exacerbated the conditions.
All cooperation between the Democratic People's Republic of Korea and the Russian Federation is in strict compliance with the treaty on comprehensive strategic partnership between the two parties, which is in accordance with the purposes and principles of the UN Charter, and is a lawful area of the exercise of sovereign rights.
In accordance with the alliance nature of the treaty between the two nations, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea never loses focus on its obligations as an alliance contracting party and is infinitely responsible.
We are seriously monitoring Japan's reckless attempts at military expansion, which are a risk factor causing an imbalance of power in the Asia-Pacific region including the Korean Peninsula, as a potential and prospective threat.
The fact that the Democratic People's Republic of Korea takes the threat of Japan's rearmilitarization seriously should be understood as an indication that its interest in Japan—specifically, its perception of it as a military target—has intensified; consequently, this suggests that Japan's security is facing a more dangerous situation.
Our military leadership has already begun to regard deterring, suppressing, or even exceeding the threat posed by Japan—which is evolving into a serious security challenge—as part of its military strategy.
In other words, it means that if Japan attempts to make the wrong choice, it will now directly face an immediate and unsurvivable annihilation strike.
Japan's military evolution becomes a self-destructive act, like throwing firewood into a fire.
Based on the unchanging reality that the greatest threat to national security interests and the regional security environment comes from the United States, we will always maintain a fundamental approach to eliminate danger and ensure true peace and stability from the standpoint of strong power.
Regarding the reduction of U.S.-South Korea joint military exercises suddenly announced by the U.S. President a few days ago, we do not consider it worth commenting on and find it completely uninteresting.
The fact that the scale or duration of training is reduced does not change the nature of military exercises that are provocative and aggressive.
This year alone, the United States and South Korea have continuously conducted joint military exercises under various pretexts in different airspaces and domains without any spatial or temporal gaps, including the joint air exercise "Ssangmae" in February, the joint small unit exercise and large-scale joint military exercise "Freedom Shield" in March, the U.S.-South Korean naval joint rescue and mine warfare exercises and the joint large-scale air exercise "Freedom Flag" in April, the joint air force tactical exercise "Hercules Guardians" in May, and the joint logistics support exercise and joint air exercise "Ssangmae" in July.
This indicates that the exercise process, which was reduced this time, is more than sufficiently replaced by the joint exercises that have already been conducted.
Nevertheless, South Korea exposed its hostile identity without filter by insisting that this war exercise was a defensive military drill simulating an attack by anyone, while talking about strengthening the "solid ROK-US alliance" and accelerating the introduction of nuclear submarines.
We are paying closer attention to the reality that joint military exercises between the U.S. and South Korea have been continuously conducted to date and are still ongoing, rather than the reduction or shortening of individual training, and we clearly perceive this as an undeniable expression of clear hostility toward North Korea.
If the U.S. side calculates that the measures they have taken this time are some kind of "goodwill measures," they will not get the answer they want.
Regarding the recent news from Washington about communication between the leaders of North Korea and the United States, I am completely unaware of it, and it is likely the only matter concerning our top leadership's foreign policy that I am unaware of.
It has already been stated several times that our head of state has good personal memories and feelings toward Trump.
The relationship between the two leaders is excellent.
The whole world knows this, and I don't see it as anything particularly surprising.
Nevertheless, the U.S. hostile policy toward North Korea has not changed, and the U.S. and its followers are fiercely carrying out hostile military activities against North Korea even at this very moment.
Likewise, it reminds us that regardless of the excellent relationship between the leaders of the two countries, the sovereign actions we take to check forces threatening our national security are very common-sense, accurate, and essential.
History and reality prove that when the Democratic People's Republic of Korea possesses stronger deterrence, the regional security structure is bound to become more balanced and stable. (End)
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