The great Workers’ Party of Korea has vigorously led the second revolution in national defence industry aimed at making the Korean People’s Army stronger in terms of military technique after declaring at its historic Eighth Congress a grand national defence development strategy on developing the KPA into an elite army equipped with ultra-modern weapons by highly developing national defence science and technology and researching and developing more ultra-modern weapons and combat equipment.

The WPK Central Committee headed by the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un set it as the most important and priority task for defending the country, revolution and people to highly develop the country’s war deterrent with nuclear force as its pivot and has stubbornly propelled the struggle for its implementation. By doing so, it has uninterruptedly accelerated great quantitative, qualitative and technological changes in bolstering up the country’s capabilities for self-defence and thus steadily increased the combat super power for defending national sovereignty and peace.

The military hardware exhibition Defence Development-2024 opened with splendour in Pyongyang, the capital of the DPRK, on November 21, demonstrating the increased power that knows no limit and radical leap forward of the DPRK.

On December 11, the DPRK media commented for the first time on the events in the Republic of Korea. Below is the full text of the Rodong Sinmun newspaper article, which was also read on state television and all radio stations, including the Voice of Korea in foreign languages.

Large-scale public protests continue in the puppet Republic of Korea to force the resignation of puppet Yoon Suk Yeol, an evil tyrant and fascist dictator who is fomenting a bloody war with the support of the United States.

The soldiers from the DPRK have not even reached the front line yet, and South Korea, under the pretext of “responding to Russian aggression,” is already discussing sending “military and intelligence personnel” to Ukraine without any objective reasons.

A spokesman for the Ministry of National Defence of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea said in a statement that an ICBM test-fire was conducted on Thursday morning.

Under the order No. 00122 of the Central Military Commission of the Workers' Party of Korea, the General Staff of the Korean People's Army on Oct. 15 took a measure to physically cut off the DPRK's roads and railways which lead to the ROK through the east and west sections of the southern border of the DPRK as part of the phased complete separation of its territory, where its sovereignty is exercised, from the ROK's territory.

The whole DPRK is full of the will to annihilate the scum of the ROK who violated its inviolable sovereignty and security.

The respected Comrade Kim Jong Un said:

"The nature of class enemies never changes."

Unprecedented fury is erupting like a volcano. Tens of millions of our compatriots are seething with unbearable anger and merciless zeal to avenge the outrageous actions of the puppet Hanguk scum who dared to spread their filth throughout our capital, thereby encroaching not only on the territorial integrity and sovereignty of our country but also on the sacred dignity of the Korean nation.

This shows how angry our people are and what a cruel death sentence the masses have passed on the despicable enemies.

The enemies dared to touch us in vain. Let us rain fire upon them that will show no mercy to the human scum of the puppet state who have committed unacceptable acts!

The Foreign Ministry of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea on Friday issued the following crucial statement "The trigger for defending sovereignty and security will be pulled up without hesitation":