Kim Jong Un, the president of the State Affairs of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, made an important policy speech "On the Immediate Tasks for the Prosperity and Development of Our Republic and the Promotion of the Wellbeing of Our People" at the 10th Session of the 14th Supreme People's Assembly (SPA) of the DPRK on January 15.

Kim Jong Un, in the policy speech, proudly reviewed the success in 2023, specially recorded as a year of great turn and change in its history of development, and he put forward the tasks of this year for the new victory in the socialist construction. He also set out the policy on the south Korea and the foreign policy of our Republic.

Kim Jong Un, the President of the State Affairs of the Democratic Republic of Korea declared that today the Supreme People's Assembly newly legalized the policy of our Republic toward the south on the basis of putting an end to the nearly 80 year-long history of inter-Korean relations and recognizing the two states both existing in the Korean peninsula.

Kim Jong Un said that our Party, government and people had shown great magnanimity and tireless patience and made sincere efforts always with the view that those of the ROK are still the fellow countrymen and compatriots in the long period of history and even discussed with them the great cause of national reunification in a candid manner.

He emphasized that but it is the final conclusion drawn from the bitter history of the inter-Korean relations that we cannot go along the road of national restoration and reunification together with the ROK clan that adopted as its state policy the all-out confrontation with our Republic, dreaming of the "collapse of our government" and "unification by absorption," and lost compatriotic consciousness, getting more vicious and arrogant in the madcap confrontational racket.

He continued to say that this is the present situation of the relations between the north and the south today caused by the heinous and self-destructive confrontational maneuvers of the ROK, a group of outsiders' top-class stooges, and the true picture of the Korean peninsula just unveiled before the world.

He mentioned that we have formulated a new stand on the north-south relations and the policy of reunification and dismantled all the organizations we established as solidarity bodies for peaceful reunification at the current session of the Supreme People's Assembly which discusses the laws of the DPRK. It can be said this is an indispensable process that should take place without fail.

As the southern border of our country has been clearly drawn, the illegal "northern limit line" and any other boundary can never be tolerated, and if the ROK violates even 0.001 mm of our territorial land, air and waters, it will be considered a war provocation.

He declared that in this regard, it is necessary to revise some contents of the Constitution of the DPRK and emphasized that the constitutional revision should be followed by timely practical measures to get rid of the remnants of the past era

Kim Jong Un, in his speech, said that taking this opportunity, he would like to make clear once again the revolutionary character of the work for strengthening the self-reliant military capabilities, which our Republic firmly preserves as its own life, unfazed by any changes of situation, and he reaffirms that the strongest absolute strength we are cultivating is not a means of preemptive attack for realizing unilateral "reunification by force of arms" but the capabilities for legitimate self-defence pertaining to our right to self-defence, which should be bolstered up without fail definitely to defend ourselves.

He continued that in the present world where jungle law prevails, and to our country located in the hot spot where the danger of war have lingered for decades, the possession of powerful military muscle is an inevitable process of struggle to be indispensably chosen to defend the destiny of our country and nation and a historic task to be accepted as a fate.

He explicitly clarified that we will never unilaterally unleash a war if the enemies do not provoke us.

But he also emphasized that the enemies should never misjudge this as our weakness and if the enemies ignite a war, our Republic will resolutely punish the enemies by mobilizing all its military forces including nuclear weapons.

In the regards of the foreign Policy, Kim Jong Un clarified that it is the foreign policy stand of our Party and state to safeguard justice and peace, aspire toward progress and development and promote friendship and solidarity.

He also said that the DPRK will never tolerate the heinous infringement on its sovereignty by the U.S. which is wantonly trampling down and plundering world peace and stability with illegal double standards, regarding anti-imperialist independence as its immutable and consistent first national policy, but will strive to realize international justice based on respect for sovereignty, non-interference in internal affairs, equality and mutual benefit and establish a new international order.

 The Korean Committee for Solidarity with the World People hope that the world peace loving people should have the right understandings and validity on the policies of the Republic set out in the policy speech by Kim Jong Un, the president of the State Affairs of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, and have the confidence that you will continue to send the full support and solidarity to the Korean people in their struggle for the independence, justice and the socialism. 

With best regards,

 The Korean Committee for Solidarity with the World People