The whole process of dismantling the northern nuclear test ground well showed the steadfast stand of the DPRK government to join in the international desire and efforts to build a nuclear-free world.
The DPRK government will make steady efforts to have close contacts and dialogue with neighboring countries and the international community in the future, too, in order to defend peace and stability of the Korean peninsula and the world.
The north and the south should be responsible for consistently implementing the declaration they promised to before all Koreans and the world, no matter how the situation and surrounding circumstances may change. They should also proactively create favorable conditions and circumstances to implement the declaration by pooling their efforts.
They should neither read others‘ face nor seek their egoistic interests but honestly carry out those specified in the declaration, and thus decisively improve and develop the north-south relations.
(26.5.2018) A member of the Workers‘ Party of Korea (WPK) has been appointed to the head of the powerful General Political Bureau of North Korea‘s armed forces, raising speculation that it might be aimed at strengthening the ruling party‘s grip on the military.
The meeting discussed and decided on a series of organizational measures to further strengthen the revolutionary army of the Party militarily and politically and improve the overall work for defending the country as required by the developing revolution and on the basis of the comprehensive analysis of the present actual state of the People‘s Army.
It also dealt with the organizational matter on relieving and appointing some members of the WPK Central Military Commission and relieving or transferring senior officials of the armed forces organs and appointing new ones.
At the meeting the Supreme Leader analyzed and reviewed the implementation of the military and political tasks of the People‘s Army after the Seventh WPK Congress and indicated the main orientation and ways of the army building and the military activities, including the issues of establishing more thoroughly the Party‘s monolithic command system across the revolutionary armed forces, establishing the revolutionary military discipline, consistently holding fast to the Party‘s policies of bringing about a radical improvement in military training, pressing ahead with the ideological revolution and putting the army on a modern basis, and improving the military life.