Press Statement of Spokesperson for DPRK Foreign Ministry

Pyongyang, September 19 (KCNA) -- A spokesperson for the Foreign Ministry of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea released the following press statement on Friday:

The hostile forces cooked up and made public a "resolution" against the DPRK at the 70th Session of the IAEA General Conference on Sept. 17.

In the "resolution", they picked quarrel with the DPRK's legitimate and self-defensive exercise of sovereignty, arguing that the DPRK cannot have nuclear weapons under the NPT, they express serious concern over the DPRK's sustainable nuclear activities, and all nuclear weapons and nuclear programs should be abandoned in a complete, verifiable and irreversible way.

The DPRK has not been a member of the NPT and the IAEA from long ago and, therefore, it is illegal and the height of impudence to talk about the position of our state and its efforts to bolster up the defence capabilities.

The DPRK's position as a nuclear weapons state does not need the recognition of the U.S., the West and the IAEA. It is guaranteed by the actual nuclear deterrent and irreversibly and permanently fixed by the supreme law of the state.

Pitifully, the "resolution" cooked up by the U.S. and the West has no effect on the DPRK's position as a nuclear weapons state.

No matter how desperately the hostile forces may try to deny our constitutional position in and around the IAEA, the position of the DPRK as a nuclear weapons state, which is permanently and absolutely settled by the law, is irreversible.

It is the DPRK's invariable line of national defence to more offensively implement its strategic and long-term plans for building reliable self-defensive deterrent to cope with the ever-worsening international security environment.

As a responsible nuclear weapons state, the DPRK will as ever firmly defend the sovereignty and fundamental interests of the state and thoroughly guarantee peace and security in the region and the rest of the world by deterring all challenges and threats from outside by overwhelming force. -0-

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Press Statement of Kim Yo Jong, Department Director of C.C., WPK

Pyongyang, September 19 (KCNA) -- Kim Yo Jong, department director of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea, issued the following press statement "The prejudiced viewpoint and double standards of the IAEA are the main factor that incurred the collapse of the international nuclear non-proliferation system" on Sept. 19:

With the 70th Session of the IAEA General Conference held in Vienna of Austria as an occasion, the IAEA's chronic prejudice and double-standard behavior was revealed again.

On September 17, the IAEA forcibly adopted an anti-DPRK "resolution" to call into question our state's self-defensive and legitimate nuclear activities, disregarding the grave situation in which the DPRK's security environment is exposed to constant nuclear threat of outside forces.

Such meaningless and inefficient "resolution", which the IAEA is cooking up every year at the instigation of the U.S. and the West, is not something new for us and has no effect on the DPRK's position as a nuclear weapons state.

The nuclear activities of the DPRK, a nuclear weapons state outside the NPT which withdrew from the IAEA through legal routes decades ago, are not object of jurisdiction of the IAEA and, the agency has no authority or qualifications to interfere in them.

Therefore, we never recognize any anti-DPRK "resolution" cooked up in the arena of the IAEA.

On the other hand, the IAEA has consistently kept silence, failing to say a right word about the undisguised nuclear proliferation act of the U.S., a depository of the NPT, and the grave plan for the introduction of nuclear submarine by the ROK, a non-nuclear state.

This is another typical example clearly showing the extreme two-faced nature and prejudice of the agency.

As a result, the IAEA vividly revealed its true nature as a Western power organization, unfortunately and completely being deprived of its representative character and impartiality as a UN specialized organization and representing only the interests of the U.S. and its allies.

The double standard of the IAEA is not confined to the Korean peninsula but is being witnessed in Europe, Oceania, the Middle East and other parts of the world.

The fact that the U.S. deployed nuclear weapons in Europe and shared them with NATO member states, while wantonly violating the non-proliferation obligation of NPT stipulating that nuclear weapons and their management should not be handed over directly and indirectly to anyone, the fact that it actively dragged the ROK and Japan in its plan for nuclear weapons use and its implementation under the pretext of "offer of extended deterrence" and the fact that it is planning to provide nuclear submarine technology for the ROK - all those facts do not become the subject of discussion and concern of the agency in any case.

Moreover, the agency is disregarding Japan's unusual excess accumulation of weapons-grade nuclear materials under the patronage of the U.S. despite the protest of the international community.

The two-faced nature of the agency has led to the creation of a new "nuclear non-proliferation standard" whereby the nuclear activities of a relevant country are regulated as "legitimate" or "illegal" according to whether the nuclear issue is of the West or not. This is the present reality of the nuclear non-proliferation system led by the U.S. and the West.

In fact, the IAEA has certainly been reduced to the U.S. atomic energy organization, and it is no exaggeration to say that the international nuclear non-proliferation system has removedd into the U.S.-led nuclear proliferation system.

The injustice, prejudice and double standards of the IAEA are the main factors eroding the nuclear non-proliferation system on a global scale, and the U.S. open nuclear proliferation behavior being committed in parallel with this is a serious threat disturbing international peace and security and increasing the danger of outbreak of a nuclear war.

The main mission of the IAEA is to provide all member states with the right to peaceful use of nuclear power and to block the military use of nuclear technology, and it is by no means to connive at and foster undisguised nuclear proliferation.

In my personal view, the IAEA might save its disgraced face even a bit if it takes courage to say a single right word about who is the chieftain of undermining the nuclear non-proliferation system.

The further the IAEA interferes in the sovereignty and internal affairs of the DPRK, a non-member state, the worse its reputation and fame will be damaged, and it should judge by itself who will benefit from it.

Conniving at the nuclear threat and proliferation of the U.S. and other hostile forces and asking the DPRK to abandon its nuclear weapons are just like telling us to give up our existence and right to live.

We will not in any case mortgage our sovereignty and security rights to the "tolerance" of the U.S. and the West.

The present grave geopolitical situation, in which the international nuclear order is at the brink of complete collapse due to the radical nuclear arms buildup and undisguised nuclear proliferation of the U.S. and to the double-dealing behavior and lack of principle of the IAEA, requires the DPRK to make a more responsible option.

It is the most important matter for the national security to ensure that the credibility of the nuclear force is not questioned in any case for the DPRK which is constantly exposed to the nuclear threat of the hostile forces. -0-

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Sports Contest of Workers from Shipyards in Warship-building Industry

Pyongyang, September 19 (KCNA) -- A sports contest of workers from shipyards in the warship-building industry of the DPRK took place, redoubling the high morale and enthusiasm of the workers devoting all their patriotic strength and wisdom in the vanguard of the historic journey toward a marine power.

Among the spectators were Jo Chun Ryong, secretary of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea, officials and workers in the field of munitions industry, Pyongyang citizens, youth and students.

A football match between the teams of the Nampho Shipyard and the Chongjin Shipyard was held at the Kim Il Sung Stadium on Friday.

When the players entered the stadium, citizens of the capital city and youth and students extended warm congratulations and encouragement in reflection of the unanimous mind of all the people toward the workers in the warship-building industry.

In the football match, the players of the two teams traded attacks and counterattacks with a resolve to display the honour of their teams. The stadium was heated with enthusiastic cheers encouraging them.

The Nampho Shipyard team beat the Chongjin Shipyard team 3:0 in the match.

Earlier on Thursday, the Nampho Shipyard team beat the Chongjin Shipyard team in the volleyball match.

A prize-giving ceremony took place amid the enthusiastic applause of the participants.

The workers in the warship-building industry were full of high enthusiasm to make greater labour achievements in building warships with their towering self-confidence and fighting spirit so as to live up to the trust and expectation of the Party and the people. -0-

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The intelligence report, circulated across the US military this spring in the midst of the war with Iran, immediately set off alarm bells: A Chinese ship in the Middle East was transporting components of a nuclear weapons program.

The US military swung into action with plans to intercept the vessel, according to four sources familiar with the episode. According to two of the sources, armed members of the US military were preparing to board the ship. Military planes were in the air, one of those sources and another source familiar with the incident said.

It was only just before the planned operation that officials dug deeper into the report put together by a special operations command analyst and found it had been generated with the help of artificial intelligence (AI) — and that a chatbot the analyst had used inaccurately identified the material the ship was carrying. CNN was not able to learn what the misidentified cargo was.

The report, according to one of the sources, was “entirely false.” But it also “almost started a war,” the source said. Any US operation against a Chinese vessel could have risked spiraling into an armed conflict between the two nations.

Across the US military and the intelligence community, officials are pushing to weave AI into nearly every facet of their work, from analyzing the huge volumes of raw intelligence the US collects and selecting targets for strikes, to more mundane applications like managing budgeting, logistics and supply chains.

But the episode underscores the profound risks of using this powerful, new and relatively poorly understood technology for targeting in the middle of a war. Analysts have long feared that AI could lead to a catastrophic miscalculation if nation states are relying on poor or corrupted data — the kind of miscalculation that might lead the United States to fire on a Chinese ship based on inaccurate information.

In this particular instance, the analyst queried a chatbot about some intelligence reporting on the ship’s manifest that originated with US Special Operations Command Pacific, based in Hawaii. It was not clear whether the chatbot was a commercially available one or a US government product.

“The internal tools are mostly just copies of the commercial stuff wearing lipstick,” a former senior US official familiar with the AI systems used by military and intelligence analysts.

The bot fused together open-source intelligence with secret signals intelligence in government holdings and reached its fateful conclusion about the material the ship was carrying.

The analyst then used AI again to package the findings into a standard intelligence report — the kind that is trusted by military officials — and disseminated it.

US Special Operations Command Pacific and the Pentagon did not respond to a request for comment.

The rationale for the rapid adoption of AI is that it can help the military make battlefield decisions, like which targets to strike or which military assets to move where, faster. Officials say the US can’t afford to fall behind in integrating AI in case it must one day fight China or another adversary who would potentially be able to stay one step ahead of the US.

In January, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth released his agency’s “Artificial Intelligence Acceleration Strategy” in a bid to speed up the military’s use of AI.

“We will unleash experimentation, eliminate bureaucratic barriers, focus our investments and demonstrate the execution approach needed to ensure we lead in military AI,” Hegseth said in a speech announcing the strategy.

The strategy also pushes for its broad use across the military, ordering the department to make AI available via several programs with the aim of “democratizing AI experimentation and transformation across the Department by putting America’s world-leading AI models directly in the hands of our three million civilian and military personnel, at all classification levels,” a memo announcing the strategy said.

But the effort is decentralized, multiple US officials familiar with the dynamic said, with different parts of the government using different tools under different orders and safety standards. There’s no one set of standards for how the US verifies the information generated by these tools. The constellation of different AI systems being deployed by disparate corners of the military and intelligence community means that the relative reliability and functionality vary widely.

For weeks, Washington policymakers have been intensely debating AI after a series of dire warnings from Silicon Valley engineers and tech CEOs of the possibility that AI could break free of human constraints, with potentially civilization-ending consequences.

But the episode with the Chinese ship underscores a different, and more immediate risk: human beings making disastrous decisions based on inaccurate or misleading information generated by AI or other automated systems. Sources said that the military is rapidly turning to AI to help with targeting, an area which holds the obvious risk of fatal mistakes.

“AI in targeting is definitely something that is ramping up and there is no real guidance for how having a human in the loop will prevent civilian casualties or fratricide,” another source familiar with the military’s current policies said.

The kind of “hallucination” that the tool used by the analyst in this case conjured has not been an isolated incident across the intelligence community since these tools began proliferating across government, according to one of the sources.

For some older intelligence officials — even those who broadly support the use of AI inside the military — AI has put pressure on analysts to produce and disseminate intelligence faster, opening the door for mistakes. Young analysts in particular, several sources said, are natives on these tools and more likely to trust them uncritically.

“AI allows you to get to a bad idea faster,” one of the sources said.

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Successful consultations in China with our partners. Iran values strategic partnership we have built over time.

Today's decisions will decide future strategic balance in the region, with immeasurable knock-on effects.

4 principles for peace outlined by President Xi are key.

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Press Statement of Kim Yo Jong, Department Director of C.C., WPK

Pyongyang, September 17 (KCNA) -- Kim Yo Jong, department director of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea, issued the following press statement on Sept. 17:

The violation of a resolution the UNSC, threat to international peace and security, complete and irreversible denuclearization, observance of international obligations …

As we expected, these are familiar silly talk that can be heard at the 70th Session of the General Assembly of the International Atomic Energy Agency.

They are all noises, not surprising and not new, that we can be head always at this time of every year, like the sounds from the autoresponder day and night.

The human beings who are talking about the change of the present position of our state should clearly understand how miserable it is and how useless it is.

If they believe that it is really possible, they will only hear the word of idiots who are ignorant of the law of the world.

In fact, if there are no rogues against the DPRK, many countries will probably not have to waste time on empty talk and will live in a safer and peaceful world.

No matter how desperately the IAEA and the West may hold periodic meetings and talk about the denuclearization according to the fixed scenario, they can have no effect on the will and ability of the DPRK to take all necessary measures to defend the supreme interests of the state.

The DPRK's position as a nuclear weapons state is absolute which can not reverse with anything and its powerful existence makes a significant contribution to deterring the outrageous acts of international rogues and ensuring peace and security.

No matter how rhetorically the hostile forces may deny, the reality in which the nuclear position of the DPRK has been permanently settled physically and legally cannot change even a bit.

No one and nothing can ever reverse the crucial changes in the strength and position of the DPRK and prevent them in the future, too. -0-

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Spokesman for DPRK Ministry of National Defence Clarifies Stand

Pyongyang, September 16 (KCNA) -- A spokesman for the Ministry of National Defence of the DPRK clarified the following stand through KCNA on Wednesday as regards the fact that the U.S. military and the ROK puppet army have more openly revealed their scheme for military confrontation with the DPRK recently, talking about response to someone's "WMD threat":

The U.S. forces and the warmongers of the ROK puppet army on Sept. 10 held a meeting of the WMD response committee, at which they agreed to set up an information-sharing system to cope with "potential WMD attack" by the DPRK, enhance the joint counteraction capability and intensify joint counteraction training.

What should not be overlooked is that the U.S. and the ROK called for strengthened joint defense posture, the keynote of which is to use military muscle against the DPRK, hyping someone's "WMD threat".

This is an open declaration of confrontation to make the use of nuclear and biochemical weapons against the DPRK in case of contingency on the Korean peninsula a fait accompli and accelerate the war preparations for its execution. It is also a grave move of aggravating the situation to push the danger of the use of WMDs to extremes.

The U.S. and the ROK got familiar with the procedures of "WMD response" during the recent large-scale joint military exercises Freedom Shield. This time they agreed to intensify the training involving nuclear and biochemical weapons again. This fact goes to prove that the enemy's plan to use WMDs has entered an extremely reckless phase.

The U.S. stated in its past "strategy for coping with WMDs" that it would establish a joint force capable of fighting in a nuclear and biochemical warfare environment and increase its investment in the research and development of WMDs under the pretext of "threat" from the DPRK and other sovereign states. This provides full explanation for the confrontational design and ultimate goal pursued by them.

In recent years, the U.S. has set up a network of 30 biological weapons research institutes in the territory of Ukraine and established biological laboratories in its military bases in the ROK. Furthermore, it has been intensifying military biological activities and biochemical weapons development in over 200 different parts of the world. It has also specified in the bill on national defence right for fiscal 2026 that it would spend hundreds of millions of dollars for the development, test, maintenance and operation of biochemical weapons.

Such situation goes to prove that the rumor about someone's "WMD threat" spread by the U.S. is nothing but an ill-intended pretext to cover up its development and proliferation of WMDs.

Such a threat of WMD attack and use by the enemy against the DPRK may be considered a crucial security challenge that requires the latter to invoke the relevant provision of the law on the state nuclear force policy.

I recommend that the U.S. correctly interprets the meaning of the invoking of the relevant provision and accepts it as a grave warning.

The armed forces of the DPRK will always keep track of the new military attempts of the U.S. and its allied forces, regularly assessing their threat to its national security. -0-

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Ssirum (Korean Wrestling)

Pyongyang, September 12 (KCNA) -- Ssirum (Korean wrestling) is a game in which two players compete with each other in physical strength and skills in a certain area of open space.

Ssirum started at the end of Ancient Korea (early 30th century B.C.-108 B.C.). It became a well-regulated sport in the period of Koguryo (B.C. 277-A.D. 668). Ssirum was a major sport of army soldiers in the period of Koryo (918-1392). It was popular among ordinary people in the period of the feudal Joson dynasty (1392-1910).

The Ssirum ground was a round circle 4 meters in diameter with its floor carpeted with sand.

Ssirum was divided into left-side and right-side wrestling, according to which legs the players wore their thigh bands, and the two rivals sometimes played without thigh bands.

Ssirum includes three basic techniques and their combos, etiquette rules and the way of declaring winner.

Techniques are knee-whack, arm trip, leg lock and belly throw.

Ssirum has regional features and it is sometimes called Phyongan provincial ssirum, Hwanghae provincial ssirum and Hamgyong provincial ssirum. There are infant-level, middle-level, senior-level and recreational games.

Ssirum was registered as a part of national intangible cultural heritage of the DPRK in November 2013. -0-

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Medical Oxygen Factory in DPRK

Pyongyang, September 14 (KCNA) -- The Medical Oxygen Factory, built under the loving care of the Workers' Party of Korea, put its production on a normal footing.

Its employees are very proud of greatly contributing to the promotion of people's health. -0-

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New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft confirmed that he made the decision to bar Macklemore from opening for Ed Sheeran at Gillette Stadium after the Seattle rapper expressed support for Palestinians and called for a “Free Palestine” at a recent show.

In a statement shared with Rolling Stone, Kraft said the call was based on the rapper’s “recent actions, material shared from the stage during Ed Sheeran’s shows in New Jersey, and a broader history of antisemitic rhetoric and imagery that we believe has been deeply offensive and hurtful to the Jewish community.” (Along with Macklemore‘s recent statements, Kraft appeared to be alluding to a 2014 incident where Macklemore was accused of dressing up as an antisemitic caricature. The rapper apologized, but insisted he was just trying to disguise himself.)

Adding that Gillette Stadium was committed to “providing a welcoming environment for all guests and ensuring that all events held at our venue do not provide a platform for hate speech,” Kraft said that the venue decided that Macklemore’s participation in Sheeran’s two upcoming shows at Gillette “would cross that line.” (Macklemore has been dropped from not only the Gillette Stadium shows, but the rest of Sheeran’s Loop tour.)

Kraft’s statement was released after Macklemore, in his own comment, alleged that Kraft called Sheeran and told him the rapper “would not be allowed to perform in his stadium.” However, Kraft did not acknowledge Macklemore’s other major claim about the situation: that Kraft also “rallied some of the other stadium owners and collectively they gave [Sheeran] an ultimatum: If Macklemore stays on the tour, you will not be allowed to play in our venues.” (A rep for Kraft did not immediately return a request for comment on that allegation.)

The uproar over Macklemore and his spot on Sheeran’s Loop tour erupted after the rapper joined the trek in early September for two shows at MetLife Stadium outside New York City. At the first gig, Macklemore yelled “Free Palestine”; expressed solidarity with people in Gaza and the occupied West Bank; showed images of the devastation from Israel’s war on Gaza; and performed his protest song, “Hind’s Hall,” about pro-Palestine demonstrators at Columbia University.

“A big part of the reason why I wanted to do this tour in the first place is so I could stand up in stadiums like this and say two words that are very near and dear to my heart: ‘Free Palestine,’” Macklemore said onstage. “I said, ‘Free Palestine!’ I want those words to be loud and clear, so that people all the way in Gaza to the occupied West Bank know that we have not forgotten about them.”

In his own statement, Kraft insisted his decision to ban Macklemore from Gillette was “not about diminishing the suffering of innocent Palestinians or denying anyone the right to advocate on their behalf.” He argued, however, that such advocacy “should not come at the expense of the Jewish community or obscure the responsibility of Hamas.”

He continued: “Too many lives have been lost and there has been too much suffering, but only sharing selective information and ignoring the actions of Hamas is not honest and only advances more divisiveness and hate. Over many decades, I have directed resources to Palestine and created athletic and entrepreneurial opportunities for Palestinians who I admire and respect. Standing with the Palestinian people and standing against Hamas, antisemitism and hate should not be mutually exclusive.”

Kraft, who is Jewish, is a strong supporter of Israel and Jewish causes, having donated millions of dollars to them over the years. He’s also spearheaded several efforts to combat antisemitism, which he referred to in his statement, saying he feels “a responsibility to stand up when I believe that line has been crossed.”

Macklemore, both onstage and in his own statement, has rebuffed the argument that voicing support for Palestinians and criticizing Israel and its actions in Gaza and the West Bank is antisemitic. “Antisemitism is real,” he wrote after being dropped from Sheeran’s tour. “And that is exactly why the word matters too much to be used as a shield against criticism of the Israeli state. When criticizing Israel, opposing Zionism or saying ‘Free Palestine’ gets conflated with hatred of Jewish people, it doesn’t protect Jewish people. It protects Israel from accountability.”

In closing his statement, Kraft expressed his “tremendous respect” for Sheeran and “his unique ability to bring people together and spread joy.” He also said he would “welcome the opportunity to sit down with Macklemore and discuss the facts, because ultimately our goal is the same — peace for all people, an end to suffering, and an end to all hate.”

A rep for Macklemore did not return a request for further comment.

Chinese Delegation of Youth Cadres Arrives Here

Pyongyang, September 15 (KCNA) -- A Chinese delegation of youth cadres led by Li Jingxian, vice department director of the Ministry of Veterans Affairs, arrived here on September 14.

The delegation was greeted at Pyongyang International Airport by officials concerned and members of the Chinese embassy here. -0-

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