Respected Comrade Kim Jong Un Convenes
Consultative Meeting on National Defence and

Security

Pyongyang, October 15 (KCNA) -- Kim Jong Un, general secretary of the Workers'
Party of Korea and president of the State Affairs of the Democratic People's Republic
of Korea, convened a consultative meeting on national defence and security on Oct.
14.
Present there were No Kwang Chol, minister of National Defence of the DPRK, Jo
Chun Ryong, secretary of the WPK Central Committee, Ri Yong Gil, chief of the
General Staff of the Korean People's Army, Ri Chang Ho, deputy chief of the
General Staff and director of the General Reconnaissance Bureau of the KPA, Ri
Chang Dae, minister of State Security, and commanding officers of the Artillery
Bureau, Detection and Electronic Warfare Bureau and other major bureaus of the
KPA General Staff.
The meeting heard a report of the director of the General Reconnaissance Bureau
on the general analysis of the case of enemy's serious provocation that violated the
sovereignty of the DPRK, a report of the chief of the KPA General Staff on the
military counteraction plan, a report of the minister of National Defence on the
measures for modernizing weaponry, a report of the WPK secretary in charge of
munitions industry on the production of weapons and equipment, and a report of the
minister of State Security on the situation of intelligence operation.
Kim Jong Un made assessments and conclusions on the information and
suggested measures specified in the reports of different defence and security
organs.
After hearing a report on the relevant work done by the General Staff and the major
combined units' combat readiness, he set forth the direction of immediate military
action and indicated important tasks to be fulfilled in the operation of the war
deterrent and the exercise of the right to self-defence for safeguarding the national
sovereignty, security and interests.
He expressed a tough political and military stand of the WPK and the DPRK
government at the consultative meeting. -0-

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Press Statement of Spokesperson for Korea
Association for Human Rights Studies

Pyongyang, October 15 (KCNA) -- A spokesperson for the Korea Association for
Human Rights Studies released the following press statement on October 14:
At the recent 79th session of the UN General Assembly, a report of the "special
rapporteur" on human rights situation of the DPRK, which malignantly hurts the
DPRK's policy of guaranteeing genuine human rights and its true situation, was
distributed as an official document of the UN.
The report is run through with such fabrications as "forcible missing and repatriation",
"torture and maltreatment in detention facilities" and "suppression of free movement
and speech", and inflammatory remarks taking issue with even the regular legislative
activities of the DPRK, its internal affair and exercise of sovereignty.
The Korea Association for Human Rights Studies categorically rejects the report, a
product of the U.S. and the West's conspiracy to escalate confrontation with the
DPRK, branding it as the most hideous document for ill-intended political
propaganda fabricated to tarnish the image of the dignified DPRK.
The report terms the most advantageous emergency anti-epidemic measure, which
firmly ensured our people's right to living when millions people lost their lives due to
the global crisis caused by COVID-19, "violation of human rights." Furthermore, it
even paints a black picture of the legislative measure taken by the DPRK to defend
its ideology and social system from the heinous ideological and cultural poisoning by
the U.S. and the West seeking the internal erosion and collapse of the sovereign
state, and calls for "reproach." This constitutes a wanton violation of our sovereignty
and interference in our internal affairs, which can never be pardoned.
The "special rapporteur" on human rights situation of the DPRK, who echoes the
rubbish and false rumors spread by the U.S. and the vassal forces to play the role of
a missionary for its anti-DPRK "human rights" conspiratorial racket is, indeed, a
puppet and top-class servant of the U.S.
We keep a record of every confrontational trace of the "special rapporteur" who often
visited the ROK to let out a string of offensive remarks against the DPRK like "border
blockade-brought deterioration of human rights situation" and "lingering food crisis,"

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and impudently called for "handling the human rights' situation of the DPRK in the
light of global peace and security and unethical crime" in the UN arena.
It is just a disgrace to the UN advocating objectivity, impartiality, dialogue and
cooperation that the title of country-specific special rapporteur, which should have
disappeared long ago for being a direct product of the U.S. and the West's high-
handed and arbitrary practices and extreme double-standard, still remains.
We have never recognized the "special rapporteur" on human rights situation of the
DPRK and will never ever deal with the "rapporteur."
The more desperately the U.S. and the riff-raff following it, including the "special
rapporteur", distort the truth and turn black into white to malignantly slander the
DPRK's genuine human rights situation, the more clearly it will betray their
despicable confrontational nature gripped by hostility towards the DPRK.
The U.S. and its vassal forces, which are facing ever-worsening inferiority in strength
in the political and military showdown with the DPRK, are resorting to putting
collective pressure on the DPRK in cooperation with each other under the pretext of
the non-existent "human rights issue," but they will get nothing from the "human
rights" smear campaign.
We will never tolerate the hostile forces' vicious anti-DPRK "human rights" smear
campaign for tarnishing the image of the socialist system centered on the popular
masses, the life and soul of all the DPRK people and the cradle of their life, but firmly
safeguard the rights and interests of the people. -0-