People’s Right To Self-determination
From my friends over at the KFA Forum:
The international press agencies, headed by Pyongyang’s Central News Agency “KCNA” were informing yesterday that the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea had successfully conducted a nuclear test, at 09.54 am local time (3.54 am Romania’s time).
In a KCNA press release, the Koreans clearly state that the DPR of Korea conducted a test which was merely meant to strengthen its military forces and to be able to prevent an external attack, so the action is only for defensive and purely scientific purposes.
The nuclear test conducted at the end of the weekend proved a new level in technological development, which allows Pyongyang to improve its defensive nuclear potential, in accordance with the main political line, Songun.
The nuclear test may not only help to defend the national sovereignty of the country and the cause socialism in favor of peace and security on the Korean Peninsula and in the region, but also to strengthen the country as a whole and to underline that all social strata, both soldiers and civilians are acting as a monolith to defend the true and honest cause of the Motherland.
The seismological stations in the United States, Russia, South Korea and Japan confirm the test, by detecting small movements in an area located North East of Pyongyang in the same place where the Korean People’s Army had made a similar test in the autumn of 2006.
According to data made public during the day through international media reports, the Russian specialists from the Yuzhno- Sahalinsk seismic station (in the Russian Far East) have also confirmed the test.
The Korean gesture is thus a clear signal sent to the US authorities in Washington DC and especially to the recently elected President Barack Obama. The message, in my opinion is meant to catalyze the political will of the leadership from the White House in order to persuade this country to engage in bilateral discussions with the mighty Songun Korea and leave a part the bellicose language so often promoted in international forums and the harsh policy promoted by the Imperialists, with their Japanese and South Korean puppets against the DPR of Korea.
Let me congratulate the Korean people once again for this amazing step and tell them that we, Korea’s friends from Romania will stand by your side no matter what the future may bring.
Long live the DPR of Korea and its heroic and patriotic people!
Down with the US selfish Imperialism!
Ciprian Pop,
Official Delegate of Korea Friendship Association, Romanian Branch
Secretary of the Union of Romanian Communists
Recommended Reading:
Speak Softly and Carry a Big Teleprompter
We are on the brink of ‘man-caused disaster.’
By Mark Steyn
… What does a nuclear madman have to do to get America’s attention? On Memorial Day, the North Koreans detonated “an underground atomic device many times more powerful than the bombs that destroyed Hiroshima and Nagasaki,” as my old colleagues at the Irish Times put it. You’d think that’d rate something higher than “World News In Brief,” see foot of page 37. But instead Washington was consumed by the Supreme Court nomination of Sonia Sotomayor, who apparently has a “compelling personal story.”
Doesn’t Kim Jong Il have a compelling personal story? Like Sonia, he grew up in a poor neighborhood (North Korea), yet he’s managed to become a nuclear power, shattering the glass ceiling to take his seat at the old nuclear boys’ club. Isn’t that an inspiring narrative? Once upon a time you had to be a great power, one of the Big Five permanent members of the U.N. Security Council, to sit at the nuclear table: America, Britain, France, Russia, China, the old sons of power and privilege. But now the mentally unstable scion of an impoverished no-account backwater with a GDP lower than that of Zimbabwe has joined their ranks: Celebrate diversity!
