KPA Marshal Pak Jong Chon Inspects Southern Border under Fortification
Pyongyang, October 21 (KCNA) – KPA Marshal Pak Jong Chon, advisor to the Ministry of National Defence of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, inspected pivotal positions of the southern border under fortification on October 20.
He was accompanied by Ri Il Hwan, secretary of the Central Committee of the Workers’ Party of Korea, Kim Yo Jong, department director of the WPK Central Committee, and major commanding officers of the General Staff of the Korean People’s Army.
KPA Marshal Pak Jong Chon acquainted himself with the progress in the fortification project for permanently closing the border and gave pep talks to the service personnel dedicating themselves to the historic struggle for fortifying the border of the country in the face of enemy threats and obstructions.
He clarified the following important stand as regards the serious enemy provocation to disturb the DPRK’s exercise of sovereignty taking place in its territory.
"Now those rogues are seeking to invent an excuse for provocation, finding fault with the on-going fortification project, our army’s regular undertaking for strengthening the border. They insist that our service personnel ‘crossed the borderline’ but this is just deliberate, premeditated and absurd assertion to shift the blame for the ever-worsening situation onto us, prompted by a black-hearted purpose.
Our army knows where our borderline is better than any others and we are doing what we should do in our territory.
Officers and soldiers, turn the borderline into an impregnable fortress proudly.
If the enemy troops make a provocation actually threatening the safety of our service personnel in the wake of warning loudspeaker blaring and shots, you should never pardon them but launch prompt and resolute action. It is not a time to merely engage in a war of words.
The border forces of the DPRK must take very proficient, specialized and overwhelming military action in response to the reckless moves of the hideous enemy."
Noting that it is most important to take proactive measures for thoroughly protecting the lives and safety of our service personnel, he stressed that now is the time to organize the firepower strong enough to strike terror into the enemy’s heart.
Department Director of the C.C., WPK Kim Yo Jong said as follows:
"Our military leadership underlined the need to make those rogues aware that our new firepower units have taken their firing positions.
Our head of state issued an order to fortify the border with an enemy state to be eternally impregnable, noting that there will be never ever compromise in exercising our territorial sovereignty.
This is a ‘sacred and great undertaking’ for putting an end to the history written in a wrong way for a very long time.
Our army should thoroughly implement the instruction of our head of state on fulfilling this historic mission.
Nothing can stem the historical process of the fortification of the DPRK’s southern border." -0-
http://kcna.kp/en/article/detail/741baeee83ce6fe656c998aa0dead303
Press Statement of Kim Yo Jong, Department Director of C.C., WPK
Pyongyang, October 21 (KCNA) – Kim Yo Jong, department director of the Central Committee of the Workers’ Party of Korea, released the following press statement on Oct. 21:
Today I inspected the border together with Marshal Pak Jong Chon.
The Korean Central News Agency misreported the date in its article.
I inspected several places of the border early this morning, not yesterday.
The border has been clearly blocked and turned into a fortress more thoroughly.
This clearly proves that the history miswritten by us for a long time is being corrected and the current and future security of the DPRK guaranteed qualitatively.
Our head of state stressed that it is a terrible tragedy that the DPRK borders the most despicable and disgusting enemy in the world and, therefore, the border should be a permanent line never to be crossed.
Our army is carrying out a crucial and great undertaking in the face of the enemy’s persistent threats.
A great history of peace will soon begin.
If the border is fortified, the danger of military conflict in this area will undoubtedly be eliminated.
The armed rogues committed provocative warning loudspeaker blaring and shots again in at least two spots today.
Our tactical hunting teams are taking new positions, and within October, the loudspeakers for psychological warfare against the ROK will be in operation along the whole border.
This is the most just measure and appropriate response.
Let us suppose that we open responsive fire on the enemy as a warning in the case like today.
The situation along the border will escalate into an unimaginably terrible phase.
We gird ourselves thoroughly for contingence, exercising great restraint.
If the enemy’s warning shot provocation results in doing actual harm to the our territorial security and our service persons’ safety, going beyond the level of warning, our border guards will show no mercy for the armed gangsters bereft of reason. -0-
http://kcna.kp/en/article/detail/207188e61f62372d46fa4357627f9b94
Rare example of “stronger borders” being better
So I guess the rumblings about reunification stuff (that one politician in the occupied south) aren’t anything after all.
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This press statement from October 19 says that ROK fired “warning shots” at DPRK soldiers 91 times and that ROK played provocative loudspeakers 998 times.
The warmongers of the ROK military are seriously threatening the safety of our service personnel by firing warning shots at them with automatic rifles and large-calibre machine guns under such unreasonable pretext that the personnel, involved in fortifying the southern border, “crossed the borderline”. Such provocations began in August, alongside warning loudspeaker blaring. They committed 2 870 rounds of provocative loudspeaker warning and 201 warning shot provocations from August 1 to October 17.
Such enemy provocations, more openly perpetrated in the wake of a fabricated “mine explosion farce”, have gone beyond the red line.
The provocative loudspeaker blaring frequently comes from the posts in the deployment areas of the 7th and 15th Infantry Divisions of the Second Corps and the 21st and 22nd Infantry Divisions of the Third Corps of the ROK army. The provocative warning shots mostly come from the 278 military policemen post in the demilitarized zone under the 21st Infantry Division of its Third Corps. In actuality, provocative loudspeaker blaring was committed 998 times and warning shots 91 times in the period between Oct. 1 and 17.
http://kcna.kp/en/article/detail/6f0221f7682ccfbec80e1d29b235eb46
This article says that that the US and South Korea are staging joint military exercises to provoke DPRK from October 19 to October 30
http://kcna.kp/en/article/detail/73dc959ef1b79caa82919f77df23d331
This is western media reporting the OP.
