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PYONGYANG.- Kim Jong Un, the top leader of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK), said that his country will strive for world denuclearisation and fulfil obligations of nuclear non-proliferation, the official KCNA news agency reported. Kim emphasised that his country will not resort to nuclear weapons first unless its sovereignty is encroached upon by hostile forces with nuclear weapons, the report said.
He made the remarks in a report delivered at a national congress of the ruling Workers’ Party of Korea (WPK), the first in 36 years. Kim stressed that the WPK has worked hard for the implementation of the strategy of pushing forward economic growth and nuclear development at the same time.
At a plenary meeting of the party’s Central Committee in March 2013, Kim put forward the “Line of Byungjin (Line of Parallel Development)” to simultaneously push forward economic growth and bolster nuclear capability. The strategy is said to be a further development of concurrent growth of national defence and economy, which was introduced by late leader Kim Il Sung, the younger Kim’s grandfather.
In his report at the national party congress, Kim stressed that the government will improve and normalise relations with those countries that respect the sovereignty of the DPRK and are friendly “though they had been hostile towards it in the past”.
On January 6, the DPRK carried out a purported hydrogen bomb test, or its fourth nuclear test, followed by a long-range rocket launch a month later.
The DPRK’s acts were against UN Security Council resolutions and provoked strong condemnation from the international community. – Shanghai Daily.
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