North Korea "Nuclear Force Display... The Earth Is Boiling with Successive 'Joseon Shocks'"

Showcasing 10 Years of Kim Jong-un's Rule
"Nuclear Force Legalization... Mighty National Defense Power"

Kim Jong-un, General Secretary of the Workers' Party of North Korea.
[Photo by Yonhap News]

[Asia Economy Reporter Jang Hee-jun] North Korea has boasted that it has achieved overwhelming military strength while highlighting the achievements of Kim Jong-un, General Secretary of the Workers' Party, during his 10 years in power.

The Workers' Party organ, Rodong Sinmun, praised Kim's leadership with exaggerated rhetoric in a front-page editorial titled "Respected Comrade Kim Jong-un is a Great Leader Who Leads the Revolution to Victory with Outstanding Ideological Theory" on the 25th.

The newspaper self-assessed, "The days of marching under the leadership of the respected General Secretary Comrade were a continuous series of harsh challenges and difficulties beyond imagination with every step," adding, "It was the worst ordeal that would have been unbearable for others even for a day, but our revolution did not waver in its line, and our people did not experience ideological or spiritual weakness."

It continued, "The accumulation of overwhelming military power is the victory of the new parallel development line proposed by the respected General Secretary Comrade," and claimed, "Our country, which overcame the threatening public health crisis for the first time since its founding in the shortest period, has legalized the national nuclear force policy and powerfully demonstrated its strength, causing the planet Earth to boil with successive 'Korean shocks.'"

Earlier, Kim declared the parallel development line of nuclear force and economic construction at the 7th Party Congress in 2016, shortly after the 4th nuclear test. After the launch of the Hwasong-15 intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) in 2017, he announced the completion of the national nuclear force and shifted to a line focusing all efforts on economic construction the following year. However, in 2019, when North Korea-US negotiations stalled, he declared a return to the parallel development line of nuclear force and economic construction, and last month, in the Supreme People's Assembly policy speech, he announced the "legalization of nuclear force."

Additionally, the newspaper portrayed Kim's ideology as "precious ideological and theoretical treasures that continuously enrich the Kim Il-sung?Kim Jong-il legacy," signaling that he has risen to the same stature as his predecessors. North Korea is celebrating the 10th anniversary of Kim's official leadership this year with a military parade and continues idolization coverage using all available media.

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