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Analysis of Project Development, Salvage Sales, and Other Activities
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In 2002, the Biscuit Fire burned almost 500,000 acres of the Rogue River-Siskiyou National Forest in southwestern Oregon. In its wake, the Biscuit Fire Recovery Project (Project) is one of the largest, most complex postfire recovery projects undertaken by the Forest Service. Considerable controversy exists over the Project and its salvage sales to harvest dead trees. GAO was asked to determine (1) how the Project compares with the Forest Service's general approach to postfire recovery, (2) the status of the Project's salvage sales and how the reported financial and economic results of the sales compare with initial estimates, (3) the status of other Project activities, and (4) the extent of reported improper logging and the agency's response. To answer these objectives, GAO reviewed Project environmental analysis documents, plans, and activity reports and interviewed agency officials.
The Rogue River-Siskiyou National Forest staff followed the Forest Service's general approach to postfire recovery in developing the Biscuit Fire Recovery Project, but several unique circumstances affected the time taken and the alternatives it included. For example, the size of the burned area--and, subsequently, the size of the Project--complicated the environmental analysis and increased the time needed to complete and review it. Also, the regulations and guidance governing timber harvest and road building in the forest's inventoried roadless areas changed several times, in part due to litigation, affecting the amount of timber available for harvest. As of December 2005, the forest staff had nearly completed 12 salvage sales; however, incomplete sales and a lack of comparable economic data, among other things, make comparing the financial and economic results with the agency's initial estimates difficult. For fiscal years 2003 through 2005, the Forest Service and other agencies spent about $5 million on the sales and related activities. In the next several years, the Forest Service also plans to spend an additional $5.7 million to remove brush and reforest the sale areas. In return, the agency collected about $8.8 million from the sales. While the agency estimated that the salvage sales would generate about $19.6 million for restoration, 6,900 local jobs, and $240 million in regional economic activity, it is premature to compare these estimates with the results because the sales are not complete. The Forest Service will generate additional expenditures, revenues, and economic activity from two sales sold in the summer of 2006. Even when complete sales' results are available, however, a comparison will be complicated by a lack of comparable financial and economic data. Through December 2005, the forest staff began work on most of the other activities identified in the Project but completing them depends on the amount of salvage harvest, funding sources, and work schedules. For example, the amount of brush disposal work--estimated at 18,939 acres--will be reduced because the acres of salvage harvest have been reduced. Other activities, such as establishing fuel management zones to help fight future fires, depend on the Forest Service funding and scheduling the work over many years. In addition, a large-scale study and monitoring activities are still being planned and yet unfunded. Although the forest staff identified the importance of making Project results available to the public, they do not separately report on Project activities and results from other programs. During salvage harvest operations in 2004 and 2005, the Forest Service reported three incidents of improper logging and took action to prevent such occurrences in the future. Two of the incidents were caused by Forest Service errors in marking its boundaries. Forest staff have since developed procedures to better mark boundaries of sale areas. A third incident was caused by an error on the part of the company that purchased the sale; the company was fined $24,000, and the trees were left on the ground.
Recommendation for Executive Action
Status: Closed - Implemented
Comments: The Rogue River-Siskiyou National Forest issued its 2006 monitoring report in November 2007. It includes a whole section on the Biscuit Fire Recovery Project, per our recommendation. According to the forest's forestry official, the forest will continue to include this in the monitoring report until the project is substantially completed, which is anticipated in 2012.
Recommendation: To help keep the Congress and the public informed on the status of the Biscuit Fire Recovery Project and the significant research work on the postfire effects of salvage and nonsalvage management actions, the Chief of the Forest Service should direct the Rogue River-Siskiyou National Forest Supervisor and the Pacific Northwest Regional Forester to provide an annual public report on the status of the activities included in the Project. The report should provide an update on the status of work accomplished and still planned for each of the activities in the Biscuit Fire Recovery Project EIS and records of decision: fuel treatments, prescribed burning, salvage harvest, vegetation and wildlife restoration, roads and water quality, and the large-scale study. The agency should produce such reports until the Project is substantially complete.
Agency Affected: Department of Agriculture: Forest Service
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WASHINGTON, March 4, 2013 — In Part 1 of our interview series with Peter Joppich, we talked with him about his origins in fencing, his relationship with his coach Uli Schreck, and his ability to play the mental aspect of fencing with ease.
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Damien Lehfeldt: In as much detail as possible, walk us through what a typical day of training looks like for you.
Peter Joppich:
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Before the season: I start with physical training, running, lifting weights, and then I switch to fencing. I do footwork, get my first lessons and start fencing with my teammates.
During the World Cup season: My main fencing days are Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Saturday, and Sunday. On these days I get lessons, fence with my teammates or do footwork. On Monday and Friday I do physical training or recovery exercises after tournaments.
World Championship training: This is the most intensive training to get your body and mind in a good shape for the big stage. For the first three weeks, I do training camps and a lot of physical training like running and lifting weights.
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DL: What are your short-term goals and long term goals in fencing, and do you think we'll see you competing in the Veterans 70 division?
PJ: I don't know if I'm the type who will be competing in the veterans division. But I know veteran fencers, visited veterans competitions and I like to see that you can fence even at an advanced age.
If I look back at my 13 World Championship medals and my Olympic medal, a lot of people would guess that I don't have further goals, but I'm different. If I win medals, I'm very happy about it, but after a short time I always look forward to the next big event and how I can win the next medal. My motivation is to win — I always try to win — and not just in fencing. A new Olympic period just started and my long-term goal is Rio 2016. During this time we will have three World Championships, so I'm hoping to win more and add to my legacy.
DL: What is your single favorite memory of your fencing career and why?
PJ: There is no single favorite memory. If look back at my whole career, I see a lot of ups, but also a lot of downs. All my world championship titles and the Olympic medal means a lot to me. I do not like to compare them, because every medal has its own history.
To take part in the Olympics is something great. To be there with the best sportsmen of the world and to live with them in one village is amazing. You collect so many memories you will never forget.
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At the beginning of the 2010 season, I set a goal to win in the homeland of fencing (France), and now I am very happy that I could win there. I will never forget this special moment of being on top at the medal ceremony.
DL: While an amazing Olympic run for Team Germany and Britta Heidemann, what do you make of the Shin A. Lam controversy and what can the FIE do to ensure such errors are not repeated in the future?
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For the future, it would be good to have a clock with hundredths of seconds (like in the NBA) so that the referee has the chance to see if the clock is running or not.
DL: This question came from the Reddit Fencing Community (from Mattinthehat). How has being so successful at such a young age affected your mindset and career? Does it make it harder to appreciate victories later on and stay motivated when you won so much in your early twenties?
PJ: Because I was successful in my youth, the pressure and the expectations grew very vast. I learned to handle this in a professional way. Sometimes, it was not so easy. But I stayed motivated all the time because after winning big events I always looked forward for new goals and winning new medals is something that motivates me.
Of course, I had some downs in my career, but they were also important for my personality and development. I learned to handle these situations, to trust in myself, and to look forward. I appreciate my later victories in the same way that I do my former victories. Some were harder to win because of the big pressure. To repeat victories or to win medals for many years is something that characterizes top fencers.
DL: When you complete your fencing career, how would you like to be remembered by the fencing community?
PJ: I always want to be myself. I am not a showman. I want to stay in mind as a great fencer who isn't only characterized by his titles.
Damien is a competitive fencer and volunteer assistant coach at DC Fencers Club in Silver Spring, Md. Damien was the coach of a London 2012 Olympic Athlete in Modern Pentathlon. He is an A-rated epeeist and was a member of the 2012 North American Cup Gold Medal Men's Epee Team.
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To mark the 53rd anniversary of Military-First (So'ngun) Revolutionary Leadership, DPRK state media aired another installment of the documentary film series General Kim Jong Il's Matchless Patriotic Defense of the Country. The film splices together a variety of footage of Kim Jong Il (Kim Cho'ng-il) conducting field inspections of Korean People's Army [KPA] units, KPA economic activity and arms and munitions factories. During scenes of his visits to arms factories, Kim Jong Il is shown touring an unknown weapons production facility during the early 2000s. In the scene KJI is shown standing next to a Nodong medium-range ballistic missile on a TEL (transporter-erector-launcher). Footage from the same visit also shows what is possibly the fabled KN-08 road mobile intercontinental ballistic missile. It is not clear where this visit occurred, although possibilities include one of the machine factories in Jagang (Chagang) Province, a building at the Sanum-dong Research Facility in northern Pyongyang, the Tae-sung Machine Factory outside Namp'o or some other factory under the Second Economy Commission (Second Economic Committee) or the Second Academy of Natural Sciences.
Former Minister of People's Security Ju Sang Song Appeared at War Anniversary Events7 Aug
Ju Sang Song (Chu Sang-so'ng), who served as Minister of People's Security from 2004 to 2011, appeared on Korean Central Television [KCTV] evening news on 26 July visiting the Revolutionary Martyrs' Cemetery on Mt. Taeso'ng in Pyongyang with other veterans of the Fatherland Liberation War (Korean War). Previously a four-star general (taejang), Ju appeared on the news wearing two stars on his shoulder board indicating he now holds the rank of Lieutenant General (chungjang). According to a 29 July report by Yonhap during the news broadcast, Ju is seen talking with other veterans in front of the memorials to Choe Hyon and Ryu Kyong Su. Ju joined the Korean People's Army [KPA] in June 1951, after the outbreak of the Korean War, and later attended Kim Il Sung Military Academy. Ju held a number command positions in the KPA's ground forces and was appointed to his first political office when he was elected an alternate (candidate) member of the Korean Workers' Party [KWP] Central Committee at the 5th Party Congress in November 1970. He was later removed as Party Central Committee Alternate. In 1997, Ju Sang Song was appointed commander of the IV Army Corps and in 2004 he was appointed Minister of People's Security. In April 2009 Ju was elected a member of the DPRK National Defense Commission and in September 2010 was elected a full member of the Party Central Committee and a full member of the KWP Political Bureau.
In March 2011 he was removed from office as the Minister of People's Security and an NDC Member due to what the NDC said was ill health. Somereports claimed that Ju was dismissed because he did not demonstrate the proper concern and vigilance in investigating and arresting university students who allegedly vandalized the birthplace and childhood home of the late DPRK President and founder, Kim Il Sung, in Mangyo'ngdae. Yonhap, citing anonymous ROK government sources, reports that he "was dismissed for accepting bribes" and "being caught in individual corruption during the Workers Party organizational guidance division's investigation." According to Yonhap after his dismissal Ju Sang Song was assigned to work as the chief of people's security in Taedong County, South P'yo'ngan Province, although it also noted that "it has not been verified which position Ju Sang Song is currently holding or whether he is receiving 'veteran treatment' after retiring."
Ju Sang Song was not the only senior DPRK officials who was disappeared or dismissed to show up at the anniversary events held in late July. Attending the opening of the Fatherland Liberation War Martyrs' Cemetery, held on 25 July, were former Minister of People's Security (2011-2013) Gen. Ri Myong Su (who replaced Ju Sang Song), Senior Vice Minister of State Security Gen. U Tong Chuk and former Vice Minister of the People's Armed Forces Gen. Pak Jae Gyong. Gen. Ri Myong Su also visited the Revolutionary Martyrs' Cemetery, as did former chief of the KPA GeneralStaff Operations Bureau, Gen. Kim Myong Guk.
New Director of Party Finance and Accounting Department (revised)24 Jul
According to ROK media, citing anonymous sources and observations in DPRK state media, Han Kwang Sang has been promoted to director of the Korean Workers' Party [KWP] Finance and Accounting Department. The Finance and Accounting Department is part of the central party apparatus which manages the finances of the party and the Kim Family. It also is responsible for the payroll and material lives of party officials and employees.
From 2009 to 2013 Han served as the department's senior deputy (1st Vice) director, as the nominal head of Office #38 which manages the Kim Family's finances. He made his first observed appearance in January 2010, when he accompanied late DPRK leader Kim Jong Il (Kim Cho'ng-il) on a guidance tour of the renovation of the Hyangsan Hotel. His public appearances traveling with Kim Jong Il increased after the succession of Kim Jong Un was widely publicized in September 2010, even though his attendance was not always noted state media reporting. Han has been a fairly routine member of Kim Jong Un's entourage during his visits and inspections around the country.
Yonhap News Agency quoted an unnamed official in a 21 July (Sunday) report about Han's promotion who said "Han Kwang-sang, first vice director of the Finance and Accounting Department, who emerged with the appearance of Kim Jong Un, looks to have been promoted to director of the Finance and Accounting Department around May of last year." Yonhap also used the order in which officials who accompany the leader are called or listed in state media reports, noting that Han was previously called after Kim Kyong Ok, Senior Deputy (1st Vice) Director of the KWP Organization Guidance Department. A ROK government official told Yonhap that"if Han Kwang-sang is introduced before Kim Kyo'ng-ok, he is highly likely to be at the director level," adding that "there is no first vice director who is introduced before Kim Kyo'ng-ok, first vice director of the party's Organization and Guidance Department, who has more power than passable WPK directors."
According to Yonhap's report notes that the Finance and Accounting Department has been without a formal director since the removal from office of Ri Pong Su following the 2004 death of his chief patron Ko Yong Hui, Kim Jong Il's fourth wife and mother of current leader Kim Jong Il. Ri, an alias, replaced Ro Myong Gun (Ro Myo'ng-kun) who had served as director of Finance and Accounting since the department was established on Kim Jong Il's order in 1983. Since Ri Pong Su's dismissal, and given individual and organizational behavior in the DPRK's political culture, Kim Jong Il himself probably assumed the directorship and ran the department through its deputy directors. During 2003 to 2012, deputy directors (with different portfolios) of the Finance and Accounting Department have included Han Kwang Sang, Jon Il Chun, Kim Tong Un and Ri Kwang Gun (currently head of the Joint Venture and Investment Commission). Kim Hyo was also a cadre in the department, as of one KJI's main accountants, and his daughter Kim Ok, KJI's widow as his 5th wife and technical secretary, had close ties to the department (and access to its safes). The change in leadership of the Finance and Accounting Department may be tied to rumors that Kim Hyo and Kim Ok were recently dismissed from office.
Parts of Munsu Wading Pool Similar to Kim Family Compound9 Jul
The construction of the Munsu Wading Pool in Pyongyang is part of Kim Jong Un's (Kim Cho'ng-u'n) implemenation of his father's, late leader Kim Jong Il, "behests" and part of KJI's practice of indok politics. In February 2013 Kim Jong Un issued an instruction to the Ministry of the People's Armed Forces and Korean People's Army [KPA] personnel to construct the water park. The MPAF and KPA staged a meeting, led by Gen. Kim Kyok Sik, on 7 February 2013 at which it was "stressed the need to ensure the quality in construction on the highest level under the motto of taking responsibility for the safety of projects and guaranteeing their absolute quality for all eternity by overcoming difficulties and hardships with the same spirit and mettle as were displayed in every work site for the country's prosperity and the people's happiness in the past." The Munsu Wading Pool was listed a major project as part of "face-lifting" Pyongyang during a meeting of the Korean Workers' Party [KWP] Political Bureau held in February.
During May 2013, Kim Jong Un visited the construction of the water park as part of a tour of construction projects in and around Pyongyang. DPRK Premier Pak Pong Ju also visited the construction in May. VMar Choe Ryong Hae, Director of the KPA General Political Department, has visited the water park's construction twice with the first time being in February after ground was broken on the project, and in late June. The Munsu Wading Pool project has recently been included as part of the "Masikryo'ng Speed" campaign.
An official documentary film chronicling Kim Jong Un's public activities in May 2013 provided greater detail about the Munsu Wading Pool's design. A full-color poster of the design shows that the water park will have several swimming pools, a wave pool, a "lazy river" for inner tubing, an artificial waterfall, a tennis court, beach (sandy) volleyball court and other sports facilities. While the Munsu Wading Pool's has a similar layout and design to other water parks elsewhere in the world, there are some areas of the park which will have distinct DPRK characteristics.
In planning the Munsu Wading Pool, the architects have borrowed at least one waterslide and several buildings found on the premises of the Kim family's Ryo'ngso'ng (or Su'ngbo'p) residential compound in the Ryo'ngso'ng District in northern Pyongyang. The Ryo'ngso'ng compound is approximately 12.8 km (7.9 miles) north of central Pyongyang within the northern boundaries of the DPRK capital's Inland Empire**. The compound includes one of Kim Jong Il's private railway stations (including carriage repair and maintenance facilities), a C2 facility, a C4ISR UGF (call it a DPRK leadership panic room), a horse racing track, bridleways, a rifle range, numerous guest houses and private residences for DPRK elites and several large, luxurious homes inhabited by members of the Kim family.
DPRK architects modeled one of the waterslides planned for Munsu Wading Pool on a tube slide found at the outdoor pool of the Ryo'ngso'ng residential compound. The Ryo'ngso'ng residential compound has undergone several renovations since Kim Jong Il's death in December 2011. Satellite imagery showed that construction work was under way in April 2012, with a crew expanding one of the large houses, demolishing part of a residence for Personal Secretariat staff and a convoy of dump trucks hauling materials and debris from the compound. Satellite images taken later in 2012 (and available through several online mapping resources such as Google Maps/Earth) showed that one house used by Kim Jong Il had been completely demolished. Interestingly, the 2012 renovation of the Ryo'ngso'ng compound included the removal of the tube waterslide and the outdoor swimming pool. This raises the possibility that the water slide was disassembled and repurposed for the Munsu Wading Pool or another amusement park or alpamare in Pyongyang.
The Munsu Wading Pool's design also envisions two pyramid-shaped structures located along the water park's southern perimeter. The two pyramid-shaped structures at Munsu, topped by two silver square structures, are a smaller, less grand versions of two pyramids at the Ryo'ngso'ng compound. According to several accounts from people who visited or worked at the Ryo'ngso'ng compound, the two pyramids house bathing, spa and sauna facilities. It is possible that the twin pyramids in the Munsu park's design will serve a similar purpose.
South and east of the twin pyramids at Munsu Wading Pool, the architects have planned several rectangular and circular structures. These buildings might include patios, restaurants or snack bars, locker rooms (dressing rooms), indoor recreation facilities and the water park's administrative and technical offices. These buildings lining the water park's southern perimeter have a highly similar design and are an expansion of the Ryo'ngso'ng compound's main banquet hall and entertainment facilities.
There are a few implications (take aways, if you like) to the core leadership approving a design based on one of the Kim Family's "special pavilions." It fits an overall pattern, which began when Kim Jong Il was still alive in which food factories, shops and other aspects of the county's so-called court economy are either publicized or DPRK citizens (a relative term when applied to Pyongyangites) are given access to them. It is highly likely that the designs for the Munsu Wading Pool came from a branch of the Paektusan Academy of Architecture.
**The Pyongyang Inland Empire is a term I coined in a conversation with a close colleague when discussing Kim Jong Un's tendency to remain primarily in Pyongyang during most of 2012 and part of 2013. It refers to sections of Pyongyang running from the northern outskirts of the city (south of the Pyongyang Airport) south to the area around Ku'msusan Palace then through the city centre (KIS Square, central party complex) and west into the Mangyo'ngdae District with parts of it sitting east on either side of the Taedong River in Samso'k District and the Taedonggang District. It includes a series of private roads, the country's "secret subway" and includes a network of underground residential facilities (the Suryo'ng bunkers) which Kim Jong Il used from time to time. In addition to underground facilities and special roads, the Pyongyang Inland Empire is highly secure and protects the country's leader (and other elites) behind four dedicated layers of security personnel (Guard Command –> Ministry of People's Security –> Pyongyang Defense Command –> III Army Corps).
Statement Published Declaring "North-State Relations Have Been Put in a State of War"30 Mar
DPRK state media published a statement (tamhwa) on 30 March (Saturday) from "the government, political parties and organizations of the DPRK." Unlike the recent volley of statements, or indeed most communications published and broadcasted in state media, the 30 March 2013 statement was not issued under the name of any specific organization (s). The statement is not cited as the work of the DPRK National Defense Commission, the KPA Supreme Command or Ministry of the People's Armed Forces from the DPRK national security community, it was not an individual or joint statement of the Foreign Ministry, the DPRK Cabinet or the Supreme People's Assembly, it was not linked to any specific political parties such as the Korean Workers' Party, the Ch'o'ndoist Ch'o'ngu Party or the Korean Social Democratic Party and it was not issued in the name of various organizations such as the National Peace Committee of Korea oe Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of Korea, the General Federation of Trade Unions of Korea, the Korean Democratic Women's Union or the Kim Il Sung Youth League.
While no organization or elite cohort has claimed neither provenance nor authorship of the statement, it may foreshadow the "important important issue for victoriously advancing the Korean revolution and make a drastic turn in accomplishing the Chuch'e revolutionary cause under the banner of the great Kimilsungism-Kimjongilism" which is planned for the upcoming KWP Central Committee plenary meeting (plenum), which will be held on Sunday (31 March) one day ahead of the 7th session of the 12th SPA on 1 April (Monday).
The statement, according to KCNA:
The moves of the U.S. imperialists to violate the sovereignty of the DPRK and encroach upon its supreme interests have entered an extremely grave phase. Under this situation, the dear respected Marshal Kim Jong Un, brilliant commander of Mt. Paektu, convened an urgent operation meeting on the performance of duty of the Strategic Rocket Force of the Korean People's Army for firepower strike and finally examined and ratified a plan for firepower strike.
The important decision made by him is the declaration of a do-or-die battle to provide an epochal occasion for putting an end to the history of the long-standing showdown with the U.S. and opening a new era. It is also a last warning of justice served to the U.S., south Korean group and other anti-reunification hostile forces. The decision reflects the strong will of the army and people of the DPRK to annihilate the enemies.
Now the heroic service personnel and all other people of the DPRK are full of surging anger at the U.S. imperialists' reckless war provocation moves, and the strong will to turn out as one in the death-defying battle with the enemies and achieve a final victory of the great war for national reunification true to the important decision made by Kim Jong Un.
The Supreme Command of the KPA in its previous statement solemnly declared at home and abroad the will of the army and people of the DPRK to take decisive military counteraction to defend the sovereignty of the country and the dignity of its supreme leadership as regards the war moves of the U.S. and south Korean puppets that have reached the most extreme phase.
Not content with letting B-52 make sorties into the sky over south Korea in succession despite the repeated warnings of the DPRK, the U.S. made B-2A stealth strategic bomber and other ultra-modern strategic strike means fly from the U.S. mainland to south Korea to stage a bombing drill targeting the DPRK. This is an unpardonable and heinous provocation and an open challenge.
By taking advantage of the U.S. reckless campaign for a nuclear war against the DPRK, the south Korean puppets vociferated about "preemptive attack" and "strong counteraction" and even "strike at the commanding forces", openly revealing the attempt to destroy monuments symbolic of the dignity of the DPRK's supreme leadership.
This clearly shows that the U.S. brigandish ambition for aggression and the puppets' attempt to invade the DPRK have gone beyond the limit and their threats have entered the reckless phase of an actual war from the phase of threat and blackmail.
The prevailing grim situation more clearly proves that the Supreme Command of the KPA was just when it made the judgment and decision to decisively settle accounts with the U.S. imperialists and south Korean puppets by dint of the arms of Military-First politics (So'ngun), because time when words could work has passed.
Now they are openly claiming that the B-2A stealth strategic bombers' drill of dropping nuclear bombs was "not to irritate the north" but "the defensive one". The U.S. also says the drill is "to defend the interests of its ally". However, it is nothing but a lame pretext to cover up its aggressive nature, evade the denunciation at home and abroad and escape from the DPRK's retaliatory blows.
The era when the U.S. resorted to the policy of strength by brandishing nuclear weapons has gone.
It is the resolute answer of the DPRK and its steadfast stand to counter the nuclear blackmail of the U.S. imperialists with merciless nuclear attack and their war of aggression with just all-out war.
They should clearly know that in the era of Marshal Kim Jong Un, the greatest-ever commander, all things are different from what they used to be in the past.
The hostile forces will clearly realize the iron will, matchless grit and extraordinary mettle of the brilliant commander of Mt. Paektu that the earth cannot exist without Military-First (So'ngun) Korea.
Time has come to stage a do-or-die final battle.
The government, political parties and organizations of the DPRK solemnly declare as follows reflecting the final decision made by Kim Jong Un at the operation meeting of the KPA Supreme Command and the unanimous will of all service personnel and people of the DPRK who are waiting for a final order from him.
1.From this moment, the north-south relations will be put at the state of war and all the issues arousing between the north and the south will be dealt with according to the wartime regulations.
The state of neither peace nor war has ended on the Korean Peninsula.
Now that the revolutionary armed forces of the DPRK have entered into an actual military action, the inter-Korean relations have naturally entered the state of war. Accordingly, the DPRK will immediately punish any slightest provocation hurting its dignity and sovereignty with resolute and merciless physical actions without any prior notice.
2. If the U.S. and the south Korean puppet group perpetrate a military provocation for igniting a war against the DPRK in any area including the five islands in the West Sea of Korea or in the area along the Military Demarcation Line, it will not be limited to a local war, but develop into an all-out war, a nuclear war.
It is self-evident that any military conflict on the Korean Peninsula is bound to lead to an all-out war, a nuclear war now that even U.S. nuclear strategic bombers in its military bases in the Pacific including Hawaii and Guam and in its mainland are flying into the sky above south Korea to participate in the madcap DPRK-targeted nuclear war moves.
The first strike of the revolutionary armed forces of the DPRK will blow up the U.S. bases for aggression in its mainland and in the Pacific operational theatres including Hawaii and Guam and reduce not only its military bases in south Korea but the puppets' ruling institutions including Chongwadae and puppet army's bases to ashes at once, to say nothing of the aggressors and the provokers.
3. The DPRK will never miss the golden chance to win a final victory in a great war for national reunification.
This war will not be a three day-war but it will be a blitz war through which the KPA will occupy all areas of south Korea including Jeju Island at one strike, not giving the U.S. and the puppet warmongers time to come to their senses, and a three-dimensional war to be fought in the air, land and seas and on the front line and in the rear.
This sacred war of justice will be a nation-wide, all-people resistance involving all Koreans in the north and the south and overseas in which the traitors to the nation including heinous confrontation maniacs, warmongers and human scum will be mercilessly swept away.
No force on earth can break the will of the service personnel and people of the DPRK all out in the just great war for national reunification and of all other Koreans and overpower their might.
Holding in high esteem the peerlessly great men of Mt. Paektu, the Korean people will give vent to the pent-up grudge and realize their cherished desire and thus bring a bright day of national reunification and build the best power on this land without fail.
Students Hold Lunar New Year's Concert11 Feb
DPRK state media reported on 11 February (Monday) that the schoolchildren gave a Lunar New Year concert at Mangyo'ngdae Schoolchildren's Palace on Sunday. Attending the performance from the central leadership were Supreme People's Assembly [SPA] Presidium President Kim Yong Nam, DPRK Cabinet Premier Choe Yong Rim, Korean Workers' Party [KWP] Secretaries Kim Ki Nam and Choe Tae Bok, NDC Vice Chairmen VMar Kim Yong Chun and Ri Yong Mu, SPA Presidium Vice President Yang Hyong Sop, DPRK Cabinet Vice Premier Kang Sok Ju along with "officials of party, armed forces and power organs, social organizations, ministries and national institutions, servicepersons of the Korean People's Army and the Korean People's Internal Security Forces, officials in the fields of science, education, literature and arts, public health and media, persons of merits and Pyongyangites and "present there on invitation were the chief of the Pyongyang Mission of the Anti-Imperialist National Democratic Front, overseas Koreans, and diplomatic envoys of different countries, representatives of international organizations and members of the military attaches corps here and their wives." According to KCNA, Director of the Korean People's Army [KPA] General Political Department, VMar Choe Ryong Hae, attended the performance, but was not observed in photographs or film footage of the performance.
The schoolchildren began their performance "with prologue "We Make Lunar New Year's Bow to Marshal Kim Jong Un." They also performed "New Year's Performance in Star Country," "trio and chorus 'We Are Happy under Care of Marshal Kim Il Sung,'" "duet and chorus 'Let Us Sing Louder Song of General Kim Jong Il,'" "small chorus of immortal classic masterpiece 'We Will Carry Forward the March That Started on Mt. Paektu,'" "piano and chorus 'Let's Learn for Thriving Korea,'" "Thank You Marshal Kim Jong Un," "music and dance of Korean schoolchildren in Japan 'Our country led by Marshal is best'" and "national instrumental music and song 'Flower Gate of Happiness.'" According to KCNA, the "performers highly praised the great Generalissimos Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il as eternal sun who devoted their all to the rising generation, calling children as the king of the country" and "vividly depicted the bright appearance of schoolchildren growing up to be kid doctors, talents and soldiers under the blue sky of the country."
KJI Birthday Events Begin10 Feb
DPRK state media reported during 7-9 February (Thursday-Saturday) that events commemorating the official 71st birthday of late leader Kim Jong Il, called the Day of the Shining Star, began in and around Pyongyang. On 7 February (Thursday), a 10-day nationwide film festival that will screen official documentary and feature films in Pyongyang and in the provinces. According to KCNA "all of them deal with the glorious revolutionary history of Kim Jong Il and his undying feats" and the films will include Under the Guidance of the Great Brilliant Commander, The Great Leadership for Pushing Back the Frontiers of Science and Technology, Shining Star Above Mt. Paektu, Legacy, White Gem, Wish and Comrade Kim Goes Flying. Ceremonies which opened the film festival were held in Pyongyang and provincial capital cities. The Pyongyang ceremony occurred at the People's Palace of Culture on 7 February. It was attended by Korean Workers' Party [KWP] Secretary and Director of the KWP Propaganda and Agitation [publicity and information] Department Kim Ki Nam, along with " officials concerned, creators and artistes in the field of movie art and Pyongyangites."
On 8 February (Friday) a photo exhibition titled "They Were Always Together to Bring about the People's Well-being" showing photographs of the country's later founder and president, Kim Il Sung, Kim Jong Il and Kim Jong Un and "dealing with the feats the great Generalissimos who led all the Koreans to the road of independence and the great national unity and energetically worked for global peace and stability, friendship and solidarity among the peoples under the uplifted banner of independence against imperialism." KWP Secretary Kim Ki Nam and Supreme People's Assembly [SPA] Presidium Vice President Yang Hyong Sop along with "officials concerned and people in the city" attended the opening ceremony.
Also, on 8 February (Friday) recipients of the Kim Jong Il Prize and Order of Kim Jong Il, based on 6 February 2013 decrees of the SPA Presidium, were publicized. The KJI Prize was presented to Kim Sang Ok for "a great contribution to the development of the nation's science and technology by displaying intense loyalty to the party and the leader and devoting creative wisdom and enthusiasm" and the Kwangmyo'ng Encyclopedia because it "helps officials and people raise the levels of political theories and cultural knowledge as required by the building of a thriving socialist nation and the age of knowledge-based economy."
The Order of Kim Jong Il was given to "units and officials, service persons and people made great contributions to bolstering up the national defense capabilities and building an economic giant through a dynamic drive for consolidating the political and ideological position of the Korean revolution as firm as a rock and devotedly carrying out the lines and policies of the Workers' Party of Korea by rallying the broad masses close around the Party, true to the Military-First (So'ngun) revolutionary leadership of the Party." Institutions receiving the Order of KJI were the Rakwo'n Machine Complex, the 5 March Youth Mine in Chagang Province, Kanggye U'nha Garment Factory and Migok Cooperative Farm. Among the individuals receiving the Order of KJI were Paek Kye Ryong (Chief Secretary of the Kangwo'n Provincial KWP Committee) and O Su Yong (Chief Secretary of the North Hamgyo'ng Provincial KWP Committee) along with several third-generation officials from the KWP, DPRK Government and KPA: Kim Chang Myong; Ro Kyong Jun; Choe Tae Il; Pak Cho Yong; Ryom Chi Gwon; Kang Kil Yong; Mi Chang Guk; Yun Ho Nam; U Tok Su; and. Ryom U Jun.
On 8 February (Friday) DPRK state media reported on the end of cooking contest held during 6-8 February. According to KCNA "competition was divided into the fields of public service and service of ministries and national institutions, hotels and provincial public catering and service. Present there were cooks and waitresses of 32 organizations" and "held by such methods of experts and masses' judgment of preparations for cooking, sanitation, dressing processes and taste." On 9 February (Saturday) DPRK state media announced that the 22nd Paektusan (Mt. Paektu) Prize International Figure Skating Festival will be held during 15-17 February in Pyongyang to commemorate KJI's birthday. According to KCNA the "is an annual event reflecting the unanimous desire and aspiration of the Korean people, world progressives and athletes to celebrate the birth anniversary of Kim Jong Il as the greatest holiday of the nation and holiday common to humankind" and "will bring together foreign and Korean skaters who proved successful in international and national contests. It will involve exhibition ice dances and pair and individual events."
The events commemorating KJI's birthday ceased what had been a slow news week in the state media. Much of the content targeting an external audience consisted on various essays and editorials focused on the country's response to the passage of United Nations Security Resolution #2087 (2013), such as the possibility of a third nuclear test and what were described as "the firm resolution to take substantial and high-profile important state measures in view of the prevailing situation." Content targeting an internal audience focused ongoing development efforts throughout the country, including the renovation of the Victorious Fatherland Liberation (Korean War) War Museum, and study tours of revolutionary historical battle sites by members of the Korean Children's Union and the Kim Il Sung (Socialist) Youth League. For a few days, members of the central leadership appeared to have gone to ground, or at least to senior level meetings that were not reported in state media. On 8 February (Friday) a DPRK media outlet said the a third nuclear test was a matter of "the U.S. and hostile forces jumped to conclusions that the republic is planning the third nuclear test, citing their hypothesis and argument," that any upcoming activities "are aimed at safeguarding its national interest, not at threatening anyone" and "it remains to be seen what the important state measures are, though it is clear that any U.S. reactions to them may prove to be only irrevocable losses."


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