【Internal Affairs】
On August 8, the North Korean media reported that Kim Jong Un
expressed appreciation to outstanding instructors.
On August 7, the North Korean media reported that Premier Pak Pong
Ju made a field survey of enterprises in North Pyongan Province.
On August 7, the North Korean media reported that the National
Exhibition of August 3 Consumer Goods was held.
August 3
Consumer Goods: August 3 Consumer Goods refer to the goods made at
factories and enterprises and by housewives’ work teams with unused
materials, waste, and by-products. These goods are not included in the
national production plan. North Korea has been carrying out the August
3 Consumer Goods Production Movement, thereby increasing the
availability of consumer goods, which are in short supply. The August
3 Consumer Goods Production Movement was so named after Kim Jong Il
ordered that the consumer goods production using waste and by-products
be expanded nationwide and involve all North Koreans when he provided
field guidance at the Pyongyang City light industrial goods exhibition
on August 3, 1984.
On August 7, the North Korean media reported that the 7th Rason
International Trade Fair was opened.
【Inter-Korean Affairs】
On August 7, the North Korean media reported that a spokesperson for
the Consultative Council for National Reconciliation, in a statement,
condemned the ROK government’s response to UN Security Council
resolution 2371 tightening sanctions against North Korea.
On August 10, the North Korean media reported that a spokesperson
for the DPRK Emergency Measure Committee for Rescuing Abducted
Persons, in a statement, insisted that the ROK government is
attempting to prevent the repatriation of the 12 DPRK women (defected
to South Korea as a group overseas last April) by forcing them into
marriage and that there can never be any humanitarian cooperation
without the unconditional repatriation of those 12 DPRK
women.
【Foreign Affairs】
On August 7, the North Korean media reported that the DPRK
government, in a statement, denounced UN Security Council resolution
2371 as “a wanton violation of and a direct challenge to the
sovereignty of the DPRK since it is a product of the US heinous
hostile policy toward the DPRK to stifle the ideology, social system,
and people in the DPRK,” flatly rejected the resolution, and
threatened to retaliate against it one thousand times.
On
August 8, the North Korean media reported that a spokesperson for the
Korea Asia-Pacific Peace Committee, in a statement, blasted UN
Security Council resolution 2371 as “an extra-large terrorist act” and
flatly rejected it.
On August 9, the North Korean media
reported that a spokesperson for the General Staff Department of the
Korean People’s Army (KPA), in a statement, criticized remarks against
North Korea by the US officials including President Donald Trump
(ready to go to war with North Korea, a military option, a preemptive
strike, a decapitation operation to eliminate Kim Jong Un, etc.) and
threatened the US by mentioning its military responses including
“responding with an all-out war” and “a preemptive strike.”
On August 9, the North Korean media reported that a
spokesperson for the Strategic Force of the KPA, in a statement,
slammed the ROK-US joint military exercises in the Asia-Pacific region
including the B-1B bombers taking off from Guam’s air base to fly over
the Korean Peninsula and threatened the US by mentioning a plan for an
enveloping strike on Guam.
On August 10, the North Korean
media reported that the KPA Strategic Force Commander again mentioned
the statement by a spokesperson for the KPA Strategic Force (August 8)
and said that the North is seriously examining the plan for an
enveloping strike on Guam by launching four Hwasong-12
intermediate-range strategic ballistic missiles.
