【Internal Affairs】
On March 31, the North Korean media reported
that Kim Jong Un met with IOC President Thomas Bach and that they
posed for a photo.
On March 31 and April 1-4, the North Korean
media reported that South Korea’s art troupe and taekwondo
demonstration team visited Pyongyang and gave performances.
On
April 2, the North Korean media reported that Premier Pak Pong Ju
provided field guidance at the construction site in Samjiyon
County.
On April 1, the North Korean media asserted that the
extremely acute social and class contradiction is an inevitable result
of the structural contradiction of capitalism.
On April 6, the
North Korean media emphasized the danger of imperialism’s ideological
and cultural infiltration while encouraging the people to strengthen
socialism.
On April 5, the North Korean media reported that the
First Pyongyang International Vocal Competition opened with due ceremony.
【Inter-Korean Affairs】
On April 2, the North Korean media
condemned the 10th Defense Trilateral Talks between the ROK, the US,
and Japan.
On April 3, the North Korean media denounced the ROK
government’s statement welcoming the UN’s adoption of a human rights
resolution against North Korea.
On April 3, the North Korean
media blasted the South for holding a ceremony to mark West Sea
Defense Day.
On the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the April
3rd Uprising on Jeju Island, the North Korean media emphasized that
the South should wage a struggle for independence, democracy, and
reunification, as well as ‘burying the conservatives in the tomb of
history.’
On April 5, the North Korean media reported that the
Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of the Country of the DPRK
issued a memorandum on the occasion of the 25th publication
anniversary of Kim Il Sung’s work, 10-Point Programme of the Great
Unity of the Whole Nation for the Reunification of the Country.
【Foreign Affairs】
On April 1, the North Korean media
reported that a spokesperson for the DPRK Measure Committee for
Demanding Compensation to Comfort Women for the Japanese Army and the
Victims of Forcible Drafting, in a statement, asserted that Japan
should make a sincere apology for its crimes against humanity.
On
April 4, the North Korean media reported that Chinese President Xi
Jinping sent a reply to Kim Jong Un’s message congratulating him on
his re-election as president.
On April 4, the North Korean media
condemned bourgeois democracy and emphasized that the people should
decisively reject it.
On April 4, the North Korean media reported
that the North would welcome the North Korea-Japan talks if Japan
sincerely engaged in the DPRK-Japan Pyongyang Declaration.