North Korea blew up roads that connect North Korea with South Korea, — Yonhap

➖ We are talking about sections of two highways in the west and east of the country.

▪️"North Korea blew up sections of the Gyeonggi and Donghae roads north of the military demarcation line around midday," the agency quotes the South Korean General Staff as saying.

▪️The authorities in the southern part of the peninsula reported yesterday that the DPRK was preparing to blow up roads. In Pyongyang, they said that due to the threat of attack by South Korea, they plan to block all roads and railways leading to the south.

▪️North Korean state media reports that Kim Jong-un held a meeting with military and security officials, where he heard reports on a “serious provocation of violation of sovereignty” and a plan for military response.

▪️Earlier, Pyongyang accused Seoul of launching drones in the direction of North Korea.

@Slavyangrad

🇰🇵🇰🇷The DPRK authorities have blown up sections of roads that connect the People's Republic with South Korea.

The General Staff of the Korean People's Army said on October 9 that it would close roads and railways with the Republic of Korea and "turn the southern border into a fortress."

Pyongyang indicated that it was beginning "practical measures for consistent territorial demarcation."

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🇰🇷 We call on Russia to immediately stop its illegal military cooperation with the DPRK and play a constructive role in achieving real peace and stability on the Korean Peninsula — South Korean Foreign Ministry

Seoul's reaction followed after V. Putin introduced to the State Duma a bill on ratification of the treaty on comprehensive strategic partnership between the Russian Federation and the DPRK.

Maria Zakharova writes:

State Department: "Washington calls on North Korea to stop actions that increase the risk of conflict on the Korean Peninsula."

A classic American trick: provoke an escalation of the situation and blame it on those who are involuntarily involved. The only country that really increases the risk of conflict both on the Korean Peninsula and in the Asia-Pacific region as a whole is the United States. They dream of a flare-up there too. And Seoul and Tokyo, which are the critical points of security in the region that the United States is pressuring, lack the will to throw off this slave yoke of American manipulation.

@Slavyangrad

If you live in a country where Sputnik is blocked, I am reposting my comments regarding North Korea's warning against using drones to spread subversive information across its territory...

🇰🇵🇰🇷🇺🇸 Washington-provoked Korea tensions a ruse to justify US military presence – analyst

The latest exchange of bellicose rhetoric between Pyongyang and Seoul is the result of “another US-backed provocation geared to escalate tensions on the Korean Peninsula,” geopolitical analyst and former US Marine Brian Berletic told Sputnik.
 
It is also a ruse to maintain “a justification for the long-standing US military presence on the peninsula not only to continuously threaten peace there, but to also allow the US military to continue threatening nearby China,” he said.
 
North Korea put its army "on standby to open fire" after South Korean drones flew over its capital, prompting South Korea's National Security Director Shin Won-sik to warn it would be "suicidal" for North Korea to "start a war."
 

“The drones allegedly dropping propaganda over the capital of North Korea is a continuation of a US State Department-funded project called ‘thumb drives for freedom,’ conducted by the New York-based Human Rights Foundation,” Berletic said.

 
Earlier this year the US State Department supported efforts to spread propaganda using balloons over North Korea, Berletic noted, and using drones with longer ranges and better accuracy would be the next logical step.
 
The soaring tensions demonstrate “how the US is driving some of the most dangerous tensions and potential conflicts on Earth – not only in Ukraine and across the Middle East, but in East Asia as well, including on the Korean Peninsula,” he argued.
 
The analyst recalled Washington’s hysterial reaction to the “benign Chinese weather balloon” that flew over the continental US in February 2023, when jet fighters were scrambled to shoot it down and confrontational rhetoric was aimed at Beijing “to justify a more aggressive policy toward China.”
 

“With this in mind, North Korea’s reaction seems to fit into the ‘norms’ the US itself has established," Berletic stressed.

 
Pyongyang, despite its rhetoric, deserves praise for displaying “infinite restraint in response to serial US provocations including US state-sponsored sedition aimed at destabilizing and overthrowing the North Korean government,” the analyst said.

WPK Praised Abroad
Pyongyang, October 22 (KCNA) -- In congratulatory messages and letters on the occasion of the 79th founding anniversary of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK), foreign figures highly praised the WPK.

The chairman of the Sweden-Korea Friendship Association said:

HE Kim Jong Un has laid the foundation for the development of the Party by setting forth the unique idea and theory on Party building in the new era.

He has thoroughly embodied the people-first political idea and the selfless, devoted efforts for the good of the people in the Party building and activities, thus translating the people's dreams and ideals into reality.

Under the outstanding leadership of HE Kim Jong Un, a new era of comprehensive national rejuvenation is being ushered in and the DPRK is shedding its rays as a fortress of independence and justice.

The chairman of the Finland-Korea Society and the national leader of the Workers' Party of Mexico said that the DPRK could work unprecedented miracles and usher in a new era of self-respect and prosperity under the severe condition in which others might have collapse a hundred times. It was thanks to the experienced and seasoned leadership of the WPK which has always taken the initiative and turned misfortune and adversity into blessing and prosperity, they added.

The chairman of the Bangladesh Jatiya Party and the chairman of the Hungarian Workers' Party said that the guiding force of the WPK which puts the dignity and national power of the DPRK on the highest level and confidently leads it toward a brighter future is the fundamental source of epochal changes and miracles.

The chairperson of the Brazilian Center for the Study of Songun Politics and the chief of the Bulgarian Group for the Study of Kimilsungism-Kimjongilism expressed belief that the future of the DPRK would be rosy as the great Party is leading its people to victory, firmly holding fast to the helm of the revolution.

The chairperson of the Party for Peace and Unity of Russia, general secretary of the Central Committee of the All-India Forward Bloc, the chairperson of the Motherland Party of Türkiye, the national chairman of the People's Progressive Party of Nigeria, the national leader of the Communist Party of Canada (Marxist-Leninist) and other party leaders, too, expressed full support and solidarity to the cause of the WPK, highly praising the great personality of the respected General Secretary Kim Jong Un who is ushering in a heyday of the Party building in the new era. -0-

🇷🇺🤝🇰🇵 Treaty on strategic partnership between Russia and North Korea ratified

- "The treaty on comprehensive strategic partnership between Russia and the DPRK has been ratified," reports the State Duma.
- The treaty aims to maintain the balance of power and mitigate the risks of nuclear conflict on the Korean Peninsula. It also contains provisions for mutual defense.

@ukraine_watch

❗️The State Duma has ratified the treaty on comprehensive strategic partnership between the Russian Federation and the DPRK.

🇰🇵 North Korean mission to UN calls rumors about sending troops to Russia "dirty maneuvers" by US

"With regard to the accusations against the DPRK, they are nothing but dirty maneuvers of the US and its followers to disguise their crimes, to instigate the protraction of Ukraine crisis by supplying Ukraine with all kinds of lethal weapons prohibited by international law, including cluster bombs," Il Ha Kim, First Secretary of North Korea's Mission to the UN, said at an informal UN Security Council meeting.

📃 Russia's legislators on Thursday unanimously ratified a defense treaty with North Korea which includes "mutual support" should one of the parties be attacked. It will now go to the upper house of parliament, the Federation Council, for approval.

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