🇰🇵 As Japanese media report (referring to both government officials and independent expert data), the DPRK's first reconnaissance satellite is, by all indications, operating successfully.

This is indicated not only by the correction of the orbital altitude (demonstrating not only the operability of the device’s engines, but also its controllability by commands from the ground), but also its regular, precise appearance over the same strategic objects in the region (with an interval of approximately once every 5 days).

The launch of 3 more similar satellites planned by Pyongyang in 2024 will make it possible to increase the frequency of viewing objects of interest by 4 times and switch to almost daily monitoring.

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un arrived at a public event for the first time in an Aurus car, which was presented to him by Russian President Vladimir Putin.

The use of the car by the leader of the DPRK "serves as a vivid testimony of the Korean-Russian friendship, which is comprehensively strengthening and developing," his sister Kim Ye Jung stressed.

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🇰🇵🚀North Korean leader Kim Jong-un watched artillery units in the western region practice firing several "new super-sized" rocket launchers, state media reported.

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Anti-imperialist, Anti-U.S. Class Education Intensified at Universities
Pyongyang, March 18 (KCNA) -- Youth league organizations at universities of the DPRK conducting in an offensive way the work to arm the students with the anti-imperialist, anti-U.S. class consciousness.

They are intensifying the education to make the students harden their steadfast outlook on the arch enemy and anti-imperialist, anti-U.S. class consciousness, always aware of the aggressive nature of the U.S. imperialists and the puppet ROK clans more persistently clinging to the reckless moves for a nuclear war to stifle the socialist system of the DPRK.

Kim Hyong Jik University of Education and Pyongyang University of Architecture have organized visits to the Sinchon Museum and the Central Class Education House.

Youth league officials of Pyongyang University of Medicine are intensifying education with the main emphasis on disclosing the sinister intention and nature of the enemies who are resorting to every possible means and method to spread unsound and alien ideological poison in the country.

O Jung Hup Chongjin University of Education and Kim Jong Thae Haeju University of Education instill into the younger generation the truth that illusion about the enemy precisely means death and that the class enemies should be wiped out all mercilessly, through the visit to the provincial houses of class education.

The same is true of other universities across the country. -0-

www.kcna.kp (Juche113.3.18.)

Personally I am overjoyed to see both Russia and China refusing any longer to play along with imperialist attempts to label the DPRK as a 'rogue' state for having had the temerity to defend its independence and sovereignty.

Quote below shows the impotent wrath of the imperialists as their sanctions regime against north Korea nears collapse.

It is clear to most of the world now what some of us were saying all along: imperialist sanctions have nothing to do with 'upholding international law' and everything to do with trying to recolonise the independent and socialist nations.

UN sanctions regime nears ‘collapse’ amid ‘arms-for-oil’ trade between Pyongyang and Moscow

Russia has started supplying oil directly to North Korea in defiance of UN sanctions as part of an ‘arms-for-oil’ exchange, the Financial Times reported.

At least five North Korean tankers travelled this month to collect oil products from Vostochny Port in Russia’s Far East, according to satellite images shared with the Financial Times by the Royal United Services Institute (Rusi), a UK think-tank.

“These oil deliveries constitute a full-frontal assault against the sanctions regime, which is now on the brink of collapse,” said Hugh Griffiths, a former co-ordinator of the UN panel that monitors sanctions on North Korea.

Vostochny Port has been used as a hub for Russian ships involved in trading arms between the countries, Rusi reported.

“What we can see now is a clear arms-for-oil bartering arrangement in open contravention of sanctions that Vladimir Putin signed off on personally”.

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