Satellitenprogramm Nordkorea

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Kim Jong Un Visits Sohae Space Center to Congratulate Scientists and Technicians



The dear respected Marshal Kim Jong Un, first secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK), first chairman of the National Defence Commission (NDC) of the DPRK and supreme commander of the Korean People's Army, gave on-the-spot guidance to the Sohae Space Center to congratulate the scientists and technicians on their great contribution to the successful launching of the second version of satellite Kwangmyongsong-3.
When he arrived there, the scientists and technicians broke into stormy cheers "Hurrah!"
He, with broad smile on his face, waved back with turning up his thumb to the cheering crowd.
Kim Jong Un highly estimated their feats for putting the satellite into its orbit by carrier rocket Unha-3, thus carrying out the behest of leader Kim Jong Il. And he had photo session with them.
He visited the General Satellite Control and Commanding Center in west coast and watched again a video data dealing with the whole course of launching the satellite.
Saying that our scientists and technicians brilliantly carried out the instruction of Kim Jong Il that a scientific and technological satellite should be launched in 2012, the year marking the centenary of the birth of President Kim Il Sung he extended thanks to them in the name of the WPK Central Committee.
Noting that the successful launch of the satellite was a great demonstration of the general national strength of the DPRK, he kindly invited to Pyongyang the scientists and technicians who made a great contribution to widely demonstrating the scientific and technological power of Juche Korea. He earnestly told them that they come Pyongyang and visit the Kumsusan Palace of the Sun to meet Kim Jong Il and present to the Generalissimo a report on the successful launch of the satellite together with him.
He stressed that the successful launch of the satellite displayed to the whole world once again the will of the Korean people that when the WPK is determined, they can do anything.
Ours is an era of science and technology, he said, emphasizing that a trait of giving importance to science and technology should be established throughout the whole party and whole country and the investment to development of science and technology should not be stinted.
He stressed that the space center should be built better to fit a base of scientific research and the area around it be refurbished to meet the requirement of the Songun era, adding that facilities be renovated and more and more trees planted to cover the area with green foliage.
He expressed great expectation and conviction that the scientists and technicians of the space center would bring about a fresh turn in their space scientific research and satellite launch on the base of the successful launch of the second version of satellite Kwangmyongsong-3.
Political News Team

Pyongyang Army-People Rally

A Pyongyang army-people rally was held at Kim Il Sung Square on December 14 to hail the successful launch of the second version of satellite Kwangmyongsong-3.
Present at the rally were Kim Yong Nam, Choe Yong Rim, Choe Ryong Hae and other leading officials of the party, state and army, officials of party, armed forces and power bodies, working people's organizations, ministries and national institutions and men of the Korean People's Army and the Korean People's Internal Security Forces. Officials and working people of institutions, factories and enterprises at all levels and co-operative farms and teachers and students of universities and colleges in Pyongyang, overseas Koreans' delegations and other overseas Koreans and the chief of the Pyongyang Mission of the Anti-Imperialist National Democratic Front were also present.
Present there on invitation were diplomatic envoys of foreign countries here, members of the military attache corps here and other foreign guests.



Kim Ki Nam, member of the Political Bureau and secretary of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea, made a report at the rally.
He said:
The scientific and technological satellite, belonging to Songun Korea both in name and reality, was accurately put into its orbit by carrier rocket Unha-3 which was manufactured by the DPRK with its own technology and by its own efforts in line with the government's policy for space development and its peaceful use. This is a gift presented to leader Kim Jong Il by the WPK and the army and people of the DPRK out of their loyalty and a great jubilee of national significance in realizing the greatest desire at the behest of Kim Jong Il.
Generalissimos Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il, blazing a trail of history, laid a firm foundation of eternal value for the independent national economy and helped fully tap the potentials of Juche-based industry with the might of Songun. Therefore, the DPRK has become possible to demonstrate its might as a country that produces and launches satellites.
A working satellite was successfully launched thanks to the undying feats of the Generalissimos, and Songun Korea ranked itself with dignity among those countries which launched satellites. The credit for this goes to the lofty loyalty, strong sense of moral obligation, matchless grit and superb stratagem of the dear respected Kim Jong Un.
With the successful launch of the satellite as a momentum the might of Juche-based industry and the scientific and technological potentials of the country have been fully displayed and the might of the DPRK heading toward the world with pride have been fully proved.
To develop and use satellites essential for economic development is the lawful requirement of the present times in which one develops and lives with the help of science and technology. It is also the worldwide trend and the just sovereign right of the Korean people no one can deny.
Then speeches were made by representatives of scientists, service personnel, workers, agricultural workers, youth and students.
Jang Chol, president of the State Academy of Sciences, vowed to glorify the country as a world space power by launching a geostationary satellite in the future, and build a knowledge-based economic power of Korean style with the same spirit and creating trait displayed by the workers at the Huichon Ryonha General Machine Plant.
No Kwang Chol, deputy chief of the General Staff of the KPA, declared that if the U.S. imperialists and their followers encroach upon the dignity and sovereignty of the DPRK even a bit while taking issue with the independent satellite launch, the KPA will regard it as the declaration of a war and resolutely shatter it with powerful physical strike.
Hyon Sang Ju, chairman of the Central Committee of the General Federation of Trade Unions of Korea, pledged to lead the thunder of the launch of the second version of satellite Kwangmyongsong-3 to the fireworks for the final victory in building a thriving socialist nation by stirring up the hot wind of Kim Jong Il's patriotism in each worksite of the general offensive for implementing the WPK's strategy for prosperity.
Ri Myong Gil, chairman of the Central Committee of the Union of Agricultural Workers of Korea, expressed the will to drastically increase the agricultural production by learning from the patriotic devotion and tremendous fighting traits of scientists and technicians who gave full play to the dignity and stamina of the nation by successfully launching the satellite.
Jon Yong Nam, chairman of the C.C., the Kim Il Sung Socialist Youth League, called upon young people to bring about leaping progress in most difficult and toilsome worksites of socialist construction and become heroes and scientists who push back the frontiers of the latest science and technology and thus further glorify today's jubilee.