Changchun, China — A North Korean inside source has relayed news that the North Korean authorities, as the June 25th commemoration of the Korean War approached, used a secret recorded lecture to emphasize to frontline military units that they would not hesitate to use nuclear weapons against anti-regime forces inside North Korea.
One source in North Pyongan Province said in a phone conversation with The Daily NK on the 30th, “With June 25th approaching, the North Korean authorities sent a secret recorded lecture to the border patrol and general military units.”
“In this lecture, the soldiers were most surprised by the indication that nuclear weapons are a shield which can resolutely and swiftly punish the ‘maneuvers of enemies trying to destroy our Communist state from the inside.'”
Such recorded lectures are facilitated by gathering an audience in one place and listening to CDs containing the contents which are dispatched from Pyongyang. The North Korean army stationed in North Pyongan Province listened to the contents of the CD at a “temporary lecture meeting” organized for both the regular “Lecture Meeting Day” and “War against the U.S. Month” (June 25th~July 27th).
The distribution of the 40-minute long CDs was done by the Border Patrol Brigade Guidance Division and classified as “Broadcast Politics” under the title “Let us preserve the honor of the unification solders of the military-first era and continue the line of the Kim Il Sung socialist Fatherland.”
The lecture proclaimed, “Our universe today revolves around Chosun, a Juche socialist and nuclear power. We have now risen to the level of a nuclear power and an independent, universally strong state.”
It also estimated, “We have become the world’s finest military state, with an impressive military capability which can crush any enemy on earth if we just put our minds to it. This has been the desire of our 5,000 year history, accomplished in the Kim Il Sung socialist era by the Mankyungdae family.”
So, it emphasized, “Our soldiers should hold onto their resolve to open the door to a socialist, strong nation through the unification of the fatherland and load the last shot which can annihilate the enemy. There is no other method or means to achieve the historic feat of connecting the divided Fatherland and it is the clear and firm position of our Party and revolutionary forces that we cannot hand down a divided fatherland to our future generations.”
Through the lecture, the authorities in particular suggested that it could use nuclear weapons to maintain the North Korean internal regime, insisting, “Our nuclear weapons are a precious sword which can shatter the suffocating, disintegrating, anti-Communist aggressive schemes of the imperial ideologues and are the revolutionary shield which can punish these forces.”
In addition, the lecture pointed out, “Our nuclear state will be strengthened for the future of the world where the Kim Il Sung socialist Fatherland flourishes independently, and we will continue to make even stronger weapons. Even if the earth breaks to pieces a hundred times over, what we can trust and follow is the unfailing belief that there is no one like our Supreme leader, our military and our land which carries this unrivaled sword. Thus, we must safeguard a hundred and a thousand times the gains of the revolution.”
The source analyzed the lecture, “Our state puts forward military-first ideas, but it also seems to fear the military the most. Consequently, the recorded lecture was played only to the military.”
He added, “Until now, the authorities have educated the soldiers countless times to become bombs for the safety of the General, but it is the first time that the idea of using nuclear weapons against anti-regime forces has been heard. Most of the soldiers listened to the warning half-heartedly, but some of them have been talking apprehensively among themselves.”
Then, he assessed, “The implication is that were a coup d’etat to be attempted, the North Korean authorities would resort to nuclear weapons. It seems to be proclaiming that our nuclear weapons, which were supposedly developed to enable the North to become a match for the U.S., could ultimately be used domestically.”
