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Korea awards high achievers in nuclear weapons production"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Central Committee&#8217;s Munitions Industry Department recently commended personnel at several uranium enrichment facilities for achieving good results in their activities during<\/span> the<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> first half of the year, Daily NK has learned.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThe Munitions Industry Department held an enlarged plenary session in late June to review the results of the Eighth Plenary Meeting of the Eighth Central Committee,\u201d a Daily NK source in North Korea said Wednesday, speaking on condition of anonymity. \u201cThe department decided to award appreciation letters to personnel who received outstanding reviews for research and production of nuclear warheads in the first half of the year. The awards were given at commendation ceremonies, which were held on Saturday.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The commendation ceremonies were held simultaneously at the Yonbyon nuclear complex and three or four other uranium enrichment facilities, according to the source.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The source told Daily NK that the Central Committee \u2014 after receiving the Munitions Industry Department\u2019s report on the general results of its implementation of uranium enrichment plans during the Eighth Plenary Meeting \u2014 praised \u201cthe majority of uranium enrichment facilities for achieving their goals for the first half of the year in line with the party\u2019s decision to exponentially increase the nation\u2019s arsenal of nuclear warheads.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Central Committee ordered that individuals who helped to expand the country&#8217;s arsenal of nuclear warheads receive the highest of rewards, even as it strongly rebuked officials involved in the recent failed launch of a military reconnaissance satellite.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">During the Sixth Plenary Meeting of the Eighth Central Committee in December, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un elucidated his \u201cepochal strategy of the development of nuclear force and national defence for 2023,\u201d saying: \u201cNow that the south Korean puppet forces who designated the DPRK as their \u2018principal enemy\u2019 and openly trumpet about \u2018preparations for war\u2019 have assumed our undoubted enemy, it highlights the importance and necessity of a mass-producing of tactical nuclear weapons and calls for an exponential increase of the country\u2019s nuclear arsenal.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>One individual receives Hero of Labor award<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The regime&#8217;s move to hand out commendations to nuclear facility personnel appears aimed at showing the workers that their activities are crucial and tied to the nation\u2019s security. At the same time, the authorities appear to be trying to improve morale among the military munitions workforce to encourage good results in the second half of the year.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Following the Munitions Industry Department&#8217;s enlarged plenary session in late June, high-ranking<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> cadres visited uranium enrichment facilities, including Yongbyon, to hand out the appreciation letters and award distinguished service commendations. One individual even received a Hero of Labor award, the source said.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThanks to the high marks they received from the Central Committee for the first half of the year&#8217;s results and an order from the Munitions Industry Department, personnel at nuclear warhead production bases took a three-day break from Saturday, the day of the commendation ceremony. They received a wide-range of provisions, too, so it really felt like it was a holiday.&#8221;\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i>Translated by David Black. Edited by Robert Lauler.\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n<p><em>Daily NK works with a network of sources who live inside North Korea, China and elsewhere. Their identities remain anonymous due to security concerns. More information about Daily NK\u2019s reporting partner network and information gathering activities can be found on our FAQ page\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/faq\/\">here<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><i>Please direct any comments or questions about this article to dailynkenglish@uni-media.net.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/20230705-5\/\"><i>Read in Korean<\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Central Committee&#8217;s Munitions Industry Department recently commended personnel at several uranium enrichment facilities for achieving good results in their activities during the first half of the year, Daily NK has learned.\u00a0 \u201cThe Munitions Industry Department held an enlarged plenary session in late June to review the results of the Eighth Plenary Meeting of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":130,"featured_media":41067,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[646,67],"tags":[1367,1656,839],"class_list":["post-55592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-military","category-news","tag-nuclear-weapons","tag-dprk","tag-weapons"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.7 (Yoast SEO v28.8) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>N. 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