🇰🇵❌🇰🇷 — 🇰🇵📰 KCNA: Decision of DPRK Supreme People's Assembly

➡️ The Supreme People's Assembly of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea on Monday issued a decision on abolishing the Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of the Country, the National Economic Cooperation Bureau and the Kumgangsan International Tourism Administration.

The two most hostile states, which are at war, are now in acute confrontation on the Korean peninsula, the decision said, and went on:

➡️ The reunification of Korea can never be achieved with the Republic of Korea which set it as its state policy to achieve the "unification by absorption" and "unification under liberal democracy". It is quite contrary to our national reunification line based on one nation, one state and two systems which we have adhered to for nearly 80 years.

➡️ It is a serious anachronistic mistake to regard the ROK as a partner for reconciliation and reunification any longer as it declared the DPRK as a "principal enemy" and is seeking only an opportunity for "bringing down the government" and achieving "unification by absorption" while keeping the uncontrollable crisis on the Korean peninsula in collusion with outside forces, the decision stressed.

Recognizing the stark historical reality and branding the ROK as the state most hostile to the DPRK, the Supreme People’s Assembly of the DPRK decided as follows:

1. The Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of the Country, the National Economic Cooperation Bureau and the Kumgangsan International Tourism Administration, tools which existed for north-south dialogue, negotiations and cooperation, are abolished

2. The Cabinet and relevant organs of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea will take practical measures to implement this decision.

https://archive.is/wip/vaISc

🇰🇵❌🇰🇷 — 🇷🇺 RIA Novsti: North Korea does not want war, but does not intend to avoid it: an invasion of the South even by 0.001 mm will be regarded as a provocation of war, said Kim Jong-un"

🇷🇺📞🇰🇵 — 🇷🇺 RIA Novsti: Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov is planning negotiations with the DPRK delegation, Foreign Ministry spokesman Zakharova told RIA Novosti

🇷🇺📞🇰🇵 — 🇷🇺 RIA Novsti: North Korean Foreign Minister Choi Song Hui is already in Moscow on an official visit, the embassy told RIA Novosti

📖 🇰🇵 🇰🇵 Is Kim Jong Un Preparing for War?

🔶️ The situation on the Korean Peninsula is more dangerous than it has been at any time since early June 1950. That may sound overly dramatic, but we believe that, like his grandfather in 1950, Kim Jong Un has made a strategic decision to go to war. We do not know when or how Kim plans to pull the trigger, but the danger is already far beyond the routine warnings in Washington, Seoul and Tokyo about Pyongyang’s “provocations.” In other words, we do not see the war preparation themes in North Korean media appearing since the beginning of last year as typical bluster from the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK or North Korea).

🔶️ The first obvious signs that a decision had been made and a decisive break with the past was underway came in the summer and autumn of 2021, apparently the result of a reevaluation in Pyongyang of shifts in the international landscape and signs—at least to the North Koreans—that the United States was in global retreat. This shift in perspective provided the foundation for a grand realignment in the North’s approach, a strategic reorientation toward China and Russia that was already well underway by the time of the Putin–Xi summit of February 2022 and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. There are few signs that relations with China have moved very far, and, in fact, signs of real cooling in China-DPRK relations. However, ties with Russia developed steadily, especially in the military area, as underscored by the visit of the Russian Defense Minister in July and the Putin–Kim summit in the Russian Far East last September.

🔶️ The North’s view that the global tides were running in its favor probably fed into decisions in Pyongyang about both the need and opportunity—and perhaps the timing—toward a military solution to the Korean question. At the start of 2023, the war preparations theme started appearing regularly in high-level North Korean pronouncements for domestic consumption. At one point, Kim Jong Un even resurrected language calling for “preparations for a revolutionary war for accomplishing…reunification.” Along with that, in March, authoritative articles in the party daily signaled a fundamentally and dangerously new approach to the Republic of Korea (ROK or South Korea), introducing formulations putting South Korea beyond the pale, outside what could be considered the true Korea, and thus, as a legitimate target for the North’s military might. At the plenum last month, Kim made that shift crystal clear, declaring that “north-south relations have been completely fixed into the relations between two states hostile to each other and the relations between two belligerent states, not the consanguineous or homogenous ones any more.”

https://www.38north.org/2024/01/is-kim-jong-un-preparing-for-war/

🇹🇷❌🇮🇶🇹🇷 — 📰 Anadolu Agency: Operations to continue until every inch of northern Iraq mountains, which serve as source of terrorist activities, is secure, Turkish President Erdogan says

https://fxtwitter.com/anadoluagency/status/1747285163686416844

🇹🇷❌🇸🇾🇹🇷 — 📰 Anadolu Agency: Over last 5 days, 114 targets were hit as part of air operations in Syria and Iraq, with 78 terrorists 'neutralized,' Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says
https://fxtwitter.com/anadoluagency/status/1747282822769844355

📢 🇾🇪 🇾🇪 Statement by the Yemeni Armed Forces regarding the targeting of the “Zogravia” ship heading to the ports of occupied Palestine - 01-16-2024 AD

A statement issued by the Yemeni Armed Forces

In the name of God, the most gracious, the most merciful

God Almighty said: {Indeed, God loves those who are killed in His cause, arrayed as if they were built of solid stones.} God Almighty has spoken the truth.

In victory for the oppression of the Palestinian people who are subjected to aggression and siege in the Gaza Strip, the naval forces of the Yemeni Armed Forces, with the help of God Almighty, carried out a targeting operation against the ship “Zogravia”, which was heading to the ports of occupied Palestine, with a number of suitable naval missiles, and the hit was direct.

The targeting operation came after the ship's crew rejected warning calls, including fiery warning messages.

The Yemeni armed forces will continue to implement the decision to prevent Israeli navigation or those associated with the Israeli enemy in the Red Sea until the aggression is stopped and the siege on the steadfast Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip is lifted.

The Yemeni Armed Forces continue to take all defensive and offensive measures within the legitimate right to defend dear Yemen and in confirmation of continued practical solidarity with the oppressed Palestinian people.

God is sufficient for us, and He is the best disposer of affairs, the best protector, and the best helper

Long live Yemen, free, dear and independent
Victory belongs to Yemen and to all the free people of the nation

Sanaa, Rajab 5, 1445 AH
Corresponding to January 16, 2024 AD

📢 🇾🇪 🇾🇪 The naval forces of the Yemeni Armed Forces carried out a targeting operation against the ship “Zogravia”, which was heading to the ports of occupied Palestine, with a number of suitable naval missiles, and the hit was direct.

The targeting operation of the ship came after its crew refused the calls from the naval forces, as well as repeated fiery warning messages.

The Yemeni armed forces continue to carry out their military operations and implement the decision to prevent Israeli navigation in the Arab and Red Seas until the aggression stops and the siege on the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip is lifted.

The Yemeni Armed Forces continue to take all defensive and offensive measures within the legitimate right to defend dear Yemen and in confirmation of continued practical solidarity with the oppressed Palestinian people.