30.03.2023

North Korean nuclear warheads

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The original was taken from a colleague of imp_navigator in North Korean nuclear warheadsAccording to the official North Korean report, on March 27, 2023, the leader of the DPRK, Kim Jong-un, visited the DPRK Nuclear Weapons Institute.

The materials from this visit showed a nuclear warhead developed in the DPRK. As far as can be understood from the diagrams on the wall, this is now a standard nuclear warhead mass-produced in the DPRK for various missiles, 600-mm guided missiles, etc. The name of the nuclear warhead is "Hwasan-31" (화산-31), that is, "Vulkan-31" translated into Russian. [...]

Pyongyang, March 28. /KCNA/ - The Secretary General of the Workers' Party of Korea, Chairman of the State Affairs of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, dear Comrade Kim Jong-un, led the adoption of nuclear weapons on March 27.

Senior officials of the Defense Industry Department of the Central Committee of the party took part, including the 1st Deputy head of the Department of the Central Committee of the CPC Hong Seung Mu, senior officials of the Institute of Nuclear Weapons and the Main Missile Directorate.

The Institute of Nuclear Weapons of the DPRK submitted to Comrade Kim Jong-un a report on the state of work in recent years on the qualitative and quantitative strengthening of the nuclear armed forces of the Republic according to the direction of development of nuclear weapons and the strategic line indicated at the VIII Congress of the CPC and the VI Plenum of the Central Committee of the eighth convocation of the party, on the state of production.

Dear Comrade Kim Jong-un got acquainted in detail with the means of using nuclear weapons and the purpose of the operation, technical characteristics, specifics of the structure and operation of new tactical nuclear weapons in accordance with strike targets, interchangeability with different weapons systems, etc.

[Kim Jong-un] also got acquainted with the technical situation of the informatization of the state system of integrated control over nuclear weapons "trigger of nuclear weapons", the scientific, reliability and safety of which were strictly confirmed in the recent comprehensive tactical exercises on the development of a conditional nuclear counterattack.

And I checked the operational plan of the nuclear counterattack and the orders.

Dear Comrade Kim Jong-un highly appreciated the great efforts and great successes of the Institute of Nuclear Weapons, which contributed to the strengthening of our nuclear armed forces as reliable forces capable of responding to any emergency nuclear situation, in accordance with the strategic plan and the intention of the Central Committee of the Party to jointly exploit nuclear weapons as different means in the multilateral operational space.

Dear Comrade Kim Jong-un movingly said that we were adamantly following a really difficult and far path for the possession of nuclear weapons. And he once again stated that the enemy against whom our nuclear armed forces, which have accumulated a powerful deterrent force, should fight is not some state or a particularly specific collective, but the war itself and the nuclear catastrophe. And he continued that our party's line on building up nuclear forces is consistently aimed at protecting the eternal security of the state, peace and stability in the region.

Dear Comrade Kim Jong-un said that we can never be satisfied with what has been achieved in strengthening the consistent readiness of our nuclear armed forces to respond, but we need to make continuous efforts to continuously strengthen nuclear forces. He stressed that our constant and complete readiness to use nuclear weapons at any time, in any direction, allows us not to use nuclear weapons forever, and that the offensive combat readiness of unimaginably powerful and excellent nuclear armed forces will give enemies fear of us and not dare to touch our state power, system and people.

Dear Comrade Kim Jong-un said that the Institute of Nuclear Weapons and the field of atomic energy should prospectively increase the production of weapons-grade nuclear materials in order to consistently implement the plan of the Central Committee of the Party to increase the stock of nuclear weapons exponentially, still give a powerful impetus to the production of powerful nuclear weapons. And he set program tasks for the Institute of Nuclear Weapons and the field of atomic energy.

Scientists and senior staff of the Institute of Nuclear Weapons, who once again received the personal guidance of dear Comrade Kim Jong-un, took a fervent oath of loyalty to always remain faithful to the important mission entrusted to them by the party and the revolution, the Motherland and the people, to reliably defend the sacred revolutionary cause of Juche with results in the production of powerful nuclear weapons as reliable "nuclear fighters" of our parties.

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