Kim Jong Un

"Xi's choice of Pyongyang for his first state visit of the year showed the 'utmost importance' placed on bilateral ties."

"The ‘denuclearisation’ is an irreversibly finalised matter."

""He has energetically led the work to turn the Korean People’s Army... into an elite and powerful army.""

"Today, our Party is faced with heavy and urgent historic tasks of boosting economic construction and the people’s standard of living and transforming all realms of state and social life as early as possible."

"He has energetically led the work to turn the Korean People's Army, the pivot of national defence and pillar of safeguarding peace, into an elite and powerful army."

"heavy and urgent historic tasks"

"If Washington respects our present [nuclear] position as stipulated in the Constitution... there is no reason why we cannot get along well with the United States."

"The concept of 'denuclearisation' has already lost its meaning. We have become a nuclear state."

"It would further guarantee the stable development of bilateral relations."

"a significant development to boost the country’s strategic military capability"

"North Korea’s status as a nuclear-armed state was irreversible and that expanding a 'self-defensive nuclear deterrent' was essential to national security."

"New destroyer will be part of nuclear response system."

"This would offer the possibility of carrying out larger plans."

"The North Korean government would continue to fully support Russia’s policies of defending its sovereignty, territorial integrity and security interests."

"The souls of the fallen will live forever with the great honour they defended."

"North Korea will as ever fully support the policy of the Russian Federation to defend the national sovereignty, territorial integrity and security interests."

"I believe that the Russian army and people would surely win a victory in the just sacred war."

"We will as ever fully support the policy of the Russian Federation to defend the national sovereignty, territorial integrity and security interests."

"Those who fell in the vanguard of charges and those who writhed in frustration at the failure to fulfill their duties as soldiers who were given orders, rather than in pain in their bodies torn by bullets and shells – they too can be called the party's faithful warriors and patriots."