The statement quoted Kim Jong Un as saying in his address that it is necessary to remove the danger of a war, ease the tension and create a peaceful climate on the Korean peninsula.

The south Korean authorities should stop all war exercises with foreign forces and the U.S., the very one that divided the Korean nation into two and has imposed the suffering of national division upon them for seventy years, should desist from pursuing anachronistic policy hostile towards the DPRK and boldly make a policy switch.

The army and people of the DPRK under the leadership of the Workers' Party of Korea headed by Kim Jong Un will win the final victory and achieve Korea's reunification, the life-time desire of President Kim Il Sung and leader Kim Jong Il, without fail.

Chanai Longoen, chairman of the Thailand-DPRK Friendship Association, in a statement on Jan. 21 said that Kim Jong Un, supreme leader of the Korean people, made public his New Year address calling upon all the Korean people to turn out in the general offensive for hastening the final victory of the revolutionary cause of Juche.

He expressed belief that the Korean people would register fresh successes in their struggle for building a thriving nation and reunifying the country by successfully implementing the tasks advanced by Kim Jong Un in his New Year address under his leadership.