Sh. Shabdolov, chairman of the Communist Party of Tajikistan, said this in a statement on July 24 on the occasion of the 62nd anniversary of victory of the Korean people in the great Fatherland Liberation War.

He said that under the leadership of President Kim Il Sung, outstanding strategist and iron-willed commander, the army and people of the DPRK inflicted a serious defeat upon the U.S. which provoked a war in Korea.

The statement continued:

The U.S. suffered a defeat for the first time in its history of wars and could not but signed the Korean Armistice Agreement on July 27, 1953.

But failing to draw a bitter lesson from the war, the U.S. persists in the wildcat moves to outstrip the DPRK militarily.

The DPRK is now demonstrating its might as a country capable of manufacturing and launching satellites and also as a full-fledged nuclear weapons state.