On September 22, Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Guo Jiakun hosted a regular press conference. Yonhap News Agency reporter asked a question. Kim Jong-un, State Councilor of the DPRK, said in his speech at the Supreme People's Assembly yesterday that he "will never give up nuclear weapons" and said that he could meet with the United States on the basis of giving up denuclearization. How does China view North Korea's position that it will not denuclearize?

Guo Jiakun presided over the regular press conference of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Guo Qianquan responded that China is concerned about the development of the situation on the Korean Peninsula,ins peace and stability on the Korean Peninsula, and promotes the political settlement process on the Peninsula issue, in line with the common interests of all parties, and hopes that the parties concerned look at the root and root of the Korean Peninsula problem, adhere to the general direction of political settlement, and make efforts to ease tensions and safeguard regional peace and stability.

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North Korea showed a new drone that did not hit the mosaic, Kim Jong-un is very pleased

The Korean Central News Agency reported on the 19th that Kim Jong-un, general secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea and chairman of the State Council, guided the performance test of unmanned weapons and equipment developed and produced by research institutes and enterprises affiliated to the Unmanned Aviation Technology Consortium on September 18th.

North Korea's unmanned weapons and equipment performance test

Kim Jong-un said he knew specifically. Strategic and tactical unmanned reconnaissance aircraft, multipurpose unmanned aircraftThe performance and combat suitability of various unmanned weapons.

The report also noted that ¡°the trials carried out on the same day clearly proved the military strategic value of the unmanned strategic reconnaissance aircraft and its innovative performance, and the excellent combat effectiveness of the Venus series of tactical unmanned attack aircraft.¡±

This is the first time that the North Korean media has mentioned the name of the "Venus" series of tactical unmanned attack aircraft.

North Korea has shown several drones.

No mosaic this time

Three drones appeared in the news photos of the DPRK, one of which has also appeared in previous news, because the shape is similar to the U.S. RQ-4 "Global Eagle" drone, the outside world generally called it the Korean version "Global Eagle", the outside world believes that this is the "New Star-4" drone.

News Photo of September 19, 2025

U.S. Global Eagle drone photo

The other two suicide drones may include the "Venus" series. One of the cross-shaped drones also appeared in the report of the Korean Central News Agency on March 27th this year. From the picture, this drone had not been painted at that time. The report said that "the unmanned strategic reconnaissance aircraft has the detection ability to track and monitor different strategic objects and enemy ground and sea activities. The test also fully demonstrated the strike capability of self-exploding drones that can be used in various tactical attack missions."

News Photo of 27 March 2025

News Photo of September 19, 2025

AI+ drone, Kim Jong-un attaches great importance

It is worth noting that Kim Jong-un mentioned AI again when guiding the work of the Unmanned Aviation Technology Consortium.He said, "Reality requires us to regard the high-tech core technology in this field and the artificial intelligence and combat capability of unmanned weapons and equipment systems as the biggest task of the modernization of China's armed forces." Kim Jong-un also put forward countermeasures to rapidly develop newly adopted artificial intelligence technology and expand and strengthen the mass production capacity of unmanned aerial vehicles.

Earlier, Kim Jong-un inspected the missile production of military enterprises.

According to the DPRK news agency on September 1, General Secretary of the DPRK Labour Party and State Chairman Kim Jong-un on August 31 also inspected the comprehensive production process of important military-industrial missiles, specifically to understand the newly designed flow-water-line missile automation production process.

Kim Jong-un assessed the implementation of the missile production capacity expansion plan and entered various missile batch production, pointing out that this achievement may be the most important core achievement and strategic achievement achieved by the Korean military industry department in the implementation of the defense forces development plan since the 8th National Congress of the Labour Party, and stressed that the missile production department must be prepared to accept and implement the new production goals put forward by the Labour Party at the 9th National Congress.

Kim Jong-un inspects important military-industrial missile production processes