Hello everyone, I am Lu Luo, and today we are going to talk about Kim Jong-un¡¯s amnesty.

On the one hand, North Korea has hit the key link in the field of nuclear weapons development; on the other hand, on the 80th anniversary of the founding of the Korean Labour Party, North Korea again "amnesty" three years later.

According to the Korean Central News Agency, North Korean leader Kim Jong-un met with scientific and technical personnel from nuclear departments such as the Nuclear Weapons Research Institute, and personally presided over and guided important meetings on nuclear materials and nuclear weapons production. At the meeting, Kim Jong-un pointed out that the logic of maintaining peace and ensuring security through nuclear weapons-centered forces is the unchangeable position of the DPRK.

Earlier, Kim Jong-un had publicly emphasized at the Supreme People's Assembly of the DPRK that he would not give up nuclear weapons. This meeting reiterated this position again, obviously for the United States and South Korea that want to "denuclearize the peninsula".

It is worth mentioning that Kim Jong-un said at this meeting that "the key links in the development of national nuclear forces have been completely solved", but he did not disclose specific details. Judging from the agenda of the meeting, Kim Jong-un listened to the report on the "current status of the capacity expansion plan" in the field of nuclear material production, the recent activities of the Nuclear Weapons Research Institute, and the introduction of the scale and prospect of next year's project. He expressed satisfaction with the progress and spoke highly of "China's increasing nuclear technology capability and strengthening capability".

The Korean side said North Korea is believed to have possessed up to 2,000 kilograms of high-enriched uranium, which could produce more than a hundred nuclear bombs.Al the United States has insisted on the goal of denuclearizing the Korean peninsula, the Korean side also acknowledged that ¡°it is now impossible to force North Korea to abandon its nuclear weapons program through sanctions.¡±

It should be emphasized that North Korea's emphasis on nuclear power is essentially a response to the external security environment. From the perspective of North Korea, "nuclear shield and nuclear sword" are the last barriers to guarantee national sovereignty from infringement and development rights from interference. Moreover, while building its nuclear power, North Korea has not closed the door to dialogue.

Kim Jong-un recently said that he ¡°still has good memories¡± of U.S. President Trump and clearly released a signal that if the U.S. abandoned its absurd aspiration to denuclearize, there would be no reason for North Korea not to sit down and talk to the U.S. This was also interpreted by foreign media as a clear negotiation condition.

At the same time as the nuclear forces completed the key breakthrough, North Korea also celebrated a special festival, which is the 80th anniversary of the founding of the Korean Labour Party. To commemorate this moment, North Korea issued a decree and decided to implement amnesty, which is also since 2022, North Korea again announced an amnesty after 3 years, continuing the North Korean tradition of implementing humanitarian care in major political nodes.

According to the decree, the amnesty will be implemented on October 1, and the cabinet and relevant agencies will be responsible for "taking measures to properly accommodate the work and life of the people who have been released."

In the past, it has become a common practice for North Korea to implement amnesty on the occasion of major national festivals or political activities. North Korea has issued amnesty orders around important festivals or anniversaries in 2022, 2020, and 2018. This amnesty tradition is not only a commemoration of history, but also a feedback to the people. It has become an important way for North Korea to gather social consensus and enhance people's recognition of state governance.

In addition, this amnesty was announced almost simultaneously with the key breakthrough of nuclear forces. These two measures correspond to the two core issues of North Korea's "security" and "people's livelihood" respectively: the breakthrough of nuclear power builds an external security barrier for national development, and the amnesty policy injects internal humanistic care into social stability, which together constitute the governance blueprint of North Korea's "internal and external repair". North Korea's governance wisdom in a complex environment may have begun to gradually tilt the balance of the peninsula to some extent.