The following is the full text of an article "The US arms buildup will be an unwise option further increasing uncertainty of its mainland security" issued by a military commentator of the DPRK on May 3:

Recently, the fact that an interceptor drill simulating the so-called ICBM attack of an enemy state was conducted under the inspection of the US secretary of the Army at the Fort Greely military base in Alaska of the US was disclosed.

The drill, which was conducted under the signboard of "defense of the mainland", is, in essence, a military action of an offensive nature that made a nuclear war with the DPRK a fait accompli.

The DPRK significantly celebrated May Day, the international holiday of the working people of the whole world.

The country was filled with joy of working people as they greeted the holiday at workplaces full of pride in creation and in new modern houses.

For over 70 years since the word “people” was added to the name of the country, its people have called it the country of working people as its another name.

May 5 is the International Day of Midwife.

Marking the day every year, the International Confederation of Midwives sets a theme underlining the important role of midwives in protecting the lives and health of pregnant women, nursing mothers and newborn babies and recommends that a variety of activities are conducted to congratulate and encourage midwives in their medical activities and arouse social interest in them.

At present, natural disasters are on the increase every year in all parts of the world due to global warming and the consequent climatic changes. In case of such disasters, it is none other than midwives that play a responsible and important role in ensuring uninterrupted antenatal care of pregnant women and delivering them of healthy babies through safe delivery care.

In Japan where suicide is a social trend, another social evil has become rampant. It is called “isolated death” or “lonely death”.

According to information released by the country’s police on April 11, the number of deaths at home under no protection reached 76 020 in 2024. Among them, 58 044 were old people with those over 65 years of age accounting for 76 percent. 

It is commonplace in the country that the aged persons live a lonely life being ill-treated by their children and abandoned by the society and die a lonely death. 

A spokesman for the Iranian Foreign Ministry on April 28 strongly censured the US for its murderous air raid on Yemen in his statement.

Exposing that 78 people, including African refugees in a refugee camp in the northern part of Yemen, were killed by a US bombing and dozens of others injured, he branded and denounced the air raid, aimed at the civil facilities, major infrastructure and dwelling houses, as a war crime.

He criticized the UN and international human rights organizations for keeping mum over such heinous criminal act and the act of violating the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Yemen.

A national meeting was held at the People’s Palace of Culture in Pyongyang on May 1 to mark the 135th May Day, the international holiday of the working people of the whole world.

Present there were Pak Thae Song, member of the Presidium of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Workers’ Party of Korea and premier of the DPRK Cabinet, Kim Tok Hun, secretary of the Central Committee of the WPK, and other senior Party and government officials, officials of ministries, national agencies, institutions and industrial establishments and working people in Pyongyang.

Present there at invitation were members of foreign diplomatic missions in Pyongyang and overseas Koreans staying there.

On May Day, senior officials of the Workers’ Party of Korea and the government visited industrial establishments across the country, which are seething with an increased production drive for achieving their goals for this year, the last year in implementing the five-year plan, to congratulate working people on their holiday.

Choe Ryong Hae, member of the Presidium of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea, other senior Party and government officials and officials of Party and government organs at all levels spent a good time together with working people at the Hwanghae Iron and Steel Complex, the Chollima Steel Complex, the State Academy of Sciences, the Namhung Youth Chemical Complex, the Sangwon Cement Complex, the Kim Jong Thae Electric Locomotive Complex, the Kangdong Combined Greenhouse Farm, the Pyongyang Kim Jong Suk Textile Mill, the construction site of 10 000 flats at the fourth stage in the Hwasong area, etc.

The senior Party and government officials met and encouraged innovators exerting themselves in the vanguard of the efforts to perform miracles and feats in order to greet the 80th founding anniversary of the WPK with proud labour achievements.

The joy of working people overflowed throughout the DPRK on the 135th May Day, the international holiday of the working people all over the world.

At the time when the whole country is vibrant with regional rejuvenation and the capital city of Pyongyang is in a festive mood over moving into new houses, working people celebrated the holiday, having a good time filled with the enthusiasm to accelerate the all-people general advance toward the Ninth Congress of the Workers’ Party of Korea with intense patriotic loyalty and massive efforts for increased production.

A feeling of profound reverence overflowed at the Kumsusan Palace of the Sun, the supreme temple of Juche where President Kim Il Sung and Chairman Kim Jong Il are preserved in their lifetime appearance.

Officials and members of the Socialist Women’s Union of Korea held a dance party in the plaza in front of the Arch of Triumph in Pyongyang in celebration of the 135th May Day, the international holiday of working people all over the world.

The venue for the event was alive with the delight of officials and members of the women’s union who greeted May Day on the ongoing grand march to bring about a new turning point for the prosperity to be specially recorded in the history of the country under the wise leadership of the Workers’ Party of Korea.

The dance party began with the song “Victorious May”.