Respected Comrade Kim Jong Un Sends Reply Message to General Secretary of C.C., CPV

Pyongyang, March 6 (KCNA) -- Kim Jong Un, general secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea, sent a reply message to To Lam, general secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam, on March 5.

The message said:

Respected Comrade General Secretary,

I express deep thanks to you for sending warm congratulations to me on my reelection as the top leader of the Workers' Party of Korea at the Ninth Congress of the WPK.

Your sincere congratulations and best wishes are active encouragement to our Party’s cause of struggle.

Expressing belief that the friendly and cooperative relations between our two parties and two countries will continue to grow strong in the long journey for accomplishing the common socialist cause in the future, too, I wish you good health and bigger success in your responsible work. -0-

www.kcna.kp (2026.03.06.)

On Occasion of 80th Anniversary of Proclamation of Agrarian Reform Law

Eighty years have passed since the historic event of agrarian reform in which our Party converted land, which had been used as the means of exploitation by the ruling class for thousands of years, into the genuine wealth of the people and the basis of their new life full of hope.

No other party in the world but the great Workers’ Party of Korea provided the farmers, who had only been objects of contempt and plunder for ages, with genuine life and realized their interests in the most thoroughgoing way.

Only the WPK effected a great transformation unprecedented in history supported and admired by the farmers as the first step to democratic reform.

In due consideration of the centuries-old desire of farmers who held a majority of our country’s population, President Kim Il Sung put the agrarian reform before any other democratic reforms to be carried out in the liberated country.

Under the great benevolence of the President, our farmers were freed from the fetters of slavery and became honorable and dignified masters of the country.

Since then, people in our country have defended and cultivated the land as its masters.

Our people devoted blood and life to defending an inch of land, performed miracles in the postwar rehabilitation and achieved victories in socialist cooperativization of land.

The history of transformation of land which began with the agrarian reform has continued so far as that of greater victories and glory.

Our people still keep in their minds boundless gratitude toward Chairman Kim Jong Il who looked far ahead into the country’s future when the country was undergoing the harshest trials and decided on and led to victory the great transformation of nature for renovating the land across the country to meet the needs of socialism.

Keenly realizing the pains taken by the Chairman for the future of the country, our agricultural workers grew once again into those strong in self-reliance and pioneers of the future possessed of genuine outlook on life and revolution of living not for today but for tomorrow.

The socialist land which was cultivated by the great pains and efforts of the President and the Chairman is now further turned into home of genuine life where the people’s dreams and ideals come into full bloom under the outstanding leadership of the respected General Secretary Kim Jong Un.

At the historic ４th Plenary Meeting of the ８th Central Committee of the WPK, the respected General Secretary declared a grand plan for putting the country’s agriculture on a definite upward stage and opening up a new great era of effecting drastic development of our style socialist countryside under the uplifted slogan of "For new victory of socialist rural construction!".

Thanks to his leadership, agricultural workers across the country are training themselves to be solid farmers and intelligent workers.

They are full of liveliness, enjoying a happy life in the modern dwelling houses provided by the Party free of charge and bringing earlier a better future.

Slogans like "Let us defend socialism with grains!" and "Let us go to communism!" which can be seen anywhere in the socialist countryside reflect the agricultural workers’ high zeal for glorifying their life as patriotic farmers sharing their destiny with our Party for ever.

Indeed, no other land in the world has a greater history than ours and gets young and vibrant as ours does.

The historic Ninth WPK Congress clarified the tasks and ways for further speeding up the regional development, the rural construction during the period of new five-year plan to transform the regions and countryside in a fresh way and bring about greater improvement in the material and cultured life of the people across the country.

As our country’s future is prosperous, so the future of our agricultural workers following the leadership of the Party is bright and rosy.

Peoples Korea Today' Issue 63 ( March 2026 ).pdf

 

When the Farmers of Korea Became Master of the Land ! -Special Article by Dr Dermot Hudson

Today 5th of March is a most historic and significant day in People ‘s Korea . 80 years on the 5th of March 1946 President KIM IL SUNG led the Provisional People’s Committee of North Korea (PPCNK ) adopt the Law on Agrarian Reform , a fundamental measure which completely changed forever  the balance of wealth and power in the northern part of Korea.

The Agrarian Reform of People’s Korea  was a most thorough and revolutionary one . All land owned by absentee landlords or over 5 hectares in size was confiscated without compensation being paid to the former landlords and was distributed to the people free of charge. Thus  1 million hectares of land possessed by the Japanese imperialists and their stooges and landlords were distributed to poor peasants and farmhands of 720 000 households free of charge.

Unlike other countries including some socialist countries there was zero compensation for former landlords and the land was distributed to  peasants completely  free of charge . Some neo-colonial countries failed miserably to carry land reform in the interests of the ordinary people. For example in Kenya the ‘willing selling , willing buyer ‘ principle was enforced  meaning that the land owned by the former colonialists remained in their hands.

The Agrarian Reform in People’s Korea smashed feudalism and landlordism at one stroke instead of gradual ,piecemeal reforms.The Law was carried out at lighting speed , it was stipulated that it should be carried by the end of March and the law carried out within the time span of 20 days , an amazing achievement. Centuries of oppression and exploitation by the feudal landlords vanished within a few weeks .he working farmers , the poor peasants of the northern half of Korea became masters of the land and masters of their fate.

The Agrarian Reform in People’s Korea not only freed the working farmers from exploitation , oppression and poverty but broke the shackles on the agricultural productive forces .

The Agrarian Reform paved the way for the socialist transformation of agriculture over the Fatherland Liberation War in the 1950s . Today People’s Korea is a socialist country and is one of the most egalitarian countries in the world . Everything is owned by the people and there are no rich and poor . There is free medical care, free education and virtually free housing . Income differentials are very low , in fact probably the lowest in the world.

Many countries even developed ones  failed to achieve a far -reaching and fundamental land reform .In the UK today it is a fact that most of the land is owned by big landowners, monopoly capitalist corporations and property companies and banks . A ‘Guardian ‘ article from 2019 stated that in the UK half of the land is owned by less than 1 percent of the population. The semi-feudal leasehold system remains in the UK; attempts to even make minor reforms to it have failed miserably . Thus People’s Korea succeeded where others failed .

Today the farmers of People’s Korea , the socialist paradise , celebrate 80 years being the master of the land.

Dr Dermot Hudson

Chairman Korean Friendship Association of UK

Chairman British Group For The Study of the Juche Idea

Hon General Secretary Global Farmy Study for KIM JONG UN’s People First Policies

Respected Comrade Kim Jong Un Inspects Destroyer Choe Hyon

Pyongyang, March 5 (KCNA) -- Kim Jong Un, general secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea and president of the State Affairs of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, inspected the Destroyer Choe Hyon on March 3 and 4 to observe its crew members' combat and political training and the shakedown for assessing its operational executive capability.

Accompanying him were Jo Chun Ryong, secretary of the WPK Central Committee, Kim Jong Sik, first vice department director of the WPK Central Committee, Senior Vice Admiral Pak Kwang Sop, commander of the Navy of the Korean People's Army, and officials in the warship-building sector.

The respected Comrade Kim Jong Un was greeted by the leading officials of the Nampho Shipyard on the spot on March 3.

He mounted the Destroyer Choe Hyon to inspect the situation of the sailors' operation of the destroyer and the process of the shakedown for assessing the destroyer's performance and operational executive capabilities.

He praised the sailors of the destroyer for having achieved successes in the new year combat and political drill for perfectly acquiring the military and technological qualifications, the level of which was set by the Party Central Committee for the operation of the new-type destroyer.

On the destroyer he acquainted himself with the sailors' preparedness for controlling warship and handling various weapon systems.

A shakedown cruise took place in his presence that day to estimate the maneuverability of the destroyer.

The crew members of the destroyer were filled with high confidence of carrying out the shakedown under his supervision.

Kim Jong Un highly appreciated that the maneuverability of the warship meets the requirements of operational performance and the warship control system is excellent.

Expressing satisfaction over the smooth tests of all systems of the destroyer for its commissioning for operations, he said:

"The tests of operational efficiency of the new-type destroyer, a new symbol of sea defence capability of our state, are going on smoothly as planned.

This is an appraisal, from another point of view, of the advantages of the design of the vessel.

Every year during the new five-year plan period we must build two surface warships of this class or of a higher class, and correctly implement the gigantic plan of increasing the fighting strength of surface warships.

Ensuring the concentrated and sustained character of the capability of the national defence economy is a major guarantee for the implementation of this plan.

We have sufficient potentials, i.e., powerful researchers group and shipbuilding industry.

Our Navy's forces for attacking from under and above water will grow rapidly.

The arming of the Navy with nuclear weapons is making satisfactory progress.

All these successes constitute a radical change in defending our maritime sovereignty, something that we have not achieved for half a century.

Our Navy will have a powerful offensive capability, which is, in effect, a capability for defending ourselves.

If any forces are apprehensive about our efforts to build up our defence capabilities, this means that they are precisely our enemy.

I will have a strongest navy built.

As I have stressed before, I am sure that the course of implementing the national defence development plan for the coming five years will be a course of transforming once again the structure of our armed forces; we will build reliable defence capability.

We will guarantee the defence of national sovereignty, not in spoken or written words, but through capability for real actions and through practice."

Reiterating the goals to be attained by the warship-building industry in the period for implementing the five-year plan, he specified the state-sponsored measures to be taken to modernize the Navy and a series of tasks such as intensified cooperation between the Second Economy Commission and the national defence scientific research group.

He oversaw a sea-to-surface strategic cruise missile test launch conducted on the warship on March 4.

He said that the test was an important core element in estimating the operational capabilities of the warship.

The test launch was successfully carried out.

He expressed great satisfaction at the sailors' very good readiness for a strategic attack.

He said that such a demonstration of great power is not only a clear expression of the will to defend the national sovereignty based on firm self-confidence but also a responsible exercise of its war deterrent.

That day he inspected the third Choe Hyon-class destroyer under construction at the shipyard.

He highly praised and encouraged the workers of the shipyard, renowned for its tradition and might of self-reliance as a reliable large-scale warship-building base of the country, and the technicians and officials in the warship-building sector, who are striving with high morale to successfully build another Choe Hyon-class destroyer until the birthday of the WPK this year, when its historic Congress was held, by further enhancing the spirit they displayed in making a breakthrough in implementing the historic cause of rapidly turning the country into a maritime power of the 21st century through the building of the first new-generation multi-purpose destroyer.

Saying that the officials and workers in the warship-building sector should faithfully uphold the Party's line of building a military power with the completion of powerful new-type warships, he called for making strenuous progress of uninterrupted innovations and consecutive leaps forward to accelerate the dramatic transformation of the Navy.

His inspection of the destroyer and the shipyard served as a significant occasion for signaling that the strategic plan of the Party Central Committee, aimed at gradual and qualitative strengthening of the naval forces that will shoulder the crucial mission in carrying out the national defense strategy and exercising the war deterrent, has begun demonstrating its might through actual development. -0-

www.kcna.kp (2026.03.05.)

Respected Comrade Kim Jong Un Oversees Shooting Contest of KPA Snipers

Pyongyang, March 5 (KCNA) -- A shooting contest of snipers from Korean People's Army units at all levels took place at the Pyongyang Training Base No. 60 under the Capital City Defence Corps on March 3 to mark the Sniper's Day of the KPA.

Kim Jong Un, general secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea and president of the State Affairs of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, oversaw the contest.

The respected Comrade Kim Jong Un was accompanied by Jo Yong Won, Kim Jae Ryong and Ri Il Hwan, members of the Presidium of the Political Bureau of the C.C., WPK, and other major leading cadres.

He was greeted on the spot by commanding officers of the Ministry of National Defence and military and political commanding officers of the KPA large combined units.

The contest was aimed at steadily improving the marksmanship of snipers whose role is more highly valued in modern battlefields.

It was attended by snipers selected from the special operations units of different services of the KPA and its large combined units at all levels.

In the contest, the special operations brigade of the Air Force came first, the 4th Corps second and the 1st Corps third.

It was followed by demonstration shootings by snipers of the Company of Snipers under the Operations Bureau of the General Staff. Then combatants of the special operations units gave a demonstration of their might.

Saying that the combat capability and role of snipers are more highly valued in the composition of our armed forces, Kim Jong Un noted that it is an essential requirement for implementing the Party's line of building a powerful army and modernizing it to bring about a rapid and qualitative change in enhancing the combat capability of snipers in conformity with the developing aspects and trend of modern warfare.

He said that it is very important to frequently organize drills under the simulated conditions of an actual war and shooting contests which will give rise to the spirit of emulation among the units in order to train all the snipers of the KPA units at all levels into crack shots capable of dealing a fatal blow to the enemy in any weather and seasonal conditions and day and night.

Noting that the crack-shot marksmanship should be a symbol and feature of the matchless combat capability of the Korean People's Army, he gave important guidelines for training a-match-for-a-hundred all-round snipers well-versed in the Juche-oriented marksmanship. -0-

 

Decision of Standing Committee of DPRK SPA

Pyongyang, March 4 (KCNA) -- A central election committee was organized for the election of deputies to the 15th Supreme People's Assembly of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.

According to a decision of the SPA Standing Committee issued on March 3, the central election committee was formed with Kim Hyong Sik as its chairman, Jon Kyong Chol as vice-chairman, Ko Kil Son as secretary general, and Jang Chang Hyok, Han Yong Guk, Pang Tu Sop, Kim Kum Chol, Ri Myong Guk, Mun Chol, Han Jong Hyok, Jon Hyang Sun, Pak Hui Chol and Jon Song Min as members. -0-

www.kcna.kp (2026.03.04.)