BGSJI and KFA UK on the 9th Congress of the Workers Party of Korea .

 BRITISH GROUP FOR THE STUDY OF THE JUCHE IDEA

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                  London  2nd of March 2026
   The British Group for the Study of the Juche Idea  (BGSJI),  and the  Korean Friendship Association of the UK(KFA UK ) issued the following joint statement hailing the successful holding of the 9th Congress of the Workers Party of Korea ;

                                           

The Workers Party of Korea (WPK) , the supreme general staff of the Korean revolution , held its 9th Congress from the 19th of February to the 25th of February  .The Congress was attended by 5,000 delegates and 2,000 observers making it a very large scale political event . The Congress re-elected respected comrade KIM JONG UN as General Secretary of the WPK and elected a new Central leadership which included comrade Kim Yo Jong .

The 9th Congress reviewed the achievements of the past five years since the 8th Congress of the WPK in January 2021. Under the difficult sanctions of intense sanctions by the imperialists , the global health crisis and repeated natural disasters as well as an increasingly unstable international situation , the DPRK made significant achievements such as the building of 50,000  new homes in Pyongyang and 110,000 news homes in the rural areas . The 20 x10 Regional Development policy has been rolled out .  Additionally many health , cultural and leisure facilities have been created  Self-reliance has been increased on a scientific and planned basis.

As pointed out by the Korean Central News Agency " The expanded policies for the people clearly show the advantages of the socialist system in our country, which attaches importance to the popular and people-oriented ones, and prove the truth and vitality of our Party's people-first politics."

Great success was made in the work of enhancing the national defence capacity of the DPRK including the integration of the state nuclear policy of the DPRK into the Constitution of the DPRK meaning that the DPRK;s nuclear status is completely irreversible which is a powerful deterrent to war and which safeguards the independence of the DPRK and the socialist system . As stated in the report of the Congress "The DPRK's nuclear force is now fulfilling its mission of physically and strongly deterring any war of aggression in a responsible manner.".

The past five years have also seen the expansion of the DPRK's international relations with many successes been registered in that field.

Looking forward to the next five years respected comrade KIM JONG UN called for the Party to " to consistently adhere to the principle of resolving all problems by dint of ideology and the spiritual strength of the masses and wage a more vigorous struggle against all sorts of negative phenomena going against the people-first principle."

Thus the WPK will adhere to its tried and tested line of prioritising ideological work as well as struggling against anything that goes against the people-first principle . Indeed in his concluding speech respected comrade KIM JONG UN strongly emphasised the line of the three revolutions -ideological , cultural and technical -saying that  "These three revolutions are our Party’s general line in building socialism." . The three revolutions including the ideological revolution will be stepped up during the forthcoming period.

The DPRK's nuclear force will also be strengthened during the coming five year period .At the same time the conventional forces of the DPRK will be strengthened.

The 9th Congress also discussed the international situation . Respected comrade KIM JONG UN noted that " The world realizes though belatedly that as long as imperialism exists, international law and order are nothing but meaningless empty commitments and that the just advocacy of law and order alone can defend nothing.

It is the truth proved by the present world and the law-governed principle in the international arena dominated by the gangster-like logic of jungle law that strength respects strength and to arm oneself with such powerful force as nuclear weapons is the only means capable of putting an end to the imperialist ambition for aggression."

Moreover  comrade KIM JONG UN said that "Whether it is peaceful coexistence or eternal confrontation, we are prepared for everything, and that choice is not made by us.

We have long prepared ourselves to deal with the hostile entity, the U.S., and will, in the future, too, more courageously and intensively carry out what we have done so far to better prepare for all forms of challenges that can be inferred."

It was reaffirmed that the ROK is the no 1 hostile state . Comrade KIM JONG UN pointed out that "The possibility of the ROK's complete collapse in the extension of the action cannot be ruled out."

To conclude the 9th Congress of the Workers Party of Korea laid down a militant and dynamic fighting programme which will led the DPRK into the next decade and to greater victories in the Juche revolution

We congratulate the WPK on the successful holding of the 9th Congress of the WPK and support the programme that has been set out at the Congress.

Long Live the Workers Party of Korea !

BGSJI

KFA UK

From Voice of Korea-People He Pictured to Himself before the Rimyongsu Falls

http://vok.rep.kp/index.php/detail_com/comde/iee260207006/57/en

  In 2019 the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un, riding a white horse, looked round the revolutionary battle sites in the area of Mt. Paektu.

  A wonderful scenery was in front of the marchers going round the revolutionary battle sites in his presence.

  Really spectacular was the Rimyongsu Falls coming down without freezing despite the biting cold in which even a birch breaks.

  The officials didn't know how to express their feelings before the falls coming down while sending up spray ceaselessly, lecturer Kim Yong Sil at the Korean Revolution Museum said and continued:

  "The respected Comrade Kim Jong Un said to the accompanying officials that the Rimyongsu Falls which does not freeze even in the intense cold represents the spirit of our intrepid people advancing without yielding to the raging wind of sanctions and suffocation.

  Looking at the natural phenomenon unchanged all the time, all the officials were just thinking that it was only a wonderful scenery but he pictured the people to himself before a phenomenon of nature."

  Kim Jong Un thought of the spirit and will of the Korean people who are most righteous and resolute in the world through the Rimyongsu Falls.

  He is always in the lead of the Korean people advancing courageously along the road chosen by themselves.

From Voice of Korea-With Powerful Defence Capability

http://vok.rep.kp/index.php/detail_com/comde/iee260203006/57/en

  The core of the defence policy of the Workers' Party of Korea is to defend our country and people by our own efforts, and contain any threat and challenge and reliably safeguard peace by means of steadily-developing, powerful defence capability.

  On January 27, 2026, the Missile Administration of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea conducted a test-fire to verify the effectiveness of a large-caliber multiple rocket launcher system upgraded with new technology.

  The respected Comrade Kim Jong Un oversaw the test-fire.

 

  Expressing satisfaction over the result of the test, he said:

  "Today's test is of great significance in improving the effectiveness of our strategic deterrent.

  The self-steered precisely guided flight system, which can neglect any outside intervention, is a major feature that demonstrates the superiority of this weapon system.

  As I have always emphasized, the relevant activities we conduct are clearly aimed at none other than further raising the level of our deterrent against a nuclear war."

  This is an indispensable measure for self-defence of the DPRK today.

  Kim Jong Un stressed that it is the invariable line of our Party's national defence policy to build up the most reliable offensive capability and enforce the deterrence strategy based on it. And he said that the Ninth Congress of the WPK will clarify the next-stage plans for further bolstering up the country's nuclear war deterrent.

  Our self-defence capability will keep changing to be unchallenged.

 

Flight Organized for Farmer-Delegates

From  Voice of Korea .

Flight Organized for Farmer-Delegates

http://vok.rep.kp/index.php/detail_com/comde/iee260210003/57/en

  The National Conference of Subworkteam Leaders in the Agricultural Sector, the first of its kind in history, was held in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea in February 2014.

  Always concerned about the agricultural development of the country, the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un took measures to hold the National Conference of Subworkteam Leaders in the Agricultural Sector and sent a historic letter to its participants during the conference. And he had a photo session with the subworkteam leaders on February 9 after the successful conference.

  That evening Kim Jong Un called a senior official of the then Air Koryo Administration and gave him a task to organize a flight for sending delegates of Ryanggang Province to the conference the next day, saying:

  The participants in the conference are returning home from today. It snowed a lot in the east coastal area. If the delegates from Ryanggang Province travel by train, it will take several days. I am worried at the thought that they will have a hard time for days on the way home. So I am going to send them by air.

  And he informed the official of the number of the delegates and selected the type of plane to carry them.

  Official Kim Hyok Chol at the Agricultural Commission said the delegates to the National Conference of Subworkteam Leaders in the Agricultural Sector still remember what happened at that time, and continued:

  "The delegates of Ryanggang Province were to return home by air. The officials who saw them off and the people who received them were all greatly impressed.

  Later, I heard that the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un said nothing should be spared for the farmers in charge of the grain production of the country and they deserve to travel by car decorated with flowers, not by plane. And he gave instructions on several occasions concerning the departure of the plane for the farmers.

  Towards midnight, he stressed the need to organize and command the flight in a responsible manner so that the delegates could travel safely. Early the next morning, he called an official and told him to check the weather conditions again before the departure of the plane.

  Indeed, all the agricultural workers were moved to tears by the sincerity Kim Jong Un showed to the ordinary farmer-delegates from the northern part of the country."

 

Respected Comrade Kim Jong Un Pays Congratulatory Visit to Sangwon Cement Complex

Pyongyang, March 2 (KCNA) -- The historic Ninth Congress of the Workers' Party of Korea unfolded a grand plan to further expand the construction work for the comprehensive development of the state and the promotion of the welfare of the people throughout the country during the new long-term plan and ardently appealed to all the relevant units, including building-materials production bases, to bring about a surge in production, surpassing the one of the past five years.

The Sangwon Cement Complex, which has faithfully repaid the Party's trust with the proud increased cement production decades after decades, is seething with the revolutionary enthusiasm and will to fulfill its honorable mission and vanguard role in the grand struggle for glorifying the ninth term of the Party Central Committee with steady advance and leap forward.

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, on March 1 paid a congratulatory visit to the Sangwon Cement Complex advancing under the banner of the patriotic movement for increased production and encouraged its workers in the new struggle to implement the decisions of the Party Congress.

He was accompanied by members of the Presidium of the Political Bureau and other senior officials of the C.C., WPK.

All the employees of the complex were filled with great emotion and joy as they came to have the dreamlike honor of receiving the great father, whom they had always desired to meet in the days of making new innovations and new miracles to glorify the era of great transformation, at their complex before others soon after the historic Party Congress.

When the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un arrived, they raised stormy cheers of "Hurrah!"

Looking up to Kim Jong Un, all the participants extended their boundless thanks to him for always placing the workers of the complex before anyone else in his mind and repeatedly bestowing the great trust and love on them so that they can continue to perform feats in the vanguard of the heroic struggle.

Kim Jong Un was courteously greeted by manager Yun Jae Hyok and other leading officials of the complex.

He extended warm encouraging greetings to the workers of the complex full of the extraordinary determination and enthusiasm to uphold the grand construction plan, set forth by the Party Congress, with eye-opening success in the cement production.

Kim Jong Un made a significant speech of encouragement.

Telling his inmost thought to visit the workers of the Sangwon Cement Complex first soon after the Ninth Party Congress, he offered high tribute to the history of development of the Sangwon Cement Complex and all its workers that have maintained an invariable attitude in providing faithful support to our Party’s resolute choice and made a tangible contribution to its implementation over the past five years, the period of really great difficulties, and that have written wonderful records of loyalty and patriotism alone since it went online.

There are a number of large and important enterprises in our country, but none of them has such a group of staunch and militant workers as the Sangwon workers, he said, highly appreciating the 40-odd-year history of the complex in which it has added luster to its name as the powerful enterprise that is able to do anything, in particular, the success of the complex which has strongly supported through practical cement production the Party's plan of achieving remarkable progress and overall upsurge in socialist construction, and opened up the greatest heyday of operation since its inauguration by expanding its production capacity and making ceaseless efforts for increased production, during the years of the eighth term of the Party Central Committee.

Supporting the Party and the country with boundless loyalty, aspiring after unlimited and daring innovation, and consistently prioritizing science and technology--this is the key to the complex's leaping forward and it is a formula for the increasing production achieved by our workers and also for the development of our times, he said. And he affirmed that the soaring patriotic enthusiasm and mettle for increased production, which the Sangwon workers display in making continuous innovation and advance, would constitute an absolute support for our Party's ideology and cause, and that it would be a torch inspiring the whole country to a heroic struggle.

Expressing firm belief that the complex will continue to glorify the honorable history and traditions of Sangwon, which has been a constant source of great strength and reliance for our Party, Kim Jong Un ardently called on all its employees to make dynamic advance, rising up as one again for our great motherland while displaying to the full the Korean people's dauntless spirit and wisdom.

When he finished his speech, all the participants broke into cheers with great excitement, looking up to him who highly appreciated them and expressed great expectation that they would invariably become the standard-bearer in carrying out the new long-term plan.

Kim Jong Un visited the central control room to learn about the cement production.

Praising the complex for registering high production results every month this year, the first year of carrying out the new five-year plan, he said that he still remembers the plenary meeting in December 2024 when the complex pledged before the Party to solve the most pending cement problem through increased production. It is a great encouragement to the Party and the state and their pride to have such warm and sincere patriotic loyalists who are ready to understand the Party's distress and the country's conditions before anyone else and devote themselves to their solution, a large contingent of ardent revolutionaries who regard the Party's plan as just rated capacity and unconditionally translate the Party's determination into reality, he added.

Noting that the complex has a more gigantic task to carry out during the ninth-term of the Party Central Committee and the whole country seething with transformation places its hope on the complex, he stressed that the complex should bring about a dynamic upsurge by dint of self-reliance based on advanced science and technology while giving full play to the inexhaustible spiritual power of the masses in all work in conformity with the immutable truth that the reserves for increased production depends on the mind of producers and as intended by the Party which attaches absolute importance to the ideological resource among the three resources of the revolution.

He had a photo session with the labor innovators, persons of merits and officials in commemoration of his visit to the complex.

When the photo session was over, the participants raised the stormy cheers of "Hurrah!" in reflection of their pledge of loyalty to the great Comrade Kim Jong Un who kindled the flames of vigorous struggle at the complex before others to arouse the whole country to attaining the new long-term goal.

Kim Jong Un kept waving back for a long time to the enthusiastically cheering crowds.

Cherishing the unshakable faith that the trust of the Party Central Committee is the life of the complex, the motive power of increased production and leap forward and the guarantee for sure victory and their heavy responsibility on behalf of the times and the revolution, all the workers, technicians and officials of the complex vowed to work more courageously and vigorously to attain the grandiose goal set forth at the Ninth Congress of the Workers' Party of Korea, displaying the redoubled strenuous spirit and power of execution. -0-

www.kcna.kp (2026.03.02.)

Respected Comrade Kim Jong Un's Speech at Sangwon Cement Complex

Pyongyang, March 2 (KCNA) -- The respected Comrade Kim Jong Un made a speech at the Sangwon Cement Complex.

The full text of his speech is as follows:

Comrades,

Reliable workers and officials of the Sangwon Cement Complex, who are a source of pride and strength for the country and its most revolutionary force,

As I saw the Ninth Congress of the Workers' Party of Korea end with success and have to launch a new struggle now, you were the first to come across my mind. I truly wanted in my mind all the time during the Congress, while recollecting the past five-year struggle, to offer my special thanks to you. As I have longed to see you, I am here at your enterprise as the first of my visits after the end of the Congress.

Over the past five years, the period of really great difficulties, you have maintained an invariable attitude in providing faithful support to our Party's resolute choice and made a tangible contribution to its implementation. Your good deeds deserve nationwide publicity and everybody's tribute.

Great records are to be found in each chapter of the chronicles of the past five years when our socialist construction was marked with unprecedented upsurges and transformations. They surely include the unbounded devotion and sincere efforts of you, Sangwon workers, and the whole country should have a deep understanding of this.

At the moment not a few people know the Sangwon cement is excellent, and yet few people know how hard you, Sangwon workers, are working.

Comrades,

Seeing you, enthusiastic and militant workers, here at this moment is good enough for me to feel the high spirit of the powerful working class who are the main driving force of the revolution.

First of all, I would like to offer my tribute to the history of development of the Sangwon Cement Complex that has written wonderful records of loyalty and patriotism alone since it went online, and extend my warmest greetings to all the workers of the complex.

Comrades,

There are a number of large and important enterprises in our country, but none of them has such a group of staunch and militant workers as you, my dear Sangwon workers.

A powerful enterprise which carries out, not by mere words or pledges but through practical production results and increased production, whatever the Party intends or plans to be done, an enterprise that is able to do anything it decides to do--this is the honorable appellation which can be identified in the whole history of the Sangwon Cement Complex spanning over 40 years.

In particular, during the years of the eighth term of the Party Central Committee, the complex strongly supported through practical cement production the Party's plan of achieving remarkable progress and overall upsurge in socialist construction, and opened up the greatest heyday of operation since its inauguration by expanding its production capacity and making ceaseless efforts for increased production.

As a matter of fact, the epochal events that threw the whole country into excitement year by year for the past five years, the time of great changes, were all associated with this complex.

In 2025, the last year in implementing the five-year plan, the Sangwon workers, in hearty response to the militant call of the Party, held up the torch of increased production and injected great vigor into each of the projects for socialist construction, thus doing an outstanding service for a proud review of the fighting tasks set by the Party.

Devoted efforts were made leading to amazing achievements in the grand construction projects that brought about radical changes in the capital city and provinces and to the erection of numerous structures that bring greater wellbeing to the people and serve them as guide to civilization in the new era. What comes to my mind as the most memorable of all the priceless efforts is the unusually hard work of the Sangwon workers.

At the theatres of creation and construction across the country the Sangwon Cement Complex stood not in the rear but in the forefront, and it played the active role of the vanguard, surpassing the mission of supporter.

With the Eighth Party Congress as the starting point, the complex increased its cement production volume to a level that was much higher than what it had ever produced to the maximum, and this was something it could not expect to achieve a decade ago. The complex has since exceeded the peak-year level on an annual basis, helping us move forward step by step with greater confidence and opening up possibilities for successfully carrying out huge projects. This cannot be called otherwise than a heroic exploit.

Thanks to such active support rendered by the workers of the complex, our Party could adopt policies with a view to achieving epochal transformations and expand their scope, and along with the miraculous achievements made in the construction sector, it could expect to see the fruits of the revolution ripening year after year.

Comrades,

The spirit, work style and traditions of Sangwon hold the secret to our development.

Supporting the Party and the country with boundless loyalty, aspiring after unlimited and daring innovation, and consistently prioritizing science and technology--this is the key to the complex’s leaping forward and it is a formula for the increasing production achieved by our workers and also for the development of our times.

Even when they were believed to have reached the final limits that could not be broken, the workers of the complex achieved a new breakthrough for increased production by dint of extraordinary mental power and science.

They are so faithful and sincere that, upon being given a new task for increased production, they understood that the added numbers were an indication of the Party's decision to plan and prepare for another massive transformation; they are so indomitable and creative that they pledged to implement any challenging task unconditionally and carried it out without fail as the country and the revolution required them to do so. Such are the workers at the Sangwon Cement Complex, so the air in Sangwon is always fresh and no enterprise can surpass it in terms of militant efficiency and capability.

In order to successfully carry out the tasks entrusted to them by the Party, all the workers and officials of the complex set increasingly high standards ideologically and spiritually, and in technical and practical terms and work hard to meet them. This is a manifestation of their purest and most intense loyalty to the Party and the state.

Witnessing the reality that the workers here committed themselves to increasing production and their soaring spirit spread across the country to raise fierce flames for a series of new innovations, I was deeply moved and filled with pride in having really excellent workers.

As honorable paragons and precious models of our times, they have taken on the role of the country's eldest sons by themselves to defend the Party and the revolution and advance our cause; their stout spirit and redoubled efforts are a constant source of strength for our Party.

I, on behalf of the Party Central Committee, extend my warm thanks once again to all the workers, technicians and officials of the Sangwon Cement Complex for making effort to achieve continued upsurge and innovations to exalt the great honor of our country and for demonstrating the might of the Korean working class and the mettle of our advancing socialism.

Comrades,

After conducting a great review of our arduous struggle, we have set higher ideals and ambitions for new development and made bigger strides to start our new journey for the future. This journey demands that our working class, the major force of socialist construction, perform a heavier, more important mission.

We have a mountain of bigger and tougher tasks to do for the prosperity and development of our country, for the wellbeing of our people and for the bright future of our younger generations. The Sangwon Cement Complex's pioneering position and role in carrying out these tasks can be said to be absolute.

This is a place that represents the spirit of the indomitable Korean people and embodies the potentials of our country, which is transforming and developing ceaselessly without recognizing any impossibility. Today, as I am here, I have been fully convinced that a new stage of our revolution will be brought to a successful completion, and I have also reconfirmed that the decisive guarantee for it--a powerful driving force of our struggle--has been firmly secured.

The soaring patriotic enthusiasm and mettle for increased production, which the Sangwon workers display in making continuous innovation and advance, will constitute an absolute support for our Party's ideology and cause, and this will be a torch inspiring the whole country to a heroic struggle.

The Party and the government value the Sangwon Cement Complex's production results as the most important strategic index for the development of the state; the more actively this complex supports them and the bigger progress it makes, the greater vitality our struggle will gain.

Workers and officials of the Sangwon Cement Complex,

I believe that you will continue to glorify the honorable history and traditions of Sangwon, which has been a constant source of great strength and reliance for our Party.

Let us all display to the full the Korean people's dauntless spirit and wisdom in the new struggle to add eternal glory to our beloved country and translate the people's long-cherished desires into reality.

I am in firm belief that you, Sangwon workers, will share one purpose with me, as you have done so far, for the prosperity and development of the country.

Thanks to your devotion and efforts, this country will surely advance forward, achieving dynamic transformations day after day, just as before.

I am completely certain of this.

I would like to extend my warm greetings to all of you, Sangwon workers, as I ask you once again to play your due role, which no one else can perform, and work hard for the prosperity and development of the country and for the wellbeing of the people.

I hope that victory and glory are always in store for this admirable enterprise in its sacred struggle as it embodies everything of our heroic working class.

Comrades,

Let us make an all-out effort again for the good of our great country and advance forward vigorously. 

DPRK Foreign Ministry Spokesperson on Israel's Attack on Iran

Pyongyang, March 1 (KCNA) -- A spokesperson for the Foreign Ministry of the DPRK issued the following press statement on Sunday:

Israel's military attack on Iran, launched under the U.S. active support and patronage, and the military action of the U.S. which joined in it are an illegal act of aggression and the most despicable form of violation of sovereignty in their nature from A to Z.

The fact that the U.S military threat to Iran, continued in the region for a long time, would be led to a realistic military invasion has already been within the range of possible prediction, and it is a sure logical result from the U.S. hegemonic and rogue nature.

The DPRK condemns in the strongest tone the shameless rogue act of the U.S. and Israel which put their domestic law before the recognized international law and do not hesitate to abuse military muscle in order to realize their selfish and hegemonic ambition.

The U.S. increased acts for hegemony witnessed by the international community this year are a positive example to show their destructive role destroying global peace and stability and its grave consequences.

The tyranny's high-handed and arbitrary practices which do not face powerful counteraction and adequate resistance, make those countries directly related to the regional situation pay dear price and give rise to concern that they may have a negative effect, which can not be disregarded politically, economically and geopolitically, on the region which has no connection with the present Iranian situation.

The world highlights again the history in which the U.S. destroyed peace in the Middle East for its hegemonic interests decades ago but met with the geopolitical failure and strategic setback after all.

The war of aggression by the U.S. and Israel, which can never be justified with anything, can never be tolerated in any case.

The relevant and interested parties in the region would be well advised to correctly grasp the essence of the offenders who chose aggression and war under the pretext of fake peace, and to fulfill their due responsibility in switching the situational trend in the Middle East back to peace and stability. -0-

www.kcna.kp (2026.03.01.)