Second Meeting of Ninth WPK Central Military Commission Held

Pyongyang, August 30 (KCNA) -- The Second Meeting of the Ninth Central Military Commission of the Workers' Party of Korea was held on August 29.

Respected Comrade Kim Jong Un, General Secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea, Chairman of the Central Military Commission of the Workers' Party of Korea and President of the State Affairs of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, guided the meeting.

Present at the meeting were members of the WPK Central Military Commission.

The meeting heard the appraisal of the recent political and military activities of the Korean People's Army Committee of the WPK and the Ministry of National Defence of the DPRK and discussed a series of structural reorganization plans for the improvement and development of the future overall defence affairs.

The meeting discussed the organizational matter.

The Political Bureau of the WPK Central Committee approved by-election of Pak Jong Chon, advisor to the Ministry of National Defence of the DPRK, as a member of the WPK Central Committee and a member of the Political Bureau of the WPK Central Committee, Yu Kwang U, director of the Security Bureau of the Korean People's Army, as a member of the Political Bureau of the WPK Central Committee, and Om Ju Ho, political commissar of the KPA Air Force, as a member of the WPK Central Committee.

The WPK Central Military Commission decided as follows after deliberating the change of position of the military commanding officers for key posts and receiving ratification of the Political Bureau of the WPK Central Committee:

Pak Jong Chon, advisor to the Ministry of National Defence of the DPRK, was by-elected as vice-chairman of the Central Military Commission of the WPK.

No Kwang Chol, minister of National Defence of the DPRK, was dismissed and recalled from the Party central leadership and appointed as first vice-director of the Munitions Industry Department of the WPK Central Committee.

Kim Song Gi, director of the General Political Bureau of the Korean People's Army, was appointed as minister of National Defence of the DPRK.

Yu Kwang U, director of the Security Bureau of the Korean People's Army, was appointed as first vice-director of the General Political Bureau of the KPA, and Om Ju Ho, political commissar of the KPA Air Force, as director of the Security Bureau of the KPA.

The WPK Central Military Commission expressed expectation and conviction that the major commanding officers starting their work in the new posts would firmly arm themselves with the Party's idea of building a strong army and responsibly fulfill their role through boundless devotion and extraordinarily high activity in implementing the Party's military lines and policies. -0-

Respected Comrade Kim Jong Un Awards State Commendation to Distinguished Contributors to Bolstering Up Defence Capabilities

Pyongyang, August 30 (KCNA) -- Respected Comrade 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, met and congratulated the scientists, researchers and officials of major defence research institutions, who made a great contribution to resolving scientific and technological problems of epochal significance in developing new combat weapon systems and improving their performance and to putting the military and technical strength of national armed forces on a higher level, at the headquarters of the Party Central Committee on August 29.

Present there were Jo Chun Ryong, secretary of the Central Committee of the WPK, and Kim Jong Sik, first vice department director of the Central Committee of the WPK.

True to the policy of modernizing the armed forces set forth at the historic Ninth Congress of the Party, the defence science research sector has recently developed exclusive technologies, to be regarded as an event in strengthening the capability for fighting a war and the deterrence, thus fully demonstrating again the course of unique development of the country's military and technological capabilities.

Comrade Kim Jong Un read out a decree of the Standing Committee of the Supreme People's Assembly of the DPRK on awarding state commendations to those who made distinguished contributions to bolstering up the defence capabilities, and personally conferred the title of DPRK Hero and Gold Star Medal and Order of National Flag First Class and Order of Kim Il Sung on a scientist, researcher and official.

Highly appreciating the recent exclusive innovative military sci-tech achievements, made and introduced in the defence science research field, as a great revolution that opened up a sure prospect for radically improving the modernity of our army's combat weapon systems, Comrade Kim Jong Un paid high tribute on behalf of the DPRK government to the national defence science research group for its boundless efforts, patriotic devotion and heroic contribution.

The defence scientists displaying boundless loyalty to the Party and the revolution, the country and its people and unlimited creativity to guarantee the strength and prestige of our state with matchless sci-tech power are the greatest patriots and heroes, he said, stating that our Republic is invariably preserving the high prestige and glory of invincibility thanks to the great role of the defence science research group who has always perfectly implemented the military strategic policies of the Party Central Committee.

Expressing expectation and belief that the excellent defence scientist research group would bolster up the arms of the self-defensive power in a more overwhelming and stronger manner for the great state and people, he had a photo session with them.

The defence scientists, researchers and officials, given the highest honor by the country and its people, pledged to remain true to the sacred responsibility and duty they have assumed before the Party and the revolution by further striving to attain the higher goals of strengthening the national defence capability, faithfully upholding the far-reaching intentions of Comrade Kim Jong Un with single-minded unity and loyalty. -0

 

The August Factional Incident 70 years on -special article by Dr Dermot Hudson

70 years ago on the 30th of August 1956  a plot to overthrow the leadership of the Korean revolution and overthrow the socialist system in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea was uncovered, exposed and smashed . There is much misinformation and misunderstanding about these events which are referred by the imperialists as “the August factional incident “ .Even some on the Left and some supposed self-styled anti-revisionists lack a correct understanding of what actually happened .

What happened 70 years ago was that anti-party counter-revolutionary factionalists in the Workers Party of Korea who had the backing of big powers but  also the US imperialists  and south Korean puppet reactionaries tried to overthrow the leadership of the WPK headed by President KIM IL SUNG and bring in revisionism and capitalism . Recently the reptile media of the fascist puppet regime of south Korea lamented the failure of the 1956 August factional coup d etat saying “North Korea could have become a socialist state akin to Hungary and eventually transitioned to a fully liberalized society following the Soviet collapse.” Of course Hungary ,which I visited myself twice in the 1980s ,was once of the worst examples of revisionism in the socialist camp with its McDonalds and designer shops plus Madonna and Rambo posters openly on sale . The DPRK would not have become a so-called “ fully liberalised “ society but would have been simply annexed by the Republic of Korea(south Korea) and colonised just like the former German Democratic Republic was .

Factionalism which is essentially a reflection of bourgeois ideology and is based on individualism and careerism . It had a long history in Korea  during the 1920s the factionalists such as the Tuesday Group and ML Group wrecked the infant Korean Communist Party and caused it to be dissolved by the Comintern.

 After liberation in 1945 the factionalists found their way back to Korea and took up positions  in the Workers Party of Korea and the people’s government , biding their time , waiting for the opportunity to cause trouble .It was during the fierce Fatherland Liberation War against the US imperialist aggressors that the factionalists first showed their hand and their true nature .The Pak Hon Yong-Li Sung Yop spy clique who were agents of the US imperialist Central Intelligence Agency were exposed at a Plenary meeting of the Central Committee of the WPK. Pak Hon Yong had degenerated into a spy of the Japanese imperialists and US imperialists even before liberation .The  Pak Hon Yong-Li Sung Yop counter-revolutionary factionalists betrayed the country , caused losses in the war and  planned to overthrow the leadership. The great revolutionary leader  Marshal KIM IL SUNG smashed them and saved the DPRK from being sold out to US imperialism and turned into a colony of the US.

The WPK launched its struggle against modern revisionism in 1955. Modern revisionism had appeared in the international communist movement in the mid 50s after the demise of JV Stalin . The WPK saw the struggle against modern revisionism as being very closely tied up to the struggle to defend independence and to avoid copying other countries, or in, other words, to establish Juche. .

As Comrade KIM IL SUNG said:

"In 1955, therefore, our Party set forth the definite policy of establishing Juche, and has been persistently urging an energetic ideological struggle to carry it through ever since. The year 1955 marked a turning point in our Party's consistent struggle against dogmatism. It was also at that time, in fact, that we started our struggle against modern revisionism that had emerged within the socialist camp. Our struggle against dogmatism was thus linked up with the struggle against modern revisionism".

Comrade KIM IL SUNG in his famous and celebrated work 'On Eliminating Dogmatism and Formalism and Establishing Juche in Ideological Work' (December 28, 1955), pointed out that a faction within the WPK, on returning from a visit to the Soviet Union, had demanded that Korea should drop its slogan against US imperialism on the grounds the USSR was following the line of easing international tension. This was an early manifestation of attempts by factionalists within the WPK to spread revisionism.

It was in 1956 that things reached a very critical stage. Khrushchev had made his speech to the 20th Congress of the CPSU heralding the onset of modern revisionism (revisionists surfaced in a number of parties and tried to destroy them, for example, the CPGB) and the imperialists launched a fierce international anti-Communist campaign. Within Korea, the fascist Syngman Rhee puppet regime went wild, talking of a 'March North'. The DPRK had only just completed the post-war reconstruction and rehabilitation of the economy after the devastation caused by the war. The factionalists who had been lurking in the WPK seized the chance to try and overthrow the leadership with the backing of outside revisionists. Indeed the CPSU fraternal delegate to the 3rd Congress of the WPK (who was none other than a certain L. I. Brezhnev) made a veiled attack on the WPK leadership .Soviet and Chinese leaders visited the DPRK to put pressure on the DPRK . All the old factions combined , both 'pro-Soviet' and 'pro Chinese' . They were united by nothing else than a desire to seize power and to make People's Korea dependent on other countries.

Events came to a head in August 1956, when the factionalists tried to stage their coup under the manipulation of the great power chauvinists and revisionists. Their aim was to deny the Party's leadership role and paralyze the dictatorship of the proletariat by elevating the Supreme People’s Assembly over the party and making the Korean People’s Army an “army of the united front “ rather than an army of the party. The factionalists also wished to stamp out the revolutionary conditions of the WPK forged in the flames of the anti-Japanese armed struggle. They even intended to turn the DPRK pro-American bourgeois republic . However, Comrade KIM IL SUNG led the people to smash the anti-Party counter-revolutionary factional clique. The WPK launched internally an anti-factional, anti-revisionist struggle. Comrade KIM IL SUNG attacked factionalism and revisionism at a Party Conference on March 6 1958. Referring to factionalism, he said:

"No faction is better or worse than any other. All come from the same mould; they are all products of capitalist influence in the working class movement. And they are a poison that destroys our Party and the working class movement in Korea".

Indeed the struggle against factionalism was not only an-anti-revisionist struggle but a class struggle as well as a struggle to maintain the independence of Korea.

In the struggle against factionalism , President KIM IL SUNG had the unswerving support of the people who hated the traitors . When President KIM IL SUNG visited the then Kangson Steel Plant in December 1956 angry steelworkers said they would throw the factionalists into the electric furnace .An old lady  in Thaesong Village told Comrade KIM IL SUNG; “Premier, after all, it’s we who will win, and not the factionalist rogues, you see? Don’t worry. We support you.”

Some of the factionalist traitors fled to the revisionist USSR  and to China. When the USSR finally collapsed in 1991 , some of the factionalists who had lived in the USSR  became agents of the south Korean puppet regime , a sorry end indeed but its just goes to show where revisionists and liberals end up !

As President KIM IL SUNG wrote in his autobiographical reminiscences “With The Century “ "Traitors to the revolution also appeared during socialist construction in our country after the war. Choe Chang Ik, Yun Kong Hum, Ri Phil Gyu and others attempted to place obstacles in the way of our people’s forward movement. Having failed to realize their factional scheme, they chose to betray the Party and their motherland. As they dropped away, our revolution made a fresh upsurge and ushered in the era of Chollima. Since then the world has called our country Chollima Korea”

Had the August 1956 factionalist traitors not been defeated the DPRK would not exist today , it as simple as that . By establishing Juche  , by defeating the factionalists and flunkeys and the revisionists  the WPK under the guidance of President KIM IL SUNG and Chairman KIM JONG IL  was able to build an independent power , a socialist paradise , a state that is independent , self-sufficient and self -defensive . The DPRK not only industrialised and improved living standards but became a nuclear power of Juche and an ICBM power .Thanks to the smashing of the factionalists in 1956 the DPRK became the best ever socialist country .

Dr Dermot Hudson

Chairman British Group For the Study of the Juche Idea

Chairman Korean Friendship Association UK

Hon secretary general Global Farmy Study Group For KIM JONG UN’s People-First Policies 

On the 160th anniversary of the sinking of the US Pirate ship the "General Sherman "

 BRITISH GROUP FOR THE STUDY OF THE JUCHE IDEA 

 email juche007@yahoo.co.uk

                                           29th of August 2026
The British Group For the Study of the Juche Idea and Korean Friendship Association of the UK (KFA UK ) issued the following joint statement on the 160th  anniversary of the sinking of the US pirate ship the "General Sherman ":
   

 It is a 160 years since the patriotic people of Pyongyang led by Kim Ung U , the great grandfather of the great leader President KIM IL SUNG,sunk the US pirate aggressor ship "The General Sherman "on the River Taedong.This was a just patriotic act to repel the invasion of the US imperialists.The "General Sherman "had sailed up the River Taedong with the aim of looting and plundering Pyongyang but the heroic struggle of the people led by Kim Ung U thwarted the imperialist Yankees in their tracks.
   The intrusion of the "The General Sherman " into Korea was the precursor for over a 100 years of US aggression against Korea and her people. The US imperialists have divided Korea and turned south Korea into their complete colony . The US imperialists are oblivious to the fate of the "General Sherman" and continue to try and threaten People's Korea . The US should learn from the fate of the "General Sherman " and end their hostile policy towards the DPRK .

BGSJI

KFA UK

Youth Movement in Heyday

 2026.8.28.

http://www.mfa.gov.kp/view/article/24924

August 28 is the Youth Day.

On this occasion, all the people across the country warmly congratulate our reliable young people who are writing a new heroic chapter in the course of development of Korean youth movement by working miracles and innovations in the sites of socialist construction.

Our young people always stand in the van of a vigorous struggle for victorious advance of the socialist cause and the national prosperity and mightiness by dint of patriotic unity around the Party.

At the outset of the new century, respected Comrade Kim Jong Un said that the prosperous future will be brought earlier by dint of the dynamic advance of the young people. He then brought about the heyday of the Korean youth movement.

Comrade Kim Jong Un set it as a permanent strategic line of our revolution to give priority to youth. Under his leadership, young people of Korea are growing up into the reliable successors of the dignified Workers’ Party of Korea and masters of our socialist country capable of shouldering her future.

With a firm belief in their competence, Comrade Kim Jong Un entrusted major construction projects to them and instilled the ardent love for socialism, patriotic passion as well as the spirit of at-a-go into the hearts of our young people.

Inspired by his love and trust, our young people are displaying loyalty to the motherland, sincerity to the collective and society and indomitable spirit characteristic of them in the determined struggle to implement the Party ’s plans for building a socialist power.

Such an army of revolutionary patriotic youth is the source of pride and dignity for our Party and people.

With the loyal and patriotic youth incarnating noble patriotism and relentless spirit of pioneering and charging forward, a brighter future lies in store for our prosperous powerful country.

DPRK Government Adjusts Diplomatic Relations with UK to the Level of Chargé d'affaires

http://www.mfa.gov.kp/view/article/24929
2026.8.28.
The UK government committed a political provocation of including the Songdowon International Children’s Camp on the list of sanctions against Russia on an unfair and groundless excuse in May.

In this regard, the government of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea took action to lower the level of diplomatic relations with the UK to that of chargé d'affaires, as a part of the former’s diplomatic countermeasure it announced earlier.

Recalled DPRK ambassador to the UK will be transferred to another duty.

From Voice of Korea-Deep Trust

 From Voice of Korea.

http://vok.rep.kp/index.php/detail_com/scomde/iee260713003/39/en

Deep Trust

  The magnificent and modern Jonwi Street is at the northern gateway to Pyongyang, the capital of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.

  It is a large architectural group of the iconic 80-storey apartment house and other high-rise and super-high-rise apartment houses of diverse styles and public buildings. It was built by young people only in one year's time.

  On February 25, 2023, the respected fatherly Marshal Kim Jong Un gave the young people a huge task of building a new street.

  Coming out to the venue of groundbreaking ceremony, he broke ground first to signal the start of the project and gave strength and courage to the young people, saying they should become performers of feats and victors in the capital city construction.

  That day, he ardently called for struggling courageously for the great honour of the Korean youth, for the eternal prosperity of our socialist state and our capital city of Pyongyang before awarding the flag of the Paektusan Hero Youth Shock Brigade.

  Looking at the reliable and presentable young people at the venue of the groundbreaking ceremony, he said they will have the youthful pride and honour of having shed precious sweat for the capital city construction just like the generations of their grandfathers and grandmothers, fathers and mothers and they will record in their autobiography the stories about their merits, in which they can be proud of their capital city, their Pyongyang.

  His trust served as the motive force that enabled the young people to fully display their spirit and valour in the construction of the new street.

  Encouraged by his love and trust, the young people could wonderfully complete the huge project of building Jonwi Street in a short period.

  Lecturer Kim Hui Yon at the Korean Revolution Museum said Marshal Kim Jong Un participated in the inaugural ceremony of the new street and spoke highly of merits of the young people, and continued:

  "On May 14, 2024, the fatherly Marshal Kim Jong Un took part in the inaugural ceremony of Jonwi Street, met the young innovators who performed labour feats in the construction of the street and highly appreciated their efforts. 

  He said it is the greatest pride incomparable to anything for the party making a revolution to have its reliable successors and reserves. Certain is the victory of the cause of building a powerful socialist country thanks to the large contingent of the passionate young people who are faithful to the call of the country and to the society and collective and devoting themselves to the future."

  The deep trust of Marshal Kim Jong Un in the young people represents his profound intention to train them as vanguard fighters and genuine successors to the revolution who would powerfully shoulder the revolution.