Respected Comrade Kim Jong Un Sends Greetings to Lao President

Pyongyang, March 22 (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, sent a message of greeting to Thongloun Sisoulith, general secretary of the Central Committee of the Lao People's Revolutionary Party and president of the Lao People's Democratic Republic, on March 22.

The message said:

I extend warm congratulations and comradely greetings to you and, through you, to the Central Committee of the Lao People's Revolutionary Party and all the Party members on the occasion of the 71st founding anniversary of the LPRP.

The founding of the LPRP, a historic event of important significance in carving out the destiny of the Lao people, provided a turning point in the struggle to abolish the colonial rule of foreign forces and establish the people's democratic system.

I hope that the Lao people will make a fresh step forward in attaining the goal of building a state towards socialism by thoroughly implementing the decisions of the Twelfth Congress of the LPRP under the leadership of the Party headed by you.

Expressing belief that the friendly and cooperative relations between our two parties and two countries will grow stronger in conformity with the spirit of the agreement reached at our meeting in Pyongyang in October last year, I wish you good health and bigger success in your responsible work. -0-

www.kcna.kp (2026.03.22.)

The Day when People’s Korea Abolished taxes and cut prices

 

One spring day on the 21st of March 1974   some 52 years ago ,the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) passed the Law on the Abolition of Taxation which declared ;

 “1. The tax system, a vestige of the old society, shall be abolished completely,

2. The Administration Council of the DPRK shall take measures to implement this law, and

3. The law shall be effective from April 1, 1974”

The agricultural tax in kind ,which was paid by farmers ,had already been abolished in the period 1964-1966 . It had been decided at the  4th Congress of the Workers Party of Korea in 1961 to abolish taxation . As the share of taxation in state revenue dwindled to only 2 per cent , the abolition of taxation in the DPRK became the order of the day . President KIM IL SUNG said that 

" To abolish the tax system is a revolution to free the working people from these vestiges and a great change to meet the centuries-old desire of the people.

The system of taxation which came into being with the emergence of the state, has been used in a class society for thousands of years as a means of preserving the ruling machine of the governing classes and plundering the working people."

Thus the DPRK ended taxes on the incomes of working people at one stroke . Nowadays in the UK taxes rise all the time , particularly council tax . My council tax has increased by 62 per cent over the last 10 years .

Not only did the DPRK abolish taxes , something truly  remarkable in itself but it also cut prices at the same time time . The prices of some 21,800 kinds of manufactured goods  were reduced by 30 per cent on average and 50 per cent at the maximum . This was truly amazing and phenomenal . Both the abolition of taxation and the reduction of prices gave the Korean people huge monetary benefits . The living standards of the Korean people improved greatly .

 In Britain where prices are going up all the time and there is talk of higher energy and higher food prices therefore  the idea of reducing prices by up 50 per cent seems  quite unthinkable but in People’s Korea with its Juche-based ,independent , socialist planned economy  it became a reality ,not a distant dream .

With regard to the abolition of taxation President KIM IL SUNG said

 “ The abolition of the tax system in our country is the brilliant victory of the great Juche idea as well as a demonstration of the incomparable advantages of our socialist system which is the embodiment of the Juche idea and the great capability of our socialist independent national economy.

Thanks to the immortal Juche idea and its brilliant victory, our people are being provided with a richer, independent and creative life in the socialist land of happiness, where there is no exploitation, oppression or taxation”

This sums up the great significance of the abolition of taxation in People’s Korea.

 Indeed People’s Korea is a tax free socialist paradise !

Long live People’s Korea !

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

Immutable Ideas of WPK (3)

Self-reliance - Powerful Weapon for Development and Prosperity

Pyongyang, March 20 (KCNA) -- Self-reliance, the tradition of the Korean revolution and the driving force for building a powerful socialist country, is the political line of the Workers' Party of Korea which builds a socialist paradise thriving in Korean style with reliance on the foundations of self-sustenance and potentials.

The WPK has set self-reliance as an invariable political line, to be consistently adhered to, after formulating it as the fundamental orientation and mode of development of socialist construction, not as a temporary measure to meet the demand of changing situation or overcome the difficulties standing in the way of its advance.

It is our Party's firm belief that we can successfully attain any goal and put our style socialism onto a higher stage of development as there are the solid foundations of the self-supporting economy and our people's revolutionary spirit of self-sustenance.

Thanks to this unshakable faith and will of the WPK, our people's revolutionary spirit of self-sustenance has been steadily cultivated and, accordingly, the five-year plan for national economic development, set forth at the Eighth Congress of the WPK, was fulfilled in the main. And the country's foundation for prosperity by dint of self-reliance has been further consolidated, as evidenced by the fact that the regions, which account for one-fifth of the country, came to have a solid foundation for their independent development until last year along with the second inauguration season of the execution of the regional development policy.

Remarkable changes were also made in bolstering up the country's defence capabilities over the past five years, thanks to the steady progress of the independent defence industry reliably supporting the inexhaustible strong power of the armed forces of the DPRK.

Under the leadership of the WPK which has regarded self-reliance as its lifeline, our strength of overcoming any difficulties with our own efforts has been remarkably augmented and the confidence in it further redoubled. This is a precious spiritual and material asset incomparable with anything else.

The DPRK people are now full of enthusiasm and will to create great changes in the coming five years that surpass the miracles performed in the past five years, true to the WPK's idea of self-reliance.

Invincible is the cause of the WPK invariably upholding the noble ideas of "The people are God", single-hearted unity and self-reliance as the banner of struggle and advance. -0-

www.kcna.kp (2026.03.20.)

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Immutable Ideas of WPK (2)

Mainstay of Korean Revolution - Single-hearted Unity

Pyongyang, March 18 (KCNA) -- Single-hearted unity, the mainstay of the Korean revolution and an invincible weapon, is the revolutionary philosophy of the Workers' Party of Korea that is accelerating the comprehensive development of socialism by dint of one ideology and will and noble moral obligation.

The single-hearted unity of the Korean people rallied around the Party is the cornerstone of Korean-style socialism.

The past five years were a period when the unity and creativity of the masses were oriented to the triumphant conclusion of the first stage struggle for pioneering and transformation of the comprehensive development of socialism under the leadership of the Party holding aloft the banner of single-hearted unity.

By giving priority to the ideological work, the WPK has made the masses understand the truth and validity of its policies and turn out in implementing them, and kindled the flames of the socialist patriotic movement, revolutionary mass movement, to bring about a steady upsurge in the overall socialist construction by dint of unity based on one ideology and will.

Amid the remarkably growing enthusiasm to work new miracles and create new records, many people and youths volunteered for major worksites of socialist construction in response to the call of the Party.

Last year alone, the workers of the Sangwon Cement Complex kindled the torch for miraculous increased production to glorify 2025 as an eventful year of perfectly implementing the decisions of the Eighth Congress of the WPK and a year of change pioneering the upward trend towards a new stage of development. It burst into the flames of mass innovation movement throughout the country and, as a result, proud successes were achieved in all fields of socialist construction.

In those days the single-hearted unity reached the highest level and a new trend of the comprehensive development of socialism was pioneered.

The undertakings to realize the long-cherished desire, which were thought to be realized in the distant future, have been translated into reality of the present times. It is a powerful proof of the viability of the idea of the single-hearted unity upheld by our Party.

Over the past five years the Korean people have cherished the firm faith that the Party's policies are the absolute truth and the guarantee for accelerating the comprehensive development of socialism lies in implementing the Party's policies. -0-

www.kcna.kp (2026.03.18.)

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KCNA Commentary on Expanded Japanese Munitions Industry

Pyongyang, March 20 (KCNA) -- The militarist entity of Japan, which has completely removed its veil of "exclusive defense", is openly coming out to the world.

Recently, the Liberal Democratic Party and the Restoration Party of Japan reportedly submitted to the prime minister a proposal on lifting in a principled way the ban on the export of all its weapons and equipment including lethal weapons.

The details of the proposal call for removing the five principles of the past that have limited Japan's equipment export to "disaster relief, transportation, guard, surveillance and clearing".

It is reported that if the proposal is formally passed through the prime minister, an issue of revising the system of arms export will be discussed even in the spring this year.

If this turns into a reality, Japan will be allowed to export fighters, escort ships, submarines and other lethal weapons and equipment to the countries with which it has signed an agreement on the export of "defense equipment" and the transfer of technology.

Japan has so far concluded the agreement with 17 countries and several Asia-Pacific countries are among them.

What should not be overlooked is that Japan is trying to remove the brake that it set as the principle not to transfer even non-lethal equipment to the dispute parties in the past.

This will legally allow Japan to export and support the lethal weapons to the "fellow country" where armed conflict broke out.

Militarist Japan's intention has become far too emboldened.

Dangerous and sinister intention is behind Japan's attempt to openly export the offensive lethal weapons to the countries with which it has signed the agreement on the export of the "defense equipment" and the transfer of technology.

Japan is drastically increasing its military expenditure every year and getting hell-bent on the development and introduction of various kinds of offensive weapons.

Based on this, the Japanese munitions industry, which has been limited to the delivery of military equipment to the "Self-Defense Forces", is expanding day by day to demand a new outlet and, thereby, is trying to advance to the hot spots of the world to meet its demand.

At the same time, Japan is trying to verify and confirm in a versatile way the advantages and disadvantages of its military hardware including the ability to operate in real war and the lethal effect in different parts of the world and rapidly increase the preemptive attack capability of the island country by rapidly updating the weapon systems.

Japan's moves to export massive offensive lethal weapons are a grave challenge to global peace and security.

This will certainly cause a serious arms race among the countries in the surrounding region, escalate the geopolitical crisis and, furthermore, make the world situation more unstable.

It is the intention of Japan to turn its economy into the one based on huge munitions industry as soon as possible and accelerate the militarization by relying on it and, at the same time, create a favorable environment for reinvasion by creating an imbalance of strength in the region and the world.

Japan should clearly understand. The road of reinvasion, which the war criminal state is trying to open up as a new outlet for arms export, will lead it to the irreversible ruin. -0-

www.kcna.kp (2026.03.20.)

Respected Comrade Kim Jong Un Oversees Coordinated Offensive Tactical Drill of Infantrymen and Tankmen's Sub-units

Pyongyang, March 20 (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, visited the Pyongyang Training Base No. 60 under the Capital City Defence Corps of the Korean People's Army on March 19 to oversee a coordinated offensive tactical drill of infantrymen and tankmen's sub-units.

The respected Comrade Kim Jong Un was greeted on the spot by No Kwang Chol, minister of National Defence of the DPRK, Ri Yong Gil, chief of the KPA General Staff, Kim Song Gi, director of the KPA General Political Bureau, Kim Jong Sik, first vice department director of the WPK Central Committee, and major commanding officers of the KPA.

The tactical drill was aimed at getting familiar with the coordinated order and combat methods in the tactical sub-units' offensive action to expand successes in their attack through an assault of tanks and infantrymen after striking, raiding and occupying the enemy's anti-armor defence line.

Involved in the drill were a company of the cavalry regiment, main armored unit belonging to the reserve operational group of the General Staff, and special operations sub-units.

When the tactical drill was launched, various kinds of attack drones struck the enemy's commanding base and anti-armor firing positions on the basis of real-time reconnaissance data.

Anti-tank missiles of an armored car sub-unit hit targets in salvo under the tactical fire support against the unexpectedly-emerging armored defence means of the enemy.

The rear strike sub-units destroyed the enemy drones and armed helicopters from their ambush position and then raided and occupied the enemy's anti-armor defence line and firing positions to provide the conditions for attack by the tanks and infantrymen.

There took place a demonstration charge by the tank company of the cavalry regiment equipped with new-type main battle tanks.

Through the drill, its aim was attained to confirm the tankmen's capabilities for an actual war and each sub-unit's combat cooperation and action methods according to different tactical missions.

Kim Jong Un said that he came to clearly recognize that the principle of intensifying practical trainings under the simulated conditions of an actual war has been adhered to recently in the training of tactical units, too, while seeing all sub-units in the drill share real-time information and ensure the unity of combat cooperation and action under various unexpected and extremely difficult combat situations to break through the enemy's strong anti-armor defence line by means of powerful strike, prompt raid and occupation and high mobility.

Watching with great pleasure the tanks violently make a charge, shaking the earth, he expressed satisfaction that the majestic scene of tanks imposingly advancing forward represents the inherent bravery and pluck of our army.

Saying that the new-type main battle tank, which made its debut to demonstrate the amazing combat efficiency again, is very superior, he added this is unequalled in the world in its striking power and mobility and, especially, self-defence capacity. Our army will be equipped with such most powerful tanks, he said with pride.

That day, there were various tests for examining the new-type main battle tank's active protection system.

The tank intercepted 100 percent anti-tank missiles and drones attacking it from different positions and directions to clearly prove the efficiency of its superior active protection system.

Acquainting himself again with its combat performance after the tactical drill was over, Kim Jong Un said:

"We have attained great successes and progress in modernizing the tank-building industry.

This new-type main battle tank, a proud fruit of the strategic plan the Party Central Committee worked out and has resolutely pressed ahead with for the second revolution in the armored forces, encapsulates our-style technology of armored weapon system.

The development of the tank's core technology, to which we directed special efforts, has taken seven years.

The Party Central Committee, through the role of its guidance team, and the Academy of Defence Science, through its correct specialist guidance, have opened a brighter prospect for the tank-building industry.

The armor structure and power system designs, integrated automatic remote-controlled strike system, electronic warfare complex, guided missile and active self-defensive system have remarkably improved. All the components of this tank are completely suitable for ensuring its powerful striking capability, improving its survivability and providing convenience for the service by its crew.

In developing this tank, we have attached special importance to improving the rate of its survival.

Applied to this tank are various special technologies developed for improving its survival rate, and it is equipped with a mobile self-defensive complex capable of reliably destroying such attacking air targets as different kinds of anti-tank guided missiles and UAVs at a high level of precision through a system of detecting threats from all directions. Therefore, I am sure that no armored weapon with as strong self-defensive capability as that of this tank exists in the world.

In particular, it is a great change that our armored forces that were ineffective during night operations have completely overcome their combat limitations.

The combat performance of our main battle tank is incomparably superior.

From now on, our ground forces will be equipped with these superior tanks extensively, and our armored forces developed onto a higher stage."

He stressed, in particular, that it is important to pay careful attention to the issue of steadily improving the main battle tank's performance so that it can hold a leading position and make good use of its combat value in the battle fields in conformity with the trend of ever-developing modern warfare.

Highly appreciating that all the drills have been recently switched into the ones with scientific and practical forms and methods for an actual war, he said that our army units at all levels should achieve rapid successes in completing war preparations by giving full play to the soaring spirit without letup.

As he has repeatedly stressed, the People's Army should organize training for an actual war and training competitions aimed to improve the combat efficiency, more intensively and more frequently, so that it can swiftly and exactly perform any combat missions under different situations in contingency, he said. He called for taking a revolutionary measure to further intensify the training revolution.

Commanding officers of the KPA and the combatants involved in the tactical drill pledged to achieve proud successes in perfecting combat preparations and unsparingly dedicate their sweat and efforts to increasing the combat power and thus remain loyal to Kim Jong Un who left his immortal and sacred imprints in the training ground to bestow great honor upon them and inspire their high spirit and added to the militant will and matchless bravery of the People's Army. -0-

www.kcna.kp (2026.03.20.)

Answering the “Critique of Juche” by the so-called “6 Heads Study Group “.

Recently , ultra leftists and dogmatists on Twitter in their campaign against People’s Korea and the Juche Idea shared an old article from the “Six Heads Study Group “ titled “ Critique of Juche “.  The Six Heads Study Group seems to have become inactive some time after 2021Time does not permit a full refutation of this garbled nonsense but  we will confine ourselves to several points ;

Firstly , the “Six Heads Study Group “ assert that “Juche Ideology is anti Materialist”. This is false because the Juche idea authored by President KIM IL SUNG and developed in depth by Chairman KIM JONG IL takes dialectical materialism as its premise . It virtually goes without saying that Juche is materialist because it rejects the concept of a special being existing outside time and space determining the destiny of man .

In effort to prove their arguments , the Six Heads Study Group resort to dishonest trickery and intellectual sleight of hand . They present a quotation from Chairman KIM JONG IL’s “On the Juche Idea “(published in 1982 )but in fact they have chopped up several paragraphs of the work and then put them in a garbled and distorted form to prove their arguments .

In fact Chairman KIM JONG IL in his work “On the Juche Idea “  refers to man as the “most developed material being “ and “man who is the highest-developed product in the material world”.

In an earlier work titled “On Some Questions In Understanding  The Juche Philosophy “ ,(1974) comrade KIM JONG IL strongly rejected the notion that Juche is a “ human philosophy “ and stresses the fundamental differences between Juche and the school of human philosophy . Comrade KIM JONG IL wrote that “ As you see, the Juche philosophy made it clear that man is the master and dominator of the world ; it does not assert that the material world itself is centred on man “ Furthermore comrade KIM JONG IL pointed out that “Man is indisputably  material  being “ 

Thus it is nonsense to suggest that Juche is anti-materialist . Indeed it is the Six Heads Study Group who are rejecting materialism by seeing man as being separate from the rest of the world.

Secondly , they claim that Juche is “anti-dialectical “ . However as stated above  Juche takes dialectical materialism as its premise . It does not see the world is something that does not change . Moreover it sees everything is inter-connected . Juche merely asserts correctly that because of the conscious agency of man socio-historical laws are different to those in nature .

Thirdly , slightly different to other ultra-leftist and “Maoist “ critics of Juche , they claim that Juche distorts class struggle whereas other ultra leftists go as far to claim that the DPRK “abandoned class struggle under socialism “, of course this has been refuted many time . However their argument about the distortion of class struggle in the DPRK reveals that their understanding of the DPRK and Juche to be very garbled and confused . Thus they muddle the line of revolutionization and working classizising society that was laid down by President KIM IL SUNG in the 1960s with the remoulding of small capitalist traders during the period of socialist transformation during the mid and late 1950s . These are two different things .In fact the line of revolutionizing and working classsizing the whole society is a true revolutionary line for liquidating the last vestiges of exploiter society and achieving communism by assimilating the whole society into the working class and revolutionizing them . The Six Heads people basically regurgitate previous ultra-left arguments about class struggle and socialist transformation . Like the other ultra leftists they ignore (or were probably actually ignorant of ) the sharp intense class struggles that took place in People’s Korea during the 1940s . Moreover the Fatherland Liberation War against the US imperialists was itself a class struggle against the enemies of the people.

Finally , the  Six Heads Study group actually dismiss and distort the sharp struggle against revisionism , factionalism and class enemies in the DPRK as the “suppression of criticism “  What happened was that in August 1956 that different factions -pro Soviet ,pro-Chinese combined together and tried to carry out a coup against the leadership of the Workers Party of Korea 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. They 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 proclaim Korea a pro-American 'neutral nation'. 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".

 As to Kim Du Bong who is being praised by some . he had in fact advocated placing the Presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly higher the Workers Party of Korea ,basically overturning the leading role of the Party and the dictatorship of proletariat , a clear cut revisionist anti-socialist position. As to the so-called Yanan faction , the pro China flunkeys , in reality they had their origins not in the Chinese Communist Party but in the bourgeois KMT !

By criticising the DPRK and WPK anti-revisionist and anti-factional struggle the Six Heads Study Group reveal themselves as bourgeois liberals (not anti-revisionists ) and are repeating imperialist and bourgeois narratives . 

To conclude the Six Heads Study Group so-called critique of Juche is indeed shameful and counter-revolutionary . Probably the Six Heads Study Group no longer exists because its leaders have run off to well paid bourgeois jobs !