Leading the Development of the Armed Forces of Juche Korea -special article for the anniversary of the award of the title of Marshal to respected comrade KIM JONG UN

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On the 17th of July 2012 the Political Bureau of the Workers Party of Korea awarded the title of Marshal to dear respected comrade KIM JONG UN , this was not a mere honorific title but fully reflected the role of comrade KIM JONG UN in commanding ,building and developing the revolutionary armed forces of People’s Korea.

The question of building up the armed forces is a key one because the Korean peninsula is a geopolitical flashpoint where socialism and imperialism confront each other at gunpoint. The development of the armed forces is a decisive factor in securing the destiny of Korean-style socialism.

Since 2012 there has been a great leap forward in the development of the armed forces resulting in the DPRK’s increased ability to deter war and safeguard its sovereignty and defending the people-centred socialist system .There has been a huge qualitative and quantitative forward march of the DPRK’s revolutionary armed forces .

Marshal KIM JONG UN applied himself tirelessly to the work of building up the people’s armed forces . He visited many army units, even front line units at Panmunjom and in the conflict ridden West Sea of Korea . Not only did Marshal KIM JONG UN pay attention to weaponry and military hardware but to the lives and living conditions of ordinary soldiers making sure that they had enough to eat and that their barracks were warm .

Under the leadership of respected Marshal KIM JONG UN , the DPRK has become a socialist nuclear power of Juche and an ICBM power . Nuclear tests were carried out in 2013 , 2016 and 2017 . The DPRK tested the Hwasong 14 ICBM on the 4th of July 2017 (US “ independence day “ ) and had another test of the Hwasong 14 ICBM on the 28th of July 2017 . Later the Hwasong-pho 17 ICBM was tested in 2022 , the Hwasong-pho 18 ICBM was tested  in 2023  and the Hwasong-pho 19 ICBM was tested in 2024.  Regarding the test firing of the Hwasong-pho 19 ICBM in 2024 the Korean Central News Agency said “ At a time when the strategic option for reliably defending the national security and regional peace from the adventurous military moves of the U.S. and its vassal forces for aggression and the urgency of its powerful implementation are being further highlighted, a new entity has emerged again to demonstrate the absolute might of the DPRK nuclear combat forces rapidly developing day by day”  .

In recent years the DPRK has also developed hypersonic missiles and submarine-launched ballistic missiles .

Soon People’s Korea will become a naval power as well as a nuclear power and an ICBM power  . This year the guided missile destroyer Choe Hyon (named after the anti-Japanese revolutionary veteran Choe Hyon ) was commissioned on the 24th of June (one day before the anniversary of the provocation of the Fatherland Liberation War by the ROK puppets and US imperialists ) .Hostile media commented that “that the destroyer's deployment could eventually restrict allied naval movements and the arrival of U.S. reinforcements”. The Choe Hyon destroyer and other warships of the KPA Navy will be equipped with nuclear weapons . The day will come when the US and ROK will no longer be able to carry out aggressive war exercises in Korean waters .

It is thanks to the wise guidance of respected Marshal KIM JONG  UN that the power of the revolutionary armed forces of People’s Korea has grown and will continue to grow !

Dr Dermot Hudson

Chairman Korean Friendship Association UK

Chairman British Group For the Study of the Juche Idea

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

BGSJI and KFA UK on the 76th anniversary of the Taejon Liberation Battle

  BRITISH GROUP FOR THE STUDY OF THE JUCHE IDEA 

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                         London 17th of July 2026

The British Group for the Study of the Juche Idea and Korean Friendship Association UK issued the following joint statement on the occasion of the 76th anniversary of the victorious Taejon Liberation battle ;
On the 20th of July it will the 76th  anniversary of the liberation of Taejon by the Korean People's Army(KPA) under the command of the great leader generalissimo KIM IL SUNG. It was in this battle that the troops of the Korean Peoples Army smashed the so-called 'invincible' US Army 24th division  which had been regarded as one of the most advanced divisions of the US army and had been victorious in battles against Japanese forces during the second world .
The KPA encircled the US imperialist forces unique Juche-based adroit tactics worked out by the great leader generalissimo KIM IL SUNG who had accumulated great experience in the 15 year long armed struggle against Japanese imperialism !
 General William F  Dean the  commander of the 24th division  was taken prisoner by a young KPA soldier. Dean's general's stars are still in the DPRK Fatherland Liberation War Museum. Thus the US 24th Division tasted a bitter defeat, in fact disaster at Taejon.
 During this period of the Fatherland Liberation War the KPA fought solely on its own without outside assistance.
 It was a victory for the revolutionary Juche-orientated military tactics  and the Songun-based revolutionary military leadership of the great leader generalissimo KIM IL SUNG.
BGSJI
KFA UK

KCNA Commentary on RIMPAC

Pyongyang, July 17 (KCNA) -- The U.S. and many other countries have staged RIMPAC, the largest-ever joint naval drill in the world since June 24, raising violent waves of aggravated tension in the Pacific.

The drill will continue in vast waters off Hawaii and the Pacific until July 31, with over 30 warships of various missions, 5 submarines, over 200 fighters and 30 000 troops involved.

The U.S. described the drill as an opportunity for special training aimed at strengthening the joint forces of the allies for "free and open Indo-Pacific".

It is tantamount to an admission that RIMPAC is not a customary drill against a potential enemy but a special war rehearsal of the U.S. and its vassal forces targeting the regional states, main obstacles to the realization of the U.S. Asia-Pacific strategy.

It is clearly evidenced by the number of participating countries in the drill and its scale.

The puppet ROK is taking part in the drill as a main force for the first time and the participating countries, including the defeated countries Japan, Germany and Italy, number a total of 30, the largest in its history.

And we cannot remain a passive onlooker to the drill as it is timed to coincide with the moves of the warmongers of the puppet ROK, the war criminal state Japan and NATO. In other words the ROK making more frantic efforts for the confrontation with the DPRK, and Japan running amuck to turn itself into a military power are getting evermore undisguised in their moves for the military nexus, and the ROK, Japan and NATO are getting evermore pronounced in their attempt to strengthen the military cooperation.

The contents and form of the drill are also a source of serious concern.

The preemptive attack elements the U.S., the ROK and Japan mastered in aggressive war exercises like Ulji Freedom Shield and Freedom Edge have been introduced into the whole course of RIMPAC including ground and landing drills, etc.

Based on the experience in modern warfare, the drill has set it as its important part to apply artificial intelligence and practice the integrated operation of unmanned and manned weapon systems.

In particular, the U.S. and ROK marines staged a combined air mobility and air assault exercise under the simulated conditions of "infiltrating the area behind the enemy line" at the U.S. Navy's amphibious assaulting ship Essex as part of RIMPAC.

What merits more serious attention is that the U.S. Navy's nuclear carrier Theodore Roosevelt is playing a main role in the drill and fanning up the war fever in the combined operation with the war stooges.

As a result, the Pacific has turned into a battlefield permeated with the smell of gunpowder, unlike its name.

All the facts indicate who is undermining the basis of the global peace and security and predict that an undesirable contingency may occur soon in the Korean peninsula and the rest of the region.

It is obvious that the countries in the region will never look on with folded arms at the largest-ever war drill being staged by the most outrageous rogue-led group of stooges and other countries from across the ocean.

The regional countries will take a series of proportional countermeasures to determinedly contain and control the reckless act of the rogues in the world.

It is the inviolable independent right of the relevant countries to beef up the war deterrent in order to protect their sovereignty and security interests and regional peace and stability from military challenges and threats of all the hostile forces.

Explicitly speaking, the U.S. and its vassal forces must take the blame for the unpredictable escalation of the tensions in the region. -0-

Respected Comrade Kim Jong Un Meets Chinese Party and Government Delegation

Pyongyang, July 17 (KCNA) -- The 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, on Thursday received a party and government delegation of the People's Republic of China led by Wang Huning, member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the C.C., Communist Party of China and chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, on an official goodwill visit to the DPRK to mark the 65th anniversary of the conclusion of the DPRK-China Treaty of Friendship, Cooperation and Mutual Assistance.

Present there was Wang Yajun, Chinese ambassador to the DPRK.

Comrade Kim Jong Un gladly met and exchanged warm greetings with Wang Huning and leading members of the delegation.

Wang Huning courteously conveyed the best wishes and comradely greetings from Comrade Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and president of the PRC, to Comrade Kim Jong Un.

Comrade Kim Jong Un expressed deep thanks for it and asked Wang Huning to convey his greetings to Comrade Xi Jinping.

Warmly welcoming the visit of the party and government delegation of the PRC to the DPRK, Comrade Kim Jong Un said with high appreciation that it is a manifestation of the steadfast will to attach importance to the DPRK-China relations and definitely implement the agreements made during the Pyongyang summit that Comrade General Secretary Xi Jinping dispatched the high-ranking party and government delegation headed by Wang Huning to the DPRK.

Noting that the DPRK-China Treaty of Friendship, Cooperation and Mutual Assistance, an inter-state treaty which defines the strategic character of the bilateral relations and advances its strategic direction, has played an important role in defending the basic interests of the two countries and ensuring the regional and global peace and security, Comrade Kim Jong Un said that it is the steadfast policy of the WPK and the DPRK government to more vigorously develop the traditional friendly and cooperative relations with socialism as a core in several fields on the basis of the spirit of the treaty and in line with the requirement of the changing times and the aspiration and desire of the two peoples.

Expressing thanks to the Party, government and people of the DPRK for giving the delegation a cordial reception, Wang Huning expressed the readiness to comprehensively implement all the important common understanding and agreements the top leaders of the two parties and the two countries reached in the historic Pyongyang meeting and thus promote the political mutual trust and bilateral solidarity and expand and develop the mutual collaboration and cooperation.

Comrade Kim Jong Un affirmed that the WPK and the DPRK government would as ever support the socialist cause with the Chinese characteristics in the new era led by Comrade General Secretary Xi Jinping, sincerely hoping that the Chinese people, who significantly celebrated the 105th anniversary of the foundation of the CPC, would make greater achievements in the historic course of comprehensively building a modern socialist power and achieving the great prosperity of the Chinese nation under the leadership of the CPC. -0-

 

Forefront Guidance of Illustrious Commander Born of Heaven

From Voice of Korea.

http://vok.rep.kp/index.php/detail_com/comde/iee260610014/57/en

Forefront Guidance of Illustrious Commander Born of Heaven

  The respected Comrade Kim Jong Un is opening up a great heyday of strengthening the revolutionary armed forces by organizing and guiding in person the actual war-like drills and training competitions to fully prepare the Korean People's Army to discharge its mission and play its role as the main force of national defence in any form of threats and emergencies.

  According to a decision of the Central Military Commission of the Workers' Party of Korea, there were conducted a joint strike drill of long-range artillery sub-units of the KPA on the western front and the flying corps of its Air Force in the western area and a large-scale combined air strike drill of the Air Force involving more than 150 fighter planes of different kinds under the guidance of Comrade Kim Jong Un on October 6 and 8, 2022.

  The drills served as a historic event which clearly proved the combat strength of the invincible KPA led by Comrade Kim Jong Un.

  Researcher Kim Chol Nam at the Academy of Social Sciences said Comrade Kim Jong Un wisely led the nuclear combat forces of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea to maintain the strongest nuclear response posture for safeguarding the dignity and sovereignty of the state, and continued:

  "The military drills of tactical nuclear operation units of the KPA including the ballistic missile launching drill simulating the loading of tactical nuclear warhead, the launching drill of tactical ballistic missiles of different kinds and the drill of accurate hitting of super-large multiple rocket launchers and tactical ballistic missiles served as important occasions of proving the combat effectiveness and creditability of our state's nuclear combat forces in fully prepared posture to strike and annihilate targets as much as they want at any given time and in any places they choose.

  In March 2023 alone, the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un guided the launching drill of the intercontinental ballistic missile 'Hwasongpho-17', a simulated combined tactical drill for nuclear counterattack, a test of major weapons and a firing drill for strategic purpose to train the service personnel of the People's Army into fighters well-versed in combat action methods according to different combat situations."

  Comrade Kim Jong Un saw that the service personnel of the People's Army remarkably strengthen their combat capabilities by conducting drills of different branches of arms of the KPA in a war-like atmosphere.

  In 2024 he made painstaking efforts to strengthen the artillery forces while guiding the artillery firing drill of large combined units of the KPA, firing drill of the artillery units in the western area which are in charge of an important firing and live artillery firing drill of the 75th-term graduates of O Jin U Artillery Academy.

  He also ensured that the training match between the large combined units of tankmen of the KPA and the training of air-borne units of the KPA were organized and conducted under the simulated condition of actual war so as to lead all the soldiers to have confidence and disposition of invincible combatants in the crucible of war-like drills.

  His forefront guidance over the special operations units given on several occasions in 2024 and 2025 was a motive force which made it possible to strengthen and develop the special operations forces into the strongest combat group and the core and leading forces of the armed forces of the DPRK

  The KPA will powerfully demonstrate its precious name and spirit of sure victory all over the world as an invincible army forever as it is led by Comrade Kim Jong Un. 

Eighth Congress of Socialist Women's Union of Korea Held

Pyongyang, July 15 (KCNA) -- The Eighth Congress of the Socialist Women's Union of Korea took place in Pyongyang on July 13 and 14.

The congress comprehensively analyzed and reviewed the work done by the women's union during the period under review and discussed the practical tasks and ways for the women's union to play more active role as a transmission belt linking the Party with the masses and as a creditable assistant of the Party and fully discharge its mission and role as an ideological education organization in implementing the decisions of the Ninth Congress of the Workers' Party of Korea.

Present there were the members of the seventh-term SWUK central leadership body and delegates elected by the women's union organizations at all levels.

Officials of the Party, armed forces organs, ministries and national agencies and those concerned were on hand as observers.

The platform was taken by Jo Yong Won, member of the Presidium of the Political Bureau and secretary of the WPK Central Committee, Jong Kyong Thaek and Ju Chang Il, members of the Political Bureau and secretaries of the WPK Central Committee, executive members of the SWUK Central Committee, chairwomen of the provincial committees of the SWUK, exemplary women's union officials and members and officials in charge of the women's union work at the armed forces organs.

When the congress was declared open, the DPRK national anthem was played.

The congress elected the presidium and the secretariat.

The agenda items discussed at the congress are as follows:

1. Review of the Work of the Central Committee of the Socialist Women's Union of Korea

2. On the Revision of the SWUK Rules

3. Election of the Central Leadership Body of the SWUK

Jo Yong Won read out a congratulatory letter of the WPK Central Committee to the participants in the Eighth Congress of the SWUK and all the women's union members.

Stating that the beautiful imprints and indelible traces of conscience our women left in the successes reviewed by the Party Congress and the monumental edifices representing the dignity and advance of the DPRK serve as the most correct and valuable proof of the women's union work, the letter highly praised the SWUK for performing the feat of glorifying the image of all our people as well as the tough-minded and beautiful looks of the Korean women along with the times. And it extended the warm congratulations and encouraging greetings to all the women's union officials and members across the country.

It indicated the main task faced by the women's union in the resolute struggle for transformation in the new era for the prosperity of our state and the practical ways for further enhancing the function and role of the women's union organizations.

Jon Hyang Sun, chairwoman of the SWUK Central Committee, made a report on the first agenda item.

The reporter reviewed the work of the Seventh-term Central Committee of the SWUK.

She referred to the fact that the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un ushered in a new heyday of the Juche-oriented women's movement and developed the women's union into a competent group of patriots promoting the comprehensive development of socialism with his outstanding ideas and deep trust in and affection for it.

She said that more than four hundreds of thousands of women's union officials and members volunteered to work at the difficult and challenging sites and made positive contributions to the successful implementation of the Five-Year Plan at the major worksites seething with enthusiasm for carrying out the decisions of the Eighth Congress of the WPK through the dynamic socialist patriotic movement, the revolutionary mass movement.

She noted that over 50 women won the Communist Mother Honor Prize for educating and brining up the rising generation to be successors who will take responsibility for the future of the revolution and many women the title of Labor Hero, the highest honor of a DPRK citizen, and other high-class state commendations for giving birth to and rearing well a large number of children.

She stressed that all the successes the SWUK made during the period under review are the shining fruition of the energetic guidance of the WPK, which wisely guided the women's union to remarkably enhance its fighting efficiency at the crucial period of turn in our revolution.

The report analyzed and reviewed a series of deviations, revealed by women's union organizations at all levels during the period under review, and their causes on the basis of detailed data and referred to the practical ways for putting the SWUK work on the track of new qualitative development.

The reporter stressed that our state, the greatest in the world, would grow stronger and prosper when all the women's union officials and members fulfill their responsibility and duty they assumed before the times and history and the country and steadily carry on the tradition of loyalty and patriotism.

Speeches were made on the first agenda item.

20 delegates including Han Hye Sun, delegate of the women's union organization of North Phyongan Province, Jon Song Ok, delegate of the women's union organization of South Hamgyong Province and Ri Hyang Suk, delegate of the women's union organization of Pyongyang Municipality, made speeches or presented written speeches.

The congress discussed the revision of the SWUK Rules as its second agenda item.

There was a report on the revision of the women's union rules.

The reporter submitted the revised rules for deliberation at the congress.

The congress adopted a decision on the revision of the SWUK Rules with unanimous approbation.

The congress discussed the election of the SWUK central leadership body as the third agenda item.

First, the Central Committee of the SWUK was elected.

All the recommended candidates were elected members and alternate members of the SWUK Central Committee with the unanimous approval of the delegates.

The First Plenary Meeting of the Eighth Central Committee of the SWUK was held.

Ju Chang Il, secretary of the Central Committee of the WPK, informed the participants of the decision of the plenary meeting.

The Executive Committee of the SWUK Central Committee was elected.

Jon Hyang Sun was elected chairwoman of the SWUK Central Committee and Cha Hyon OK, Ri Hyang Suk, Ri Sun Ok and Ri Hae Im were elected vice-chairwomen.

The Organizing Committee of the SWUK Central Committee was formed.

The chairwoman, vice-chairwomen and members of the Central Inspection Commission of the SWUK were elected.

Department directors of the SWUK Central Committee were appointed.

The congress elected a committee for drafting the decision of the congress with members of the newly elected eighth-term central leadership body of the SWUK, and the committee deliberated the realistic and constructive opinions raised by delegates and supplemented the draft resolution with them.

The decision of the Eighth Congress of the SWUK was adopted with unanimous approval. -0-

 

“Dream” versus Reality of Having a House

2026.7.13.
http://www.mfa.gov.kp/view/article/24650
According to a recent survey of 30 countries by a poll agency, a majority of respondents in Japan, Germany, Australia and many other countries could not afford to buy a house.

House prices and rents in most capitalist countries have recorded the annual rise of 2.5%. Notably, in Portugal, they have reached an all-time high with 17.6% increase within one year.

With the skyrocketing house prices and rents, many families are giving up their “dreams” of having their own houses. They rent poor rooms or live in abandoned buildings, tents or plastic shelters installed by the roadside or under bridges.

A western newspaper lamented that the housing crisis in the West is attributable to many and complex reasons, but the most underlying cause is with the profit-first mindset.

However, hundreds of thousands of modern houses have been built in cities and counties in the DPRK including Pyongyang and Komdok area at the expense of the state over the last five years and provided to the working people free of charge. During the period of the new long-term plan, the construction projects greater in scope are underway so as to satisfactorily solve the housing problem of the people and continue to create a higher level of civilization.

Every year, people are happily moving into the modern houses built by the state with lively housewarming celebrations. This reality has become commonplace in our country and in our people’s life, giving them a dream and hope for a new and more civilized life and new happiness.