Peoples Korea Today' Issue 62 ( February 2026 ).pdf

 

From Voice of Korea-"Our Deputy"

http://vok.rep.kp/index.php/detail_com/comde/iee260109020/57/en

  Driver Ho Myong Gum at the Ryonmot Trolley Bus Company has an unusual attachment to her job that calls for working from early in the morning till late at night for the convenience of the people.

  She has been working as a trolley bus driver for tens of years since her girlhood and respected by citizens as "our deputy".

  She is a deputy to the Pyongyang Municipal People's Assembly. She keeps an unforgettable memory in her heart.

  On July 19, 2015 elections to the provincial, city and county people's assemblies took place in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.

  At that time, Ho Myong Gum was recommended as one of the candidates for deputies to the Pyongyang Municipal People's Assembly.

  That day, the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un came out to the polling station and voted for candidate Ho Myong Gum, a woman driver of the Ryonmot Trolley Bus Company.

  Then, he met her and highly appreciated the merits she performed in devoting her intense loyalty and patriotic enthusiasm for the strengthening and development of the DPRK in the spirit of true service for the people.

  Ho Myong Gum said she cannot forget the day though many years have passed since she met Kim Jong Un, and continued:

  "Whenever I recall that time, I get so excited that it seems to have happened just before.

  The respected Comrade Kim Jong Un voted for me and pressed my hands. He told me to work harder for the people true to their expectations as a representative of the people.

  I drive the trolley bus, always thinking that I should work according to his instructions."

  Ho Myong Gum was awarded the title of Merited Driver in 2018 and reelected deputy to the Pyongyang Municipal People's Assembly in 2019 and 2023.

  The state provided her gratis with a luxurious house in the Pothong Riverside Terraced Residential District in recognition of her faithful service for the people.

  Ho Myong Gum has worked as a deputy to the Pyongyang Municipal People's Assembly for over ten years. She is working hard today, too, keeping the appellation of "our deputy" deep in her heart.

From Voice of Korea -According to the People's Likings

http://vok.rep.kp/index.php/detail_com/comde/iee251217009/57/en

  The Pyongyang Hosiery Factory has become familiar with the Korean people along with its brand name "Choljjuk".

  The factory produces hosiery of various styles according to sex, age and season, which is popular among people.

  The hosiery produced at the factory is associated with the love of the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un who was concerned about the people's livelihood.

  One day in July 2012, Kim Jong Un visited the Pyongyang Hosiery Factory.

  At the newly-built men's socks workshop, he took up a pair of socks and pulled them on both sides to see their quality. And he stressed the need to keep developing the hosiery-packing methods and brand designs in conformity with the people's likings and demand of the times.

 

  At the sample room, he said, pointing at a pair of socks, that women wouldn't like such socks and that it is necessary to improve the colours and patterns of the hosiery in line with the developing reality and the people's likings.

  The people's demands for clothes and hosiery are bound to grow along with the development of the times, he said and called for making decent and modern hosiery designs suited to the people's likings

 

  True to the request made by Kim Jong Un on the day, the officials and employees of the factory are producing hosiery favoured by the people.

 

Crimes of Japanese Imperialists, Sworn Enemy of Korean People

Pyongyang, February 4 (KCNA) -- Japan's history is woven with crimes against the Korean people. It launched aggression on Korea hundreds of years ago.

After occupying Korea in a brigandish way, the Japanese imperialists inflicted untold pain and misfortune upon the Korean people, working hard to realize their aggressive daydream of the "Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere".

History discloses the crimes committed by the Japanese imperialists, the sworn enemy of the Korean people. The unethical crimes are so hideous that they can never be pardoned.

 

Japs Commit Massacre and Plunder in Imjin War

 

Japan ignited a war of aggression on Korea with more than 200 000 troops in 1592 (Imjin Year).

This was the first state-sponsored criminal act committed by Japan against Korea.

In this war, called the Imjin Patriotic War on the part of the Korean people, the Japanese murderers saliently revealed their brutality.

Spearheaded by Toyotomi Hideyoshi, who took power by force of arms, the Japanese murderers brutally killed the Korean people everywhere, gouging their eyes out and chopping their heads to be hung before their military encampments.

According to data available, the Japanese aggressors killed more than 113 300 Koreans during the second invasion. If the number of Koreans massacred in various regions during the first invasion is added, the number amounts to hundreds of thousands.

During the war, the Japanese aggressors cut off many Koreans' limbs, buried them alive and burned them to death, while getting hell-bent on plunder and destruction.

They indiscriminately plundered and destroyed famous pottery and other cultural assets of Korea and forcibly took potters to Japan. They kidnapped not only talented persons in various fields such as Confucian scholar, doctor, architect, painter and printer but also ordinary people.

The Imjin Patriotic War ended in a crushing defeat of Japan in 1598 for the death-defying resistance of the Koreans, but the Korean people sustained great suffering for a long time because of the ensuing shortage of talents and the lack of labour force.

The atrocities committed by the Japanese aggressors during the Imjin Patriotic War are a hideous state-sponsored crime that can never go with impunity. -0-

www.kcna.kp (2026.02.04.)

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Golden Age of Construction in DPRK

2026.2.2.
http://www.mfa.gov.kp/view/article/23783
Following the grand blueprint provided by respected Comrade Kim Jong Un at the Eighth Congress of the Workers’ Party of Korea (WPK), the DPRK has ushered in a great golden age of construction in the new era during the past five years. Pyongyang has been turned into a hub of Juche-oriented culture and Korean-style civilization. Entities conducive to the people’s well-being have been built one after another across the country.

Comrade Kim Jong Un mapped out a grand plan to turn Pyongyang into a world-class civilized city. His energetic guidance delivered without fail 10,000 flats to Pyongyang every year since 2021. New streets and houses including the modern Pothong Riverside Terraced Houses District and Jonwi Street sprung up to demonstrate their majestic appearances. Their excellent architectural formative and artistic beauty combined with advanced features have further improved the appearance of the capital city.

With the iron will that there can be no satisfaction in the work for the people, Comrade Kim Jong Un launched a grand construction campaign on an unprecedented scale in Pyongyang and other parts of the country for the well-being of all the people and the prosperity of our socialist state.

Samjiyon City – the first place where regional transformation was witnessed in the new era – has become a four-season mountainous tourist attraction with distinctive features. The Wonsan Kalma Coastal Area was successfully completed thus giving birth to an outstanding coastal resort town of national value. Hot-spring therapy and recuperation facilities were built in an excellent location in Onpho. The Yombunjin area, renowned as a scenic spot on the country’s east coast, has presented a new scenery of civilization with its own uniqueness.

Comrade Kim Jong Un regards the people’s laughter as a symbol of the socialist system. Such noble outlook on the people has allowed our people to enjoy the benefits of a new civilization to their hearts’ content. Wonderful and modern hospitals and leisure complexes have been built in the capital city and other areas, housewarming parties are thrown in the socialist rural villages every day, and wonderlands of socialist cultural efflorescence have sprung up all over the country.

Our people are firmly determined to build a prosperous and thriving socialist paradise as early as possible under the leadership of the WPK.

Thanks to the great work programme set forth by respected Comrade Kim Jong Un and his wise leadership, our people will overcome all difficulties to fulfill their ideals and surely build a paradise of the people, the most powerful country envied by the world.

Top Priority Given to Affairs for Coming Generations

2026.2.1.
http://www.mfa.gov.kp/view/article/23781
Respected Comrade Kim Jong Un gives top priority to the affairs related to coming generations, emphasizing that people are held up as heaven by our Party but who stand above them are our children.

On February 1, 2017, he visited newly-built Pyongyang Primary School for Orphans. He was pleased to see our children studying in multi-functional and IT-based classrooms of unique features.

On that day, he gave valuable teachings for improving the overall quality of education across the country including the one of primary education. He also had a photo session taken with the children in place of their fathers.

Thanks to the warm care of Comrade Kim Jong Un who brings up parentless children into future pillars of the country, Pyongyang Secondary Boarding School was built as the model and the epitome of secondary education in our country. And Pyongyang Primary School for Orphans was built into the home of happiness for parentless children, demonstrating the superiority of the socialist system as well as the state policy of giving priority to education. It was then followed by successful construction of baby homes, children’s homes, primary boarding schools and secondary boarding schools across the country.

Thanks to his wholehearted loving care, parentless children never feel the orphan’s sorrow but grow up vigorously in happiness.

Comrade Kim Jong Un devotes his all to make the happy laughter of our children resound all the time, defining it as the symbol of the socialist system and the might of socialism of our own style. Under such warm care, the days and months of our motherland will continue to be recorded with happy laughter of our children.

Samgwang Livestock Farm Inaugurated in DPRK

 Samgwang Livestock Farm Inaugurated in DPRK

Pyongyang, February 3 (KCNA) -- The rural areas across the DPRK are undergoing changes one after another to present new scenery of civilization all the year round, thanks to the steady implementation of the new programme for the rural revolution in the new era set forth by the Workers' Party of Korea. Against this backdrop, Samgwang-ri of Unjon County in North Phyongan Province has turned into a modern stockbreeding base and beautiful socialist ideal land to greet the auspicious moment of its inauguration.

Fashionable houses are standing in rows adding to the sentiments peculiar to the countryside in the fairyland villages, alongside different branch farms, processing grounds, breeding blocks, cultural and welfare establishments, solar power station, office building, house of culture, kindergarten, school, hospital, pharmacy and other public buildings. They are all impeccable in terms of architectural beauty and magnificent for being in good harmony. The stockbreeding farm is a model of the era to be proud of, which set a new standard in the socialist rural construction and the development of the livestock farming.

The eye-opening transformation in Samgwang area clearly showing the rapid development of the socialist countryside is proud fruition of the noble devotion of the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un who is confidently ushering in a bright future of Korean-style socialism with his outstanding ideas, theory and energetic leadership and another clear proof of the validity and vitality of the WPK's policy on rural construction.

An inauguration ceremony of the Samgwang Livestock Farm under the North Phyongan Provincial Rural Economy Committee, built as a model of socialist rural construction and development of livestock farming in the new era, was held with splendour on February 2.

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, attended the ceremony.

All the participants raised stormy cheers of "Hurrah!" out of their deep reverence for the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un, the benevolent father of all the people who is bringing about a new appearance of great prosperity, in which all the rural areas across the country change and thrive, by making endless journey of devotion day and night with his warmest love for the country and the people.

Present at the ceremony were leading officials of the Party, government and armed forces organs and other members of the central leadership body of the Party, officials of North Phyongan Province and Unjon County, working people and employees of the farm.

Kim Jong Un made a historic speech in commemoration of the inauguration of the Samgwang Livestock Farm.

Today we are seeing another peculiar development of the socialist countryside aspiring to advancement and modernity at the newly-built Samgwang Livestock Farm, he said, adding this is a new standard and epitome clearly showing the height of transformation and the level of changes we want to reach.

He referred to the purpose and important significance of the construction of the Samgwang Livestock Farm, which was started to create a new starting point, innovative criterion, conducive to defining a future development orientation of our countryside and our livestock farming in the light of the lessons learned from the rural construction in the past.

Samgwang-ri clearly indicates the prospect of the socialist rural development we are going to attain and we should put rural development onto a new qualitative transformation stage by expanding and developing the experience and successes gained in the course of building the Samgwang Livestock Farm, he said, specifying different tasks for implementing the socialist rural development policy and definitely turning the livestock farming of the country into a modern one of world level.

When Kim Jong Un finished his speech, all the participants raised enthusiastic cheers with great emotion and pleasure of receiving the immortal guidelines indicating the clear strategy for the enlarged implementation of the WPK's programme for the rural revolution and the development of stockbreeding in the new era.

Upon authorization of Kim Jong Un, Pak Thae Song, premier of the Cabinet, cut the inauguration tape.

Kim Jong Un extended warm congratulations to the residents in the region who came to lead a blessed life in the place wonderfully transformed into a socialist paradise.

He, together with leading officials, went round the first branch of the Samgwang Livestock Farm, protected cultivation floor, milk production ground, etc.

Watching the delightful picture in which milk cows and goats of supra-species are being bred, he said that the main thing in stockbreeding is also breed and it is needed to establish a nationwide system of providing supra species and conduct the work to preserve pure breeds in a scientific way.

He said that it is necessary to positively introduce such advanced stock-breeding technology as an intelligent management system of individual cow, goat, sheep and others and steadily perfect the Korean-style livestock production system and IT system.

In line with the intention of the Party which set as the five-point link in the development of stockbreeding the securement of supra-species, full supply of fodder, scientific raising and tending and thorough epizootic prevention together with the work of putting production and management control on an IT and intelligent basis, the farm should direct big efforts to lowering the production cost and improving the quality of products by optimizing and modernizing the technical control, management of equipment, raising and tending and management of fodder and thus ensure that the validity and vitality of the WPK's stockbreeding policy are proved by clear production result in the future, too.

Saying that scientific stockbreeding precisely means the increased production of livestock products, he stressed that the farm should steadily usher in a new phase of the development of stockbreeding and make uninterrupted innovations and progress, regarding it as a priority task to bolster up the scientific and technological capabilities in the production, management and operation.

The Samgwang Livestock Farm should become a standard-bearer standing in the van of the whole country under the uplifted banner for implementing the Party's stockbreeding policy, he said, giving precious instructions for the management control of the farm including the issue of steadily developing the technology for recycling waste, the issue of creating new standards in the analysis and control of quality and the issue of stirring up the atmosphere of competitive development as well as exchange of experience among major stockbreeding farms.

He said that like this farm, modern and industrialized elements are being now positively introduced in rural areas and it is necessary to positively promote such trend and make it a policy. Noting that it is the enlarging and deepening of the programme for the rural revolution in the new era to develop the country's stockbreeding in a specialized way including the integration of production system at stockbreeding farm, the increase of veterinary medicine production and the establishment of a new stockbreeding information technology research unit, he clarified the ways for its implementation.

He learned about the milk production at the farm.

Appreciating that the farm is ensuring the environment of stabilized production and profitability through introduction of an intelligent milk production system based on the virtual physical production system, he said that lots of good experiences conducive to putting the production line on an intelligent and IT basis have been created recently, and this work should be steadily developed with a clear purposeful orientation.

Having a taste of milk product, he said that it tastes better than the products made in the capital city and it is very great for the unknown farm to mass-produce 10-odd kinds of milk products such as butter, cheese, milk powder and yoghurt. He added that he feels great pride to think that such good milk products would be supplied to the children and people.

Enjoying the picturesque panorama of the farm including modern rural dwelling houses, he said with pleasure that it is wonderful and it is a deep and quiet landscape arousing a sentiment peculiar to the region and that the Samgwang Livestock Farm is a model edifice which can represent the socialist rural area in the new era and an ideal cultural farm to the envy of a town.

Noting that to spruce up all the rural villages of the country to be clear in its Korean-style socialist nature and regional characteristics is a strategically important plan prioritized by the Party in order to provide the rural villagers with good living environment and achieve the overall development of the country, he said that if modern villages boasting of their unique architectural beauty are built one year after another in the countryside, not only the living environment of the agricultural workers but also their ideological consciousness and civilization level will undergo an epochal change along with transformation in the appearance of the country.

Calling for building the rural villages to be impeccable without a parallel even in the distant future and to be advantageous in all aspects, he expressed his unshakable will to more strongly and confidently propel the overall development of the countryside.

Recalling that a model greenhouse vegetable farm was built in the area of the Wihwa Island and a new standard of stockbreeding development was set in the Samgwang area, he said it is the Korean-style traditional development mode and law to create a model and generalize it to the whole country. When this is well embodied in an organic manner in the construction of rural villages and regions, more epochal progress will be made in the implementation of the Party's programme for the rural revolution in the new era and policy of regional development, he added.

He stressed the need to further enhance the sense of mission and responsibility for the revolutionary cause and redouble their efforts to intensify the state guidance on the rural and regional construction, promote its constant development and ensure the state-sponsored investment and support, thus making sure that the rural construction policy and regional development policy of the Party become a historical review adding a proud page to the nation-building history.

Looking round the smart and cozy rural dwellings, breeding blocks, milk-producing ground and educational and leisure facilities, members of the central leadership body of the Party were assured of the rosier future of the socialist countryside that will prosper with each passing day under the outstanding guidance of Kim Jong Un and renewed their pledge to more creditably fulfill their duty in implementing the Party policies.

The inauguration of the Samgwang Livestock Farm strikingly demonstrated the ambition and executive power of the WPK to transform all the rural villages of the country into the ideal ones under socialism, good to live and work in, and marked an epochal turning point of great significance in putting the national stockbreeding on an advanced basis. -0-

www.kcna.kp (2026.02.03.)