KFA UK Statement on the Deletion of the KFA Germany TikTok account

London 14 February 2026

The Korean Friendship Association of the UK issued the following statement on the deletion of the Tiktok  account of KFA Germany;

KFA UK totally condemns  the deletion of the KFA Germany TikTok channel which had 1000 subscribers .

This occurred without warning and without the Right of Appeal.

TikTok is behaving just like Facebook and YouTube .It is acting in an arbitrary and dictatorial manner.

Just like other big tech monopolies TikTok is trying to suppress the truth about People's Korea and is trying to stop people from knowing the reality of People's Korea.

It cannot be a coincidence that anti DPRK propaganda is being stepped up and at the same time there are attacks on KFA social media accounts.

Solidarity with KFA Germany! Defend People's Korea with No If it Buts!

KFA UK

14.02.2026

Chairman KIM JONG IL Pioneer of socialist rural development-special article for the 84th anniversary of the birth of the great leader comrade KIM JONG IL by Dr Dermot Hudson

When we visited the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea(DPRK ) in April 2017 we visited the Migok Co-operative Farm on the outskirts of Sariwon city on our way back from the Sinchon Museum,  we  learned that Chairman KIM JONG IL had visited the farm several times .We actually visited the  farmers house where  he stopped by  in 2006 . The house is marked with a red plaque with the date of the visit . It is the house of an ordinary farm worker, not a high official. I can also remember back in the 1990s visiting the Sunan farm and being told that Chairman KIM JONG IL had given guidance to the farm many times.

Chairman KIM JONG IL  was  a man of many great and varied  talents which encompassed so many fields of human activity such as ideology , literature , art , cinema and military .Comrade KIM JONG IL wrote such classics as “ON THE JUCHE IDEA “ and  “ On the Art of the Cinema “  . However, recalling his visits to the Migok farm and Sunan farm we will now look in detail at comrade KIM JONG IL ‘s activities for guiding agriculture and socialist rural development . This was an important aspect of comrade KIM JONG IL’s activity right from the early days.

When studying at the august KIM IL SUNG University comrade KIM JONG IL , where he studied political economy ,comrade KIM JONG IL wrote as his graduation thesis the work  “The Status and Role of the County in Socialist Construction” which was published on the 18th of March 1964.This work postulated the line of building the county as the base for socialist rural construction, the modernization of the countryside  and to assist in improving living standards. It was also a blueprint to finally eliminate the gap between the cities and the countryside . Earlier in 1962 Chairman KIM JONG IL  had visited Changsong and Sakju counties to learn about conditions . 

Comrade KIM JONG IL visited the famous Chongsan Ri Co-operative farm on many occasions. Chongsan Ri was the place where the famous Chongsan Ri method and Chongsan Ri were born in February 1960 when the great leader President KIM IL SUNG visited the farm .

In 1974 comrade KIM JONG IL  launched the 70 Day  Speed Battle campaign .Not only did industrial output value increase  but agricultural production increased  and despite unfavourable weather conditions a bumper harvest was reaped and the target of 7 million tons of grain was hit . The DPRK was able to export large quantities of grain.

During the mid 1990s the DPRK faced a very difficult situation which was known as the “Arduous March “ . Consecutive natural disasters hit agriculture in 1994 ,1995 and 1996 which wiped out large chunks of agricultural production . At the same time the DPRK had to face the blockade and sanctions of the imperialists plus the disappearance of the world socialist market due to the frustration of socialism in the USSR and elsewhere  Chairman KIM JONG IL who now had the baton of leadership ensured  that measures were taken one by one to alleviate the food shortage issue.  In 1997 Chairman KIM JONG IL said that the entire army and all people must be mobilized for effective farming that year by all means, so as to solve the food problem decisively and bring the “Arduous March” to a successful conclusion. The People’s Army, he said, should give active, large-scale support to farming that year, organizing support to the countryside down to the last detail. Land rezoning was carried out on a massive scale so as to eliminate any residual vestiges of feudal landownership, making it impossible to restore capitalism in the DPRK countryside and boosting production by allowing the more widespread use of machinery.

In the 2000s the production of Juche fertiliser was revived and new farms such as the Taedongang Fruit Farm .

There can be no doubt that comrade KIM JONG IL laid the springboard for rapid socialist rural development . We remember comrade KIM JONG IL, a great pioneer of people-orientated socialist rural development on the day of his birth, February 16th .

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

From Voice of Korea- Showing the Way for Victory of Socialism

http://vok.rep.kp/index.php/detail_com/scomde/iee260108013/39/en

  The great leader Kim Jong Il is a peerlessly great man who illuminated the road ahead of the times with his energetic ideological and theoretical activities.

  He clearly indicated the way for the victory of socialism by proving its scientific accuracy, validity and truthfulness.

  Between the late 1980s and the early 1990s, socialism collapsed and capitalism revived in some countries and it posed a grave challenge to the socialist cause, the independent cause of the masses of the people.

  Availing themselves of this opportunity, the imperialists and reactionaries of history talked loudly about the "end of socialism".

  This caused a great disappointment, uneasiness and apprehensions of the progressive humanity.

  A lot of people were floundering without understanding the truth of the situation.

  Kim Jong Il conducted energetic ideological and theoretical activities for defending and victoriously advancing the socialist cause to cope with the tragic situation arising on the world political arena.

  He made public famous works including "Socialism Is a Science", "Abuses of Socialism Are Intolerable", "The Historical Lesson in Building Socialism and the General Line of Our Party", "On the Fundamentals of Revolutionary Party Building" and "Giving Priority to Ideological Work Is Essential for Accomplishing Socialism", clarifying the cause of the collapse of socialism in some countries and lesson drawn from it and providing a new milestone for the reconstruction of the socialist movement and its development.

  He gave a blow to the sophistry of the imperialists and renegades of socialism with his clairvoyant wisdom and scientific reasoning.

  And he systematically expounded the scientific accuracy and truthfulness of socialism and the inevitability and scientific path of its final victory with his profound logic and gem-like propositions, thus providing a powerful ideological and theoretical weapon to defend the socialist cause to the end.

 His works served as the banner of hope and struggle that gives confidence in sure victory of socialism to the Korean people and the world revolutionary people, opposes imperialism and dominationism and leads the socialist cause to victory.

  The historic Pyongyang Declaration "Let Us Defend and Advance the Cause of Socialism" was adopted and made public in Pyongyang in April 1992 with full support and approval of the representatives of 70 progressive political parties in the world.

  Many other progressive political parties of the world signed the Pyongyang Declaration soon after its adoption.

  As the Pyongyang Declaration was adopted, the world socialist movement could enter a new era and the revolutionary parties of the world vigorously struggle for the final victory of the socialist cause with a common fighting programme.

  The immortal exploits of Kim Jong Il will shine forever as he clearly showed the way for the victory of socialism to the progressive humanity.

From Voice of Korea-Training the People's Army as an Army Strong in Ideology and Faith

http://vok.rep.kp/index.php/detail_com/scomde/iee260109012/39/en

  The great leader Kim Jong Il is the peerlessly brilliant commander who trained the Korean People's Army as the army strong in faith boundlessly loyal to the idea and cause of the Workers' Party of Korea.

  In the whole period of leading the revolution, he regarded it as a very important issue concerning the destiny of socialism to make the People's Army the one infinitely loyal to the cause of the Party.

  Leading the army building, he prepared all the service personnel as ardent followers and resolute defenders of the Juche idea of the Party, Lecturer Kim Un Hye at the Korean Revolution Museum said and continued:

  "The might of a revolutionary army is, in essence, the might of ideology. It is a lesson of history that the army which is not prepared ideologically is no more than rabble, even if it has a lot of soldiers and modern equipment.

  One day in December 1994, the great leader Kim Jong Il told officials that the military striking power has a limit but there is no limit in the might of ideology, which is stronger than A-bomb, and that he attaches importance to the theory of prioritizing ideology in army building and military activities."

  Kim Jong Il made painstaking efforts to make all the service personnel firmly arm themselves with the revolutionary idea of the Party and keep loyalty to the Party and leader as their life and soul.

  He inspected a tank unit on August 25, 1960 and inspired the entire service personnel of the People's Army to hold high the slogan "Let us defend with our very lives the Party Central Committee headed by the respected Comrade Kim Il Sung!". In the 1970s, he presented it as the general task for army building to model the whole army on Kimilsungism.

  As a result, the service personnel of the People's Army could keep loyalty to the Party and leader as their firm faith and the spirit of resolutely defending the leader and the steel-like command system and revolutionary military climate of moving as one on the order of the Supreme Commander were established throughout the army.

In order to develop the People's Army into the revolutionary armed forces boundlessly loyal to the idea and cause of the Party, Kim Jong Il inspected units of the People's Army by crossing high and rugged passes and taking sea routes with raging waves and instilled into the soldiers the truth that the might of arms lies in their ideology and faith.

  Thanks to his energetic leadership, the KPA could grow to be an army strong in ideology and faith.

  It is an undying exploit of Kim Jong Il that he trained the People's Army as the one strong in ideology and faith firmly armed with the idea of the leader and supporting the cause of the Party in the van.

 

Saeppyol Street Inaugurated with Splendor

Pyongyang, February 16 (KCNA) -- Saeppyol Street has made an imposing appearance in an excellent location in Hwasong area of Pyongyang, the capital city of the DPRK. It is a monumental architectural group reflecting the strong will of all the people to convey forever the shining star-like feats of the heroes who unhesitatingly sacrificed their lives for the immortal honour and eternal prosperity of their great motherland during the overseas military operations.

The respected Comrade Kim Jong Un personally initiated the construction of a new street for their bereaved families and named it to glorify the precious life of fine sons of the country generation after generation. He also energetically guided the whole course of its construction so that every element of buildings shows the warm sincerity of our Party and state for the families that the brave fighters left behind.

The unique architectural groups are presenting a spectacular scene as high-, medium- and low-storied apartment buildings with formative artistic, practical and convenient value and public buildings such as commercial and neighbourhood-serving amenities are in ideal harmony. It represents an immortal picture showing the noble moral obligation and fervent love of our Party determined to glorify the bereaved families as well as the heroes respected and revered by all the people and enable them to enjoy to the full the beautiful life in the motherland the martyrs protected at the cost of their lives.

An inauguration ceremony of Saeppyol Street took place with splendor on Feb. 15.

Its venue was overflowing with emotion and joy of the bereaved families who would move into new flats amid the blessing of military and civilian builders, who constructed a unique new street true to the intention and will of the Workers' Party of Korea Central Committee, and all other people across the country.

The respected Comrade Kim Jong Un attended the ceremony.

He was greeted by the commanding officers of Korean People's Army units involved in the overseas operations.

He met and exchanged warm greetings with them and extended militant salute to all the officers and men of the overseas operations units.

All the participants broke into cheers of emotion, looking up to the great father who has put the war heroes and their bereaved families on the meridian of glory and made a great history of noble love and obligation with ardent feelings of kinship.

The ceremony was attended by senior Party, government and military officials, members of the central leadership body of the Party, bereaved families of the war heroes, combatants and officers and men of the engineering unit who were dispatched for the overseas military operations, commanding officers of the Ministry of National Defence, servicepersons of KPA units at all levels, builders, teaching staff and students of revolutionary schools and citizens in Pyongyang.

Kim Jong Un made a speech in commemoration of the inauguration.

Saying with deep emotion that the meaningful day has come when Saeppyol Street has been completed thanks to the ardent desire of our motherland to have its address in our capital city, he noted that the inauguration of the street named Saeppyol that has already been etched in all our hearts as a byword for the glorious life of the combatants is an emotive moment when we record in the history of Pyongyang the most heroic era that embodies the strength of Korea, symbolizes the greatness of its people and has defended its sacred dignity and fame.

Noting that Saeppyol Street is a source of honour for our generation and a pride of Pyongyang and our state, he prayed for the immortality of the martyrs along with its inauguration which will etch the martyrs' names and images in history. He sincerely hoped that this street, a place where the ennobling souls rest and reverence from all over the country converges, will always brim over with joy and happiness.

Kim Jong Un cut the inauguration tape.

Fireworks were displayed with enthusiastic cheers and numerous balloons with five-pointed star marks rose up to the sky.

Then the licenses for the use of flats were handed over to the bereaved families of the martyrs.

Kim Jong Un, together with senior Party, government and military officials, gave the licenses in the name of the WPK Central Committee to the bereaved families.

The bereaved families in tears of emotion extended their deep gratitude to the benevolent father who has repeatedly shown his boundless love and affection for them, filled with pain and remorse for failing to bring to their families the proud sons of the motherland who created the world-startling miraculous and heroic legends.

An art performance was given, shaking Saeppyal Street where the huge national flag of the dignified DPRK is flying high in the sky.

Touching the participants were the songs arousing boundless respect and noble reverence for the martyrs, who displayed mass heroism and unparalleled self-sacrificing spirit, hard to be seen in any other armies of the world, to demonstrate the combat power of our army to the whole world and unhesitatingly dedicated their lives to faithfully implementing the orders of the motherland.

When the national anthem of the DPRK, our heroes sang from the bottom of their heart in every field of decisive battles, wishing for its eternal prosperity, was played, the participants were all afire with a will to display their patriotic enthusiasm for further glorifying the dignity and honour of the motherland the martyrs defended at the cost of their lives.

A touching scene of great love and moral obligation was witnessed in Saeppyol Street, in which each flat is associated with the boundless benevolence of Kim Jong Un who has bestowed his warm affection and love for the war heroes on their families, ensuring that they enjoy the greatest happiness and glory.

Kim Jong Un met bereaved family members who would move into new houses.

Noting that the inauguration of a street for the families of the fallen fighters in the overseas military operations reminds him of the heroic images of combatants who laid down their lives, praying for prosperity of their country and Pyongyang at their last moments, he said in an excited tone that it is the highest respect to the noble lives of the martyrs to make the country, associated with their desires and souls, richer and more beautiful and safeguard and glorify it.

Saying that the fallen fighters are model patriots and greatest heroes who unhesitatingly dedicated their precious lives to carrying out the order of the motherland for no reward, he stressed it is due obligation and noble mission of our Party and government to take care of the destiny and life of their parents, who brought them up to be excellent, and their wives and children, who were their strength and support, in the most responsible and sincerest manner.

He visited the house of Kim Jong Ok, widow of martyr O Thae Chol, and looked round its rooms and kitchen, listening to his family members' impression of the new house.

Saying she would miss her husband more than ever before in the new house, he hoped that she would overcome her sorrow as early as possible and lead a happy life. And he wished her son studying at the Mangyongdae Revolutionary School a bright future, saying that he should become an excellent person like his father.

Visiting the house of the couple Mun Ryong Mo and Ryu Sung Nam, whose twin sons dedicated their lives to the country, he said that thanks to such a patriotic family, the country grows stronger and steadily advances toward prosperity.

Saying that the Party and the government will entirely take care of the bereaved, he showed warm kinship affection, wishing them lasting happiness in their good houses.

He also visited the home of martyr Kim Tong Chun, twice Hero of the Republic, to wish his family members the best luck. The family members, greatly excited to have dream-like fortune, expressed their deep gratitude to him.

I think my anxieties have been removed a little, seeing the bereaved families who will lead a new beautiful life earlier than others in their houses in Pyongyang, he said, adding that the heroes, who performed the great exploits, to be etched in history, for the endless prosperity and mightiness of the country, and their families deserve the greatest glory and respect paid by the country and the people.

He repeatedly urged officials of the Party and power organs to thoroughly implement the measure taken to afford preference and privileges to the families of the martyrs, regarding it as an important policy task, and to always pay deep attention to their life so that they would never feel any inconvenience.

A historic moment, filled with parental affection of the great father, was captured in the street.

The families of the war martyrs, owners of a new street, looked round their new houses.

Seeing their houses furnished with all amenities, they keenly realized the great benevolence and love of Kim Jong Un and our Party.

Saeppyol Street, the crystal of eternal thanks and respect paid by the Party and the people to the heroes in the overseas military operations, will shed its rays for all ages along with its noble name, conveying a new legendary tale of love and moral obligation blooming in the great era of Kim Jong Un to posterity. -0-

www.kcna.kp (2026.02.16.)

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Respected Comrade Kim Jong Un's Speech at Inauguration Ceremony of Saeppyol Street

Pyongyang, February 16 (KCNA) -- The respected Comrade Kim Jong Un made a speech at the inauguration ceremony of Saeppyol Street on Sunday.

The full text of his speech is as follows:

Present here today are the bereaved family members of the fallen soldiers and other combatants as well as the combatants of the regiment of the engineers, who have been dispatched to the overseas military operations.

We are also here together with the commanding officers of the Ministry of National Defence, officers and soldiers of the units at all levels of the Korean People's Army, teaching staff and students of the revolutionary schools, and builders and Pyongyang citizens, who have been involved in the construction of Saeppyol Street.

Comrades,

The meaningful day has come when this street, to which the people across the country paid intense devotion and respect, has been completed to have its address in our capital city.

The new street has been built thanks to the ardent desire of our motherland that wishes that the precious lives of its excellent sons, who defended the most sacred things by sacrificing their most valuable things, will live forever. It is waiting for the moment when it will greet its honoured owners.

Thinking that my anxiousness would somewhat decrease if I brought this event even a day earlier, I have done my best and waited for this day to come. But now standing here, I rather feel sorry before feeling happy.

I once again extend the most ennobling respect to our proud martyrs, and, on behalf of the officers and soldiers of our army, Pyongyang citizens and all other people throughout the country, I offer consolation and thanks to all the bereaved family members of the fallen soldiers, the owners of this new street.

I also express deep thanks to the builders of the capital city, service personnel and officials and working people in the relevant sectors, who have wonderfully completed the street out of boundless respect for, and obligation to, our heroes.

Comrades,

Filled here is a solemn emotion that is quite different from what we felt whenever we saw the creations set up in various parts of the country.

The name Saeppyol Street has already been etched in all our hearts as a byword for the lives of the combatants, who sacrificed their all to their motherland so courageously to the last moments of their lives in the battlefields in a faraway alien land; this is something that others cannot perform throughout their life.

This is an emotive moment, when we record in the history of Pyongyang the most heroic era that embodies the strength of Korea, symbolizes the greatness of its people and has defended its sacred dignity and fame.

Saeppyol Street is a source of honour for our generation and a pride of Pyongyang and our state.

Dear bereaved family members of the martyrs,

With the construction of this street, the martyrs are now within hailing distance from the yards of their beloved families' houses, and they can feel the warmth of their kith and kin, whom they missed so much in the faraway alien land.

This is where the martyrs could feel the breathing of their dear family members every moment of the day; I would be most pleased if you live happily here generation after generation, priding yourself on having such excellent sons, husbands and fathers.

The comrades-in-arms who fought bloody battles with the martyrs, the families that have placed their dear children and husbands at the posts of national defence and all other people in this country will feel happy about today's inauguration; I believe that they sincerely hope the residents in the new street will lead a long and happy life here for the sake of the young martyrs.

Before their death, the heroic martyrs must have pictured in their mind's eye their dear families living in the ever-prospering country; the Party and the government will take all necessary steps to ensure that these families lead a proud and worthwhile life while enjoying the preferential treatment by the state and the loving care of the whole society.

I hope that this street, a place where the ennobling souls rest and reverence from all over the country converges, will always brim over with joy and happiness.

I am sure that this is the way to repay those who passed away.

Comrades,

We have the national flag of our dignified Democratic People's Republic of Korea hoisted on this street.

This is the flag which our combatants kept in their chests during bloody battles, and this is the one with which we covered the bodies of our admirable sons to bring them back to their motherland.

As the flag is shining its brilliance and fluttering in the wind, the martyrs' ennobling soul and pulsating hearts will give impetus to the development of our capital city, beautiful and thriving Pyongyang, and add eternal honour to our great motherland.

The moment when we are cutting the ribbon for the inauguration of the new street will be recorded as a moment of everlasting glory to etch the martyrs' names and images in history.

I pray for the immortality of our country's admirable sons.

Thank you. -0-

www.kcna.kp (2026.02.16.)

Glory to the 84th anniversary of the birth of the great leader comrade KIM JONG IL

 

84 years ago today on the 16th of February 1942 the great leader comrade KIM JONG IL was born on Mt Paektu ,Korea.

The life of comrade KIM JONG IL was devoted to the cause of building Juche socialism in the land of Korea.

Comrade KIM JONG IL defended socialism and turned the DPRK into a nuclear power . It was comrade KIM JONG IL who laid the foundations for today's prosperity in the DPRK