General Director Jang Chang Ha of DPRK Missile Administration Answers Question Put by KCNA

Pyongyang, October 15 (KCNA) -- Jang Chang Ha, general director of the DPRK Missile Administration, answered a question raised by KCNA on October 14 as regards the ROK's test of a hypersonic gliding vehicle.

Question: On October 8, the ROK announced that it conducted the first test of a hypersonic gliding vehicle under research and development and opened to the public several photos concerning it.

Can you tell me any comment by our defence science research field?

Answer: I saw the photos, too. They were very interesting

One of the photos shows the gliding vehicle nose-diving towards the surface of waters. It is hard to believe that it underwent hypersonic flight circumstances characterized by extremely high temperatures as its outside appearance is so clean with its coating paint remaining intact, not stained with any soot.

Those who have not conducted a hypersonic gliding vehicle test are unaware of the changes taking place on its exterior.

The photos may serve as evidence proving that the gliding vehicle failed to make a hypersonic flight, contrary to the ROK's announcement.

Perhaps, such photos and unclear statement released by the ROK would arouse suspicions of many defence technicians and experts.

Question: I think many countries are vying with each other in the development of hypersonic weapon system.

Can you tell me the reason?

Answer: I think that question is not for me. It's better to read military science magazines if you are interested in it. -0

The Party for the People.

http://www.mfa.gov.kp/view/article/25071

 2026.10.9.

The Workers’ Party of Korea (WPK), leader of the Korean revolution, the state and people with the longest history of socialist ruling party, is greeting the 81st birthday.

Running through the 80-odd years of the WPK is the people-first principle, as it has believed in people as in heaven and devotedly served them.

President Kim Il Sung built the WPK into an invincible revolutionary party, genuine political leadership organization struggling for the people in harmony with them.

Chairman Kim Jong Il strengthened and developed the WPK into a people’s party which cares their destiny with full responsibility for them, shares sweets and bitters with them and pushes ahead with the revolution and construction by enlisting their might and wisdom.

Since the WPK holds in high esteem respected Comrade Kim Jong Un, an outstanding thinker and theoretician, a great master of leadership and the benevolent father of the people, the Party has reached another peak of devotion to the people in the new era of the Juche revolution.

What underlies his idea of the people-first principle is that people’s safety and good health ensures the very existence of everything on this land and the greatest fortune will hold its value only when it serves for the people. True to this idea of respected Comrade Kim Jong Un, people-oriented matters are given top priority in the DPRK.

The program of rural revolution in the new era, the regional development policy and other unprecedented far-reaching plans have been laid out and new spheres are steadily explored and extended for the promotion of the people’s livelihood.

New streets and houses in the capital city and rural villages, modern regional industrial factories, offshore farms, modern health facilities and other creations vividly showing the rapid growth of the overall national prosperity are permeated with the spirit of the WPK, which never derives satisfaction nor sets limits in the course of working for the people.

As we hold respected Comrade Kim Jong Un in high esteem, our people are firmly convinced that their dreams and ideals will surely come true, and they boundlessly trust and follow the WPK, calling it motherly Party.

Leadership of Great Party is Sure Guarantee of Victory

 

 2026.10.3.

http://www.mfa.gov.kp/view/article/25048

The Korean revolution has won victory after victory braving all trials of history, which is unthinkable apart from the wise leadership of the Workers’ Party of Korea (WPK).

The WPK boasts of a great origin and succession. The glorious history of its founding and revolutionary leadership are deeply engraved with the immortal exploits of President Kim Il Sung and Chairman Kim Jong Il, the founder and the leader of the Workers’ Party of Korea.

During the course of waging a bloody struggle for national liberation, President Kim Il Sung paved the original path for building a revolutionary Party and accomplished the historic cause of founding the Party. He thus provided a solid cornerstone for the permanent existence and victorious development of the Party.

At a critical time when we witnessed in the international arena acute struggles between progress and reaction, the revolution and counter-revolution, and when the socialist cause and the cause of global independence faced grave challenges posed by the imperialists, Chairman Kim Jong Il made public the immortal work entitled “The Workers’ Party of Korea Organizes and Guides All the Victories of Our People” where he clearly indicated the orientation and ways for further development of the Party into an invincible and genuine people’s Party leading the cause of independence and socialism of the popular masses to victory.

With an insight into the position and role of the Party in the revolutionary struggle and construction, he developed the WPK founded by President Kim Il Sung into a seasoned and militant Party that always guides the people to victory through any hardship and ordeal and into a sophisticated general political staff of the Korean revolution that enjoys the absolute trust of the entire people.

Respected Comrade Kim Jong Un ushered in the great heyday of strengthening the whole Party with his extraordinary political ability and energetic leadership. He remarkably strengthened the leadership ability of the Workers’ Party of Korea, the organizer and guide of all victories of our people, to unfold a great era of transformation on this land.

Under the leadership of the WPK, the DPRK has greeted a new transformative era of overall rejuvenation. Her appearance changes every day in both the capital city and provinces, and all fields of socialist construction including politics, national defense, the economy and culture have developed simultaneously, fully demonstrating the national dignity and might on the highest level.

Upholding the leadership of the Workers’ Party of Korea and rallied more firmly behind respected Comrade Kim Jong Un, our people will surely emerge victorious in the struggle to usher in a new era of overall state development.

Japan's Attempt to Possess Nuclear-Powered Submarine Is Aimed Only at Going Nuclear: Int'l Security Analyst

Pyongyang, October 15 (KCNA) -- Pak Ju Won, an international security analyst, released the following article "Japan's attempt to possess a nuclear-powered submarine is aimed only at going nuclear":

The military moves of Japan's present right-wing conservative regime, which put the successive Japanese regimes into the shade, have almost reached the dangerous level. Against this backdrop, the possession of a nuclear-powered submarine is being openly debated in the archipelago, giving rise to a concern among the international community.

Shortly ago, the Japanese prime minister said at a full-dress session of the House of Representatives that nothing is decided at present on dealing with the new power as regards the acquisition of a nuclear-powered submarine, adding that she would further discuss the issue of the defence capability with a view to revising the three documents on security within this year on the basis of the change in the security environment.

Earlier, the Japanese defense minister said on several occasions that he would not rule out all options but consider them, that the possession of nuclear weapons and a nuclear-powered submarine should not be ruled out in connection with the revision of the said three documents, and that it should be discussed without taboo.

In order to frame a reactionary security policy, Japan uses ministers to describe it as "one of the options" and sound the public opinion on it at home and abroad and then encourages the discussion of it through so-called expert panels to hastily deliberate and decide on it. It is a trite and cunning policy-making method peculiar to Japan.

In September last year, the expert panel under the Defense Ministry proposed to the government the review of the possession of a submarine with "the power of the next generation". The Liberal Democratic Party and the Japan Restoration Party reflected the same purport in their major policy agreement consisting of 12 articles when they formed a coalition government in October. And the chief cabinet secretary and defense minister said that all the options will not be ruled out. All the facts go to prove the above-said method.

The present ruling quarters of Japan are openly crying out for the possession of a nuclear-powered submarine after throwing away even the ambiguous expression "the power of the next generation". Lurking behind it is a sinister intention to create public opinion of favoring stipulating the issue in the said three documents to be revised in the end of this year.

It is the true intention of the Japanese neo-militarist force to formalize the possession of nuclear-powered submarines and secure a stepping-stone to the possession of nuclear weapons in the long-run.

It is a common understanding of the international community that Japan, which started the research and development of nuclear weapons in strict secrecy during World War II, has secretly laid foundations for acquiring the ability to manufacture nuclear weapons at any time since its defeat, and what remains to be done is its political decision only.

A barrier to that political decision is the domestic "basic law on atomic power," which stipulates that research, development and usage of nuclear energy should be limited to peaceful purposes, and deep-rooted negative opinion of the Japanese people who suffered nuclear calamities for the first time in the world.

Japan has removed the shackles put on it, a war criminal state, one by one by avoiding public criticism with such a trick as terming the "capability for attacking enemy base" and "three principles of arms export" the "capability for counterattack" and "three principles of defense equipment transfer". Worse still, the Japanese neo-militarists are working hard to revise the "Pacifist Constitution" banning it from having war capabilities. So it is easy for them to throw away the signboard of "peaceful use of atomic power".

Nowadays the Japanese rulers are making a fuss about "ever-worsening surrounding security environment." This is nothing but a petty trick to systematically pull down the institutional and legal barriers to building up aggression forces and cross the threshold for the building of nuclear-armed forces by creating extreme security unrest among the public and hyping the need to "bolster up independent deterrence".

What should not be overlooked is that the U.S., which is shifting the security burden onto its allies as much as possible to maintain its hegemony that is getting more and more vulnerable, has given the green light to Japan's possession of nuclear-powered submarines in order to use the Japanese reactionaries as shock brigades for implementing its hegemonic strategy.

When interviewed by Japanese media in Hawaii, a U.S. naval dignitary asserted that as Japan has nuclear power plants, it has the development technology serving as a foundation for building nuclear-powered submarines. This hints that the U.S. seeks to connive at and patronize Japan's moves for arming itself with nuclear weapons.

There is no guarantee that Japan will not launch a preemptive nuclear attack at any time if it has access to a nuclear-powered submarine with an operational range far beyond the coastal waters of the archipelago under the patronage of the U.S., in the context that it has long regarded surprise strike and preemptive attack as its exclusive tactics and main war method.

Japan is pursuing the possession of a nuclear-powered submarine, not content with its frantic effort for developing and deploying various ultra-modern attack weapons, having the neighboring countries within their striking range, after discarding the veil of "exclusive defense." Such neo-militarist moves of Japan and the U.S. backstage manipulation have become a fundamental factor that causes military imbalance and creates a new structure of fierce conflict in the region.

The situation proves how just the DPRK, which has ceaselessly bolstered up its national power, was when it opted for doing so of its own accord to defend the national sovereignty and ensure regional and global security. It also highlights the need to thoroughly deter the hostile forces' malicious attempts and moves at their initial stages by dint of the absolutely reliable deterrent for self-defence.

Japan's scheme to have access to a nuclear-powered submarine, aimed at arming itself with nuclear weapons, will surely bring disaster to the archipelago. -0-

DPRK Missile Administration Test-fires Submarine-launched Strategic Cruise Missiles

Pyongyang, October 15 (KCNA) -- The Missile Administration of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea test-fired two kinds of submarine-launched strategic cruise missiles in the East Sea of Korea on October 14.

Full General Kim Jong Sik, member of the Central Military Commission of the Workers' Party of Korea and first vice department director of the WPK Central Committee, Full General Jang Chang Ha, general director of the Missile Administration of the DPRK, and underwater weapon system engineers of the Navy of the Korean People's Army oversaw the test-fire.

The test-fire aimed to examine the current mobilized posture of the underwater combat systems and contributed to getting the Navy skilled in performing its strategic missions and showcasing high reliability, trustworthiness and ability of the war deterrents of the DPRK.

It did not have any adverse impact on the security of neighboring countries. -0-

Joint Declaration of the Nordic Regional Seminar for Friendship with the Korean People

We, representatives of friendship associations, Juche study groups and anti-imperialist

organisations, gathered from across Europe, issue this collective declaration on the occasion of this

important seminar in Copenhagen. Convening on the 81st founding anniversary of the Workers’

Party of Korea, we stand united in declaring our firm solidarity with the Democratic People’s

Republic of Korea and affirming its monumental achievements in socialist construction.

Despite years of severe global health crises, natural disasters, and ongoing imperialist sanctions, the

DPRK has entered a dynamic new era of socialist development. Guided by the strategic decisions of

the 8th and 9th Congresses of the Workers' Party of Korea under the leadership of General-Secretary

Kim Jong Un , the country is demonstrating that people-centered development thrives under the

banner of self-reliance. The unprecedented transformation of urban and regional life across the

country is clearly visible in projects such as the swift construction of 50,000 modern apartments in

Pyongyang, provided to the working people free of charge, as well as the revolutionary 20×10

policy, which is constructing modern industrial plants, regional hospitals, and local infrastructure

across 20 cities and counties each year to eliminate regional disparities. Furthermore, new welfare

and leisure facilities such as the Wonsan-Kalma Beach Resort, the Yangdok Hot Spring Resort, and

advanced agricultural sites like the Sinuiju Combined Greenhouse Farm reflect a state entirely

dedicated to elevating the cultural life, leisure, and health of its entire population.

These monumental achievements of Korean socialism are made possible by the state’s unyielding

defence of its independence. In the face of constant military encirclement, aggressive joint

exercises, and nuclear threats by US imperialism and its regional military alliances, the DPRK’s

constitutional decision to strengthen its defensive nuclear deterrent remains entirely justified and

serves as the primary guarantee of peace and stability in the region. Recognising that imperialist

powers rely heavily on systematic disinformation to isolate the DPRK, our solidarity movement

commits to elevating the quality and reach of our propaganda work. By utilising truth as our

primary weapon and adopting modern communication formats, including digital media and broad

cultural outreach, we will effectively counter hostile propaganda and present the genuine reality of

the DPRK to workers and students all across Europe.

Approaching the centenary of the Down With Imperialism Union, the international situation

demands a bold leap forward in our collective work. Connecting with the growing anti-imperialist

consciousness and disdain for US imperialism, we commit ourselves to expand international

coordination through the European Regional Committee for Friendship and Solidarity with the

Korean People, promote joint campaigns across borders and actively organise progressive people

into the movement. We extend our revolutionary greetings to the Korean people and the Workers'

Party of Korea, affirming our unwavering commitment to build a powerful and unified solidarity

movement with the DPRK.

Long live the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea and the Workers’ Party of Korea!

Long live international solidarity against imperialist aggression!

Strengthen the European solidarity movement with the Korean people!

Contribution to the Nordic Regional Seminar of Friendship Organisations in Copenhagen , Denmark 10.10.2026 by Dr Dermot Hudson

 Dear comrades and friends of the Denmark -DPRK Friendship Association

Dear honoured diplomatic representatives of the DPRK 

Dear friends of Nordic friendship organisations

Firstly , please accept my greetings to this significant Nordic Regional Seminar of Friendship Organisations hosted by the Denmark-DPRK Friendship Association . Originally , I had planned to attend this seminar in person but circumstances conspired to prevent me so I am sending my greetings to the seminar and the following presentation;

This seminar of friendship organisations with the DPRK in the Nordic region is being held at a time when the DPRK is celebrating the 81st anniversary of the foundation of  its ruling party , the Workers Party of Korea (WPK)and will soon celebrate the 100th anniversary of the formation of the Down With Imperialism Union ,the forerunner of the WPK .

Today under the  leadership of respected Marshal KIM JONG UN the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK ) has entered a new era of prosperity . Even the most reactionary mouthpiece of US imperialist high finance the “Wall Street Journal “ had to grudgingly admit the DPRK is the  “World’s Most Surprising Economic Success Story “ and is building more homes than American cities like Chicago and Los Angeles .  Of course the DPRK has long been famed as the “country of Chollima “ and ‘model country of socialism “

Visiting the DPRK in April 2024(after nearly 5 years ) I was amazed by what I saw . During the visit I witnessed that the situation in the DPRK is calm and stable .The DPRK had closed its borders for 4 years but survived ,a truly amazing feat when you consider that some countries would only last weeks or even days with their borders closed . However the DPRK is based firmly on self-reliance and the independent national economy .

  Despite the sanctions imposed by the US and its lackeys on the UN Security Council and the COVID 19 pandemic the DPRK is carrying out massive construction work ,it is going through another great Chollima upsurge( Chollima was a flying horse of legend in Korea and gave its name to the mass movement for increased productivity in the DPRK in the late 1950s)  .A new street, Hwasong Street which is the size of a small city has appeared in Pyongyang.On the day of our arrival our coach to the hotel passed through and later in the visit we drove through Hwasong Street both during the day and at night . Hwasong Street looks very modern and of good quality .It would cost billions to build in a Western country but the DPRK gives homes to people free of charge . Whilst we were staying in the DPRK the second stage of Hwasong Street  was opened in the presence of the supreme leader of the DPRK , respected Marshal KIM JONG UN. On the way back to the airport we could see from a distance the new construction in the Sopho District.

When I returned to the DPRK in October 2025 to participate in the celebrations for the 80th anniversary of the foundation of the Workers Party of Korea , the construction project in Sopho district had been completed . The route to the airport which I had passed through 20 times had become completely unrecognisable. The development of the DPRK  is being achieved without outside help, ‘aid’ or foreign capital and without “reform” and “opening up “ . It is a miracle of self-reliance and shows what a socialist country can do when it relies on its own resources and believes in itself.

The DPRK is upholding socialist principles at a time when others are retreating .Marshal KIM JONG UN declared that “For the Workers' Party of Korea, the government of the Republic and our people, the absolute lifeline is to remain faithful to the socialist line and hold higher the banner of socialism”

Once about 10 years ago a member of our Korean Friendship Association of the UK asked a certain organisation why they did not support the DPRK , they replied that “there is no focus for socialism in Asia , only in Latin America” ! From where I stand socialism in Latin America is being sold out or is crumbling fast.  A certain country held up by some British leftists as an ideal socialist country is handing over tons of oil to the US imperialists ! However  socialism in People’s Korea is advancing rapidly under the banner of the red flag of the Juche idea . The day will come  when the DPRK becomes, to use an English expression, the’ only game in town’ . Therefore, in my opinion, there is the potential for us to win new supporters ,people who in the past may have stood to one side or even been hostile to the DPRK . Moreover in a number of Western European countries the political system is in crisis with high levels of disillusionment and dissatisfaction . As a result many people are looking for alternatives . This can also provide us with opportunities to promote the Juche idea , win new friends for People’s Korea and increase solidarity with People’s Korea .

We need to grasp with both hands the opportunities for increasing support for the DPRK.

I wish the seminar every success .

Long live People’s Korea !
Long live Juche !
Long live Friendship and solidarity of the European peoples with the DPRK !

Dr Dermot Hudson

Secretary General European Regional Committee For Friendship with the Korean People.

Vice-Chairman Organising Committee For the International Festival in Praise of the Great Persons of Mt Paektu

Chairman Korean Friendship Association UK

Chairman British Group For the Study of the Juche Idea