BGSJI and KFA UK on the 100th anniversary of the formation of the Down With Imperialism Union.

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12th of October 2026

 The British Group for the Study of the Juche Idea(BGSJI) and the Korean Friendship Association of the UK (KFA UK )  issued a joint statement on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the formation of the Down With Imperialism Union ;

On the 17th of October  1926 the revolutionary red banner of Juche was first raised in Korea with the formation of the Down-With- Imperialism- Union which was also known as the TD. The DIU was the first genuine communist revolutionary organisation in  Korea. The formation of the DIU marked a clean break with the stagnant  ideas of factionalism , flunkeyism and dogmatism  thus, it was a decisive leap forward in the task of building a revolutionary working-class party in Korea. The DIU  completely broke with opportunism and also the national reformism of bourgeois nationalists. As  comrade Kim Il Sung said to the meeting that founded the DIU

"Irreconcilable contradictions exist between the imperialists and people in the colonies  and these contradictions are sharpening  with the passage of time. Because these contradictions are antagonistic they cannot be settled by any kind of 'compromise ' and will only be solved when imperialism is overthrown"

  Thus the Korean revolution was set on the correct path. The foundation of the DIU by the great leader comrade Kim Il Sung heralded the dawn of a new era of independence in which the popular masses became masters of their fate,masters of their destiny.

   Indeed as the great leader comrade Kim Il Sung said;

"The formation of this union, the first genuine communistic revolutionary organisation in our country , was the historic announcement of a new beginning for our revolution. With the formation of the DIU  our people's revolutionary struggle began to progress with the principle of independence and this was when our Party began to strike its glorious roots"

     The DIU proudly proclaimed its aims were to win independence and liberation for Korea, to carry out the socialist revolution in Korea, to build socialism and communism in Korea and to carry out the world revolution. Thus for the first time in history the lines of national liberation and socialist revolution were combined. Moreover the relationship between the national tasks of the working class and its international tasks was affirmed. Both the line of combing national liberation with socialism and the line of inter-relating the national and international tasks of the struggle were a prototype form of the Juche idea of the great leader comrade Kim Il Sung. Independence and self-reliance were the cornerstones of the DIU.                             

                                          

   The DIU was a new kind of revolutionary organisation founded among the youth and students of Korea . The great leader comrade Kim Il Sung had prepared the ground for the formation of the DIU by leading many struggles amongst the youth and students including a strike of school students against reactionary teachers. These struggles fostered core elements of the revolution. It was not formed from the factionalists who indulged in empty talk and who were divorced from the popular masses as they were drawn from the middle class , bourgeoisie and  ruined aristocracy. The DIU fought for the revolution on the basis of independence. As the great leader comrade Kim Jong Il wrote "The formation of the DIU was a historic declaration of a fresh start for the Korean communist movement and the Korean revolution. Now, the Korean communist movement and national-liberation movement bade farewell to the old generation, contaminated by flunkeyism and dogmatism, and welcomed a new age based on the principle of independence. The establishment of the D1U was the beginning of the struggle to found a new type of party, a revolutionary party of the Juche type, which was different from the one which had previously existed in our country"

   The DIU was the foundation stone of the Workers' Party of Korea.The idea and lines of the Down-Imperialism Union were brilliantly implemented and carried forward by the Workers' Party of Korea founded by the great leader comrade Kim Il Sung and developed the great leader comrade Kim Jong Il. As the great leader comrade Kim Jong Il in his work "The Workers Party of Korea is a Juche-type revolutionary party which inherited the glorious traditions of the DIU "..

Our Party which has followed a unique path since it started to take root with the formation of the DIU is a new type of revolutionary working-class party.

Ours is a Juche-type revolutionary party which is guided by the Juche idea and carried out its revolutionary activities independently and creatively in keeping with the interests of our people and conditions in our country. By establishing Juche thoroughly in all spheres of Party building and activity with the Juche idea as its unalterable guide, it has been able to strengthen and develop into an indestructible revolutionary party."

Under the leadership of the dear respected leader Marshal Kim Jong Un , the Chairman of the  Workers' Party of Korea , the Korean people and WPK carry forward the militant revolutionary anti-imperialist traditions of the DIU and are advancing towards final victory under the banner of self-reliance . We salute the 100th anniversary of the formation of the DIU. May the Korean revolution continue for another 100 years and a 1,000 years

LONG LIVE THE SPIRIT OF THE DOWN WITH IMPERIALISM UNION !

LONG LIVE JUCHE !

LONG LIVE THE WORKERS' PARTY OF KOREA !

LONG LIVE RESPECTED MARSHAL KIM JONG UN !

BGSJI

KFA UK 

Performance Given to Celebrate 81st Founding Anniversary of WPK

 Performance Given to Celebrate 81st Founding Anniversary of WPK

Pyongyang, October 11 (KCNA) -- A celebration performance was given with splendor at the Pyongyang Indoor Stadium on Oct. 10, the 81st founding anniversary of the Workers' Party of Korea, now that the people's absolute confidence in the WPK, the great guide and invincible vanguard for the Juche revolution, is growing stronger along with the significant October holiday.

The WPK is ushering in an era of dignity and glory, a long-cherished desire of all generations of this land, while firmly preserving its revolutionary character and true nature, never to be found in other parts of the world, without any deviation and fading from the day when it solemnly declared its founding with the emblem representing the people embroidered on the red flag held aloft in Paektu. The venue of the performance was overflowing with deep reverence for the Party, alongside the audiences recollecting with deep emotion the sacred founding history of the Party and its immortal exploits.

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, watched the performance.

Stormy cheers of "Hurrah!" went up among the audiences paying the highest glory and respect to Comrade Kim Jong Un, the great leader of the ever-victorious WPK, who is representing the dignity and mightiness of the DPRK.

Comrade Kim Jong Un warmly waved back to the enthusiastically cheering crowds as a token of his congratulations to all the participants on the Party founding day.

Among the audience were members of the Presidium of the Political Bureau of the WPK Central Committee and other leading officials of the Party and the government, officials of the Party Central Committee, ministries, national agencies and armed forces organs, creators, artistes, youth and students and other citizens in Pyongyang.

Present there on invitation were diplomatic envoys and members of foreign missions here.

The performance began with prelude "Long Live the Workers' Party of Korea" and "Fly High, Our Party Flag". Put on the stage were all-people hymns to the WPK and patriotic songs, played in good artistic harmony with vocals, dance, acrobatics, gymnastics and military band's performance.

Enthusiastically singing the odes to the Party, produced by the sacred experiences of the people, the performers sang high praises of the glorious history and immortal exploits of the WPK that built on this land a dignified country, where people's dreams and ideals come true, and made great world-startling miracles and changes century after century, hewing the untrodden path of the socialist cause, arduous yet sacred, for over 80 years.

The audience fervently applauded the famous songs which made them feel proud of the greatness and mightiness of the WPK that has written the longest history as a ruling party in the world, fulfilling the most righteous mission and implementing the noble idea, reminding them of their great honor and fortune of having the wise political staff confidently steering our cause straight to victory.

Performers gave other colorful numbers representing the ardent desire and enthusiasm of the people determined to realize the far-reaching ambition for the comprehensive development of socialism, single-mindedly supporting their motherly Party.

The performance, which ended with the finale "The National Anthem of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea", added to the conviction and optimism that the path being taken by the DPRK is always the one of justice and truth and an immensely beautiful and bright future is in store for it as it is led by the great Party.

The performance was highly acclaimed by the audiences for the songs of undying faith and patriotism.

Expressing satisfaction at the successful performance, Comrade Kim Jong Un warmly waved back to the performers and audiences.

The performance added to the joy of all the people celebrating the birthday of the great motherly Party, the most sacred and glorious holiday. -0-

BGSJI and KFA UK support press statement of DPRK FM spokesperson on the human rights issue

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10th of October  2026

 The British Group for the Study of the Juche Idea and  the  Korean Friendship Association of the UK  KFA  UK )  , issued a joint statement in support of the press statement of spokesperson for the Foreign Ministry of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK)  that was issued on the 9th of October ;

Recently the US State Department issued the "2026 Trafficking in Persons Report" which slanders the DPRK and run through with lies and fabrications .

The spokesperson of the DPRK Foreign Ministry declares that "This clearly proved once again the U.S. vicious and malicious intention to politicize and weaponize human rights and use them as the primary lever for its hostile policy toward the DPRK."

The US has indeed weaponised the human rights issue . The US is also trying to use the human rights issue as a lever for the overthrow of the socialist system in the DPRK.

The so-called "human rights reports " issued by the US state department  are nothing but interreference  in other countries affairs as well as regime change propaganda .

The spokesperson of the DPRK Foreign Ministry points out that " Human traffic has been an evil of American society for a long time, and it is also the U.S. "specialty" which is difficult to imitate.". This is very true . The US has been convulsed by the Epstein scandal in which women and children were trafficked deliberately to satisfy the degenerate desires of the ruling elite of the US and the Western world .

The publication of this so-called report by the US state dept reveals once again the hostile policy of the US towards the DPRK and its desire to overthrow the socialist system in the DPRK.

The DPRK Foreign Ministry declares it will take the toughest counter-action against the US "human rights "racket as well as other US hostility towards the DPRK .

We support the DPRK FM's declaration to take the most resolute and decisive action to defend its system !
BGSJI
KFA UK 

BGSJI and KFA UK support the reclarification of the DPRK's stand given by comrade Kim Yo Jong

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10th of October  2026

 The British Group for the Study of the Juche Idea and  the  Korean Friendship Association of the UK  KFA  UK )  , issued a joint statement in support   of comrade Kim Yo Jong Department Director of the Central Committee of the Workers Party of Korea important reclarification , through the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA ),of the stand of the government of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea ;

On the 9th of October comrade Kim Yo Jong made clear through KCNA the consistent stand and judgement of the DPRK government towards the hooligans and gangsters of the ROK.

The ROK puppets are disguising their ill intentions towards the DPRK as " good will " . The  fabricated mine explosion  case and the so-called offer of "medical aid " are really just two sides of the same coin. Comrade Kim Yo Jong declares that "This time the duplicity and shamelessness of the ROK, which touted "humanitarian aids" for someone, have become visible to the naked eye."

Now the whole world can see the deception of the ROK puppets . The fabrication of the mine explosion incident and the offer of so-called "aid " are a mean trick to try and present the ROK puppets as being "reasonable " ,"friendly " and "peaceful ". Whatever short term gains that the ROK might get from this farce , in the long term it will lose more .

The DPRK in the future will not deal the ROK puppets . It plans to more decisively reject the ROK puppets . Comrade Kim Yo Jong categorically states that  "Upon authorization of our head of state and according to the general will of the people of the DPRK, I clarify that we will more definitely disregard and reject the human scum of the ROK in the future. "

The ROK are human scum and the DPRK is correct not to deal with them . We support the just and principle stand of the DPRK .

BGSJI

KFA UK

From Voice of Korea-The Heyday of Strengthening the Whole Party

 From Voice of Korea.

http://vok.rep.kp/index.php/detail_com/scomde/iee260911001/39/en

The Heyday of Strengthening the Whole Party

  The Workers' Party of Korea with the longest history of over 80 years as a socialist ruling party is ushering in the heyday of its development by holding the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un in high esteem as its supreme leader.

Line of Party Building in the New Era

  Comrade Kim Jong Un, General Secretary of the WPK, put much effort into studying the theory on party building corresponding to the new era as the party is a guiding force and organizer of the revolution.

  One day, he visited the Central Cadres Training School of the WPK and gave a historic commemorative lecture to its teaching staff and students, in which he clarified that political building, organizational building, ideological building, discipline building and work style building are the orientation of our Party building in the new era.

 The orientation of our Party building is to strengthen the WPK into the one politically mature, organizationally strong, ideologically pure, strict in discipline and sound in work style as demanded by the new era.

  The world history of socialist movement gave a historic lesson that a ruling party politically immature, organizationally and ideologically unsound, and infested with indiscipline and wrong work style cannot lead the revolution correctly and serve the people properly.

  The orientation of the Party building in the new era is an original line advanced on the basis of scientific diagnosis after correctly examining the historical lesson of the world socialist movement and our realistic conditions.

  That day, Comrade Kim Jong Un affirmed that if our Party is firmly strengthened in the direction of political building, organizational building, ideological building, discipline building and work style building, it can strengthen its leadership ability and fighting efficiency and fully discharge its duty as the revolutionary Party responsible for the destiny and future of the people while not only carrying out immediate tasks of the party building but also solving prospective problems actively and systematically.

  The orientation of Party building in the new era based on the original idea and theory of Party building was officially adopted as a line of our Party at the Sixth Plenary Meeting of the Eighth Central Committee of the WPK held in late December 2022.

  The line of Party building in the new era is the general principles that provided a fundamental guarantee for accelerating the construction of socialism and communism.

For the Strengthening and Development of the Party

  The Workers' Party of Korea put on the normal track the system of regularly holding major Party meetings such as the Party congress, plenary meetings of the Party Central Committee and politburo meetings with the Eighth Party Congress held in January 2021 as the starting point, so that it can have proper leading position and appearance as the ruling party.

  One day, Comrade Kim Jong Un said short-term strategy and short-term review are important and stressed the need to regularize the convocation of the Party congress every 5 years and that of the Party plenary meetings between the Party congresses at the end or the beginning of every year after the Eighth Party Congress.

  He clarified the correctest lines, policies, struggle strategies, goals and strategic and tactical policies at the Party plenary meetings with his extraordinary idea and theory and outstanding leadership, leading the Korean revolution to a brilliant victory.

  Whenever the Party plenary meetings were held, the WPK went closer to the people and the people's trust in the Party became deeper. And the people had a deep understanding of the plan and intention of the WPK through the news of the Party plenary meetings.

  With the historic Party plenary meetings as an occasion, the WPK came to regularize its whole work and rally the whole Party and all the people more firmly around the Party Central Committee.

  It is the exploits noteworthy in strengthening the ruling power of the WPK that Comrade Kim Jong Un established the system of regularly holding major Party meetings in conformity with the leading position and function of the Party and ensured that its operation was improved.

  On June 1, 2024, the Central Cadres Training School of the WPK, which assumed its aspect as a prestigious revolutionary university training core cadres of the Party on the highest level, was inaugurated on the occasion of the 78th anniversary of its founding.

  In his commemorative speech that day, Comrade Kim Jong Un said the heyday of strengthening the Party raised its actual curtain at that point.

  The WPK will lead the Korean revolution only to victory and glory while more fully demonstrating its dignity and might under his leadership.

81 years of struggle along the road of building the Party of Juche-special article by Dr Dermot Hudson

 

Since the Workers Party of Korea was founded as the Communist Party of North Korea by the great leader President KIM IL SUNG on the 10th of October 1945 , it has travelled a road of glory , a road of victory . It has travelled the road of Juche and the road of self-reliance .

Today the Workers Party of Korea (WPK ), which is proudly  celebrating its 81st anniversary is the socialist ruling party of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK), is a party with millions of members from all walks of life . The origins of the WPK go back a long way . The historical root of the WPK is the Down With Imperialism Union(DIU)  which was founded 100 years ago on the 17th of October 1926 in the year of the general strike . President KIM IL SUNG formed the DIU from the ranks of revolutionary youth and students during the Japanese imperialist occupation .

The WPK is proof of the saying that “from small acorns mighty oaks grow “  because from its humble origins during the years of the anti-Japanese armed struggle it rose up to become a mighty party of Juche , the supreme general staff of the Korean revolution and organiser and guide of the Korean people’s victories.  The WPK is a party not only with millions of members but a true mass party that mobilises over two dozen million people to build socialism and to form a single harmonious whole . I witnessed this with my own eyes when I visited the DPRK in 2015 for the 70th anniversary of the foundation of the Workers Party of Korea and ten years later in 2025 for the 80th anniversary of the WPK . On both occasions I witnessed momentous events celebrating such as huge military and civilian parades which demonstrated the unity of the people .

All this has been achieved through hard and continuous struggle under the correct leadership of President KIM IL SUNG , Chairman KIM JONG IL and respected Marshal KIM JONG UN over the past eight decades .

The WPK was not built in easy times , far from it . During its early days in the 1940s it had to face the dirty tricks and sabotage of factionalists who tried to stop the foundation of the WPK or to split it . 

The WPK received  a baptism of fire when the US imperialists provoked the Fatherland Liberation War (Korean War ) in June 1950 but the steel strong WPK under the leadership of President KIM IL SUNG roused the people to defeat the US aggressors and also internal enemies such as the counter-revolutionary factionalists . 

The WPK not only led the Fatherland Liberation War to victory but after the war,which formally ended in 1953 , it guided the reconstruction and rehabilitation of the country from the war damage and also embarked on the road of socialist industrialisation as well as transforming agriculture and trade along socialist lines. By 1958 an advanced socialist system centred on the people had come into being . Socialist industrialisation was completed by 1970 . Because the WPK always followed the people-first principle and was a motherly party, the people enjoyed the maximum benefits such as free healthcare , free education , low cost food ,abolition of taxation and free housing .

Under the leadership of Chairman KIM JONG Il the establishment of the monolithic ideological system of Juche was pushed forward and the line of the three revolutions ; ideological , technical and cultural was laid down . Today the line of the three revolutions is continued under the leadership of respected comrade KIM JONG UN .

When many ruling parties of the socialist countries succumbed to the onslaught of anti-socialism and the wind of bourgeois liberalism in the early 1990s , the WPK under the leadership of President KIM IL SUNG and Chairman KIM JONG IL firmly upheld the red banner of socialism .

In the mid 1990s When the imperialists tried to strangle Korean style socialism by means of sanctions and military pressure  the WPK guided by Chairman KIM JONG IL led the arduous march and forced march to victory . It was in this period that the DPRK launched its first artificial satellite in 1998.

Respected comrade KIM JONG UN urged the WPK to make selfless ,devoted efforts for the people. Although the DPRK faced an immensely difficult situation which included multiple sanctions of the imperialists , natural disasters and the global health crisis in the early 2020s , the country pushed ahead with new Five Year plans and the massive housing construction such as Mirae Scientists Street , Ryomyong Street , Hwasong Street and whole new towns and cities .These achievements are truly awesome.

The WPK’s  81 year long history has been a history of victory and glory .

Dr Dermot Hudson

Chairman Korean Friendship Association of the UK

Chairman British Group For the Study of the Juche Idea

Hon Secretary Global Farmy Group for the Study of KIM JONG UN’s People first policies

Glory to the 81st anniversary of the foundation of the Workers Party of Korea !

 

Today is the 81st anniversary of the foundation of the great Workers Party of Korea , the supreme general staff of the Korean revolution .

President KIM IL SUNG founded the Workers Party of Korea , the steel strong party of Juche on the 10th of October 1945 . Since then it has travelled the road of Juche and self-reliance