KCNA Commentary on Reckless Acts of Japan, Defeated Country

Pyongyang, June 29 (KCNA) -- Japan's moves to turn itself into a military giant are getting evermore undisguised. Against this backdrop, it launched frenzied drill Resolute Dragon in the archipelago in collusion with the U.S.

The annual drill Resolute Dragon is a war rehearsal simulating an actual war, which started from 2021 under the signboard of "improving the U.S.-Japan joint capability to counter the threat of aggression" by someone, non-existent. Japan has steadily increased its capability to launch an act of aggression through the drill.

In the last year's drill alone, Japan increased the number of the "Self-Defense Forces" by ten times as compared with the first drill in which some 1 400 forces were involved, and greatly expanded the facilities used for the drill.

Moreover, the SDF's role was remarkably enhanced in training for reconnaissance, the primary stage in preemptive attack on opponents.

This year's drill is also being thoroughly subordinated to reconfirming the operational capability of the war machine called Japan and hastening the moment of actual war.

V-22 Osprey cargo planes of the Ground "SDF" are using the U.S. military base in Okinawa Prefecture for the first time and increasing the capability to rapidly transport aggression forces anywhere in the archipelago. And furthermore the drill includes a drone training aimed to draw on the experience of the Ukrainian battlefields and master new combat methods in modern warfare.

This fully proves the aggressive and offensive nature of the Resolute Dragon.

What matters is that recently Japan has further promoted military ties with the U.S., aggravating the situation in the surrounding region.

In February, Japan repeatedly staged joint air drills with the U.S. in the sky above the surroundings of the Korean peninsula with the mobilization of F-2 and F-15 fighters. And subsequently it conducted the joint drill Iron Fist with the U.S. Marines in its mainland.

Especially, Japan dispatched the "SDF" troops to take an active part in the U.S.-led multinational military drill in the Asia-Pacific region between April and May for the first time.

What should not be overlooked is that Japan, which had participated in the military drill as an observer until last year, not only hurled war forces this year but also openly launched long-range strike means developed for preemptive attack on neighboring countries during the drill.

Clear is Japan's purpose of deepening military integration with the U.S. It is the real intention of the Japanese militarists to justify Japan's transformation into a war state and become the "leader of Asia" at an early date by taking advantage of the present chaotic international situation created by their master's rogue act intended to contain the enemy countries and rival states in the region and realize its ambition for hegemony.

Originally, it is Japan's inveterate bad habit to attain its aggressive purpose with the backing of a big country.

It is obvious that if the defeated country of Asia, closely watched by the international community, completes all preparations for the operation of war machine for overseas aggression under the active backing of the U.S., it will surely create a grave crisis threatening peace and stability 1n the Korean peninsula and the region.

However, Japan should not act rashly, mindful that its rush to mount a reinvasion while serving the world's biggest war merchant will only bring a miserable end. -0-

www.kcna.kp (2026.06.29.)

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BGSJI and KFA UK on the 10th anniversary of the election of dear respected comrade KIM JONG UN as President of the State Affairs of the DPRK

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                      29th  June 2026The British Group for the Study of the Juche Idea (BGSJI) and the Korean Friendship Association  of the UK (KFA UK  ) issued the following joint statement on the occasion  of the 10th   anniversary of the election of the dear respected leader Marshal KIM JONG UN as President of the State Affairs of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea:
  

  The election of dear respected Marshal KIM JONG UN as President  of the State Affairs  ten years ago on the 29th of June 2016 fully reflected the enthusiastic support of the entire Korean people for the dear respected Marshal KIM JONG UN who is leading the Korean people to victory! It was a clear manifestation of the unanimous will of the Korean people as well as their deep reverence for respected Marshal KIM JONG UN as well as their profound trust in him. It was an example of people's democracy in action because dear respected Marshal KIM JONG UN was unanimously elected by the Supreme People's Assembly which in turn had been elected by the people decisively. Unlike the UK where only 68.7  per cent of electors voted, in the DPRK the Supreme People's Assembly was elected by nearly 100 per cent of electors!
   

 Dear respected Marshal KIM JONG UN has been at the helm of the state and party of the DPRK for ten years leading  to victory after victory against the imperialist reactionary forces. He has implemented the great revolutionary line of building the nuclear force and economy in parallel and has greatly improved the living standards of the Korean people turning the DPRK into a paradise of socialist bliss for the people. Under dear respected Marshal KIM JONG UN leadership the deterrent force of the DPRK has been increased and the DPRK is maintaining robust independence.  Dear respected Marshal KIM JONG UN has put forward the brilliant idea of self-development first and self-reliance which is creating a great upsurge in socialist construction. There has been extraordinarily rapid progress  in socialist construction  with the town and cities of the DPRK changing their appearance day after day with new streets such as Hwasong Street rising up out of bare earth,

      Great achievements have been made in consolidating the DPRK's Juche -based national defence power ; for example the DPRK was able to launch two new destroyer ships.

  Only victory and glory are in store for the Korean people under the leadership of dear respected Marshal KIM JONG UN ,  President of State Affairs the DPRK!

  LONG LIVE PEOPLE'S KOREA LAND OF JUCHE!

LONG LIVE KIMILSUNGISM-KIMJONGILISM !

LONG LIVE DEAR RESPECTED MARSHAL KIM JONG UN!

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Ten Remarkable years !-special article marking the 10th anniversary of the election of respected Marshal KIM JONG UN as President of the State Affairs of the DPRK

Ten years ago  on the 29th of June 2016  respected Marshal KIM JONG UN was elected as Chairman of the newly created State Affairs Commission of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK ) by the Supreme People’s Assembly of the DPRK . Later the title of Chairman of the State Affairs Commission of the DPRK became known as the President of the State Affairs of the DPRK . Respected comrade KIM JONG UN had been guiding the party and the state since April 2012 and his election to the post of President of State Affairs of the DPRK reflected the trust and confidence of the Korean people in the leadership abilities of respected Marshal KIM JONG UN .

The years from 2016 in the DPRK  have been truly ten remarkable years; ten years of growth , prosperity, innovation , dynamism  and development which even the capitalist reactionaries like the Wall Street Journal now have to grudgingly admit that People’s Korea is developing rapidly . The source of the DPRK’s miraculous development is not outside assistance or a benefactor but the DPRK’s own internal strength which is based on self-reliance and single -hearted unity .

During the past ten years in which Marshal KIM JONG UN has presided over the DPRK’s growth I have visited the DPRK  11 times and each time I have seen big changes particularly on my last two visits in 2024 and 2025. Literally high rise buildings has risen up from bare earth one after another , the whole face of Pyongyang has changed . The area between Pyongyang Sunan International Airport and the centre of Pyongyang looks unrecognisable , my guide told me that Hwasong Street was only a few years ago rice fields .

The pace of construction work has been truly massive ; new streets and residential areas such as Ryomyong Street , Songwha Street, Hwasong Street , Jonwi street , Saeppyol Street and the Kyongru-dong residential area.  Over 100, 000 new homes have been built in rural areas . Recently the 2nd Plenary meeting  of the Central Committee of the Workers Party of Korea took the wonderful decision to build new housing in mining areas of the DPRK . 

It is not just new housing that has been built but also new Greenhouse farms such as the Kangdong Greenhouse Farm which I visited in 2024 , this is a state owned farm that is the size of a town and equipped with the latest technology , in fact it looked like something out of science fiction . A new state of the art hospital, the Pyongyang General Hospital , has been constructed in the centre of Pyongyang and there are plans to build 100 new hospitals .

It can be said that the pace of construction in the DPRK has accelerated considerably in the DPRK in the last ten years but these has not been under ideal conditions for the DPRK has faced sanctions by the US imperialists , the UN Security Council and entities such as the EU . The DPRK also suffered a lot of natural disasters which would have caused any other country to crumple up and disappear but thanks to the leadership of respected Marshal KIM JONG UN and the revolutionary spirit of self-reliance , People’s Korea has prospered and is entering a period of the comprehensive development of socialism .

Respected comrade KIM JONG UN has also most actively pushed forward the work of national defence in order to make sure that the great achievements outlined above will not be reduced to naught by a destructive war .The DPRK is a nuclear power and a missile power and it will soon become a great naval power .

We salute the 10th anniversary of the election of Marshal KIM JONG UN as President of the State Affairs of the DPRK  and wish for another ten remarkable years of the dynamic leadership of respected Marshal KIM JONG UN !

Dr Dermot Hudson

Chairman British Group For the Study of the Juche Idea

Chairman of the Korean Friendship Association of the UK

Hon Secretary General Global Farmy Study Group for respected comrade KIM JONG UN’s People-First Policies

Glory to the 10th anniversary of the respected Marshal KIM JONG UN's election as President of the State Affairs of the DPRK.

                                                                               

Today is the 10th anniversary of respected Marshal KIM JONG UN's election as Chairman (now President of State Affairs )of the State Affairs Commission of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK ) .

It has been 10 years of victory and glory which has seen a great leap forward in the Juche revolution and the construction of socialism .

Crime of Japan, Sworn Enemy of Korean Nation

Pyongyang, June 26 (KCNA) -- The Japanese imperialists, who illegally occupied Korea in the last century, had committed ceaseless massacres against Korean people until the day of their defeat.

It is clearly evidenced by the hideous unethical crimes they committed during the project for building underground imperial headquarters in Matsushiro of Japan.

At the end of 1944 when there were clear signs of their defeat, the Japanese imperialists planned to build a secret basement with a total length of more than 10 km in Matsushiro and invested huge funds and manpower in the project and completed 75 percent of the total project until their defeat the next year.

Most of the workers who were forced to work at this labor-consuming underground construction site were Koreans. Among them were even old people and boys.

According to data, Koreans forced into slave labor here averaged more than 7 000 a day, sometimes more than 10 000.

The Japanese imperialists mobilized Korean people for the project, which was linked to the destiny of the war, with the calculation that they could drive the Korean people into slave labor like beasts of burden and with the sordid intention to massacre the Korean workers for secrecy when the project was over.

They mercilessly oppressed the Koreans, who were driven at four o'clock to the construction site, tied to chains under double or treble control and surveillance, to do hard labor for 13 to 15 hours a day or even more than 16 hours, breaking rocks or carrying heavy stones.

The Japanese imperialist beasts beat the Korean workers to death on the spot if they incurred displeasure even a bit, and some workers were put in a concrete mixture or thrown down from a precipice.

Not a single day passed without seeing blood of the Korean workers at the construction site. Even those who barely survived were mercilessly killed under the pretext of keeping secret.

The secret basement was a den of beasts and a veritable hell of death stained with blood of many Koreans. -0-

www.kcna.kp (2026.06.26.)

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Korean War Reveals True Colours of the US (2)

 

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Peace-breaker and Murderer

The US unrestrainedly revealed its true colours as murderer and peace-breaker during the Korean war.

Claiming that Korea is a battlefield on which all the success of the US might depend, it invaded the DPRK that was following a path towards progressive development.

Everything was destroyed and plundered, and peaceful sounds of music gave way to explosion of bombs, enforcing the Korean people into untold misfortune and sufferings.

“Don’t let your hands tremble even when those who appear before you are children or old people. Kill them! In doing so you will be saving yourselves from ruin and fulfilling your responsibilities as soldiers of the ‘UN Forces,’” a US commander ordered. Accordingly, the invaders committed atrocities of all descriptions.

Everywhere they went they shot, beat and burnt innocent civilians to death. Even they slaughtered people by employing the most brutal and medieval methods that are impossible to describe in words and writing. Saying that it is so happy for mothers to stay with their children, an American officer ordered that children were separated from their mothers and gasoline was sprayed over them crying for hunger to burn them to death.

The Americans made no bones about pouring internationally banned bacterial and chemical bombs over innocent people.

Their indiscriminate bombing laid waste to the DPRK.

Clark, who commanded the “UN Forces” towards the end of the war, ordered mass destruction, claiming that they would completely wipe off the map 78 towns in the DPRK.

The capital city of Pyongyang was reduced to rubbles, with no single building left in one piece, after it was bombed out with as many as 428 000 bombs, the number greater than its population.

Throughout the war the US Air Force made 800 000 sorties and the squadrons of the Marines Corps and Navy Force over 250 000 sorties to drop 18 bombs per square kilometre on average, or 3.7 times as many as those dropped on Japan proper during the Pacific War. Such an indiscriminate bombardment burnt all dwelling houses, cultural and healthcare facilities and industrial establishments to the ground.

The atrocity-ridden war claimed well over a million civilian lives in the DPRK.

The Korean war raged on to be a do-or-die fight between the just defenders of peace and the vicious invaders, murderers and destroyers.

Under the guidance of the great leader Comrade Kim Il Sung, the Korean people and service personnel fought at the risk of their lives by displaying unparalleled patriotism, mass heroism and bravery, thereby beating the US which had boasted of being the “strongest” in the world and defending their national dignity and sovereignty. Their victory halted the ever-impending nuclear war crisis and defended the global environment for peaceful development.

Report of Joint Online Meeting of KFA UK and KFA Hungary for the Month of Solidarity with the Korean People 25.06.2026

The Korean Friendship Association of the UK (KFA UK ) and the Korean Friendship Association of Hungary hosted a joint meeting online at 1900 hours on the 25th of June  about the Month of Solidarity with the Korean people and the 76th anniversary of the start of the great Fatherland Liberation War of the Korean people .

Participating in the meeting were members of KFA UK from London , the West of England and other parts of the UK  and also KFA Hungary including its chairman . Also participating was the heads of KFA Germany , KFA Greece and the International Communications Secretary of the Korean Friendship Association.

Dr Dermot Hudson chairman of KFA UK introducing the meeting said that June 25th to July 27th is the month of solidarity with the Korean people because the Fatherland Liberation War started on the 25th of June and ended on the 27th of July.

In his speech which gave the historical background to the provocation of the Fatherland Liberation War he said that “It was on this very day that the ROK(south Korean ) puppet regime acting under the orders of the US   provoked the Fatherland Liberation War which is referred to by the mainstream media as the  Korean War , although it was not a war between Koreans but between a small country , the DPRK , and the American empire. Indeed it was a war against Korea , against the Korean people .As Marshal KIM JONG UN said to a conference of war veterans in 2015 that the Fatherland Liberation War was  “a confrontation between rifle and atomic bomb.”

 

  One of the most persistent myths and biggest lies in the West  about the Korean War is that People’s Korea started the war  and is used to demonise the DPRK to this very day and justify US aggression against the DPRK.”

Dr Hudson also detailed the atrocities of the US imperialists pointing out that “The barbarity of the US imperialists during the war was beyond human description.At least 1.2 million people were killed  by the US. 35,383 people were murdered by the US at Sinchon -ri and 1,050 people at Susan-ri (one third of the population of the area), just to give a few examples.Sinchon county was the American Auschwitz “

The Chairman of KFA Hungary stressed the need to strengthen solidarity with People’s Korea through different events and by using modern communication mediums such as Tiktok .

The Organisation Secretary of KFA UK stressed that the US imperialists tried to hide the truth about the Fatherland Liberation War making it the “unknown war “.

The head of KFA Germany said denounced the atrocities of the US imperialists in the war . He stressed that Germany did not fight in the Korean War but has recently joined the so-called “UN Command “ in the ROK.

The KFA International Communications Secretary said that the struggle against US imperialism continues and that June 25th is an important day.

The head of KFA Greece recalled his participation in KFA UK pickets of the old American embassy in Grosvenor Square in the past . He also denounced the past participation of Greece in the Korean War.

The documentary “The US Imperialist Aggressor Army under the Cloak of UN Force” was streamed to the meeting .

The meeting concluded at 2020 hours BST.