Press Statement of Kim Yo Jong, Department Director of C.C., WPK

Pyongyang, June 7 (KCNA) -- Kim Yo Jong, department director of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea, issued the following statement on June 6:

Still, some officials in the United States have failed to wake from their escapist and anachronistic dreams.

A spokesperson for the U.S. Department of State on June 5 said in response to a request by one of its media for comment that the China-U.S. summit held in May reconfirmed the shared goal for the "denuclearization" of the DPRK.

This is nothing but an old practice of the U.S. for spreading false information.

The U.S. representative of trade had already intimated last month that the China-U.S. summit reconfirmed what was called "denuclearization". However, it is just a complete fabrication and false information. And it may be a hope of the U.S. officials very much fond of uttering the archaic word "denuclearization" but it is absolutely untrue.

We have the most accurate information about the fact.

And we also make it clear that we do not discuss with anyone our core sovereignty and security and the insolent act of violating the state constitution which should be observed in the most sacred way.

The U.S. assertion to backbite the status of the DPRK as a nuclear weapons state has no legally binding force and no one will be bound by the U.S. unilateral rhetoric.

The forces, which have remained most hostile to the DPRK and expressed through undisguised speech and behavior their sinister intention to be most outrageous in the present and future, should stop slandering the just policy of the DPRK for self-defence and, in particular, give up the daydream about "denuclearization".

We are now eyeing the course of the dangerous evolution of the nuclear alliance against the DPRK.

All acts of shaking the security of the DPRK and the region down to the roots, including the expansion and development of aggressive military blocs sharing nukes, the conduct of various military drills premised on the use of nuclear weapons and the constant deployment of nuclear strategic assets, clearly prove the justness and legitimacy of building a solid nuclear shield of the DPRK.

As far as today's news is concerned, we also have something to say.

The U.S. Department of State has reportedly decided to approve the export of JDAM and associated equipment to the ROK.

The enemy is busy with such an act.

This is the reason why we are concentrating on bolstering up the self-defence capacity for defending the security of the state from the ceaseless arms buildup of the hostile countries and we will have to do this.

In order to protect its sovereignty and security and ensure regional stability and peace, the DPRK will never remain a passive onlooker to the situation in which the equilibrium of forces is destroyed.

The line of steadily beefing up the nuclear war deterrent for self-defence, clarified by the head of state, is an irreversible final conclusion to be carried out unconditionally.

It sends the world a clear signal that we will never compromise as regards the issue of defence and sovereignty.

The DPRK's status as a nuclear weapons state is the line of no retreat and it is a stark reality whether anyone recognizes it or not.

Reality never changes by outsiders' hope or rhetoric.

The DPRK has sufficient ability and right to defend itself against the security threat constantly posed by rogues who frequently do the military muscle-flexing with warships and warplanes near the spaces under its sovereign power and increase their arsenals near its territory.

The nuclear forces of the DPRK, which have been legalized by the constitution of the state, its supreme law, is the core force for the national sovereignty and national defence and it guarantees that the DPRK's protection of its core interests will not be affected by any outsiders.

The nuclear capability is the most powerful logic in the dispute with those who worship power.

We will never tolerate any threat or compromise related to our sovereignty and security. -0-

www.kcna.kp (2026.06.07.)

Conference Held with Splendor to Commemorate 80th KCU Birthday

 Conference Held with Splendor to Commemorate 80th KCU Birthday

Pyongyang, June 7 (KCNA) -- The Korean Children's Union, a mass political organization of schoolchildren who are the future and hope of our state and people, is proudly marking its 80th founding anniversary in its history of glorious succession and growth.

The KCU has steadily developed into the ranks of juvenile revolutionaries and patriots who are firmly carrying on the revolution and patriotism generation after generation, adding luster to the sacred history and tradition created in the battlefields of Mt Paektu, for the past 80 years since it was founded as the Juche-oriented children's revolutionary organization in the first period of nation building.

All the people across the country are convinced of the bright future of our state and our cause when they look at the bright and lively appearance of the rising generation who are growing up to be stalwart pillars of the DPRK in the future, bringing their hope and talents into full bloom under the care of the motherly Workers' Party of Korea and the grateful socialist motherland. And they are extending warm congratulations to the KCU members across the country on the significant June holiday.

A conference in commemoration of the 80th KCU founding anniversary was held with splendor at Kim Il Sung Stadium in the capital city of Pyongyang on June 6 amid special concern and expectation of the Party, government and people.

Marshal Kim Jong Un, the benevolent father of all the schoolchildren across the country, attended the conference.

When Marshal Kim Jong Un appeared on the platform, the schoolchildren broke into cheers as an expression of their highest honour and pride of significantly commemorating the founding anniversary of the KCU with the fatherly Marshal, whom they yearned for even in their dreams, in presence and fireworks were set off, rocking the stadium.

All the participants extended thanks to the fatherly Marshal who has worked heart and soul to make the schoolchildren enjoy the greatest happiness in the most dignified country, powerful and prosperous, regarding the work for the younger generation as the most important affair directly linked with the future of the revolution and the destiny of the state.

Representatives of the KCU organizations presented bouquets of fragrant flowers to Marshal Kim Jong Un and tied a red necktie of the KCU around his neck.

The fatherly Marshal extended warm congratulations to the members of the KCU on its significant 80th founding anniversary amid the blessing of the whole country.

Present there were Kim Jae Ryong, Ri Il Hwan, Ju Chang Il and Kim Sung Du, secretaries of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea, Kim Su Gil, chief secretary of the Pyongyang Municipal Committee of the WPK, representatives of the KCU organizations including the members of relay teams carrying letters of loyalty, members of the delegation of Korean schoolchildren in Japan, students of revolutionary schools, members of the KCU, sub-branch instructors and officials of the youth league in Pyongyang.

There was a ceremony of hoisting the national flag of the DPRK.

The exemplary KCU members hoisted the glorious national flag amid the solemn playing of the DPRK national anthem.

The sacred national flag, being hoisted in solemn reverence, made the hearts of the participants burn with the desire to demonstrate the dignity and honor of our most beautiful and greatest country generation after generation.

The representatives of the KCU organizations courteously presented the fatherly Marshal with letters of loyalty reflecting the boundless wishes of the KCU members across the country and their pledge of succession.

Ju Chang Il, secretary of the Central Committee of the WPK, made a report at the conference.

The reporter said that the KCU members are celebrating the auspicious founding anniversary of their organization with the greatest joy and happiness and it is the honor that they can receive only under the care of the motherly WPK which brings earlier the prosperous ideal society with love and sincerity for the rising generation. He referred to the proud 80-year history of the KCU which has recorded all the annals of its founding and development with patriotic loyalty.

He said that the KCU members are growing up to be juvenile revolutionaries and patriots dynamically advancing along the road of patriotism as they are holding in high esteem the fatherly Marshal who pursues the socialist policy for schoolchildren as the consistent policy of the Party and the eternal state policy of the DPRK and takes warm care of them so that they can learn with nothing more to desire, grow up excellently and bring their hope and talents into full bloom.

He extended the warmest thanks to the fatherly Marshal for bringing up the KCU members to be true sons and daughters of the socialist country and showing constant loving care and benevolence to them, reflecting the unanimous mind of the schoolchildren, educators and parents across the country.

The reporter said that the new era of national prosperity, in which everything on this land is undergoing change beyond recognition, leads the beautiful dreams and hopes of the KCU members towards a brighter future, calling on the schoolchildren to more firmly prepare themselves as reserves for socialist construction.

The respected fatherly Marshal Kim Jong Un made a significant congratulatory speech on the 80th founding anniversary of the Korean Children's Union.

"Our proud Children’s Union members,

This is June 6, your holiday.

On this holiday, 80th founding anniversary of your organization, the whole country is sending greetings of congratulation to all of you, Children’s Union members, who are precious sons and daughters of our people and masters of the future of this Korea.

As I see your neat and vigorous appearance, I really feel reassured.

Children’s Union members,

Overcoming the harsh trials as it sees you and creating more with greater exertion as it wishes that the rising generation will lead a happy life with nothing to envy--this is the course of, and secret to, this country achieving prosperity.

Beloved Children’s Union members,

You should not forget that the richer knowledge you acquire, the more healthily and stoutly you grow up and the greater feeling of helping and leading one another forward you cherish in your mind, the stronger your country will become and the happier the laughter will be in the streets, villages, workplaces and houses across the country.

You should steadily shoulder the future of this country.

My wish is that you will all be filial to your parents, study hard and be exemplary in the organizational life in good health.

I really feel happier today than any other days.

It is because I am sure that, as it has you, our country will become more youthful and beautiful.

Children’s Union members,

Let us all march forward courageously towards the future as befitting the sons and daughters of Korea."

When the Marshal finished his speech, the members of the KCU, who received great love and trust from the benevolent father, broke into enthusiastic cheers of "Hurrah!"

All the participants made a pledge of loyalty to the fatherly Marshal.

The members of the KCU made a solemn oath to become reliable pillars of the country and true sons and daughters boundlessly loyal to the country by learning and learning for the DPRK, always bearing deep in mind the gratitude to the motherly Workers' Party of Korea, which is taking warm care of them as the new generation of the DPRK.

Then followed a march of resolution of the new generation.

With a column under the national flag of the DPRK in the van, the KCU members marched vigorously, flying the flag of the KCU ahead of their columns, as a pledge of loyalty and repayment.

The columns of revolutionary schools and the columns of the provincial KCU members dynamically marched with the enthusiasm to glorify the glorious tradition of the Anti-Japanese Children's Corps generation after generation and become the masters of a prosperous power, who are knowledgeable, moral and healthy and imbued with ardent patriotism.

The sky of June resounded with the slogans chanted by the marchers reflecting the firm determination of all the KCU members to be always ready for the socialist country, trusting and following only the fatherly Marshal who defends and brings into full bloom the dreams and hopes of the rising generation and the bright future of the country which will be rosy forever.

The conference significantly concluded amid the resounding of the song "Marshal Kim Jong Un Is Our Father" sang by the KCU members in chorus out of their boundless gratitude to the fatherly Marshal who took a benevolent measure to celebrate June 6 as a national holiday every year and brings the greatest happiness to them.

The fatherly Marshal warmly waved to the new generation, the reliable successors to the revolution who would firmly carry forward the baton of the Juche cause, and wished the KCU members the bright future.

The conference marked a significant occasion of clearly showing the proud appearance and mettle of our KCU members, who are growing up to be pillars of future socialist Korea under the guidance of the respected fatherly Marshal Kim Jong Un, and of further encouraging the people across the country to bring earlier the bright future of national prosperity with towering self-confidence and redoubled enthusiasm. -0-

www.kcna.kp (2026.06.07.)

Respected Fatherly Marshal Kim Jong Un Has Photo Session with Delegates to Celebrations of 80th KCU Birthday

Pyongyang, June 7 (KCNA) -- The whole country is overflowing with the love and blessing of the benevolent father, who puts forward the schoolchildren as a pleasure and pride of the country and brings them the greatest honour and happiness, on the occasion of the 80th foundation anniversary of the Korean Children's Union (June 6).

The respected fatherly Marshal Kim Jong Un met on June 6 the representatives from Korean Children's Union organizations participating in the celebrations of the anniversary.

When he arrived at the venue for the photo session, the schoolchildren felt so happy that they broke into cheers of "Hurrah!"

The fatherly Marshal extended warm congratulations to the KCU members who attended the celebrations on behalf of all the KCU organizations of the country.

The course of the development of the KCU with its glorious history and tradition features a proud journey of having glorified the Workers' Party of Korea's idea of the Juche-oriented children's movement and leadership exploits and firmly prepared the rising generations as pillars of socialist Korea, he said, adding that it is the greatest strength and pride for our Party, state and people to have a revolutionary children's organization steadily inheriting the mind of pure loyalty and patriotism.

From the bright and cheerful looks of the new generation and their beautiful and noble ideological and moral qualities, our Party and people are getting indomitable strength and redoubled courage to overcome any trials and difficulties cheerfully, he said, adding with emotion that the bold spirit and dynamic footsteps of the KCU members growing up to be pillars for building a powerful country while flying high the flag of the KCU represent the strong breath and bright future of the country advancing nonstop.

He said that future Korea belongs to the KCU members and that our Party and people have shouldered the heavy burden of creation and construction for amazing changes and progress despite all sorts of difficulties and determinedly carried it into effect in order to hand down the strongest and most beautiful country to the coming generations. And he asked the KCU members to study hard and strive to become fine revolutionary and patriotic talents who will demonstrate the DPRK as the best country with their high ambition and ideal, iron will and wisdom.

Wishing happiness always to the KCU members, the future of socialist Korea, our powerful country, he had a photo session with the representatives.

The future of our country will be boundlessly bright and rosy as the new generations are growing up to be the masters of the future, holding Marshal Kim Jong Un in high esteem as their benevolent father. -0-

www.kcna.kp (2026.06.07.)

Respected Comrade Kim Jong Un Inspects Major Munitions Industrial Enterprise to Learn about First Half-Yearly Production

Pyongyang, June 7 (KCNA) -- The 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, inspected a major munitions industrial enterprise on June 6 to acquaint himself with the main weapons production in the first half of 2026.

Accompanying him were Jo Chun Ryong, secretary of the WPK Central Committee, Kim Jong Sik, first vice department director of the WPK Central Committee, Jang Chang Ha, general director of the Missile Administration, Pak Jong Chon, advisor to the Ministry of National Defence, Kim Kang Il, vice-minister of National Defence and director of the General Armaments Bureau, Kim Yong Hwan, president of the Academy of Defence Sciences, and leading officials of the Missile Administration.

Comrade Kim Jong Un highly praised the enterprise for fulfilling its first half-yearly plan for the main weapons production ahead of schedule and putting spurs to the preparations for the production in the second half of the year.

That day, he heard a report on the Missile Administration's long-term plan for expanding the capacity to produce various ballistic missiles and cruise missiles and gave an instruction to submit it to the Second Plenary Meeting of the Ninth Central Committee of the WPK for deliberation.

It is necessary to boost the existing production capacity 2.5 times within the Five-Year Plan period on an annual growth basis in order to supply enough quantity of missiles the demand for which will drastically increase as our armed forces' operational group formation and combat organization are to be modified, he said, stressing that it is a core task of very important significance.

Underlining the need for the enterprise to establish the strict regulations and order for quality control and thoroughly observe the requirements of the inspection process so as to further improve the quality of products, he gave a series of instructions for its production and management. -

 

 From Voice of Korea 

http://vok.rep.kp/index.php/detail_com/scomde/iee260519013/39/en

They Grow Beautiful Minds

  Every school has small boxes managed by the Children's Union members. They write down the beautiful deeds of their friends on the pieces of paper before putting them into the box.

  In the box there were slips with stories about a student who took part in the movement of preparing the "Sonyon" farm machines, about a student who called on a sick classmate with special foods, about a student of helping a friend with study until late at night, about a student who made a flower plant fallen by a rainy wind stand properly and about a student who repaired other's torn notebook just like a new one.

  In no more than a few days the box gets full of slips of paper and the beautiful deeds written on them are soon told to everyone.

  That's why the Children's Union members call this a "box telling the beautiful minds".

  Teacher Jong Sol Hyang at the Changgwang Senior Middle School in Central District said the operation of the box gives a great help to the education and edification of students, and continued:

  "Through the operation of the 'box telling the beautiful minds', I saw big progress in the spiritual development of students. Lots of stories about students helping and leading each other forward are not known to the teachers.

  Students write down what they felt grateful for the help they got from their friends and their friends' beautiful deeds on the pieces of paper and put them into the box. We tell the stories on the pieces of paper to everyone every Saturday.

  Then the students get to know that such good friends are in their class and in the course, others decide to learn after them and do something good for their friends. And those students who were appreciated make a determination to do more good things for their collective and friends in the future."

  Like this, the Children's Union members not only develop their knowledge but also grow their beautiful minds at school. Such minds continue to be put into this small box.

  The "box telling the beautiful minds" is too small to carry all the beautiful stories of students. But it is a "big mirror" reflecting the laudable deeds of the Children's Union members who are preparing themselves as the pillars of the country.

From Voice of Korea-Successors to the Revolution, Masters of the Future They Lead an Upright Life

  From Voice of Korea.

http://vok.rep.kp/index.php/Colist/speclist/39/en

Successors to the Revolution, Masters of the Future

They Lead an Upright Life

  June 6, 1946 is the day when the Korean Children's Union was founded.

  The members of the Korean Children's Union are growing to be pillars of the country with nothing to envy in the world under the loving care of the peerlessly great men.

For the Rising Generations

  The great leader Generalissimo Kim Il Sung, father of socialist Korea, established the universal free education system and provided new school uniforms to the pupils and students across the country and trained the Children's Union members into true sons and daughters of the country.

  The great leader Generalissimo Kim Jong Il regarded the training of posterity as an important work related to the future of the revolution and spared nothing for the schoolchildren.

  Generalissimos Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il led the work of the Children's Union step by step in each period and at every stage of the developing revolution and always became dear teachers and overcautious parents of the schoolchildren.

  The respected fatherly Marshal Kim Jong Un shows his infinite love and affection to the members of the Children's Union, regarding them as treasures that cannot be compared with a colossal sum of money and valuables and as the whole of hope and future.

  He made it a tradition to grandly celebrate the founding anniversary of the Korean Children's Union every year and took part in the meeting of the Children's Union members to wish them a bright future though he was so busy with the state affairs.

  Under his leadership, more and more policies for the rising generations are enforced in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea with each passing day, including the policy on supplying all the pupils and students with the homemade school uniforms, bags, shoes and things, the policy on providing the conditions for bringing up the parentless children well and the policy on wonderfully remodeling the Children's Union camps and schoolchildren's palaces and halls across the country.

  Marshal Kim Jong Un regraded it as the primary state affairs to bring up the rising generations and gave his first field guidance to the Pyongyang Bag Factory producing bags for the children in 2017. On the New Year's Day in 2023 he had a photo taken with the delegates to the Ninth Congress of the Korean Children's Union, hoping that all the Children's Union members throughout the country would be in good health and grow up more courageously to be able personnel with ample knowledge, high morality and strong body for the future of the country. On January 1 this year, he met schoolchildren who gave the New Year performance in 2026 and warmly wished them a happy future.

We Are the Happiest in the World

  The respected fatherly Marshal Kim Jong Un takes good care of all the children growing up on this land with the feeling of a mother who does not know comfort and self-satisfaction in the work for her children.

  Under his loving care extracurricular educational bases for the children and homes for the orphans were built in all parts of the country.

  The Okryu Children's Hospital was also built in a peculiar way at the direct initiative of Marshal Kim Jong Un and under his energetic leadership. It has classrooms, playing spaces and resting places for the children as well as different kinds of medical treatment rooms, operating rooms and wards.

  Those monumental edifices for the schoolchildren are a crystallization of the warm affection and love of Marshal Kim Jong Un who maps out policies for the children first and is always concerned for the rising generations.

  Witnessed in all parts of the world are such successive tragedies as shutting down of schools owing to ceaseless wars and crises, rapidly increasing traffic in children, frequent gun reports made at schools and all sorts of juvenile delinquencies.

  In the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, however, the schoolchildren learn to their heart's content under the benefits of free education to accumulate a wealth of knowledge and develop their talents at extracurricular educational bases such as schoolchildren's palaces and camps. This is the privilege enjoyed only by the members of the Korean Children's Union.

  One day, foreigners who visited the Mangyongdae Schoolchildren's Palace, said with great envy: "I want to be reborn as a child of Korea." "No children in other countries can match the happy children of Korea."

  The great love of Marshal Kim Jong Un for the rising generations serves as a nutrient bringing up the members of the Korean Children's Union as dignified masters of prospering Korea.

  Under his care, the members of the Korean Children's Union are stoutly growing into ardent juvenile revolutionaries and patriots who know the preciousness of the country and devote their all to the country and revolution, singing the song "We Are the Happiest in the World".

  The Korean schoolchildren are growing up, smiling a bright smile and leading an upright life. They represent a bright future of Korea.

Respected Comrade Kim Jong Un Observes Navigation Test of Destroyer Kang Kon

Pyongyang, June 6 (KCNA) -- The 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, visited the Destroyer Kang Kon of the Navy of the Korean People's Army, which has entered the shakedown for assessing its capability of executing operations, and observed its navigation test on June 4.

He was accompanied by Jo Chun Ryong, secretary of the Central Committee of the WPK, Kim Jong Sik, first vice department director of the WPK Central Committee, Pak Kwang Sop, commander of the Navy, Pak Jong Chon, advisor to the Ministry of National Defence, Kim Kang Il, vice-minister of National Defence and director of the General Armaments Bureau, Jang Chang Ha, general director of the Missile Administration, Kim Yong Hwan, president of the Academy of Defence Sciences, Kim Myong Son, director of the Armaments Examination Bureau of the Ministry of National Defence, commanding officers of the Navy and senior officials in the field of shipbuilding.

Comrade Kim Jong Un boarded the Destroyer Kang Kon and learned about the actual conditions of various combat duty spaces and elements of the destroyer including the combined control center, the plan for the navigation test and the phased schedule of the test of the warship's weapon systems.

A navigation test was conducted to assess different maneuvering elements of the destroyer with Comrade Kim Jong Un on board the warship.

Comrade Kim Jong Un praised the sailors for their high ability to operate the warship and expressed satisfaction over the cruise and high-speed maneuvering systems of the warship whose maneuverability is very good to meet operational requirements.

Referring to the global trend of the developing shipbuilding industry and the structural features of warship design, he clarified the important tasks for further perfecting the warship control system in our own way so as to meet the requirements for the performance of operational mission of our Navy.

It is possible to deter war and defend peace only when we possess substantial and powerful military muscle capable of exercising military sovereignty in a responsible manner in any space of the ground, the sea and the air, he said, adding this is the invariable view of the WPK and its national defence policy.

In particular, the issue of rapidly developing and strengthening the naval force of the DPRK into a force capable of reliably taking charge of a part of the nuclear war deterrent and into a group that can deal a deadly blow at the enemy any moment under the water or on the water is a matter which the WPK regards as the most important core task in the new five-year national defence development policy, he said.

Comrade Kim Jong Un expressed great trust and expectation that the vast plans for bolstering up the warship force, including the development and production of underwater secret weapons and the building of 10 000-tonnage destroyers under the five-year plan for modernizing the Navy approved by the Ninth Congress of the WPK, would be surely carried out by our reliable and powerful defence science research group, self-supporting shipbuilding industry and competent and intelligent workers in the munitions industry.

He warmly encouraged the officials, scientists and technicians of warship and weapon system research organs, hoping that they will successfully conduct the shakedown for assessing the operational executive capability of the destroyer and put the destroyers Choe Hyon and Kang Kon into commission for the Navy as soon as possible with an honorable sense of obligation and high sense of responsibility. -0-

www.kcna.kp (2026.06.06.)

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