From Voice of Korea-Founder of Heroic KPA

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  February 8 this year marks the 78th founding anniversary of the heroic Korean People's Army.

  The great leader Kim Il Sung founded the KPA.

Clarifying the Way of Building the Regular Revolutionary Armed Forces

  After liberating the country by leading the 20-year-long anti-Japanese revolutionary struggle to victory, the great leader Kim Il Sung regarded the founding of a powerful regular army as an essential demand for building an independent, sovereign state and strengthened and developed the Korean People's Revolutionary Army into regular revolutionary armed forces.

  Doctor Han Kyong Rim, Researcher of the Academy of Social Sciences, said it was a very urgent and important historic task in the liberated country to found a regular revolutionary army, and continued:

  "In the historic speech 'On Building the Party, State and Armed Forces in the Liberated Homeland' he made on August 20, 1945 right after the liberation, the great leader Kim Il Sung clarified that our country should become a completely independent and sovereign state and for the purpose, it is necessary to found a powerful national army which can safeguard the country and nation and defend the gains of the revolution. And he said the revolutionary army should be founded with the anti-Japanese fighters tempered in the trials of the anti-Japanese revolutionary struggle as the backbone and with the sons and daughters of working people including workers and peasants.

  In a number of works including the famous work 'Let Us Found a True People's Army, a Modern Regular Army', he stressed the need to found a regular revolutionary army firmly armed politically and ideologically by carrying forward the revolutionary tradition of the Korean People's Revolutionary Army and equipped with modern military science and technology."

  Besides, Kim Il Sung gave instructions on organizing different services and arms needed for building the regular revolutionary armed forces.

  Like this, he indicated a correct way of building revolutionary armed forces that can reliably guarantee the building of a new country with arms in a short span of time despite the complex situation and difficult conditions right after the liberation.

 

For Founding a Regular Army of Korean Style

  The great leader Kim Il Sung put great efforts into training military and political cadres of the regular army.

  He took important measures to solve the problem of cadres of the regular army with our own efforts by training a large number of new cadres of worker and peasant origins and with the anti-Japanese revolutionary fighters as the backbone.

  He decided to build a mother base of training military and political cadres and had the Pyongyang Institute established. He went out to the spot, selected the site for the institute, named it, taught in detail the task for its construction and the orientation of the educational work and dispatched competent anti-Japanese revolutionary fighters to it.

  As a result, the Pyongyang Institute opened in February 1946.

  Later, Kim Il Sung had the Central Security Officers School built, which trains commanding personnel and technicians of ordinary and special arms.

  And he visited the Pyongyang Institute and the Central Security Officers School several times to take warm care of the life of the students and lead the work to give education in Korean style.

  He saw that the Security Officers Training Centre was organized and on its basis, the regular army was organized in the way of expanding several services and arms units and subunits.

  On the other hand, he founded the air force, the first of its kind in the history of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, and organized the Marine Security Corps, the first naval unit of the country.

  Saying that there should be a lot of weapons to organize the regular army, he saw that the weapons were made by our own efforts.

  Doctor Han Kyong Rim, Researcher of the Academy of Social Sciences, said:

  "In early October 1945, the great leader Kim Il Sung came out to the spot and fixed the site for the first munitions factory and said we should make necessary weapons with our own strength at any cost.

  That day, he gave confidence to the officials, saying to them: Of course, we still have many bottlenecks and difficulties. But if we work in the spirit of having made the 'Yongil bomb' with our own strength during the anti-Japanese armed struggle, there is nothing we cannot do."

  Thanks to his energetic leadership, the first munitions factory was built in the DPRK and a submachine gun produced.

  Kim Il Sung visited the factory, held a submachine gun and test-fired it, saying the weapon made by our workers themselves is wonderful.

  Kim Il Sung declared the founding of the Korean People's Army, regular revolutionary armed forces of Juche type, all over the world on February 8, 1948.

  The day was recorded in the history as the day when the long-cherished desire of the Korean people to have regular armed forces was realized and as the day of great event to be specially recorded in the history of building the Juche-based army.

 

Glory to the Korean People's on the Day of its foundation as a regular revolutionary armed force

 

Glory to the 78th anniversary of the foundation of the heroic Korean People's Army as regular revolutionary armed force !

The KPA is the steel strong force of Juche defending the achievements of Juche-based socialism!

27th Politburo Meeting of Eighth C.C., WPK Held

 

Pyongyang, February 8 (KCNA) -- The 27th Meeting of the Political Bureau of the Eighth Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea was held at the headquarters building of the Party Central Committee on Feb. 7.

Attending the meeting were members of the Presidium of the Political Bureau of the C.C., WPK and members and alternate members of the Political Bureau of the C.C., WPK.

Present there as observers were vice directors of major departments of the C.C., WPK who are members of the relevant panels of the preparatory committee for the congress.

Kim Jong Un, general secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea, guided the meeting.

Upon authorization of Kim Jong Un, Jo Yong Won, Presidium member of the Political Bureau and secretary of the WPK Central Committee, presided over the meeting.

The Political Bureau of the WPK Central Committee decided on the following agenda items:

First, "On the deliberation of qualifications of the delegates to the Ninth Congress of the WPK"

Second, "On the deliberation of composition of the presidium, platform and secretariat for the Ninth Congress of the WPK"

Third, "On the deliberation of schedule of the Ninth Congress of the WPK"

Fourth, "On the deliberation of documents to be submitted to the Ninth Congress of the WPK"

On the basis of hearing reports on the agenda items and discussing them, the Political Bureau of the WPK Central Committee approved relevant decisions.

Kim Jong Un made an affirmative appreciation of the fact that the relevant panels of the congress preparatory committee have effectively pushed ahead with the preparations for the congress in every way, and clarified the principled issues and detailed tasks for the successful holding of the congress.

The Political Bureau of the WPK Central Committee adopted with unanimous approval a decision on opening the Ninth Congress of the WPK in Pyongyang, the capital of the revolution, in late February 2026. -0-

www.kcna.kp (2026.02.08.)

Defender of independence and socialism-special article for the 78th anniversary of the foundation of the KPA As a regular revolutionary armed force

 

Today socialism and independence in People’s Korea is defended by the mighty Korean People’s Army ,the  invincible steel strong force of the Juche . It is thanks to the Korean People’s Army  that no foreign force can land helicopters on the soil of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea(DPRK) and kidnap the head of state . No foreign power can impose a no fly zone on the DPRK . The strength of the Korean People’s Army (KPA) commanded by its supreme commander respected comrade KIM JONG UN guarantees a peaceful environment for socialist construction in the DPRK and the continuous raising of living standards .

Today’s KPA which is equipped with ICBMs and even military reconnaissance satellites had humble beginnings . It was on the 8th of February 1948 the KPA was founded as a regular revolutionary armed force by President KIM IL SUNG , it was actually founded before the foundation of the DPRK . The foundation of the KPA marked the transformation of the Korean People’s Revolutionary Army into a regular armed force , a guerrilla based force which had founded by President KIM IL SUNG in April 1932 and had waged guerrilla warfare against the Japanese imperialist aggressors who had occupied Korea and oppressed the people . The foundation of the KPA was probably one of the few instances of a guerrilla army being transformed into a regular armed force.

As early as 1945 , only few days after the liberation of Korea President KIM IL SUNG stressed that  “ For a country to become a fully sovereign state  we must organise our own powerful national army capable of defending the country and the people and safeguarding the gains of the revolution”

Because of the aggressive moves of the reactionary US imperialists to invade the northern part of Korea , the setting up a regular armed force by transforming the existing Korean People’s Revolutionary Army into the KPA was imperative .The US imperialists had landed in the southern part of Korea in September 1945 and had created a puppet regime as well as establishing military bases in south Korea and started to create a south Korean puppet army with those who had collaborated with the Japanese and served in the Japanese armed forces. From 1947 there were  270 incursions into the territory of north Korea  . Areas such as Mt Unpa and Kuksa Peak were attacked by the US imperialists. The US  was  opposed to the Korean revolution and the building of a people’s democracy in the north of Korea .

 President KIM IL SUNG deeply analysing the situation gave priority to building up the revolutionary armed forces along with an independent armaments industry .On the 17th of November 1945 he established the Pyongyang Institute .President KIM IL SUNG also established an independent munitions industry. The DPRK’s very own armaments industry factory was established at Pyongchon.

President KIM IL SUNG  selected cadres who had been steeled in the anti-Japanese armed struggle  to command the new revolutionary armed force , such as Kim Chaek , Choe Yong Gon, An Kil, Kang Kon, Kim Il , Choe Hyon, Ryu Kyong Su(who the famous 105 tank division is named after),O Paek Ryong,Jo Jong Chol and Cho Chun Guk.

When the KPA was founded in 1948 it had few modern weapons and equipment . It also received a real baptism of fire when in June 1950 the US imperialists instigated the ROK puppets to attack the DPRK thus provoking the great Fatherland Liberation War . The KPA was just over 2 years old when the Fatherland Liberation War began and had to face the armed forces of not only the US imperialists , the world’s biggest imperialist power but the armed forces of the ROK puppets and 15 satellite states of US imperialism . Commanded by President KIM IL SUNG ,an ever-victorious iron-willed brilliant commander the young KPA and Korean people inflicted a tremendous defeat on the US imperialist aggressors .

The KPA was also victorious in the serious confrontation with the US imperialists after 1953.inflicting  defeats on the US imperialists during the "Pueblo Incident " of 1968, the EC121 Incident of 1969, the Panmunjom incident of 1976 and the 1994 helicopter incident. When the US imperialists tried to use military pressure under the pretext of the nuclear issue in the 1990s and 2000s , the KPA commanded by Chairman KIM JONG IL faced down the US imperialists safeguarding the dignity and honour of the DPRK.

Under the leadership of respected comrade KIM JONG UN , the KPA has become a formidable revolutionary armed force not only strong in ideology and internal unity but also possessing powerful weaponry such as ICBM’s , nuclear weapons and other advanced weaponry that acts as a powerful war deterrent  . The KPA has also been able to conduct overseas military operations giving internationalist assistance to other countries  . 

Thus the Korean People’s Army has come a long way since its foundation  on the 8th of February 1948 thanks to the leadership of President KIM IL SUNG , Chairman KIM JONG IL and respected Marshal KIM JONG UN.

Dr Dermot Hudson

Chairman Korean Friendship Association of UK

Chairman British Group For The Study of the Juche Idea

Hon General Secretary Global Farmy Study for KIM JONG UN’s People First Policies

KCNA Report on Completion of Sinuiju Combined Greenhouse Farm

Pyongyang, February 6 (KCNA) -- The Korean Central News Agency Thursday released a report on the wonderful completion of an ideal large farm town in the new era under the leadership of the great Workers' Party of Korea Central Committee.

According to the report, an unprecedented large group of greenhouses was majestically erected in the northwestern part of the country under the outstanding leadership of the WPK.

The respected Comrade Kim Jong Un made a bold decision to turn the flood-hit island area of North Phyongan Province into an ideal large farm town in the new era, and organized and led the grand construction operation in the vanguard.

The military and civilian builders, all out in response to the intention of the Party Central Committee, completed the construction of a large-scale greenhouse farm in a matter of one year with their strong spiritual power and stubborn practical ability.

The area of Wihwa Island has turned into a treasure zone with the successful construction of a thousand and hundreds of modern greenhouses of different types, production and auxiliary buildings and various bases for cultural life.

In particular, the Sinuiju Vegetable Science Research Center, a combination of modern dwelling houses preserving the charms unique to the region and up-to-date trial cultivation greenhouses, was built as a scientific and technological research and dissemination center for putting greenhouse vegetable production on a scientific, intensive and industrial basis to demonstrate the prospect of the country's greenhouse vegetable production and development of a large farm town.

The great change on the shore of the Amnok River is unthinkable apart from the devoted service for the people's wellbeing of the respected General Secretary Kim Jong Un, the great father of the people.

The General Secretary attended a groundbreaking ceremony for the construction of Sinuiju Combined Greenhouse Farm and the vegetable science research center in February 2025, encouraging the builders and digging up the first spadeful of earth to signal the start of the construction project.

The young builders turned out in the grand construction campaign to carry out a new regional development plan, bearing in mind the great trust and expectation of the Party Central Committee.

They made a breakthrough in stepping up the main construction by giving precedence to the construction of raising and cutting millions of cubic meters of earth, the pavement of tens of kilometers of roads, the production of more than 11 million blocks and securing over 620 000 cubic meters of aggregate in a short span of time.

The soldier-builders finished in the main the frame project for greenhouses in their charge until May 2025 by conducting the work for demonstration lectures and technical study and strengthening technical forces in accordance with the order of successive processes with the main emphasis on improving the quality of construction.

The whole area of grand construction was seething with the offensive spirit of passionate youths who demonstrated the mettle of patriotic youth in building Jonwi Street in the capital city and recovering the flood-hit areas in North Phyongan Province.

The energetic guidance of Kim Jong Un was a driving force that brought about the creation and changes in building the Sinuiju Combined Greenhouse Farm.

He provided lot of latest sci-tech data necessary for the construction of the farm and examined more than 170 pieces of layouts, including a master construction plan and panoramic drawings, and over 3 850 pieces of technical designs to turn the island area into a new model of regional development.

Under his great guidance, semi-closed glass hydroponic greenhouses, solar-heat greenhouses where the fish farming and the cultivation of vegetables are combined, and greenhouses with a solar power system could be built and the technical processes for main production and the equipment necessary for greenhouse management could be established.

At the same time, the first-stage embankment project was completed ahead of schedule in parallel with the construction of the greenhouse farm, thus laying a protective wall on the bank of the Amnok River free from any natural disaster.

In October when the 80th anniversary of the founding of the Party was significantly celebrated, Kim Jong Un visited the construction site at the final stage and stressed the need to open up a new phase of rural civilization not only in architecture but also in environmental realignment and landscape creation as the construction of the Sinuiju Combined Greenhouse Farm is another gigantic creation work for promoting the independent and many-sided development of the regional economy and proving the validity and vitality of the regional development policy in the new era.

In November 2025, he again visited the construction site of the combined greenhouse farm nearing completion and said with high appreciation that it is pleasure to see the grandiose plans and tasks for comprehensive rejuvenation being carried out one by one and the wealth of creation increasing, but what our Party values more than anything else is the fact that the young people have grown up to be great cedars of patriotism in this course. And he indicated ways for operation and management of the farm.

This year, a more vigorous struggle was waged to complete the construction of the grand greenhouse farm.

On January 2, the General Secretary visited the construction site of the Sinuiju Combined Greenhouse Farm and congratulated the young vanguard and soldier-builders on the New Year. And he highly praised the feats they performed to transform the island area, afflicted by a disaster, into an ideal farm town in the new era.

With his appeal of love and trust kept in their mind, all the builders stepped up the tree planting and the environmental improvement in vast areas at the final stage in the spirit of finishing the construction project, assembly of greenhouse equipment and road construction.

Officials and working people across the country helped the construction, sharing the mind with the builders.

Thanks to the energetic leadership of Kim Jong Un and the efforts of the army-civilian builders faithful to the cause of the Party, the construction of a large group of greenhouses was successfully completed.

The changes of the farm, which has made another leap forward in terms of modernity, advanced nature and profitability and architectural level aspiring after higher development than already built greenhouse farms, are a noble picture of patriotic and devoted service for the people's wellbeing that can be presented only by the great Party Central Committee which has steadily set development-oriented goals in the struggle for national prosperity and the people's civilized and happy life and pushed ahead with the work for their attainment.

Through radical changes in the island area clearly and again showing the higher stage and development process of regional transformation, our people hardened their confidence that all regions of the country can be turned into a paradise within 10 or 20 years as there are the outstanding leadership of Kim Jong Un and single-mind unity of all the people closely rallied around the Party Central Committee.

On February 1, Kim Jong Un attended the inauguration ceremony of the Sinuiju Combined Greenhouse Farm and had a photo session with the builders and appreciated the valuable feats of the heroic youth in the new era who built in the area of Wihua Island another monument to the great struggle to go down in the sacred history of the Korean youth movement. And he expressed the expectation and belief that the youth, officers and soldiers would redouble their youthful strength and enthusiasm and more bravely and more stoutly struggle for the bright future of the powerful country and the honor of the Korean youth.

The farm, successfully completed ahead of the Ninth Congress of the WPK, will proudly demonstrate its name before the times and history year after year as a model edifice in the era of comprehensive national rejuvenation, thanks to the grand plan of Kim Jong Un for regional construction and his seasoned leadership and patriotic loyalty of the army-civilian builders, the report stressed. -0-

Peoples Korea Today' Issue 62 ( February 2026 ).pdf

 

From Voice of Korea-"Our Deputy"

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  Driver Ho Myong Gum at the Ryonmot Trolley Bus Company has an unusual attachment to her job that calls for working from early in the morning till late at night for the convenience of the people.

  She has been working as a trolley bus driver for tens of years since her girlhood and respected by citizens as "our deputy".

  She is a deputy to the Pyongyang Municipal People's Assembly. She keeps an unforgettable memory in her heart.

  On July 19, 2015 elections to the provincial, city and county people's assemblies took place in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.

  At that time, Ho Myong Gum was recommended as one of the candidates for deputies to the Pyongyang Municipal People's Assembly.

  That day, the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un came out to the polling station and voted for candidate Ho Myong Gum, a woman driver of the Ryonmot Trolley Bus Company.

  Then, he met her and highly appreciated the merits she performed in devoting her intense loyalty and patriotic enthusiasm for the strengthening and development of the DPRK in the spirit of true service for the people.

  Ho Myong Gum said she cannot forget the day though many years have passed since she met Kim Jong Un, and continued:

  "Whenever I recall that time, I get so excited that it seems to have happened just before.

  The respected Comrade Kim Jong Un voted for me and pressed my hands. He told me to work harder for the people true to their expectations as a representative of the people.

  I drive the trolley bus, always thinking that I should work according to his instructions."

  Ho Myong Gum was awarded the title of Merited Driver in 2018 and reelected deputy to the Pyongyang Municipal People's Assembly in 2019 and 2023.

  The state provided her gratis with a luxurious house in the Pothong Riverside Terraced Residential District in recognition of her faithful service for the people.

  Ho Myong Gum has worked as a deputy to the Pyongyang Municipal People's Assembly for over ten years. She is working hard today, too, keeping the appellation of "our deputy" deep in her heart.