BGSJI and KFA UK on the 89th anniversary of the battle of Pochonbo

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                                         London 4th of June 2026

 The British Group for the Study of the Juche Idea (BGSJI) and the Korean Friendship Association UK(KFA UK )issued the following joint statement on the occasion of the the 89th anniversary of the battle of Pochonbo .

            The battle of Pochonbo was a unique military  and political feat of the Korean People's Revolutionary Army under the command of the great leader comrade Kim Il Sung , a gifted military strategist, heroic partisan leader and ever-victorious iron-willed brilliant commander. The battle of Pochonbo struck a mighty blow against the fascistic Japanese imperialists ,striking fear into them.
    

 It was on the 4th of June 1937 that the revolutionary fighters of the KPRA carried out a daring and audacious operation to advance into the Korean homeland , under the command of the great leader comrade Kim Il Sung. General Kim Il Sung the commander of the KPRA had put forward the bold  policy of advancing into the Korean homeland and to strike at the Japanese imperialist occupiers.
The Japanese imperialists who had annexed Korea in 1910 were severely oppressing the Korean people ,literally strangling the life out of them and trying to obliterate everything Korean. The question of advance into the homeland was simply not a military one but a political and ideological one .
  

Under the wise command of the great leader comrade Kim Il Sung using  brilliant Juche-orientated guerrilla tactics the Korean People's Revolutionary Army annihilated the Japanese imperialist aggressors in Pochonbo and went on to defeat them in the battles of Kouyushan and Jiansanfeng,
  

    As the great leader comrade Kim Il Sung said
" Brothers and sisters, look at the flames over there. Those raging flames show that the enemy is doomed. Those flames show the whole world that our nation is not dead but alive, and that if we fight against the Japanese imperialist plunderers we can win. Those flames will shine like a ray of hope in the hearts of our people suffering from maltreatment and hunger, and will spread throughout our three-thousand-ri land like a torch of struggle.
The Korean people are not of the “same descent” as the Japanese imperialist villains, and we do not acknowledge the idea noisily propagandized by them that “Japan and Korea are one”.
We, the KPRA, will tighten our grip on our weapons of revenge and liberate our 23 million fellow countrymen suffering from hunger and poverty, ignorance and darkness. We will liberate our fatherland come what may, and establish a people’s country free from oppression and exploitation on the land of the independent fatherland."
 Indeed the flames of Pochonbo symbolised the cleansing of Japanese imperialism from Korea and the destruction of the old society of exploitation and oppression.
  The victory in the Pochonbo battle, which was due to the protean guerrilla tactic of the great leader comrade Kim Il Sung, was a powerful inspiration to the oppressed peoples of the world in their anti-imperialist ,anti-colonialist struggle . As one third world liberation fighter wrote " The beacon fire of Pochonbo marked a great event which gave confidence in struggle to not only the Korean people under the colonial rule of Japanese imperialism , but also to the world revolutionary oppressed people, groaning in those days under the heels of the imperialist aggressors -fascist Germany, Italy , Japanese imperialism and American and British imperialism "

 Today the battle of Pochonbo remains a potent  inspiration and model of success in guerrilla struggle for anti-imperialist independence movements. The beacon fire of independence lit in Pochonbo 89 years ago still burns brightly in the independent  ,self reliant DPRK the land of Juche .

BGSJI
KFA UK 

Respected Comrade Kim Jong Un Gives Field Guidance at Newly-Inaugurated Nuclear Materials Production Factory

 Respected Comrade Kim Jong Un Gives Field Guidance at Newly-Inaugurated Nuclear Materials Production Factory

Pyongyang, June 4 (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, gave field guidance at the newly-inaugurated nuclear materials production factory on June 3.

He was accompanied by leading officials of the munitions industry department of the WPK Central Committee and the Nuclear Weapons Institute of the DPRK.

Going round new production lines based on more sophisticated technology, Comrade Kim Jong Un learned about the factory's operation indices and its long-term production plan.

He highly appreciated the fact that the nuclear materials production sector is correctly implementing the decisions adopted at recent plenary meetings of the WPK Central Committee.

He praised the group of nuclear experts for having provided a firm guarantee to improve the efficiency of all system elements in the production line and further strengthen the foundation for the production of weapons-grade nuclear materials by settling the problems decisive in putting the production of nuclear materials on a Juche basis.

Saying that the weapons-grade nuclear materials production capacity more than doubled during the past 5-year course of bolstering up the nuclear force under the direct guidance of the Eighth Central Committee of the WPK, he expressed satisfaction over the fact that the WPK's line of bolstering up nuclear forces is being thoroughly carried out thanks to the high technical capability developed by the nuclear science research group.

He recalled that the Ninth Congress of the WPK adopted a strategic decision to further expand the nuclear materials production capacity and continue to increase the nuclear arsenals in line with the prospective demand of the DPRK's nuclear force, when deciding on a new five-year plan for the strengthened nuclear force to steadily enhance the country's nuclear war deterrent.

The peculiarities of the Korean revolution inevitably accompanied by long-term confrontation with the most ferocious enemies, the existing threats getting more serious every moment, potential threats and unpredictable long-term crises further highlight the urgency and responsibility of the historic mission to bolster up both in quality and quantity and in a sustained and accelerated way the nuclear war deterrent, the basic guarantee and strong safety device for reliably ensuring the security, interests and development rights of the country, he noted.

Very clear is the stand taken by our Party and government to deal with all these complex changes in the subjective and objective environments and actively cope with them, and accordingly, it is the invariable political and military stand and responsible duty we should maintain to further expand and strengthen the state nuclear forces, the pivot in implementing the strategy to deter a war and fight a war, and thoroughly exercise the position of a nuclear weapons state, he declared.

That day, there was an important consultative meeting for bolstering up the nuclear forces.

Comrade Kim Jong Un made an important conclusion clarifying the action guidelines for rapidly accelerating the qualitative and quantitative strengthening of the DPRK's nuclear forces, saying that the conditions in which the nuclear materials production capacity has greatly expanded and the development of sophisticated nuclear technology create a mature environment for going into the new next-stage of bolstering up the nuclear forces and they offer the possibility of carrying out larger plans.

Finishing his important conclusion, Comrade Kim Jong Un said:

"Today we have updated the digits that are critical for our nuclear activities, and discussed some key matters.

In doing so, we have comprehensively considered the tactical and strategic requirements for building up our nuclear deterrent and, on the basis of this, adopted a highly responsible and crucial decision.

We have confirmed the order of priority for implementing the ambitious future plan designed to beef up our state’s nuclear forces at an exponential rate, as well as a requisite guarantee for the purpose.

This signifies an amazing, successful change that is beyond rhetorical description, a historic event that has set up an epochal milestone in rapidly upgrading our nuclear capabilities.

This nuclear potential that we have now is inconceivable apart from the worthwhile struggle we have conducted over the past five years.

Today, I would like to pay tribute, once again, to our nuclear scientists."

He stressed that the DPRK will as ever more thoroughly and more courageously take action to defend its constitution and sovereignty and reliably ensure the security of the state by exercising in a responsible manner the inviolable authority granted by the DPRK Constitution.

He expressed expectation and belief that the DPRK's group of nuclear experts would remain faithful to the fulfillment of the sacred mission for the perfect implementation of the decision adopted by the Party for the security of the country in the present and in the future.

Comrade Kim Jong Un's inspection of the new nuclear materials production factory serves as an important occasion in clearly highlighting once again the invariable will of our Party and state to bolster up the nuclear forces in order to guarantee the country's security and right to development, deter war and defend the regional and global peace and stability by highly developing the nuclear weapons, and the great potentialities and unlimited prospect. -0-

www.kcna.kp (2026.06.04.)

BGSJI and KFA UK applaud the speech of respected Marshal KIM JONG UN on the 80th anniversary of the Central Cadres Training School of the WPK

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     London 3 June 2026
 The British Group for the Study of the Juche Idea (BGSJI) and   Korean Friendship Association of the UK (UK KFA ) issued a joint statement which highly appraised the speech of respected Marshal KIM JONG UN on the occasion of the 80th anniversary of the foundation of the Central Cadres Training School of the Workers Party of Korea(WPK) which was delivered on the 1st of June ;

In his significant speech respected Marshal KIM JONG UN points out the unique nature of the Central Cadres Training School of the WPK saying that

 " In looking back upon the history of political parties of the working class, there is no party other than ours that established bases for training its cadres by itself through a well-regulated system and structure, bases capable of training its hard core, from the centre down to the regional areas in a little over a year after its founding."

The Central Cadres Training School was founded by the great leader comrade KIM IL SUNG . Instead of looking to other countries that had their revolution earlier to train its cadres ,the Workers Party of Korea established its own cadre training school with its own resources.

Respected Marshal KIM JONG UN stresses the need for continuity by emphasising  that 

"Even when everything else in the world may change, the original feature of the Workers' Party of Korea must remain as it is. Likewise, even when its educational environment and teaching and edification modes may change, the character and mission of the Party school must remain unchanged"

This constitutes a very important guideline for the work of party building and the work of the Party school. 

Moreover respected Marshal KIM JONG UN says that attention must be paid to maintaining revolutionary purity particularly when there is the change of generations; 

"We have to prevent the awareness of the younger generations from receding from the ideals and faith of their revolutionary forerunners, and ensure that the whole society is filled with their ethos of indomitability and staunchness with which to fight resiliently against all odds and challenges. To this end, Party schools should play their role in a responsible manner as political institutions which are assigned to get rid of all alien things and inject only the pure revolutionary spirit"

The ideological spirit should be raised up to the same level as the first generation.

Ideas such as stressing only material and economic factors and not ideological factors as well as anti-people practices such as the abuse of power and bureaucracy should be challenged and combatted .

To conclude the speech of respected Marshal KIM JONG UN is a valuable guideline for the training of communist revolutionary cadres which is merits deep study .

BGSJI

KFA UK 

BGSJI and KFA UK on the 80th anniversary of the Korean Children's Union

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     London 3 June 2026
 The British Group for the Study of the Juche Idea (BGSJI) and   Korean Friendship Association of the UK (UK KFA ) issued a joint statement on the 80th anniversary of the foundation of the Korean Children's Union;

80 years ago President KIM IL SUNG founded the Korean Children's Union(KCU) to bring up Korean children as the reserves of the revolution . Today the Korean Children's Union is wonderfully performing its role in bringing the successors to the revolution and pioneers of Juche.

Once upon a time many countries had Young Pioneer organisations but these have disappeared yet in People's Korea , the KCU is going strong . As respected Marshal KIM JONG UN pointed out ;

 "There have been many children's organizations in the world, which wrote their dignified histories under revolutionary slogans, but the KCU is the only one that vigorously adds lustre to its glorious history and traditions still today, carrying forward its red bloodline"

                         

Our organisations congratulate the Korean Children's Union on its 80th anniversary and wish them many more anniversaries to come .

Long live the Korean Children's Union

BGSJI

KFA UK

               

          

Crime of Japan, Sworn Enemy of Korean Nation

 

Pyongyang, June 2 (KCNA) -- During their colonial rule over Korea, the Japanese imperialists forcibly drafted and kidnapped more than 8.4 million young and middle-aged Koreans and forced medieval slave labor upon them or used them as cannon fodder.

They cooked up various evil laws such as "the National Mobilization Law" and "Ordinance on Labor Conscription", deprived the Koreans of even the elementary freedom and rights of human beings and did not provide them with the minimum working conditions.

The Koreans were compelled to slave labour at construction sites of military establishments, coal mines, mines and construction sites of dams without any labour protection facilities.

The data dating back to 1944-1945 found in Japan show that Koreans were taken to more than 540 construction sites of military facilities in Japan at that time.

The construction sites were a trap of death for them who had to do heavy physical work for 16 to 18 hours a day and 21 hours to the maximum.

At a coal mine in Kyushu of Japan, many Korean boys under the age of 15 toiled and moiled, and tens of them were buried alive at once owing to the cave-in accident.

The Japanese imperialists mercilessly massacred the people who displeased them even a bit, not being content with making them disabled.

During the period from 1940 to 1944, more than 60 000 Koreans lost their lives due to the harsh maltreatment in coal mines of Japan alone.

The Japanese imperialists' forcible drafting of Koreans was a harsh human rights abuse aimed at forcing the murderous slave labor upon them. -0-

www.kcna.kp (2026.06.02.)

Japan's Expansion of Arms Export is Dangerous Act Fully Revealing True Colors of War Merchant

Pyongyang, June 3 (KCNA) -- Kim Ryo Won, an international security analyst of the DPRK, Tuesday issued the following article "Japan's expansion of arms export is a dangerous act fully revealing the true colors of a war merchant":

Taking the advantage of the present unstable international situation in which armed conflicts are frequent in different parts of the planet due to the U.S. arbitrary practices and tyranny, Japan is going beyond the red-line in its frantic moves to free itself from the political and military fetters of the defeated nation and realize its ambition for reinvasion.

Its latest example is Japan's amendments to the "three principles of defense equipment transfer" and the guidelines for its operation in April, which had restricted the arms export just for form's sake, despite concern and strong opposition at home and abroad. And Japan is now keen on expanding arms export while justifying it.

Days ago, the present chief executive of Japan justified the criminal nature of the amendments to the "three principles of defense equipment transfer" by asserting that the essential point is that it makes it possible to increase the deterrent for defence and prevent disputes in advance in the most severe security environment after the war.

Japan, a war criminal state, has revised its policy of arms export, talking about the "dramatic turn of its security policy". This is by no means a matter to be overlooked in view of its intention and purpose.

It is well known that Japan, which is banned by the international law and its own constitution from possessing the right to belligerency, the right to participate in a war and war potentials, has removed the institutional obstacles one by one in a dodged way to export weapons, not content with its frantic development of offensive weapons and equipment.

In the 1960s and 1970s Japan put forward the "three principles of arms export" and "all-round expansion of the principle of banning arms export" as the signboard of a "pacifist state" but behind the scenes it pursued its own purposes.

It is an open secret that the parts of various kinds of lethal weapons used in the sites for aggression wars, big or small, launched by the U.S. to realize its hegemonic strategy, including the Gulf War and the Yugoslavia War, were marked with brands of Japanese munitions monopolies.

In 2014, the then Abe cabinet abolished the "three principles of arms export", a hindrance to the realization of its goal to become a military giant. And it cooked up the so-called "three principles of defense equipment transfer" whose keynote is to allow the export of lethal weapons to those countries taking part in the co-development of weapons and equipment and the export of equipment for non-combatant purpose such as "disaster relief, transportation, guard, surveillance and clearing" to other countries.

In 2023, Japan amended it and sold its home-made Patriot missiles to the U.S. under the permission of its enterprises. In this roundabout way, Japan sent a lot of lethal weapons to the Ukrainian battlefield.

Not content with this, Japan completely removed the restrictions on the export of weapons and equipment at this time and added an exceptional clause that allows it not to observe the principle of banning arms exports to a party in a conflict under "the special circumstances." By doing so, Japan opened up a legitimate way to unrestrictedly sell all kinds of lethal weapons to any conflict zone in the world.

Accordingly, Japan is busy exporting all kinds of lethal weapons, including escort ships, submarines and missiles, through frequent arms sales negotiations with its so-called like-minded countries.

The world people still remember the criminal act committed by Japan which got a windfall through the supply of vast quantities of munitions as a logistic base of the U.S. during the Korean War in the 1950s, and embarked upon the road of reviving militarism with it as its asset.

Japan's expansion of arms export is a dangerous act that fully revealed its true colors as a war merchant intended to expand the munitions industry and realize its ambition to be a major military power at any cost through the selling of a large number of deadly weapons.

And Japan seeks to accelerate the preparations for reinvasion by worsening geopolitical conflicts in the hot spots of the world and making much money through the bloodshed. Herein lies the injustice and dangerousness of Japan's arms export expansion.

Japan once resorted to political and military provocations against the neighboring country, suggesting its intervention in "Taiwan contingency", and it is now developing into a war state by finding a market for selling various lethal weapons. So, Japan's destination is quite self-evident.

The international community should thoroughly check and frustrate ever-increasing moves of Japan, a war criminal state, to become a military giant as it has completely discarded even the veil of "pacifist state", obsessed with its ambition for reinvasion, and seriously threatens global peace and security. -0-

www.kcna.kp (2026.06.03.)

Remarks on "Dagger in Heart of Asia" Is Intensive Manifestation of U.S. Hegemonism and Cold War Mentality

Pyongyang, June 3 (KCNA) -- Kim Myong Chol, an international affairs analyst of the DPRK, made public the following article "The remarks on the 'dagger in the heart of Asia' are an intensive manifestation of the U.S. hegemonism and Cold War mentality" on June 3:

Brunson, commander of the U.S. forces in the ROK, in a recent interview described the ROK as the "dagger in the heart of Asia", triggering an international controversy.

He said that when they look out from the east coast of China, what they see is there's the ROK, the "dagger in the heart of Asia". He added that Japan plays the role of sort of a shield as well as the role of checking China's ambition to make inroads into the South China Sea and then the Philippines down to its southeast.

The Chinese Embassy in the ROK said Brunson's comments "crossed the line", and asked the commander: "Are your remarks rife with hostility and aggression regarding China authorized by Washington?"

The ROK also expressed its discomfort, saying that it has been "maintaining communication" with the U.S. And the media expressed concern that Brunson's comments might be interpreted as an intention to expand the ROK-U.S. alliance and the role of the U.S. forces in the ROK in "containing China".

And Brunson made up some excuses, saying that his remarks were misreported and he merely intended to explain the operational conditions. But his assertion served as an occasion of revealing once again the position of the ROK as an advanced base for carrying out the U.S. Indo-Pacific Strategy.

In fact, his remarks are not an impromptu assertion but fully reflect the strategic vision of the successive U.S. administrations intended to use the ROK as an important geopolitical instrument to realize its regional strategy aimed at containing China.

The U.S. has occupied the ROK and used it as a military springboard for invasion of the Asian continent since the 1940s, uttering that the Korean peninsula is just like a "dagger" for cutting a "lump of meat" called Asia. And so far it has ceaselessly sharpened the "dagger" for its regional hegemony.

In particular, the U.S. has put forward the Asia-Pacific rebalancing strategy aimed at containing China and the Indo-Pacific strategy, a detailed and extended version of the former strategy, and focused on attaining the military edge in the region since the end of the Cold War.

To this end, it has tightened its grip on the ROK militarily through the deployment of THAAD and joint military exercises and accelerated the efforts to increase the combat capability of the U.S. forces in the ROK and improve their ability to launch integrated operations with allies.

The U.S., which had expressed its plan to reorganize the U.S. forces in the ROK into the "strategic task force" and "regional expeditionary force" since 2004, reached an agreement with the ROK on "strategic flexibility" of the U.S. forces in the ROK in January 2006, and in the 2010 Defense Department report, it clarified for the first time that the U.S. forces in the ROK could be dispatched to other regions according to the principle of "strategic flexibility".

Recently, it more openly advocated the "modernization of the U.S.-ROK alliance" talking about "bolstering up conventional deterrent against all threats in the region" and "ensuring peace and security in the Taiwan Strait" at the 57th U.S.-ROK annual security consultative meeting in November last year. And in the National Security Strategy Report in December that year, it stressed the need for the regional allies including the ROK to increase the defence expenditure with the main emphasis on strengthening the capabilities needed for containing hostile countries and protecting the "first island chain".

According to such policy, the U.S. resorted to arms buildup by forming an "expeditionary reconnaissance battalion" involving the multi-mission drone MQ-9 Reaper in the ROK and deploying more F-16 fighters for establishing the "super-powerful wing".

Recently alone, it approved the sale of 24 new-type helicopters for naval operation MH-60R and parts of attack helicopters AH-64E Apache to the ROK and conducted the training of the U.S. Army multi-domain mobile task force created with the aim of containing neighboring countries within the "first island chain", promoting the coordination of the U.S. military posture in the region.

International media and experts unanimously comment that such U.S. attempt is aimed at coordinating the role, mission and military posture of the U.S. forces in the ROK and the ROK army in the direction of concentrating on deterring major rival states in the Asia-Pacific region.

This makes it possible to realize that the U.S.-ROK nuclear submarine cooperation and the integration of nuclear and conventional forces, which are causing concern of the international community, are, in the long run, directly linked to the attempt to ensure the "strategic flexibility" of the U.S. forces in the region and make use of the ROK for containing China.

All these facts clearly prove that the U.S.-ROK alliance is the core axis in the new national defense strategy of the U.S. mainly aimed at encircling and deterring its major rival in the Asia-Pacific region.

The U.S.-ROK alliance, which is evolving into a more confrontation-oriented one day by day, has become a fundamental factor in further deteriorating military tension and creating constant instability in the Asia-Pacific region, arousing due vigilance of the regional countries and the international community aspiring after peace and stability.

It is by no means fortuitous that regional countries are recently becoming increasingly critical of the U.S. and the ROK strengthening their alliance and, in particular, expressing deep concern that the ROK may eventually be driven into the same plight as that of Ukraine as it is standing at the strategic crossroads in the competitive relations between the U.S. and China.

The recent remarks of the commander of the U.S. forces in the ROK clearly show the vicious appearance of the U.S. as the chieftain of harassing peace and the world's worst war empire, which has regarded the Korean peninsula and its vicinity as the main battlefield for camp confrontation and new Cold War.

The U.S. attempt to bolster up the collective deterrence against the anti-imperialist independent forces in the Asia-Pacific region will inevitably invite security concerns of neighboring powers and promote increased cooperation to offset it. -0-

www.kcna.kp (2026.06.03.)