From Voice of Korea-People Cannot Forget Him

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Along with the shift in generation, there are a lot of Korean people who didn't see the great leader Comrade Kim Il Sung in his lifetime. Growing stronger, however, are their absolute reverence and yearning for him.

It is because the Korean people are enjoying a happy life today thanks to his exploits and favour.

Ordinary Working People Become Owners of New Houses

It was a simple desire of the Korean people from olden times to live happily in a small cottage.

To realize their dream and wish, Comrade Kim Il Sung made painstaking efforts all his life.

In order to provide the people who tided over severe trials of the war in the 1950s with houses as early as possible, he visited construction sites in the capital city again and again. He discussed plans for construction with builders and encouraged them. As a result, over 20,000 flats could be built in the capital city with materials, funds and manpower equivalent to those for 7,000 flats in 1958, five years after the end of the war.

And in the 1970s he led the construction of a rural village to open a new history of building a socialist Utopia.

His lifelong desire has come true on this land.

Almost 60,000 flats have been built in the capital city over the past five years, including those in Songhwa, Rimhung and Hwasong streets and over 32,000 rural houses were built last year alone.

Moreover, modern terraced residential district appeared at the site of Comrade Kim Il Sung's mansion on the bank of the River Pothong in the capital city of Pyongyang, which is called Kyongnu-dong.

Ri Sang Suk living at the People's Neighbourhood Unit No. 12, Kyongnu-dong of the Central District, said her longing for Comrade Kim Il Sung gets more ardent as she enjoys a greater happiness, and continued:

"Our happiness today is unthinkable apart from the efforts of the great leader Comrade Kim Il Sung.

Living in this house, I always tell my children not to forget his love generation after generation."

Large-Scale Greenhouse Farms Built across the Country

The Jangchon Vegetable Farm in Sadong District of Pyongyang has tens of year-long history of greenhouse vegetable farming.

The great leader Comrade Kim Il Sung gave field guidance to the farm on 16 occasions. On April 25, 1982 he looked round the new greenhouse built at the farm.

Wiping the sweat with his handkerchief in the hot greenhouse, he stressed the need to build more greenhouses in the future so as to provide the capital citizens with a lot of vegetables even in cold winter.

In the 2010s the farm was wonderfully built into a model unit of greenhouse vegetable production amid the state concern.

On the basis of the experience of the farm, the Jungphyong Greenhouse Farm was built in 2019, the Ryonpho Greenhouse Farm in 2022, the Kangdong Combined Greenhouse Farm in 2024 and the Sinuiju Combined Greenhouse Farm in 2026 in succession.

Comrade Kim Il Sung's noble intention to provide the people with fresh vegetables all the year round is being realized.

A Story about Comrade Kim Il Sung at a Family

A family at the People's Neighbourhood Unit No. 28 in Tangsang-dong No. 2, Mangyongdae District of Pyongyang, has five photographs catching the eyes of visitors.

They are the photos of the great leader Comrade Kim Il Sung taken with children in stage costumes.

Ri Yon Ok said her second daughter was popular as an electronic instrument player and her son as a percussionist in their childhood and they can be found in the photographs, and continued:

"Every family was indebted to the great leader Comrade Kim Il Sung. So I tell my children to remember him all the time and work hard wherever they are and whatever they do."

Ri Yon Ok brought up three children, who finished the university courses without paying a penny. Her two sons-in-law and daughter-in-law graduated from universities and her grandchildren are now studying at universities.

Second daughter Jong Hye Gyong living with her mother said she took part in performances given in the presence of Comrade Kim Il Sung together with her younger brother including the New Year performance, had pictures taken with him and participated in a performance abroad as a member of the art troupe of schoolchildren.

Looking back upon the fact that her photo was printed on foreign publications and those days when she had received a lot of gifts from Comrade Kim Il Sung, she said with excitement that they were really happy days.

"At that time I was so young that I didn't know well what great happiness and honour I had. Growing old, however, I keenly feel it.

So I often tell my daughter the story about the photographs hanging on the wall and say that she should hand down the favour of the great leader Comrade Kim Il Sung to posterity."

Longing for Comrade Kim Il Sung has been kept deep in the heart of the 15-year-old girl who had never met him.

"Looking at the pictures of my mother and her brother taken in the presence of the great leader Generalissimo Kim Il Sung, I deeply feel how much he loved the children.

My maternal grandmother and mother always tell me to always remember Generalissimo Kim Il Sung."

The five photographs taken in the presence of Comrade Kim Il Sung will be kept as the greatest pride of this family generation after generation.

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Along with ardent longing for Comrade Kim Il Sung, the Korean people are together with him, always seeing him in their mind

Artillery Firing Contest of Artillery Sub-units Held on Significant Day of Sun

Pyongyang, April 16 (KCNA) -- 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, oversaw an artillery firing contest of artillery sub-units under the large combined units of the Korean People's Army in the western area organized on April 15, the Day of the Sun.

Comrade Kim Jong Un was greeted on the spot by No Kwang Chol, minister of National Defence of the DPRK, Ri Yong Gil, chief of the General Staff of the KPA, Kim Song Gi, director of the General Political Bureau of the KPA, and other commanding officers of the Ministry of National Defence and military and political commanding officers of the KPA large combined units in the western area.

The artillery firing contest was conducted according to the contest rules set up in conformity with the simulated tactical environment.

In the contest, the artillery sub-units powerfully demonstrated their militant marksmanship they have consolidated to the full with a high desire to perfect combat preparations, and clearly showed their full war posture.

The artillery sub-unit of the Capital City Defence Corps won the first place in the contest.

The 4th Corps of the KPA came second, the 2nd Corps third, the 8th Corps fourth and the 3rd Corps fifth.

Comrade Kim Jong Un expressed satisfaction over the fact that the artillery firing contest, held to mark the greatest auspicious holiday of the nation, served as an important occasion in enhancing the training enthusiasm of our artillerymen and remarkably strengthening their militant might.

The positive utilization of the artillery force is the most important factor deciding the victory in operation and battle and furthermore in war, he said, stressing that the People's Army should as ever put spurs to the artillery combat readiness, true to the Party's policy of attaching importance to the artillery and strengthening the artillery force and that the Party Central Committee's strategic plan for modernization of the artillery force should be thoroughly implemented within the new five-year plan for the development of the national defence.

He said that it is good to frequently organize training contests at all levels of the army on national holidays and other major occasions as seen today and the People's Army should be engrossed only in the training for rounding off the combat preparations, adding that it is precisely the way for realizing the great leader Comrade Kim Il Sung's desire for building a powerful army and an expression of loyalty to the Party, the revolution, the country and the people and the duty of the army.

The sub-unit which won the training contest was awarded a diploma, medal and badge.

That day, Comrade Kim Jong Un met the soldiers of the successful artillery sub-unit and appreciated their high combat capability before having a photo session with officers and men.

The KPA commanding officers and artillerymen, blessed with the warm love and trust of the great brilliant commander on the auspicious spring holiday of April, hardened their pledge to devotedly defend the Party Central Committee and reliably safeguard the inviolable sovereignty and dignity of the glorious DPRK and the honor of the Korean People's Army with remarkable success in strengthening the combat power of the artillery. -0-

www.kcna.kp (2026.04.16.)

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From Voice of Korea-Everywhere People Live

 From Voice of Korea.

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Everywhere People Live

  Believing in the people as in heaven was the motto of the great leader Comrade Kim Il Sung.

  Comrade Kim Il Sung devoted his all only to the people, finding himself among them throughout his life.

  His devoted efforts for the people can be felt everywhere they live.

Walking Field Paths All His Life

  The Korean people remember the benevolent image of Comrade Kim Il Sung walking along field paths.

  He visited farms continuously for nearly 50 years from the country's liberation in 1945 to the last period of his life, transplanting rice seedlings with farmers and discussing problems about farming with them.

  He called at every place where farmers live, ranging from the farms at the northern end of the country to the rural villages in the remote mountainous areas.

  One day in August 1993, he visited a number of farms in South Hwanghae Province though he was over 80 years old.

  He gave field guidance to the farms in several counties from early in the morning to midday without relieving his fatigue from long journey and held a consultative meeting of senior officials in South Hwanghae Province at lunchtime.

  At the meeting, he said that as the farming in South Hwanghae Province is important, he sometimes thinks to give up presidency and serve as an advisor guiding the farming in the province.

  Indeed, it was his lifelong desire to do good farming and make the people well-off.

  One day, Comrade Kim Il Sung recollected with deep emotion that he had called at nearly all the rural communities of the country and that he might have travelled hundreds of thousand kilometres to visit the farms for guidance of the rural economy sector and met and talked with tens of thousands of farmers.

  The Korean people still remember the benevolent image of Comrade Kim Il Sung who walked along field paths all his life, so concerned to make them eat polished rice with meat soup.

To Solve the Clothing Problem of the People

  The great leader Comrade Kim Il Sung saw that textile and silk mills and knitwear factories were built in all parts of the country in order to solve the clothing problem of the people.

  The Songyo Knitwear Factory was built on his direct initiative in the 1960s. Since then, the factory has contributed to the improvement of the people's living by producing various kinds of knitwear.

  Lecturer Jang Sol Ok at the Songyo Knitwear Factory said the factory was turned into a knitwear producer of large capacity under the meticulous guidance of Comrade Kim Il Sung, and continued:

  "Printed in all parts of our factory are the traces of the great leader Comrade Kim Il Sung's field guidance.

  Comrade Kim Il Sung visited our factory four times, whose employees are mostly women.

  He kindly asked them if the work was not difficult, how many hours they worked and what the quality of their meals was like and paid attention to the provision of working and living conditions as well.

  And he led them step by step to produce various kinds of good-quality garments favoured by people."

  Whenever opportunity permitted, Comrade Kim Il Sung oversaw the products of the factory and said they had been made well and called for turning out large quantities of knitwear favoured by the people.

  As said above, the traces of his field guidance for the people are found everywhere in this country including factories and farms.

  Comrade Kim Il Sung continued his field guidance tour till the last period of his great life, saying that when he works harder, the country will prosper and the people be well-off.

  He covered the distance of over 578,000 kilometres for his field guidance all his life, which is equivalent to making 14 rounds and a half of the earth.

  The Korean people will tell of his benefits forever.

A great leader who gave the Korean people independence -special article by Dr Dermot Hudson

As the Korean people and the progressive peoples of the world celebrate the 114th anniversary of the birth of the great leader President

KIM IL SUNG we can only reflect with great respect  on the many achievements of President KIM IL SUNG who was a humble son of the Korean people born into a poor peasant family at Mangyongdae near Pyongyang .

On one of  my first visits to the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) in the early 1990s one of my guides explained why they wore a badge with the image of the President ; it was simple , without President  KIM IL SUNG there would be no Korea . To that I would  add that would  no independence and no socialism.

As respected Marshal KIM JONG UN said of President KIM IL SUNG “Independence was the revolutionary creed, revolutionary mode and revolutionary practice he cherished and applied all his life”

President KIM IL SUNG from an early age struggled for the independence of Korea from murderous and barbaric rule  of Japanese imperialism which had annexed Korea in 1910. The Japanese imperialists tried obliterate everything Korean . As a young man President KIM IL SUNG gathered a band of revolutionaries and patriots around him to form the Down With Imperialism Union in 1926 , the 100th anniversary of which will be in October of this year. Later President KIM IL SUNG took up the gun to fight for independence when he first formed the Korean Revolutionary Army in July of 1930 and the Anti-Japanese People’s Guerilla Army .

When lazy bourgeois nationalists , flunkeys and factionalists were doing nothing but talk President KIM IL SUNG commanded many battles against the Japanese imperialists ,finally liberating Korea from Japanese imperialist rule on the 15th of August 1945 .

After liberation in 1945 President KIM IL SUNG made sure that independence was maintained . The new Korea would not be a copy of another country . President KIM IL SUNG saw it as  pointless and wrong to build a new country under the domination of another country , instead the new People’s Korea was to be totally independent and free from domination by outside forces. Why should one kind of domination be swapped for another ?

From the first days of Juche Korea the line of economic independence was pursued . As early as 1947 President KIM IL SUNG declared that “For complete national independence and sovereignty and for national prosperity and development, one must build an independent national economy and thus firmly ensure economic independence.”

President KIM IL SUNG developed in depth the theory of the independent national economy  and applied it in practice . The DPRK did not join the Council For Mutual Economic Assistance (CMEA or COMECON ) but developed a self-reliant independent national economy . A proud example of this is Vinalon or Juche fibre , a fibre made from limestone which is abundant is abundant in the DPRK .

 In 1956 President KIM IL SUNG defeated those internal traitors , the anti-Party counter -revolutionary factionalists and revisionists  who worshipped big powers and wanted to make the DPRK subordinate to others and even turn the DPRK into a pro US bourgeois republic .

The Juche idea that was first authored by President KIM IL SUNG in the days of the anti-Japanese armed struggle became the ideological and conceptual underpin of the DPRK’s independence . President KIM IL SUNG explained that Juche meant “In a nutshell, the idea of Juche means that the masters of the revolution and the work of construction are the masses of the people and that they are also the motive force of the revolution and the work of construction. In other words, one is responsible for one's own destiny and one has also the capacity for hewing out one's own destiny. “.

Under President KIM IL SUNG’s Juche-oriented leadership the DPRK maintained robust independence , the DPRK ploughed through the storms of imperialism , revisionism and anti-socialism like a knife cutting through butter. Today the DPRK is the most independent country in the world .

President KIM IL SUNG gave the Korean people  independence , the most beautiful and precious gift that money cannot buy . So on the 114th anniversary of his birth we respect and revere the great leader President  KIM IL SUNG .

Glory to the memory of the great leader President KIM IL SUNG !
Long Live Juche !
Long live self-reliance !

Dr Dermot Hudson

Chairman Korean Friendship Association UK

Chairman British Group For the Study of the Juche Idea

Hon Secretary General Global Farmy Study Group For comrade KIM JONG UN’s People-first policies.

From Voice of Korea-Winning Victory with His Outstanding Military Tactics

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Winning Victory with His Outstanding Military Tactics

  The great leader Comrade Kim Il Sung is a military genius who led two revolutionary wars to victory by creating outstanding military tactics. 

                                                                  

Creating Guerrilla Tactics of Korean Style

  Comrade Kim Il Sung founded the Korean People's Revolutionary Army on April 25, 1932, in order to accomplish the historic cause of national liberation.

  The Korean People's Revolutionary Army had to wage an armed struggle against the numerically and technically superior Japanese imperialists for a long time.

  Doctor and Associate Professor Ho Sun Bok, Researcher of Kim Il Sung University, said Comrade Kim Il Sung created original guerrilla tactics of Korean style in the initial period when he started the anti-Japanese armed struggle, and continued:

  "At that time the great leader Comrade Kim Il Sung said it was necessary to start with a small number of forces, accumulate and expand them constantly in the course of war and achieve the final victory by fighting a decisive battle combined with the all-people armed uprising all in good time. And he taught that we should equip ourselves with handy arms to move fast so as to defeat the Japanese imperialists through the war of constant attrition while ensuring strategic and tactical upper hand over the enemy consistently in the way of dispersing the crowded ones and destroying the dispersed ones piecemeal, avoiding their large troops and killing small ones and this is the guerrilla warfare and herein lies its nice point."

  Comrade Kim Il Sung made public works such as the "Guerrilla Actions" and the "Guerrilla Manual" by synthesizing and systematizing the precious experience he got in the armed activities for a little over one year after the founding of the Korean People's Revolutionary Army. In those works he explained guerrilla tactics with many-sided contents.

  As he taught, the Korean People's Revolutionary Army defeated much more enemy while protecting its own forces to the maximum.

  Comrade Kim Il Sung created diverse guerrilla tactics such as assault, ambush, encounter, pursuit battle, the tactics of escaping from siege by stealth to make the enemy fight among themselves and defensive fight to put the enemy on the defensive before attacking them in the whole period of the anti-Japanese revolutionary struggle.

  He could create such Juche-oriented guerrilla tactics and put them into practice as he always found himself among people and soldiers and conducted activities depending on their creative strength and wisdom.

  Thanks to the guerrilla tactics of Korean style presented by him, the Korean People's Revolutionary Army could always defeat the numerically and technically superior enemy with its strategic and tactical upper hand in the whole course of the anti-Japanese armed struggle.

With His Original Military Tactics

  In the 1950s the Korean people won a victory in the Fatherland Liberation War to repulse the invasion of the US imperialists.

  During the war, Comrade Kim Il Sung further developed and enriched the Juche-oriented military tactics and applied them with success.

  He ensured that mountain warfare and night warfare were fought by making a good use of the terrain conditions of the country with a lot of mountains and rivers, and large-unit and small-unit operations, and regular warfare and guerrilla warfare combined properly.

  And he created unique military tactics unprecedented in the world history of wars to apply them to the war.

  Doctor and Associate Professor Ho Sun Bok, Researcher of Kim Il Sung University, said Comrade Kim Il Sung saw that the sudden attack of the enemy was repulsed with immediate and decisive counterattack at the beginning of the war, and continued:

  "The war history in all ages and countries showed that even though it had a powerful army and great economic and military potentials, a country which faced a total and sudden attack of the enemy fell into confusion and went to ruin without displaying its strength properly or underwent harsh trials for a certain period before saving the situation of the front and building up its strength for counterattack.

  Irrespective of the accepted military theory and manual and the experience of other countries, however, the great leader Comrade Kim Il Sung put forward a new counteroffensive strategy on the firm Juche-based stand.

  His counteroffensive strategy was the original one unheard-of in all aspects such as the purpose and time of counterattack, its line, the style of its transition and method."

  Thanks to the strategy of immediate and decisive counterattack advanced by Comrade Kim Il Sung, Seoul, the stronghold of the enemy, was liberated in three days after the start of the war.

  Comrade Kim Il Sung created a lot of military tactics such as the formation of the second front with regular units and powerful total counteroffensive action, active position warfare, tunnels warfare, siege warfare, aircraft-hunting team movement, tank hunters' team movement, sniper's movement, and intensive use of artillery fire and mobile battery movement in the mountainous areas.

  The original military tactics which could not be found in any military books of the world gave the revolutionary zeal and creative activity of the soldiers into fullest play.

  Shining forever are the immortal exploits of Comrade Kim Il Sung who created the military tactics of Korean style and developed them in depth and thus demonstrated the dignity and honour of the country all over the world.

 

Press Statement of Policy Section Chief of Institute for Japan Studies under DPRK Foreign Ministry

Pyongyang, April 15 (KCNA) -- The policy section chief of the Institute for Japan Studies under the Foreign Ministry of the DPRK issued a press statement titled "Japan's diplomatic blue book is a tricky document to beautify its extreme militarist moves with 'threat from the neighboring countries'" on April 14.

The press statement is as follows:

Shortly ago, Japan announced the "2026 diplomatic blue book" woven with conventional gangster-like logic and absurdity.

I do not care whether Japan announced the diplomatic blue book or not, but I can never overlook the fact that it called into question the DPRK's exercise of right to legitimate self-defence, in an absurd attempt to shake the position of a nuclear weapons state specified in the Constitution of the DPRK.

Japan termed the DPRK's measures for bolstering up its defence capabilities, which belong to the right to self-defence, "grave and urgent threat" and "clear and serious challenge" and made an anachronistic and evasive assertion like "complete, verifiable and irreversible dismantlement" and "complete implementation of the resolution of the UN Security Council".

This is a grave provocation encroaching upon the sovereign rights, security interests and development rights of our sacred state and, at the same time, it fully reveals Japan's deep-rooted hostility and confrontational intention toward the DPRK.

In the diplomatic blue book, Japan talked about the "international order based on rules" and "governing by law", but refused to mention its master's top-class rogue act of unhesitatingly resorting to aggression and use of armed forces against sovereign states to hold its unilateral hegemony.

Japan, a vassal state of the U.S., which has neither clear political view nor independence, is making desperate efforts to deny the position of the DPRK as a nuclear weapons state. This is impudent and ridiculous act not quite fit for it.

Whenever an opportunity presents itself, Japan is letting loose rhetoric about the exercise of the right to self-defence by neighboring countries. Such move is aimed at covering up its criminal nature of shaking the keynote of security in the region while pursuing legal and institutional completion as a war state and expansion of its aggressive attack capability.

Japan's diplomatic blue book is a tricky and confrontation document from A to Z to beautify the militarist moves of the Japanese authorities who are dreaming of bringing about the second imperial era and rushing headlong into its realization with "threat from the neighboring countries" as an excuse. -0-

www.kcna.kp (2026.04.15.)