The reactionary nature of the imperialists' "reform" and "opening" manoeuvres and the inevitability of their bankruptcy

Doctor and Professor Ho Chol Su

The primary question that presents itself in order to completely crush the "reform" and "opening" manoeuvres of the imperialists is to correctly understand the reactionary nature of these manoeuvres and the inevitability of their failure.

The imperialists cling to the manoeuvres of "reform" and "opening up" to carry out their strategy of "peaceful transition".

The imperialists and reactionaries not only cling to the military strategy of eliminating our republic, the bastion of socialism, but at the same time they engage in all sorts of manoeuvres to realise their aggressive ambitions by means of the strategy of "peaceful transition".

The imperialists' strategy of "peaceful transition" did not emerge today or yesterday.

The strategy of "peaceful transition" was presented as early as August 1949 by the then US Secretary of State, Acheson, and was later further implemented by the US Secretary of State, Dulles, in the 1950s.

Dulles, a warmonger who experienced the bitter taste of defeat in the Korean War, claimed that the U.S. policy consisted of promoting the "liberalization" of socialist countries, including our country, and argued that socialism should be "peacefully transformed" into capitalism through the method of instilling "ideas of freedom" within socialist countries, ideologically corrupting people, and provoking distrust and a spirit of resistance against the system.

The U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee pointed out, in a report that presented the guiding principles for the formulation of U.S. foreign policy in 1960: "We must establish the widest contact with communism and instill in them the principles of the West, the dignity of the West, and the tastes of the West. The aim is to erode and degenerate the ideology of communism."

In 1983, the then US president, Reagan, held a "conference on the democratization of communist states" and vociferated that it was necessary to accelerate the strategy of "peaceful transition" by taking advantage of the opportunity of implementing reforms and opening up in socialist countries.

The strategy of "peaceful transition", to which the imperialists cling so obstinately, aims to disintegrate the socialist countries from within, to make them return to the capitalist road and to bring them under their political and economic domination.

The fact that the imperialists talk about "reform" and "opening up", defame our system and exert pressure on us is nothing more than a cunning ploy by the imperialists and reactionaries to realize their aggressive ambitions through the strategy of "peaceful transition".

The great Leader Comrade Kim Jong Il taught:

"The imperialists and their followers, in calling for 'reform' and 'opening up', have as their fundamental intention to destroy the socialist system in our country and restore the capitalist system. The enemies pursue the sinister goal of disintegrating our socialism from within through 'reform' and 'opening up' and converting it into capitalism according to their tastes."

The reactionary nature of the manoeuvres of "reform" and "opening up" imposed on us by US imperialism and its following forces consists, in short, in destroying our socialism and restoring the capitalist system.

The manoeuvres of "reform" and "opening" of US imperialism and its follower forces aim, first of all, to disintegrate socialism from within, to restore the capitalist system and to transform the popular masses back into slaves of capital.

The only way to realize the demands of the masses of the people, who want to be free from exploitation and oppression, to have an eternal socio-political life as masters of the state and society, and to live independently and creatively, is the road of socialism. No matter how much one tries to embellish and make up capitalism, it remains an anti-popular exploitative society that represses the independence of the popular masses.

Only in socialist society can the masses of the people occupy the position of masters of the state and society and fully exercise their rights as owners.

Our people are convinced, through their own practical experience of life, that it is precisely socialist society that is the highest society, fully compatible with the independent nature of man.

The imperialists and reactionaries manoeuvre fiercely to disintegrate from within the socialism deeply rooted in the hearts of our people. Calculating that they could not destroy our socialism by the policy of force alone, U.S. imperialism and its follower forces cling even more shrewdly to the manoeuvres of "reform" and "opening up."

The imperialists and reactionaries, while obstinately clinging to the manoeuvres of isolation and suffocation against us using the "nuclear question" and the "human rights question" as their main pretext, also exert pressure to induce us to "reform" and "opening up" by means of economic blockades and economic sanctions.

In the political sphere, the bourgeois multi-party system and, in the field of property, "diversification" represent the restoration of capitalist private property.

Due to the treacherous acts of modern Social-Democrats, in these countries the parties were torn apart, power passed into the hands of the capitalists, and the economy faced ruin. As a result, the peoples ended up reduced to slaves of capitalism, where unemployment, poverty, crime and corruption prevail.

The aim of the "reform" and "opening-up" manoeuvres of the imperialists and reactionaries is precisely to provoke a similar situation in our country as well and to eliminate our socialism.

However, the imperialists know very little about our people. Our people advance along the road of socialism with the leader, the Party and the masses united monolithically, and no pressure or blockade can break their conviction.

We must resolutely crush the "reform" and "opening-up" manoeuvres of the imperialists and defend and glorify socialism to the end in our style.

In the political sphere, the freedom of action of the bourgeois parties and, in the field of property, "diversification" constitute a combination of private property.

The "pluralisms" introduced by modern social democrats under the pretext of "reform" and "restructuring" have provoked a serious crisis in the countries of Eastern Europe, including the former Soviet Union.

In the countries of Eastern Europe, including the former Soviet Union, which accepted "reform" and "opening up" by yielding to pressure from the imperialists and their followers, society was not democratized, but politically reactionary.

By means of political crooks infiltrated into the Party, the parties of the working class were disintegrated, heterogeneous parties and organizations raised their heads, diverted popular opinion and came to control the parliament and the government, giving rise to abnormal situations; In addition, conflicts and antagonisms between nationalities and regions intensified and society ended up fragmented.

The crisis brought about by "reform" and "restructuring" appeared not only in the political sphere, but also in the economic one.

With the introduction of the capitalist market economy, prices soared, while mass unemployment and inequality between rich and poor worsened.

Under the pretext of "transparency" and "openness", modern social democrats introduced bourgeois liberalization, causing various crimes to proliferate in society, while decadent bourgeois ways of life and moral depravity came to prevail.

These situations occurring in all fields of social life – politics, economics, culture and others – have been provoked by modern social democrats who have adhered to the policies of "restructuring" and "reform" of US imperialism and its following forces, constituting living examples that prove in practice the reactionary nature of the manoeuvres of "reform" and "opening up" imposed by the US imperialists and their followers.

Although U.S. imperialism and its follower forces struggle to degenerate and corrupt our socialism through the methods of "reform" and "opening up" and to restore capitalism, this is nothing but an unrealizable fantasy.

The inevitability of the failure of the "reform" and "opening-up" manoeuvres of the imperialists and their follower forces lies, in the first place, in the fact that they are reactionary manoeuvres aimed at blocking social development and reversing the course of history, as well as constituting cunning and absurd methods of aggression to impose their dominating intentions under the sign of "globalisation".

Socialism is the revolutionary idea and banner of the masses of the people who are fighting for independence.

The advance of mankind towards socialism is an inevitable stage of historical development.

In a society of antagonistic classes based on individualism, the independence of the popular masses cannot be realized. A society based on individualism inevitably divides society into antagonistic classes, generates class antagonisms and social inequality, and accompanies the exploitation and oppression of the popular masses by a small ruling class.

Particularly today, due to the individualistic greed of the capitalists, the antagonistic contradictions of capitalist society have reached the extreme. Therefore, in order for the masses of the people to realize their independence, it is necessary to move from a society based on individualism to a socialist society based on collectivism.

The socialist society based on collectivism is the most advanced society compatible with the independent nature of the human being. Collectivism is an inherent requirement of man, and only through it can the independent demands of man be fully realized.

It is a law of history that mankind should advance along the path of socialism, the aspiration and desire of the masses of the people. The fact that the imperialists and reactionaries are trying to degenerate our socialism, restore capitalism and reverse the course of history is nothing but a foolish illusion.

The very "globalization" defended by US imperialism and its followers is also absurd.

The process of development of nations does not consist in one nation assimilating or annexing another, but rather in each nation developing into a civilized and powerful nation, freely creating its own life and history, and continuously extending cooperation and mutual relations among nations on the basis of complete equality and voluntariness.

However, U.S. imperialism and its followers ignore the laws of the development of nations and use "reform" and "opening up" to transform all fields of social life — political, economic, cultural and other — into American and Western models, thus realizing their domination.

This shows that "reform" and "opening up" constitute cunning and sinister methods of aggression designed to bring our country under their domination.

Our people are a people of strong independence and regard independence as something more precious than anything else. Our people are a revolutionary people who never forgive, not even in the slightest, anyone who attacks our independence.

Even if the imperialists and reactionaries obstinately pursue "reform" and "opening up" in order to bring our country under their control, this can never be accomplished at any time.

The inevitability of the failure of the "reform" and "opening-up" manoeuvres of the imperialists and their follower forces lies, secondly, in the solidity of our socialist system and in the fact that our country has been firmly consolidated as an invincible socialist fortress.

Today, our socialist system has been strengthened like a rock through the storms of revolution, and our country has been transformed into an invincible socialist fortress through the struggle to crush the anti-socialist offensive of the imperialists and reactionaries.

Today, our army and people, possessing the unshakable conviction that they will certainly win as long as they have the esteemed General, a great ideological theoretician, an outstanding statesman and a commander of steel who is always victorious, unite monolithically around them and fight vigorously for the victory of the revolutionary cause of Juche.

The monolithic unity of our army and people around the great Leader Comrade Kim Jong Il is the most solid unity, impossible to be destroyed by any force, and constitutes a powerful weapon capable of completely crushing the "reform" and "opening-up" manoeuvres of US imperialism and its follower forces.

The fact that U.S. imperialism has repeatedly failed for more than half a century, in spite of using every possible means and method—war, blockade, threats, pressures, sabotage and murderous conspiracies—to destroy our socialism, is due to the wise leadership of the esteemed General and the monolithic unity of our army and people firmly united around it.

As much as the imperialists and reactionaries cling to military threats, blackmail and economic blockades to lead us to "reform" and "opening up", this will never work against us.

The "reform" and "opening" maneuvers of U.S. imperialism and its follower forces against our country will continue to bring only shameful defeats, as in the past.

In order to completely crush the "reform" and "opening" manoeuvres of the imperialists, it is necessary, first of all, to raise high the banner of the Juche Idea and to solve all the problems of revolution and construction in our own way.

Our style means conducting revolution and construction in accordance with the independent aspirations and demands of our people, with the own forces of our people and in accordance with the concrete conditions of our country. There is no method superior to our style.

We must have the firm conviction that our style, the Juche style, is the best, solve all the problems of revolution and construction in our own way, and fight resolutely against all erroneous phenomena that contradict our style.

In order to completely crush the "reform" and "opening-up" manoeuvres of the imperialists, we must also resolutely fight against the illusions about imperialism.

We must clearly observe the miserable reality faced by countries and peoples who have placed illusions in imperialism and completely overcome even the slightest element of illusion about imperialism.

With high class consciousness and vision, we must acutely reveal the reactionary, anti-scientific and illusory nature of the "reform" and "opening-up" manoeuvres of the defenders of modern imperialism and firmly defend socialism, which is our life and our way of life

Kim Il Sung University Journal of Philosophy and Economics, pages 27-30, April 10, 2005

(0riginally translated from Korean to Portuguese by  the Voice of the People 1945 website and auto translated to English )

The reactionary essence of the "reform" and "opening-up" propagated by the imperialists Kim Kyong Il

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Correctly understanding the reactionary essence of the "reform" and "opening-up" propagated by the imperialists is one of the important questions that arise in order to resolutely crush the sophistries of the highly class-conscious imperialists and firmly defend our sovereignty and socialism.

The great Leader Comrade Kim Jong Il taught:

"The political forms or economic systems of other countries that do not correspond to the imperialists' objectives of domination and plunder are branded by them as incompatible with the current of 'world integration', saying that they must be 'reformed'; and countries that do not accept the system and political methods demanded by them, as well as the decadent bourgeois culture and bourgeois way of life, are pressured to 'open up', being accused of 'isolationism' and 'closure'. This is precisely a bandit logic." (Selected Works of Kim Jong Il, expanded edition, volume 19, page 366)

The "reform" and "opening up" propagated by the imperialists are, in essence, extremely wicked and cunning methods of aggression and disintegration aimed at destroying socialism and dominating the whole world, forcing other countries to modify their political, economic, ideological, cultural systems and ways of life, which do not correspond to the imperialists' goals of domination and plunder. to adapt them to their tastes.

The reactionary essence of the "reform" and "opening up" propagated by the imperialists consists first of all in being instruments of the extremely malicious anti-socialist strategy of the imperialists, who seek to lead socialism into capitalism, to destroy socialism and to restore capitalism.

From the first day of the birth of socialism on earth, the imperialists considered it a thorn in the eye and spared no means or methods to destroy it.

In an attempt to crush socialism, the imperialists stubbornly pursued a two-pronged strategy: while using coercive military strategies, they also resorted to the strategy of "peaceful transition" to disintegrate and destroy socialism.

The "reform" and "opening up" propagated by the imperialists are direct means of the imperialist strategy of "peaceful transition" aimed at disintegrating and destroying socialism.

The "reform" and "opening up" advocated by the imperialists are aimed at infiltrating the decadent bourgeois ideology and culture into the socialist countries and transforming the masses of the people, who are the masters of socialist society and the subject of the revolution, into ideological and spiritual invalids.

The fact that the imperialists pressure them to carry out "reforms" and "opening up" means opening the doors so that they can introduce their decadent bourgeois ideology, culture and way of life.

If decadent bourgeois ideology and culture penetrate a socialist society based on collectivism, selfish individualism and the "values" of the cult of money will be fostered among the people, a corrupt and depraved way of life will spread, which will turn the masses of the people into vulgar egoists who only know money, into ideological and spiritual invalids.

The "reform" and "opening up" propagated by the imperialists introduce bourgeois multi-party and bourgeois democracy into the socialist countries, destroying the socialist political system and political methods and restoring capitalist political systems and methods.

Socialism is a society based on collectivism and whose life lies in the monolithic unity of the popular masses. Socialist political methods and systems are based on the monolithic unity of the leader, the party, the army and the working masses.

It is an obvious logic that socialism cannot coexist with bourgeois multipartyism, a capitalist political method based on individualism.

The "multi-party democracy" propagated by the imperialists is an instrument to conceal, embellish and disguise the reactionary essence and the anti-popular dictatorial domination of the capitalist system, in which a tiny exploiting class monopolizes the means of production and power, oppressing and exploiting the broad working masses.

Historical lessons demonstrate that when "multi-party democracy" is allowed in a socialist society, the activities of anti-socialist parties become legalized, reactionary restorationist elements raise their heads and carry out anti-socialist maneuvers, leading to the restoration of capitalism.

The "reform" and "opening up" advocated by the imperialists destroy the socialist planned economy and cause it to degenerate into a capitalist market economy.

In the market economy, social relations between people are converted into commodity and monetary relations, human destiny is determined by money, and people's moral value is transformed into exchange value. The capitalist market economy, which reduces the human being, the most powerful and worthy of social beings, to an impotent existence dominated by money and converts the independent being who dominates the world into a slave to commodities, is an anti-people economy that tramples on human dignity and value.

In some countries that were building socialism, as a result of the acceptance of the "reform" and "opening up" propagated by the imperialists and the introduction of the market economy, the popular masses ceased to be masters of the economy and became slaves of capital, while society was transformed into a capitalist society dominated by the cult of money.

All these facts clearly demonstrate that to accept the "reform" and "opening up" propagated by the imperialists is to follow an anti-socialist path of destroying socialism and restoring capitalism.

The reactionary essence of the "reform" and "opening up" propagated by the imperialists consists, then, in the fact that they are extremely wicked and cunning methods of aggression and disintegration aimed at transforming the whole world in the American and Western way, in order to oppress and invade other countries and peoples.

Today, the imperialists seek to create, through "reform" and "opening up", political, economic and ideological-cultural conditions to dominate other countries and peoples and thus carry out their strategy of world domination.

A “reforma” e a “abertura” propaladas pelos imperialistas têm por objetivo criar confusão política nos países que avançam pelo caminho da independência e do progresso, estabelecendo um ambiente político favorável à agressão e dominação imperialistas.

Os povos e nações do mundo aspiram à independência e desenvolvem autonomamente seus próprios destinos; este é um direito sagrado que ninguém pode violar.

No entanto, os imperialistas, com os EUA à frente, que almejam a dominação mundial, procuram concretizar suas ambições hegemonistas sob o letreiro da “globalização”, utilizando perversamente a “reforma” e a “abertura”.

Os imperialistas descrevem o “multipartidarismo” como “o método político mais democrático da história humana” e “o sistema partidário superior”, espalhando o sofisma de que todos os países e povos devem implementar a “democracia multipartidária” para se adequar à corrente da “integração mundial” e que, para isso, seriam necessárias “reformas” e “abertura” no campo político.

A realidade demonstra que, quando se cai na armadilha da “reestruturação democrática” promovida pelos imperialistas, a soberania e a dignidade do país são completamente esmagadas.

A realidade atual, em que, após o colapso da União Soviética, ocorreram “guerras civis” em vários países, surgiram governos pró-EUA e pró-ocidentais, e esses países se converteram em alvos de agressão militar e ingerência interna dos EUA, comprova bem isso.

A “reforma” e a “abertura” propaladas pelos imperialistas têm também o objetivo de enfraquecer a independência econômica de outros países e criar condições econômicas para a dominação e a pilhagem imperialistas.

Os imperialistas consideram a liberalização e a mercantilização das economias de outros países como meios de ampliar seus mercados e suas esferas de influência.

Por isso, proclamam que a economia de livre mercado é “o resultado inevitável do desenvolvimento da economia mundial e a corrente fundamental do desenvolvimento econômico de todos os países”, enquanto os sistemas econômicos que não se ajustam aos seus gostos seriam incompatíveis com a “integração da economia mundial” e, portanto, deveriam passar por “reformas” e “abertura”.

Se países relativamente fracos economicamente implementarem a liberalização e a mercantilização exigidas pelos imperialistas, tudo o que possuem será saqueado pelos monopólios multinacionais imperialistas, que os arrastarão para a sobrevivência baseada na lei da selva.

In the countries that accepted the "market economy" due to the "reform" and "opening" maneuvers of the imperialists, the fragile economic structures allowed foreign products to flood the domestic markets, completely destroying domestic industries; The economic power of the country and the nation passed into the hands of foreign capitalists, while the working masses were thrown into unemployment, the inequality between rich and poor increased more and more and various crimes proliferated.

All this clearly demonstrates that the "reform" and "opening up" propagated by the imperialists are extremely wicked and cunning aggressive sophistries aimed at destroying socialism and the working masses.

All Party officials, Party militants and workers must raise their vigilance against the "reform", the "opening up" and the bourgeois ideological and cultural infiltration manoeuvres promoted by the imperialists, smashing them completely in order to firmly defend the socialist system in our style.

Jongchi Bomryul Yongu (Research in Politics and Law), Scientific Encyclopedia Publisher, pages 68 and 69, June 14, 2016

(0riginally translated from Korean to Portuguese by  the Voice of the People 1945 website and auto translated to English 

Our Party’s Revolutionary Slogan "We Serve the People!"

 

The historic Ninth Congress of the Workers’ Party of Korea underlined the need to invariably hold high the idea of believing in the people as in Heaven.

It reflects our Party’s permanent requirement of holding fast to the revolutionary Party climate of regarding the service to the people as the starting point and absolute and invariable principle of Party building and activities.

The slogan "We Serve the People!" pulsates with our Party’s will for orienting all the affairs of revolution to promoting the people’s wellbeing and bringing the people’s laughter and happiness into full bloom.

To our Party, people are Heaven and nothing is more important than the promotion of people’s wellbeing.

It is the unchangeable stand of our Party to provide the people with affluent and civilized living conditions and environment as early as possible.

The absolute service of our Party to the people has brought about a new era of great transformation when the people’s dreams and ideals are translated into reality.

Housing construction for providing the people with places for a happy living has been augmented year by year and housewarming ceremonies held nonstop in every nook and corner of the country.

Monumental entities conducive to the promotion of the people’s wellbeing have mushroomed in the course of a vigorous struggle for implementing the rural revolution programme in the new era, regional development policy and public health revolution.

Bases for cultural life have been built wonderfully and the aim and standard of creation set by our Party gets higher year after year to the great joy of our people.

All these successes and changes are a precious fruition of the devoted and active service of our Party which is eager to let our people live with nothing to envy at an earlier date.

The Ninth Party Congress discussed important issues for promoting the people’s wellbeing including those on transforming the capital city of Pyongyang into a magnificent city with an appearance as a world-class city and building regional-industry factories, hospitals and leisure complexes in ２０ cities and counties every year without fail.

As our Party is displaying a staunch practical ability, incessantly augmenting fighting realms for the people’s wellbeing and steadily setting higher aims, an ideal society where all the people will enjoy all good blessings of socialism will be built in a near future.

"We Serve the People!" is a revolutionary slogan which officials, faithful servants of the people, should keep as their lifetime motto.

Our Party demands that the officials aspire after the day when all the people will live in dreamlike happiness and make selfless efforts in the spirit of devotedly serving the people.

The sure guarantee for our officials to cover the road of making devoted efforts for the people invariably lies in following the lofty examples of selfless, devoted efforts for the people shown by the respected Comrade General Secretary Kim Jong Un.

It is none other than the respected Comrade General Secretary who feels pride in making revolution in the people’s laughter and unfolds gigantic projects for the happiness of the people one after another, and even goes over a dangerous temporary bridge and travels on a perilous rubber boat in order to rid the people of their pains as soon as possible.

Only when all the officials keep pace with the respected Comrade General Secretary and hold up the people high and devote sincerity to them, can the dignity and prestige of our motherly Party be exalted higher.

All the officials should regard the slogan "We Serve the People!" as the guideline in their work and life and orient everything thoroughly to the promotion of the people’s wellbeing, thereby fulfilling their responsibilities and mission in the ongoing campaign for bringing earlier the people’s ideal society.

Rodong Sinmun

Spokesperson for DPRK Foreign Ministry on QUAD Foreign Ministers' Meeting

Pyongyang, May 28 (KCNA) -- A spokesperson for the Foreign Ministry of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea gave the following answer to a question raised by KCNA on May 28 as regards the fact that the recent U.S.-led QUAD foreign ministers' meeting made public a "joint statement", which includes the content pulling up the DPRK:

The "joint statement" not only seriously distorted the immediate and urgent challenges and threats faced by the countries in the Asia-Pacific region but also clearly exposed the hostile intention against specific countries.

QUAD talked about the strengthening of cooperation while expressing "concern" over the situation in the South Sea and East Sea of China. It is aimed at justifying Japan's moves for rearmament and Australia's possession of a nuclear submarine, which are arousing concern of the international community.

The creation of the "Critical Minerals Initiative Framework" newly, agreed by QUAD, also contains an exclusive and confrontational nature as it is pursuant to the foreign strategy of the present U.S. administration to hold a hegemonic position in the world supply chain by expanding the concept of security to the economic field.

In particular, the U.S.-led QUAD members took issue with the DPRK's legitimate exercise of sovereign rights, calling for "denuclearization". This goes to prove that QUAD is nothing but a political and diplomatic tool serving the U.S. strategy for unipolar domination.

The signboard of "peace and stability" cannot be a means for justifying the U.S. policy of inter-camp confrontation.

The Foreign Ministry of the DPRK resolutely denounces and rejects the U.S.-led QUAD's hostile stand against the DPRK and other regional countries, and strongly demands that it drop its attempt to escalate inter-camp confrontation destroying regional peace and stability.

Explicitly speaking once again, the "denuclearization" of the DPRK will never happen forever.

We will thoroughly defend the sovereign rights, security interests and development rights of the state no matter what others may say, and actively join the international efforts to oppose the formation of an exclusive group and inter-camp confrontation in the region and promote the mutual trust, cooperation, peace and co-prosperity among nations. -0-

www.kcna.kp (2026.05.28.)

A Letter from the KFA UK Chairman that the Morning Star and Weekly Worker did not publish

Dear comrades ,
I was truly appalled and outraged to learn the Songdowon International Children’s Camp of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) has been subjected to sanctions by the Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO ) of the UK .

On the 11th of May the FCDO published on its website a statement tired “Sanctions Notice: 11 May 2026 Regime: Russia” which duly announced that the Songdowon International Children’s Camp was subject to sanctions by the UK government even though it is not actually within the territory of the Russian Federation ! . The Songdowon International Children’s Camp had the following imposed on it ;Asset freeze and making available provisions, Trade sanctions, Travel bans and Transport sanctions.

The Songdowon International Children’s Camp is a children’s camp . It is not an ICBM or nuclear complex ! . It is run by the DPRK which promotes the noble ideals of international ,friendship , peace , solidarity, amity and friendship among the children of the world . Children from many countries of the world including the UK and Ireland have visited the Songdowon International Children's Camp .

Apparently these actions had been taken by the British government because the DPRK provided free of charge holidays to children from the Donbass . What is so wrong with this ? Surely it was a positive and sincere measure of the DPRK to give free holidays to kids from a war zone ? . In the past the DPRK also gave holidays to children of the former USSR who were affected by the Chernobyl incident .

This action by the British government is a hostile as it is stupid and crass !

The British government should immediately withdraw the sanctions against the DPRK’ Songdowon International Children’s Camp !

DPRK Team Wins 2025-2026 AFC Women's Champions League

 

Pyongyang, May 24 (KCNA) -- The Naegohyang Team of the DPRK took the first place in the 2025-2026 AFC Women's Champions League and had the honor of winning a trophy.

There took place the finals between the Naegohyang Team and the Tokyo Verdy Beleza Team of Japan on May 23.

In the match, the best Asian women's football team (club team) decider, the DPRK players defeated their Japanese rivals 1:0.

The trophy and gold medals were awarded to the Naegohyang Team players and the MVP accolade to Kim Kyong Yong at the awarding ceremony. -0-

Defence Science Research Institutions of DPRK Conduct Tests of Major Weapons

Pyongyang, May 27 (KCNA) -- The Missile Administration and the Academy of Defence Sciences of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea conducted tests of newly-developed lightweight multi-purpose missile launching system and multiple tactical cruise missile weapon system, as part of the plan for modernizing the artillery and missile armed forces to attain the five-year goal for national defence development, on May 26.

Comrade Kim Jong Un oversaw the tests.

The relevant tests analyzed and estimated the power of special mission warhead of tactical ballistic missile, the reliability of 240mm controlled artillery rocket with expanded firing range which employed an ultra-precision autonomous navigation system, and the AI-guided hit accuracy of tactical cruise missile.

Highly appreciating the test results, Comrade Kim Jong Un expressed great satisfaction over the fact that important ultra-high defence science and technologies were introduced into the practical weapon tests.

He made a positive assessment of the military worth of the tactical cruise missile to be deployed at the long-range artillery brigades in the southern border area in particular.

The tactical cruising shell, which has a combination of the ultra-precision autonomous navigation system and the TERCOM (terrain contour matching) navigation system and employed an AI terminal guidance function, is a powerful weapon system that can strike in an ultra-precision way any target 100 kilometers away by multimode flight based on gliding and propelling.

Comrade Kim Jong Un said that today's tests of major weapon systems are a clear signal of upgrading of our military force and an event of showing great technical progress in the strengthening of our army's combat power.

What is noteworthy is that the firing control system and automation system of all the launching vehicles have been finally updated to suit the proper conditions of modern warfare so as to enhance their application to combat, he said, adding that thanks to such successful development of the most powerful tactical-level weapon systems, our army's firepower systems came to be fully put on an automatic, long-range and ultra-precision basis.

Noting that the present situation requires the steady upgrading of military capabilities, he affirmed that the validity of the development direction of the artillery and missile forces modernization plan, decided and assigned by the Party Congress, and its prospect are certain, scientific and successful as they are based on the already-made high-level defence technical achievements.

It is our top-priority policy direction for the building of armed forces to build the most modern and powerful artillery force which no one can match, he said, adding: It is essential condition for our army's operations to have such destructive power as enough to make any encountering force impossible to survive theoretically, apart from fortune. Such capability will give extreme uneasiness and fear to the enemy, and it will be a major link and a responsible exercise for deterring war.

Saying that it is the main task facing our armed forces and defence science sector to defend the security of sovereignty and guarantee the development of socialism with powerful war deterrence, Comrade Kim Jong Un assigned important tasks arising in stepping up the steady growth of the national defence capability and the work to put the military hardware on an ultra-modern basis.

The line of our Party and government to steadily accelerate the strengthening of the nuclear force and conventional armed force remains unchanged, he said, adding that our plan to defend the military sovereignty and exercise the right to self-defence in a responsible manner will be expressed in a clearer action.

Present to observe the tests were Marshal Pak Jong Chon, advisor to the Ministry of National Defence, Full General Jo Chun Ryong, secretary of the C.C., WPK, Full General Kim Jong Sik, first department director of the C.C., WPK, Full General Jang Chang Ha, general director of the Missile Administration, Lieut. General Kim Yong Hwan, president of the Academy of Defence Sciences, Lieut. General Kim Kang Il, director of the General Armaments Bureau of the Ministry of National Defence, Maj. General Yu Chang Son, director of the Artillery Bureau of the General Staff, and Senior Colonel Kim Myong Son, director of the Armaments Examination Bureau of the Ministry of National Defence. -0-

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