KCNA Commentary on Japan's Moves to Expand Powder Magazine

Pyongyang, September 30 (KCNA) -- Recently, the Japanese reactionaries have buckled down to the extension of gunpowder houses for the Self-Defense Forces under the pretext of supplementing ammunition for "bolstering up the defense capabilities".

The Japan SDF with 1 400 gunpowder houses across the country is planning to additionally build at least 130 gunpowder houses under the standardized designs by 2032.

At present, the construction sites for 65 gunpowder houses were settled and the designs and construction projects are being conducted. Of them, three gunpowder houses were already completed by August this year. The designing for the remaining 65-odd gunpowder houses is to start later in 2027 after choosing their construction sites.

It is reported that the scale of extended gunpowder houses will increase more than scheduled under the three security documents, including the "national security strategy", the Japanese authorities are planning to formally revise within this year.

The extension of gunpowder magazine means that Japan is anticipating a long-drawn-out war.

It is by no means fortuitous that the present chief executive of Japan has asserted from the outset of the year that Japan should make preparations for a long-drawn-out war.

This is vivid evidence that Japan, a war criminal state, made a war for aggression and its prolongation a fait accompli and has made preparations for bolstering up its sustained combat capacity.

The Japanese reactionaries are now getting more frantic in the open scheme to realize the war strategy for materializing their reinvasion ambition.

Since the emergence of Takaichi regime, the Japanese authorities have openly pursued such extremely dangerous neo-militarist policy as the revision of the Three Principles on Transfer of Defense Equipment and Technology for operation of the "war industry" and its operational guidelines and the massive increase of "defense budget" the preceding regimes did not dare to do.

They are also hell-bent on rounding off the war preparations for aggression, investing huge amount of funds in the development of underwater-lunched hypersonic missiles, massive deployment of attack drones and introduction of AI into the SDF command system and other countermeasures to the "new combat mode" and the additional deployment of long-range missiles with "capability of attacking enemy base".

As well-known to everyone, Japan as a war criminal state is banned to have regular army, to say nothing of the right to take part in any war or right to belligerence. Nevertheless, it is scheming to increase its gunpowder houses in all parts of the country with a view to a long-drawn-out war, after getting fully prepared for a war state.

The militarist serpents' moves to increase the gunpowder houses for entering the road of overseas aggression at an early date are self-destructive acts of turning the whole of the archipelago into a huge powder box.

It is undeniable historical fact that the Japanese militarists, who ignited a bloody war of aggression under the ambition to dominate the whole world a century ago, were plunged into the mud of a long-drawn-out war in Asia and finally defeated.

The Japanese neo-militarists should clearly understand that if they are to make desperate efforts to realize the wild dream of the "Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere", oblivious of the bitter lessons of the past, they will only face the second defeat of Japan. -0-

BGSJI and KFA UK support the statement of comrade Kim Yo Jong titled "Ringleaders of provocation should be prepared for paying price for the farce of their own making"

 BRITISH GROUP FOR THE STUDY OF THE JUCHE IDEA 

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30th of September 2026

 The British Group for the Study of the Juche Idea and  the  Korean Friendship Association of the UK  KFA  UK )  , issued a joint statement in support of the press statement of comrade Kim Yo Jong department director of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea , which was titled   "Ringleaders of provocation should be prepared for paying price for the farce of their own making" that was made on the 29th of September;

Recently , the despicable ROK fascist puppets fabricated the 'landmine explosion ' case  which is clearly a false flag operation by the puppets aimed at framing the DPRK and provoking an international incident . Comrade Kim Yo Jong says   "It is too low and dirty as befitting the tribes of the ROK.". This is very true .

The ROK puppets have clearly fabricated the 'evidence ' for the landmine incident . It is strange and curious that the ROK puppet soldiers would visit a barren area which they had not visited for over 50 years.

The ROK is a rubbish puppet regime well known for creating false flag incidents . History is repeating itself .

It is a well known fact that the DPRK in accordance with the new policy on Korean reunification and inter-Korean relations has taken a number of steps to secure its southern border which is simply a matter of asserting sovereignty and not a military  matter . All countries in the world have the right to secure borders and many countries wish to assert control of their borders.

The soldiers of the DPRK's Korean People's Army never crossed the border .

The ROK puppets are warned not to carry out further provocations against the DPRK . Comrade Kim Yo Jong  declares that  " If the ROK military gangsters fire at our soldiers carrying on the permanent project for the southern border, not warning shots, our border units will take immediate and merciless retaliate attack"

If the ROK puppets know what is good for them they will heed the warning of comrade Kim Yo Jong , otherwise they will be responsible for provoking an awful conflagration which they will perish in .

We strongly support the statement of comrade Kim Yo Jong : The DPRK has to right to secure its borders .We denounce the provocation of the ROK puppets as a classic false flag operation against People's Korea !

Down with the ROK Puppets !

BGSJI

KFA UK 

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

Pyongyang, September 30 (KCNA) -- Kim Yo Jong, department director of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea, issued the following press statement titled "Ringleaders of provocation should be prepared for paying price for the farce of their own making" on Sept. 29:

Recently, the ROK military gangsters committed another provocation against the DPRK, announcing the "investigation results" in connection with the incident of mine explosion that occurred in the southern border area.

It is too low and dirty as befitting the tribes of the ROK.

Of course, such a farce is by no means a new.

When the mine explosion in question occurred on September 21, we had already anticipated the scenario of Seoul and seen through the true intention of the conspiratorial farce being staged by the ROK military gangsters.

In conclusion, the incident is a clear farce reminiscent of the "wooden-box mine incident" which disturbed the world more than ten years ago, in consideration of the time and method of provocation.

At that time the puppet forces forcibly linked the "mine explosion incident" that occurred on the western border with the DPRK and continuously escalated the tension under the pretext of it.

What should not be overlooked is the fact that the armed gangsters of the ROK are now cooking up the groundless results and "justifying their conduct" for political and military provocation against the DPRK, openly talking about "reasonable and corresponding enforcement of measures".

How can we sit and watch their despicable act of rashly doubting anyone after exploding a mine of doubtful provenance and talking about the breach of the Armistice Agreement.

Where can we find else such an absurd, malicious and gangster-like attitude?

The rulers of Seoul including those of the "People Power Party" have already unanimously said that the withdrawn loudspeaker against the DPRK should be set up in keeping with the futile bravery of the new minister of Defense.

It is absurd that they made a conclusion about the origin of the said mine exploded in the barren land which they had never set foot for more than a half century.

It is the height of impudence that the tribes of the ROK are trying to fabricate "material evidence" for proving it after shifting the blame for the incident onto the other.

We are closely watching why the ROK military rogues need the "mine incident" at this time in connection with their extremely scandalous acts which have been witnessed repeatedly in the southern border area in recent days.

The enemies' provocative acts near the southern border area are going beyond the limit with each passing day.

As the world knows, our army has been building the barriers in the southern border area as part of the work of strengthening the border two years ago, and this is only a thorough exercise of sovereignty unrelated with any military purpose.

However, the ROK military warmongers are seriously threatening the personal safety of our soldiers through warning broadcasting and warning shots, teasing our personnel mobilized for building the border barriers about the groundless "crossing of the border".

Especially from August, the enemy has been engaged in warning broadcasting and warning shots every day.

The "crossing the border" of our soldiers touted by the ROK military is a deliberate and planned strained assertion to shift the responsibility for escalating tension on to the DPRK.

Clearly speaking, our soldiers have never crossed the border.

This is a clear cavil and a provocation.

The ROK military should think first of all about what the world will say about its inability to distinguish its own land and other's land, failing to properly distinguish the boundary which can be confirmed by the naked eye.

We will never remain a passive onlooker to the hostile acts causing great concern in the border area.

When a single bullet is hit on our land, they must be prepared for a lot.

If the ROK military gangsters fire at our soldiers carrying on the permanent project for the southern border, not warning shots, our border units will take immediate and merciless retaliate attack.

The counteraction principles against them have already been issued to the border defence units and the army of the DPRK decided to take measures to increase the tactical counterattack means in the direction of the demilitarized zone of the 21st Infantry Division of the 3rd Corps of the ROK army where the provocations are frequent in recent days.

Explicitly speaking once again, it is clear that if the frequency of malicious accusation and provocation against us in the border region are frequent and lead to an encroachment on our actual territory and military sovereignty, the rogue group will have to face a situation that has not yet been experienced.

I seriously warn you that it would be a good idea to weigh the relative advantages with reasonable thinking.

If you are going to display "bravery" with an unpopular barbarous courage, you will only face a miserable and catastrophic position.

The dramatic culmination of the farce of Seoul will never be fun and the responsibility for all consequences will be entirely for the party to the provocation. -0

DPRK Foreign Ministry's Memorandum Issued to Disclose Truth and Danger of U.S. Nuclear Proliferation

Pyongyang, September 29 (KCNA) -- The Foreign Ministry of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea on September 27 issued a memorandum to disclose the truth and danger of nuclear proliferation by the U.S., which has irresponsibly neglected its disarmament duty as a nuclear weapons state, plunging the international nuclear non-proliferation system into the worst crisis.

The U.S. is the chief culprit of the vertical proliferation bringing a global nuclear nightmare, the memorandum said, and went on:

In July 1945, more than 80 years ago, the U.S. raised nuclear mushroom clouds on the desert of New Mexico State for the first time in the human history and, since then, has made no scruple of resorting to all kinds of means and methods to lead the preemptive nuclear possession to a permanent nuclear monopoly.

It conducted 1 032 rounds of nuclear tests from 1945 to 1994 and had more than 32 500 nuclear attack means when the Cold War was at its height. The fact and figures go to prove eloquently how tremendous disaster the human history might face due to the nukes in the hands of the "evil empire".

The U.S., which had overestimated its exclusive nuclear advantage until the 1950s, resorted to a craftier artifice to gain a nuclear preponderance behind the curtain of nuclear disarmament in the mid-1960s, because of its financial burden caused by excessive military expenditure and apprehension for the Soviet Union's nuclear superiority as the world's second nuclear weapons state.

The U.S. is planning to resume its nuclear explosion tests under the pretext of "fair competition" while building up a world public opinion about "nuclear tests" in other countries. Such scheme is motivated only by its intention to plunge its strategic rivals into the whirlpool of nuclear arms race and realize the radical acceleration of its nuclear power buildup.

The modernization of the U.S. nuclear force is now being promoted at a level reminiscent of the Cold War period in its width and depth, under the keynote policy of the present U.S. administration advocating "America first" and "peace through strength".

Recently, the U.S. military officially recognized its possession of "space control weapons in orbit". This is a manifestation of its dangerous attempt to secure outer space for operation more favorable for strategic nuclear attack on enemy states, as a prolonged policy of dominating space.

What should not be overlooked is the fact that the U.S. is conducting in a more frantic manner its nuclear force buildup and modernization to ensure the absolute nuclear superiority in the "four-point operational sphere" involving the land, sea, air and space.

The U.S. has resorted to drawing up a new nuclear strategy, which envisages the use of tactical nuclear weapons by drastically lowering the door of restriction on the use of nukes. The fact shows that such nuclear weapons are not merely "deterrence means" of provision for the purpose of "removing threats" from the enemy states, but weapons for actual war to be used on battle sites in case of emergency.

The memorandum disclosed that the U.S. is the chieftain of horizontal proliferation disturbing the international nuclear non-proliferation system.

The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, signed in 1968, stipulates the commitment of each nuclear weapons state and non-nuclear weapons state to non-proliferation, the right to use nuclear energy for peaceful purposes and the promotion of negotiations on nuclear disarmament, thus assuming the mission as a cornerstone of the international non-proliferation system.

But, the U.S. has openly handed over nuclear weapons technology to its vassal forces, going against the core provisions of the NPT and made the nuclear sharing with NATO member states an uncontrollable object of the treaty. Today it is massively deploying its nuclear attack means in foreign territories under the pretext of offering "nuclear umbrella" and "extended deterrence".

Moreover, the U.S. cooked up "nuclear operation guidelines" with the ROK and put the operation of "Nuclear Consultative Group" on a regular basis. And then it made a commitment that it would include nukes in the provision of "extended deterrence" to Japan. The facts vividly go to prove the true colors of the U.S.-Japan-ROK triangular military cooperation system which is evolving into a nuclear alliance under the leading role of the U.S.

Israel's possession of nukes and several pro-American countries' efforts to arm themselves with nuclear weapons, which are still arousing international concern and fear, are a product of the U.S patronage, connivance and backing from A to Z.

What should not be overlooked is that the U.S. is scheming to turn the AUKUS into a world's biggest nuclear submarine alliance by drawing Japan, the ROK, New Zealand, Canada and other allies into it.

The U.S. approval of the ROK's possession of nuclear submarines is another proof of the AUKUS-style proliferation with nuclear submarines as a vehicle, which is a dangerous development adding new instability to the political and military security environment in the Asia-Pacific region.

If the reckless nuclear proliferation acts of the U.S. are allowed to go on, the "Pandora's box" will be completely opened and humankind will face a terrible nuclear disaster.

The present geopolitical situation, in which the international nuclear order has reached the state of total collapse due to the U.S. radical nuclear arms buildup and undisguised nuclear proliferation, requires the DPRK to play a more positive role in defending the world peace and ensuring the global strategic security, the memorandum said, and went on:

The DPRK's option of action as a responsible nuclear weapons state will be strictly based on the grave reality in which no international body or treaty is deterring the U.S. from bolstering up its nuclear power and going on its nuclear proliferation.

This will be a clear criterion in the DPRK's efforts to protect the national security interests and the regional security environment. -0-

Speech on the 81st anniversary of the foundation of the Workers Party of Korea made by Dr Dermot Hudson to the online meeting on the 26.09.2026

 Dear comrades and friends,

In a few weeks time  the Workers Party of Korea ,the supreme general staff of the Korean revolution  and organiser and guide of all the Korean people’s victories will celebrate the 81st anniversary of its foundation by President KIM IL SUNG  . It seems like only yesterday that I was in Pyongyang for the 80th anniversary of the foundation of the Workers Party of Korea .

The anniversary of the foundation of the Workers Party of Korea is one of great importance because the Workers Party of Korea led by respected Marshal KIM JONG UN  organises and guides all the victories of the Korean people , it is the supreme general staff of the Korean revolution.The importance of the role of the WPK can never be understated or underestimated . Indeed in People’s Korea you will often see the distinctive flag of the WPK , with its hammer , sickle and writing brush , flying from street corners .

All the achievements of People’s Korea, which I have witnessed through my 20 visits  , are the result of the leadership and guidance of the Workers Party of Korea , which is transforming people’s dreams into reality .. New homes are given to people free of charge .During my visit I saw that there were no beggars or homeless , no lumpens,alcoholics or drug addicts . There was a complete absence of graffiti and vandalism.

On 10th of October 1945 the Communist Party of North Korea was formed around a nucleus of communist revolutionaries tempered in the fiery furnace of the anti Japanese armed struggle.Indeed the process did not come to an on October 10th 1945 but a further merger of parties took place in 1946 between the Communist Party of North Korea and the New Democratic Party to form the Workers Party of North Korea.This prevented the forces of the working masses being split .In 1949 the Workers Party of North Korea merged with the Workers Party of South Korea to form a unified party for the whole of Korea the Workers Party of Korea.Indeed the road travelled by the Workers Party of Korea since October 10th 1945 has been one of continuous struggle,development and consolidation.

It is not the purpose of my speech to give a detailed history of the Workers Party of Korea because there are many books and articles which do that . Also KFA UK has been organising online reading sessions on the booklet “Understanding the Workers Party of Korea “. Rather I will concentrate on explaining the policies and objectives of the Workers Party of Korea(WPK) .

The WPK was always different to other communist and workers parties because of its distinctive symbol the hammer ,sickle and writing brush . The writing brush actually represents the working intellectuals so the WPK is a party not just of workers and peasants but intellectuals too .

Unlike some former ruling communist parties which downgraded or neglected ideological work , the WPK upholds the ideology-first principle. This was recently stressed at the The Third Workshop for Officials in the Information Sector of the Workers' Party of Korea which was held from the 19th of September to the 21st of September . The general secretary of the Workers Party of Korea respected comrade KIM JONG UN addressed the workshop and said “

That is the Juche-oriented theory of ideology that should never change even though everything else in the world may change, and we are thoroughgoing advocates of the ideology-first principle.”

He called for a deepening of the WPK’s ideological and stressed the need for ideological work to keep pace with the fast changing realities of the country . 

I would like to mention that People’s Korea is one of the few countries if not the only country in the world to carry out deep going anti-imperialist class education . Not only is there the famous Sinchon Museum (now renamed Sinchon Class Education Centre ) but also class education centres in cities and provinces . I do not know of other socialist countries who do the same thing.

The WPK also a party based on the people -first principle . Chairman KIM JONG IL said that the WPK should be like a mother to the people . Marshal KIM JONG UN said that the people-first principle should permeate all activities of the WPK . Speaking at the mass parade for the 70th anniversary of the WPK in October 2015(which I witnessed in person )  he said that  “   As the great Workers' Party of Korea that believes in the people as in heaven, the people who are one and the same with the name of our sacred revolution and its 70 years of victory, is the locomotive leading the revolution and holds the switch weight of history, the avenue of the cause of the Juche revolution will always be adorned with victory and glory.

    I appeal to all the Party members.

    Let us all make selfless, devoted efforts for the good of the great people”

The WPK has indeed made selfless devoted efforts for the people and implemented a people-first policy . I would like to give two examples out of many .Firstly , at the At the Third Plenary Meeting of the Eighth Central Committee of the Workers’ Party of Korea in June 2021 Marshal KIM JONG UN put forward the policy of supplying dairy products and nutritious foodstuffs to children in the DPRK free of charge .In February 2022 the Supreme People’s Assembly of the DPRK made this the law of the country . Of course people of my own age group will remember how in the UK there used to school milk but this was abolished by the then education minister Margaret Thatcher in 1970 ! .Secondly , at the 8th Congress of the Workers Party of Korea in January 2021 it was decided to build a total of 50,000 new flats or 10,000 per year in Pyongyang in forthcoming five years and 5,000 new flats per year in the mining town of  Komdok . 

In the DPRK houses are given to people free of charge ! The new Kyongru dong residential area on the Potong riverside, which I passed several times during my visits to the DPRK in 2024 and 2025 , not only houses the famous DPRK newscaster Ms Ri Chun Hee but also bus drivers and street cleaners  ! 

To conclude here the history of the Workers Party of Korea has been the history of the ideology first principle and the people first principle .

Long Live the Workers Party of Korea !

The Significance of The Formation of The Down With Imperialism Union In The History of the Korean Revolution. By Shaun Pickford

 October 17th, 2026, marks the 100th anniversary of the formation of the Down With Imperialism Union, which was the forerunner of the Glorious Workers' Party of Korea. The founding of the DIU by Kim IL Sung (Kim Song Ju) and his comrades marked a new chapter in the history of the Korean revolution. We must see the establishment of the DIU within the context of developments in Korea and internationally at that time, in the 1920s. The victory of the October Socialist Revolution in Russia had led to the spread of Marxism-Leninism around the world, including Korea. Since 1910, Korea had been annexed by the Japanese Empire and the very existence of the Korean nation was at stake. Korean nationalism, which had carried anti-imperialist, anti-feudal tinges, was beset by the limitations of its bourgeois nature. The nationalist leaders sought to appeal to the major powers such as the USA, Great Britain, and France for assistance in seeking freedom from Japanese domination. Among the Korean nationalist leadership, had naively believed that Woodrow Wilson's  (28th US President, 1913-1921) 14 Points would restore Korea's sovereignty with the aid of the League of Nations. Some of the leaders of the Korean bourgeois nationalist movement who settled in Shanghai degenerated into puppets of imperialism, the most infamous case being Syngman Rhee. A mass uprising against Japanese colonialism occurred throughout Korea on March 1st, 1919. The uprising lasted 10 months, showed that the patriotic spirit of the Korean people was still strong and resistance continued against the Japanese colonizers long after the suppression of the rebellion. The March 1st, 1919 uprising also exposed the weakness of bourgeois nationalism.

In April, 1925, the Communist Party of Korea was founded. Progressive activists secretly translated and printed the Marxist-Leninist classics into Korean in defiance of the Japanese Imperialists. In the early 1920s, class consciousness was emerging among the nascent working class in Korea with the setting up of the Workers' Mutual Aid Society (a proto-trade union). Between 1920 and 1925, there were over 330 workers' strikes in the industrial centres of Korea. The Korean Communist Movement was conducted by intellectuals who failed to conduct activities among the working masses. The early incarnation of the Korean Communist Movement was bedeviled with sectarianism in forms such as "The Tuesday Group", "The M.L.Group", "Seoul Group, amongst many others. There were even several preparatory committees for the establishment of a Communist Party in Korea by these factions. Dogmatism and flunkeyism were apparent in the early Korean Communist Movement, which was seeking advice from the Comintern (the Communist International, 1919-1943) for every question in the struggle for national and class liberation. Sectarianism and dogmatism led to the party (K.C.P.) being dissolved in 1928; Korean Communists were left without a vanguard party. 

The Korean National Association, led by Kim Hyong Jik (1894-1926), who was the father of Kim IL Sung, took a Marxist-Leninist position away from the confines of narrow nationalism, building on the anti-imperialist traditions of the KNA. Having been formed in March, 1917, the KNA had become the vanguard of the Korean national liberation movement, symbolized by the slogan "Chiwon (Aim High), in other words, to rely on the popular masses for victory in the revolution. Taking a critical view of nationalism and the early Korean Communist Movement, Kim IL Sung formulated an innovative ideological framework on the issues confronting the revolutionaries in Korea, based on the realities prevailing at the time. Kim IL Sung came to the conclusion that the movement to gain the social and national emancipation of the Korean people was through a clean break with the limitations of bourgeois nationalism and with the sectarianism of the early communist movement. That is, to build up a new communist movement with militants from the young generation 

Kim IL Sung and his trusted comrades formed the Down-With-Imperialism Union on October 17th, 1926. A large core of the recruits to the DIU came from the Hwasong Uisuk School, in Huadian, China, consisting of Korean exiles. The ideological and political programme was laid out in Kim Il-sung's inaugural speech to the DIU entitled "Let Us Overthrow Imperialism" (Kim IL Sung Complete Works Volume 1). This was the first-ever recorded speech by the Great Leader Comrade Kim IL Sung. The DIU set out as its immediate aim to defeat Japanese Imperialism and liberate Korea, to have a People's Democratic Revolution against colonialism and feudalism. While defining the ultimate objective to construct socialism in Korea, and to smash imperialism and achieve communism on a global basis. The foundation of the DIU constituted an historic declaration of a new and decisive period in the Korean Revolution. Rightfully, the DIU is considered the precursor of the Workers' Party of Korea, in which the foundations of building a Juche-oriented party arose. Kim Jong IL in his seminal work of October 17th, 1982, "The WPK Is A Juche Type Revolutionary Party Which Inherited The Glorious Tradition of the DIU", analysed the ideological and historical roots of the WPK in the creation of the DIU in 1926 and how a Juche-type approach to party construction was established by the DIU. From when the DIU was established, independence, creativity and consciousness became the watchwords of the Korean Revolution, with organisational unity being the key factor. Having deep connections with the popular masses in every possible sense was how the Korean Revolutionaries conducted their activities after 1926. In the following decades, the 1930s and 1940s, the Korean national liberation struggle entered a new era of momentous developments with the formation of the Korean Revolutionary Army and the AIJPGA, and the formation of the Association for the Restoration of the Fatherland in May 1936. The party organisations were essentially built up from the grassroots upwards. To have a fair idea of what conditions were like at the time of the founding of the DIU, I can recommend reading Vol 1 of "Reminiscences: With The Century" by Kim IL Sung.

Although circumstances in 1920s Korea were different from realities here in 21st-century Britain, there are many parallels between the tasks faced by Korean Communists in the 1920s and British Socialists in the 2020s. One issue is the spread of factionalism and dogmatism in our movements, and of course, the continuing influence of modern revisionism. We have, on the one hand, so-called broad "Left" parties consisting of a petty bourgeois basis and ideology, and on the other, purist sects that carry on the same old dogma regardless of changed conditions. Both these approaches to socio-political questions are equally counter-productive, and these parties and groups have no or very little influence or connections with the working masses in our country. To advance the cause of socialism, we should seek out novel and innovative ways to construct a movement among the broad mass of working people, in the spirit of the pioneers of the DIU did a century ago. 

The 100 years since the foundation of the DIU have seen the WPK become a mighty monolithic party based on Kimilsungism-Kimjongilism. With the decisions of the 9th Congress of the WPK and led by Respected Comrade Kim Jong Un, the DPRK is being transformed into a prosperous country, pushing frontiers of social progress forward. The formation of the Workers' Party of Korea by the Great Leader President Kim Il-sung signified the beginning of the age of Juche, marking a new chapter in the history of the Korean Revolution!  

Report of The Meeting “ 100 years of revolution and anti-imperialism in Korea “ 26.09.2026.

 

The British Group For the Study of the Juche Idea and Korean Friendship Association of the UK(KFA UK) held a successful meeting under the title of “ 100 years of revolution and anti-imperialism in Korea “ to celebrate the 81st anniversary of the foundation of the Workers Party of Korea and the 100th anniversary of the formation of the Down With Imperialism Union . The meeting was held on the 26th of September at 1400 hours in Brixton , south London. Participating in the meeting were members and officials of the British Group for the Study of the Juche and KFA UK as well as honoured guests of the DPRK embassy , the general secretary of the New Communist Party and members of the New Communist Party, a supporter of the Revolutionary Communist Party of Britain ML  as well as anti-imperialist ,progressive and working class activists from a variety of backgrounds and areas plus members of the general public.

Greetings to the meeting were received from Alan Bolon , KFA UK organisation secretary and head of KFA UK West of England.

Dr Dermot Hudson Chairman of the British Group for the Study of the Juche Idea and Chairman of KFA UK introduced the meeting stressing the importance of the anniversary of the foundation of the Workers Party of Korea and the Down With Imperialism Union . He also said October 9th is the 20th anniversary of the DPRK becoming a nuclear power .

Dr Hudson in his address about the 81st foundation of the Workers Party of Korea stressed that the history of the Workers Party of Korea is the history of the ideology-first principle and people-first principle . He also said that “ All the achievements of People’s Korea, which I have witnessed through my 20 visits  , are the result of the leadership and guidance of the Workers Party of Korea , which is transforming people’s dreams into reality .. New homes are given to people free of charge .During my visit I saw that there were no beggars or homeless , no lumpens,alcoholics or drug addicts . There was a complete absence of graffiti and vandalism.”

The meeting was addressed by Mr Ryu Kyong Jun , charge d affaires of the DPRK embassy in London who spoke about the 81st anniversary of the great Workers Party of Korea . He said that the Korean people keenly realise that the achievements of the past five  years are the result of the leadership of the Workers Party of Korea . Great miracles have been achieved braving all difficulties . The target of building 50, 000 flats in Pyongyang have been overfulfilled . Now the 9th Congress of the Workers Party of Korea has opened new vistas . DPRK citizens realise that future prosperity will be achieved by upholding loyalty to the Party . Only victories and miracles are in store when they follow the guidance of the Party .Mr Ryu’s address received great applause from the audience.

Shaun Pickford secretary general of the British Group For the Study of the Juche idea , addressed the meeting on the subject of the 100th anniversary of the formation of the Down With Imperialism Union (DIU ) saying that the DIU is the historic root of the Workers Party of Korea .Thanks to the leadership of President KIM IL SUNG , its founder , the DIU avoided the pitfalls of flunkeyism to great powers , dogmatism and factionalism . The history of the DIU and Workers Party of Korea teach important lessons for the British left and progressives .

Andy Brooks general secretary of the New Communist Party spoke about the achievements of the Workers Party of Korea and how he was greatly impressed when he first visited the DPRK  in 1990.

Dr Hudson also made a short address on the subject of the formation of the DIU saying that the Workers Party of Korea continues the revolutionary tradition of the DIU .

Some discussion on different subjects took place including a comparison between the superior advanced socialist system of the DPRK and other countries.

A message to respected Marshal KIM JONG UN was adopted .

There was an exhibition of literature from the DPRK and KFA UK including the works of the great leaders .

Refreshments were served.

The meeting concluded at 16.40 hours .