From Naenara.kp-Korean War Reveals True Colours of the US (1)

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It has been 76 years since the US unleashed a war against the DPRK. Despite the lapse of many decades, however, the former remains the object of the latter’s grudge and hatred.

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The Korean war was the first step to translating into reality the US’s sinister scheme to expand the scope of its domination to the whole of the Korean peninsula and to a large extent spark a third world war so as to seek global hegemony.

The US plotted to break peace in the DPRK, China, the Soviet Union and other countries in favour of its bid to put the world under its control.

A thorn in its side was the DPRK which was vigorously advancing towards democratic development in the vanguard of the newly independent countries.

According to the so-called “ABC plan” worked out by the US between 1948 and early 1950, the first stage of the plan is to invade the DPRK, the second stage is to expand the war to China’s Manchuria and the last stage is to advance up to the Soviet Union.

The then US President Truman published a statement that threatened the use of nuclear weapons in the Korean war and planned to announce a “state of emergency” across the country and step up preparations for a third world war. Eisenhower, who succeeded Truman in the closing period of the war, examined on three occasions an operational plan to drop 30 to 50 nuclear bombs on the DPRK and the northeastern part of China.

Such facts tell that the US started the Korean war in pursuit of its wild ambition to check the peaceful development of sovereign states and hold supremacy over the world after the Second World War and that it even attempted to use nukes without hesitation to that end.

Crazy about its ambition for global supremacy, the US went to war against the DPRK, a fledgling nation which had been founded less than two years ago, on June 25, 1950, bragging that it would occupy the latter in the shortest possible time.

The Fatherland Liberation War was a grim war which was fought to defend the destiny and future of the DPRK and its people. At the same time, it was the first all-out war fought at the start of the Cold War that followed the Second World War, between the forces aspiring to independence and those of domination, and between socialism and capitalism. Therefore, the confrontation was unprecedented in its ferocity and gravity.

The DPRK was no match for the enemy in any respect—population or territory, military hardware or economic strength.

During the war the US mobilized a huge armed force, numbering over two million troops in total, including one-third of its ground force, one-fifth of its air force, and most of its Pacific Fleet, plus troops of its satellite countries, spent at least US$ 20 billion in military expenditure and squandered more than 73 million tons of materiel, or 11 times as many as the amount consumed in the Pacific war.

The DPRK had to wage a hard-fought war against the allied imperialist forces for three years to come.

Ri Hak Nam

Comrade Kim Jong Un's Congratulatory Speech at Commissioning Ceremony of Destroyer Choe Hyon

Pyongyang, June 24 (KCNA) -- The respected Comrade Kim Jong Un made a congratulatory speech at the commissioning ceremony of the destroyer Choe Hyon.

The full text of his speech is as follows:

Workers of the Nampho Shipyard and scientists, technicians and officials in the shipbuilding and defence industry sectors,

Officers and other sailors of the destroyer Choe Hyon, who will write the first page of the glorious log in the history of our Navy,

All commanders, officers and other sailors of the Navy of the Korean People's Army,

Comrades,

This is a day when we are feeling a great emotion, whose significance cannot be fully described in one hundred, nay, one thousand words.

This destroyer, a powerful naval combat system which even we recognize with admiration, is going to be commissioned for the Navy at last, and a new chapter of history will be written for the defence of the sacred maritime sovereignty and airspace of Korea.

At this moment, when the wish of all the generations of our Navy for a most powerful warship and of other people for all the things on this land, beautiful and precious, to be defended at all costs is to be realized, I would like first of all to extend warmest greetings of gratitude once again to the workers of the Nampho Shipyard and the talented persons and officials in the shipbuilding and defence industry sectors, who have worked devotedly day and night with ardent patriotism.

To transform the appearance of our Navy, which we should build up with an ardent desire and aspiration to translate the design into reality, is never plain sailing, but we are now doing it at exponential speed.

In the whole course of building and testing this destroyer, the first of its kind in the history of our Navy and our armed forces, we have confirmed the satisfactory result that the warship is possessed of the most perfect, complex operational and combat capability.

We can feel due pride in the fact that the Choe Hyon is a warship that can creditably perform its operational mission in any waters.

From the first step, we planned and started building this large warship, which is completely new, by our own efforts and loading it with our own weapon systems; so we could apply unparalleled technology and power to this ship and accelerate its building at an unbelievable speed.

We can now affirm that there is no insurmountable technological barrier for us in building and launching destroyers and cruisers of different classes that embody our style of principles and original concepts of navy building.

Furthermore, we have laid solid foundations for our shipbuilding industry, all the elements of which are self-supporting and conform to the actual situation; we have also acquired a thorough knowledge of the methodology for ensuring maximum military and economic efficiency in operating a vessel.

We are now switching over to the stage of building various surface and underwater combat systems and deploying them offshore and in the oceans without feeling any restrictions.

Such huge projects have been turned into reality beyond our imagination. This success is an ensemble of the wisdom, techniques and united efforts of all the scientists, technicians, workers and officials in the shipbuilding and defence industry sectors.

Comrades,

In our era, when everything is undergoing change, we are witnessing the quickest and clearest change in the Navy.

In less than three years after we declared that we would transform the Navy without fail, our Navy has put an end to over 70 years of its stagnation.

In looking back upon the day of the declaration, it is no exaggeration to say that modernization of the Navy started virtually from scratch.

In terms of military hardware, the Navy was the weakest of all the services of our armed forces.

It can be said that our seas have so far been safeguarded thanks to our sailors' death-defying spirit of defence and matchless bravery alone.

But, things have changed obviously now.

The combat capability of our Navy will grow to be admirable beyond imagination.

Today's ceremony of transferring this warship constitutes an event that will help to measure the speed of our Navy's change.

Our brave Navy has displayed a matchless spirit in fighting against the pirate-like enemy, striking terror into them, as they have incessantly resorted to provocative moves taking advantage of their superiority on the sea, that is, their superior warships. Now I feel really pleased to have equipped our Navy with a sophisticated warship.

Today, June 23, 2026, is witnessing the first page being written in a new chapter of our Navy's history of safeguarding the sacred maritime sovereignty of our state on the strength of invincible warships.

We may call it an anxiety that comes of its own accord; what is worrying me at the moment is that we have no base to moor such large warships as this one.

This is certainly a happy cause of anxiety.

In the past there has been no need for such a base, I dare say.

It, however, has now posed itself as an urgent, essential task to build modern naval bases.

This is in no way because we have attained a greater area of land or sea.

Nor is it because the sea off our country is shallower than it was.

This is just because we have got a greater ambition.

This is what has changed about us.

This compelling requirement itself serves as clear proof that we have got an ideal of a higher level.

Yesterday at the Second Plenary Meeting of the Ninth Party Central Committee, we discussed and made a decision on building new bases for our naval fleets.

When we say our Navy is changing, we do not simply mean that its vessels are becoming larger in size or that their equipment is getting advanced technology.

The most important change and the most significant progress worth mentioning is that it has taken a different position, a different mission and a different area of waters its action covers, and accordingly it will achieve a different result.

It has clearly become a thing of the past when our Navy existed as a force for defending the sea off our land.

It is rising into a full-fledged service equipped with strategic means as the programme of equipping the Navy with nuclear weapons is following its planned course unerringly.

This is a strategic course of crucial importance as it will make it possible to keep the nuclear force of our state ready for multifaceted and efficient operation and hold an initiative in military activities for maritime defence and war deterrence by attaining a further unmistakable nuclear war deterrent which is powerful and trustworthy enough.

The Navy of the Korean People's Army is provided with as great a cruising power as to send its warships to any waters it chooses, and it is given an assignment to keep patrol of the waters where military assets and bases of the enemy countries are deployed, for preemptive clearing if necessary.

Now it is obvious that any attempt for aggression, made either on the sea or under the sea to endanger the security of our state, will end in greater achievements on the part of our fleets.

Comrades,

The waves raised by this destroyer will surely create the first storm putting an end to the history stained with mistaken practices, and our enemies, struck with terrible fear and anxiety, will confirm the performance and might of our warship.

Following the Choe Hyon, we will soon commission destroyer Kang Kon for operations. After that we will launch 10 000-ton strategic warships one after another.

Our warships' ceaseless appearances and their routes will reliably defend the maritime sovereignty of our state and bring about a change in the military balance in the region.

Only when we do so without fail, can the security of our state, and the present and future of this country be defended more firmly.

Entering a new phase of its development, our Navy has assumed a new historic mission at a new starting point.

As a country deploying the most sensitive strategic assets in the most important waters, we will demonstrate our principled and responsible will in defending the sovereignty of our Republic, the security environment of Northeast Asia and global peace, and make a renewed and greater contribution to that end.

Comrades,

The Navy's change and development speed represents the growth speed of the national strength, and the position of the state in the oceans defines its mightiness, I think.

We must have such superior warships as this destroyer as many as we need, not some in a symbolic way.

As we have pushed our way to this day with a courageous challenging spirit, we should continuously go all out for carrying out these historic and crucial tasks so as to raise the operational capability of our Navy to the strategic level at the earliest date.

In the new five-year plan period, we should correctly implement all the plans for building up our naval capability; we should build every year two surface ships, whose class is higher than the Choe Hyon, including 10 000-ton cruiser. And we should build escort ships and ships of special purposes, and develop and produce underwater weapon systems.

It is encouraging that our warship-building industry is developing rapidly, but what makes us more pleased is that the consciousness of the people is changing as they see this reality and feel pride in their own strength.

Our competent research group and the Juche-based warship-building industry have become consolidated in the course of pioneering the revolution in the warship-building industry and more resourceful in the course of turning the seemingly impossible into a miracle. They will renew the symbols of our naval forces every year.

The composition of the weapon systems of the warships to be built in the future will continue to improve to conform, in military aspects, to the actual requirements and its development.

As I have mentioned before, we should give a spur to the building of large and multi-functional naval bases and push ahead with the work of building modern port cities that can serve as centres of naval operations command and culture.

Comrades,

We have taken the helm of rising as the strong and existing as the eternal winner.

We will surely emerge as a defence leader capable of fully demonstrating its national strength in the ocean thousands of miles away.

We must not mark time even a moment on the journey we have started, but make greater and more vigorous strides.

Comrade officers and other sailors of the Choe Hyon,

Your motherland, Korea, has given you a spear and shield permeated with its strength and great ambition.

Let us advance vigorously, cheerfully and bravely along the new sea route of defence opened up by the new era for the security and glory of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea and for the dignity and honour of the Navy of the Korean Peoples' Army.

Comrades,

I propose another warm round of applause in congratulation of this moment decisive of the history of our Navy. -0-

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Commissioning Ceremony of New-type Multi-mission Destroyer Choe Hyon Held with Splendor

Pyongyang, June 24 (KCNA) -- The irresistible might of Juche Korea, which is confidently accomplishing the great cause of building a rich country with a strong army in a valiant spirit and with dignity that no one can defy under the ever-victorious leadership of the Workers' Party of Korea, is impressively ushering in a brilliant heyday of the Navy of the DPRK while powerfully raising the anchor of building a marine power in the 21st century.

The new-type multi-mission destroyer Choe Hyon, born as an aggregate of self-reliant defence technology and a new symbol of the sea defence capability of the state, will be formally commissioned into the Navy of the Korean People's Army after successfully concluding the shakedown for assessing its capability of executing operations for one year and two months.

The commissioning of the powerful battleship, which will sail along the course of defending the sacred maritime sovereignty and national interests of the DPRK with an important mission of implementing the national defence strategy of the Party Central Committee and exercising the war deterrent, is a meaningful indication of the radical qualitative strengthening of the Navy of the Republic with the strongest combat force which is put on the most powerful and ultra-modern level of Korean-style.

The commissioning ceremony of the destroyer Choe Hyon took place at Nampho Port on June 23.

The respected Comrade Kim Jong Un, General Secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea and President of the State Affairs of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, attended the ceremony.

The venue of the ceremony was filled with ardent reverence for Comrade Kim Jong Un, who provided the Navy of the Republic defending the core of the sovereign rights with the powerful strength for justice and peace while energetically guiding the sacred historic cause for the radical development of the national defence capabilities, and the great emotion and joy of the participants convinced of the bright future of the marine power.

When Comrade Kim Jong Un arrived at the venue of the commissioning ceremony, where the powerful warship in the new era of the DPRK is anchored imposingly, amid the welcome music, the participants broke into enthusiastic cheers out of their highest tribute and boundless gratitude to him, the great defender of our glorious country and invincible iron-willed commander.

The Navy of the Korean People's Army expressed the greatest trust and loyalty to Comrade Kim Jong Un.

Comrade Kim Jong Un was greeted courteously by leading officials in the fields of defence and warship-building industries and major commanding officers of the Ministry of National Defence and the Navy.

Present at the ceremony were members of the Presidium of the Political Bureau of the WPK Central Committee and other members of the Party central leadership, commanding officers of the KPA large combined units, officers and men of the Navy, officers and men of the destroyer, discharged navy generals and workers, scientists, technicians and officials in the field of warship-building industry.

The national anthem of the DPRK was played.

Jo Chun Ryong, member of the Political Bureau and secretary of the Central Committee of the WPK, made a report on the preparations for the commissioning of the Destroyer Choe Hyon.

He noted that the destroyer has successfully passed through such procedures as the assessment of performance and combat application of various kinds of weapon systems and overall operational executive capability, test-fire, integrated operation test, navigation test for the general assessment of maneuverability, and military approval certificate.

On behalf of the workers and technicians of the Nampho Shipyard, a pivotal base of the warship-building industry in the new era, and other scientists, workers and officials in the field of munitions industry, he courteously reported to Comrade Kim Jong Un on the completion of the preparations for handing over the Korean-style state-of-the-art multi-mission destroyer Choe Hyon, a precious product of the Party's plan for building the country into an advanced maritime power and line on the revolution in the warship-building industry, to the KPA Navy.

He said in an excited tone that the destroyer, the whole of the state economic strength and the total sum and essence of the national defence science and technology and the capability for developing and manufacturing military hardware, is a crystal of Comrade Kim Jong Un's great idea of self-defence, extraordinary military wisdom, unbounded patriotic enthusiasm and all-round creative ability both in name and in reality.

He expressed the unshakable will and determination of loyalty of all the workers in the munitions industry and defence scientists to successfully carry out the important tasks for the national defence development strategy set forth at the Ninth Congress of the WPK and the Second Plenary Meeting of the Ninth WPK Central Committee at any cost and thus substantially and perfectly guarantee the bolstering of the naval force.

Minister of Shipbuilding Kim Kwang Il handed over the warship's delivery document to the KPA Navy.

Comrade Kim Jong Un made a significant speech in commemoration of the commissioning of the Destroyer Choe Hyon.

All the participants were deeply impressed by his passionate speech, which reflects the great ambition to firmly defend the well-being and future of the country and the people by consolidating the strength and dignity of the DPRK to the strongest and gives confidence in the steady development of the revolution in the warship-building industry in the new era and the bright prospect of the modern naval force.

When Comrade Kim Jong Un finished his speech, they broke into thunderous cheers of "Hurrah!" out of their boundless reverence, absolute trust and ardent loyalty and the port resounded with them.

Upon authorization, Marshal of the KPA Pak Jong Chon read out the order of the WPK Central Military Commission on commissioning the destroyer Choe Hyon into the KPA Navy, and handed it to Senior Vice Admiral Pak Kwang Sop, commander of the KPA Navy.

On the order of the WPK Central Military Commission, the destroyer will be commissioned into the West Sea Fleet of the KPA Navy to perform the honorable mission of defending the West Sea of the DPRK and deterring war.

On behalf of the sailors of the destroyer, Senior Commander Choe Kum Chol, captain of the destroyer, made an oath-taking speech.

He expressed his unusual pride and honor as one of the first generation of the Navy in the new era who will steer the latest warship in the ocean to fully demonstrate the might of the country and as the first person who will experience and verify the transformation in the Navy undergoing complete changes in its weaponry, tactics and culture. And he extended the greatest tribute and heartfelt thanks to Comrade Supreme Commander who made them serve in the first warship which will lead a new history of the Navy and gave the highest honor and matchless courage to them. He also extended warm thanks and militant salute to the workers in the sector of the warship-building industry who are making a heroic effort to transform the Navy, true to the plan of the Party Central Committee.

The captain explained the destroyer's offensive and defensive weapons systems and referred to the sailors' great spiritual strength for combat. And he said that once ordered, the destroyer will courageously sail to any operational waters as befits Comrade Kim Jong Un's Navy.

He expressed his determination to make the history of the warship, associated with the long-cherished desire of the people and sincerity of the workers in the munitions industry, the one of ardent loyalty and feats and firmly defend the blue and beautiful sea of the country and thus remain boundlessly loyal to the sacred mission given by the Party and the country.

The sailors of the destroyer chanted resounding slogans, reflecting their iron will to glorify through their distinguished military service the standard-bearer position and militant honor of the first warship defending the Party Central Committee and the national sovereignty and territorial waters.

Amid the enthusiastic encouragement and cheers of the participants in the ceremony, the sailors of the destroyer got on the warship holding high the glorious ensign.

There took place a ceremony of hoisting the ensign of the destroyer Choe Hyon of the KPA Navy.

The ensign symbolic of commissioning the destroyer was hoisted amid the warship whistle and the boom of a 9 gun-salute.

Comrade Kim Jong Un got on the destroyer.

The destroyer was full of the great honor and excitement of the sailors who had the greatest honor of having Comrade Supreme Commander on their warship again before leaving the port.

The captain courteously saluted Comrade Kim Jong Un in welcome of him.

Comrade Kim Jong Un met sailors on the bow and stern of the destroyer.

The sailors taking delivery of the warship with sacred mission and deep trust were awarded the binoculars in the name of Comrade Kim Jong Un.

Upon authorization, Marshal of the KPA Pak Jong Chon conferred the binoculars on the chief executive officer of the destroyer.

Saying that the first destroyer of the DPRK was to start the fulfillment of the sacred and important mission for reliably defending the national maritime sovereignty and interests after enlisting for the navy in the sea of the country, Comrade Kim Jong Un said that the destroyer's commissioning of epochal significance in building the armed forces in the new era is a clear and powerful proof of the reality in which the might of the Navy as the core service of the DPRK armed forces is being remarkably strengthened.

There will be no change in the constant view of the WPK that strength is just the national sovereignty and prestige and a country can be peaceful and prosperous only when its military muscle is strong, he said, affirming that powerful battleships will advance into the inviolable and beautiful sea of the country one after another to defend its peace and honor and the security of our state will be further consolidated and the dignity and stamina of the Navy of the Republic will be more fully displayed through the exercise of the powerful capability to control the enemies' threat of aggression.

Expressing belief and expectation that the Destroyer Choe Hyon would record only victories in the course of safeguarding the country by creditably inheriting the great spirit, matchless bravery and ever-victorious tradition of the army-founding generation as befitting the battleship named after a veteran general, he had a significant photo taken with the sailors to remain forever in the history of development of the Navy.

All the commanding officers and sailors of the destroyer solemnly pledged before Comrade Kim Jong Un and the country and the people to turn their warship into the flagship of the matchless fleet controlling the most responsible battlefield for defending the sovereignty of the DPRK by dint of the spiritual strength and matchless combat capability of the heroic Navy, displaying loyalty and feats along the course set by the Party Central Committee.

Comrade Kim Jong Un got off the warship and met the discharged navy generals who were invited to the commissioning ceremony, and expressed the unshakable plan of the Party Central Committee to further accelerate the development of the naval forces associated with their patriotic life.

There took place a departure ceremony of the Destroyer Choe Hyon.

All the warships of the Navy staying in the port raised the code flags of congratulation at once amid the gong of departure of the destroyer.

The participants extended their warmest and enthusiastic congratulations to the destroyer sailors, waving their hands.

Comrade Kim Jong Un sent a militant salute to the DPRK's state-of-the-art multi-mission destroyer No. 1, sincerely wishing that it would win fame as an invincible battleship symbolizing the mightiness and invincibility of the heroic People's Navy.

On the same day, the Navy hosted a reception in commemoration of the commissioning of the destroyer.

The splendid commissioning ceremony of the destroyer serves as a solemn start signaling the rapid growth and development of the combat force of the DPRK Navy and as a great event that clearly demonstrated the advance spirit of the strong self-defensive nation towards the vast ocean with a grand goal and ideal. -0-

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The US imperialists started the Korean War

 

Press Release of Second Plenum of Ninth C.C., WPK

Pyongyang, June 23 (KCNA) -- Members and alternate members of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea and an alternate member of the Political Bureau of the C.C., WPK by-elected at the Second Plenary Meeting of the Ninth Central Committee of the WPK are as follows:

 

Members of the C.C., WPK

Han Sang Man

Kwon Song Hwan

Kim Yong Ul

 

Alternate members of the C.C., WPK

Paek Un Chol

Ri Yun Su

Choe Chol Ung

Ko Han Sop

Jang Kyong Nam

 

Alternate member of the Political Bureau of the C.C., WPK Ri Ho Rim

 

Secretary of the WPK Central Committee elected at the Second Plenary Meeting of the Ninth Central Committee of the WPK is as follows:

Jo Yong Won

 

Department directors of the C.C., WPK appointed at the Second Plenary Meeting of the Ninth Central Committee of the WPK are:

Jo Yong Won

Ri Ho Rim

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Report on Enlarged Meeting of Second Plenum of Ninth Central Committee of WPK

Report on Enlarged Meeting of Second Plenum of Ninth Central Committee of WPK

Pyongyang, June 23 (KCNA) -- The Second Plenary Meeting of the Ninth Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea was held from June 20 to 22 to have an interim review of the implementation of the Party and state policies for 2026, the year of key importance when a breakthrough should be made in carrying out the strategic tasks and the new Five-Year Plan set forth at the Ninth WPK Congress, confirm the major work and the orientation of struggle for the second half of the year and discuss and decide on the pending issues urgently needed for putting the overall socialist construction on a stable and sustained development track.

The plenary meeting took place in the form of an enlarged meeting with the attendance of members of the Party central leadership as well as leading officials of guidance organs in Pyongyang and local areas, senior Party and administrative officials of major industrial establishments and major commanding officers of the Korean People's Army.

Comrade Kim Jong Un, General Secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea, presided over the plenary meeting.

The meeting presidium was composed of members of the Presidium of the Political Bureau and members of the Political Bureau of the WPK Central Committee.

The following agenda items were brought up for discussion at the plenary meeting:

First, Interim Review of the Implementation of the Major Party and State Policies for 2026

Second, On Boosting the Coal Industry and Remodeling the Coal-Mine Villages across the Country

Third, On a Series of Measures for Enhancing the Role of the City and County People's Committees

Fourth, Organizational Matter

The plenary meeting heard and deliberated on a report on the implementation of the Party and state policies in the first half of the year.

The WPK Central Committee positively appreciated the important successes achieved in all fields of socialist construction in the first half of 2026, the responsible beginning of the struggle for implementing the decisions of the Ninth Congress of the WPK, and the redoubled spirit of exertion and advance of the Party members and other working people that are leading the state and social trend as a whole.

The plenary meeting called for adhering to the revolutionary ideology and spirit and fighting principle, the basic guarantee of the ever-victorious leadership ability and fighting efficiency of the WPK, thoroughly meeting the requirements of the era of comprehensive development in all sectors and units and steadily boosting the spirit of fresh innovation and the trend of continuous transformation while overcoming and eradicating some shortcomings and negative and evil practices revealed in the first half of the year at their early stage.

The plenary meeting heard a report and speeches on the measures for thoroughly carrying out the technical and cultural upgrading of the coal industry sector, which was designated as the important strategic work of the Party and the state in the period of the new long-term plan.

The reporter and speakers unanimously stressed that the measures for boosting the coal industry sector are the most realistic ones for successfully solving the linchpin of the completion of the new Five-Year Plan and ensuring the stable and sustained development of our economy.

In particular, they expressed full support for and approval to the plan for completely renovating the coal-mining areas across the country and bringing about a dramatic change in them as it is the brilliant embodiment of the noble outlook on the people and the people-first politics of Comrade Kim Jong Un, which are consistent with boundless love for the working people and absolute service for them, and the most revolutionary policy and a bold decision that can be made only by Comrade Kim Jong Un.

The reporter and speakers said that the great changes to be made in the coal industrial areas clearly teach once again the right vision and attitude of the officials struggling for the prosperity of the state and the well-being of the people. They solemnly pledged before the plenary meeting to uphold the noble intention of Comrade Kim Jong Un in perfect practice and with continuous results.

Comrade Kim Jong Un emphasized that the issue of eliminating the centuries-old backwardness remaining in the coal industry sector in the era when the whole country is undergoing changes and progressing is a strategic issue of weighty significance not only in successfully fulfilling the new Five-Year Plan but also in carrying out the next medium- and long-term plans for the prospective development of the national economy and a promise our Party made with the coal miners and an urgent project that should be launched without delay. He referred to the orientations for forming another new front for technically and culturally transforming the coal industry sector as a whole, along with the construction projects for the Regional Development 20×10 Policy.

He said that the task to which our Party should give special importance and direct efforts for the development of the coal industry at the present stage is to decisively solve the housing problem of coal miners, the masters of coalfields and the producers. The transformation of coal-mine villages across the country is as gigantic and huge construction work as the transformation of rural dwellings across the country and a new sphere which holds an important part in the struggle for the regional development, and therefore, it is necessary to make thorough preparations from the beginning and give precedence to meticulous planning and preliminary arrangements, he noted.

To this end, it is needed to organize the powerful coal mining area construction headquarters in Pyongyang and provinces, build up the reliable designing and construction forces and make good preparations for the equipment, materials and transport so as to launch the full-scale construction from next year, he said.

Stressing that this construction project should be a crucial process for the coal miners, who have devoted their precious sweat and passion to defending the lifeline of the national economy in the annals of the revolution, and for transforming the coal industry as a whole in line with the demands of the three revolutions, he set forth detailed tasks for ensuring the successful implementation of the project including the issue of designing modern and advanced dwelling houses and public buildings well in conformity with the characteristics of the coal-mining areas and the issue of powerfully launching the project for turning the Chonsong Youth Coal Mine into a modern and standard coal mine and transforming the area into a new model of coal-mine culture.

The plenary meeting confirmed the unshakable will of the whole Party to bring the revolutionary plan and intention of Comrade Kim Jong Un into a brilliant reality without fail, being convinced that technological and cultural upgrading of the coal industry sector would be of weighty historic significance in rapidly boosting the overall economy by accelerating the solution of the long-term problem of industry and would serve as a great auspicious event when the new life and new culture of the most advanced working class are clearly settled at the centre of the times and as a new change of our state favored most by the people during the ninth term of the Party Central Committee.

The plenary meeting heard and deliberated on the measures the city and county people's committees studied for establishing rational and well-regulated work system and order and strengthening the relevant authority to meet the practical requirements in order to powerfully lead the new stage of development of Korean-style socialist construction in their regions.

The plenary meeting criticized and reviewed the deviations revealed in the course of the study of measures in contrary to the intention of the Party which set as an independent agenda item of the major Party meeting the issue of decisively enhancing the function and role of the people's committees, the sovereign and administrative executive organs responsible for leading the independent and multilateral growth of cities and counties, the strategic fortresses supporting the overall development of the country.

The plenary meeting recognized that the measures brought up for deliberation were studied and worked out in conformity with the policy-oriented intention of the Party Central Committee and the Party principle.

The plenary meeting discussed the organizational matter.

Members and alternate members of the Central Committee of the WPK were recalled and by-elected.

Han Sang Man and Kwon Song Hwan, alternate members of the WPK Central Committee, were by-elected as members of the C.C., WPK and Kim Yong Ul was by-elected directly as a member of the C.C., WPK.

Paek Un Chol, Ri Yun Su, Choe Chol Ung, Ko Han Sop and Jang Kyong Nam were by-elected as alternate members of the WPK Central Committee.

A member of the Presidium of the Political Bureau of the WPK Central Committee was recalled.

Kim Jae Ryong was recalled from member of the Presidium of the Political Bureau of the WPK Central Committee due to the change of position.

An alternate member of the Political Bureau of the WPK Central Committee was recalled and by-elected.

Ri Ho Rim was by-elected as an alternate member of the Political Bureau of the WPK Central Committee.

A secretary of the WPK Central Committee was recalled and elected.

Kim Jae Ryong was removed from his post as secretary of the Party Central Committee.

Comrade Kim Jong Un proposed at the plenary meeting to recall Jo Yong Won, chairman of the Standing Committee of the Supreme People's Assembly, and elect him as the secretary of the Party Central Committee.

The proposal, Comrade Kim Jong Un made as an exercise of the authority of the President of the State Affairs of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea on the basis of Article 90 of Chapter 6 of the Constitution of the Republic, was passed with the approval of all members of the Party Central Committee.

In accordance with Article 96 of Chapter 6 of the Constitution, the chairman of the Standing Committee of the Supreme People's Assembly will be elected at the SPA to be convened in the future, and on the basis of Article 99 of the Constitution, the vice-chairman of the SPA Standing Committee will be in charge of the Standing Committee work during the recess of the SPA.

Department directors of the C.C., WPK were dismissed and appointed.

Kim Jae Ryong and Han Kwang Sang were dismissed from the post of department director of the Party Central Committee, and Jo Yong Won was appointed as the director of the Organizational Leadership Department of the Party Central Committee and Ri Ho Rim as the director of the Light Industry Department of the Party Central Committee.

The Central Military Commission of the WPK decided to refer Major Gen. Pak Hui Chol, vice-director for organizational affairs of the General Political Bureau of the Korean People's Army, to the law-enforcement organ in order to investigate allegations of his irregularities and corruption and to appoint Major Gen. Kim Yong Ul as vice-director for organizational affairs of the General Political Bureau.

At the plenary meeting, Comrade Kim Jong Un made an important concluding speech to clarify the orientation of the Party and state policies at the present stage and the short-, intermediate- and long-range future tasks.

Referring to the character and significance of this year's struggle of key importance in successfully attaining the five-year long-term goals set forth by the Party Congress, Comrade Kim Jong Un reviewed the first half-yearly work of the Ninth Central Committee of the WPK, which confirmed the orientation of development and the goals at the new stage and organized and guided essential projects for encouraging the entire Party and all the people to implement them, and the successes achieved in all sectors of socialist construction.

In particular, he highly appreciated that the great enthusiasm and collective innovation of the working class and young people, who turned out in response to the decisions of the Party Congress, are playing a great encouraging role in the present new phase of development.

Saying that we are now paving an untrodden path which can be hewed only with an iron will and indefatigable struggle and that our struggle, which started vigorously for attaining the new long-term goals, can lead to the meaningful first success only when we perfectly carry out this year's tasks with all our courage and energy in the second half of the year, he stressed once again that all the sectors and units should continue to display the high fighting spirit and redouble their efforts, just as they did in launching their struggle in hearty response to the decisions of the Ninth Congress of the WPK.

The concluding speech referred to all the tasks facing the economic guidance organs and the national economic sectors and ways for implementing them in more dynamically promoting the first year's struggle for implementing the decisions of the Ninth Congress of the WPK.

It also underscored the need for the ecological environment protection organs and law enforcement agencies to enhance their roles in preventing the nationwide environmental pollution, for the disaster prevention agencies at all levels to increase their ability of coping with the possible disasters, and for the light industrial sector to improve the quality of consumer goods and push ahead with the construction of modern light industrial factories in a planned way.

The concluding speech called on all fields of science and culture to make dynamic efforts to successfully fulfill this year's work plans and policy tasks and thus bring about a radical phase in the development of their fields and make a positive contribution to the national prosperity and the promotion of the people's wellbeing.

Comrade Kim Jong Un in his concluding speech reaffirmed the steadfast policy stand of our Party and state to beef up the national defence capabilities faster.

This year, too, the U.S. and the ROK are pushing forward with the ROK's possession of a nuclear submarine while getting evermore undisguised in their moves towards the reinforcement and modernization of armed forces in the region, and they have so often staged military drills and espionage acts against the DPRK, extremely aggravating the situation in the Korean peninsula.

What is more dangerous is that the U.S. and the ROK held again military confab of the "Nuclear Consultative Group" (NCG), a nuclear war body whose purpose is to attack the DPRK with nuclear elements such as nuclear and conventional integration posture.

So far there were six rounds of such confab at which they drew up detailed nuclear war scenarios including war mode, sequence of missions, drills and operation elements. This clearly proves the criminal nature of the body pushing the situation in the Korean peninsula to the brink of a nuclear war.

Referring to the peculiarities of our revolution accompanied by the inevitable confrontation with imperialism, Comrade Kim Jong Un clearly clarified once again the steadfast stand of our Party and government to make more proactive efforts to further expand and strengthen the powerful and absolutely reliable deterrent for self-defence to cope with the prevailing geopolitical crisis.

The plenary meeting unanimously recognized that to steadily expand and strengthen the nuclear forces, the core of the military sovereignty of the DPRK and the pivot of implementing the strategy for deterring or fighting a war, and to thoroughly exercise the position of a nuclear weapons state is the most correct and unique way to actively and confidently cope with the unpredictable international military and political situation getting complicated in multiple ways.

After evaluating the position and role of the more sophisticated nuclear technology in the prospective development of our war deterrent, the concluding speech stressed that, with the nuclear technology as a basis, more extensive, innovative and encouraging plans would be carried out with increasing speed.

Comrade Kim Jong Un set forth tasks to dynamically carry out the work to increase powerful defence assets without pause in our own way and with a goal of overtaking the world.

In particular, it is necessary to put spurs to the building of 10 000-tonnage strategic guided missile cruiser to be conducted according to the April 4 decision of the Central Military Commission of the Workers' Party of Korea, and to direct great efforts to developing and producing powerful conventional weapons of great significance in strengthening the combat capability of our army.

It is important to draw up detailed plans for building or modernizing munitions industrial enterprises and major munitions production enterprises which play an important role in strengthening the core combat capability of our army, and push ahead with them on an annual basis.

The concluding speech also advanced all tasks for bringing about a qualitative change in raising the combat capability of units of the People's Army at all levels.

In particular, it stressed the need for the Party committees and political organs at all levels to intensify the Party political work for cultivating the spiritual strength of the service personnel so as to train all of them to be the ones strong in ideology and faith and those possessed of boundless loyalty to the Party and the country, clear class consciousness and outlook on the arch enemy.

It underlined the need to complete qualitatively the ongoing project for fortifying the southern border and build new bases for naval fleets and other military bases and structures essential for bolstering up the national defence capability.

Comrade Kim Jong Un clarified once again the steadfast foreign policy stand of our Party and the DPRK government to firmly adhere to our principle of struggle against the enemy, strengthen the allied front with the anti-imperialist, independent forces and resolutely fight against the imperialists' moves for aggression and war.

Unimaginable astonishing incidents and events beyond the concept and common sense are taking place one after another and wars, bloodshed and political and economic instabilities are becoming a daily occurrence in the world due to the gangster-like and unlimited geopolitical greed and misuse of strength of the hegemonic forces, unprecedented since the Second World War. As a result, an inter-camp confrontation between the forces for independence or domination is getting fiercer. This is a feature of the extremely acute and variable international situation at present.

The U.S. indiscriminate and high-handed practices have dangerously impacted on its satellite forces and resulted in further deterioration in the bloody situation in Europe and Middle East. In the meantime, Japan, a defeated country in Asia, has openly turned itself into a war state by taking the present disturbing circumstances as an opportunity to get rid of all shackles restricting its moves to become a military power. This is inviting a strong backlash and serious concern from the international community.

Today, the world is witnessing rampant ultra-nationalism of modern version such as "America First" idea, Zionism, Ukrainian Neo-Nazism and Japanese militarism, international instability reminiscent of the disastrous scene a century ago when the whole world was involved in wars and bloodshed through collusion with one another, and frenzy high-handed and arbitrary practices of a certain country ignoring international laws. The reality goes to prove once again the justness of all of our political choices and the path we followed.

Comrade Kim Jong Un said that we have no right to disregard this complicated situation and stark geopolitical reality or should not look away from them, stressing that strength represents the sovereign right and prestige of the country. And he added that the sovereignty and security of our country have been firmly ensured by its strong might and it will be permanent, emphasizing that there is nothing to revise or supplement in our view. He stressed that this is a general conclusion made by our Party in its protracted history of struggle against imperialism.

It is important for the foreign affairs sector to vigorously promote all the external relations on its own initiative with a view of subordinating and orienting them to protecting the national interests and building a rich country with a strong army.

In particular, it is essential to thoroughly adhere to the principle of struggle against the enemy set forth by our Party which defined the ROK as the most hostile state.

Comrade Kim Jong Un said that the Party organizations at all levels should ensure the successful fulfillment of the tasks for this year, the first year of implementing the decisions of the Party congress, by holding fast to the work for giving fullest play to the inexhaustible might and the ideological and mental strength of the popular masses as the core of their activities, and definitely making the Party guidance on the economic affairs the one by the political work method and orientational and methodological one.

The conclusion repeatedly highlighted the principled matters to be adhered to by the coal industry to make a great change without fail and by the city and country people's committees to decisively enhance their function and role during the ninth term of the Party Central Committee.

Comrade Kim Jong Un said that each year is precious for us always advancing with a high aim to realize the most justifiable and sacred ideal and we value months and days constituting a year. He ardently called for all to wage more dynamic struggle, unsparingly devoting their unfading spirit of serving the country and people and unbounded enthusiasm for the revolutionary cause to the proud journey for gigantic creation and transformation.

His important speech had full support of all the participants.

The full text of the important conclusion he made at the plenary meeting will be published as an inner-Party document and distributed to the Party organizations at all levels.

In view of the basic spirit of the plenary meeting which called for pioneering a new phase and bringing about a new change with the fighting spirit and traits of uncompromisingly and thoroughly implementing the Party decisions adopted for the country and the people and determinedly overcoming obstacles without any vacillation and unhesitatingly and resolutely rectifying mistakes and deviations, the sectional consultative meetings were held, guided by the members of the Presidium of the Political Bureau of the Party Central Committee.

The Third Meeting of the Political Bureau of the Ninth Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea was convened on June 22.

The Political Bureau of the Party Central Committee examined the constructive opinions the sectional consultative meetings raised for deliberation after collective discussion and the report on the work of a group for reviewing the budget for the construction of major objects. And it conclusively confirmed the draft decisions and reported the result to the plenary meeting.

The plenary meeting unanimously adopted the decisions "On Boosting the Coal Industry and Remodeling Coal-Mine Villages across the Country in a Modern Style" and "On Taking a Measure for Enhancing the Function and Role of the City and County People's Committees".

The plenary meeting of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea held in June 2026 clearly demonstrated the solemn political will and seasoned leadership ability of the Party Central Committee which intends to substantially ensure the successful fulfillment of this year's major policy tasks aimed for attaining an innovative goal of the new stage and further consolidate the absolute dignity and irreversible status of the Republic by keeping to the positive trend of the country's development and adhering to the scientific and offensive mode of advance, fighting principle and thoroughgoing executive power. -0-

www.kcna.kp (2026.06.23.)