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Saturday, 4 April 2026

'Peoples Korea Today' Issue 64 ( April 2026 ).pdf

KCNA Commentary on Japan's Dangerous Military Attempt

Pyongyang, April 4 (KCNA) -- Against the backdrop of massive structural reorganization among the Japanese armed forces this spring, the "Space Operations Group" under the Air "Self-Defense Force" was recently raised to the status of the "Space Operations Squadron".

At the same time, the number of persons has increased more than twice.

A small unit in full charge of the space was formed in 2020, and the number of service personnel has increased dozens of times in just a few years. And its name and formation changed into the said names every two to three years, arousing a serious concern of the international community about the reality of the rapidly growing Japanese space force.

Not content with this, the "Space Operations Squadron" will become the "Space Operations Corps" within this year and the Japan Air "Self-Defense Force" will be reportedly renamed the aerospace "Self-Defense Force".

The rapid expansion of the space operations force cannot be seen merely as part of the structural reorganization of the expanded military force as a whole.

As recognized by the public at home and abroad, Japan has long laid legal, material and technical foundations with the ambition to expand the operations scope of the "Self-Defense Forces" into space.

Behind the deceptive "bill" on the use of space for peaceful purposes, Japan had been secretly conducting spy satellite research since the late 1970s. It adopted the "Basic Law on Space" in 2008 to allow military use of outer space under the signboard of "defense" and in 2012 it amended even the clause specifying that aerospace development shall be limited to the peaceful purpose, thus eliminating the legal obstacles hindering the weaponization of outer space.

In 2018, Japan officially declared space to be a new sphere of defense through the new "defense program" and "Midterm Defence Capability Buildup Outline", thus further consolidating the legal foundation for weaponization of outer space.

Japan has established an information gathering satellite system capable of monitoring the whole earth for 24 hours through spy satellites. And it has expanded into a force capable of fighting even a space war by equipping itself even with missile technology and missile interception system.

Against this backdrop, the Japanese reactionaries openly made bellicose remarks that "the exercise of the right to collective self-defense is possible even in space."

What merits more serious attention is that a neo-militarist force has recently become influential in the Japanese political circles, which encourages the ill-boding move to gain the position for preemptive attack even in outer space, while the deployment of the overall military muscle is being changed into an offensive form.

In July last year, the Japanese Defense Ministry adopted for the first time the "Guidelines for Defending Outer Space" for bolstering up the defense capability in outer space. Pulling up China and Russia over its satellite development as a threat to Japan, it clearly specified that it would accelerate the use of space for establishing the so-called "Stand-off Defense Capability" capable of attacking out of the enemy's range of fire.

At a meeting of the aerospace development strategy headquarters in December, it decided on a new process table of the space main plan stipulating that it shall conduct a verification test to cope with a hypersonic glide weapon in outer space, and engage in the launch of a satellite capable of grasping the trend of satellites of other countries.

This shows that the Japanese reactionaries are pushing ahead with the move to develop the space operations force into the one next to the ground, naval and air forces and into a typical preemptive attack force in order to hold a military edge in the outer space.

This is evidenced by the fact that the Japan Air "Self-Defense Force" has worked out an operations plan and staged actual drills for completing a military posture in space in separate drills or in U.S.-led bilateral and multilateral military drills in a few years.

Japan, a war criminal state deprived of the right to have an army, participate in a war and to belligerency, has turned the SDF into a full-fledged offensive force by challenging the international community. Not content with this, it is making desperate efforts to seize outer space as its sphere of activity. This reality clearly shows the dangerous ambition for reinvasion and endless belligerence of the reactionaries of the island country.

The international community is strictly watching Japan's reckless moves for weaponization of outer space that violates the calmness of the universe and the peace of the planet. -0-

www.kcna.kp (2026.04.04.)

BGSJI and KFA UK on the 14th Anniversary of the supreme leadership of respected Marshal KIM JONG UN

BRITISH GROUP FOR THE STUDY OF THE JUCHE IDEA

email juche007@yahoo.co.uk

4th of April 2026
The British Group for the Study of the Juche Idea(BGSJI) and the Korean Friendship Association of the UK(KFA UK) ) issued the following joint statement on the occasion of the 14th anniversaries of the election of the dear respected Marshal Kim Jong Un as supreme leader of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea(DPRK)

14 years have passed since respected Marshal Kim Jong Un was elected to the positions of First Secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea on the 11th of April 2012 and First Chairman of the former National Defence Commission of the DPRK (now the State Affairs Commission ) on the 13th of April 2012. These momentous decisions placed dear respected comrade Kim Jong Un at the head of the state,party and army and at the helm of the Korean revolution, basically the supreme leader of the DPRK.

Dear respected Marshal Kim Jong Un was democratically elected as supreme leader of the DPRK . It was a profound manifestation of the support , trust , respect and affection of the masses of Korean people and members of the WPK for him . Seeing many documentaries and videos of the on-the-spot guidance of respected Marshal Kim Jong Un we can tell that he is the most popular leader in the world and that the entire Korean people are united rock-solid behind the dear respected Marshal Kim Jong Un and will win final victory under his masterly leadership.

During the thirteen years of his Supreme leadership Dear respected Marshal Kim Jong Un has shown great energy , determination and dynamism in his roles . Project after project ,such as Mirae Scientists Street. has been completed . Prosperity is rising and the Korean people under the leadership of dear respected Marshal Kim Jong Un are rushing towards the goal of a thriving socialist country .He is a people's leader who always mixes with the people. Moreover he made the people-orientated principle the order of the day.

Dear respected Marshal Kim Jong Un has led the struggle to consolidate the monolithic unity of the WPK, to model it on Kimilsungism-Kimjongilism and defeated the anti-party counter-revolutionary factionalists . Now dear respected Marshal Kim Jong Un is now leading the struggle to implement to the letter Kim Jong Il's behests without an inch of deflection and without a step of concession.
Under the leadership of respected Marshal Kim Jong Un the line of building the economy and nuclear force in parallel was successfully concluded and the DPRK has embarked on self-reliant socialist construction.

Respected Marshal Kim Jong Un has also stressed the need for self-development and self-reliance thus rejecting imperialist slavery and is leading People's Korea along the path of militant anti-imperialism. The DPRK is the most independent country in the world , a fortress of independent Juche-based socialism . Respected Marshal Kim Jong Un fully adheres to the 'our state first ' principle.

Great achievements have been made in the work of Juche-oriented defence building . The DPRK has become a socialist nuclear power of Juche and an ICBM power . In the past year the DPRK has remarkably enhanced its national defence capabilities.

Dear respected Marshal Kim Jong Un has brilliantly followed in the footsteps of the great leaders generalissimos Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il and sticks to the line of independence, Juche, and socialism. Now the Korean people under his leadership will implement the decisions of the 9th Congress of the Workers Party of Korea.

The fourteen years of respected Marshal Kim Jong Un's leadership over the state ,party and armed forces of the DPRK have been fourteen years of victory and glory . The Korean people will march onto further victories .

BGSJI
KFA UK

Friday, 3 April 2026

BGSJI and KFA UK support the statement of the spokesperson of the DPRK Foreign Ministry

BRITISH GROUP FOR THE STUDY OF THE JUCHE IDEA

email juche007@yahoo.co.uk

London 3 April 2026

The British Group for the Study of the Juche Idea (BGSJI) and the Korean Friendship Association of the UK ( KFA UK) issued the following joint statement in support of the press statement of the spokesperson of the Foreign Ministry (FM) of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK ) issued on the 2nd of April with regard to the recent "resolution " of the "UN Human Rights Council " attacking the DPRK over the so-called "human rights issue ";

Recently the UN Human Rights Council adopted an anti-DPRK 'human rights 'resolution which was mostly sponsored by imperialist and reactionary countries with very few countries of the global south sponsoring it . The DPRK deems the resolution to be illegal . Moreover the "resolution " is a product of some countries pathological hostility to the DPRK and also aimed at overthrowing the socialist system and turning the northern half of Korea into a colony of global capital. In our opinion the UN is just a tool of US imperialism .

The spokesperson of the DPRK Foreign Ministry states that the adoption of the resolution is "a grave political provocation to the dignity and sovereignty of the DPRK and denounces and rejects it in the strongest tone."

The DPRK is a people-oriented state so there is no human rights problem there as we have stated on many occasions.

The spokesperson of the DPRK Foreign Ministry points that the UN Human Rights Council should instead turn its attention elsewhere to matters that require immediate attention (and action ) saying that "In the Middle East, massacres are being committed one after another to put the crimes against humanity committed during the Second World War into the shade. Even, more than a hundred of children, to be specially protected in any case, became the targets of precisely guided weapons to be killed. Such a tragedy has been a daily occurrence in that region.".

Really the UN should investigate the crimes of Israel and the US !

We join with the Foreign Ministry of the DPRK and the progressive people of the world in denouncing the anti-DPRK human rights resolution !

BGSJI

KFA UK

New School Year for 2026 Begins in DPRK

Pyongyang, April 2 (KCNA) -- School-opening ceremonies Wednesday took place at educational institutions in the DPRK, including the capital city and remote mountain and islet villages.

All the officials and teachers in the educational sector have devoted their wisdom and enthusiasm to the preparations for the new school year to implement the second universal 12-year compulsory education programme and the educational programmes of universities according to subjects.

Schoolchildren across the country, including new entrants of primary and junior middle schools, were seen going to schools in new uniforms with Sonamu bags carrying Mindulle notebooks and Haebaragi-branded school things.

Universities, colleges and other schools in the capital city were in a festive mood ahead of school-opening ceremonies.

The educational bases in other parts of the country were also overflowing with excitement and joy of the new generation.

National flag-hoisting ceremonies took place at universities, colleges and other schools prior to the school-opening ceremonies for the new school year.

Officials of the Party and power organs and relevant organs, teaching staff and students congratulated the new entrants, giving them bouquets.

At the school-opening ceremonies, speakers stressed that the DPRK guided by the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un will turn into a country of education prospering with education.

Schoolchildren expressed their determination to grow up into successors to the revolution and pillars in building a thriving nation.

After the ceremonies, the first lessons for the new school year began. -0-

www.kcna.kp (2026.04.02.)

Respected Comrade Kim Jong Un Visits Memorial Museum of Combat Feats at Overseas Military Operations under Construction

Pyongyang, April 3 (KCNA) -- The respected Comrade Kim Jong Un, General Secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea and President of the State Affairs of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, gave field guidance at the Memorial Museum of Combat Feats at the Overseas Military Operations under construction.

Comrade Kim Jong Un was accompanied by senior officials of the Central Committee of the WPK and officials of the designing and creation institutions.

The construction of the memorial museum of combat feats is progressing at 97 percent of the total project.

Comrade Kim Jong Un learnt about the finishing project of the museum and arrangement and exhibition of the contents of combat feats and installation of sculptures and symbolic memorials and highly appreciated them.

Saying that the museum will be a monument to the era praising the great heroism of the proud sons of the DPRK and a seat for education in patriotism, he added that a ceremony of burying the remains of the martyrs there would be solemnly held in mid-April and the museum be inaugurated with due ceremony on the occasion of the first anniversary of the concluded operations for liberating Kursk.

That day he ratified a plan for attaching the museum to a relevant department of the General Political Bureau of the Korean People's Army. -0-

www.kcna.kp (2026.04.03.)

Respected Comrade Kim Jong Un Inspects Service Facilities in Fourth-Stage District of Hwasong Area Nearing Inauguration

Pyongyang, April 3 (KCNA) -- The respected Comrade Kim Jong Un, General Secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea and President of the State Affairs of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, went around various service facilities in the fourth-stage district of the Hwasong Area nearing their inauguration in order to learn about the preparations for their operation.

The new street in the Hwasong Area, successfully turned into a symbol of high civilization in our era under the grand capital city construction plan and energetic guidance of the Party, is now brimming with the joy and excitement of citizens who greeted the auspicious event of moving into new houses. Against this backdrop, various service facilities are stepping up the preparations for inauguration to contribute to improving the wellbeing of people.

Comrade Kim Jong Un visited the Misan Automobile Technology Service Center first.

He appreciated that all components of the service center are arranged impeccably to fully meet the convenience of customers and ensure the level of specialization as it has modern equipment and comprehensive repair service system necessary for technical service for different vehicles, and plans to provide various car parts and other goods to satisfy the tastes of customers.

Noting that the Misan Automobile Technology Service Center is the second of its kind in the Hwasong area, built under the Party's policy of steadily pioneering and expanding in various forms and ways new service categories for rapidly improving the material and cultural welfare of the people, he said that the center should contribute to promoting the business and cultural life of agencies and enterprises at all levels and the working people through its specialized technical and repair service activities.

Then he visited the Hwasong Pet Shop.

He saw various species of pets on the first and second floors of the shop.

As the households rearing pets are increasing in the capital city and local areas nowadays, I saw to it that a new shop was built to sell pets and various accessories and offer the specialized service, he said, giving instructions on some issues arising in management and veterinary service.

Referring to the production of various kinds of pet-care tools, feed and veterinary medicines, he stressed the need to take measures to increase production in the future.

Comrade Kim Jong Un visited the Hwasong Musical Instruments Shop and looked round its exhibition areas.

He appreciated that the shop ensures convenience in service by presenting age-specific musical instruments of various kinds and different items for fans, students and professional players and applying a new exhibition mode.

Saying it is very important to raise the level of specialization in different categories of service like all other fields and realms of cultural life, he stressed the need to create various service categories capable of satisfying the people's ever-growing material and cultural demands in the arrangement of service facilities and focus on raising the level of specialization.

Then he learned about the preparations for operation of new hairdresser's and beauty parlor.

Saying that welfare amenities are essential for ensuring a cultured and hygienic environment and highly civilized living space in the formation of urban districts, he called for steadily improving the quality of service on the principle of fully meeting the aesthetic tastes and convenience of the inhabitants.

Noting that it is a responsible undertaking, as important as a huge construction project, to manage and operate the leisure facilities well so that they would serve as a valuable foundation for the development of socialist civilization, now that such assets for the people are increasing, he clarified the important tasks for creating a new Korean-style service culture.

Comrade Kim Jong Un warmly encouraged the service workers in Hwasong Street, hoping that they would achieve successes in their activities with the viewpoint on sincere service for the people. He gave an instruction on opening the service facilities on the occasion of the significant Day of the Sun. -0-