Crime of Japan, Sworn Enemy of Korean Nation

Pyongyang, August 1 (KCNA) -- The Korean war ignited by the U.S. imperialists in the early 1950s of the last century was a war of massacre and destruction which inflicted untold misfortune and pain upon the Korean people.

The Japanese militarists, who had been involved in cooperation for mapping out the plan for the criminal war of aggression, examined all the documents of the general staff of the Japanese imperialist aggressor forces, which had been kept secret after their defeat, under the direction of the U.S. imperialists.

The U.S. imperialists' plan for the war of aggression against the DPRK, completed in collusion with the Japanese militarists, was submitted to the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff without any significant amendments.

The Japanese militarists also cooperated with the U.S. imperialists in mapping out the plan for intelligence against the DPRK. They made a thorough examination of the whereabouts and duties of the spies in the DPRK, the possibility of their activities and the contact system in case of war, and hatched a plot to dispatch spies on a large scale under the instructions from the U.S. imperialists.

The Japanese militarists, who tried to mobilize even religious believers in spy activities, supported the puppet ROK army which served as cannon fodder for the war of the U.S. imperialists in every way.

In 1948, scores of former Japanese imperialist aggressor officers were sent to the puppet ROK to help the puppet armed forces in their operation and training. In April 1950, they taught the puppet army officers how to commit assassination.

Meanwhile, a unit of Eiichiro Gondo, former vice admiral of the Japanese imperialist aggressor forces, and a unit of the lieutenant colonel Sawai Tetsubi arrived at the puppet ROK after undergoing various special training by the U.S. imperialist aggressor forces. Other units girded themselves for the Korean war.

The Japanese militarists, under the control of the U.S. imperialists, planned germ warfare to brutally massacre the Korean people in case of the outbreak of the Korean war.

The crimes, committed by the Japanese militarists in cooperation with the U.S. imperialists in their preparations for a war of aggression against the DPRK, constitute an atrocity adding new crimes to the crimes already committed against the Korean people during their colonial rule over Korea. -0-

KCNA Commentary on NATO's Frantic War Preparations

Pyongyang, August 1 (KCNA) -- The world community is watching keenly NATO's frantic war preparations.

Shortly ago, NATO approved the reorganization of the military fuel transport system dating back to the Cold War period.

According to the so-called NATO Fuel Supply Chain Capability Programme Plan, the existing NATO fuel supply chain in western Europe, which has a total length of about 10 000 km, will be connected to its new member states in eastern and northern Europe. And huge projects, ranging from the construction and modernization of new fuel pipelines to the construction of energy storage facilities, will reportedly be launched.

Originally, there were disagreements among the member states because of huge cost, but they were finally settled. This shows that NATO is clinging to the provision of strategic reserves for war while regarding it as a vital matter.

Moreover, an assertion that NATO will get stronger with the establishment of fuel pipelines is being made among NATO member states. This is a clear proof that NATO is developing into a more aggressive military bloc.

What merits attention is that foreign news are commenting that NATO worked out such an ambitious plan to cope with a potential war with Russia. But the issue is more serious.

In recent years, NATO, which has talked about the inseparability of the security in Europe and the Asia-Pacific region, is more frequently introducing strategic assets of its member states into the Asia-Pacific region, demonstrating its military existence, and frequently staging adventurous muscle flexing in the vicinity of the Korean peninsula in collusion with the countries hostile towards the DPRK.

NATO member states including Germany and Italy, the defeated nations in Europe in the past, actively participated in RIMPAC, the largest-ever joint naval drill in the world, which was conducted in the large area of sea around Hawaii and the Pacific Ocean. This clearly proves that NATO always regards the Asia-Pacific region as the theatre of war.

The grave reality, in which NATO is pushing ahead with the provision of strategic reserves as well as massive arms buildup, hints at many things.

In a word, it is the evil intention of NATO to stockpile enough fuel and other war supplies and thus kindle the flames of war any time in any part of the world.

Several decades have passed since NATO was founded as a military bloc but it is unprecedented that it prepares for war so openly as now.

The grave nature of NATO as a war bloc is becoming more obvious.

The fair international community aspiring after justice and peace will never tolerate the dangerous and challenging act of NATO dashing toward war but make a resolute counterattack to them.

NATO's hastened efforts for igniting a war will bring earlier its ruin. -0-

KCNA Commentary on U.S. Moves to Transform USFJ into "Warfighting" Force

 

Pyongyang, July 31 (KCNA) -- The U.S. is adding a new element of strategic instability to the Korean peninsula and the Asia-Pacific region, bringing dark clouds of war.

The commander of the U.S. Forces in Japan in an interview with a Japanese newspaper on July 26 bragged that over 200 personnel had been added to the USFJ headquarters to give it more authority, it enabled the USFJ to make a rapid response, once impossible, and the USFJ has the number of personnel that can sustain 24/7 operations across all combat functions.

He also noted that he will make sure the USFJ is as ready as possible with Japan, anticipating that not an "if", but "when" a crisis will manifest in the Asia-Pacific region.

This is part of the plan to transform the USFJ, which had been mainly responsible for the administrative missions including the administration of the Japan-U.S. Status of Forces Agreement in the past, into a unified military command with substantial operational command authority. And it proves that the USFJ is transforming itself into a real "warfighting" force to command the U.S. forces and all the armed forces of vassal states in the region.

It is known to the public that the U.S. has been pushing ahead with the reorganization of the U.S. forces in Japan since last year to set up a unified military command and give it some of operational command authority of the U.S. Pacific Command in Hawaii.

The main key of the three-stage reorganization of the U.S. Forces in Japan is to make it possible for the U.S. and Japan to carry out a joint operation in emergency by unifying the commanding systems of Japan's "integrated operation command", which was formed in March last year to control the Japan ground, maritime and air "self-defense forces", and the U.S. Forces in Japan.

Through its moves, the U.S. aims to further strengthen its overseas aggression forces into the field forces possessed of independent wartime operational capability. But, most importantly, it seeks a sinister intention to use the Japan "Self-Defense Forces" as a shock brigade and main combat force for an all-out war in the Asia-Pacific region in case of emergency.

The U.S. already announced that Japan will stand at the forefront of all contingencies that the U.S. may face in the western Pacific region, when it started to reorganize the U.S. Forces in Japan last year.

Opposition parties and the public across Japan are getting vocal expressing concern that SDF would come under the control of the U.S. forces.

Given that the core reinforcements to be dispatched to the ROK first would be the U.S. Forces in Japan in contingency on the Korean peninsula, it is undeniable that the first target of this "war command" is just the DPRK.

As the enemies have admitted, the physical conflict on the Korean peninsula is a matter of time when it would break out, rather than a matter of possibility whether or not it would occur.

Shortly ago, the U.S. conducted the largest-ever "Combined Joint Sustainment Training" together with the ROK puppet military gangsters to enhance the capabilities for protracted war in the operational theater of the Korean peninsula. And it held a U.S.-Japan-ROK Trilateral Chiefs of Defense meeting, in which it again called for strengthening "tripartite security cooperation" including the holding of "Freedom Edge", the multi-domain joint military exercises.

Such adventurous military maneuvers of the U.S. working hard to secure large-scale offensive forces and long-term high-intensity operational capabilities while fully betraying its unshakable hostile intention to stand in confrontation with the DPRK are pushing the latter again to the irreversible final conclusion that it should further strive for ceaseless development and evolution of its nuclear war deterrent for self-defence.

The command of the U.S. forces in the Far East, which had been stationed in Japan to have charge of the Korean War, came to a tragic end, earning such brand as "defeated command".

The transformation of the headquarters of the U.S. Forces in Japan into a "war command" is a short cut to its emergence as disgraceful ”defeated command”. -0-

“Cheers Of Victory Reverberating Down Many Decades -speech of Dr Dermot Hudson

 

 Dear comrades and friends ,

The title of this seminar “Cheers Of Victory Reverberating Down Many Decades “ is very apt and relevant because the cheers of victory on July 27th 1953 in Pyongyang still echo today not just in Pyongyang but around the entire world . Today, when US led imperialism is carrying out aggression all over the world and some countries are crumbling, it is important to recall the great victory of the Korean people against US imperialism in the 1950s.

Often the imperialists like to refer to the Korean War (more correctly called the Fatherland Liberation War ) as the “unknown war “ or “forgotten war “ . The reason for this can be found in the statement of right wing US military historian Bevin Alexander , himself an officer in the US imperialist aggression forces during the war , who wrote that the Fatherland Liberation War was the “first war we lost”. The infamous reactionary senator JR McCarthy said that ““we suffered a serious defeat in Korea “.

The Fatherland Liberation War or Korean War was the first time that a socialist country was involved a full scale war against US imperialism and world imperialism.The US imperialists not only threw their own armed forces into the war but those of the south Korean puppets , 15 of their satellite countries,including to my shame , the UK , and even the Japanese militarists who fought in Korea in secret wearing the uniforms of the south Korean puppet army . In some ways the Fatherland Liberation War was like a world war.The Fatherland Liberation War was an anti-imperialist struggle against the international forces of reaction headed by US imperialism , a class struggle , a war to defend socialism and a war for national liberation.

The US threw into the war unprecedented numbers of troops and amounts of materials.  In fact 73 million tons of war materials  were used in the war .The war raged on until July 27th 1953 when the US kneeled down and signed the Armistice Agreement.

Originally the ROK puppets had boasted that they would have “breakfast at Haeju ,lunch in Pyongyang and dinner in Sinuji “ . However the invading ROK puppet forces were routed and the ROK puppet army collapsed . Instead Seoul, the capital of the puppet ROK  was liberated on the 28th of June .In the first stage of the war the Korean People's Army liberated 90 percent of the territory of south Korea and 92 per cent  of the population.A truly remarkable accomplishment that was achieved by the self-reliant revolutionary armed forces of People's Korea under the command of the great leader Marshal KIM IL SUNG.

During the three-year long Fatherland Liberation War, the U.S. imperialists lost over 1,567,000 men, including more than 405,000 of their own armed forces, and an enormous amount of combat equipment and war supplies, including over 12,200 aircraft, more than 560 warships and ships, over 3,200 tanks and armoured vehicles of different types, more than 13,350 trucks and 7,690 artillery pieces of various types. The loss suffered by the US imperialists was nearly 2.3 times greater than what they had suffered in the four years of the Pacific War during World War II. Even official US statistics showed during each of the three years of the Korean War they lost double  the number of troops lost in each year of the Vietnam war. Later comrade KIM IL SUNG declared that “In this great struggle our people fought determinedly as one in mind under the correct leadership of the party and government and thereby withstood the harsh trials of war honourably and won a historic victory inflicting an ignominious defeat on US imperialism and its running dogs”

 Respected Marshal KIM JONG UN  said that the Fatherland Liberation War  “was a military miracle unprecedented in the war history of mankind and a great feat of historical significance never seen before in the nation's history spanning 5 000 years”.

The Fatherland Liberation War ended in victory due to the Juche orientated military tactics and Juche-orientated military thought of the great leader supreme commander generalissimo KIM IL SUNG and the sublime heroism of the KPA. The myth of US invincibility was smashed to smithereens in the Fatherland Liberation War.  The victory in the Fatherland Liberation War inspired national liberation and revolutionary movements all over the world to struggle against the colonial system of the US-led imperialists bringing about an era of decline for  US imperialism, an era of anti -imperialism . US imperialism's defeat in Korea preceded its defeat in Vietnam and elsewhere. The Korean people's victory in the Fatherland liberation war was a great contribution to the world revolutionary movement as it showed that US imperialism could be stopped in its tracks and beaten.

Dr Dermot Hudson

Secretary General ERCFKP

Chairman Korean Friendship Association UK
Chairman British Group For the Study of the Juche Idea

Korea's Great Fatherland Liberation War is the Model for antiimperialist and national liberation struggle-Martin Lotscher KFA Switzerland -Swiss Korea Committee

 

July 27 of this year marks the 73rd anniversary of the Korean people's historic victory in the Great Fatherland Liberation War.

Three hard years fought the heroic Korean People's Army (KPA), guided by the great Generalissimo KIM IL SUNG, against the US imperialists and their 15 satellite armies which had attacked the young Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) on June 25, 1950.

Korea is a small country, and the United States are a territorial giant.

The US imperialists in their superpower arrogance thought that it will be easy to force the "little" Korea to knees.

The US imperialists' goal in the Korean War was to encircle China and the Soviet Union from the eastern side.

The US imperialists thought that their superiority in arms will lead them to a fast vistory.

But they were mistaken. Not the weapons and the territory of a country decides the results of a war, but the question: Who fights for justice and who fights for unjustice?

Korea fought for justice. It defended its sovereignty, independence and freedom.

The KPA, supported by the whole Korean people, followed the brillant Juche strategy and tactics of Generalissimo KIM IL SUNG.

On the fourth day of the war, on June 28, 1950, the KPA succeeded to liberate Seoul, the stronghold of the enemy.

And in the following weeks in July 1950 nearly the whole territory of then south Korea was liberated!

And even after the strategic retreat the KPA defended heroically the DPRK against the Yankee invaders.

After a hard-fought war of three years, one month and two days, the heroic KPA and the Korean people won a historic victory in the Great Fatherland Liberation War!

How was it possible? The reason is that a people, as little its country may be, who fights for the just cause of independence and for freedom, can besiege even a big power.

And a people who is guided by a leader who works for the people's happiness, who loves the people and who is loved by the people, will surely win.

The great Generalissimo KIM IL SUNG was a real peoples's leader and an illustrous Supreme Commander and the invincible strategist of Mt. Paektu.

He has liberated Korea in 1945 and wiped out the Japanese imperialists.

Generalissimo KIM IL SUNG forced two imperialist powers to knees in one generation. And he is the first supreme commander in history who won a victory over the United States.

The Korean people's great victory in the Great Fatherland Liberation War encouraged all peoples in Asia, Africa and Latin America who were still fighting for their own liberation and freedom.

Korea's Great Fatherland Liberation War became the model for antiimperialist and national liberation struggle.

Today, the DPRK is a nuclear weapon state and has also long-range missiles and reconnaissance satellites.

A repeated attack of the US imperialists against the DPRK would lead to the downfall and total destruction of the "American Empire".

Thanks to the Songun leadership, initiated by Generalissimo KIM IL SUNG, strengthened by Generalissimo KIM JONG IL and completed by the respected Marshall KIM JONG UN, and the single-hearted unity of the people around the leader and the Workers' Party of Korea, socialist Korea is invincible!

Glory to the Korean people's victory in the Great Fatherland Liberation War!

Martin Lötscher,

president of the Swiss Korea Committee (KFA Switzerland)

July 2, 2026

Contribution of comrade Alejandro Cao De Benos to the International Seminar "Cheers of Victory Reverberating Down Many Decades "

  

Dear Comrades and friends,

 

The Victory Day of the Fatherland Liberation War is a moment of profound remembrance and unwavering solidarity. We stand united to condemn the unjust invasion of the DPRK by U.S. imperialist forces in 1950 and to honour the indomitable spirit of the Korean people who secured a historic triumph against overwhelming odds.

 

On June 25, 1950, the U.S. imperialists, abusing the name of the United Nations, launched a war of aggression against the young Republic. They boasted arrogantly that the DPRK would be brought to collapse within a mere 72 hours. Yet, they gravely misjudged the mettle of the Korean people. The U.S. imperialists committed a third of their ground force, a fifth of their air force, and most of their Pacific Fleet, alongside troops from fifteen satellite states, to crush the nation. They planned to expand the flames of war to Manchuria—a blueprint for world domination. But the Korean People's Army and the heroic citizenry rose as one. Under the legendary leadership of President KIM IL SUNG, they turned their 72-hour boast into a 27,000-hour nightmare of defeat. After three years of fierce combat, on July 27, 1953, the aggressors were forced to sign a surrender document on the very land where they had ignited the war.

 

This victory was not merely a military achievement—it was a monumental event in world history. The Korean people shattered the myth of U.S. imperialist "invincibility" and dealt a deadly blow to their strategy for global dominance. The Fatherland Liberation War demonstrated that even a small nation, fighting for justice and sovereignty, can defeat the most formidable imperialist forces. The World Federation of Trade Unions rightly declared that the Korean struggle showed an example of tenacity that inspired anti-imperialist resistance across the globe. Comrade Marshal KIM JONG UN has rightly called July 27 a miracle—a great victory that inflicted an everlasting shame and defeat upon U.S. imperialism.

 

Today, we declare with absolute confidence that such a war will never happen again. The tragic suffering of the 1950s will not be repeated. Thanks to the steadfast military development of the Republic, it now possess a reliable and effective war deterrent. The nuclear forces serve as the core of the military sovereignty and the centerpiece of self-defense strategy. As Comrade Marshal KIM JONG UN has emphasized, the DPRK has advanced along the path of a nuclear-armed state, overcoming all oppression and challenges to secure absolute power capable of preventing and deterring war itself. The military capabilities—from the nuclear arsenal to the recently commissioned Choe Hyon Destroyer—stand as an unbreachable shield. The imperialists know well that any new adventure on the Korean Peninsula would invite a catastrophic response.

 

The victory of the Fatherland Liberation War is etched forever in the proud Korean history—a triumph of extraordinary military wisdom, unyielding faith, and the heroic spirit of the people. We honor the martyrs who gave their lives to defend its dignity and sovereignty.  And we move forward with certainty, knowing the glorious DPRK, armed with powerful deterrence, will forever stand invincible.

 

Glory to the heroic Korean People's Army! Victory belongs forever to the people of the DPRK!

 

 

Alejandro Cao de Benos

President of the KFA

 

From Voice of Korea-Pride of Korean Women

From Voice of Korea.

http://vok.rep.kp/index.php/detail_com/comde/iee260609045/69/en

Pride of Korean Women

The Chollima Statue, the spirit and symbol of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, is in the centre of the capital city of Pyongyang. Here Chollima means a winged horse galloping 1,000 ri a day

The two riders on Chollima rushing toward the future represent the Korean people and one of them is a woman.

The woman farmer with a rice-sheaf depicts the heroic Korean women promoting the vigorous advance of the state as powerfully as men.

Merits Written in More Than 70-year-long History

In theDPRK the Pyongyang Kim Jong Suk Textile Mill is the first to be considered among the factories with many women.

The mill has produced 17 heroines, 9 Merited Weavers and 13 Meritorious Persons of Socialist Patriotism for more than 70 years.

There are also women who worked as deputies to power organs at all levels including the Supreme People's Assembly.

Mun Kang Sun, Head of the Towel Workshop, became a heroine in her girlhood.

"I thought hero is a special man.

I only turned out a lot of fabrics and so I've never thought that I would be a hero.

Now I am a mother with two children. The state let me study and entrusted me with a unit. And it introduced me to the whole country whenever opportunity permitted.

I am really happy under the grateful socialist system that values the women and holds them up."

There are not only production buildings but also a nursery and a kindergarten at the mill. And there are wonderful cultural and welfare facilities and hostel for the working women.

The working women are devoting themselves to their jobs without any worry in the workplace with all conditions needed for women.

The first half of this year has already witnessed a woman worker who carried out two-year quota and more than 110 workers who fulfilled their yearly assignments.

Among them is Merited Weaver Ri Myong Sun well-known to the whole country as a model of the times as she set the record of weaving fabrics as long as more than 2,400 kilometres by covering the distance of over 400,000 kilometres which is equivalent to making ten rounds of the earth for 25 years.

"I just wanted to be a good worker by turning out more fabrics than anybody else. So I worked and worked during my 32-year-long career of weaver. The state acknowledged it greatly and awarded me the titles of Merited Weaver and Meritorious Person of Socialist Patriotism.

The more we work, the greater glory and happiness are given to us in our socialist system."

There are many women officials including a leading Party official in the mill.

Mun Kyong Sil, Head of the General Chemical Fiber Spinning Workshop, is one of the five heads of general workshops. She is also a deputy to the Songyo District People's Assembly.

In February, she participated in the Ninth Congress of the Workers' Party of Korea as a delegate.

She led the workers of her workshop to carry out the first half-yearly plan before others. In the course, a worker fulfilled the two-year plan of the mill for the first time and more than 40 workers carried out their yearly assignments.

While working at the mill for nearly 40 years, Mun Kyong Sil was involved in the study-while-you-work system and completed a university course.

"I started to work at the mill at the age of 17. I grew to be the head of a general workshop and a deputy to the district people's assembly taking care of the life of the local people and took part in the Ninth Congress of the glorious Workers' Party of Korea as a delegate. All this is unthinkable apart from the grateful socialist system which respects the women."

Fully Realizing Dreams and Hopes

Ri Ye Rim, Director of Postgraduate School of the Pyongyang University of Computer Technology, is one of the authorities on artificial intelligence of the DPRK.

She is just in her 50s. She became a doctor in her 30s and a professor in her 40s.

To be a good educator was a dream and hope she kept in her childhood.

She distinguished herself as a student inventor during her university days. She made two inventions and developed more than 10 new valuable programs in 10 years after she became a teacher, proving herself as a woman of ability.

She also created a new teaching method capable of further enhancing the ability of students and generalized it to the university.

Students liked and respected her as she has not only profound knowledge and distinguished ability in her major field of study but also makes good use of diverse teaching methods.

As the director of the postgraduate school now, she is always working with the same tireless passion and spirit of inquiry as she did when she was a new teacher.

"In retrospect, I can say that I realized my dream and wish.

I learned information technology as I wished and became an educator as I hoped. While teaching students, I became a doctor and a professor.

I've never been harassed by burden of housekeeping as a woman. On the contrary, I have lived amid the love of the collective.

It is my pride and happiness to contribute to prosperity of the country with my knowledge."

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The Korean women keep deep in their hearts the noble consciousness that their destiny and happiness of their families are possible in the socialist motherland. With the consciousness, they are working hard with patriotism in their workplaces.

Among them are those women officials devoting themselves to the people, women scientists making constant scientific researches, sportswomen flying the national flag on the international arena and women making innovations at factories and farms.

Such reality is related with July 30, 1946, the significant day when the Law on Sex Equality was promulgated.

Along with this day, the position and role of Korean women were changed beyond recognition and the great achievements made by the Korean women written in the history of the country.

It is the noble intention of the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un that as the position and role of women are enhanced, the development of the state is accelerated and the harmony and unity of the society become consolidated.

Under the guidance of the great leader, the Korean women will fully display their dignity and might as a powerful force pushing one of the wheels of revolution.