Second-day Sitting of 7th Enlarged Plenum of 8th C.C., WPK

Pyongyang, February 28 (KCNA) -- The 7th enlarged plenary meeting of the 8th Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK) continued on February 27 amid the expectation and interest of all the Party members and other people across the country.

Speeches on the first agenda item were made at the second-day sitting of the plenary meeting.

Secretaries of the Party Central Committee analyzed the shortcomings revealed by relevant sectors and units in the course of carrying into practice the Party's new rural development strategy and their causes and lessons, and proposed to the plenary meeting the measures to be taken.

Senior officials in various sectors made written speeches.

The respected General Secretary Kim Jong Un made an important conclusion on the first agenda item.

Saying that the main purpose of the current enlarged plenary meeting is to find the immediate tasks and scientific long-term objectives and ways with perfect feasibility for successfully attaining the grain production goal this year and bringing about a radical change in the agricultural production within a few years and thus laying a foundation for the stable and sustained development of agriculture, he mentioned once again the importance and significance of the growth of the agricultural productive forces and the development of rural communities in ensuring the comprehensive development of socialist construction.

He expressed the fixed determination and will of the Party Central Committee to bring about a revolutionary turn in the agricultural production without fail, saying that nothing is impossible as long as the strong leadership system is established in the whole Party and there is the united might of all the people.

His historic conclusion, which comprehensively dealt with the revolutionary struggle strategies for the rural development, will serve as the guide to action guaranteeing signal strides in implementing the programme for rural revolution in the new era and as an inspiring militant banner that brings earlier a phase of the rapid development of rural communities and powerfully propels the dynamic advance of our state.

All those present at the meeting showed their full support and approval to the General Secretary's conclusion running through with the steadfast faith and will to build a powerful and rich nation by our own efforts for the self-respect of our state and wellbeing of the people.

The plenary meeting discussed the issue of thoroughly establishing a discipline of implementing the national economic plan, as the second agenda item, and the immediate matters for improving the state financial work, as the third agenda item.

The meeting is arousing the absolute response and favor of its participants as it is due to adopt development guidelines and bold practical measures for firmly adhering to the nature of the socialist economy, the independent national economy which is the material foundation and lifeline of our state's existence, and for steadily augmenting its own strength.

The plenary meeting agreed to discuss, amend and supplement draft decisions on the agenda items at the sectional study and consultative meetings before adopting them through its final deliberation.

All the participants show their sincere attitude toward the meeting, with high political consciousness to bring about a real change and substantial progress in the agricultural development and the economic construction by fulfilling their heavy responsibility and duty, seriously reviewing the work of their sectors and units for implementing the Party's economic policy. -0-

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“Reckless Killing” - Main Occupation of U.S. Police

 2023.2.18.

http://www.mfa.gov.kp/view/article/16536

Police are normally referred to as the executors of law who are responsible for safety of the relevant country and maintaining its public order.

But, there is a country where police pose a serious threat to the life safety of innocent people and even kill them.

It is the United States which professes to be a “law-governed state”.

Failure to adopt proper gun-control measures in the country are leading to frequent gun-related criminal violence. Worse still, the police who are supposed to check this are, on contrary, enforcing the law discriminatively and killing innocent people without mercy, thus to increase social unrest.

On January 28, the U.S. newspaper “Washington Post” reported that an average of more than 1,000 people gets killed by the police in the U.S. every year.

This shows that the police with a mission to protect the lives and property of the people are running about as master killers.

According to the U.S. media, more than 6,300 civilians have been shot dead by the police since 2015. But only 91 police officers, one percent of the persons involved in the killing, were arrested. And even after George Floyd incident where the black man lost his life in police violence, the number of civilians who are murdered by the police reaches several hundreds.

What is more shocking is the fact that the mortality rate of the black people by the police who are openly committing violence behind the signboard of “rule of law” is two times as high as that of the white people while the rate of using violence against the black people by the police is 3.6 times as high as that of the white people.

The American media website “Christian Science Monitor”, reporting on this in November 2021, said that the white people are 10 times more likely to be judged as self-defense when they killed the black people, as compared with the times when the black people killed the white people.

This shows that the black and those in low-income bracket are the main target of police violence and that they are much more likely to be killed by police than any other race and social organization.

The U.S. is a human slaughterhouse where the police get away with murder and are even acquitted as “victims”. It clearly reveals the groundless and reactionary nature of the “American brand of rule of law”.

The U.S., where human life is held cheap and killing of people is legalized, does not open its mouth without taking issue with “human rights” of other countries. This can’t but be a folly which is quite preposterous and presumptuous.

Respected Comrade Kim Jong Un Makes Speech at Groundbreaking Ceremony for Project to Build New Street in Sopho Area in Pyongyang

 

Pyongyang, February 26 (KCNA) -- The respected Comrade Kim Jong Un made a speech "Display to the Full Once Again in the Capital City of Pyongyang the Indomitable Spirit Unique to Our Courageous Young People" at the groundbreaking ceremony for a project to build a new street in the Sopho area in Pyongyang on Feb. 25.

The full text is as follows:

Dear Paektusan Hero Youth Shock Brigade members, who have come to a major site of the capital city construction with the mettle and spirit of sacred Paektu,

Dear young volunteers, who have come from across the country true to the ennobling duty and call of the times of "For the victory of our cause!" and "For our capital city of Pyongyang!"

Seeing you, who have gathered here representing the vigour, bravery and passion of the millions of young people in the whole country, I feel immensely refreshed and encouraged.

Today I have come here to feel in person the mettle of proud young people, who are full of ardour, fighting spirit and self-confidence for bringing about a sea change without fail in the forefront of the capital city construction, and to encourage you.

I feel most delighted to be proclaiming with you this meaningful groundbreaking for building a new modern street, a project that will write another proud page in the annals of the youth movement of our country, resplendent with bravery and feats.

Now as I am standing here, I am reminded of the unforgettable day, when I celebrated eight years ago in the lead-up to the 70th anniversary of the founding of our Workers' Party of Korea with the young fighters born of Mt Paektu the commissioning of a new power station, which had been built majestically at the foot of Mt Paektu, with the words Hero Youth written on its dam.

It is a solid fortress of faith our young people built with youthful vigour and unstained and warm patriotism and loyalty in defence of our cause; it is also a monument they dedicated to their motherland. The immortal feats performed by the Paektusan Hero Youth Shock Brigade are etched in golden letters in the history of our Party as well as in the history of the Korean youth movement.

The spirit of the Paektusan hero youth was stoutly carried forward in the vigorous struggle of splendidly transforming the city of Samjiyon, a sacred place of the revolution, and of reconstructing the railways in the northern mountain area, and has spread like a prairie fire to all the working places of offensive across the country. This spirit has become a symbol of the indefatigable features and fighting mettle of young builders in our era and part of the invincibility of socialist Korea that is rising uniquely in the face of trials.

With conviction that if this great spirit is elevated to a higher level any gigantic project can be carried out briskly, our Party has decided to arrange a new theatre of activities, a grand theatre for our young people, where they can fully display their burning patriotic zeal once again in the course of giving a spur to the comprehensive development of socialist construction.

More specifically, it has decided to entrust the Socialist Patriotic Youth League and Paektusan Hero Youth Shock Brigade with the whole of the important project for forming a characteristic street by building over 4 000 flats in the area of the northern gateway to the capital city of Pyongyang on the sidelines of the construction of 10 000 flats in the city in 2023.

The Party's intention is to help our young people demonstrate more powerfully the heroic spirit and patriotic devotion unique to the Korean youth in the grand construction site in the capital city and prepare themselves more satisfactorily as successors to the revolution, reserves of the Workers' Party and capable builders of socialism.

Not long after the Party called upon them, as many as 100 000 young men and women from all the Youth League organizations across the country have volunteered for the capital city construction and immediately left for Pyongyang amid warm encouragement and send-offs from all other people. Seeing this, the whole country was deeply impressed.

In this course, our praiseworthy Paektusan Hero Youth Shock Brigade has been expanded and reinforced by several times.

I have no doubt that our young builders will create a dignified symbol of the development of socialism and its future, which will startle the world, at the northern gateway to Pyongyang by fully displaying the mettle of the Korean young people who are prepared to brave fire and water in response to the call of the Party and motherland and who love waging the revolution and working.

Dear young builders,

When the golden age of construction in Pyongyang has reached its record high, you have joined in it as honourable builders.

The importance of the tasks assigned to you young builders lies not only in the fact that you will help to increase the number of flats for the capital city citizens by several thousands.

The new street you are going to erect is truly a worthwhile and proud project, which is geared to ushering in a new phase of the development of the Juche-oriented architecture.

There will be formed a grand street axis and residential quarters consisting of super-highrise apartment houses and other houses of different shapes in good harmony with public buildings. It will provide a model and important experience for the development of the Juche-oriented architecture and, in particular, for the capital city construction.

The large architectural group of this characteristic street will vividly illustrate the prestige of our country which is developing by leaps and bounds, and will clearly and proudly demonstrate to the world how dynamically our struggle for advance is developing in a more extensive and vigorous manner in the face of harshest ordeals and difficulties.

In this sense, this is not simply a construction project but a kind of political campaign indicative of the character of our revolution.

Such a revolutionary mission of crucial importance has been entrusted to you.

I believe that I will be able to witness, in your energetic endeavour here in this project site, the fact that the mettle and fighting spirit of performing, in whatever they do, feats which will represent the times and remain in history, which pulsated among young people of the preceding generations, still pulsates among young people of the current generation.

As you all know, not only the project for building 4 100 flats here but also second-stage project for building 10 000 flats in the Hwasong area and construction of the Kangdong Greenhouse Farm have been launched simultaneously on the construction front in the capital city for this year.

Because all the construction projects are intended for the wellbeing of the capital city citizens and for motherly Pyongyang, our glorious capital city, our Party attaches equal importance and is giving a strong push to them. Still, I emphasize that it pays particularly closer attention to the construction of the new street you have shouldered.

It is partly because the completion of this street is of great significance, but more importantly because it has a great significance and is precious in that the 100 000-strong contingent of young people, who have come from every part of the country, will be tempered in a revolutionary way and grow up in the course of construction.

Construction of the new street is a challenging struggle as you will have to complete the colossal project in a short span of time. So after launching the project, you might encounter difficulties from the outset.

However, the force of hot-blooded young people who are burning with loyalty and patriotism can break through any trials and hardships.

Because you lack in experience and skills and you are unaccustomed to much work, you may waver or feel feeble-hearted. But you must courageously overcome them by relying on the organization, collective and comrades and by recalling the pledges you made when you volunteered.

You should learn from and assist one another to make collective innovations in carrying out the project and devote pure conscience and sincerity to build all the items of the project to be quality ones which you can bequeath with pride to posterity.

The whole country will see our young people growing stronger and wiser with each passing day in the looks of the architectural structures rising floor by floor, and see their ideals, ambitions, lofty dreams, courage and pluck which are growing beyond recognition in the grand appearance of the wonderful new street at the gateway to the capital city.

Just like the generations of your grandfathers and grandmothers, fathers and mothers, you will have the youthful pride and honour of having shed your precious sweat for the capital city construction, and will record in your autobiography the stories of merits, in which you can proudly say my capital city, my Pyongyang.

Moreover, the massive contingent of young people who have grown up here will, after returning to their home towns and villages, take the lead in the efforts to bring about radical changes with the mode of struggle and pattern of creation they have acquired in the capital city construction, and this is the greatest outcome our Party prioritize over anything else in the construction of the new street.

Laudable young builders,

The time has come for working a miracle.

The present era of successive struggles pins its hope on your morale.

It is time to prove your true merits.

Pyongyang citizens are encouraging you, young builders; Youth League organizations that have recommended and dispatched you and your parents who have willingly let their beloved children take leave of them are watching you; all the other people across the country are looking forward to success in your struggle.

Besides them, the whole world will watch what the heroic mettle and unyielding struggle of our Korean young people will present.

I am fully convinced that the laudable Socialist Patriotic Youth League and Paektusan Hero Youth Shock Brigade will prove themselves worthy of the call of the times and the expectations of the people through their indomitable and heroic struggle, and thus build a splendid new street that will go well with our young people's heightened temperament, incomparable heroic spirit and precious honour, without fail in this area in 2023.

I hope that every one of you will overcome trials in good health and emerge as honourable victors without fail.

Comrades,

For the dignified honour of the Korean young people,

For the eternal prosperity of our socialist state and our capital city of Pyongyang,

For our parents, siblings and friends,

Let us all struggle courageously. -0-

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7th Enlarged Plenary Meeting of 8th Central Committee of WPK Convened

Pyongyang, February 27 (KCNA) -- The 7th enlarged plenary meeting of the 8th Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK) was convened at the office building of the WPK Central Committee on February 26.

The meeting will analyze and review the work for 2022, the first year of implementing the programme for the rural revolution in the new era, and decide on the immediate important tasks and the urgent tasks arising at the present stage of the national economic development and the practical ways for implementing them.

Kim Jong Un, general secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea, was present at the meeting.

Attending it were Kim Tok Hun and Jo Yong Won, members of the Presidium of the Political Bureau of the C.C., WPK.

Present were members and alternate members of the WPK Central Committee, and officials of the Cabinet, ministries, national institutions and provincial, city and county level leadership bodies and officials in the agricultural field and relevant fields and units as observers.

Officials of relevant departments of the Party Central Committee are participating in the meeting as observers through video conferencing.

A presidium of the meeting was elected.

The respected Comrade Kim Jong Un presided over the meeting.

The meeting unanimously approved the agenda items and went into discussion on the first agenda item.

It heard a report on the work for the first year of implementing the programme for the rural revolution in the new era.

The meeting continues. -0-

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2022: A Year Filled with Great Events

Ground-breaking Ceremony for Construction of New Street in Sopho Area Held Respected Comrade Kim Jong Un Encourages Youth Vanguard with His Stirring Speech and Shovels First Spadeful of Earth

Pyongyang, February 26 (KCNA) -- In the sacred course of the Workers' Party of Korea which is translating into thrilling reality the grand plan and determination for prosperity and development of the DPRK and the wellbeing of its people, a new street will be built in the Sopho area of Pyongyang, the capital city, as a symbol of the development and future of socialism.

The construction of a new street in the capital city, set forth by the historic Sixth Plenary Meeting of the Eighth Central Committee of the WPK as a major construction task for this significant year and entrusted to the youth, is a gigantic creation campaign to be carried out by the steadfast will of the WPK to provide the people with a highly-civilized and happy life as early as possible at the extraordinary construction speed of racing against time and accelerate the ongoing grand revolutionary advance with the fighting mettle and advance spirit of the fine, reliable and passionate youth.

The great Party Central Committee entrusted the Socialist Patriotic Youth League and the Paektusan Hero Youth Shock Brigade with the important revolutionary task to make our young people, who have always served as a powerful driving force of the state development in the historic course of the Korean revolution pioneered in Mt Paektu, reliably carry forward the proud tradition of loyalty and patriotism in the ongoing general advance. Such great trust is giving further momentum to enthusiasm for the revolution and patriotic zeal of millions of young people across the country.

A ground-breaking ceremony for the construction of a new street in the Sopho area of Pyongyang City took place on Saturday.

The venue of the ceremony, which will mark another brilliant chapter in the history of the Juche-oriented youth movement, was brimming with the revolutionary enthusiasm of young builders determined to create new legendary tales about the heroic youth as standard-bearers in building socialist civilization at the worthwhile theater for translating into a proud reality the long-cherished desire of the Party Central Committee.

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.

When he appeared at the venue of the ceremony together with his beloved daughter, all the participants broke into cheers of "Hurrah!", looking up to the great father who put forward the young people as the vanguard and shock brigade in the struggle for socialist construction and as the promising, young main forces taking the lead in ushering in a new era of the country's prosperity and has shown all kinds of love and affection for them, while making a new history of attaching importance to the youth on this land.

Present at the ceremony were Kim Tok Hun and Jo Yong Won, members of the Presidium of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the WPK, Ri Il Hwan and Jon Hyon Chol, secretaries of the C.C., WPK, Pak Hun, vice-premier of the Cabinet, Ri Tu Song, department director of the C.C., WPK, commanding officers and members of the Paektusan Hero Youth Shock Brigade, officials of the youth league and young people in the city.

When the ground-breaking ceremony was declared, the national anthem of the DPRK was played solemnly.

Kim Jong Un made a significant speech.

Expressing his pleasure over the declaration of significant ground-breaking for another modern street in the presence of young volunteers, which will be recorded as a proud page in the history of the Korean youth movement adorned with bravery and feats, he highly appreciated once again the immortal feats of the Paektusan Hero Youth Shock Brigade performed in building a monumental edifice of youth for the motherland.

He said that the Paektusan hero youth spirit prevailing all campaign theaters in the country comes to be the symbol of indomitable character and fighting spirit of our socialist young vanguard and an integral part of the irresistible might of Juche Korea courageously braving hardships, and clarified our Party's determination to provide a new and big stage for young people to show once again their patriotic enthusiasm in the course of overall development of socialist construction by further elevating this great spirit.

Expressing belief that the glorious Socialist Patriotic Youth League and Paektusan Hero Youth Shock Brigade would successfully build a new street in the capital city by living up to the call of the times and expectation of the people through their heroic struggle, he ardently appealed to wage a brave struggle for the high honor of the Korean youth and the eternal prosperity of our socialist state and for the sake of the capital city of Pyongyang.

At the end of his passionate speech full of great trust and love for the youth, all the participants, deeply moved with high honor and happiness, raised stormy cheers again.

Kim Jong Un gave the flag of the Paektusan Hero Youth Shock Brigade to its commanding officers.

The young vanguard raised shouts of their firm will to create a new legendary story about construction representing the era by amplifying once again the Paektusan hero youth spirit and mettle in carrying out the grand construction project, holding aloft the honorable flag given by the respected fatherly Marshal Kim Jong Un as the banner of struggle and advance.

All the young builders made a solemn pledge to report their victory to the fatherly Marshal after successfully building another ideal street for people in Pyongyang, the heart of Juche Korea, through all-out charge in the spirit and mettle of the Korean youth knowing no impossibility by carrying forward the proud history and tradition of the Korean youth who have answered the Party's call with their devoted service.

The venue of the ceremony was full of roar of slogans of loyalty reflecting the faith and will of all the participants determined to devotedly defend the absolute dignity and prestige of the Party Central Committee and fully display the brave stamina of a large contingent of young people in the great era of Kim Jong Un by most creditably and perfectly carrying out the tasks assigned by Kim Jong Un no matter what ordeals and difficulties may block their way.

The respected Comrade Kim Jong Un personally shoveled the first spadeful of earth, together with senior Party and government officials to mark the ground-breaking for the construction of a new street in the Sopho area of Pyongyang City.

All the participants raised enthusiastic cheers of "Hurrah!", hardly repressing their surging emotion at the deep trust and love of the fatherly Marshal Kim Jong Un who personally made a passionate speech at the ground-breaking ceremony and shoveled the first spadeful of earth together with his beloved daughter, giving great strength and courage to the young people with hope that they would emerge performers of feats and victors in the forefront of the capital city construction.

Kim Jong Un personally pressed the detonator.

Amid the sound of blasting signaling the start of construction, fireworks were displayed in the sky of February to bless our young people turned out in the heroic struggle and advance.

Very high is the spirit and stamina of our young people who devote their all to the implementation of the Party's plan, keeping the loyalty to the Party and the revolution as their greatest honor and pride, Kim Jong Un said, adding that the Paektusan Hero Youth Shock Brigade, which has built a solid fortress of faith defending our cause with ardent vigor and patriotism, and other young people should become the backbone in the ongoing grand socialist construction.

Expressing expectation and belief that our youth braving any difficulties in response to the Party's call would proudly build another luxurious street, an innovative entity representing a prosperous and powerful country, deeply mindful of their sacred duty and the call of the times - "For the Victory of Our Cause!" and "For Pyongyang, Our Capital City!", he encouraged the reliable young vanguards.

The construction of a new street in the Sopho area of Pyongyang City will strikingly demonstrate once again the mettle of resourceful and brave youth of Juche Korea, closely rallied around the great Party Central Committee with intense loyalty to the Party's cause, and the image of the DPRK dynamically advancing toward a bright future. -0-

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Universal Free Medical Care System Most Popular with People

 2023.2.25.

http://www.mfa.gov.kp/view/article/16552

It has been 70 years now since the universal free medical care system was introduced in our country. The DPRK regards promoting people’s welfare as the supreme principle of its activities. Through the universal free medical care system, the Party and the state perfectly and equally ensure the medical rights of the people at the highest level.

President Kim Il Sung saw to it that a decree on introducing universal free medical care system at the state’s expense from January, 1953 was promulgated at the plenary meeting of the Cabinet of the DPRK which was held in November 1952 at the height of the war.

Even though he was so busy in the post-war period, he visited curative and preventive medical organizations of the country to take proactive measures for complete and universal introduction of the free medical care system.

On this basis, he proclaimed that complete and universal free medical care would be introduced to provide all medical services free of charge at the Seventh Session of the Second Supreme People’s Assembly of the DPRK held in February 1960.

This has enabled the previous universal free medical care system where the subject of application and range of free medical service had been the main issue to be improved as a complete and universal one which gives a priority to raising the conditions and quality of medical services.

In the middle of 1980s, the specialized health service network, inclusive of children’s health service network, women’s health service network, Koryo therapy network was set up ranging from the central level down to province, city (district), county and ri levels. At the end of 2012, a telemedicine system based on advanced technology was established connecting the central hospitals with hospitals in every province, city (district) and county.

Medical training bases including medical colleges were established in each province. Together with this, the independent and modern pharmaceutical factory, medical appliances factory, Koryo medicine factory and specialized herb farm at city (district) and county level sprang up, thus providing a sufficient material and technical basis to ensure the universal free medical care system at the highest-level.

Entering the new century, Chairman Kim Jong Il visited several units including Kim Il Sung University, Pyongyang University of Medicine, Hamhung University of Medicine, Hungnam Pharmaceutical Factory, Kanggye Koryo Medicine Factory and set forth tasks of further improving the public health as required by the times.

Today, the public healthcare has entered new heyday thanks to the personal care and energetic guidance of respected Comrade Kim Jong Un who gives top priority to the interests of the people.

During the past 10 years, Munsu area of Pyongyang City has been transformed into a perfect hospital district outfitted with modern medical services. This includes Okryu Children’s Hospital, Ryugyong Dental Hospital, Ryugyong General Ophthalmic Hospital and Munsu Functional Rehabilitation Clinic. On the other hand, many health establishments such as Myohyangsan Medical Appliances Factory, Pyongyang Pharmaceutical Factory, Medical Oxygen Factory, which have been renovated and modernized, are now contributing to the promotion of the people’s health.

Respected Comrade Kim Jong Un, at a Party meeting which was held at the end of last year, clearly indicated the direction for innovating and developing the public health onto a new high stage.

The socialist public health system will shine forever, enhancing the pleasure of our people.

Why People’s Korea is Right to Reject Imperialist Aid!

The mainstream media of the imperialist Western countries have carried screaming headlines such as “ North Korean state media urges rejection of 'poisoned candy' foreign aid despite food shortages”. For sake of clarity (and accuracy )it needs to be pointed  out that the DPRK‘s media actually did not use the term ‘poisoned candy’ nor is there a ‘looming food crisis ‘ in the DPRK. However, an article ‘Rodong Sinmun ‘ on Wednesday 22nd of February  carried in the English language edition of the KCNA stated that “Without self-support in the economy, is it impossible to realize independence in politics and defend the right to existence and development of each country and nation”, further it pointed out that “The economic development based on other's things and help may bring about temporary growth or splendid change, but it is hard to expect the sustained and planned development from it “ and concluded with the words ‘Just as the Juche idea is our lifeblood, the independent national economy is our eternal life”

This is indeed true. Foreign aid is indeed a poisoned chalice or indeed  ‘poisoned candy ‘. Aid from imperialist countries first of all leads to dependence and a country becoming a colony again. Moreover, for every dollar that the imperialists give in aid, they take away 10 or 100 dollars in profits. Also, imperialists used aid as a lever to undermine and destroy socialism.

     South Korea is a typical example of a dependent country. There are literally dozens and dozens of US and other foreign multinational companies dominating the south Korean economy and south Korea owes an astounding 639 billion dollars in debt! ( the mainstream media never tell you these facts)

  The great leader President KIM IL SUNG said “It is not true that we cannot live without aid. We can not only live as well as we wish even without aid, but also build socialism splendidly, and must certainly do so"  Later he said building an independent national economy would deal ‘ a heavier blow to the imperialists and thoroughly smash the absurd argument of the modern revisionists who claim that socialism cannot be built without outside assistance “.

Socialism in the DPRK has been built splendidly. In the DPRK between 1946 and 1984 industrial output value increased by 431 times. In the same period per capita, national income increased by 65 times. Grain production increased by 5,3 times. During the period of the Chollima upsurge ( Chollima being a mythical and legendary flying horse which can cover a great distance in a day ) in the late 1950s industrial output growth hit 40 per cent in one year, an even higher rate than the old USSR during the rule of JV Stalin.  Whole new streets, which are in effect the size of small towns, such as Changjon Street, Mirae Scientists Street, Ryomyong Street and Songhwa Street have been constructed in the last few years.

The DPRK defeated Covid 19 in record time ((90 days) without imperialist aid. The DPRK closed its borders 3 years ago and has survived when some countries would not last 3 days.

People's Korea is absolutely right to reject imperialist aid.  The imperialists can go and stuff their aid, Juche and self-reliance rule Okay!

Time to Stand with People's Korea and the Korean Friendship Association UK! Defend People's Korea with No Ifs and Buts!

                                                     

People's Korea is the most independent country in the world. It has no foreign military bases and is not a member of the IMF, World Bank, WTO, WEF and APEC. There is no Mcdonalds' or KFC in the DPRK. People's Korea is a proud independent country that says and does what it likes.

  People's Korea has free health care, education, housing and low-cost food. It abolished taxation 49 years ago.

 For all the above reasons People's Korea is worthy of support with No Ifs and Buts. Today People's Korea is under physical aggression from US imperialism and the reactionary puppet fascist regime in south Korea. Also, it faces psychological warfare and information terrorism by the US and world imperialism. Therefore we must step up many-sided and multi-dimensional campaigning in support of People's Korea and not just on Twitter, Facebook, telegram etc but in actual meetings and on the streets.

We need KFA UK members to come to our picket of the south Korean fascist embassy on Saturday 4th of March and we need KFA UK members to come to our meeting but also to come to demos and different events with  KFA stuff and DPRK flags because this is how we can build the organisation up.

ASSPUK and BGSJI on the 30th anniversary of the publication of "Abuses of Socialism Are Intolerable "

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                         London 25th February Juche 112 (2023)
   The Association for the Study of Songun Politics UK (ASSPUK) and the British Group for the Study of the Juche Idea (BGSJI)today issued a statement on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the publication of the "Abuses of Socialism Are Intolerable " by the great leader comrade KIM JONG Il;
It was 30 years ago that the great leader comrade KIM JONG IL authored his classic treatise  "Abuses of Socialism " to refute the slanders and abuse of socialism by the imperialists and world reactionaries following the counter-revolutions in some countries.
   The work "Abuses of Socialism Are Intolerable " heralded a bold and decisive ideological counter-offensive against the slanders of the anti-socialist forces who took advantage of the frustration of socialism in some countries. As leader comrade KIM JONG IL explained

"The collapse of socialism in many countries was an outcome of the conspiracy and collusion by the imperialists and counterrevolutionary forces and a result of the ideological and cultural infiltration of imperialism and of the corrosive action of Right opportunist ideas. Decisive to the collapse was the role played by the counterrevolutionary schemes of the renegades of socialism in those countries. In order to stifle socialism the imperialists have for a long time been perpetrating every manner of destructive move such as aggression and pressure, blockade and appeasement; at the same time, they have used as their stooges the degenerates and traitors to the revolution who appeared in the upper strata of the communist and working-class movement. As the history of the international communist movement shows, all the ideological confusion and all the twists and turns within it are due to the fact that renegades of the revolution have appeared in its upper strata"

 This is a most profound analysis of the frustration of socialism that shows that this come about as a result of the actions of the imperialists aided and abetted by the renegades and traitors, the Right opportunists who served as the agents of imperialism in the international communist movement.           The great leader comrade KIM JONG IL in the work demolishes the lies of the bourgeois propagandists about socialism. As he says 

" It is sophistry to call socialism “totalitarian”, “barracks-like” and “administrative and commanding”.

Totalitarianism served as the political idea of fascist dictators. Notorious Hitler in Germany and Mussolini in Italy used totalitarianism as an ideological tool to justify their fascist dictatorship. The fascist dictators stamped out even the most elementary democratic freedom and rights of the masses of the working people and enforced unprecedentedly tyrannical policies, behind the misleading name of “national socialism”, claiming that for the sake of the whole nation and the whole state no working-class movement and no class struggle could be permitted. The reactionary nature of totalitarianism is that the interests of the working people are sacrificed for the sake of the rapacious interests of the reactionary ruling class under the pretence that the individual should be subordinated to the whole. What is meant by the whole in totalitarianism is not the whole of the popular masses but a tiny handful of privileged circles such as monopoly capitalists, major landowners, reactionary bureaucrats and warlords. Calling socialism, under which the popular masses are the masters of everything, “totalitarianism” is, ultimately, a preposterous lie which identifies the most progressive idea that reflects the demands of the popular masses with the reactionary idea of fascist rulers.

Denouncing socialism as being “barracks-like” is also absurd. The social way of life is defined by ideology and varies according to the social system. Socialism is the most progressive of ideas that reflects the intrinsic demands of people, and the socialist system is the most advanced of systems under which the popular masses enjoy an independent and creative life to the full. The restraint of their independence and creativity occurs not under the socialist system but under the capitalist system. Capitalist society, where the working people are the slaves of capital, cannot ensure a fruitful life, independent and creative, for them. Claiming that socialism is “barracks-like” is pernicious propaganda that attempts to turn black into white."

                       Thus the great leader comrade KIM JONG IL  hits the nail on the head.

    This work of the great leader comrade KIM JONG IL gave fresh inspiration to the world's revolutionary people aspiring for socialism whose hopes had been crushed by the modern revisionist's betrayal of the socialist cause. It was and is a bright beacon for the revival of the world socialist movement.
 The work "Abuses of Socialism Are Intolerable " is as relevant as when it was published 30 years ago. It is vital reading for Juche Idea followers and friends of People's Korea that should be read over and over again.

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ASSPUK, BGSJI , KFA UK and BSCPRKP support press statement of Director General of Department of U.S. Affairs of DPRK Foreign Ministry

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    London  24th February   Juche 112(2023)

 The Association For the Study of Songun Politics UK(ASSPUK), the British Group for the Study of the Juche Idea (BGSJI), the Korean Friendship Association of the UK( KFA UK) and the British Solidarity Committee for Peace and Reunification on the Korean peninsula (BSCPRKP)  issued a statement in support of the press statement  of the Director General of Department of U.S. Affairs of DPRK Foreign Ministry made on the 24th of February ;

On the 20th of February, the US imperialists and their lackeys held an 'open meeting ' of the UN Security Council (UNSC) at which they carped at the DPRK's legitimate and independent right to self-defence and created a big fuss over an ICBM test carried out by the DPRK on its own soil. 

As comrade Kwon Jong Gun, director general of the Department of U.S. Affairs of the Foreign Ministry correctly points out that the DPRK is ' very displeased with the fact that they put a sovereign state's legitimate right to self-defence on the agenda of the UNSC, and strongly protest and denounce them"

It virtually goes without saying that the UNSC had no place to discuss the measures that the DPRK took for its self-defence against potential US and south Korean puppet aggression against the DPRK. The UNSC is increasingly becoming a mouthpiece of the US and a puppet of the US.

The US and south Korea are always stoking up military tension on the Korean peninsula. Soon they will carry out the Freedom Shield military exercises and plan a drill with a nuclear submarine for so-called 'extended deterrence '. However, the UNSC is silent about this and only blames the DPRK for the tense situation.

The US imperialists are using the  UNSC to deprive People's Korea of its sovereignty and independence. As  director general comrade Kwon Jong Gun says " The U.S. should be mindful that if it persists in its hostile and provocative practices against the DPRK, despite the latter's repeated protest and warning, it can be regarded as a declaration of war against the DPRK'

We urge that the US and south Korea stop military exercises against the DPRK and that the UNSC should stop acting as a mouthpiece of the US.We support the press statement comrade Kwon Jong Gun, director general of the Department of U.S. Affairs of the Foreign Ministry. We also take the opportunity for more campaigning in support of People's Korea and its just demands.

US , HANDS OFF PEOPLE'S KOREA

DEFEND PEOPLE'S KOREA!

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Respected Comrade Kim Jong Un Sends Reply Message to Syrian President

Pyongyang, February 24 (KCNA) -- Kim Jong Un, president of the State Affairs of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, sent a reply message to Bashar Al-Assad, president of the Syrian Arab Republic, on February 22.

In the message, the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un expressed deep thanks to the Syrian president for sending warm congratulations and best wishes to him on the occasion of the 81st birth anniversary of Chairman Kim Jong Il.

Being convinced that the traditional relations of friendship and cooperation between the two countries will invariably develop, he wished that the government and people of the Syrian Arab Republic would eradicate the aftermath of the earthquake damage as soon as possible and make achievements in their struggle for the independent development and territorial integrity of the country under the correct leadership of the president. -0-

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Press Statement of Director General of Department of U.S. Affairs of DPRK Foreign Ministry

Pyongyang, February 24 (KCNA) -- Kwon Jong Gun, director general of the Department of U.S. Affairs of the Foreign Ministry of the DPRK, issued the following press statement on Friday:

The U.S. and its followers held an open meeting of the UN Security Council on February 20, at which they again took issue with the DPRK over its exercise of the right to self-defence.

We are very displeased with the fact that they put a sovereign state's legitimate right to self-defence on the agenda of the UNSC, and strongly protest and denounce them.

If the UNSC has a true intention to contribute to peace and security in the Korean peninsula, it will have to bitterly condemn the U.S. and south Korea for their moves of escalating military tension such as frequent deployment of strategic assets and large-scale joint military drills against the DPRK.

The U.S. and south Korea are planning a visit to a U.S. nuclear submarine base in the wake of staging a "drill for operating extended deterrence means", a nuclear war demonstration against the DPRK, at Pentagon. This clearly proves to what extent their scheme to confront with the DPRK has reached.

If the UNSC, the duty of which is to ensure global peace and security, is turned into a theatre of rowdyism where injustice and illegality judge justice and legitimacy as now at the beck and call of the U.S. and its vassal forces, it will only result in further escalated military tension in the Korean peninsula.

Against this backdrop, the U.S. representative at the UN contended that they would again push forward the adoption of a "presidential statement" critical of the DPRK's ICBM launching drill at the UN Security Council. It is a clear encroachment on the DPRK's right to self-defence.

This clearly proves that the UNSC has been reduced to a tool of the U.S. for putting pressure on the DPRK.

The U.S., posing a constant threat to the security environment in the Korean peninsula and the region, has unilaterally denied the DPRK's right to self-defence while working hard to strengthen the alliance with its followers. This is an open disregard and unpardonable challenge to the DPRK.

The right to self-defence precisely means sovereignty.

Since the U.S. persistently seeks to deprive the DPRK of the right to self-defence by putting the UNSC into limelight, the DPRK will never remain a passive onlooker to such attempt.

The only way for preventing the vicious cycle of military tension in the Korean peninsula and its surroundings is for the U.S. to show a clear and practical stand such as the abandonment of its commitment to deploying strategic assets in south Korea and the halt to various kinds of combined drills against the DPRK.

The U.S. should be mindful that if it persists in its hostile and provocative practices against the DPRK, despite the latter's repeated protest and warning, it can be regarded as a declaration of war against the DPRK.

The U.S. should perceive intuitively and accept the consequences to be entailed by it, as a matter of course.

Availing ourselves of this opportunity, we remind the UNSC once again of our stand that if it puts the DPRK's right to self-defence on the table again, being led by the U.S., the corresponding strong countermeasure will be taken. -0-

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Strategic Cruise Missile Launching Drill Conducted

Pyongyang, February 24 (KCNA) -- A strategic cruise missile launching drill was staged at dawn of February 23.

Involved in the drill was a relevant sub-unit of a strategic cruise missile unit of the Korean People's Army in the eastern region, and other sub-units conducted firepower training at hardened sites without live firing.

The sub-unit, involved in the launching drill, fired four "Hwasal-2" strategic cruise missiles in the area of Kim Chaek City, North Hamgyong Province, towards the East Sea of Korea.

The drill reconfirmed the reliability of the weapon system and examined the rapid response posture of strategic cruise missile units that constitute one of major forces of the DPRK nuclear deterrent.

The launching drill successfully achieved its object.

The four strategic cruise missiles precisely hit the preset target on the East Sea of Korea after traveling the 2 000km-long elliptical and eight-shaped flight orbits for 10 208s to 10 224s.

The Central Military Commission of the Workers' Party of Korea expressed great satisfaction over the results of the launching drill.

The drill clearly demonstrated once again the war posture of the DPRK nuclear combat force bolstering up in every way its deadly nuclear counterattack capability against the hostile forces. -0-

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Article of International Affairs Analyst

Pyongyang, February 23 (KCNA) -- Kim Yu Chol, an international affairs analyst, on Thursday made public an article titled "What does the present situation in Ukraine show". The full text of it is as follows:

One year has passed since Russia launched a special military operation in Ukraine.

It is the long-cherished desire of mankind to live in a peaceful world free from any armed conflict and war.

The present situation in Ukraine, far from such noble ideal of mankind, clearly tells us who is the arch criminal that sparks disputes and conflicts in different parts of the world and threatens the global peace and security and the existence of mankind.

Inevitable outcome of high-handed practice and hegemonism

If someone claims that the current situation in Ukraine arousing the international community's uneasiness and concern was created one year ago or in 2014 when a coup took place in Ukraine, it will be a very short-sighted and narrow-minded view.

Whoever has a view on the international affairs and normal sense will easily understand that the present situation in Ukraine is not a sudden and short-term challenge to humankind but an inevitable and long-term crisis that has been ignited since the 1990s with the confrontation between the Soviet Union and the U.S. in the Cold War era as a fuse.

As already known, NATO, which had taken the Soviet Union into its strategic sight from the beginning of its birth, broke its promise made at a negotiation with the Soviet Union on unification of Germany that it would not expand the alliance even an inch, and admitted 14 countries in East Europe, the Balkans and Baltic seas into it on five occasions after the collapse of the Soviet Union. And it is now talking about the entry of even Ukraine near Russia.

It is a well known fact that the policy on NATO's "advance into the East" pursued by the U.S. and the West is aimed at ultimately separating and weakening Russia, the successor to the Soviet Union, and preventing it from restoration by tightening the encirclement ring around it.

Russia had repeatedly warned the U.S. and NATO of their dangerous moves, but they have systematically destroyed the regional security environment, persistently ignoring the former's legitimate and just demand and openly attempting to deploy the attack weapon system in Ukraine.

Russia proposed respectively to the U.S. and NATO the issue of concluding a treaty reflecting its legitimate security requirements, such as the cessation of the eastward expansion of NATO including the entry of Ukraine to NATO and the ban of deployment of attack weapons systems in neighboring countries of Russia in December 2021, but their response was too cool.

In the final analysis, it can be estimated that the hegemonic policy pursued by the U.S. and the West, which have persistently resorted to military threats and pressure policies, instead of regarding Russia as a true dialogue partner and companion to co-exist, compelled Russia to start preemptive military actions to fundamentally remove the external military threats to it.

It is preposterous for the U.S. and the West to label Russia as an "aggressor", "war criminal state" and "peace wrecker", while commenting the Ukrainian situation triggered by them, as they had already pushed several countries into a vortex of national discord, antagonism and armed conflict under unreasonable pretexts.

Real Intention to Pour Oil on Fire

Shortly ago, the Russian Foreign Intelligence Agency announced that the U.S. and NATO member states had supplied 440 tanks, 1 510 combat infantry vehicles, 665 artillery pieces and over 1.8 million shells to Ukraine in total. The U.S. Department of Defense also admitted that it has supported weapons worth 29.8 billion U.S. dollars to Ukraine from February last year.

This is enough to arm a country completely and fight a whole war.

The U.S. is insisting that its huge arms support to the Kiev authorities is aimed to make Ukraine defend itself from Russia's "aggression". But this is nothing but a crude sophism that can never deceive even a mere child.

As commented by experts on international affairs, the real intention of the U.S. offering huge military hardware to Ukraine in collusion with its allies is to continuously drive Ukraine into a proxy war with Russia and thus beat Russia down at any cost.

It is also to meet the interests of the U.S. munitions monopolies and further deteriorate the security situation in the region by taking advantage of the situation in Ukraine and thus keep the European countries under its control and maintain its hegemonic position.

An old proverb says that a quarrel should be stopped and a fire should be put out.

But the U.S. is persistently preventing the Ukraine-Russia dialogue and negotiation aimed at the peaceful settlement of the situation.

It is not without reason that it was told at the recent Munich Security Conference that there are forces who do not want a peace negotiation and truce to be realized and that they have a more ambitious strategic goal considering no sacrifice of Ukrainians and no loss of Europe.

The U.S., that is bringing Ukraine bloodshed and war clouds by providing it with many lethal weapons and equipment of various kinds, has deliberately fabricated and spread "rumors that some countries are supporting Russia with weapons," far from reflecting on and atoning for its unethical crimes. This is the height of the U.S. double-standards and shamelessness.

If the U.S. keeps on waging the reckless campaign to give military support to Ukraine, it will unavoidably cause more mighty countermeasures of Russia, aggravate the security situation in the region and increase the dangerousness of Russia-U.S. military conflict.

So there is no guarantee that such a military conflict will not lead to a new world war beyond Europe posing threats to existence of the entire mankind.

Following U.S. Leads to Self-Ruin

Russia and Ukraine are not simply neighbor countries.

The two countries are inseparable because of the history, culture, lineage, religious faith, etc. so it is no wonder that it is said that the peoples of the two countries belong to the same nation.

Notwithstanding, Ukraine has been involved in the war against Russia. It is because Ukraine has thrown its destiny on the pro-U.S. acts and submission to it.

At the instigation of the U.S., Ukraine oppressed the Russian-speaking residents and compatriots in Donbas, trampled on the cultural ties with Russia of more than a thousand years, denied the history of the Second World War, and revived Nazism. This has caused the ongoing tragedy.

This was not an unavoidable destiny.

If Ukraine had not recklessly availed itself of the U.S. policy of confrontation with Russia but promoted reconciliation and unity with its neighbors, little short of the fellow countrymen, rejecting the dirty tentacles of the U.S., the situation would not have reached such a grave phase as now.

The U.S., which emerged with aggression and has grown fat in wars, is an empire of evils encroaching upon the security and interests of not only the hostile states but also its allies without hesitation to attain its selfish purpose.

The group of traitors prolonging their remaining days by clinging to the U.S. sleeves which may be torn into pieces anytime, should get rid of the pro-U.S. sycophancy as early as possible and settle the present crisis peacefully to save their destiny, to say nothing of that of their citizens.

The present situation in Ukraine goes to clearly prove once again that peace will never settle in the world unless the high-handed and arbitrary practices and greedy aggression policy of the U.S. are terminated as it does not hesitate to sabotage the peace and security of a sovereign state in order to maintain its hegemonic position.

The U.S. should come to its senses, though belatedly.

If the U.S. persists in reckless acts of threatening the sovereignty and security of other countries by force of arms by instigating its stooges with the sinister aim to topple down sovereign states which do not follow its will, it will be burned to death by the fire kindled by it. -0-

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Submissive Relations

The Yoon Seok-yeol group of south Korea is boisterous about "alliance" between south Korea and the US.

It is loudmouthed about "working and indispensible alliance" as if it maintains friendly relations with the US.

Behind a veil of the "alliance", south Korea is subordinated to the US through and through.

In actuality, the relationship between Seoul and Washington is the one between the master and servant.

South Korea becomes a scapegoat for "America first" and undergoes humiliation after Yoon took power.  

The industries of automobile and semiconductor of south Korea have been reigned by the US. The US strikes south Korea from behind, seeking its own interests in all fields.

The above-mentioned facts prove that the US regards south Korea as no more than its servant though the Yoon clique trumpets about "enlargement" and "development" of the alliance and the unequal ties between master and servant remains unchanged.  

By unilateral pursuance of the US administration advocating the "US first", south Korea is driven to the wall and the ties between south Korea and the US is imbalanced and submissive, the south Korean mass outlets and experts commented.  

The development of the alliance is an anachronistic thinking and it is a foolish deed as pricking its own eyes with its fingers, they added.

The policy being pursued by the Yoon group is a silly act of fastening its neck with noose and the economy and the public welfare will face bankruptcy.

South Koreans carry on a nationwide campaign against Yoon Seok-yeol in demand of dismantlement of the alliance.

The height of shamelessness

 

The US and south Korean authorities have picked on north Korea over its human rights.

They have made desperate bid to find fault with north Korean human rights such as appointment of special envoy for north Korean human rights which has been vacant for six years, publication of report on situation of north Korean human rights and formation of the preparatory committee for north Korean human rights foundation. They put forward the UN special rapporteur of north Korean human rights to ballyhoo about "poor circumstances of north Korean human rights".

The above-said moves are a third-rate charade to demonize north Korea.

They have neither face nor qualification to talk about the human rights.

It is the US where falsehood, deception, fraud, swindling, heartlessness and misanthropy are widespread. Racial, national and religious discrimination are prevalent in the US. Gun-related crimes and child abuse are rampant in the US.  

Fair mass media said that those who speak in dispraise of north Korea in the UN are human rights abusers. The documents related on human rights making a charge against north Korea are applicable to the western nations.

It is an intolerable insult to the human rights that the abusers of human rights talk about the human rights of north Korea.

North Korea is a genuine world for the people in which the human rights are perfectly ensured.

Exploitation of man by man was eliminated for good, the north Korean people are substantially provided with political freedom and democratic rights and they are entitled to work and learn.

Those who devise a trick will be caught in its own snare.

It is the necessity of history.