Day of Great Victory

Pyongyang, August 15 (KCNA) -- It has been 81 years since Korea was liberated.

President Kim Il Sung defeated the Japanese imperialists and liberated Korea on August 15, 1945. Therefore, this day is a starting point for the turn in the Korean people's destiny and the day of great victory when they retook their independent dignity which is as important as their life and soul.

Along with August 15, the Korean people could regain sovereignty, territory, resources, history and culture, have all chances of enjoying freedom and carving out their destiny, and proudly embark on the road of achieving democratic development and happiness.

The peasants, who had to leave their dear native places because they did not have even a patch of land to sow seeds, became masters of the land and the country thanks to the agrarian reform law promulgated on March 5, 1946, the year after the national liberation.

The workers, who were subject to all sorts of maltreatment and insult by the Japanese imperialists and capitalists at the factories which were little short of hell, became true masters of the factories and the means of production thanks to the law on nationalization of major industries promulgated on August 10, 1946.

The Korean women, who had been suffering from double or treble exploitation and oppression under the whip of the Japanese imperialists, landlords and capitalists, could retake the human dignity and have equal rights with men in all spheres of political, economic and cultural life thanks to the Law on Sex Equality promulgated on July 30, 1946.

People of different strata could become deputies, officials, model workers and model farmers, making a tangible contribution to the prosperity and wellbeing of the country and its people.

Indeed, Korea's liberation was a historic event that brought about a radical turn in the destiny of the country and its people.

Today the Democratic People's Republic of Korea has reached the highest level of national prestige and power and the dignity and position of its people have been incomparably enhanced under the guidance of respected Comrade Kim Jong Un. -0-

From Voice of Korea -Leading the Anti-Japanese Revolutionary Struggle to Victory

From Voice of Korea.

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Leading the Anti-Japanese Revolutionary Struggle to Victory

The Korean people put an end to the colonial rule of the Japanese imperialists and greeted their liberation on August 15, 1945.

It is the great leader Comrade Kim Il Sung, father of socialist Korea, who led the historic cause of national liberation to victory.

Line of Armed Struggle Presented

Comrade Kim Il Sung embarked on the road of revolution in his teens and made a resolution that it was necessary to fight against the Japanese imperialists so as to achieve liberation and independence of Korea.

Indicating the path of the Korean revolution at the historic Kalun meeting held between late June and early July 1930, he gave instructions on organizing and waging an armed struggle against the Japanese imperialists, firmly rallying the entire anti-Japanese patriotic forces and stepping up the preparations for founding a party in order to carry on the Korean revolution with success, Lecturer Sim Hye Yon at the Korean Revolution Museum said and continued:

"At the Kalun meeting the great leader Comrade Kim Il Sung said an organized armed struggle should be waged under the condition that the repression of the Japanese imperialists was unprecedentedly intensified and we had to fight with the enemy armed to the teeth.

He continued that we should defeat the Japanese imperialist aggressors and achieve the liberation and independence of the country with our own efforts. He also said we should rapidly foster our strength by making good preparations for waging an armed struggle and accumulate various experiences by organizing the Korean Revolutionary Army."

It was a difficult task beyond human imagination to wage the anti-Japanese revolutionary struggle in the state as good as bare hands without any state backing or assistance of a regular army.

Comrade Kim Il Sung formed the Society for Rallying Comrades, the first party organization, and organized the Korean Revolutionary Army to have its political and military forces for armed struggle.

At the Mingyuegou meeting held in December 1931 he advanced the slogan "Oppose arms with arms, and oppose counterrevolutionary violence with revolutionary violence!" and declared an anti-Japanese war to annihilate the Japanese imperialists. And he defined the guerrilla warfare as the main form of the armed struggle.

Comrade Kim Il Sung organized the Korean People's Revolutionary Army on April 25, 1932 and declared its founding to the whole world.

With the birth of the revolutionary armed force of new type, it became possible to fight the battles against the brigandish Japanese imperialists.

Battles Fought during the Anti-Japanese Revolutionary Struggle

Comrade Kim Il Sung organized and commanded many battles to victory during the 20-year-long bloody anti-Japanese war.

In 1933, there was a battle to defend the Xiaowangqing guerrilla zone. At that time, there were two companies led by Comrade Kim Il Sung in the Xiaowangqing guerrilla zone.

The Japanese imperialists made persistent attacks on the guerrilla zone for several months by mobilizing a lot of troops, guns and planes in a bid to nip it in the bud.

At that time, Comrade Kim Il Sung took the initiative and led the men of the Korean People's Revolutionary Army and people to launch an all-people resistance with one mind and purpose. And he led his men to advance to an area occupied by the enemy through their siege and attack their rear, leading the battle to victory.

The Pochonbo battle was clearly recorded on a page of the history of the anti-Japanese war.

Comrade Kim Il Sung put forward a policy of advance of the Korean People's Revolutionary Army into the homeland. Entering the homeland, he mounted an attack on Pochonbo on June 4, 1937.

With a gun report made by him at midnight as a signal, the men of the Korean People's Revolutionary Army attacked to sweep away the police substation, sub-county office and other ruling organs of the Japanese imperialists in an instant and liberated the Pochonbo area.

The famous full-length epic "Mt. Paektu" of the DPRK praised Comrade Kim Il Sung as "General Kim" and depicted the day's scene as follows:

...

Where crowds, illuminated by the fire,

Surge back and forth in noisy waves.

Suddenly all fell silent

As Kim Il Sung led his detachment

Out on to the square,

And raised aloft his naked sabre,

Fire gleaming in the polished steel.

"Koreans!

Take a close look at the flames

Unleashed against the Japanese!

Korea's soul is still alive,

The heart of our immortal people

Is beating still today!

Let us all fan these flames

Until our enemy is reduced to ashes!"

...

Afterwards, Comrade Kim Il Sung led the Kouyushan and Jiansanfeng battles to victory.

The Pochonbo battle demonstrated in practice that Korea is not dead but alive, and the people are sure to win when they fight with the Japanese imperialists.

Later, Comrade Kim Il Sung led the battle of the Musan area and many other battles to victory, thus dealing a deadly blow to the Japanese imperialist aggressors and giving the confidence in victory to the Korean people.

Love for Comrades

During the anti-Japanese revolutionary struggle, Comrade Kim Il Sung regarded his men as comrades sharing intention and fate on the road of national liberation, always loved them boundlessly and devoted his all to them.

The main force of the Korean People's Revolutionary Army marched overcoming the difficulty of obtaining food in the biting cold and snowstorm while repulsing the vicious and repeated pursuit of the enemy for over 100 days from the winter of 1938.

This is called the Arduous March in the DPRK.

Lecturer Sim Hye Yon at the Korean Revolution Museum said Comrade Kim Il Sung stood at the head of the Arduous March, and continued:

"The great leader Comrade Kim Il Sung valued and loved his soldiers with paternal affection in so difficult condition during the Arduous March. Even though he skipped meals with his soldiers, he walked from the van to the tail of the long ranks many a time a day to shoulder rifles and musette bags of young soldiers and give out even some grains of maize for him to the sick. The moving story of a bowl of parched-rice powder well-known to the world came into being at that time."

Soldiers presented Comrade Kim Il Sung with almost a bowl of the parched-rice powder they kept with care but he rationed it with paper spoon. And he gave out even his share again to the soldiers.

After all, the smallest amount was allotted to him, Lecturer Sim Hye Yon at the Korean Revolution Museum said and continued:

"The bowl of parched-rice powder was a small amount, but it represented the endless nutrition and trust of the great leader Comrade Kim Il Sung who wanted to train his soldiers stoutly with the self-sacrificing spirit of service for national liberation and warm love for them."

When the communication with a small unit was cut off during the anti-Japanese war, he had meat of wild animals dried and 50 paper bags made to carry powder and wrote the names of soldiers of the small unit on them in person.

The men of the Korean People's Revolutionary Army could remain loyal to the leadership of Comrade Kim Il Sung as he regarded them as his revolutionary comrades and treasured them infinitely.

Comrade Kim Il Sung led the 20-year-long anti-Japanese revolutionary struggle based on self-reliance to victory and thus accomplished the historic cause of national liberation, and his undying feats will shine for all ages.

 

From Voice of Korea-New Life Brought by Liberation

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New Life Brought by Liberation

  On August 15, 1945 the Korean people put an end to the decades of colonial rule of the Japanese imperialists and greeted the national liberation. The great leader Comrade Kim Il Sung led the anti-Japanese armed struggle to victory and liberated the country from the Japanese imperialists.

  The liberation brought so many benefits to the Korean people.

  A genuine people's government was established and democratic reforms for the people were enforced.

  The Agrarian Reform Law was proclaimed as the start of the democratic reforms. At that time, peasants made up the bulk of the population in Korea.

  The Korean peasants, who had suffered humiliation and insult shedding bitter tears without a patch of their own land before liberation, received the land free of charge. Therefore, their century-old desire to do farming on their own land to their heart's content was realized at last.

  Then the Labour Law, the Law on Sex Equality and the Law on Nationalization of Major Industries were promulgated one after another.

  Thanks to the democratic and popular policies, the peasants became masters of the land, the workers masters of the factories and the women who had been bound to the feudal fetters proud masters of the country with equal rights with men to lead a new life.

  The popular and democratic election system provided the liberated Korean people with true political freedom and rights. All the citizens could participate in the nation building with the rights to elect and to be elected.

  The Korean people, who became full-fledged masters of the country, wrote the history of building a new Korea on this land.

  All the people turned out in hearty response to the speech on triumphal return home made by Comrade Kim Il Sung who called on them to actively contribute to the nation building, those with strength dedicating their strength, those with knowledge devoting their knowledge and those with money donating their money.

  The workers of Kangson rehabilitated their steel plant in a short period though the Japanese imperialists had said it was impossible even in ten years with the strength and technology of the Korean people, and turned out the first molten iron in December 1945. The huge Pothong River improvement project, which the Japanese imperialists had failed to finish for ten years with three million people, was completed in 55 days. Factories and enterprises went into operation one after another and the farmers reaped a rich harvest. Kim Il Sung University, the first university of new Korea, was established on October 1, 1946.

  Not only the people but also the mountains and rivers changed and happy laughter and pleasant songs were heard everywhere on this land. This represented the genuine life of the people brought by the liberation and the proud feature of new Korea.

BGSJI and KFA UK support press statement of DPRK Foreign Ministry spokesperson on Ulji Freedom Shield

   BRITISH GROUP FOR THE STUDY OF THE JUCHE IDEA 

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London  14th of   August 2026
The  British Group for the Study of the Juche Idea and the  Korean Friendship Association of the UK (KFA UK  )  , issued the following joint statement in support of the press statement of the  spokesperson for the Foreign Ministry(FM) of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK ) that was issued on the 13th of August ;

The US imperialists and ROK puppets have announced that they will stage the provocative warmongering exercise Ulji Freedom Shield from Monday 17th of August  which will run for 10 days  and involve not only the US and the ROK but also states from the so-called UN Command such as Britain and Germany.

The DPRK Foreign Ministry spokesperson notes that "The U.S. announced that the forthcoming exercises are quite different from the ones of the past five years and intended to master the ability of fighting a war on the basis of the new aspects of modern warfare. By doing so, it did not conceal its aim to complete preparations for the substantial military confrontation with the DPRK."

This shows that although the US and ROK have staged these exercises many times before these exercises have been upgraded and aim at preparing a military confrontation against the DPRK . The exercises are also been held at a time of increased international tension when the US is provoking tension in Europe and committing aggression in the Middle east as well threatening to intervene in different parts of the world .

Ulji Freedom Shield is also being held in the context of the expansion of the US-ROK-Japan nuclear alliance . These war exercises are about sharpening up the sword of aggression against the DPRK! These exercises of the US , ROK and so UN-Command are a grave provocation and a threat to peace in the Asia -Pacific region . 

As our organisations have stated many times that military exercises are actually a preparation for a real war .

We demand that Ulji Freedom Shield is cancelled at once ! We strongly support the press statement of the spokesperson of the DPRK Foreign Ministry !

No to Ulji Freedom Shield !

Defend People's Korea

BGSJI

KFA UK

Glory to the 81st anniversary of Korea's Liberation !

 

81 years ago today , on the 15th of August 1945 , Korea was finally liberated from Japanese imperialist colonial rule  thanks to the Juche-based armed struggle led by the great leader President KIM IL SUNG .

Korea became a nation once again and the Korean people gained a new life of independence under the banner of the Juche idea!

Victory in the national liberation war thanks to the Juche idea-special article by Dr Dermot Hudson for the 81st anniversary of Korea's Liberation

 On the 15th of August 1945 Korea was finally liberated from decades of despotic and fascistic colonial rule of the Japanese imperialists thanks the heroic armed  struggle waged by the guerrilla fighters of the Korean People’s Revolutionary Army led by President KIM IL SUNG , a gifted military strategist and ever-victorious iron-willed brilliant commander . The liberation of Korea from Japanese imperialism was a great gain for the Korean people which cannot be measured by any yardstick and could not be bartered for gold . Korea’s liberation meant that the Korean people became masters of their destiny .

Korea had been once shown on world maps as a province of Japan. In the dark days of Japanese colonialist rule when Koreans were not even allowed to use their own language , it seemed like a day dream, a fantasy even that Korea could become independent again , however one man , the young comrade KIM IL SUNG decided that Korea should be independent and that the Korean people should be masters of their own destiny. He decided that a new road of struggle was needed to achieve national liberation and independence . 

President KIM IL SUNG realised that it was no use hoping for others to hand them independence on a plate  and no use hoping that has- beens who were arguing among themselves would be able to lead the struggle for national liberation to victory . So he formed new movements such as the Down -With Imperialism Union ( the 100th anniversary of which will be in October this year ) and the Anti-Imperialist Youth League whose basis was the new generation of youth who were unaffected by ideologies such as sycophancy towards big powers, factionalism and reformism. President KIM IL SUNG believed in going deep among the masses .

In June 1930 President KIM IL SUNG addressed a meeting of young cadres and activists at Kalun . He set forth the Juche-based line of the Korean revolution in a speech titled “The Path of the Korean Revolution “   Looking the experience of the Korean revolution he pointed out that ;

"Experience shows that in order to lead the revolution to victory, one must go among the masses of people and organize them, and solve all problems arising in the course of the revolution independently on one’s own responsibility in accord with the actual conditions, instead of relying on others.

Drawing on this lesson we regard it as most important to take the firm standpoint that the masters of the Korean revolution are the Korean people and that the Korean revolution should by all means be carried out by the Korean people themselves in a way suited to the actual conditions of their country.”

Thus the Juche-orientated line of the Korean revolution was set forth.                    

In July 1930 the Korean Revolutionary Army was founded . The great leader President KIM IL SUNG pursued a truly unique Juche- based line of guerrilla warfare  in which the armed forces were founded before the Party ..

After the Kalun meeting  President  KIM IL SUNG reiterated at the Mingyuegou Meeting in December 1931 that the armed struggle was the basic line of the anti-Japanese national liberation struggle of Korea and clarified strategic and tactical problems immediately arising in organizing and developing the anti-Japanese armed struggle such as the type of the armed struggle, organization of a standing revolutionary armed force and establishment of a guerrilla base as a stronghold of political and military activity. President KIM IL SUNG in his speech underscored the need for self-reliance saying that "we fight the armed struggle with no state backing and no aid from outside "

Thanks to KIM IL SUNG's idea and line of achieving liberation and independence of the nation on the strength of arms, the anti-Japanese national liberation struggle of Korea could take the correct path and advance toward victory with full confidence.     

President KIM IL SUNG wisely led the struggle for implementing the unique idea and line of realizing the cause of national liberation on the strength of arms.

Then President KIM IL SUNG founded the Anti-Japanese People’s Guerrilla Army on April  25, 1932. It was the birth of a new-type revolutionary armed force for national liberation and a historic event that provided the military guarantee for realising victory of the revolutionary cause of Juche by dint of arms.  It heralded the start of the great anti-Japanese revolutionary war .  

The KPRA fought the revolutionary  spirit of self-reliance and the Juche Idea . They seized weapons from the Japanese aggressors or manufactured their own . Some hoped that the Soviet Union, the first socialist state, would supply them with a hand-grenade factory but this never materialised so they made their own hand-grenades the 'Yongil bomb'(of course today the DPRK has its own nuclear 'Yongil bomb'.) 

                    In March 1934 the Anti Japanese People's Guerrilla Army became the Korean People's Revolutionary Army . Under the command of the great leader President KIM IL SUNG, an ever victorious iron-willed brilliant commander, the stout hearted and heroic guerrilla revolutionary fighters of the KPRA fought many battles against the Japanese imperialist  aggressors such the battle of Pochonbo  and the battle of Musan to name just a few . The battle of Pochonbo on the 4 June 1937 was most significant as it symbolised the KPRA's advance into the Korean homeland. One third world revolutionary figure on visiting the monument to the Pochonbo battle said "the beacon fire of Pochonbo marked a great event which gave confidence in struggle not only to the Korean people under the colonial rule of Japanese imperialism but also the world's revolutionary people groaning in those days under the heels of imperialist aggressors- fascist Germany, Italy, Japanese imperialism , and American and British imperialism.

                                     

President KIM IL SUNG  also applied the Juche idea to the question of the united front and popular front and founded the Association for the Restoration of the Fatherland , a Juche-orientated united national front in May 1936

               President KIM IL SUNG adopted adroit guerrilla tactics . The KPRA under his leadership showed great tactical flexibility, for example switching to small unit activities in 1940 in order to preserve and accumulate the revolutionary force.                                 

   The hard and arduous  revolutionary armed struggle led by the great leader President KIM IL SUNG paid off in the end. On the 9th of August 1945 general KIM IL SUNG gave the order for the final offensive against the Japanese marauders . The KPRA together with Soviet army units surged into Korea , the KPRA often taking the lead in the more difficult battles. On August 15 1945 Korea was liberated at last from Japanese imperialist rule. 36 years of oppressive fascist colonial rule by Japanese imperialism came to an end and the Korean people gained a new life of hope and prosperity .

Long live the 81st anniversary of Korea’s liberation !
Long live Juche !

Dr Dermot Hudson

Chairman Korean Friendship Association UK

Chairman British Group For the Study of the Juche Idea

Hon Secretary General Global Farmy for the Study of KIM JONG UN People’s First Policies

Respected Comrade Kim Jong Un Visits Monuments to Pay Tribute to Anti-Japanese Revolutionary Martyrs on National Liberation Day

 

Pyongyang, August 15 (KCNA) -- 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, Friday visited the Revolutionary Martyrs Cemetery on Mt Taesong on the occasion of the 81st anniversary of national liberation.

Present there were senior Party, government and military officials, including members of the Presidium of the Political Bureau of the C.C., WPK, and leading officials of the WPK Central Committee, the Standing Committee of the Supreme People's Assembly, the Cabinet, commissions, ministries and national agencies and commanding officers of the Korean People's Army.

The KPA guard of honor lined up there.

The national anthem of the DPRK was played.

A wreath in the name of Comrade Kim Jong Un was placed at the wreath-laying stand of the cemetery amid the playing of wreath-laying music.

Also, laid were wreaths in the name of the WPK Central Committee, the State Affairs Commission of the DPRK, the DPRK SPA Standing Committee and the DPRK Cabinet.

Comrade Kim Jong Un, together with all the participants, paid a silent tribute to the memory of the revolutionary martyrs who devoted their precious lives to the sacred struggle for the independence and sovereignty of the country and its prosperity.

There took place a march-past of the KPA guard of honor.

Noting that the revolutionaries of the first generation fought a bloody war of resistance to save the country and the nation and retake the dignity with their minds burned with the noble sense of duty to bear the responsibility for the destiny of the country and descendants, Comrade Kim Jong Un said that their steadfast independent spirit and undying feats are ideological and moral treasure and precious revolutionary legacy to be inherited for all ages.

The anti-Japanese revolutionary fighters' beautiful ideal of communism, transparent revolutionary faith and indomitable fighting spirit are injecting eternal viability into our people in their struggle to build a prosperous powerful country the martyrs desired, he said, stating that the cause of the great Korean people will be ever-victorious as they are carrying forward the high revolutionary spirit and noble view of life generation after generation.

Then he visited the Monument to Fallen Anti-Japanese Revolutionary Fighters.

With reverence for the well-known and unsung anti-Japanese revolutionary martyrs, who made a contribution to accomplishing the historic cause of national liberation, remaining faithful to the ideology and leadership of President Kim Il Sung, he placed a flower at the monument and observed a moment's silence in memory of them.

Looking at a sculpture of three members of the Korean People's Revolutionary Army fighting a heroic battle and a stone monument bearing many martyrs' names, he said that although the bodies of the martyrs who dedicated their precious youth to the revolution to retake the dignity and freedom of the country and the people were buried in unknown mountains and fields, their proud images and feats are clearly recorded in the history of the country.

He hoped that the pioneering generation of the Korean revolution, who created the priceless revolutionary traditions of Paektu and handed them down to the new generations, would be always remembered at the peak of the highest honor and dignity along with the advance and development of the ever-victorious socialism of our own style. -0-

Respected Comrade Kim Jong Un Visits Liberation Tower on Occasion of 81st Anniversary of National Liberation

 

Respected Comrade Kim Jong Un Visits Liberation Tower on Occasion of 81st Anniversary of National Liberation

Pyongyang, August 15 (KCNA) -- 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, Friday visited the Liberation Tower on the occasion of the 81st anniversary of national liberation.

Accompanying him were senior officials of the WPK Central Committee and leading officials of the Foreign Ministry and the Ministry of National Defence of the DPRK.

The Korean People's Army guard of honor lined up before the Liberation Tower.

The national anthems of the Russian Federation and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea were played.

A wreath in the name of Comrade Kim Jong Un was laid amid the playing of wreath-laying music.

Written on the ribbon of the wreath were the letters reading "We will not forget the feats of the martyrs of the Soviet Army".

Comrade Kim Jong Un paid high tribute to the martyrs of the Soviet Army who bravely fought for the liberation war of our people for freedom and independence of the country.

He looked round the Liberation Tower with those officials.

Looking back with deep emotion on the militant feats of the officers and men of the Red Army who dedicated their hot blood to the sacred cause of Korea's liberation, he said that even after the lapse of time and even though one generation may be replaced by another, the DPRK people will always remember the noble soul the martyrs put into this land and the heroic, self-sacrificing spirit displayed by them.

The excellent history, traditions and ties of blood between the DPRK and Russia now serve as a fundamental cornerstone and inexhaustible driving force for the bilateral relations of friendship and cooperation, he said, stating that the great friendship and unity between the two peoples forged with the noble idea and genuine militant friendship would be steadily carried forward and developed generation after generation along with the new era of comprehensive efflorescence. -0-

Press Statement of Spokesperson for DPRK Foreign Ministry

Pyongyang, August 14 (KCNA) -- The spokesperson for the Foreign Ministry of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea released the following press statement on August 13:

The U.S. and the ROK announced that they would stage the large-scale joint military exercises Ulji Freedom Shield from August 17.

The exercises are expected to involve tens of thousands of troops and combat equipment, including forces of the U.S., the ROK and member states of the "UN Command", and field maneuvers such as Warrior Shield and various drills for real war simulating the environments for the ultra-modern operations like drone, electronic and cyber warfare.

The U.S. announced that the forthcoming exercises are quite different from the ones of the past five years and intended to master the ability of fighting a war on the basis of the new aspects of modern warfare. By doing so, it did not conceal its aim to complete preparations for the substantial military confrontation with the DPRK.

This is tantamount to an admission that the exercises, which the U.S. and the ROK describe as "annual" and "defensive" ones, are a rehearsal for an aggressive war.

Furthermore, the exercises are going to be staged again at a time when military and political situation is becoming more serious with each passing day in Europe, the Middle East and other parts of the world and the U.S. abuse of strength has become part of its daily routine. They are incurring the instability in the Korean peninsula and other regional countries, which is more serious than before.

The coordination of the U.S. forces' offensive posture which has begun in earnest across the world, the expansion of strategic flexibility by the U.S. forces in the ROK which is getting serious as part of it, the U.S.-Japan-ROK tripartite military cooperation system which is turning into a nuclear alliance and the strengthening of the military muscle by Japan and the ROK more clearly show how dangerous the said exercises involving all the military assets and war-fighting modes of the U.S. and the ROK are.

The enemy states' exercises for an aggressive war which have more serious provocative nature and dangerousness than last year are posing a grave threat to security sphere of our state and regional security environment.

The U.S. can never succeed in its attempt to seize military hegemony again and rebuild the unilateral threatening structure, which becomes an irreversible thing of the past in the Korean peninsula, by steadily replacing the old war scenario with a new one and holding rehearsals.

It is our consistent principle of ensuring security to respond to a new level of a threat with a new level of a deterrent.

The DPRK remains steadfast in its will to frustrate outsiders' hostile acts with the most powerful and overwhelming force and absolutely defend the supreme interests of the state security.

The DPRK will not tolerate the grave confrontational situation which is being created by the enemy states but more clearly express its stance on the enemies to cope with any threats and challenges through the responsible and decisive exercise of the right to legitimate self-defense. -0-

U.S. New Nuclear Strategy Is Serious Threat to Push Global Security Environment to Threshold of Nuclear War: Military Commentator

 

Pyongyang, August 14 (KCNA) -- A military commentator made public the following article "The U.S. new nuclear strategy is a serious threat to push global security environment to the threshold of a nuclear war" on August 13:

The U.S. moves for nuclear hegemony aimed at gaining the absolute superiority in strength has entered a new dangerous stage. This is giving a rise to concern and vigilance among the international community.

According to a foreign report, the present U.S. administration has begun to draw up a new nuclear strategy intended to lower the threshold for nuclear use.

At a recent closed-door consultative meeting of the U.S. strategic command, the under secretary for policy affairs of the U.S. Defense Department asserted that the U.S. needs a reasonable nuclear option while discussing the small tactical nuclear weapons and regional war issue.

Commenting on it, the media and experts said that the present U.S. administration has started to map out a new nuclear strategy with the emphasis on the expansion of its capacity of launching an attack with tactical nuclear weapons in order to cope with the potential regional disputes with China and Russia.

This shows that the U.S. nuclear strategy is offensively turning into the one for using nukes in real war from so-called one for deterrence.

All the successive U.S. administrations examined their nuclear strategies on a regular basis, but the attempt to work out a new nuclear strategy clearly proves how adventurous and serious the U.S. moves for maintaining the nuclear hegemony are.

Given the fact that the U.S. has the world's biggest arsenal of nuclear weapons, we should not overlook the destructive aftereffects of the new nuclear strategy of the present U.S. administration on the global nuclear balance and security environment.

The U.S., the only country in the world which used nuclear weapons, has persistently sought to modernize nuclear forces rapidly and use nukes in a real war, regarding nuclear weapons as a main means for attaining hegemonic and aggressive political and military purposes for a long time.

In the nuclear posture review issued in 2018, the U.S. announced that it would launch the modernization of strategic nuclear forces and the development of the low-yield nuclear weapons and the condition of using nukes is also applicable to the case of being attacked by conventional weapons.

Accordingly the U.S. is busy upgrading the three nuclear strategy assets , including the development and production of the Columbia-class strategic nuclear submarine, the new-type ICBM LGM-35A Sentinel and the 6th-generation nuclear strategic bomber B-21 Radar. And it is putting spurs to deploy the low-yield nuclear warhead W76-2 and the tactical nuclear bomb B61-12 for action.

Shortly ago the U.S. announced that it would enable 19 new Virginia-class attack nuclear submarines to carry guided missiles and make them carry more missiles. This means the U.S. is going to sharply increase the operational capability of its nuclear forces.

The U.S. is also spending enormous funds on modernizing its overseas military bases in order to deploy more tactical nuclear weapons in NATO allies of Europe.

In particular, the U.S. is pressing ahead with its moves to carry out the first test fire of the new missile defense shield Golden Dome within this year as part of its hegemonic space arms buildup.

All the facts prove that the U.S. new nuclear strategy aimed at facilitating the use of nukes in a real war has already entered the implementation stage before its announcement.

Explicitly speaking, the U.S. new nuclear doctrine is a serious dangerous factor as it destroys the nuclear balance in the world, escalates a nuclear arms race and drives global security environment into the threshold of a nuclear war.

It is crystal clear that its new nuclear strategy will most adversely affect the security environment in the Asia-Pacific region where there are many nuclear weapons states.

After making it a fait accompli to unleash a nuclear war against the DPRK, the U.S. has drawn up nuclear operation guidelines in collusion with the ROK, held regular meetings of Nuclear Consultative Group and promised that it would provide Japan with extended deterrence including nuclear weapons.

It predicts that the first target of the new nuclear strategy may be the Korean peninsula.

The reality goes to prove that to overwhelmingly raise the level of versatility, functionality and practicability of the nuclear forces in the direction of more faithfully carrying out two missions of deterrence and retaliation, war prevention and war fighting serves as the best action option to maintain the balance of strength with the enemy states and ensure our state's security right and regional peace.

The most powerful offensive power is the most reliable defense capacity.

We will as ever steadily expand and strengthen the nuclear deterrent for self-defence capable of completely frustrate any nuclear threats and make the enemy states realize the catastrophic consequences to be entailed by their adventurous option against the DPRK.

The U.S. new nuclear strategy will never produce the security interests it calculated. -0

BGSJI and KFA UK on the 50th anniversary of the Panmunjom Incident

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                                       12th of August 2026
The British Group For the Study of the Juche Idea and the  Korean Friendship Association of the UK (KFA UK )  today jointly issued a statement on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the Panmunjom Incident ;
  

 On the 18th of August 1976 the aggressive and fascist Yankee imperialists, sworn enemy of the Korean people, provoked the Panmunjom incident which resulted in the loss of life of 2 US service personnel.

     Basically, the US imperialists ignoring proper procedures and protocols in the joint security area tried to chop down a tree on the DPRK side of the joint security area without the prior permission and consent of the Korean People's Army. KPA soldiers tried to stop the Yankees from chopping down the tree but encountered violence from the Yanks. The KPA soldiers were unarmed but fought back using unarmed combat techniques . The incident ended with 2 US soldiers dead and a number injured.

     The US imperialist aggressors blustered and threatened the DPRK talking about a nuclear strike and sending aircraft carriers to Korean waters. However the DPRK under the leadership of the great leader President KIM IL SUNG stood firm and countered the wild provocations of the US imperialists .

   

The Panmunjom Incident showed that the Korean People's Army and the Korean people holding the arms of Juche and led by the great leaders President KIM IL SUNG and chairman KIM JONG IL are ever-victorious and invincible capable of defeating any foe.

We are convinced that led by respected Marshal KIM JONG UN , an ever-victorious iron -willed brilliant commander , the Korean people will continue to defend their independence and security against any infringement or aggression.

BGSJI

KFA UK  

BGSJI and KFA UK support the press statement "The ROK's scheme for possessing a nuclear submarine, which constitutes a new dangerous element to the security in the Asia-Pacific region, will certainly meet stranding"

  BRITISH GROUP FOR THE STUDY OF THE JUCHE IDEA 

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London  12th of   August 2026
The  British Group for the Study of the Juche Idea and the  Korean Friendship Association of the UK (KFA UK  )  , issued the following joint statement in support of the press statement of Jang Kum Chol, first vice-minister and director general of the Tenth Department of the DPRK Foreign Ministry , which was titled "The ROK's scheme for possessing a nuclear submarine, which constitutes a new dangerous element to the security in the Asia-Pacific region, will certainly meet stranding" and issued on the 12th of August ;

The press statement of Jang Kum Chol , first vice minster and director general of the Tenth Department of the DPRK Foreign Ministry draws attention to the plan of the ROK puppet regime to acquire a nuclear submarine . In May the ROK puppets announced the "Jangbogo-N Project"  to build a nuclear submarine by the 2030s. Of course this is not a new stratagem by the ROK puppets but it is a long standing plan that goes back over 20 years .

The ROK puppets invoke the false spectre of a "nuclear threat " from somewhere but in fact the ROK puppets have a hidden agenda which is to acquire nuclear armaments and become a nuclear power . Such a thing would cause a spiralling nuclear arms race in north east Asia.

Already the so-called AUKUS (Australia , UK , US ) nuclear war alliance is already in existence . If the ROK acquires a  nuclear submarine and nuclear weapons it will mean that a second nuclear war alliance , the ROK-US -Japan  alliance will exist in the Asia Pacific region.

Peace loving and progressive people of the world should pay attention to these ill boding developments and campaign against the attempts of the ROK puppets and Japan to become nuclear powers.

The DPRK is resolute in maintaining a deterrent power against its enemies .

We support the correct stand of the DPRK.

BGSJI

KFA UK

DPRK SPA Standing Committee Sends Condolatory Message to Lao State Funeral Committee

Pyongyang, August 12 (KCNA) -- The Standing Committee of the Supreme People's Assembly of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea sent a message of condolence to the Lao state funeral committee on August 9 as regards the demise of Xaysomphone Phomvihane, former president of the National Assembly of the Lao People's Democratic Republic.

Expressing deep condolences to the National Assembly and people of Laos and the bereaved family, the message said that the feats performed by Xaysomphone Phomvihane in contributing to the Lao people's cause of building socialism and the development of the relations of friendship and cooperation between the two countries will always be remembered. -0-

Press Statement of Jang Kum Chol, First Vice-Minister and Director General of Tenth Department of DPRK Foreign Ministry

Pyongyang, August 12 (KCNA) -- Jang Kum Chol, first vice-minister and director general of the Tenth Department of the DPRK Foreign Ministry, Wednesday issued the following press statement "The ROK's scheme for possessing a nuclear submarine, which constitutes a new dangerous element to the security in the Asia-Pacific region, will certainly meet stranding":

The ROK's scheme for possessing a nuclear submarine, which has recently entered the phase of practice, is amplifying the instability of the regional security environment.

The ROK, which announced in May the "Jangbogo-N Project" for the development and introduction of its own nuclear submarine by the mid-2030s, is now intensifying its moves to implement it.

At the first meeting of the "future defense strategy committee" held at the naval submarine command in Jinhae, South Kyongsang Province a few months ago, the chief executive of the ROK justified the development of nuclear submarine, claiming that the plan for building a nuclear submarine is an expression of the will to take responsibility for peace and security on the Korean peninsula.

The ROK Ministry of National Defense, too, clarified that the nuclear submarine will use low-enriched uranium fuel and the whole process of development and building will take place at home. Thus, it officially declared that the development of nuclear submarine has switched over to the stage of practice from the planning stage.

Early in June, a U.S. delegation led by the U.S. undersecretary of State for Political Affairs, which comprised officials of the State Department, the Department of Energy and the Department of Defense, visited the ROK to agree to accelerate the consultation on nuclear submarine and establish a tripartite cooperation framework for the introduction of small modular reactor between the U.S., Japan and the ROK. It is a typical example of the fact that the prior environment necessary for the ROK's development of nuclear submarine is being created.

The ROK's persistent attempt to possess nuclear submarine can never be regarded as a defense measure to cope with someone's "threat".

The ROK has secretly pushed ahead with its plan for building a nuclear submarine since 2003, more than 20 years ago. Such fact goes to prove that the ROK's ambition to possess nuclear submarine is neither a "reflective measure" to respond to the DPRK's possession of nuclear weapons nor a matter of defensive nature to cope with the "regional threat".

Obviously, the ROK harbors another ambition.

The ROK raised the issue of enriched uranium for nuclear fuel as an item of preferential solution prior to the design, hull building and reactor development of nuclear submarine and demanded the revision of the "U.S.-ROK Nuclear Agreement". The fact hints at many things.

It is the final goal of the ROK to secure the right to produce nuclear materials, free from the restraint of the item on reprocessing nuclear waste fuel and prohibiting uranium enrichment, and ultimately pave the way for making a leap forward to nuclear armament.

The secret intention of the ROK, which is working hard to develop a nuclear submarine with its own nuclear armament in sight, can never be diluted, no matter how it talks about the "nuclear threat" from someone or "building up of self-defense capabilities".

The ROK's possession of nuclear submarine will inevitably result in nuclear dominoes in the Asia-Pacific region.

Japan has already disclosed its ambition not to exclude all possible options for the introduction of nuclear submarine, throwing off the mask of the "Three Non-Nuclear Principles" with the ROK's scheme to possess nuclear submarine as an occasion.

The ROK's scheme to possess nuclear submarine is not a matter to be considered as the military ambition of a country.

This is part of the U.S. great strategy to build an axis of nuclear hegemony in the Asia-Pacific region with the proliferation of nuclear submarine as a vehicle and thus restructure the military balance in the global scale in favor of it.

The U.S.-Japan-ROK tripartite military cooperation system, which is turning into a nuclear alliance, and AUKUS, the U.S., UK and Australia nuclear submarine alliance, are already in existence in the Asia-Pacific region.

The ROK's possession of nuclear submarine will inevitably be a preparatory step for developing the U.S.-Japan-ROK tripartite military alliance into the "second AUKUS", and if the international community overlooks this, it will have no other choice but to face the waves of confrontation made by the U.S.-led nuclear submarine alliance in the Asia-Pacific region including the waters around the Korean Peninsula, the Taiwan Strait and the South Sea of China.

The geopolitical security environment in the Asia-Pacific region is facing a grave challenge due to the U.S. which oversteps the conception of alliance and openly connives and encourages the attempt of its allies to go nuclear and the ROK engrossed in greedy ambition.

The plan for developing a nuclear submarine agreed by Washington which granted a request of Seoul will further aggravate instability in the Korean Peninsula, and this constitutes a grave challenge to the security of our state and its maritime sovereignty and a security threat to be countered without fail.

The new reality of amplifying regional instability reminds us why it is the first national strategic affair to possess the most perfect and complex operational combat strength capable of reliably defending the maritime sovereignty of the state while initiatively and preferentially coping with any change of the security environment.

The possession of the unparalleled power capable of neutralizing all sorts of existing or newly-emerging potential threats and responding to any military attempt of the enemy states to provoke the strategic sovereignty security of our state with the retaliatory attack which make them impossible to survive and revive will be the most responsible option for deterring a war. -0-

International Affairs Analyst of DPRK on Japan's Policy of "Using Atomic Power"

Pyongyang, August 12 (KCNA) -- Ri Myong Nam, an international affairs analyst of the DPRK, Wednesday issued the following article "What does the policy of 'using an atomic power', timed to coincide with the Japanese high-ranking politicians' assertion of access to nuke, suggest?":

At a recent cabinet ministerial conference on the atomic power policy, Japan reportedly decided an action guideline calling for "making the utmost use of atomic power for energy security and decarbonization".

The essence of the guideline is to build 2~5 new nuclear reactors of the next generation by the 2040s and 11~14 reactors by the 2050s as regards the fact that the reactors of most domestic atomic power plants are superannuated, and to focus on investment, research and development and training of talents to this end.

At a glance, it is illuminated as a medium- and long-term plan for satisfying the daily-increasing domestic energy demand, but in view of the relations with the policy of atomic power pursued by Japan, the guideline contains a sinister and cunning strategic attempt that can never be overlooked.

It is an open secret that Japan planned to develop and use atomic bombs targeting the enemy states during World War II and has persistently pursued the possession of nuclear weapons so far.

Japan's atomic power policy is an extremely double-dealing and deceptive one as it has persistently pursued the nuclear armament under the specious name of "peaceful use of atomic power".

It is proved by the successive Japanese rulers from the Kishi Cabinet in the 1950s to the Abe Cabinet in the 2010s through Sato, Fukuta, Nakasone and Hata cabinets, who said that "Japan would have nuclear weapons if the requirement for defense was imminent", "Japan can have nuclear weapons for exclusive defense under the constitution," and "Japan is certainly capable of possessing nuclear weapons".

In fact, the Japanese government and the "Self-Defense Forces" have never stopped the internal examination on nuclear armament for the past decades, and it goes without saying that Japan's ambition for nuclear armament is based on the vast amount of nuclear material and nuclear technology seized through the operation of nuclear power plants at home.

Under the active patronage and connivance of the U.S., Japan is enjoying the privilege of extracting, stockpiling and reusing plutonium by reprocessing spent nuclear fuel among non-nuclear states. And it has now stockpiled 44.4 tons of plutonium and is planning to complete the spent nuclear fuel reprocessing plant within this year.

Nuclear power plants in Japan have reportedly piled up large quantities of spent nuclear fuel rods which can be used in extracting plutonium at any time and their quantities have already approached the limit of storage capacity.

It is the opinion of experts that Japan, which has secured huge quantities of nuclear material and possessed sensitive nuclear technology for military purposes, has turned into a de facto "quasi-nuclear weapons state" capable of making nuclear weapons within several months once it is determined to do.

What should not be overlooked is the fact that the Japanese government's decision on the nuclear power-related guidelines is timed to coincide with the recent call for nuclear possession by ultra-right politicians.

The present Takaichi Cabinet, which emerged in October last year, is pushing ahead with neo-militarist internal and external policies such as the revision of the "Three Non-Nuclear Principles" and the possession of nuclear submarines, while the theory of nuclear armament is openly being discussed among high-ranking politicians including the minister of Defense and an assistant to the prime minister.

Japan is hell-bent on the deployment of various kinds of ultra-modern military hardware including Tomahawk cruise missile for actual war and the expansion of firing range with the back of its American master keen on maintaining military hegemony in the Asia-Pacific region. It is as clear as noonday that what the purpose of Japan is through a decision on guidelines related to medium and long-term atomic power.

It is the real intention of the Japanese ruling quarters in advertising "the maximum use of atomic power" to maximize the striking power of military hardware deployed for action in parallel with the building of military infrastructure possessed of preemptive attack means far beyond the territory of the archipelago.

Even now when 80-odd years have passed after the war, neo-militarist Japan is sharpening the sword of revenge while persistently denying its past history of aggression and advocating the "story of threats from neighboring countries". If Japan has nuclear weapons, a catastrophe unprecedented in history will surely come true.

Japan's nuclear armament, another malicious variable, seriously threatens the strategic security balance of the region along with the U.S.-Japan-ROK cooperation system which is evolving into a military bloc containing nuclear elements. The prevailing situation demands that the independent states in the region bolster up the war deterrent capable of overwhelmingly suppressing the dangerous military acts of the enemy countries.

If Japan, a war criminal state frantically dashing toward the threshold, hallucinated by militarism, persists in its nuclear weapons ambition, it will surely reach the tragic end of ruin of the whole of the archipelago.

The international community aspiring after justice and peace should never tolerate Japan's reckless and dangerous scheme for nuclear armament. -0-

New Sights of Bathing Beach

 

With the bathing season coming in the DPRK, the Wonsan Kalma Coastal Tourist Area is crowded with an increasing number of tourists. A batch of new water amusement equipment was added to the excitement of bathers. 

Myongsasimni Water Park

 

Local tourists have a good time at Myongsasimni Water Park in the Wonsan Kalma Coastal Tourist Area in the DPRK. The resort is located in the country’s renowned seaside spot on the East Sea of Korea.

Japan's Defense White Paper Is Reinvasion-minded One for Legalization of Operation of War Machine: International Security Analyst

Pyongyang, August 11 (KCNA) -- Kang Won Chol, an international security analyst of the DPRK, issued the following article "Japan's defense white paper is a reinvasion-minded one for the legalization of the operation of war machine":

Japan has been rushing headlong into militarization, seized with an ambition for reinvasion. Against this backdrop, it issued the 2026 Defense White Paper.

In the white paper, being rejected as the one for aggression at home and abroad, Japan groundlessly described the DPRK and other neighboring countries as a "serious and imminent threat" and the "greatest strategic challenge" in order to justify its reckless arms buildup.

It is nothing but an act of turning black into white that Japan stipulated the "threat" from neighboring countries in the white paper although it has been putting spurs to the tightening of the alliance with the U.S. and its followers after setting it as a "state policy" to negate its past crimes and realize its ambition to become a military power.

As everybody knows, Japan, a war criminal state responsible for inflicting a great disaster upon the humankind in the first half of the 20th century, refuses to discard the militarist ambition for reinvasion in the face of all the political and legal restrictions, and have been heading for its conversion into a military power out of vengeance for its defeat for over 80 years. This poses an imminent and serious threat to the world at present.

Following the publication of the white paper, Defence Minister Koizumi stressed the need to beef up and renovate the military muscle with a sense of urgency and crisis in response to the escalating threats from the neighboring countries. This clearly shows how desperately he is pushing Japan into following an extremely dangerous road in the vanguard for militarization.

The reality proves that Japan's political climate and true colors characterized by an aggression gene remain unchanged and mutate into more dangerous forms with each passing day.

No matter how hard Japan tries to describe its real intention for aggression as "defense", it will never conceal its true colors as a root cause of endangering the peace and escalating the tensions in the region.

To build up in every way an overwhelming and powerful war deterrent for self-defence capable of containing and frustrating the enemy states' ambition for reinvasion and their attempt to unleash an aggressive war serves as an indispensable contribution to reliably defending the sovereignty of the country and maintaining the regional peace and stability.

Japan's frantic moves to turn itself into a war state and invasion-minded state will only further endanger Japan's future.

The international community should sharpen vigilance against Japan's neo-militarist move to seriously destroy the regional peace and security and turn itself into a more dangerous entity each day, and strongly condemn and reject it. -0-