Holding Peerless Great Leader in High Esteem

Holding Peerless Great Leader in High Esteem

 2026.6.30.

http://www.mfa.gov.kp/view/article/24603

June 29 is a significant day marking the 10th anniversary when respected Comrade Kim Jong Un was elected as President of the State Affairs of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK).

Thanks to the wise leadership of Comrade Kim Jong Un who is the most prominent thinker and theoretician in the present world, great strategist of the state building and great master of the creation and change, a solid foundation for the comprehensive development of socialism has been laid in our country and national power and position have been remarkably enhanced over the past decade.

All sectors of the national economy have seen upward trend, ideal streets and houses for people are being built across the country including Pyongyang. Such socialist assets as Sinuiju Combined Greenhouse Farm, Kangdong Greenhouse Farm, Yangdok Hot Spring Resort, Wonsan Kalma Coastal Tourist Area are mushrooming.

In line with the programme of the rural revolution in the new era and regional development policy, modern regional industry factories and leisure complexes are being built in 20 counties every year, thus creating eye-opening reality where the people in the capital city envies the other provinces and the regional prosperity represents the advance and development of our state.

Thanks to the daily-increasing socialist measures, our people are leading a genuine life and children are growing up to be the masters of the future with nothing to envy.

Comrade Kim Jong Un legalized the state nuclear force policy and strengthened the people’s army into the elite revolutionary army. Thus he consolidated the eternal foundation for ensuring the security of our Republic and defending national interests in the turbulent world of today where violence and arbitrariness are rampant, and transformed our country into an impregnable fortress.

Comrade Kim Jong Un is leading the cause of building a powerful socialist country to sure victory with his gifted ideological and theoretical wisdom and outstanding leadership. As our people hold in high esteem such a peerless great leader, they have firm faith and unwavering will to achieve without fail the victory of Korean-style socialism and accomplish the historic cause of building a rich country with a strong army.

Our people will surely build a socialist power that is independent in politics, self-sufficient in economy and self-reliant in national defense, advancing along the sacred and bold road of pioneering indicated by respected Comrade Kim Jong Un.

Report of KFA UK Online Meeting for the 10th anniversary of the election of respected comrade KIM JONG UN 29.06.2026

 The Korean Friendship Association of the UK (KFA UK ) held an online meeting to mark the 10th anniversary of the election of respected Marshal KIM JONG UN as President of State Affairs of the DPRK . Participating were KFA UK members from London , the north west and Scotland as well guests from KFA International , KFA Andalusia , KFA Germany and the People’s Korea Initiative of Poland  .

KFA UK Chairman Dr Dermot Hudson said that “During the past 10 years under the leadership of respected Marshal KIM JONG UN construction work has leaped forward at the speed of Chollima without marking time or stagnation . All obstacles like the sanctions of the imperialists -lets remember that the DPRK is under massive sanctions not just by the US (which has just announced that it it is extending the so-called emergency against the DPRK ) but by the UN Security Council  , UK , EU  as well as  natural disasters have been pushed aside thanks to the self-reliant efforts of the Korean people and the dynamic leadership of Marshal KIM JONG UN , a leader who knows only progress and advance. The draconian sanctions of the imperialists have not been able to halt the advance of People’s Korea .The secret weapons of the Korean people are the Juche idea and the leadership of respected Marshal KIM JONG UN .

When I visited Pyongyang in April 2024 not only did I see many changes but I can truly say that I had never seen building work being carried out on such a big scale than before .Looking out of my hotel room window I saw a multi-story block of flats under construction and construction work going on all over Pyongyang . Visiting the DPRK some 18 months later in October 2025 I again saw big changes  . Construction projects that had been under way during my 2024 visit had been completed. A whole new district on the route to the airport had appeared .”

KFA Germany in their contribution to the meeting praised the leadership of respected Marshal KIM JONG UN and said that the DPRK was ever prospering .

Questions and answers followed .

The documentaries “Pyongyang Undergoing Transformation” and “Long live the Workers' Party of Korea shouted in northern areas”  were shown .

The meeting concluded at 2000 hours BST.

BGSJI and KFA UK on the 96th anniversary of the Kalun meeting and the publication of " The Path of the Korean Revolution "

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 The British Group for the Study of the Juche Idea (BGSJI) and the  Korean Friendship Association  of the UK (KFA UK ) issued the following joint statement on the occasion of the 96th  anniversary the historic Kalun meeting and the speech made by the great leader President KIM IL SUNG  The Path of the Korean Revolution;
  96 years ago President KIM IL SUNG addressed a meeting of the leading activists and cadres of the Young Communist League of Korea and the Anti-Imperialist Youth League . In those days the Korean people were looking for a new way to successfully conduct the revolutionary struggle for independence and national liberation as well as the struggle for class liberation . In the past bourgeois nationalists had tried to conduct the independence movement by relying on big powers and also just among a few top-level leaders . The emergence of the communist movement in Korea had proved to be a false dawn because it became quickly split into rival factions who competed against each other for recognition from the Communist International  and did not conduct revolutionary struggle among the masses . People groaned in despair.

    The young President KIM IL SUNG keenly realised that this was not the way forward . He stressed that the Korean revolution should be carried out independently and by relying on the popular masses.
 In his speech  'The Path of the Korean Revolution  ' he explained his ideas and put forward the Juche -orientated line of the Korean revolution. In the speech he castigated the factionalists and flunkeys and said that  “The masters of the revolutionary struggle are the masses of the people, and only when they are organized and mobilized can they win the revolutionary struggle.”
   This is the basis of the Juche idea and it can be said that the Juche Idea was first proclaimed to the world  in the speech made at Kalun .
  In the speech President KIM IL SUNG set forth the revolutionary line of armed struggle, original line of the anti-Japanese national united front and Juche-oriented policy of party founding for the first time in the history of the national liberation struggle in colonial countries, and dynamically led the revolution along the road of Juche.
  Since then the Korean revolution has never looked back and never marked time. Thanks to the correct line set down at the Kalun meeting , the line of Juche , the Korean people gained independence and built an independent socialist power of Juche .
  Today People's Korea  is advancing under the banner of the Juche idea  smashing the sanctions of the US-led hostile forces !

BGSJI
KFA UK 

Speech of Dr Dermot Hudson to the KFA UK Picket of the US Embassy 27.06.2026

 We are here today picketing the US embassy because a few days ago on Tuesday  25th of June , it was the 76th anniversary of the provocation of the Korean War which is known as the Fatherland Liberation War in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea . The was was not a war between Koreans but between a small country , the DPRK , and the American empire. Indeed it was a war against Korea , against the Korean people. 

Let’s remember that the US is not some wonderful land of ‘freedom and democracy ‘ by the head of a giant corrupt empire that gave you Jeffrey Epstein and has military bases in every corner of the globe.

 The US imperialists, the ringleader of world imperialism and international reactionaries, provoked a war in Korea on the 25th of June 1950 by instigating their south Korean puppets to attack the young Democratic People's Republic of Korea. The US imperialists were hungry for profits and conquest. The US imperialists fought an unjust aggressive war against the Korean people. The US imperialists launched a war of conquest against the DPRK , a war to destroy the Juche-based people's democratic system in the DPRK as well as to destroy socialism in Asia and the world.

The Korean people led by the great revolutionary leader Marshal KIM IL SUNG, a true military strategic genius and ever-victorious iron-willed brilliant commander  fought a fierce anti-imperialist, anti-US struggle against US imperialism and the allied forces of international reaction. It was a fierce class struggle against the enemies of the people. The Korean people fought a national liberation war against the Yankee imperialist invaders, a war of justice for independence and freedom. The Fatherland Liberation War of the Korean people proved to  a crucible of the great Juche  idea of self-reliance.

The great leader President KIM IL SUNG said that “ The Fatherland Liberation War waged by our people was a fierce ,anti-imperialist , anti-US struggle against the allied forces of world reaction headed by US imperialism and a bitter class struggle against the enemies of the people"

                 

  We condemn the appalling barbarity of the US imperialists during the Fatherland Liberation War . We denounce their crimes of massacring civilians, use of biological and chemical weapons. 35,383 people were murdered by the US at Sinchon -ri and 1,050 people at Susan-ri (one third of the population of the area),  just to give a few examples.  The US carpetbombed Korea , dropping 18 bombs per kilometre. They also used biological and chemical weapons. By starting the Korean War 76 years ago , the US waged a genocidal war of extermination against the Korean people killing millions.

. History will curse forever the US imperialists as criminals as well as an enemy of humanity and progress. Indeed US imperialism is the ringleader of aggression and war. As proved by the recent racial violence and oppression of black people. it is the US that is the biggest human rights violator in the world.

                     

    The US imperialists continue to occupy south Korea to this very  day ,ignoring the will of the Korean people and the voices of world progressives. The US imperialists have committed crimes in south Korea too numerous to mention. They are exploiting the south Korean people by taking huge sums of money in so-called "upkeep expenses". The US imperialists have introduced anthrax into south Korea in order to commit genocide against the Korean nation. This is a horrendous crime. The US imperialists have also tried to stifle the DPRK using the "human rights " issue and used the UN against the DPRK."

Today the DPRK is the most advanced socialist state which provides free housing , free education  , free health care and many other benefits for the people. It is a society without unemployment , without knife crime or vandalism . We defend People’s Korea against US imperialism.

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

What is more dangerous is that the U.S. and the ROK held again a meeting of the "Nuclear Consultative Group" (NCG), a nuclear war body whose purpose is to attack the DPRK with nuclear elements such as nuclear and conventional integration posture . Such meetings were held proving that the US and ROK are planning a nuclear war.

This clearly proves the criminal nature of the body pushing the situation in the Korean peninsula to the brink of a nuclear war

So in fact the War was never really over but continues today. We say 

US out of Korea 

Defend People’s Korea.

Report of KFA UK Picket of the US on Saturday 27th June 2026

The Korean Friendship Association of the UK (KFA UK ) held a picket of the US Embassy in London on the 27th of June at 1500 hours  to mark the Day of Struggle against US imperialism and the 76th anniversary of the provocation of the Fatherland Liberation War by the US imperialists . Participating in the picket were officials and activists of the Korean Friendship Association UK as well progressive ,democratic and anti-imperialist activists from a wide range of organisations.

Picketers braved the abnormally hot weather to show solidarity with People’s Korea .

Dr Dermot Hudson chairman of  KFA UK addressed the picket saying that “We are here today picketing the US embassy because a few days ago on Tuesday  25th of June , it was the 76th anniversary of the provocation of the Korean War which is known as the Fatherland Liberation War in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea . The was was not a war between Koreans but between a small country , the DPRK , and the American empire. Indeed it was a war against Korea , against the Korean people. 

Let’s remember that the US is not some wonderful land of ‘freedom and democracy ‘ by the head of a giant corrupt empire that gave you Jeffrey Epstein and has military bases in every corner of the globe.”

A message of solidarity from KFA Germany was read out by KFA UK Organisation secretary Alan Bolon which stated “The US-imperialists threw 600 000 tons of bombs and napalm bombs on the DPRK. 600 000 tons. Almost four times as much as on Japan during the pacific war. An unimaginable high number. One ton is 1000 kilograms. So the US-imperialists threw 600 million kilos of bombs and napalm bombs on Korea. Those bombs did not just hit military targets. These bombs destroyed over 50 000 industrial facilities, over 4500 school buildings, almost 600 scientific facilities, over 8000 cultural and media facilities and over 2 million dwelling houses. That´s a 2 with six zeros. 

But has there been any reparation? Any apology? No, the contrary! The US-imperialists still try to destroy the DPRK. Until this they UNC-troops, including soldiers from Germany and the UK are stationed in the south Korean fascist puppet regime. Until this day the US-imperialists threaten the DPRK with aggressive military maneuvers and try to economically destroy the DPRK with sanctions.”

Members of different organisations addressed the picket stressing the need for solidarity with the DPRK against US imperialism .

Picketers chanted 

“Defend People’s Korea  !”

“US out of Korea “

“Long live People’s Korea ! 

“Long live the Workers Party of Korea “

“Yankee Go Home “

The picket concluded at 1630 hours.

Speech of KFA UK Chairman Dr Dermot Hudson to the joint KFA UK -KFA Hungary meeting on the start of the Month of Solidarity with the Korean people.

It was on this very day that the ROK(south Korean ) puppet regime acting under the orders of the US provoked the Fatherland Liberation War which is referred to by the mainstream media as the Korean War , although it was not a war between Koreans but between a small country , the DPRK , and the American empire. Indeed it was a war against Korea , against the Korean people .As Marshal KIM JONG UN said to a conference of war veterans in 2015 that the Fatherland Liberation War was “a confrontation between rifle and atomic bomb.”


One of the most persistent myths and biggest lies in the West about the Korean War is that People’s Korea started the war and is used to demonise the DPRK to this very day and justify US aggression against the DPRK..

In fact an old teacher of mine told me a story that you won’t find in the Western history books;. On June 26th 1950 he was taking a party of children from his school around the offices of the ‘Daily Herald ‘ ( a long defunct newspaper ) when they started the visit the ticker tape coming out said ‘ south Korea attacks north Korea’ ‘ but when they were finishing the visit this had been changed to ‘north Korea attacks south Korea’ . It just shows you even then how the media manufactures the news ! .

To the above anecdote the following can be added ;

Firstly,The famous American journalist John Gunther wrote in his book “Riddle of McArthur” that a US staff officer in Tokyo on the 25th of June was called to the phone and came back and whispered, “A big story has just broken. The South Koreans have attacked North Korea."’

Secondly,On the morning of the 25th of June 650 US women and children were evacuated by the Norwegian ship the Reinford at 3am in the morning. US accounts put the war as starting at 6am so how would the US know in advance to plan the evacuation of its nationals?


Thirdly,Choe Dok Sin ,former South Korean Army commander, south Korean foreign minister and South Korean ambassador to the UN stated he saw the secret order of Syngham Rhee(south Korean puppet dictator) to start the war .


Fourthly,On January 26th 1950 the US concluded the US-south Korea Mutual Defence Treaty. On the 14th of April 1950 a then secret directive of US National Security Council directive NSC 68 authorised the start of the Korean war.


All the above facts show that it was not the DPRK that provoked or started the Fatherland Liberation War but the south Korean puppets egged on by their Yankee overlords

I would also point out that John Foster Dulles , US envoy , was in south Korea 7 days before the war broke out . If the US did not provoke the war what was he doing there ?


. I would recommend people read the excellent ‘ The US imperialists Started the Korean War ‘ and ' DISTORTION OF US PROVOCATION OF KOREAN WAR’ .

The US imperialists, the ringleader of world imperialism and international reactionaries, provoked a war in Korea on the 25th of June 1950 by instigating their south Korean puppets to attack the young Democratic People's Republic of Korea. The US imperialists were hungry for profits and conquest. The US imperialists fought an unjust aggressive war against the Korean people. The US imperialists launched a war of conquest against the DPRK , a war to destroy the Juche-based people's democratic system in the DPRK as well as to destroy socialism in Asia and the world.



President KIM IL SUNG summed up the Fatherland Liberation War as follows

“The Fatherland Liberation War waged by our people was a fierce ,anti-imperialist , anti-US struggle against the allied forces of world reaction headed by US imperialism and a bitter class struggle against the enemies of the people”

The Korean people in contrast to the US and its satellites fought a war on their own soil to defend their independence and the people’s democratic system. It was also a class struggle against the capitalists and landlords in south Korea and former capitalists and landlords within the DPRK who wanted to restore the capitalist system


The Fatherland Liberation War of the Korean people proved to be a fiery crucible of the great Juche idea and self-reliance.

The US threw into the war unprecedented numbers of troops and amounts of materials , including troops from 15 of their satellite countries including to our eternal shame those from Britain .Prescription charges for medicine were introduced by the government to pay for the cost of sending British troops which showed that the aggressive war against the Korean people was paralleled by reactionary policies at home.

The war was a struggle against US imperialism and the allied forces of world reaction which unfortunately included the British Labour government but significantly fascist , reactionary and feudal regimes such as Apartheid South Africa, Colombia of the death squads, fascist Greece and Haile Selaissie's Ethiopia .


Another myth was that it was a war for ‘freedom and democracy “A US air force general, Curtis Le May who commanded US forces in the Korean War said "We went over there and fought the war and eventually burned down every town in North Korea anyway, someway or another, and some in South Korea too. Over a period of three years or so, we killed off - what - twenty percent of the population of Korea"


Le May went on to become an American politician and a US vice-presidential candidate for the far right racist "American Independent Party " in the 1960s. Le May supported segregation in the USA


It was surely no coincidence that George Lincoln Rockwell the founder and leader of the American Nazi Party served as a lieutenant commander in the US imperialist forces during the war! . In reality the US had waged a racist ,genocidal war against the Korean people.The US imperialists tried to exterminate the Korean people by carrying out the war that they long planned

The barbarity of the US imperialists during the war was beyond human description.At least 1.2 million people were killed by the US. 35,383 people were murdered by the US at Sinchon -ri and 1,050 people at Susan-ri (one third of the population of the area), just to give a few examples.Sinchon county was the American Auschwitz .

I myself have visited the Sinchon museum which has now been renamed the Sinchon Class Education Centre , some 5 times , 3 times to the old museum(which was spread over 2 sites ) and the new expanded and modernised museum twice in 2015 and 2017 . I have met survivors of the massacre by US troops and also participated in an international rally at Sinchon in 2013 . In 2017 I actually made a speech at Sinchon.

During the Fatherland Liberation War the US carpet bombed the DPRK .During the Korean War the U.S. imperialist aggressors reduced the cities and villages in the northern half of Korea to debris, in breach of war laws and regulations banning attack or bombardment on peaceful cities, villages, dwelling houses and buildings by any means. This war represented a history laying bare the brutality of the U.S. imperialist aggressors and their crimes.

Blustering that they would wipe 78 cities of north Korea off the surface of the earth, the U.S. imperialist aggressors massively bombed and shelled the whole territory of the northern half of Korea and even used internationally banned napalm bombs and bio-chemical bombs, thus turning its whole territory into wilderness of cinders and ashes.

The atrocities committed by the U.S. imperialists on the ground and in the sea and air resulted in severely destroying 50,941 buildings of industrial establishments, 28,632 school buildings at all levels, 4,534 public health buildings including hospitals and clinics, 579 scientific research institutions, 8,163 printing and cultural institutions and 2,077,226 dwelling houses. 7,491 churches, chapels, cathedrals and other buildings for religious services disappeared. This brought the total number of severely damaged buildings to 2,416,407.

Railways extending 4,879 km, roads extending 4,009 km and bridges totaling 1,109 km and 1,489 locomotives, 4,803 trucks and 6,281 fishing boats and ships were destroyed, and 1,715 reservoirs and relevant facilities were blown up or destroyed, causing tremendous human, material and environmental damage.

It should also be mentioned that the US used biological and chemical warfare against the Korean people . The use of germ weapons was confirmed at the time by the confessions of captured US pilots and by an international scientific fact finding delegation which included the famous British scientist Professor Joseph Needham . Although the US tried to deny the use of germ weapons dismissing it as propaganda later research by Japanese expert Professor Masataka Mori revealed the DPRK’s story to be true.


The war exposed the barbarity and decadence of US imperialism . As President KIM IL SUNG said "Engels once called the British army the most brutal army. During the Second World War, the German fascist army surpassed the barbarism of the British army. No human brain could ever imagine more diabolic and terrible cruelty than those done by the Hitler gangsters at that time. But in Korea, the Americans have far exceeded the Hitlerites!"

Today 76 years after the provocation of the war the US hostile policy towards the DPRK and over 30,000 US troops plus nuclear weapons remain in south Korea . We must campaign against them .

KCNA Commentary on Reckless Acts of Japan, Defeated Country

Pyongyang, June 29 (KCNA) -- Japan's moves to turn itself into a military giant are getting evermore undisguised. Against this backdrop, it launched frenzied drill Resolute Dragon in the archipelago in collusion with the U.S.

The annual drill Resolute Dragon is a war rehearsal simulating an actual war, which started from 2021 under the signboard of "improving the U.S.-Japan joint capability to counter the threat of aggression" by someone, non-existent. Japan has steadily increased its capability to launch an act of aggression through the drill.

In the last year's drill alone, Japan increased the number of the "Self-Defense Forces" by ten times as compared with the first drill in which some 1 400 forces were involved, and greatly expanded the facilities used for the drill.

Moreover, the SDF's role was remarkably enhanced in training for reconnaissance, the primary stage in preemptive attack on opponents.

This year's drill is also being thoroughly subordinated to reconfirming the operational capability of the war machine called Japan and hastening the moment of actual war.

V-22 Osprey cargo planes of the Ground "SDF" are using the U.S. military base in Okinawa Prefecture for the first time and increasing the capability to rapidly transport aggression forces anywhere in the archipelago. And furthermore the drill includes a drone training aimed to draw on the experience of the Ukrainian battlefields and master new combat methods in modern warfare.

This fully proves the aggressive and offensive nature of the Resolute Dragon.

What matters is that recently Japan has further promoted military ties with the U.S., aggravating the situation in the surrounding region.

In February, Japan repeatedly staged joint air drills with the U.S. in the sky above the surroundings of the Korean peninsula with the mobilization of F-2 and F-15 fighters. And subsequently it conducted the joint drill Iron Fist with the U.S. Marines in its mainland.

Especially, Japan dispatched the "SDF" troops to take an active part in the U.S.-led multinational military drill in the Asia-Pacific region between April and May for the first time.

What should not be overlooked is that Japan, which had participated in the military drill as an observer until last year, not only hurled war forces this year but also openly launched long-range strike means developed for preemptive attack on neighboring countries during the drill.

Clear is Japan's purpose of deepening military integration with the U.S. It is the real intention of the Japanese militarists to justify Japan's transformation into a war state and become the "leader of Asia" at an early date by taking advantage of the present chaotic international situation created by their master's rogue act intended to contain the enemy countries and rival states in the region and realize its ambition for hegemony.

Originally, it is Japan's inveterate bad habit to attain its aggressive purpose with the backing of a big country.

It is obvious that if the defeated country of Asia, closely watched by the international community, completes all preparations for the operation of war machine for overseas aggression under the active backing of the U.S., it will surely create a grave crisis threatening peace and stability 1n the Korean peninsula and the region.

However, Japan should not act rashly, mindful that its rush to mount a reinvasion while serving the world's biggest war merchant will only bring a miserable end. -0-

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BGSJI and KFA UK on the 10th anniversary of the election of dear respected comrade KIM JONG UN as President of the State Affairs of the DPRK

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                      29th  June 2026The British Group for the Study of the Juche Idea (BGSJI) and the Korean Friendship Association  of the UK (KFA UK  ) issued the following joint statement on the occasion  of the 10th   anniversary of the election of the dear respected leader Marshal KIM JONG UN as President of the State Affairs of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea:
  

  The election of dear respected Marshal KIM JONG UN as President  of the State Affairs  ten years ago on the 29th of June 2016 fully reflected the enthusiastic support of the entire Korean people for the dear respected Marshal KIM JONG UN who is leading the Korean people to victory! It was a clear manifestation of the unanimous will of the Korean people as well as their deep reverence for respected Marshal KIM JONG UN as well as their profound trust in him. It was an example of people's democracy in action because dear respected Marshal KIM JONG UN was unanimously elected by the Supreme People's Assembly which in turn had been elected by the people decisively. Unlike the UK where only 68.7  per cent of electors voted, in the DPRK the Supreme People's Assembly was elected by nearly 100 per cent of electors!
   

 Dear respected Marshal KIM JONG UN has been at the helm of the state and party of the DPRK for ten years leading  to victory after victory against the imperialist reactionary forces. He has implemented the great revolutionary line of building the nuclear force and economy in parallel and has greatly improved the living standards of the Korean people turning the DPRK into a paradise of socialist bliss for the people. Under dear respected Marshal KIM JONG UN leadership the deterrent force of the DPRK has been increased and the DPRK is maintaining robust independence.  Dear respected Marshal KIM JONG UN has put forward the brilliant idea of self-development first and self-reliance which is creating a great upsurge in socialist construction. There has been extraordinarily rapid progress  in socialist construction  with the town and cities of the DPRK changing their appearance day after day with new streets such as Hwasong Street rising up out of bare earth,

      Great achievements have been made in consolidating the DPRK's Juche -based national defence power ; for example the DPRK was able to launch two new destroyer ships.

  Only victory and glory are in store for the Korean people under the leadership of dear respected Marshal KIM JONG UN ,  President of State Affairs the DPRK!

  LONG LIVE PEOPLE'S KOREA LAND OF JUCHE!

LONG LIVE KIMILSUNGISM-KIMJONGILISM !

LONG LIVE DEAR RESPECTED MARSHAL KIM JONG UN!

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Ten Remarkable years !-special article marking the 10th anniversary of the election of respected Marshal KIM JONG UN as President of the State Affairs of the DPRK

Ten years ago  on the 29th of June 2016  respected Marshal KIM JONG UN was elected as Chairman of the newly created State Affairs Commission of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK ) by the Supreme People’s Assembly of the DPRK . Later the title of Chairman of the State Affairs Commission of the DPRK became known as the President of the State Affairs of the DPRK . Respected comrade KIM JONG UN had been guiding the party and the state since April 2012 and his election to the post of President of State Affairs of the DPRK reflected the trust and confidence of the Korean people in the leadership abilities of respected Marshal KIM JONG UN .

The years from 2016 in the DPRK  have been truly ten remarkable years; ten years of growth , prosperity, innovation , dynamism  and development which even the capitalist reactionaries like the Wall Street Journal now have to grudgingly admit that People’s Korea is developing rapidly . The source of the DPRK’s miraculous development is not outside assistance or a benefactor but the DPRK’s own internal strength which is based on self-reliance and single -hearted unity .

During the past ten years in which Marshal KIM JONG UN has presided over the DPRK’s growth I have visited the DPRK  11 times and each time I have seen big changes particularly on my last two visits in 2024 and 2025. Literally high rise buildings has risen up from bare earth one after another , the whole face of Pyongyang has changed . The area between Pyongyang Sunan International Airport and the centre of Pyongyang looks unrecognisable , my guide told me that Hwasong Street was only a few years ago rice fields .

The pace of construction work has been truly massive ; new streets and residential areas such as Ryomyong Street , Songwha Street, Hwasong Street , Jonwi street , Saeppyol Street and the Kyongru-dong residential area.  Over 100, 000 new homes have been built in rural areas . Recently the 2nd Plenary meeting  of the Central Committee of the Workers Party of Korea took the wonderful decision to build new housing in mining areas of the DPRK . 

It is not just new housing that has been built but also new Greenhouse farms such as the Kangdong Greenhouse Farm which I visited in 2024 , this is a state owned farm that is the size of a town and equipped with the latest technology , in fact it looked like something out of science fiction . A new state of the art hospital, the Pyongyang General Hospital , has been constructed in the centre of Pyongyang and there are plans to build 100 new hospitals .

It can be said that the pace of construction in the DPRK has accelerated considerably in the DPRK in the last ten years but these has not been under ideal conditions for the DPRK has faced sanctions by the US imperialists , the UN Security Council and entities such as the EU . The DPRK also suffered a lot of natural disasters which would have caused any other country to crumple up and disappear but thanks to the leadership of respected Marshal KIM JONG UN and the revolutionary spirit of self-reliance , People’s Korea has prospered and is entering a period of the comprehensive development of socialism .

Respected comrade KIM JONG UN has also most actively pushed forward the work of national defence in order to make sure that the great achievements outlined above will not be reduced to naught by a destructive war .The DPRK is a nuclear power and a missile power and it will soon become a great naval power .

We salute the 10th anniversary of the election of Marshal KIM JONG UN as President of the State Affairs of the DPRK  and wish for another ten remarkable years of the dynamic leadership of respected Marshal KIM JONG UN !

Dr Dermot Hudson

Chairman British Group For the Study of the Juche Idea

Chairman of the Korean Friendship Association of the UK

Hon Secretary General Global Farmy Study Group for respected comrade KIM JONG UN’s People-First Policies

Glory to the 10th anniversary of the respected Marshal KIM JONG UN's election as President of the State Affairs of the DPRK.

                                                                               

Today is the 10th anniversary of respected Marshal KIM JONG UN's election as Chairman (now President of State Affairs )of the State Affairs Commission of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK ) .

It has been 10 years of victory and glory which has seen a great leap forward in the Juche revolution and the construction of socialism .

Crime of Japan, Sworn Enemy of Korean Nation

Pyongyang, June 26 (KCNA) -- The Japanese imperialists, who illegally occupied Korea in the last century, had committed ceaseless massacres against Korean people until the day of their defeat.

It is clearly evidenced by the hideous unethical crimes they committed during the project for building underground imperial headquarters in Matsushiro of Japan.

At the end of 1944 when there were clear signs of their defeat, the Japanese imperialists planned to build a secret basement with a total length of more than 10 km in Matsushiro and invested huge funds and manpower in the project and completed 75 percent of the total project until their defeat the next year.

Most of the workers who were forced to work at this labor-consuming underground construction site were Koreans. Among them were even old people and boys.

According to data, Koreans forced into slave labor here averaged more than 7 000 a day, sometimes more than 10 000.

The Japanese imperialists mobilized Korean people for the project, which was linked to the destiny of the war, with the calculation that they could drive the Korean people into slave labor like beasts of burden and with the sordid intention to massacre the Korean workers for secrecy when the project was over.

They mercilessly oppressed the Koreans, who were driven at four o'clock to the construction site, tied to chains under double or treble control and surveillance, to do hard labor for 13 to 15 hours a day or even more than 16 hours, breaking rocks or carrying heavy stones.

The Japanese imperialist beasts beat the Korean workers to death on the spot if they incurred displeasure even a bit, and some workers were put in a concrete mixture or thrown down from a precipice.

Not a single day passed without seeing blood of the Korean workers at the construction site. Even those who barely survived were mercilessly killed under the pretext of keeping secret.

The secret basement was a den of beasts and a veritable hell of death stained with blood of many Koreans. -0-

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Korean War Reveals True Colours of the US (2)

 

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Peace-breaker and Murderer

The US unrestrainedly revealed its true colours as murderer and peace-breaker during the Korean war.

Claiming that Korea is a battlefield on which all the success of the US might depend, it invaded the DPRK that was following a path towards progressive development.

Everything was destroyed and plundered, and peaceful sounds of music gave way to explosion of bombs, enforcing the Korean people into untold misfortune and sufferings.

“Don’t let your hands tremble even when those who appear before you are children or old people. Kill them! In doing so you will be saving yourselves from ruin and fulfilling your responsibilities as soldiers of the ‘UN Forces,’” a US commander ordered. Accordingly, the invaders committed atrocities of all descriptions.

Everywhere they went they shot, beat and burnt innocent civilians to death. Even they slaughtered people by employing the most brutal and medieval methods that are impossible to describe in words and writing. Saying that it is so happy for mothers to stay with their children, an American officer ordered that children were separated from their mothers and gasoline was sprayed over them crying for hunger to burn them to death.

The Americans made no bones about pouring internationally banned bacterial and chemical bombs over innocent people.

Their indiscriminate bombing laid waste to the DPRK.

Clark, who commanded the “UN Forces” towards the end of the war, ordered mass destruction, claiming that they would completely wipe off the map 78 towns in the DPRK.

The capital city of Pyongyang was reduced to rubbles, with no single building left in one piece, after it was bombed out with as many as 428 000 bombs, the number greater than its population.

Throughout the war the US Air Force made 800 000 sorties and the squadrons of the Marines Corps and Navy Force over 250 000 sorties to drop 18 bombs per square kilometre on average, or 3.7 times as many as those dropped on Japan proper during the Pacific War. Such an indiscriminate bombardment burnt all dwelling houses, cultural and healthcare facilities and industrial establishments to the ground.

The atrocity-ridden war claimed well over a million civilian lives in the DPRK.

The Korean war raged on to be a do-or-die fight between the just defenders of peace and the vicious invaders, murderers and destroyers.

Under the guidance of the great leader Comrade Kim Il Sung, the Korean people and service personnel fought at the risk of their lives by displaying unparalleled patriotism, mass heroism and bravery, thereby beating the US which had boasted of being the “strongest” in the world and defending their national dignity and sovereignty. Their victory halted the ever-impending nuclear war crisis and defended the global environment for peaceful development.

Report of Joint Online Meeting of KFA UK and KFA Hungary for the Month of Solidarity with the Korean People 25.06.2026

The Korean Friendship Association of the UK (KFA UK ) and the Korean Friendship Association of Hungary hosted a joint meeting online at 1900 hours on the 25th of June  about the Month of Solidarity with the Korean people and the 76th anniversary of the start of the great Fatherland Liberation War of the Korean people .

Participating in the meeting were members of KFA UK from London , the West of England and other parts of the UK  and also KFA Hungary including its chairman . Also participating was the heads of KFA Germany , KFA Greece and the International Communications Secretary of the Korean Friendship Association.

Dr Dermot Hudson chairman of KFA UK introducing the meeting said that June 25th to July 27th is the month of solidarity with the Korean people because the Fatherland Liberation War started on the 25th of June and ended on the 27th of July.

In his speech which gave the historical background to the provocation of the Fatherland Liberation War he said that “It was on this very day that the ROK(south Korean ) puppet regime acting under the orders of the US   provoked the Fatherland Liberation War which is referred to by the mainstream media as the  Korean War , although it was not a war between Koreans but between a small country , the DPRK , and the American empire. Indeed it was a war against Korea , against the Korean people .As Marshal KIM JONG UN said to a conference of war veterans in 2015 that the Fatherland Liberation War was  “a confrontation between rifle and atomic bomb.”

 

  One of the most persistent myths and biggest lies in the West  about the Korean War is that People’s Korea started the war  and is used to demonise the DPRK to this very day and justify US aggression against the DPRK.”

Dr Hudson also detailed the atrocities of the US imperialists pointing out that “The barbarity of the US imperialists during the war was beyond human description.At least 1.2 million people were killed  by the US. 35,383 people were murdered by the US at Sinchon -ri and 1,050 people at Susan-ri (one third of the population of the area), just to give a few examples.Sinchon county was the American Auschwitz “

The Chairman of KFA Hungary stressed the need to strengthen solidarity with People’s Korea through different events and by using modern communication mediums such as Tiktok .

The Organisation Secretary of KFA UK stressed that the US imperialists tried to hide the truth about the Fatherland Liberation War making it the “unknown war “.

The head of KFA Germany said denounced the atrocities of the US imperialists in the war . He stressed that Germany did not fight in the Korean War but has recently joined the so-called “UN Command “ in the ROK.

The KFA International Communications Secretary said that the struggle against US imperialism continues and that June 25th is an important day.

The head of KFA Greece recalled his participation in KFA UK pickets of the old American embassy in Grosvenor Square in the past . He also denounced the past participation of Greece in the Korean War.

The documentary “The US Imperialist Aggressor Army under the Cloak of UN Force” was streamed to the meeting .

The meeting concluded at 2020 hours BST.

Respected Comrade Kim Jong Un Gives Field Guidance at Newly-built Facilities in Wonsan Kalma Coastal Tourist Area

Pyongyang, June 26 (KCNA) -- The respected Comrade Kim Jong Un, General Secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea and President of the State Affairs of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, gave field guidance at the newly-built facilities in the Wonsan Kalma Coastal Tourist Area on June 24.

He was accompanied by secretaries of the Central Committee of the WPK and major commanding officers of the Korean People's Army.

Going round the newly-built Kalma Tourist Railway Station, Comrade Kim Jong Un acquainted himself in detail with its construction and preparations for its operation.

He praised the builders for their efforts to build a modern railway station in just one year, saying that it seemed as if it was a few days ago when he chose the construction site near the coastal tourist area in order to promote the convenience for passengers visiting the tourist area.

He said that all the elements of the railway station were harmoniously arranged in conformity with the Party's idea on architectural aesthetics, principle of practical layout and requirements of the times and another progress made in the construction of the railway station. He noted with satisfaction that it would be an important occasion for establishing the standard for remodeling the local railway stations and changing the perception of it.

Saying that the importance of the rational combination of technical design and architectural design, intended to fully meet the specific technical and special requirements in the construction of railway station, has been proved again, he clarified the principled issues arising in putting the design of railway infrastructure on a scientific, functional and specialized basis.

Referring to some shortcomings revealed in the final construction of passenger station, he said that the construction sector should direct main efforts to completing a more detailed system of evaluating quality control of construction, building up the construction guidance force and raising the technical and skill levels of builders.

He also said that it is necessary to continuously supplement and perfect the construction law including a legal regulation that requires the construction units to take responsibility for the structural quality and repair and maintain the original state of the structures for a certain period as well as strengthening the role of construction supervisory institutions.

Comrade Kim Jong Un mentioned his idea of modernizing the railway stations in provincial seats across the country on the basis of the successes and experience gained in the construction of the railway station, and instructed to give precedence to the scientific design based on the features and functional demand of the relevant areas, including passenger and freight traffic capacity, and to draft and examine the budget bill.

He set forth a series of tasks including the issue of taking measures to supply vehicles and equipment for various purposes necessary for the management of the railway station and the issue of composing and operating trains for the exclusive use of tourists.

Then Comrade Kim Jong Un visited the newly-built first-aid post in the Wonsan Kalma coastal tourist area.

He went round various places of the first-aid post, including emergency room, operating room, observation room and examination room, and learned about its construction.

He said it is important to build up the ranks of medical workers of the first-aid post and improve the quality of medical service.

Pointing to some shortcomings revealed in the arrangement and design of elements inside the facility, Comrade Kim Jong Un repeatedly stressed that it is important to establish a system for properly drawing up the technical assignments, a prerequisite process and basis for the construction project, and that in order to optimize the design and improve the functionality and specialization of the facility, it is necessary to thoroughly apply the Party's requirement for strengthening the tripartite consultation among the designing, construction and operation units in the deliberation of designs and construction.

Comrade Kim Jong Un said it is essential to further raise the specialized level of design, strengthen the political guidance so that all the processes of construction including design, deliberation, consultation and budgeting are strictly conducted according to scientific and legal procedures under the construction law, and direct greater efforts to improving the practical qualifications of designers since modern hospitals are to be continuously built in 20 cities and counties every year.

Comrade Kim Jong Un clarified the tasks for operation and medical service of the first-aid post, including enough supply of first-aid medicines and consumables necessary for the efficient and normal operation of various equipment. -0-

www.kcna.kp (2026.06.26.)

 

Respected Comrade Kim Jong Un Supervises Tests of Major Weapons Organized by Defence Science Research Institutes

Pyongyang, June 26 (KCNA) -- The respected Comrade Kim Jong Un, General Secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea and President of the State Affairs of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, on June 25 supervised tests of major weapons organized by defence scientific research institutes under the plan for modernizing artillery and missile forces to attain the five-year goal for national defence development.

Among the spectators were Jo Chun Ryong, secretary of the WPK Central Committee, Kim Jong Sik, first vice department director of the WPK Central Committee, Pak Jong Chon, advisor to the Ministry of National Defence, Jang Chang Ha, general director of the Missile Administration, Kim Yong Hwan, president of the Academy of Defence Sciences, Kim Kang Il, vice-minister of National Defence and general director of the General Armaments Bureau, Kim Myong Son, director of the Armaments Examination Bureau of the Ministry of National Defence, Yu Chang Son, director of the Artillery Bureau of the General Staff, and the commanders of large combined units of the Korean People's Army.

The tests analyzed and evaluated the combat characteristics of the upgraded 240mm-caliber 24-tubular multiple rocket launcher system, the power of special mission warhead of tactical ballistic missile, and the hit accuracy of shells with an extended firing range of the 155mm self-propelled gun-howitzer.

The upgraded 24-tubular multiple rocket launcher system is an improved type corps-level firepower system and its firing range has increased to 90 km. All elements of its firepower system were automated and a self-steered precise guidance system was introduced.

And the special mission warhead of the tactical ballistic missile is aimed at inflicting fatal damage on major targets including airfields, ports and power facilities of the enemy.

The test of shells with extended firing range of 65 km of the 155mm self-propelled gun-howitzer, too, is of great military significance.

Expressing great satisfaction over the results of the tests, Comrade Kim Jong Un told the leading cadres accompanying him that he was pleased to show a new state of the development of the national defence introduced at the Second Plenary Meeting of the Ninth Central Committee of the WPK.

Comrade Kim Jong Un said that today's tests of division-level and corps-level firepower systems serve as an occasion of proving and giving confidence in the great technological progress made in implementing our Party's policy on building the armed forces for bringing about a change in the fire posture on the southern border and adhering to the three principles of putting weapons on an automatic, long-range and ultra-precision basis.

He said that the WPK's line on self-reliant defence is being thoroughly guaranteed by our distinguished defence science talents and defence sci-tech capability that pioneer the unique course of development nonstop without hesitation by relying on the highly ingenious development mode.

Saying that the present international situation, in which sovereignty can be defended and existence guaranteed only by complete upper-hand in strength, makes it unnecessary to add any rhetoric to explaining why the bolstering up of the defence capabilities is the indispensable first national strategic work, he added that it eloquently shows the validity of our Party's line of self-defence and the irreversibility of radical development of our armed forces.

Referring to the need to prioritize the development of artillery and missile forces of the Army, he stressed the immediate task for developing the national defence to be carried out during the Five-Year Plan.

As he has recently emphasized so often, our Party's policy on self-defence is not merely for the enhancement of the defensive function relying on defensive means but for further strengthening the deadly and destructive offensive posture to make no enemy dare to confront, and this is a defensive concept in the army-building and military action practice we talk about, he said.

To make the enemies feel constant uneasiness and fear is just an important aspect of the exercise of war deterrent, he said, affirming that we would make the enemies recognize that the long-range strike means of our armed forces have been replaced with upgraded ones in the shortest possible time.

Recalling that the Second Plenary Meeting of the Ninth Central Committee of the WPK clarified the strategic tasks of weighty significance in upgrading and developing the military strength, he called on all the defence science research institutes and munitions production enterprises to turn out in the drive to carry them out.

Comrade Kim Jong Un repeatedly stressed that it is the steadfast will and strategic policy of our Party to build the most powerful artillery forces. -0-

www.kcna.kp (2026.06.26.)

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