For the People - Foundation of Society

 2026.11.4.

http://www.mfa.gov.kp/view/article/25227

Mass demonstrations calling for improved educational and living conditions are now spreading like wildfire throughout the whole of Europe, causing social instability in those countries.

It is reported that demonstrations in different parts of Europe are causing considerable damage as they are growing into violence including the collision with the police.

The demonstrators protested that they can hardly afford to live due to the poor conditions of education, sky-rocketing rent, high cost of living and the rise in fuel price. The demonstrators vented their anger over the authorities’ behavior, complaining that politicians only pursue the interests of their political parties without paying heed to the people’s demands.

Japan sees more and more youngsters giving up marriage owing to their failure to afford the unreasonably expensive wedding costs and houses. It gives rise to another social problem.

Whereas the capitalist societies are busy with taking actions to ease public uproar, the DPRK thoroughly orientates every state and social affair to promoting the people’s wellbeing.

As being seen by the world, the Workers’ Party of Korea and the DPRK government, ever since the foundation, have remained faithful to their intrinsic mission and idea of taking responsibility for the people’s destiny and defending their interests, and have consistently adopted and implemented policies in favor of the working masses no matter how hard and unfavorable the subjective and objective circumstances might be.

Our Party and government provide the modern dwellings newly built at high cost to ordinary working people free of charge. In recent years, many socialist policies have also been expanded and introduced for the promotion of the people’s welfare - including the new childcare policy, the program of rural revolution in the new era and the new-era revolution in public health.

The WPK and the DPRK government formulate policies and lines for the people’s rights and interests as well as the promotion of their wellbeing and firmly implement them at every historic stage of the development of revolution. Thanks to the benefits granted by the Party and government, the Korean people will surely enjoy better life year after year.

Plenary Meeting of DPRK SPA Standing Committee Held

Pyongyang, November 6 (KCNA) -- The Second Plenary Meeting of the Standing Committee of the 15th Supreme People's Assembly of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea was held at the Pyongyang Assembly Hall on November 5.

Kim Hyong Sik, vice-chairman of the Standing Committee of the Supreme People's Assembly of the DPRK, presided over the plenary meeting.

Present there were Ko Kil Son, secretary general of the Standing Committee of the Supreme People's Assembly, and other members of the Standing Committee of the Supreme People's Assembly.

Present there as observers were officials concerned of the Standing Committee of the Supreme People's Assembly, the Secretariat of the Cabinet, ministries and national agencies.

The agenda items of the plenary meeting included the amendment and supplement of the DPRK Law on Construction and the DPRK Law on the Management of Precious Metals and the issue of recalling the vice-chairman of the Supreme People's Assembly and a member of the Standing Committee of the Supreme People's Assembly.

The plenary meeting first heard a report on the main contents of the relevant amendments and supplements to the laws deliberated by the Legislation Committee of the Supreme People's Assembly.

The plenary meeting studied and examined the proposed amendments and supplements to the laws and adopted decrees of the Standing Committee of the Supreme People's Assembly "On Revising and Supplementing the Construction Law of the DPRK" and "On Revising and Supplementing the Precious Metal Management Law of the DPRK".

The plenary meeting recalled the vice-chairman of the Supreme People's Assembly of the DPRK and the member of the Standing Committee of the Supreme People's Assembly. -0-

 

DPRK Foreign Ministry Spokesperson on FATF "Decision"

Pyongyang, November 6 (KCNA) -- A spokesperson for the Foreign Ministry of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea gave the following answer to a question raised by KCNA on Thursday as regards the adoption of an anti-DPRK "decision" at the plenary meeting of the Financial Action Task Force on Anti-Money Laundering (FATF) held in Paris, France in late October:

Shortly ago, the Plenary Meeting of the FATF adopted again the "decision" to re-designate the DPRK as a "state subject to countermeasures".

The Foreign Ministry of the DPRK expresses strong displeasure over the international financial supervisory body's abnormal practice of encroaching upon the dignity, rights and interests of a sovereign state, going against its mission to contribute to the establishment of fair international financial order, and resolutely denounces and rejects it.

Explicitly speaking once again, "money laundering", "financing of terrorism", "drug trafficking" and "counterfeiting" have nothing to do with the DPRK as they were fabricated by the U.S. and its vassal forces with the sinister political aim of "demonizing" the former.

As known, we have taken a series of measures on our own initiative to ensure transparency in financial transactions, including several negotiations with the FATF since 2013 and the amendment and supplement of the domestic law on anti-money laundering and combating the financing of terrorism, with an intention to promote the establishment of a sound international financial order.

However, the FATF, persistently disregarding our goodwill and sincere efforts, has designated our country as a "high-risk state threatening the international financial system" and a "state subject to countermeasures" every year, and in 2024 it even deprived us of the observer position at the Asia-Pacific Group on Money Laundering.

All facts clearly prove that the FATF has turned into a conspiracy group and an extremely politicized organization serving the U.S. hostile policy toward the DPRK aimed to encroach upon the normal and legitimate right to development of our state.

The U.S. and the Western forces are chiefly to blame for creating all sorts of criminal acts such as money laundering, terrorism, drug trafficking and WMD proliferation as they unhesitatingly encroach upon the sovereignty and territorial integrity of sovereign states and cause social instability and confusion in different parts of the world in order to realize their ambition for hegemony.

The FATF should be mindful that if it is used as a tool for realizing the political purpose of the dishonest forces, abandoning its fairness and objectivity as an international organization, it will never be able to gain the confidence of the international community but lose its value of existence.

Consistent is the DPRK's stand against all forms of crimes including money laundering and the financing of terrorism.

The DPRK will never tolerate the slightest attempt to infringe upon the dignity, rights and interests of the state but actively join the righteous international community in its efforts to establish a fair international order in the future, too. -0-

Article on Japanese Neo-militarist Forces' Bid to Increase "Defense Expenditure"

Pyongyang, November 6 (KCNA) -- Pak Hak Song, a researcher of the Institute for Japan Studies under the DPRK Foreign Ministry issued the following article "The bid of the neo-militarist forces of Japan to increase 'defense expenditure' will only precipitate its regime and security crisis" on November 5:

The Japanese neo-militarist forces are recklessly scheming to increase defense expenditure, going against the common desire of humankind for the peaceful world free from war and armed conflict.

Extremely dangerous attempt of the Japanese right-wing conservative regime to increase the military expenditure is bringing the dark clouds of a new arms race to Northeast Asia.

 

Increasing "Defense Expenditure", Clear Proof of Ambition for Reinvasion

80 years have passed since the Second World War ended with the unconditional surrender of Japanese imperialism. However, Japan, a defeated nation obliged to repent of and beg apology for unethical crimes it committed against humankind, remains unchanged in its deep-rooted revanchist ambition.

After its defeat, Japan has worked hard to revive militarism with the backing of the U.S. It is characterized by the course of increasing the military expenditure in a systematic way for arms buildup, enactment of laws and "fundamental bolstering of its defense capability".

In 1976, the Miki Cabinet decided to limit the military expenditure to less than 1% of GDP in order to evade the public blame at home and abroad for its moves to build up the military strength. However, in the 1980s, the Nakasone Cabinet came up with a new military budget framework called a mode of specifying the total amount to be spent for years, annulling the 1% limit in fact.

In particular, in 2022, the Kishida Cabinet officially announced that it would revise the three security-related documents to spend 43 trillion yen from 2023 to 2027 and increase the military expenditure to 2% of GDP in 2027. And the Takaichi Cabinet, which took office last year, increased the related expenses in the supplementary budget for 2025 to attain the goal of raising the military expenditure to 2% of GDP two years earlier than the plan.

Not content with it, the present regime is examining the proposal to spend 70~80 trillion yen as military expenditure for 5 years from 2027 to 2031, almost twice as much as about 43 trillion yen allocated to the current 5-year plan.

It was reported that such huge amount of budget would be allotted to the development of various kinds of latest offensive weapons and drone technology, AI and space technology on a preferential basis to cope with new patterns of war.

The moves of the neo-militarist forces to increase the military expenditure, which is breaking records ceaselessly, are highlighting again the present address of Japan that has entered the course of reinvasion after completely removing the shackles put on the war criminal state.

 

Increasing "Defense Expenditure" Going against Public Sentiments

It was reported that at a recent expert panel of the Japanese government for revision of three documents on security, there was an opinion that it is needed to extract the funds for increasing the military expenditure mainly from the total amount of budgetary expenditure and increased taxation should not be ruled out to replenish the shortage.

It can be said that the realistic guarantee for increasing the military expenditure lies in securing stable financial resources, but the public at home and abroad are concerned of it, uncertain whether it is possible to do so given the present situation of the Japanese economy suffering from ever-rising prices and ever-weakening yen.

According to data published by the Japan Ministry of Finance in May, Japan's national debt has reached 1 343 842.6 billion yen, an increase of 20 127.1 billion yen from the previous year's, which is more than 2.5 times its GDP, at the end of 2025, and such rate is the highest among the G7 member states.

Earlier, in January, a research institute in Tokyo announced that the number of bankrupt enterprises with debt of more than 10 million yen has reached 10 300 in 2025, a 2.9 % growth from the previous year, exceeding 10 000 in two consecutive years, and that it is an all-time high since 2013.

In this regard, the Japanese public are getting increasingly vocal, calling for putting the brakes on the large-scale arms buildup and drawing up the budget again in due consideration of the people's livelihood, and asserting that there exist not many financial resources for the military expenditure in the run-up to food consumption tax cuts and the expansion of investment at home and abroad.

It is by no means fortuitous that opposition parties and people are strongly opposing the government's arms buildup, saying that peace and security of the state cannot be ensured by increasing the military expenditure, and urging it to maintain the principle of pacifism of the constitution.

What is clear is that the increase in military expenditure will not only darken the prospect of the recovery of the Japanese economy but also impose heavy burden on the people's living, far from improving Japan's security environment.

 

Increasing "Defense Expenditure" Amplifying Security Crisis of Archipelago

As recognized by the world people, Northeast Asia is witnessing ever-escalating danger of military confrontation due to the U.S. strategy for hegemony. Japan's reckless arms buildup plays a catalyst for further aggravating the regional situation.

Japan seeks to build the foundation for turning itself into a military giant with the backing of its American master and regain the position of the old empire at any cost. Its moves to increase the military expenditure on an unprecedented scale with an aim to secure the capability for preemptive attack on neighboring countries are an act of destroying regional peace and stability and adding fuel to the flames.

If Japan persists in arms buildup without discretion, it will invite inevitable and due response from neighboring countries, and this will result in further escalating the danger of military conflict in the region.

If a military conflict in Northeast Asia starts, there is no guarantee that it will not spill over beyond the region and develop into a new world war threatening the existence of mankind, and the hope for the archipelago's security will become completely meaningless.

If Japan, a war criminal state, properly approaches history, clearly redeems its past crimes and seeks peace without doing anything sinful against neighboring countries again, it has no need to worry about its security.

Japan should refrain from its anachronistic calculation and such gambling as increasing military expenditure, which will aggravate the regime and security crisis, reasonably facing up to the reality. -0-

From Voice of Korea- Politics - Devoted Service for the People's Well-being Seeing a Creation of Self-Reliance

  

From Voice of Korea.

http://vok.rep.kp/index.php/detail_com/comde/iee260910010/57/en

Politics - Devoted Service for the People's Well-being 

Seeing a Creation of Self-Reliance

  A lot of minor power stations are built in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea with many rivers.

  One day in May 2019, respected Comrade Kim Jong Un visited Unit 2 of the Kumyagang Power Station.

  The power station built using the favourable physiographical conditions of Kumya County, South Hamgyong Province, was a minor one with great profitability that can produce electricity without letup even in the dry season as it has abundant water resources.

  That day Comrade Kim Jong Un spoke highly of the feats of the people in the county, saying it was a praiseworthy success that they were striving to build power stations and produce electricity by themselves in conformity with the characteristics of their region.

  He added that he was very pleased with the fact that the minor power station had been built on a proper scale and in a profitable way by making a good calculation for using hydraulic resources effectively.

  Unit 2 of the Kumyagang Power Station proved the validity of the policy of the Workers' Party of Korea on developing the local economy and improving the people's living standards by making an effective use of the natural and economic conditions in the regions concerned according to their actual situation.

Missile Administration Test-fires Newly-developed Air-defence Missile

Pyongyang, November 5 (KCNA) -- The Missile Administration of the DPRK test-fired a newly-designed advanced air-defence missile system to confirm its technical specifications on Nov. 4.

Full General Kim Jong Sik, member of the Central Military Commission and first vice department director of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea, guided the test-fire together with leading officials of the administration and national defence science research field.

The test-fire proved the technical specifications and reliability of the new material and intelligent multiple guided mode of the projectile, target identification and tracking capability of the air-defence missile system and its detection information processing device.

On the same day, a firepower sub-unit under the long-range strategic cruise missile unit in the eastern area gave a fire strike drill demonstration.

The sub-unit involved in the drill perfectly performed its mission to strike a virtual airport target with a long-range strategic cruise missile.

The relevant test and drill are an extension of obligatory activities of the national defence and military sectors at all levels to put the combat systems on a technically high level and improve the combat reliability of the strategic weapon. -0-

 

Press Statement of DPRK Permanent Mission at UN

Pyongyang, November 5 (KCNA) -- The Permanent Mission of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea at the UN made public the following press statement on November 4:

The EU submitted again a "draft resolution" flagrantly distorting the human rights policy and situation of the DPRK to the Third Committee of the 81st Session of the UN General Assembly.

Such a "human rights resolution" farce, staged annually by the EU against the DPRK for 20-odd years, is a politically-motivated provocation, prompted by the sinister intention to paint a black picture of our dignified state under the spurious signboard of "human rights protection" and undermine our ideology and social system.

The Permanent Mission of the DPRK at the UN vehemently denounces and rejects the "draft resolution" as an illegal, conspiratorial and confrontational anti-DPRK document utterly going against the UN Charter that stipulated the respect for sovereignty and non-interference in internal affairs of other countries.

Human rights are by no means a monopoly of the West and no one gave the EU any authority to size up the human rights situations of other countries by a double standard.

Now the international community focuses on the human rights abuses, mass demonstrations and violence simultaneously escalating in European countries that have always found fault with other countries, styling themselves as "human rights champions".

In cities across Europe, from Paris to Brussels where the EU is headquartered, streets are filled with demonstrators from all walks of life demanding such elementary rights as the rights to existence, labour and education, and the realization of social justice. Peaceable demonstrators fall victim to indiscriminate police violence and arrests and even young middle school students have become targets of tear gas and water cannon for they call for improved education.

Such chaos prevailing in European countries is a human rights crisis and political crisis brought by their twisted "human rights standard" and Western-style value concepts, and it clearly shows what an absurd and hypocritical assertion they have made about "human rights".

Such European countries are taking issue with the human rights situation of others although they should stand trial for human rights abuses. This is, indeed, a tragicomic political cartoon.

The EU had better mind its own business, instead of hyping up the non-existent "human rights issues" of far-flung sovereign states, ignorant of where they are standing.

The human rights system and situation of a country should be appreciated by its people rather than the outside forces harboring hostility.

In the DPRK, guided by the people-first political idea, the state policy and efforts are ceaselessly promoted to protect the socio-political rights of all citizens and improve their material and cultural wellbeing, and its people are increasingly satisfied with their human rights.

No such "human rights" farce of the European countries, which desperately stoke confusion between right and wrong out of their inveterate prejudice and evil mindset toward the DPRK, can ever prevent the international community from giving fair voice about our state's social system.

The DPRK will never tolerate any hostile forces' attempt to infringe upon the peaceful life and rights of its people but fully discharge its responsibility for safeguarding their dignity, rights and interests. -0-

BGSJI and KFA UK support Dept Director Comrade Kim Yo Jong's 4th of November statement

 BRITISH GROUP FOR THE STUDY OF THE JUCHE IDEA 

 email juche007@yahoo.co.uk

                                       

                 

 4th of November 2026

 The British Group for the Study of the Juche Idea and  the  Korean Friendship Association of the UK  KFA  UK )  , issued a joint statement in support of the press statement of  comrade Kim Yo Jong, department director of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea(WPK) that was issued on the 4th of November ;

Following from her earlier statement that was issued on the 2nd of November , comrade Kim Yo Jong , Director of the General Affairs Department of the Central Committee of the Workers Party of Korea  issued another very important statement .

The DPRK is now reconsidering all aspects of the anti-DPRK hostile policy of the US . In recent months and weeks the anti-DPRK policy of the US imperialists has deepened and intensified

Comrade Kim Yo Jong states that " . The so-called "cryptocurrency hacking case by the DPRK" is no more than a tip of iceberg that shows the essence of the U.S. hostile policy toward the DPRK". This is indeed true . The false allegations against the DPRK by the US should not be seen in isolation but are part of a much wider picture .

The US along with Japan and the ROK recently called for the "denuclearisation " of the DPRK and also many military drills against the DPRK have been staged by the US and ROK .The US and it surrogates have also imposed sanctions on the DPRK and published false reports about human rights . We could also that the US carries out continuous 24/7 propaganda demonising the DPRK.

Comrade Kim Yo Jong declares that it is not possible to sit down for talks with the US because of the US hostile policy . The DPRK has clarified many times that the abandonment of the US hostile is a necessary perquisite  to any talks with the US.

As the US is breaking new records with its hostility to the DPRK ,comrade Kim Yo Jong states that " it is natural that new records should be created in our reflective counteraction.".

Although dialogue is required for peace  it does not sit well with the national interests of the DPRK.

Comrade Kim Yo Jong's statement is a brilliant clarification and summary of the DPRK lines and policies towards to the US . We support the stand of the DPRK not to enter into talks with the US and to to take counteraction against the hostile policies of the US !

Long live People's Korea!
BGSJI

KFA UK 

Respected Comrade Kim Jong Un Gives Field Guidance at Nampho Shipyard

Pyongyang, November 4 (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, gave field guidance at the Nampho Shipyard on November 2.

He was accompanied by Jo Chun Ryong, secretary of the C.C., WPK.

He was greeted at the shipyard by leading officials of the Shipbuilding Institute and the shipyard.

The Nampho Shipyard is pushing ahead with the project to modernize its overall production lines and also making progress in the building of a new warship, under the tasks of the warship building sector set forth by the Second Plenary Meeting of the Ninth Central Committee of the WPK and the decision made at the First Enlarged Meeting of the WPK Central Military Commission.

Comrade Kim Jong Un learned in detail about the master plan for updating the shipyard and then about the economic organization for the modernization project and the progress in the project.

He referred once again to the opinion of the WPK Central Committee on the historical need to accelerate the expansion of capacity of the Nampho Shipyard and other major shipyards and their technical upgrading.

The strategy for developing the shipbuilding industry set forth by the Party Congress clearly indicates the specific orientation for expanding the capacity of the existing shipyards and increasing the operation rate of all the shipyards, he said, adding that the implementation of this strategy means the updating of major infrastructure of the state which is of key importance in rapidly developing the country's marine industry for the future economic prospect, defending the security of the sea border and maritime sovereignty and exercising the strategic deterrent.

In particular, it is vital and important requirement of the times to rapidly bolster up the surface and underwater combat power for defending the national sovereignty in the sea under various threats, he said. Stating that the necessity to completely upgrade the combat power of the navy at present is attributable to the circumstances which compels us to contain the nuclear blackmail and threat of the enemies in the region, the source of creating the new geopolitical situation and substantially and gravely affecting the national security, he said that the timely adopted development plan in the shipbuilding industrial sector is a responsible option in view of the national prosperity and security and an expression of action for the just will to ensure the prosperity and development of the country and defend its peace.

Saying that the advanced and hi-tech shipbuilding base is essential for building a powerful naval force which no one can provoke, Comrade Kim Jong Un stressed the need for the shipyard to set the standard goal of modernization in terms of raising the higher efficiency in the aspects of quality and productivity and in the direction of saving manpower and establish an intelligent integrated production system which comprehensively controls the whole course of shipbuilding, thus opening a new path and creating model experience in the development of the shipbuilding industry.

He set forth the important principle and tasks for modernizing the shipyard, including the issues of highly automating all the elements of production process, constructing one more ground dock to create the capacity for building and repairing ships at the same time, and correcting the irrational matters in the layout of the shipyard's buildings.

He also stressed the need to pay due attention to employing more promising talented persons in the field of designing and building the ships and increasing the number of those engaged in that field.

Saying that our inviolable maritime sovereignty is guaranteed only by the most responsible efforts and practical and advanced defence technology, he affirmed that if all shipyards of the country are modernized as planned by the Party Central Committee, a great revolution will take place in the development of the shipbuilding industry.

That day, Comrade Kim Jong Un went round the warship building site of the Nampho Shipyard.

He said that the building of latest-type warships in succession is a proof of the actual development of our shipbuilding sector, which increases confidence in the prosperity and development of our shipbuilding industry. He noted that if the talented shipbuilding group is combined with excellent advanced technology at once, our country will take a seat on the front row of the world's most powerful shipbuilding industry.

He expressed great satisfaction, looking at a warship under construction which is incomparably huge and browbeating than the destroyer built last year.

The new warship, designed to carry out its complex operational mission in consideration of the present-day warfare, the world trend of development and the specific situation of our country on the basis of comprehensive analysis of the development history of warships which many countries have updated through many repeated research in the historical changes, is being built into a combat system with the one and only capabilities from the designing stage, he said, referring to the important military significance of an aggregate of the huge combat power.

Comrade Kim Jong Un stressed that the necessity to possess the most developed and powerful warship is proved without words by the recent geopolitical environment and hostile acts of the enemies, and therefore, the urgency is being highlighted than ever before and it is because we should defend the country, ensure sovereignty and deter all threats.

He asked the workers of the Nampho Shipyard and all the builders involved in the modernization of the shipyard to respond to the sacred mission entrusted by the revolution with their consistent devotion and responsible efforts for the security and prosperity of the country.

His field guidance to the Nampho Shipyard serves as a warm encouragement to the development and might of our shipbuilding industry, which is playing a key role in attaining the strategic target for developing the national industry and bolstering up the national defence capabilities through radical leap forward and revolutionary acceleration, and a significant occasion in adding confidence and courage to its sky-high spirit and advance. -0-

 

Kumgangsan-brand Cosmetics

 

                                             

                                                 

The Kumgangsan-brand cosmetics made with the famous Kaesong Koryo insam as the main ingredient are part of the functional cosmetics produced in the DPRK. They are winning favour at home and abroad, especially in Russia and China.

Insam and Berberine Injection

 

The Insam and Berberine Injection produced in the DPRK greatly helps strengthen the immune system and treat different bacterial, viral and cancerous diseases. It was inscribed on the world intellectual property list in 2024 with its developer winning the WIPO’s National Award for Inventors.

Ganoderma lucidum Extract Draws Attention

 

From olden times Koreans have widely used Ganoderma lucidum to promote their health and treat diseases. The Ganoderma lucidum extract, one of the Koryo medicines of the DPRK, is gaining popularity for its remarkable antioxidant and other medicinal effects.

A Must-visit in DPRK

 A Must-visit in DPRK

There are many structures and objects in the DPRK which have been admired by foreign visitors. Among them is what is called the children’s palace.

The Mangyongdae Schoolchildren’s Palace in the capital city of Pyongyang exemplifies such facilities.

The palace has a distinctive exterior and rather splendid interior. Gorgeous chandeliers, illuminations and decorations on the ceiling and walls are a good reminder of a fairyland. Hundreds of hobby group rooms are all cosy and neat. Its theatre is flawless as well.

According to local media, when he visited the palace in May 2014, Kim Jong Un, President of the State Affairs of the DPRK, pointed to the need to remodel it into an unparalleled children’s palace in the world and took every necessary measure to this end. While learning in detail about the renovation project on his revisit to the palace in November the following year, he found the windows of hobby group rooms larger than necessary and referred to the need to downsize them as they might have effects on the room temperature. He also said that a first-aid room should be separately set up in the swimming pool. This is only some of what he instructed that day. 

Now, in the remodelled palace, Korean schoolchildren are conducting a range of extracurricular activities for music, fine art, astronomy, Taekwon-Do and other subjects for free like the other sorts of education in this country.

The same is true with other children’s palaces and halls that can be found in scenic places across the country. This is an outcome of the policy pursued by the country for the rising generation, which puts them forward as the king of the country and spares nothing for them. 

Growth of children augurs well or badly for the future of a country. As the Korean children prepare themselves into talents who are knowledgeable, virtuous and healthy under the particular care of the state, the future of the country will be apparently so rosy.

Those getting uneasy at the DPRK’s prosperity and development are fearful of its bright future and afraid that the world people become aware of it.

Sooner or later, however, truth discovers itself and sees the light.

Many of the foreigners who have visited the schoolchildren’s palaces advise their friends to pay a visit to them ahead of other places on their possible tour of the country.

Orphans Conducting Extracurricular Activities

 

Children engage in extracurricular activities at Hamhung Primary School for Orphans in the DPRK. The school is fully provided with all living and teaching conditions so that the students can acquire skills to their heart’s content according to their hobbies and aptitudes.

BGSJI and KFA UK support statement of comrade Kim Yo Jong on the false US accusations

  BRITISH GROUP FOR THE STUDY OF THE JUCHE IDEA 

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3rd November 2026

 The British Group for the Study of the Juche Idea and  the  Korean Friendship Association of the UK  KFA  UK )  , issued a joint statement in support of the press statement of  comrade Kim Yo Jong, department director of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea(WPK) that was issued on the 2nd of November ;

Comrade Kim Yo Jong , Department Director of the Central Committee of the WPK made a very important statement on the 2nd of November directly responding to the false allegations of the US imperialist against the Democratic People's Republic of Korea(DPRK) concerning Crypto -currency.

In her statement comrade Kim Yo Jong stresses that "The FBI is trying to brand the DPRK as a "cyber criminal state", claiming that it obtained information that a hacking organization "supported" by the DPRK was involved in the incident..But the U.S. assertion is an absurd rhetoric and nothing new."

This is indeed very true . These kind of false allegation are a stock in trade to slander People's Korea . Last year the US made similar unfounded accusations with regard to a hacking incident at Bybit.

These accusations of the US are ridiculous . The view of KFA UK and the British Group for the Study of the Juche Idea  is that  the DPRK does not need "crypto-currency " , it is beating the US and UN sanctions through self-reliance . This is just another fake case to frame the DPRK. The US and others are making false allegations to try to make the DPRK a scapegoat for the collapse of the crypto-currency market

Comrade Kim Yo Jong stresses that "This is a sinister attempt to damage the international image of the DPRK and undermine its dignity and national prestige and another grave violation of the sovereignty of the DPRK in the new sphere...It is the consistent policy stand of the DPRK government to resolutely oppose all sorts of malicious acts in cyberspace, the wealth common to the mankind, and resolutely reject any attempt to politicize the cyber issue and use it as a means of interfering in the internal affairs with other countries"

Clearly the false allegations of the US are aimed at smearing the DPRK .The false allegation of the FBI about "crypto-currency theft " is really a gross and unpardonable slander on the DPRK  and its socialist system.

Comrade Kim Yo Jong rightly exposes the real culprit in the so-calling hacking case . It is none other than the US itself ; "If it carefully examines who will get the large amount of the so-called stolen cryptocurrency when the latter is retrieved, it may get a clue about who is behind the hacking incident.".

What the false accusations of the US against People's Korea go to prove is that the US hostile policy towards the DPRK is unchanged . We would add that the false accusations by the US also coincides with the release of an anti-DPRK computer game by the US , the spreading of false rumours about the DPRK and a cyber -attack on the DPRK.

We strongly support the press statement of comrade Kim Yo Jong and support the DPRK's reconsideration of the unpleasant US hostile policy.

BGSJI

KFA UK

DPRK Military Commentator on Japan's Moves to Acquire Capability for Making Preemptive Attack

Pyongyang, November 3 (KCNA) -- A DPRK military commentator made public the following article "Intolerable is the moves of the neo-militarist forces of Japan to acquire the capability for making a preemptive attack inviting a vicious cycle of the escalation of the regional tension" on November 3:

Japan, a defeated nation accelerating its transformation into a warfighting state after throwing off the veil of "pacifist state", persists in its moves to acquire the capability for making a preemptive attack. It is further escalating the geopolitical tension.

Its latest example is the participation of the type 25 surface-to-ship guided missile launcher of the Ground Self-Defence Forces in the largest-ever joint military drill Keen Sword staged in different parts of Japan from October 19 to 29, involving 45 000 troops from the Self-Defence Forces and 12 000 soldiers from the U.S. army.

It is a well-known fact that Japan remodeled the Ground Self-Defence Forces' type 12 surface-to-ship guided missile with a firing range of 200km into the type 25 one with a firing range of over 1000km last year and deployed the relevant equipment in Kumamoto Prefecture of Kyushu area bordering the DPRK and China in March this year.

However, it was reported that Japan relocated the type 25 surface-to-ship guided missile launcher and the relevant equipment in the training grounds in Nagasaki and Saga prefectures for the first time during the drill to share the information about a target simulating the enemy's warship with the U.S. forces and confirm the launching procedure.

What is more serious is that Japan did not hide the fact that the drill simulating the missile launch was aimed to test the rapid deployment of the offensive weapon system with the coast of China and the DPRK in the striking range and the capability for the anti-warship operations when it opened the drill to the media.

This year the moves of the neo-militarist forces of Japan to acquire the capability for making a preemptive attack on neighboring countries have assumed more radical, undisguised and regular aspects.

Between May and September alone, Japan launched the type 88 surface-to-ship guided missile and test-fired Tomahawk long-range cruise missile in succession on the northern coast of the Luzon Island of the Philippines and in the Pacific Ocean, and the U.S. forces' mid-range missile launching system Typhon was involved in the large-scale joint military drill it staged with the U.S. and Australia.

Such ever more unscrupulous military moves go against the international law and domestic law disallowing Japan to possess a war potential and the right to take part in any war or right to belligerence. They clearly prove that the moves of the war criminal state to turn itself into a military giant have entered an extremely dangerous phase as it is crazy about the deployment of the long-range offensive weapon for action, not content with its scheme to acquire the capability for making a preemptive attack, advocating the "story of threats from neighboring countries".

Japan has massively procured different kinds of long-range strike means with heightened unexpectedness of attack and drastically increased operational radius and accelerated its moves to deploy them for action in multi-domain spaces such as ground, sea, underwater and air. This is the present reality of Japan's moves to acquire the capability for making a preemptive attack.

It is an uneasy opinion of the international community aspiring after justice and peace that Japan's military power has completed its transition from "defence" to "attack" and Japan's rush with right-wing inclination is creating a direct and realistic threat to regional peace and stability.

The moves of the neo-militarist forces of Japan to possess the capability for making a preemptive attack, which is running amuck, obsessed with the dizziness of reinvasion, are a cancer-like factor that brings about a vicious cycle of escalating tension in the region.

The more desperately Japan is keen on possessing the capability for making a preemptive attack and the more frantic it is in its provocative and aggressive military drills with outside forces, the more closely its archipelago will approach serious, realistic and inevitable security crisis. -0-

DPRK Missile Administration Tests Major Weapon System

Pyongyang, November 3 (KCNA) -- The Missile Administration of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea conducted the tests to assess the power of a dispersal warhead of a strategic cruise missile and its flight feature for vertical strike on November 2.

Full General Kim Jong Sik, member of the Central Military Commission of the Workers' Party of Korea and first vice department director of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea, guided the relevant tests.

Announcing the result of the test to assess the power of the dispersal warhead, the Warhead Institute of the Missile Administration said it confirmed that the middle-sized dispersal warhead tipped on the cruise missile is capable of turning into ashes a target area of 5 to 6 hectares with its highest-density power.

And the Cruise Missile System Institute of the Missile Administration noted that it perfected the capability to deliver a vertical strike against the target by improving the terminal maneuverability of the cruise missile, taking into consideration the natural and geographical characteristics of the targeted area.

The general director of the Missile Administration said:

The necessity of developing a variety of weapon systems is urgent than ever before. It is because our armed forces should defend the security of the country and deter all sorts of threats. As today's tests showed, various combat functions of such strongest weapon system will help defend the DPRK from potential threats from outside and renew the military capabilities of the state. These tests are an important test and also demonstrate the practical combat power.

The Missile Administration said the tests were a part of the routine scientific research to increase the power of combat systems. -0-

Press Statement of Kim Yo Jong, Department Director of C.C., WPK

Pyongyang, November 3 (KCNA) -- Kim Yo Jong, department director of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea, released the following press statement on November 2:

Recently, the cryptocurrency worth billions of U.S. dollars was stolen at the world's largest cryptocurrency exchange "Binance". As regards this extra-large incident, the U.S. has made a trite provocation of linking it with the Democratic People's Republic of Korea again.

The FBI is trying to brand the DPRK as a "cyber criminal state", claiming that it obtained information that a hacking organization "supported" by the DPRK was involved in the incident.

But the U.S. assertion is an absurd rhetoric and nothing new.

This is not the first time that the U.S. has attempted to spread misunderstanding of the DPRK in the international community, blindly linking the DPRK with the "cyber crime" incidents whenever they occur on an international scale.

Last year, the U.S. also tried to blame the DPRK for the hacking incident at the cryptocurrency exchange called "Bybit".

It is a grave political provocation against the DPRK that the U.S. misleads the international public opinion as if all the cyber crimes in different parts of the world are our deeds.

This is a sinister attempt to damage the international image of the DPRK and undermine its dignity and national prestige and another grave violation of the sovereignty of the DPRK in the new sphere.

It is the consistent policy stand of the DPRK government to resolutely oppose all sorts of malicious acts in cyberspace, the wealth common to the mankind, and resolutely reject any attempt to politicize the cyber issue and use it as a means of interfering in the internal affairs with other countries.

The international community needs to recall once again the fact that as soon as the present U.S. administration took office last year, it announced that it would confiscate illegally stolen cryptocurrency assets and use them as a state's strategic reserve.

If it carefully examines who will get the large amount of the so-called stolen cryptocurrency when the latter is retrieved, it may get a clue about who is behind the hacking incident.

On this occasion, we confirmed Washington's hostile attitude toward the DPRK once again and are closely monitoring a variety of persistent provocations of the U.S. against our state.

We have issues to reconsider in diverse aspects as regards the very unpleasant U.S. hostile attitude. -0

BGSJI and KFA UK support the statement "Immutable is our national defence policy to strengthen the nuclear war deterrent with more increasing speed"

 BRITISH GROUP FOR THE STUDY OF THE JUCHE IDEA 

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2nd November 2026

 The British Group for the Study of the Juche Idea and  the  Korean Friendship Association of the UK  KFA  UK )  , issued a joint statement in support of the press statement of Kim Jong Sik, first vice department director of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK ) which was titled "Immutable is our national defence policy to strengthen the nuclear war deterrent with more increasing speed" and issued on the 2nd of November;

As the year 2026 draws to a close the US and ROK have stepped up their actions for confrontation with the DPRK. The US and ROK staged the Iron Mace , Freedom Flag and Hoguk aggressive war exercises.

What is of particular note is that the US and ROK carried out the Iron Mace exercises which involves nuclear and conventional forces in secret from September 29 to October 2.

Vice-director Kim Jong Sik points out that  " Iron Mace, which has been staged annually since 2024, fully betrays that the U.S. remains unchanged in its wild ambition to stifle the DPRK with nukes and such threats are escalating with each passing day."

Thus is only correct and just that the DPRK should ceaselessly , without let-up or marking time , continue to bolster its nuclear forces.

The US and ROK have increased their reconnaissance of the DPRK and staged other military manoeuvres . This surely shows that they are planning a war on the Korean peninsula .

Vice-director Kim Jong Sik declared that "The reality teaches once again the underlying truth that strength is peace and peace is guaranteed only by strength". Indeed peace rests on the bayonets of the Korean People's Army.

We believe it is correct for the DPRK to increase its nuclear forces to counter the aggression of the US and ROK  . This is the independent right of the DPRK and the only way to preserve peace.

BGSJI

KFA UK

Report of KFA UK Picket of the BBC 31.10.2026

The Korean Friendship Association of the UK (KFA UK ) organised a picket of the British Broadcasting Corporation under the title “Down with the British Brainwashing Corporation - No More BBC Lies” . The picket was lively and militant , it was probably the biggest KFA UK picket of the BBC in recent years .

Participating in the picket were officials and members of  KFA UK along with members of the New Communist Party , the CPGBML , British Posadists and anti-imperialists in London .

KFA UK Chairman Dr Dermot Hudson  made a short speech in which he pointed out that  “The BBC represents the ruling elite , the so-called “Epstein class “ . In fact in the past , the BBC employed the likes of Jimmy Savile and Huw Edwards . Who knows if there more of such people at the BBC . BBC staff enjoy massive salaries paid for by the extortionate BBC licence fee of £180 per year and the taxpayer.

The BBC’s lies about People’s Korea are endless and are too numerous to mention . They insult the DPRK by calling it “North Korea “ and not using the correct title .

The BBC simply reproduces and recycles the lying propaganda of the south Korean puppet fascist regime , the ROK . The ROK is the sworn enemy of People’s Korea and the No 1 hostile state  . In recent months and weeks the ROK puppet regime created a false flag incident over a an alleged landmine explosion . The BBC simply repeated the false allegations of the ROK puppets . The BBC is an accessory to the war propaganda of the ROK puppets against the DPRK.”

Dr Hudson also denounced the BBC for spreading fake news about a so-called “Crypto-currency heist “  saying that “The DPRK does not need "crypto-currency " , it is beating the US and UN sanctions through self-reliance . This is just another fake case to frame the DPRK” 

Alan Bolon KFA UK Organisation Secretary and head of KFA UK West of England also addressed the picket . He denounced the lies of the BBC and cited proven examples of the BBC lying about the DPRK . He also draw attention to the fact that the BBC had purposely and deliberately ignored a protest letter sent by KFA UK in November 2024.

Picketers chanted “ Down with the British Brainwashing Corporation ! “ , “BBC stop lying about People’s Korea “ , “Defend People’s Korea “  and “Long live self-reliance ! “.

Banners of KFA UK and DPRK flags were displayed along with banners of different political organisations.

The picket concluded at 16.20 hours GMT .

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Press Statement of First Vice Department Director of WPK Central Committee

Pyongyang, November 2 (KCNA) -- Kim Jong Sik, first vice department director of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea, made public the following press statement "Immutable is our national defence policy to strengthen the nuclear war deterrent with more increasing speed" on November 2:

The enemy countries are going so reckless in their adventurous acts for military confrontation with the DPRK in the closing months of the year.

According to a recent media report of the ROK, the U.S. and the ROK staged in secrecy Iron Mace, military exercises for joint operation of the U.S. nuclear forces and the ROK conventional forces, from September 29 to October 2.

The military drill with an aggressive codename is the most hideous nuclear war rehearsal aimed at using nuclear weapons against the DPRK.

Iron Mace, which has been staged annually since 2024, fully betrays that the U.S. remains unchanged in its wild ambition to stifle the DPRK with nukes and such threats are escalating with each passing day.

What does the U.S. nuclear blackmail indicate?

It clearly proves how just the DPRK is in its efforts for ceaselessly bolstering up its nuclear forces capable of thoroughly coping with such nuclear threats.

In October, the U.S. frantically staged a series of war rehearsals, including the field mobile war drill Hoguk and large-scale combined air drill Freedom Flag, together with its stooges, across the ROK. Such successive maneuvers have seriously violated the security environment of the DPRK.

Worse still, the U.S. dispatched an "instructors' unit" of the Third Expedition of its marines, the advance force for overseas aggression, to the ROK to stage multi-domain reconnaissance drill for the first time. It is explicitly expressing its stand for confrontation, saying that the drill is aimed at supporting the ROK's Kill Chain and demonstrates that the U.S. reinforcements can be rapidly deployed on the Korean peninsula in contingency.

Furthermore it was reported that the U.S. air force's fighters from the U.S. mainland were involved in Keen Sword, large-scale U.S.-Japan joint military exercises staged in Japan, to conduct intensive joint air training day and night from Oct. 19 to 29.

The enemies have intensified its military moves in public or behind closed doors, as evidenced by such dangerous nuclear war rehearsal as Iron Mace and deployment of the reconnaissance force and U.S. mainland-based fighters, reinforcements to be brought to the Korean peninsula in case of emergency.

This underlines the need for the DPRK to contain and control the heinous enemies with more powerful nuclear means.

The reality teaches once again the underlying truth that strength is peace and peace is guaranteed only by strength.

We are full of capability and confidence to counter everything.

We will make every effort to ensure that the country's nuclear war deterrent defends the sovereignty and security of the state and regional peace in a responsible manner.

This is the basic mission of our nuclear war deterrent.

Immutable is the DPRK's national defence policy to strengthen the nuclear war deterrent of the country with more increasing speed in order to counter existing complex and potential threats. -0-

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BGSJI on the 32nd anniversary of the publication of "Socialism Is A Science " by Chairman KIM JONG IL

   BRITISH GROUP FOR THE STUDY OF THE JUCHE IDEA 

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1st of November 2026

The British Group for the Study of the Juche Idea (BGSJI ) issued a statement on the 32nd anniversary of the publication of "Socialism Is A Science " by the great leader comrade KIM JONG IL 

  On the 1st of November it will be 31 years  since the  publication of the work "Socialism Is A Science " by  the great leader comrade KIM JONG IL . It can be said without any hint of exaggeration nor fear of contradiction that this was the most important piece of writing on socialism published in the last part of the 20th century and that the great leader comrade KIM JONG IL was the only leader of a socialist country and leader in the international communist movement to tackle the question of defending and expounding the scientific nature of socialism and its inevitability. Marx, Engels and Lenin had turned socialism from a Utopian dream into a science. However towards during the late 1980s and early 1990s a series of abnormal events took place namely the frustration of socialism in a number of countries owing to the conspiracy and intrigue of the modern revisionists the agents of imperialism with the socialist camp and international communist movement. As the great leader comrade KIM JONG IL wrote that :

"The crumbling of socialism in various countries does not mean the failure of socialism as science but the bankruptcy of opportunism which has corrupted socialism. Although socialism is temporarily experiencing a heartrending setback because of opportunism, it will without fail be revived and win ultimate victory for its scientific accuracy and truth".

This was a timely rebuff to the imperialists and reactionaries who taking advantage of the abnormal developments  made extremely  false and slanderous assertions  that 'socialism had failed' and socialism was in some way "unscientific " or 'infeasible'.

  The work was an unparalleled inspiration to the world revolutionary peoples looking for answer in the difficult international situation caused by the frustration of socialism in some countries . It was a real shot in the arm, a tonic for the international communist movement. The work fully proves and reasserts the scientific nature of socialism .

     Comrade KIM JONG IL  smashes sophistries about 'class co-operation ' advocated by reformists and revisionists  explaining that : 

"The exploiter class and their stooges put forward the "theory of class cooperation" and tried to block the struggle of the exploited working masses against exploitation and oppression. Within the communist movement, reformists and revisionists demanded "class cooperation" and seriously harmed the revolutionary movement, Today, traitors to socialism are also clamoring for a return to capitalism, harboring illusions about capitalism and expecting "aid" and "cooperation" from the imperialists. History shows that to expect "good will" or "class cooperation" from the exploiter class is to make a mess of the revolution."

This was a telling blow to the theories collaborating with imperialism and given up class struggle. In some capitalist countries reformists and traitors advocated  "social partnership "  , compromise with the exploiting class but the teachings of comrade KIM JONG IL in "Socialism In A Science "  demonstrates that such ideas are fallacious . All those who aspire for socialism and who are active in the labour movement should take to heart this teaching of the great leader comrade KIM JONG IL and uphold like a red torch. Today under the leadership of dear respected Marshal KIM JONG UN the DPRK is upholding self-reliance and self-development.

         Moreover in the work "Socialism Is A Science  " the great leader comrade KIM JONG IL showed that socialism is the banner of independence for the popular masses and the means for the popular masses including the working class to realise their independence, to become masters of their destiny. Thus leader KIM JONG IL defined socialism in a fresh way  free from any dogmatic interpretations.

"Socialism Is A Science " proved the accuracy and validity of the socialist idea. It fully demonstrated the scientific nature of socialism and inevitability of its victory . At the time its publication it served a beacon or lighthouse for the socialist ,communists and progressives of the world groping in the darkness caused by the frustration of socialism . "Socialism Is A Science " was the second "Communist Manifesto". It showed the true genius of the  comrade KIM JONG IL as a great theorist and ideologist .

There is no doubt that "Socialism Is A Science " is as relevant and valid today as it was 32 years ago. It charts the way ahead for the world socialist movement . Without hesitation we recommend a deep study of this work to the progressive and revolutionary people of the UK and the world,

BGSJI

 Further reading

https://web.archive.org/web/20180130025037/http://www.uk-songun.com/index.php?p=1_47_SOCIALISM-IS-A-SCIENCE-KIM-JONG-IL

Presentation by Shaun Pickford BGSI general secretary

https://juche007-anglo-peopleskoreafriendship.blogspot.com/2014/10/a-presentation-on-20th-anniversary-of_18.html