KFA UJK and BGSJI on the 13th anniversary of the launch of the Kwangmyongsong 3-2

 BRITISH GROUP FOR THE STUDY OF THE JUCHE IDEA 

 juche007@yahoo.co.uk

                                  

                         10th December 2025
                

        The British Group for the Study of the Juche Idea  and   the Korean Friendship Association of the UK(KFA UK ) )issued the following statement on the 13th anniversary of the launch of the Kwangmyongsong 3-2
                                                                     

    The launch of the Kwangmyongsong 3-2   was a great victory for the DPRK under the iron-willed Songun revolutionary leadership of the great respected leader Marshal KIM JONG UN  . It is victory for Juche science and technology and shows the superiority of the  people-centred socialist system of the DPRK and the might of the independent  national economy  based on self-reliance. The rocket was made using 100% DPRK resources, materials and labour .  It brilliantly demonstrated that Juche and self-reliance are the answer , the only way out in fact. The foundations of the independent national economy and the scientific development of the DPRK had been laid down by the great leaders comrades KIM IL SUNG and KIM JONG IL. The launch of Kwangmyongsong 3-2 t proved that the DPRK can develop its science and technology without relying on others ,by its own efforts .

                                    Despite the sanctions and blockades of the US imperialists and hostile forces the DPRK became a proud satellite launching nation . , one of 10 such countries in the world. Although the US imperialists and world imperialism tried hard to prevent the DPRK from launching a satellite ,and even went to the extremes of mobilising the marionette UN Security Council to impose punitive sanctions , the DPRK under the iron-willed Juche -basedrevolutionary leadership of dear respected Marshal Kim Jong Un succeeded in launching the Kwangmyongsong 3-2 on the morning of the 12th of December 2012.

                   We are convinced that the DPRK  will win more victories on the front  of science and technology and will build a thriving socialist nation under the wise leadership of dear respected Marshal KIM JONG UN !
Long live the DPRK !
Long live dear respected Marshal KIM JONG UN !


BGSJI

KFA UK

BGSJI , KFA UK and the British Committee to Remember comrade KIM JONG IL on the 14th anniversary of the passing away of the great leader comrade KIM JONG IL

 BRITISH GROUP FOR THE STUDY OF THE JUCHE IDEA 

  email juche007@yahoo.co.uk

                                      

                            10th    of December  2025

     the British Group for the Study of the Juche Idea(BGSJI, the UK Korean Friendship Association(UK KFA) and the British Committee to Remember Comrade Kim Jong Il   issued a joint statement on the 14th anniversary of the passing away of the great leader leader comrade Kim Jong Il:
   On the 17th of December it will be 14 years since the great leader comrade Kim Jong Il passed away so suddenly whilst giving on the spot guidance to key economic sectors . 
    The demise of the great leader comrade Kim Jong Il was the greatest loss of the Korean people as he was the benevolent father of the Korean people. It was also the greatest loss of the world revolutionary people and the Juche Idea and Songun Idea followers of the world . Although the heart of the great leader comrade Kim Jong Il ceased to beat on December 17th 2011 ,he is alive in the hearts and minds of the Korean people and world people and his ideas live on.
   

The great leader comrade Kim Jong Il was a leader of extraordinary ability and fortitude. His accomplishments and achievements span many different fields and sectors from culture to military affairs. He was best known to the world people as the great defender of socialism and independence and the leader who developed the Juche idea and Songun idea. Indeed the name of comrade Kim Jong Il is intimately bound up with the administration of Songun politics.
   

 The great leader comrade Kim Jong Il led the Korean revolution for a period of more than five decades which began with his guidance to the Seoul Ryu Kyong Su no 105th tank division of the Korean People's Army on the 25th of August 1960 . Under the leadership of comrade Kim Jong Il the DPRK became a mighty power of ideology and politics and also a socialist military power possessing its own powerful war deterrent which made the imperialists shake with fear.
 

Comrade Kim Jong Il was the loyal and faithful successor to the great leader generalissimo Kim Il Sung. He was the standard bearer of the Juche revolutionary cause which had been pioneered by the great leader generalissimo Kim Il Sung the eternal president of the DPRK .He ensured that the WPK became the party of the great leader comrade Kim Il Sung defending the monolithic unity of the Workers' Party of Korea, smashing the attempts of modern revisionists, opportunists ,factionalists and great power chauvinists to defile the revolutionary constancy of Juche. When the imperialist reactionaries and renegades of socialism sneered at socialism , demanding that the DPRK "open up" and "reform" he declared "Expect No Change from Me !.

Comrade Kim Jong Il defended and developed the purity of the Juche Idea . He systematised and enriched the Juche idea in his historic 1982 thesis "On the Juche Idea ". This work constitutes an almanac of the Juche idea which clarified its philosophical essence and that man has independence, consciousness and creativity. Thus the Juche idea shines out a philosophy for achieving the independence of the popular masses . The Juche idea is a powerful weapon for achieving human emancipation from all kinds of misery and oppression.

When socialism was frustrated in some countries owing to the treachery of modern revisionism  comrade Kim Jong Il energetically defended socialism and wrote brilliant works such as "Our Socialism Centred on the Popular Masses Shall Not Perish , "Abuses of Socialism are Intolerable" "Socialism Is A Science , " Giving Priority to Ideological work is essential for accomplishing socialism" and many others  provided a source of hope for the people aspiring to socialism.
 

As the  supreme commander of the Korean People's Army comrade Kim Jong Il led the work of defence up-building and continued the cause of Juche-army building pioneered by the great leader President Kim Il Sung. Stressing the importance of the anti-imperialist military front he led the DPRK to victory in the DPRK-US confrontation smiting the reactionary US imperialists by carrying out 2 nuclear tests so that the DPRK became a global nuclear power , a proud independent socialist nuclear power of Juche. Thanks to this legacy bequeathed by comrade Kim Jong Il, the DPRK could sit  down and negotiate with the USA as an equal partner.

The great leader comrade Kim Jong Il led the struggle to build up the independent national economy . He made sure that the living standards of the Korean people were improved . Under his leadership the many social benefits enjoyed by the Korean people were preserved and further enhanced. He passed away whilst on a trip of on the spot guidance, thus he was working for the people right up to the last minute. He always wore plain clothes . He was the epitome of a true people's leader who believed in making flowers bloom on a rock if it was necessary  for the people.

The great leader comrade Kim Jong Il led the cause of anti-imperialist independence throughout the world.  The Juche Idea became a powerful compass for defeating imperialism. The many works written by comrade Kim Jong Il are a guiding compass for the fighting peoples of the world. The DPRK became associated with the defence of the socialist principle , thus encouraging the world people in their struggle for socialism.
   Although twelve years have passed since comrade Kim Jong Il passed away , the vitality of his ideas shines even brighter today and his work is carried forward by his successor dear respected Marshal Kim Jong Un . People's Korea ,which was the legacy of comrade Kim Jong Il , today is prospering despite the extreme sanctions of the imperialists,

Today the Korean people under the wise leadership of the dear respected Marshal Kim Jong Un are  faithful to the ideas and cause of great comrade Kim Jong Il and are stepping the struggle for socialist construction in the revolutionary spirit of self-reliance .

BGSJI
KFA UK 

British Committee to Remember comrade KIM JONG IL 

Enlarged Meeting of 13th Plenary Meeting of Eighth Central Committee of WPK Convened

 

Pyongyang, December 10 (KCNA) -- The Enlarged Meeting of the 13th Plenary Meeting of the Eighth Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK) was convened on Dec. 9.

Present there were members of the Presidium of the Political Bureau of the C.C., the WPK, members and alternate members of the Political Bureau of the C.C., the WPK and members and alternate members of the C.C., the WPK.

Present there as observers were officials of departments of the C.C., the WPK, leading officials of ministries, national agencies and provincial-level guidance bodies, chief secretaries of the Party committees and chairpersons of the people's committees in cities and counties, leading Party and administrative officials of major industrial establishments and relevant commanding officers of the Korean People's Army.

A presidium of the plenary meeting was elected.

The respected Comrade Kim Jong Un presided over the plenary meeting.

The plenary meeting approved the discussion on five agenda items including the review of the implementation of the Party and state policies and the work of the Central Inspection Commission of the Party in 2025 and the major issues related to the preparations for the Ninth Congress of the WPK and entered into the discussion on relevant agenda items. -0-

www.kcna.kp (2025.12.10.)

To Reap a Rich Harvest

From Voice of Korea.

http://vok.rep.kp/index.php/detail_com/comde/iee251007021/63/en

  In the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, remarkable successes are made in the grain production and in laying a foundation for sustainable growth amid the high enthusiasm for scientific farming and the active movement for increasing crop yields in the new era of rural rejuvenation.

  The Isan Farm in Kangnam County is one of 30 best farms selected in 2024.

  The farm carried out its grain production plan 1.7 times and ranked among the 30 best farms in 2024.

  This year, too, the agricultural workers of the farm put much effort into providing soil conditions favourable for the growth of the crops from the beginning of the year on the basis of the experience gained in the last year's farming and the soil analysis of each plot.

  They secured more sources of manure and prepared self-sufficing manure of good quality and applied over 20 tons of it to every field.

  Meanwhile, they drew up a tight schedule for putting the whole course of a year's farming on a scientific basis, ranging from the selection of seeds to harvesting and threshing, and carried it out without fail.

  They levelled the seedbeds properly and sowed the correct amount of seeds per phyong by use of farm machines and implements so that the rice seedlings could grow evenly and finished the rice-transplantation qualitatively in the right time while considering the soil conditions of the paddy fields and planting exact number of hills per phyong and exact number of plants per hill according to the technical requirements of sparse planting culture.

  In addition, they cultivated the crops in a scientific way including watering, fertilization and pest control and sprayed growth promoters such as high-efficiency natural plant activator on a regular basis for high grain yields.

  It is the unanimous mind of the agricultural workers of the farm to reap a rich harvest this year, too, in the wake of last year.

 

Laying to rest the ghost of Bill Bland's "critique of the DPRK

 

The hostile critique of the DPRK by the British anti-revisionist writer Bill Bland surfaces from time to time and receives attention . Two substantial counter -arguments have been already produced;

Anglo-People's Korea/Songun: AGAINST BILL BLAND An answer to the article “The Workers’ Party of Korea and Revisionism- Francesco Alarico della Scala deputy director of the Juche idea Study Centre in Milan and KFA Italy Piedmont Region

Anglo-People's Korea/Songun: More on Why Bill Bland was wrong about the DPRK -by Dr Dermot Hudson

Now we are producing a third critique of Bland

To attempt to lay the ghost of Bill Bland’s critique of the DPRK to rest  we would say the following .

In People’s Korea the transition to socialism began in 1947 under the the People’s Committee of North Korea .

In fact in the northern part of Korea by 1949 90 per cent of industry had been nationalised without compensation  and a thoroughgoing land reform carried out which confiscated any land larger than 5 hectares and restricted the rich peasant economy . Most of the industry in the northern half of Korea had actually been owned by Japanese capital and there were very few big capitalists who were actually Koreans ( was Bland was actually aware of this ) .

Comrade KIM IL SUNG and the WPK did launch a struggle against the Right capitulationists  who wanted to create a bourgeois republic with the national bourgeoisie and even pro US , pro Japanese lackeys ! . Also there was a sharp struggle against Jo Man Sik a bourgeois nationalist who was removed and expelled from positions . Ironically there are monuments to Jo Man Sik in puppet south Korea .

The DPRK was different from China which in the 1950s did have capitalist and a state capitalist sector . The DPRK which already had 90 per cent state ownership of industry rejected this line ( pro Chinese factionalists tried to oppose the socialist transformation of industry in the DPRK and copy the Chinese line ) and went for 100 per socialist ownership of industry and trade as well collectivisation , which was achieved by 1958.

Thanks to his wise leadership, the socialist transformation of both indi­vidual handicraft work and capitalist commerce and industry was complet­ed almost simultaneously with the completion of agricultural cooperativiza­tion. Consequently, the socialist transformation of the relations of produc­tion was carried out in the short period of four to five years, with the result that a most advanced people-centred Korean-style socialist system, free from exploitation and oppression, was established in the northern half of Korea. (Condensed Biography of KIM IL SUNG 2002).

Later President KIM IL SUNG pointed out that 

“There is no need to make society capitalistic and go to the trouble of fostering the capitalists just to smash them and then build socialism, on the basis that we could not discharge the task which we should have completed in the capitalist stage. The working class in power should not revive capitalist society, but should carry out this task under the socialist system which it could not tackle in the stage of capitalist revolution, in order to build a classless society”

(ON THE QUESTIONS OF THE PERIOD OF TRANSITION FROM CAPITALISM TO SOCIALISM AND THE DICTATORSHIP OF THE PROLETARIAT Speech Delivered to Party Ideological Workers May 25, 1967)

Arguably Bland’s views on the DPRK were based on insufficient knowledge of the DPRK and a belief in trying to prove that Albania  was the one and only socialist country in the world . Surely if Bland's views held any water the DPRK would have gone the same way as the German Democratic Republic (East Germany ) or Mongolia not to mention other socialist countries . The fact was the DPRK upheld the dictatorship of the proletariat and and class struggle under socialism .

Choe Son Hui Sends Condolatory Message to Her Russian Counterpart

 

Pyongyang, December 9 (KCNA) -- Choe Son Hui, minister of Foreign Affairs of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, sent a message of condolence to Sergei Viktorovich Lavrov, minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, on December 8 as regards the demise of Aleksandr Ivanovich Matsegora, Russian extraordinary ambassador to the DPRK.

She said in the message that Comrade Matsegora was a veteran diplomat of versatile talents and close friend of the DPRK people who made a distinguished contribution to the journey for more firmly cementing the broad avenue towards the eternal future of the bilateral relations of friendship and cooperation true to the noble intention of the top leaders of the DPRK and Russia, adding that his demise is a great loss to the peoples of the DPRK and Russia.

Noting that even though we lost a precious comrade, the name of Comrade Ambassador Matsegora who was a witness and contributor to the history of the DPRK-Russia friendly relations will be remembered forever as a noble example of diplomatic officials of the rising generations together with the history of friendship between the two countries, she sincerely hoped that the bereaved family who lost their close blood relatives and friends would recover inner peace as soon as possible. -0-

www.kcna.kp (2025.12.09.)

Respected Comrade Kim Jong Un Sends Condolences to Russian President and Sympathies to Russian Embassy

Pyongyang, December 9 (KCNA) -- 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, sent a message of condolence to Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin, president of the Russian Federation, on December 8 as regards the demise of Aleksandr Ivanovich Matsegora, Russian extraordinary ambassador to the DPRK, on December 6, 2025.

In the message, the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un expressed deep condolences to the Russian president, the leadership of the Russian Federation and the bereaved family on behalf of the DPRK government and on his own behalf over the sudden demise of Aleksandr Ivanovich Matsegora, Russian ambassador to the DPRK.

Comrade Matsegora was a close friend and comrade of the DPRK people who devoted his whole life to the development of the DPRK-Russia friendly relations for over 30 years, he said, adding that the course in which the DPRK-Russia relations have developed into the present firm alliance is clearly associated with the devoted efforts of Comrade A. I. Matsegora who devoted his tireless passion true to the intention and will of the leaderships of the two countries.

The sudden demise of the ambassador at the present time when the development of relations between the DPRK and Russia have entered a crucial historic phase is indeed a heartrending event and a great loss not only to the Russian government and people but also to him and the DPRK people, he said.

Although Comrade Matsegora left us regrettably, his noble life devoted to the militant friendship of the DPRK and Russian peoples and to the accomplishment of their common cause will shine forever and will be always remembered by the peoples of the two countries, Kim Jong Un said, sincerely hoping that the bereaved family's pain over the loss will be removed, and that peace will settle in their minds as soon as possible.

He expressed deep sympathy to the Russian embassy over the demise of Matsegora. -0-