Pyongyang and Its Endless Transformation

http://www.mfa.gov.kp/view/article/22031

 2025.3.23.

On March 23, 2021, respected Comrade Kim Jong Un attended the ground-breaking ceremony for the construction of 10 000 flats in Pyongyang and made his historic speech. Since then, Pyongyang, the capital of the DPRK, has proudly taken its own unique form and grown into a world-class civilized city with beautiful socialist streets built one after another for the people, according to the scheduled time set by the Workers’ Party of Korea.

The past four-year-long grand construction process was carried out with redoubled efforts and hard work while bearing a grand ideal and a noble sense of duty in mind. Its history is embedded with the inexhaustible leadership activities of respected Comrade Kim Jong Un who personally mapped out the plan for building 50 000 flats and devoted his all for its realization.

Respected Comrade Kim Jong Un gave instructions to build Songhwa Street and turn it into a revolutionary entity which shows the capital’s new and developed image as the first-year task in the construction target of 50 000 flats set forth by the Party Congress. He then guided to build Hwasong Street by learning from the shortcomings seen and lessons gained during the construction of Songhwa Street so that it will become a more civilized socialist street.

When Hwasong Street construction began, respected Comrade Kim Jong Un looked at the housing arrangement plans and bird’s eye view of the street despite his busy schedule. He put all his heart and soul into building a unique street representing the times assuming the aspect of a modern city section.

Though he worked day and night without rest to make sure Songhwa Street and Hwasong Street are erected as new streets symbolizing the civilization and prosperity of the state, he again visited the construction site of the nearly-completed Hwasong Street. That day, he earnestly said that the construction of housing is the most crucial task that provides the people with beautiful homes of happiness. He also said that the construction should be finished flawlessly with quality until the finishing touches so the buildings will not stand inferior to anything even in the distant future.

As seen, respected Comrade Kim Jong Un carried out a vast large-scale construction project to give the people the most splendid and civilized living conditions. Through his commitment and hard work, idyllic streets such as Songhwa Street, Jonwi Street, Kyongru-dong and Hwasong Street have sprouted up on this land attracting everyone’s admiration.

With no doubt, the idea and plans of respected Comrade Kim Jong Un are all steered towards bringing happiness and joy to the people. As each step in his revolutionary leadership is preceded by his dedication to the people, Pyongyang will transform more beautifully day after day 

Masterpiece Born of Great Era

2025.3.21.
http://www.mfa.gov.kp/view/article/22011

Completed with the sculpture of a mother lifting up her baby in her arms, Okryu Children’s Hospital is a monumental masterpiece born of great Kim Jong Un era when the upbringing of younger generation is given top priority by the Party and the State as the most important policy and revolutionary undertaking. It is also an era of great innovation marked with unreserved dedication. The Hospital matches well with the sculpture that stands facing the Pyongyang Maternity Hospital, the embodiment of the motherly love of our Party, and also highlights the dynamism of the era advancing towards the overall national prosperity.

Eleven years have passed since respected Comrade Kim Jong Un visited Okryu Children’s Hospital on March 21, 2014. Since then, the loving care and benevolence of our Party have continued with the policies designed and adopted to provide our children with everything and to bring happiness and laughter to them.

It is respected Comrade Kim Jong Un who personally initiated the construction of Okryu Children’s Hospital and energetically led the project, visiting the construction site several times, so that the hospital would be completed into one of the best of its kind. When the hospital went into operation, he visited the place again on no special occasion, for he really wanted to see the lovely faces of our children there. Then, as if what he had done were not enough, he went on to give some valuable advice to relevant officials on the improvement of health services and also kindly resolved every issue arising from the management and operation of the hospital.

Under the loving care of respected Comrade Kim Jong Un who regards it as his greatest pleasure and happiness to look after our children, the very future of the country, and spares nothing for them, they are growing up happy with nothing to envy in the world, annually provided with everything including Sonamu (Pine Tree) brand schoolbags, Mindulle (Dandelion) brand notebooks, Haebaragi (Sunflower) brand school things and also smart school uniforms. They are the very beneficiaries of the universal 12-year compulsory education system.

These are not all:
Since the adoption of the new childcare policy, children all across the country, including those in the deep mountainous areas and those on the remote solitary islands, are daily provided with nutritious dairy products, Sundays and holidays included – a truly inspiring reality to all.

Never a story or two can cover the extent of love and solicitude of
respected Comrade Kim Jong Un who sees to it that all the affairs of the State are subjected to the upbringing of our posterity and also devotes his all to that end. His is the one that can only be likened either to the vast expanse of the sea or sky.

The picturesque Okryu Children’s Hospital completed with the sculpture of a mother lifting her baby up in her arms will forever be perceived by our people as a masterpiece of great Kim Jong Un era, the era of higher civilization and greater prosperity ushered in by dint of eternal political creed and mode of ours – the people-first principle. And in the hospital and sculpture, we see the boundlessly noble outlook of our Party on younger generation that may perceive a difficulty but never an impossibility when it comes to work for children. Under such loving care of the Party, the happy laughter of our children will continue to reverberate through the country, heralding victory in the cause of overall national prosperity.

Juche Idea - Great Guiding Ideology in Era of Independence

Pyongyang, March 31 (KCNA) -- On March 31, 1982, Chairman Kim Jong Il made public his famous work "On the Juche Idea".

The work is an encyclopedic library and a great programme of the revolution that comprehensively deals with the Juche idea, which President Kim Il Sung founded and thoroughly applied in the course of the decades-long revolutionary struggle, and systematizes its theories and principles.

The publication of the work helped clarify the world-historic position and epochal role of the Juche idea and made it possible for the Korean people and the progressive mankind of the world to victoriously advance the cause of independence of the popular masses, the cause of socialism, under the banner of Juche.

Thanks to the energetic ideo-theoretical activities of the respected General Secretary Kim Jong Un, the Juche idea has been formulated as Kimilsungism-Kimjongilism and steadily developed and enriched as required by the times and the developing revolution.

The General Secretary solemnly declared that only the road of Juche is the immutable path to be followed by our Party and people and the ever-victorious banner of our revolution is the great Kimilsungism-Kimjongilism.

The great fighting programmes and ever-victorious strategic and tactical guidelines clarified by him reflect his iron will to solve all the problems arising in the revolution and construction as required by Kimilsungism-Kimjongilism from A to Z.

The DPRK's overall national power and strategic position have reached the highest level in the vortex of complicated world politics and factories and enterprises for improving the people's standard of living have been built one after another. Such eye-opening reality clearly proves once again the validity and great vitality of the great Juche idea.

Thanks to the leadership of the respected General Secretary, the immortal ideo-theoretical exploits of Chairman Kim Jong Il will shine century after century and the DPRK will further demonstrate its might as a socialist power of Juche forever. -0-

Defending People’s Korea with No Ifs or Buts in Staffordshire .

KFA UK Chairman Dr Dermot Hudson on 29.03.2025 visited the town of Burslem, Stoke on Trent in the north Midlands and participated in an informal meeting of the Staffordshire KFA UK branch and the British Group for the Study of the Juche Idea.

Dr Hudson said  that the 31st of March is the 43rd anniversary of the publication of the work “On the Juche Idea “ by the great leader comrade KIM JONG IL . In the work “On the Juche Idea “ , comrade KIM JONG IL systematised the Juche idea and created a structural system of the Juche idea including the philosophical principle and socio-historical principle.

The chairman of Staffordshire KFA UK branch and secretary general of the British Group for the Study of the Juche Idea made a presentation on the subject  of independent and creative life based on the Volume 1 of the KIM IL SUNG Encyclopedia . He said that it is a demand of man (man being in the non-gendered sense to live as a master , to become the master and the creator .This is being realised in the DPRK there is a collectivist life and people have welded into a socio-political organism . Dr Hudson said that this is a unique achievement which made the DPRK different from other socialist countries.

Participants in the meeting said that more should be done to win students over to the Juche idea and away from certain counter-revolutionary opportunist ideologies such as Trotskyism .

Participants denounced the slanders of over-privileged , elitist middle class and bourgeois  tourists who do not understand the superiority of the socialist system of the DPRK. It was stressed that KFA members and Juche idea followers as progressive , peace campaigners and trade unionists should visit the DPRK .

The participants enjoyed local Staffordshire food including Wight’s pies and Staffordshire oatcakes.

In the evening the participants watched a DPRK documentary about Juche idea followers which featured the Russian communist leaders Nina Andreeva and Viktor Anipilov .

A tour of a local park was organised.

Reading list for the Day of the Sun -the 113th Anniversary of the birth of the great leader President KIM IL SUNG

 

READING LIST FOR THE DAY OF THE SUN

                                                   

                               

          London 27th of  March 2025

The British Group for the Study of the Juche Idea ,  Korean Friendship Association  of the UK, Association for the Study of Songun Politics UK and the UK Preparatory Committee for the Day of the Sun has created a reading list for those people who wish to 

Printed and not online
"The 70th Spring " by Genero Canero Checa (Pyongyang FLPH)
" KIM IL SUNG , the Sun that Rose at Mangyondae" by Angel Castro Laverello(Pyongyang FLPH)
" KIM IL SUNG Biography " by Baik Bong (various publishers)
"KIM IL SUNG -Short Biography " (Pyongyang FLPH)
"History of the Revolutionary Activities of the great leader comrade KIM IL SUNG(Pyongyang FLPH, 1982)
"Brief History of the Revolutionary Activities of the great leader comrade KIM IL SUNG (Pyongyang FLPH , 1982)
"The Benevolent Sun'  4 Volumes Pyongyang FLPH , )
"The Glorious Career"




HISTORY OF REVOLUTIONARY ACTIVITIES OF PRESIDENT KIM IL SUNG
http://www.korean-books.com.kp/KBMbooks/en/book/politics/4045.pdf


KIM IL SUNG  GREAT MAN OF THE CENTURY Volume 1
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1I3NB29NzhxhnM9v6r5L-cJEM2NVqyf9R/view?fbclid=IwAR2YjdkcnpLOvdkn0sTyY_yxUGi3sixkK8v75RKIO67Yh56r6akSio1ZQxo

GREAT MAN

http://www.korean-books.com.kp/KBMbooks/en/book/politics/20220413143812.pdf

IN THE EMBRACE OF KIM IL SUNG

http://www.korean-books.com.kp/KBMbooks/en/book/politics/20220413143812.pdf

PRINCIPLES OF LIFE -sayings of President KIM IL SUNG
http://www.korean-books.com.kp/KBMbooks/en/book/politics/00000535.pdf

JUCHE IDEA -ANSWERS TO A HUNDRED QUESTIONS
http://juche007-anglo-peopleskoreafriendship.blogspot.com/2014/04/juche-idea-answers-to-hundred-questions.html

Respected Comrade Kim Jong Un Guides Defence Science Research Work

Pyongyang, March 27 (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, guided the defence science research work of the Unmanned Aeronautical Technology Complex and the detective electronic warfare research group on March 25-26.

Accompanying him were Pak Jong Chon and Jo Chun Ryong, secretaries of the WPK Central Committee, Ri Pyong Chol, general advisor for the munitions policy of the WPK Central Committee, Kim Yong Hwan, president of the Academy of Defence Sciences, and other senior officials of the WPK Central Committee and defence science research institutes.

The respected Comrade Kim Jong Un learned about various kinds of reconnaissance and suicide attack drones, newly developed and being produced by an institute and enterprises under the Unmanned Aeronautical Technology Complex, and oversaw their performance test.

The test confirmed the innovative performance of a new-type strategic reconnaissance drone with the detective ability to track and monitor different strategic targets and enemy troops’ activities in the land and sea. And it fully demonstrated the striking capability of suicide drones to be used for various tactical attack missions.

Kim Jong Un made an important assessment of the military effectiveness and strategic value of the strategic reconnaissance drone with improving performance and of the suicide attack drones to which new artificial intelligence was applied.

Expressing his active support for the new plans of the complex, he agreed on its proposal for expanding the production capacity.

Saying that the field of unmanned equipment and artificial intelligence should be top-prioritized and developed in modernizing the armed forces, he stressed that it is important to work out a correct long-term national plan for promoting the rapid development of the work to use intelligent drones and perseveringly and dynamically propel it as a medium- and long-term project, in keeping with the trend of modern warfare in which the competition for using intelligent drones as a major means of military power is being accelerated and the range of their use is steadily expanding in military activities.

As already stated, a lot of objective changes that come with the rapid sci-tech development call for updating a large part of our military theory, practice and education, he said, adding that it is an important task facing our Party at present to adopt a correct, appropriate line and solution.

Saying that the WPK has advanced a clear line for perfectly combining unmanned weapon and equipment systems with operational plans and fundamentals of battle, regarding it as one of the important components of the armed forces modernization programme to put weapons and equipment on an unmanned basis, he reiterated the scientific and practical orientation and ways for accelerating the continuous qualitative and quantitative and technical transformation in the development and production of unmanned weapons and equipment and for putting operational ability on a highly-developed basis.

He learned about the performances of reconnaissance and intelligence gathering means and electronic jamming and attack systems newly developed by the detective electronic warfare research group and its long-term plan.

He said that our special means with the application of up-to-date technology would play a big role in monitoring potential threats and collecting vital intelligence and that they would give full play to their might in enhancing our army’s capability of conducting various kinds of intelligence-gathering operations and neutralizing the enemy’s combat means of various missions.

Expressing great satisfaction over the fact that new electronic jamming and attack weapon systems have been developed and gone into production, he spoke highly of the fact that the stages of the WPK’s line of modernizing the army are being qualitatively attained thanks to the clear brains of our younger-generation defence science research group.

Saying that the Unmanned Aeronautical Technology Complex and the detective electronic warfare research group have a very important role to play in coping with the development in modern warfare of today characterized by confrontation between intelligent hi-tech weapon systems, he gave an important task related to the immediate duty and the long-term goals to be attained by this sector. -0-

www.kcna.kp (2025.03.27.)

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KCNA Commentary on Japan's Moves for Reinvasion

Pyongyang, March 26 (KCNA) -- Japan, a war criminal state, is stepping up the battle formation to launch a war for reinvasion.

On March 24, it officially inaugurated an "integrated operation command" comprehensively commanding the Ground, Maritime and Air "Self-Defense Forces" for the practical use of long-range missiles.

Prior to this, it was disclosed that Japan is going to deploy U.S.-made intermediate-range missiles for action in the archipelago and home-made missiles with a range of about 1 000 km in Kyushu.

The reality proves that the Japanese militarists' overseas aggression is no longer imagination or speculation but a fait accompli, and it is as clear as noonday that the DPRK will be the first target of their attack.

Japan, a defeated nation gnashing its teeth with revenge, has concentrated all efforts on the scheme to turn itself into a war state capable of invading other countries again anytime over the past 80 years.

Such preparations are now accelerated at the final stage.

Japan created environment and conditions for joining a war anytime by forming an Asian version of NATO based on the U.S.-Japan-ROK military alliance system in the Northeast Asian region, zealously pursuant to the U.S. aggression moves for hegemony, and by establishing its independent full-time mission at NATO in January this year. And it is putting spurs to the revision of the constitution to turn itself into a "state capable of fighting a war" at an early date.

Japan's arms buildup is also at serious stage.

It was announced that the amount of weapons purchased by Japan from abroad in recent years has nearly doubled as compared with the past, 97 percent of them imported from the U.S. Such survey data draw the attention of the international community.

This year alone, Japan is going to purchase a large quantity of various kinds of strike means, including intermediate-range air-to-air missile and air-to-ground long-range cruise missile from the U.S., while getting more frantic than ever before to further increase the range of missiles it has already developed and possessed.

Amid the successive commissioning of various kinds of warships to stand in the van of overseas aggression, a project for moving the commands of the SDF to underground was launched and the purchase of large transport planes is being stepped up to ensure the rapid transfer of armed forces to the continent. Shortly ago, Japan inaugurated even a maritime transport force of the SDF.

Japan's moves for getting familiar with war of aggression are going beyond precedent.

In January, it staged the largest-ever parachute drill aimed at a sudden preemptive attack by inviting troops of 11 countries such as the U.S. and Britain to the archipelago and conducted the U.S.-Japan-ROK joint air drill in the sky near the Korean peninsula. In February, it dispatched even a virtual aircraft carrier to the waters out of its territory to frantically stage a drill for overseas aggression with the U.S. and other war forces across the ocean.

In March, Japan also conducted saber-rattling with riff-raffs in the waters around it. Not content with this, it took part in the U.S.-Japan-ROK naval drill recently conducted in the waters near Jeju Island, openly flying the "flag of rising sun shedding rays".

It is clear what it means to step up the deployment of long-range strike means for action and establish a command system for their use in an actual war, under such environment in which Japan is pushing the situation to the extreme.

Japan has accelerated its institutional and military preparations for aggression on the continent at the final stage and created an international climate for them. It is now advancing into a line of fire to invade the continent.

It is a matter of time for Japan to fire the first gun for reinvasion.

The Japanese militarists, the sworn enemy of the Korean people, should be clearly mindful that the line of fire Japan is daring to approach will be turned into its bottomless grave. -0-

www.kcna.kp (2025.03.26.)