Respected Comrade Kim Jong Un Has Photo Session with Families of Commanding Officers of Overseas Operations Units

 

Pyongyang, January 1 (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, on Jan. 1 met with families of commanding officers of the overseas operations units who participated in the New Year celebrations for 2026.

The families of commanding officers of the overseas operations units, who came to see Kim Jong Un whom they had longed for even in their dreams, extended their greetings of best wishes to him repeatedly showing special love and affection with parental care of being more concerned of children further apart.

The respected Comrade Kim Jong Un said that he thinks much more of the commanding officers and combatants of the overseas operations units who would place their minds on this celebration venue, praying for the eternal prosperity of the country and happiness of their families at battlefields of alien land, at this meaningful moment when the whole country greets the hopeful new year after seeing the old year out with precious memories and pride.

He said that the commanding officers of the overseas operations units would greet the new year in the overseas operational area, yearning for their beloved families even at this moment, and will redouble their strength and courage while missing even in their dreams their families who are eagerly waiting for them to return home in good health.

He said that the news and photo that he met their families would make the commanding officers very pleased on the battlefields and proposed to wish for the beloved people to return home safe after discharging their mission. Then he had a meaningful photo taken with all the families of commanding officers of the overseas operations units. -0-

www.kcna.kp (2026.01.01.)

Banquet for Labor Innovators and Meritorious Persons Given in Celebration of New Year

Pyongyang, January 1 (KCNA) -- The New Year banquet was given at the Mokran House on Wednesday for labor innovators and meritorious persons who contributed to glorifying the significant 2025 as a year of great turn that makes a new watershed in the history of growth and development of the DPRK.

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, attended the banquet.

When the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un appeared at the venue of the banquet, all the participants extended their thanks to the great father for inviting ordinary officials and working people, who did nothing great but remained faithful to their mission and duty for the citizens of the Republic, having a photo session with them and bestowing the high pride and honor of being the representatives of 2025, the year of victory and glory.

Present there were members of the Presidium of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the WPK, other leading officials of the Party and the government, labor innovators and meritorious persons.

Kim Jong Un made a significant speech.

He expressed his impression of having sat together with labor innovators representing our great people, all the beloved people of the country, to see the busy and successful year 2025 out and start a new struggle record of 2026, extending warm thanks to the labor innovators, meritorious persons and all other people for their patriotic efforts and devotion to all the successes of this year.

He said that our labor innovators and meritorious persons are possessed of excellent qualities and mettle of the Korean people, the strongest, most arduous and most resourceful in the world and today's place is glorious as there are those days in which they devoted their all, while burning their minds with patriotic loyalty, to making our country greater and our progress faster.

Saying that there are many labor innovators and meritorious persons like them in the country and this is the most important secret and pride that makes our Party, our state and our system be always strong and developing, he affirmed that as the great people are waging a grand struggle for creation with the great line of struggle, we are getting closer to our far-reaching ideal and will surely grow stronger and turn faster.

The first and foremost thing is that we have redoubled our confidence and strength, which can never be easily gained by anything, he said and extended warm New Year greetings to the participants in the banquet, and through them, to all the citizens in the whole regions of the country.

He wished all the participants good health and more worthwhile and valuable successes in the future and proposed a toast to harmony, happiness and laughter of all the families across the country.

All the participants pledged to perform proud feats to be recorded in the name of the present times and in the appearance of the present generation in the new struggle of 2026 that will bring greater glory and prosperity to our great state and people. -0-

www.kcna.kp (2026.01.01.)

Respected Comrade Kim Jong Un Sends New Year's Message to Officers and Soldiers of Overseas Operations Units

Pyongyang, January 1 (KCNA) -- The respected Comrade Kim Jong Un sent a congratulatory message to the officers and soldiers of the overseas operations units on December 31, 2025 on the occasion of the new year.

The full text of the message is as follows:

To the officers and soldiers of the overseas operations units, who are greeting the new year

My beloved comrades-in-arms – generals, officers and soldiers – who are greeting the new year in the overseas operations area,

On behalf of our Party and state and in reflection of the tender feelings of our people, the officers and soldiers of the entire army, and your parents, wives and children, I send new year greetings to all the commanding officers and combatants of the overseas operations units.

As the whole country is enveloped in a festive atmosphere of greeting the new year, I all the more miss you, who are fighting bravely on the battlefields in the alien land even at this moment, true to the order of your homeland.

Though you are now far away from your homeland, our Party and people always think of you first, the proud sons of our country.

2025, the year we are seeing off with great pride and dignity, is shining more brilliantly thanks to the imperishable honour you have defended at the cost of your blood and lives.

All of you have safeguarded heroically the dignity and honour of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.

You have demonstrated to the full with what determination and fortitude one should carry out the order of the Party and the country. You are a source of the greatest strength and pride and a strong pillar of our Party and state.

The coming year 2026 will be another year of the great DPRK along with the remarkable feats you will perform on the overseas battlefields.

I really miss you all.

I hope that I will have a warm reunion with you, all officers and soldiers of the overseas operations units, as early as possible.

Your homeland is eagerly looking forward to your return home.

It is my greatest wish that all of you will return to your homeland in good health.

I request you all to pay special attention to your safety, mindful of my wish.

And be always brave.

For the fraternal Russian people,

For the mettle and characteristics of our people, for the spirit and dignity of the Korean people and for the immortal honour of our state,

And for the undying fame of our army,

Be brave.

Behind you are Pyongyang and Moscow.

Thanks to your self-sacrificing and devoted struggle, the militant fraternity and friendship and invincible alliance between our country and Russia grow firmer.

All officers and soldiers of the overseas operations units,

As I, together with your parents, wives and children, and all other people, look forward to the day when all of you will return home safely after accomplishing your mission, I once again send you new year greetings and warm militant salute. -0-

www.kcna.kp (2026.01.01.)

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Laws for Public Benefit

 

Over the past five years the DPRK has enacted, amended or supplemented many laws, most of them geared to improving people’s welfare and living standards.

A typical example is the Law of the DPRK on Childcare adopted in February 2022.

According to the law, the state shall regularly provide all the children across the country with nutritious foods including dairy products at its expense. The law specifies in detail the issues related to nursing and upbringing of children, ranging from ensuring the quality of raw materials for milk powder production and standardizing milk products to providing nurseries and kindergartens with furnishings and drinking water. The regular supply of dairy products to children at state expense is not an easy task, but surprisingly enough, this undertaking is legally guaranteed in this country.

Reportedly, the country has recently built goat and dairy cow farms or expanded their capacity, with the result that the output of raw milk has increased more than 1.4 times in the past few years. With the level of milk processing steadily improving, tasty and nutritious dairy products are supplied every day to all the children throughout the country.

Another example is the Law of the DPRK on House Maintenance adopted in October 2023.

According to the law, dwelling houses shall be preferentially allocated to war veterans, discharged officers, teachers, scientists, meritorious persons, and families with several children including those with triplets, while working people in labour-consuming sectors such as coal and ore miners, smelters and pelagic fishermen shall be provided with houses with ample conditions for rest. And the families displaced by natural disasters or state measures shall be compulsorily given houses.

More surprising and unbelievable is that all the houses are allocated free of charge. In fact, modern dwelling houses for over 100 000 households have been built for the past five years in the capital city of Pyongyang and rural communities in different parts of the country to be given to the working people for nothing.

Among other newly-enacted, amended or supplemented laws are the law on social insurance and social security, the law on providing discharged officers with proper living conditions, the law on medical service, and the law on the provision of cement to cities and counties for their construction. These laws enable the Korean people to be provided with environment and conditions for a stable and happy life. This is what’s now happening in the DPRK.

Report of the KFA UK Film Night 29.12.2025’

The Korea Friendship Association of the UK (KFA UK) held its 33rd film night which was the final film night of 2025 at 1900 hours on the 29th of December . Participating were members and officials of KFA UK from London and elsewhere in the UK  as well as guests from KFA Andalusia (Spain ), KFA Germany , the People’s Korea Initiative of Poland as well as guests from the Netherlands and other countries.

The film  “Wish “ was shown  .This film was produced in 2011 and was screened at  the 2012  Pyongyang Film Festival . The centres on the lives of a couple with a young child and their neighbours and friends . The father of the family is working away from home , he is a soldier who is one of the builders of the new Huichon Hydro Electric Power Plant , a key construction project which will benefit the country greatly . The wish of this soldier is to have his picture taken with Generalissimo KIM JONG IL . Naturally his wife and son miss him greatly . He is given leave to go back to see his family but this causes him to miss the opportunity to have his picture taken with Generalissimo KIM JONG IL . This causes his wife to be full of remorse .

However the film has a happy ending because the soldier -builder is able to have his picture taken with Generalissimo KIM JONG IL .

The film features the popular DPRK song “Tansume “ or “Without A Break “  .

The film night concluded at 2045 hours GMT.

(KFA UK)

Illustrious Commander Ushers in Golden Age in Strengthening Revolutionary Armed Forces

Pyongyang, December 30 (KCNA) -- On December 30, 2011, the Workers' Party of Korea and the people of the DPRK held in high esteem the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un as the supreme commander of the armed forces of the DPRK.

Along with this significant day, the nature and character of the revolutionary armed forces of the DPRK have been firmly preserved, a decisive guarantee has been provided for carrying forward the ever-victorious history and traditions and the DPRK has been able to demonstrate its dignity and might as the strongest military power.

Kim Jong Un has developed the revolutionary armed forces of the DPRK into the elite ranks with his faith that the military muscle precisely means the national power and that the prosperity of the country and happiness of the people lie in bolstering up the military muscle in every way.

The ideas and theories on army building advanced by Kim Jong Un including the idea of thoroughly establishing the Party’s monolithic command system across the entire army and invariably preserving the revolutionary nature of the people’s army served as the important guidelines for ushering in a golden age in strengthening the military muscle.

Kim Jong Un convened grand meetings of the entire army and led them to be a milestone in further strengthening the might of the revolutionary armed forces of the DPRK. He has made field inspections to train the People's Army into a matchless army.

He inspected the biggest hotspot on a small wooden boat, saying that he should go to any place where soldiers serve, however dangerous it may be.

Thanks to the energetic leadership of Kim Jong Un, who stressed the soldiers' mission, duty and feats at training grounds and trenches and led soldiers to spend their days of service with training, the People's Army could be prepared as a-match-for-a-hundred revolutionary army.

Shortly ago, Kim Jong Un guided the work to build a nuclear-powered strategic-guided missile submarine on the spot. Thanks to his devoted efforts for bolstering up the national defence capabilities, the DPRK could rapidly emerge as a strongest military power with the powerful national defence capabilities.

Watching with admiration the entities of the national defence capabilities at the military hardware exhibition Defence Development-2025, the people hardened their conviction that only victory is in store for the country as it is led by Kim Jong Un who is ushering in a golden age in bolstering up the revolutionary armed forces. -0-

www.kcna.kp (2025.12.30.)

14 years of guiding the revolutionary armed forces of Juche -special article by Dr Dermot Hudson

 

On the 30th of December 2011 the mantle of leadership of the revolutionary armed forces of Juche Korea passed to respected comrade KIM JONG UN when the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Workers Party of Korea appointed him as Supreme Commander of the Korean People’s Army .

One of first actions of respected comrade KIM JONG UN as Supreme Commander was to visit the historic Seoul Ryu Kyong Su No 105 Tank division of the Korean People’s Army , a unit steeped in revolutionary history for this was the unit which was first to rush into Seoul during the great victorious Fatherland Liberation War and it was here in August 1960 that comrade KIM JONG IL started his revolutionary leadership over the armed forces of Juche Korea.

Respected comrade KIM JONG UN put great effort and energy into building the revolutionary armed forces of People’s Korea into an invincible power that could fully safeguard the construction of socialism and provide security for the happy lives of the Korean people under the Juche-oriented socialist system . Respected comrade KIM JONG UN visited army units one after the other , even far flung ones and those on the frontline at Panmunjom, the place where socialism and imperialism confront each other at gunpoint .

It was respected comrade KIM JONG UN who put forward the Juche-based revolutionary line of building the economy and nuclear force in parallel . The DPRK became a socialist nuclear power of Juche and an ICBM power .The DPRK’s nuclear missiles  can reach the mainland of the USA.

Now the DPRK is building its own Nuclear-powered Strategic Guided Missile Submarine with a tonnage of 8,700 tonnes. This shows how powerful the DPRK has become . Under respected comrade KIM JONG UN the DPRK has become a world class military power and is able to sit down and negotiate as an equal with other countries .

Moreover under the leadership of respected comrade KIM JONG UN the KPA has been strengthened so much that it is able to give internationalist assistance to other countries and conduct overseas military operations in defence of anti-imperialism and independence .

I was able to attend in person the grand military parade in October, held to mark the 80th anniversary of the foundation of the Workers Party of Korea, this year and saw with my own eyes the great successes that had been made in building the KPA under the guidance of respected comrade KIM JONG UN .It was my first time to attend a DPRK military parade at night , previously I had only attended parades during the day time . This parade was not held under easy or ideal conditions but in the rain and wind . Other countries would not have been able to do this but People’s Korea , Korea of Juche was able to do this . The parade included the KPA fighters who had fought for the liberation of Kursk  and also new ICBMs . A friend from Italy said to me as the new ICBM rumbled past , “That is for Washington”.

The 14 years of respected comrade KIM JONG UN’s guidance over the revolutionary armed forces have been 14 years of victory and glory.

Dr Dermot Hudson

Chairman Korean Friendship Association UK

Chairman British Group For the Study of the Juche Idea

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