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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Dr Dermot Hudson

Chairman British Group For the Study of the Juche Idea

Chairman of the Korean Friendship Association of the UK

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

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

                                                                               

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

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

Crime of Japan, Sworn Enemy of Korean Nation

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

www.kcna.kp (2026.06.26.)

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Korean War Reveals True Colours of the US (2)

 

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Peace-breaker and Murderer

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

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

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

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

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

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

Their indiscriminate bombing laid waste to the DPRK.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

 

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The meeting concluded at 2020 hours BST.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

www.kcna.kp (2026.06.26.)

 

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

www.kcna.kp (2026.06.26.)

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