National Flag-hoisting and Oath-taking Ceremony Takes Place on Birthday of DPRK

 

Pyongyang, September 10 (KCNA) -- All the citizens and families of the DPRK greeted the 78th national day amid ever-soaring patriotic enthusiasm of all the people to make great transformations and strides, true to the revolutionary programme unveiled at the Ninth Congress of the Workers' Party of Korea.

A national flag-hoisting and oath-taking ceremony took place solemnly at the Pyongyang Assembly Hall on September 9, the 78th founding anniversary of the glorious motherland Democratic People's Republic of Korea.

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, attended the commemorative event.

Present there were members of the Presidium of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the WPK and other leading cadres of the Party, government and armed forces organs, senior officials of the Standing Committee of the Supreme People's Assembly, the Cabinet, commissions, ministries and national agencies, commanding officers of the Korean People's Army and deputies to the SPA in Pyongyang.

The KPA guard of honour lined up at the venue for the commemoration.

A ceremony of hoisting the national flag of the DPRK took place.

Guards of honour of the KPA solemnly escorted the national flag of the DPRK to the venue of the ceremony.

All the participants paid high tribute to the glorious national flag symbolic of the pride and valiant spirit of heroic Korea and its heroic people that have won priceless victories and demonstrated the dignity and honour of the Republic to the world, bravely treading the untrodden path of history with a strong sense of patriotism.

The glorious national flag of the DPRK was hoisted.

The venue was overflowing with intense desire of the participants to devote all their strength, wisdom and enthusiasm to the glorious and worthwhile struggle for bringing earlier a bright future, adding lustre to the great history of their ever-victorious country.

Led by the head of state, the participants solemnly pledged before the sacred national flag to remain boundlessly sincere in promoting the people's well-being and the growth and development of the country, firmly defend the Constitution of the Republic, strictly observe the legal duty, firmly defend the socialist ideology and the socialist system and remain faithful to their beloved motherland so as to add eternal glory to its greatness and beauty as responsible members defending the sovereignty of the DPRK and interests of its people and serving the state and people.

Comrade Kim Jong Un made a congratulatory address to all the people on the occasion of the national day.

He extended warm congratulations and thanks to the working people, service personnel and families across the country for their continuous creation, boundless devotion and responsible contribution to the prosperity and development of the country on the occasion of the national day.

His warm congratulations also went to the overseas compatriots' organizations and overseas compatriots that always share their breath and mind with the homeland, praying for the brilliant journey of the Republic. And he paid special thanks and high tribute to the commanding officers and soldiers of the army involved in overseas military operations.

Our ideal is being realized rapidly thanks to patriotism, voluntary service and devoted contributions by all citizens praying for the country's prosperity, and our fighting morale for reaching the goal has also been greatly boosted, he said, adding that the national prestige and dignity have been further enhanced year by year, thanks to the arduous struggle of the Korean people, alongside their ever-soaring spirit to bring earlier a dignified, powerful, peaceful, secure, revolutionary and prosperous era.

Saying the further our socialist cause advances, the higher ideals and ambitions we have, instead of greater joy and satisfaction, he noted that the reality of the Korean revolution, in which all are waging the struggle for tomorrow with higher and more goals than today and make vigorous progress of their own style, fully demonstrates the inexhaustible potentials and united strength of the country and the absolute confidence in the future, and this remarkable development is being realized by the resourceful Korean people.

Noting that the righteous minds and efforts of the people loving and supporting the country and serving it with loyalty have become the pillars of irresistible might to fully prop up the current brilliant reality of the country, he said that the extraordinary pride and self-confidence in the great country, fervent patriotism and outstanding talents and strong self-respect of the Korean people make everyone aspire to a stronger, more prosperous and more beautiful future of the DPRK. This shared desire unites our country and all our people, steadily increases the national power and provides confidence, courage and inexhaustible creative power enabling them to race against time, he added.

Expressing his will to ensure that the Party and the government make all efforts to shoulder heavier responsibility, make a bigger stride and achieve dynamic advance, he wished all the people and families across the country warm peace, joy and happiness, affirming that only victory and glory are in store for the great, resourceful and brave people.

The participants were greatly excited by the enthusiastic speech made by Comrade Kim Jong Un who declared the unshakable faith and will to bring earlier the powerful, prosperous and beautiful future of the nation, firmly believing in the ardent patriotism, wisdom and inexhaustible creativity of the great, resourceful and brave Korean people.

When Comrade Kim Jong Un finished his speech, all the participants burst into stormy cheers of "Hurrah!"

All the participants hardened their strong will to fulfill the important responsibility and duty, entrusted by the people, with tireless enthusiasm and strenuous efforts in the vanguard of the historic sacred cause for the immortal glory of their country and the victory of Korean-style socialism, true to the original idea of the great Comrade Kim Jong Un on building a country guided by the people-first principle. -0-

Respected Comrade Kim Jong Un Meets and Congratulates Labor Innovators and Meritorious Persons Invited to Celebrations of National Day

Pyongyang, September 10 (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, met labor innovators and meritorious persons invited to the celebrations of the 78th founding anniversary of the DPRK at the Pyongyang Assembly Hall on September 9.

The participants, who were honored to be present at the glorious moment they had greatly yearned, broke into enthusiastic cheers with reverence for Comrade Kim Jong Un, whom they had so much longed to see, with pride and honor of having devoted patriotic enthusiasm and efforts to the crucial course of advance for making a breakthrough in attaining the new long-term goals set by the historic Ninth Congress of the Party.

Comrade Kim Jong Un warmly congratulated the delegates from different sectors, who were invited to the celebrations of the national day with the labor achievements they made with inexhaustible devotion, sharing intention and will with the Party in the vanguard of the struggle for adding to the greatness of the country and accelerating its progress.

The ranks of patriots regarding it as the most honorable and happy life to dedicate themselves to the victory and glory of the Republic, sharing their destiny with the country, are increasing day by day, he said, adding that this is the very key and inexhaustible strength guaranteeing the vigorous development of the country and the success of the Party policies.

He said that the struggle at a new stage for making the period of unprecedented upsurge in the development of the state lead up to steady upswing will add another page of great transformation to the history of building a thriving nation, thanks to more positive activities of the pioneers personifying the characteristics and mettle of Koreans, strongest and most diligent and resourceful in the world, and the patriotic enthusiasm of all other people striving in response.

Expressing the expectation that all the participants would fully demonstrate the proud honor as dignified paragons of the times and socialist patriotic workers by making more enthusiastic, innovative and strenuous efforts in the course of the development and offensive advance of the country, Comrade Kim Jong Un had a photo session with them.

When the photo session was over, cheers of excitement echoed in the sky of auspicious September.

All the participants were full of enthusiasm to dedicate themselves to the struggle for realizing earlier the beautiful and sacred ideals and ambitions under the leadership of Comrade Kim Jong Un. -0-

From Voice of Korea-Regional Transformation

 

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  A new history of regional transformation is opening up in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea along with the vigorous implementation of the regional development policy in the new era.

  Modern regional-industry factories were built in 40 cities and counties in two years' time, making an active contribution to improving the living of the local people.

  In those days, a variety of beautiful stories were heard in different places of the country.

Everybody Comes

 

  An inaugural ceremony of new regional-industry factories was held in Jangyon County on December 18, 2025.

  After that, many people visited the house of Kim Il Sim and Im Kum Hyang living in the town.

  At first, the house was visited by their villagers and now even by outsiders.

  When he took part in the inaugural ceremony, the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un held a child in his arms, beaming all over his face. The child was their daughter Kim Mi Rae.

  So everybody wanted to know where the fortunate child was living, what her parents were and what she told him.

  All the visitors took her by the hand and had pictures taken with her, saying she is a happy child blessed by Marshal Kim Jong Un.

  The house of an ordinary worker's family has become a house everybody visits and envies.

A Story about "Our Products"

  Sinyang County is a mountain county with high and low mountains standing like a folding screen and with many narrow and deep valleys.

  The number of varieties of the regional-industry products of the county increased more than five times and its total industrial output value more than two times compared with those one year ago.

  All the local people say:

  "We would go to the town to buy good commodities. Now we don't need to go there as our local products are as good as those in the town."

  "Really wonderful is the furniture which is produced in our county."

  "I sent foodstuffs made of wild fruits to my relatives in Pyongyang and they requested more."

  Similar stories can be heard from the children growing healthily taking the confectionery and dairy products supplied to them every day and the people who moved into the new rural houses. They boast of the treasure factories and special products of the county.

Products of Mountain Counties Go beyond Their Bounds

  Songchon County, which witnessed the first groundbreaking and inauguration of regional-industry factories, produces jam, fruit preserved in honey, sweet jelly and the like with its special product--Songchon chestnut--as raw materials. Those products were well known even to other regions.

  The Unsan County Foodstuff Factory presented processed pine nuts including sweets, cakes and sponge cakes to a number of exhibitions held in Pyongyang last year and it is requested from across the country to send them.

  The people in Usi County, a remote mountain county in the north, have also become the masters of the region with a lot of prides. Growing is the demand for the tara vine jam, pear jam and apricot jam, the special products of the county.

  Black stone craftworks of the Yomju County Daily Necessities Factory and various kinds of grasswork of the daily necessities factory in Kaephung District of Kaesong are also popular among outsiders and they are expanded to other regions.

  Various kinds of good-quality products of the modern regional-industry factories go beyond the bounds of the regions to other places of the country.

Name of a Baby

  Touching stories produced by the new era of regional development are posted on a number of websites of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea almost every day.

  A subscriber posted a story telling about how she named her baby.

  When a number of people gathered, she asked for naming a baby to be born soon but she couldn't choose a name to her taste. Some days after the news of the new regional-industry factories inaugurated in Cholwon County, her birthplace, she could give a perfect name to her baby. It was "Jin Hung" meaning that it is a happy child who was born in the new era of regional rejuvenation.

Unfamiliar Road to Home

  A student of a national-level university in the capital city blogged an article:

  "I came home on vacation. The road to my home had been quite familiar to me. But it was not this time. New regional-industry factories were built in Kilju, Orang and Kyongsong through which I pass on the way to my home and the county seats were face-lifted. So the road has become unfamiliar and new to me.

  There is a saying that ten years are enough to change mountains and rivers. On this land, however, mountains and rivers are changed not in ten years but every year, nay, day after day.

  The road to my home gets newer with each passing day.

  After graduating from the university, I will come back home and devote my enthusiasm to building it up beautifully."

  The Korean people are proud of living in the new era of regional transformation. And they are convinced that the day of the overall national prosperity will come earlier for sure.

From Voice of Korea-"Let Us Unite on the Strength of Patriotism!

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The Democratic People's Republic of Korea is advancing with the unity of the entire people firmly rallied with patriotism as the cornerstone of victory and prosperity.
The might of the DPRK, which strikes the world with admiration, is a manifestation of the inexhaustible spiritual strength of the people awakened and inspired with patriotism.
The Korean people's strength of patriotism and unity gets stronger under the leadership of the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un.

"Let Us Unite on the Strength of Patriotism!"

Comrade Kim Jong Un, General Secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea, said we should arm and unite all the people with patriotism and that he consistently asserts the slogan "Let us unite on the strength of patriotism!".
At an important Party meeting, he advanced it as a slogan of patriotism to be held up by all the Korean people.



His patriotic appeal served as the motive force that enabled the entire people to more firmly unite with patriotism and turn out as one for the cause of building a powerful socialist country.
One day, Comrade Kim Jong Un said: In view of our ideals and objectives, we should be changed at much faster speed than now and transform all realms, all sectors and all regions anew within a decade with more dynamic, strenuous and devoted efforts.
Our greatest strength and surest advantage and potentials in this struggle are the extraordinary political awareness and strenuous spirit of the entire people who have achieved unity on the strength of patriotism and turned all out in this endeavour, he added.
Herein lies the answer to the question of with what our socialist cause advances, where the source of strength of our state is and how the firm guarantee for it is provided.

Genuine Patriots, True Representatives of the People

In the DPRK, labour innovators and meritorious persons who devote themselves to the prosperity and development of the country and the well-being of the people have been invited as VIPs to the celebrations of the founding anniversary of the DPRK every year since 2021.
The labour innovators and meritorious persons invited to the celebrations of the 77th founding anniversary of the DPRK had the honour to have a picture taken with Comrade Kim Jong Un.



Comrade Kim Jong Un said the prosperity and mightiness of our Republic are the fruition and result of the ardent sincerity and extraordinary practice of the patriotic people who firmly consolidated the foundations of the state and added vigour to the vibrant country with inexhaustible passion and painstaking efforts.
And he added that the labour innovators and meritorious persons who are making redoubled efforts while prioritizing the state affairs and keeping the national interests above all else are the qualified masters of our era and ardent patriots.
The other day, he showed all his love to the labour innovators and meritorious persons who speculate and make strenuous efforts to lighten even a heavy load of the country, saying they are the true representatives of the people and genuine patriots.
Under his loving care, a luxury residential district for ordinary working people was built and many labour innovators and meritorious persons had the honour to have photo sessions in his presence at the headquarters building of the Party Central Committee and the Pyongyang Assembly Hall.
Keeping his love and trust in their hearts, they are devoting their inexhaustible efforts to the prosperity of the country.

Large Contingent of Patriots

The following happened on the day when Comrade Kim Jong Un visited the Chonsong Youth Coal Mine under the Sunchon Area Youth Coal-Mining Complex, a leading one of the DPRK.
That day, Comrade Kim Jong Un encouraged the workers and officials of the Chonsong Youth Coal Mine and highly appreciated that the workers in the field of coal industry are the hard core of the country performing the most valuable feats in the vanguard of state building.
He considered the painstaking efforts of the coal miners, saying he cannot but feel deep reverence for them to think that there is the path of patriotism the most beautiful and purest persons follow all their lives under this ground people tread on casually and that the traces of unyielding efforts are unmistakable at every bend of the path.
He also mentioned the families of patriotic miners working at the colliery for three generations. Saying that without genuine affection for this country, they could not have worked in such deep pits generation after generation--a job which other people find it hard to engage in, he appreciated all of them as honest citizens who live with such faith and conscience.
Everywhere in this country can be found those patriotic citizens who devote themselves to the country with such faith and conscience.
All the Korean people regard it as due obligation of citizens to work devotedly at their workplaces.
Comrade Kim Jong Un proudly affirmed that thanks to the large contingent of genuine patriots, only victory is always in store for our glorious motherland--the DPRK--which is making a dynamic advance and leap forward, ushering in a new era of national prosperity.

Today, the Korean people are building a powerful socialist country by dint of the strength of patriotism and unity, more firmly rallied around Comrade Kim Jong Un.

Ever Prospering State of Juche -special article for the 78th anniversary of the foundation of the DPRK

It was on September 9th 1948 that  President KIM IL SUNG founded the great Democratic People’s Republic of Korea , a powerful state of Juche and an invincible socialist country .  The foundation of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK ) was met with the rousing cheers of the people because for the first time in the thousands of years of history the Korean people had their own state , a state not ruled by a landlord or capitalist and not ruled by imperialists or outsiders, a state ruled by the people

The very name , Democratic People’s Republic of Korea is unique and represents the interests and aspirations of the Korean people to have their own state that is democratic and people oriented ! . I myself always liked the name Democratic People’s Republic of Korea  because it sounded different to other socialist countries and special . Yes it is special because the DPRK is a people centred socialist country . The DPRK is truly democratic because it has a people’s government which fits the definition of democracy as rule by the people for the people .

The DPRK is rooted in the traditions of the anti-Japanese armed struggle During  the anti-Japanese armed struggle  in the early 1930s People's Revolutionary Governments were formed in the liberated areas of the guerrilla zones. The People's Revolutionary government was the prototype of people's power,a forerunner of the DPRK. They carried out land reform and enforced an 8 hour day for workers . The DPRK was the first state of people's democracy to be founded in the far east as the People’s Republic of China came into being one year later in 1949 . The DPRK blazed an untrodden trail. After Korea’s liberation from Japanese imperialist rule in August 1945  the Korean people under the wise leadership of the great leader comrade KIM IL SUNG fully completed the tasks of the anti-imperialist , anti- feudal democratic revolution which completely eliminated the oppression of Japanese imperialism and the feudal landlords . People’s committees organs of popular rule were set up . 

The anti-imperialist , anti-feudal democratic revolution was not carried out in smooth conditions but in an atmosphere of intense struggle against class enemies , reactionaries and opportunists of all kinds . The landlords opposed the Agrarian reform which distributed land free of charge to the honest working farmers of People’s Korea . Moreover the US imperialists had seized the southern part of Korea ,threatening the liberated Korean people and sent agents and saboteurs into the northern half of Korea to sabotage and disrupt the revolution.

 

The need arose for the Korean people to set up their own people’s democratic state to protect the gains of the people  and Korea and carry the revolution forward. Thus on the 9th of September 1948  after having concluded elections to the new Supreme People’s Assembly in August , the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea was founded under the leadership of President KIM IL SUNG , a genuine creation of the Korean people. As President KIM IL SUNG said   “Through a long and arduous revolutionary struggle the genuine communists and patriots of Korea achieved the historic cause of national liberation and established the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea in their freed country.”

The DPRK took the road of independent development and the road of socialism . As respected Marshal KIM JONG UN said in his speech for the 77th anniversary of the foundation of the DPRK last year  “The truth is that socialism we chose is the one and only right road.

It was on the strength of the justice and truth embodied in socialism that we have won all the glory we are enjoying today; having established a powerful political system and built a great national strength, we will not allow the destiny of our country to be left to any foreign forces’ devices.

Today all the people’s belief in socialism of our style and their strenuous efforts to defend and add lustre to it without fail are vigorously promoting our national development to open a new phase of prosperity”

After completing  the tasks of the anti-imperialist , anti- feudal democratic revolution in a short space of time and switched over to the socialist revolution proving the validity of the Juche-orientated theory on continuous revolution .Socialist transformation of production relations was completed in 1958 thereby creating an advanced , people-centred socialist system.

The DPRK has consistently implemented people centred policies even under conditions of extreme blockade and sanctions. The DPRK has free health care, free education (including university level), low cost food and many other benefits .

Today under the dynamic leadership of respected Marshal KIM JONG UN the DPRK has embarked on a massive housing construction programme as well as a programme of developing regional areas . Visiting the DPRK in 2024 and 2025 I witnessed astonishing progress . The DPRK is becoming even more prosperous . It is the ever-prospering state of Juche .

.Dr Dermot Hudson

Chairman Korean Friendship Association of UK

Chairman British Group For The Study of the Juche Idea

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

Report of Online Meeting for the 78th Anniversary of the foundation of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea 08.09.2026

The Korean Friendship Association of the UK (KFA UK ) and the British Group For the Study of the Juche Idea organised an online meeting to celebrate the 78th anniversary of the foundation of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK ) . The meeting was held at 1900 hours BST on the 8th of September.

Participating were members of the KFA UK and the British Group For the Study of the Juche Idea from London , the West of England , north west and some other areas as well as a representative of the British Posadists and a member of the CPGBML . Also taking part was KFA Germany , KFA Greece and the People’s Korea Initiative of Poland .

A message from the DPRK Embassy in London to the meeting was received and read out by Dr Dermot Hudson Chairman of KFA UK and Chairman of the British Group For the Study of the Juche Idea . The message emphasised that  “On this significant occasion of the day, the DPRK people recollect with deep emotion the nation-building exploits of President Kim Il Sung who founded the DPRK and developed it into an invincible socialist country.

During the anti-Japanese revolutionary struggle, the President put forward the Juche-oriented line of building the people's government and gained valuable experience in building the government.”

KFA UK Organisation Secretary and head of KFA UK West of England stressed that  “On this 78th anniversary, it is worth recalling the unique aspects of the DPRK’s founding and development; it is also worth examining the present and tracing its foundations back to the glorious history of the DPRK’s inception. After all, every jubilee bridges tradition and modernity, experience and youth. Yet, a defining characteristic of the DPRK’s history—both past and present—is that the social development of the People's Korea, alongside its economic growth, rests on strong and enduring foundations. In this sense, the past and present converge, creating a basis—even amidst the many mounting international threats—to look toward the future with optimism”

Dr Hudson in his speech said that “The fact that the DPRK is 78 years old is itself a great achievement because the USSR which was regarded by some as the best model of socialism only lasted 69 years and the socialist states of Eastern Europe managed only 40 years of existence .

The DPRK was founded by President KIM IL SUNG and was the creation of the Korean people fully representing their interests and aspirations of the Korean people.

The 78 years of the DPRK’s existence have been 78 years of independence , sovereignty and self-reliance based on the Juche idea”

Dr Hudson also recalled his visit to the DPRK in September 2018 for the 70th anniversary of the foundation of the DPRK.

The head of KFA Germany said that the DPRK is the target of constant demonisation but few people actually know the country and think that they know better than the people of the DPRK and those who visited the DPRK . He stressed that the DPRK had achieved great things .

The head of KFA Greece said that the DPRK has recently opened a new road bridge to Russia and made big achievement in the field of sports and the economy .

Other speakers noted the DPRK’s resilience in defending socialism and continuing the legacy of socialism and also the role of the DPRK in sending military assistance to the Russian Federation.

Dr Hudson shared the online photo exhibition “On the Occasion of the 78th Founding Anniversary of the DPRK - For the People’s Wellbeing” to the meeting .

A letter to represented Marshal KIM JONG UN was adopted .

The documentary “A New Era of Overall Development Brought by Great Leadership (2020-2023)” was streamed to the participants.

The meeting concluded at 20.20 hours BST

Glory to the 78th anniversary of the foundation of the DPRK

 

78 years ago on the 9th of September 1948 the great leader President KIM IL SUNG founded the great Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK ).

The foundation of the DPRK meant that the Korean people took power in their hands and marked the birth of a powerful state of Juche , a state of independence .

The 78 years of the DPRK have been 78 years of great progress and advance !

Long live the DPRK !

Long live Juche !

Long live self-reliance!