Playing Together

 

Disabled persons and amateurs play together at the recent 2026 table tennis competition of persons with disabilities and amateurs held in Pyongyang, the capital of the DPRK. The event left deep impression on spectators for the mix of disabled and able-bodied person

Landmarks of New Streets

 These are landmarks of new streets that have been built in the DPRK’s capital city of Pyongyang in recent years.

Press Statement of Kim Yo Jong, Department Director of C.C., WPK

 

Pyongyang, September 18 (KCNA) -- Kim Yo Jong, department director of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea, issued the following press statement "The U.S.-led regular war rehearsals constitute the main source of ever-worsening situation of the Korean peninsula and the region" on Sept. 18:

The frantic military moves of the U.S. to destroy the balance of power in the Asia-Pacific region have profoundly negative impact on the situation of the Korean peninsula and the region.

Shortly ago, the U.S. staged the joint multinational naval drill Pacific Vanguard 2026 with Japan, the puppet ROK and other satellite forces in the waters near Guam.

During the war rehearsal, various naval training for U.S.-centered anti-warship, anti-air and anti-submarine warfare was staged intensively for more than ten days. This was another threatening "war game" invented by the U.S. for inter-camp confrontation in the region.

When it launched the first round of Pacific Vanguard in 2019, the U.S. did not conceal the confrontational nature of the drill, asserting that the drill is aimed at "effectively and cooperatively responding to various incidents that may occur in the region" and, the number of the countries involved in it is on the steady increase.

This is a part of the U.S. political and military design to prolong its hegemony by relying on the military strength of the exclusive camp in the Asia-Pacific region where there are many big powers regarded as its major rivals.

In fact, the U.S. realizes more keenly with the lapse of time that the reorganization in the relations of forces in the Asia-Pacific region is very unfavorable to the actualization of its ambition for hegemony.

Much upset by the fast-changing mechanical structure in the region, the U.S. seeks to pressurize other countries and expand the sphere of its military power by frequently staging big and small military exercises involving its vassal forces.

This year alone, many U.S.-led multinational military drills were conducted in the Asia-Pacific region, including the joint multinational drill Cobra Gold, the joint air drill Pitch Black, the largest-ever joint naval drill RIMPAC involving a number of NATO member states in Europe and the joint military drill Super Garuda Shield which was staged in parallel with Pacific Vanguard.

The above-said drills were also staged under the pretext of "enhancing capability for jointly coping with marine threats" and "checking joint operation capability in environment of complex air operation". All facts cast light on the sinister purpose of joint military drills.

In particular, Japan and the ROK have always joined such military training together and this unpleasant fact suggests that the U.S.-led bellicose military moves are being intensified with the U.S.-Japan-ROK tripartite military cooperation system in full operation as an axis.

The gravity of the U.S.-led multinational military maneuvers is further highlighted by the stark reality that the primary target of the U.S.-Japan-ROK triangular military cooperation is the DPRK.

The regular U.S.-led war rehearsal is the main source of ever-worsening situation in the Korean peninsula and the region.

Such deplorable situation prevailing in the region, where the vicious cycle of escalating tensions is repeated due to the reckless provocative moves for hegemony of the U.S. seeking to put the region under their control through power concentration, reminds us more clearly of the things we should do.

In my personal opinion, it is inevitable that outsiders' greater threat to our national security makes our physical power grow stronger ceaselessly in a corresponding manner.

And all the unstable environments "provided" by the enemies are proving the validity and scientific accuracy of the DPRK's defence policy and emphasizing the inevitability of the steady upgrading of our national defence capability.

In some aspects, it can be said that the enemies give us good "help".

The present situation, in which new records are set in terms of practical action hostile toward the DPRK, stresses the need to break records in our responsive action, proportional or more offensive in its nature.

We are well aware that this is necessary.

Our will to defend our sovereignty will be expressed in clearer action and there will be never ever change in the course of intensifying the nuclear war deterrence.

I remind the enemy once again that if it is judged that the supreme interests of our nation and its military sovereignty and security environment in the region have been seriously violated by their military maneuvers, the armed forces of the DPRK will invoke the relevant provisions true to their constitutional obligations and mobilize all means available to cope with it. -0-

Country Free from Unemployment

Europe is now plagued by economic recession.

In Germany the first half of 2026 alone witnessed closures of some 12 000 businesses in the auto, metal and other sectors.

The unemployment crisis in the UK is going from bad to worse, especially for young people under 24. With unemployment in France reaching the highest level since 2021, the jobless people numbered 2.7 million in the second quarter, an increase of 62 000 over the previous quarter. The EUROSTAT announced that Finland has the highest unemployment rate among the EU member nations. Job opportunities are getting less available in a way that lets even those who received higher education find it hard to get a job.

Soaring energy price is believed to be one of the main causes of the global concern. However, there is a country where things are different—socialist Korea.

It is noteworthy that the working people in the DPRK do not know the word unemployment itself. They are reportedly provided by the state with an opportunity to choose a job according to their tastes, abilities and talents when they reach the working age. Young people volunteer to work at difficult and labour-consuming sectors and devote themselves to the country. They regard it as their sacred civic duty and manifestation of patriotism.

In recent years the DPRK has been achieving comprehensive development in its socialist construction. Many new industrial establishments have sprung up and many others been renovated and modernized, giving fresh impetus to its economy.

This can be evidenced by the fact that light-industry factories are being built in different parts of the country.

According to the Workers’ Party of Korea’s Regional Development 20×10 Policy, modern regional-industry factories have been built every year since 2024 in 20 cities and counties in conformity with the economic features of the regions concerned. As a result, light-industry factories have mushroomed in 40 cities and counties, or one fifth of the total number of the regional bodies in the country.

While the huge capital city construction continues apace, the project for building modern rural houses across the country gains growing momentum.

The dynamic growth of the construction sector has in turn positive effects on the metal, building materials, chemical and other relevant industries. Besides, mining, fishing, livestock farming, tourism and many other sectors are brought back to life with many businesses remodelled, newly established and updated day by day. Evidently, this will entail more job opportunities.

BGSJI and KFA UK support the statement of comrade Kim Yo Jong on the IAEA .

      BRITISH GROUP FOR THE STUDY OF THE JUCHE IDEA 

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17th of September 2026

 The British Group for the Study of the Juche Idea and  the  Korean Friendship Association of the UK  KFA  UK )  , issued a joint statement in support of the press statement of comrade Kim Yo Jong department director of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea that was issued on the 17th of September ;

Of late the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)of the UN has been trying to revive the ' north Korean nuclear fever ' by issuing reports about the DPRK 's nuclear facilities .  Things reached a head when the IAEA held its 70th general conference  at which phrases aimed at the DPRK  like "Violation of UNSC resolutions, threat to international peace and security, complete and irreversible denuclearization, honouring of international obligation"

Comrade Kim Yo Jong in her excellent statement correctly describes such utterances by the IAEA General Conference  as "They are all noises, not surprising and not new, as we can always hear them at this time every year, like the sounds from the automated teller machine."  If the IAEA persists in this kind of behaviour ,comrade Kim Yo Jong warns that they will be termed idiots .

Indeed the IAEA is repeating the same nonsense time and time again .

If the DPRK was not under nuclear threat from international rogues there would be no need for such pointless and time wasting discussions at the IAEA General Conference .

The DPRK's position is firmly articulated by comrade Kim Yo Jong  who states that "No matter how loudly the IAEA and the West may cry out for denuclearization according to a ready-made script at their periodic meetings, they can have no impact on the determination and practical ability of the DPRK to take all necessary measures to defend the supreme interests of the state."

The DPRK 's nuclear status , which is now nearly 20 years old , is irreversible and enshrined in the laws of the DPRK .

Comrade Kim Yo Jong declares that " No matter the rhetorical denial by the hostile forces, the reality, in which the nuclear-armed position of the DPRK has been permanently fixed physically and legally, can never change."

We support the independent right of the DPRK to possess nuclear weapons and applaud the will of the DPRK to reject so-called "denuclearisation "

Defend People's Korea with No Ifs or Buts !

BGSJI

KFA UK 

                                           
                                            

                                                 
        

Press Statement of Kim Yo Jong, Department Director of C.C., WPK

Pyongyang, September 17 (KCNA) -- Kim Yo Jong, department director of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea, issued the following press statement on Sept. 17:

Violation of UNSC resolutions, threat to international peace and security, complete and irreversible denuclearization, honouring of international obligation…

As expected, such a string of nonsense we have so much heard was let out at the 70th Session of the IAEA (International Atomic Energy Agency) General Conference again.

They are all noises, not surprising and not new, as we can always hear them at this time every year, like the sounds from the automated teller machine.

Those who gathered to shout for changing the present position of our state should clearly understand what a foolish dream they have dreamed of and what a useless thing they are doing.

If they believe that it is really possible, they will be termed idiots knowing nothing of the world.

In fact, if there were no rogues behaving badly toward the DPRK, many countries would probably not need to waste time with empty talk but live in a safer and peaceful world.

No matter how loudly the IAEA and the West may cry out for denuclearization according to a ready-made script at their periodic meetings, they can have no impact on the determination and practical ability of the DPRK to take all necessary measures to defend the supreme interests of the state.

The DPRK's position as a nuclear weapons state is something immutable, never to be reversed with anything, and its powerful existence makes a significant contribution to deterring the outrageous acts of international rogues and ensuring peace and security.

No matter the rhetorical denial by the hostile forces, the reality, in which the nuclear-armed position of the DPRK has been permanently fixed physically and legally, can never change.

Nobody and nothing can ever reverse the crucial change in the strength and position of the DPRK and deter it in the future, too. -0-

Spokesman for DPRK Ministry of National Defence Clarifies Stand

Pyongyang, September 16 (KCNA) -- A spokesman for the Ministry of National Defence of the DPRK clarified the following stand through KCNA on Wednesday as regards the fact that the U.S. military and the ROK puppet army have more openly revealed their scheme for military confrontation with the DPRK recently, talking about response to someone's "WMD threat":

The U.S. forces and the warmongers of the ROK puppet army on Sept. 10 held a meeting of the WMD response committee, at which they agreed to set up an information-sharing system to cope with "potential WMD attack" by the DPRK, enhance the joint counteraction capability and intensify joint counteraction training.

What should not be overlooked is that the U.S. and the ROK called for strengthened joint defense posture, the keynote of which is to use military muscle against the DPRK, hyping someone's "WMD threat".

This is an open declaration of confrontation to make the use of nuclear and biochemical weapons against the DPRK in case of contingency on the Korean peninsula a fait accompli and accelerate the war preparations for its execution. It is also a grave move of aggravating the situation to push the danger of the use of WMDs to extremes.

The U.S. and the ROK got familiar with the procedures of "WMD response" during the recent large-scale joint military exercises Freedom Shield. This time they agreed to intensify the training involving nuclear and biochemical weapons again. This fact goes to prove that the enemy's plan to use WMDs has entered an extremely reckless phase.

The U.S. stated in its past "strategy for coping with WMDs" that it would establish a joint force capable of fighting in a nuclear and biochemical warfare environment and increase its investment in the research and development of WMDs under the pretext of "threat" from the DPRK and other sovereign states. This provides full explanation for the confrontational design and ultimate goal pursued by them.

In recent years, the U.S. has set up a network of 30 biological weapons research institutes in the territory of Ukraine and established biological laboratories in its military bases in the ROK. Furthermore, it has been intensifying military biological activities and biochemical weapons development in over 200 different parts of the world. It has also specified in the bill on national defence right for fiscal 2026 that it would spend hundreds of millions of dollars for the development, test, maintenance and operation of biochemical weapons.

Such situation goes to prove that the rumor about someone's "WMD threat" spread by the U.S. is nothing but an ill-intended pretext to cover up its development and proliferation of WMDs.

Such a threat of WMD attack and use by the enemy against the DPRK may be considered a crucial security challenge that requires the latter to invoke the relevant provision of the law on the state nuclear force policy.

I recommend that the U.S. correctly interprets the meaning of the invoking of the relevant provision and accepts it as a grave warning.

The armed forces of the DPRK will always keep track of the new military attempts of the U.S. and its allied forces, regularly assessing their threat to its national security. -0-