The whole country enjoyed the folk holiday, First Full Moon Day (the 15th day of the first month by the lunar calendar) that falls on February 5 this year. The Pyongyang citizens, who visited the Rangnang Museum, spent a joyful time, playing colourful folk games. There were a music and dance performance by artistes of […]
January 25, 2023 class from the Juche Idea Study Group USA (JISGUSA) on Kim Jong-il’s “On the Juche Idea”. In this class, we discussed the first chapter: “The Origin of the Juche Idea”. The reading material can be viewed here: http://korean-books.com.kp/KBMbooks/en/work/leader2/20220127160050.pdf
Pyongyang, February 2 (KCNA) — With a determination to glorify the honor of the socialist patriotic youth at the theatre for capital city construction, true to the intention of the Workers’ Party of Korea (WPK), many young people in Pyongyang City volunteered for a grand construction site to build another new street. At the meeting […]
Pyongyang, February 2 (KCNA) — A spokesperson for the Foreign Ministry of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) issued the following press statement on Thursday: The military and political situation in the Korean peninsula and the region has reached an extreme red-line due to the reckless military confrontational maneuvers and hostile acts of the […]
Koguryo (277 BC-AD 668), the most powerful state in the history of Korea, moved its capital to Pyongyang (the Mt Taesong area) in the southern part of the country in the first half of the 5th century and built a new walled city around the capital in the mid-6th century. The walled city consisted of […]
Pyongyang, January 30 (KCNA) — Kim Tong Myong, a researcher of the Society for International Politics Study in the DPRK, released an article titled “Is the trip of the secretary general of NATO aimed to instigate the creation of the Asian version of NATO?” on Jan. 29, which said: It was reported that the secretary […]
Kye Sun Hui, famous judo player of the DPRK, became a national sports star several years after she started judo. Kye achieved her Olympic gold medal by defeating a renowned Japanese player, a world champion, in the 48-kg class of the women’s judo event at the 26th Olympic Games in 1996. Afterwards she placed first […]
Pyongyang, January 27 (KCNA) — Kim Yo Jong, vice-department director of the Central Committee of the Workers’ Party of Korea, issued the following press statement on Friday: The U.S., which has exposed the whole continent of Europe to the grave danger of war and caused big and small concerns, is now further crossing the red […]
Efforts have been redoubled to effectively check and contain the outbreak and spread of infectious diseases by steadily increasing the efficiency of the anti-epidemic work, true to the idea of the Sixth Plenary Meeting of the Eighth Central Committee of the Workers’ Party of Korea on constantly giving top-priority of the state affairs to the […]
Workers of the General Tideland Reclamation Enterprise of North Phyongan Province have completed the Woldo tideland reclamation project in hearty response to the ideas and spirits of the Eighth Congress of the Workers’ Party of Korea and its plenary meetings to put efforts into acquiring new land by reclaiming tideland. The respected Comrade Kim Jong […]
In November 2022, Comrades Alex Dillard and Joe Morman traveled as delegates of the KFAUSA to the Korean Friendship Association’s (KFA’s) International Meeting in Tarragona, Spain. The meeting was a two-day event attended by KFA branches and other organizations from several countries around the world. On the first day, the delegates gave greetings praising the […]
Young people in North and South Phyongan provinces of the DPRK have volunteered to work at major fronts for opening up a new phase of upswing in socialist construction, true to the idea and spirit of the plenary meeting of the Party Central Committee. Dozens of youths in North Phyongan Province decided to work in […]
Pyongyang, January 19 (KCNA) — Deputy Ko Jong Bom, minister of Finance, made a report on the fulfillment of the state budget for Juche 111 (2022) and on the state budget for Juche 112 (2023) at the 8th Session of the 14th Supreme People’s Assembly of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. The reporter noted […]
Agricultural workers in several rural areas of North Phyongan, South Phyongan, North Hwanghae, South Hwanghae, Jagang, North Hamgyong and South Hamgyong provinces, and Nampho City moved into new houses. Ceremonies of moving into new houses took place on the spot. Present there were officials of Party and government organs in relevant provinces, cities and counties, […]
Pyongyang, January 19 (KCNA) — Deputy Kim Tok Hun, premier of the DPRK Cabinet, made a report on the DPRK Cabinet’s work for Juche 111 (2022) and tasks for Juche 112 (2023) at the 8th Session of the 14th Supreme People’s Assembly (SPA). The reporter said that the Cabinet organized and conducted the work for […]
During the anti-Japanese revolutionary struggle, Comrade Kim Il Sung founded a youth organization first and paved the way for the Korean revolution in reliance on it. Right after Korea’s liberation (August 15, 1945) from the Japanese military occupation, he advanced a line of building a mass-based youth organization and founded a democratic youth league to […]
Pyongyang, January 16 (KCNA) — Senior party and government officials of the DPRK visited important economic units to encourage their officials and working people who have turned out in response to the call of the Central Committee of the Workers’ Party of Korea (WPK) for glorifying this year as a year of great turn and […]
Pyongyang, January 14 (KCNA) — There took place enlarged plenary meetings of Pyongyang City and all provincial committees of the Workers’ Party of Korea (WPK) from January 10 to 13. Members of the Presidium of the Political Bureau of the WPK Central Committee and members and alternate members of the Political Bureau of the C.C., […]
Rangnang Museum, located in Thongil Street in the capital city of Pyongyang, was inaugurated late in September last year. On display there are over 2 000 pieces of typical historical relics and remains that intensively showcase the development of Rangnang civilization which succeeded to the civilization of Ancient Joson. Among them are castle remains, building […]
