Pyongyang, February 13 (KCNA) — Kim Jong Un, chairman of the Workers’ Party of Korea, chairman of the State Affairs Commission of the DPRK and supreme commander of the Korean People’s Army, Monday met members of the DPRK high-level delegation which visited the south side’s area to attend the opening ceremony of the 23rd Winter […]
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Korea, a maritime country, attaches an importance to marine environmental protection as an important affair for the prosperity of the country and the well-being of the people and is consistent in its effort to this end. The Marine Environmental Protection Centre was set up in September Juche 100 (2011), with the purpose of exercising unified […]
The year Juche 106 (2017) was a year of heroic struggle and great victory, a year when the DPRK set up an indestructible milestone in the history of building a powerful socialist country with the spirit of self-reliance and self-development as the dynamic force. Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un, on the morning of the New […]
A performance is being given to full house in Anju City of South Phyongan Province by the State Merited Chorus, the Moranbong Band and the Wangjaesan Art Troupe. The performers made a truthful ideological and artistic depiction of the faith and will of all the service personnel and people to achieve the final victory of […]
A reporter of the Korea Today talked with Han Hui Suk, chief secretary of the Korea Association for Supporting the Children. Excerpts: I think it’s very important to protect and promote the health of children. Will you please tell me how the children in this country are faring? It is regarded as a very important thing in […]
A park for the traffic education of children and students was built in the Ryonmot-dong area, Pyongyang, and opened to public last July. Since then it has an endless stream of little visitors. Passing a gatepost of the park inscribed with the letters, reading, Traffic Safety Education Park for Children, their first leg of visit […]
The army and people of the DPRK significantly celebrated the 57th anniversary of Chairman Kim Jong Il’s start of Songun revolutionary leadership. An endless stream of people visited the plaza in front of the Kumsusan Palace of the Sun, the sacred temple of Juche, where President Kim Il Sung and Chairman Kim Jong Il lie in state. They paid tribute […]
A national meeting for marking the 90th anniversary of the Young Communist League of Korea was held at the Central Youth Hall on August 27. Present there were Choe Ryong Hae, officials concerned and officials of the youth league, youth and students. Jon Yong Nam, first secretary of the central committee of the youth league, […]
“Whose daughter is the girl? She is dancing very well.” “Well, she is Su Yang from my neighbourhood. She will surely be employed by an art troupe.” Returning home after seeing her daughter’s performance at her school, Kim Myong Hwa, head of the Ryongsong Nursery, Ryongsong District, Pyongyang, was deep in thought considering praises of […]
Taekwon-Do Hall has been successfully renovated as befits the centre for the development of the national martial arts. It can host international and domestic games at a high level. It has a practice hall with seats for thousands of spectators, waiting room, medical room, coaches’ room, sci-tech learning space, international communications hall, press centre and […]
A new school year began in the DPRK. Kim Song Il, department director of the Ministry of General Education of the Education Commission, told KCNA: The opening ceremonies of the school year are of great significance as the universal 12-year compulsory education is enforced all over the country this year. All the schools in the […]
Kim Jong Un, Chairman of the Workers’ Party of Korea, Chairman of the State Affairs Commission of the DPRK and Supreme Commander of the Korean People’s Army, inspected the Command of the KPA Strategic Force on August 14. He waved back to enthusiastically cheering service members and posed for a picture with them. He went […]
The 7th Rason International Trade Exhibition opened in Rason City Monday with due ceremony. Exhibited there are machines and equipment, light industrial goods, chemical products, electric and electronic products, building materials, foodstuff and consumer goods, medicines and vehicles presented by more than 110 units of the DPRK and other countries. Attending the ceremony were […]
The Dental Hygiene Supplies Factory located in Songyo District, Pyongyang, has started operation. Embossed on the factory’s wall which is decorated with white and green tiles is a logo depicting a white crane in a tooth as well as the letters denoting Paekhak (white crane). The white crane is much loved by the Koreans as a […]
The National Exhibition of Consumer Goods opened on August 3rd with due ceremony at the Consumer Goods Exhibition of the Ministry of Food and Consumer Goods Industries. On display there are more than 85,000 items of consumer goods in 7,700 varieties produced at industrial establishments and housewives’ work-teams across the country.
Kim Yong Nam, president of the Presidium of the Supreme People’s Assembly of the DPRK, arrived in Tehran on August 3 to attend the Iranian presidential inauguration at the invitation of the government of the Islamic Republic of Iran. He was accompanied by Choe Hui Chol, vice-minister of Foreign Affairs, and other suite members.
An art performance was jointly given by the Moranbong Band and the State Merited Chorus at the People’s Theater Sunday to celebrate the successful second test-fire of intercontinental ballistic rocket Hwasong-14. Among the audience were Ri Man Gon, Ri Pyong Chol, officials of the party and armed forces organs, contributors to the successful test-fire of […]
Chairman Kim Jong Il dedicated his whole life to the reunification of the country. He always paid deep attention to the reunification issue, true to the earnest requests of President Kim Il Sung. He scientifically proved the validity and truthfulness of the President’s policy on the reunification movement and illuminated the path to independent reunification. He upheld the […]
The U.S. Peace Council released a statement to denounce the administration’s hostile policy toward the DPRK. Charging that the present U.S. administration is extremely straining the situation on the Korean peninsula, taking issue with the DPRK’s ICBM test-fire, the statement said: We, together with all anti-war organizations, urge the present government to make a […]