Press Statement of DPRK Foreign Minister
Pyongyang, April 21 (KCNA) -- Choe Son Hui, foreign minister of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea released a press statement on April 21. It reads: I clarify the following stand as regards the fact that G7 foreign ministers made public a "joint statement" full of extremely interventionist and improper contents, malignantly pulling up the DPRK over the legitimate exercise of its sovereignty. G7 has neither authority nor qualification to say this or that about the DPRK's exercise of its sovereignty and its national status...
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21 April, 2023
Respected Comrade Kim Jong Un Inspects NADA
Pyongyang, April 19 (KCNA) -- Kim Jong Un, general secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK) and president of the State Affairs of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, inspected the National Aerospace Development Administration (NADA) on April 18. He was accompanied by...
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19 April, 2023
New Street for People Fully Representing Great Ideal of Workers' Party of Korea
Inauguration Ceremony of First-stage 10,000 Flats in Hwasong Area Held with Splendor
Respected Comrade Kim Jong Un Cuts Inauguration Tape with Senior Party and Government Officials
Pyongyang, April 17 (KCNA) -- Monumental edifices symbolic of the development and future of socialism are springing up one after another along with the undying journey of the great Workers' Party of Korea for demonstrating the dignity and status of the country and people to the world and courageously ushering in a new era of overall state prosperity through its strong guidance...
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17 April, 2023
Another Mighty Entity Showing Continuous Development of Strategic Force Unveiled in DPRK
Respected Comrade Kim Jong Un Guides First Test-Fire of New-Type ICBM Hwasongpho-18 on Spot
Pyongyang, April 14 (KCNA) -- The DPRK's nuclear war deterrent for self-defence is rapidly developing at increasing speed in keeping with the immutable strategic line and policy of the Workers' Party of Korea and the government of the DPRK to ceaselessly develop the might of the strategic force of the DPRK to turn it into an entity of super power and absolute strength, a powerful force capable of preventing the nuclear holocaust and deterring all sorts of possible dangerous enemy invasions, and a treasured sword for defending justice and peace...
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14 April, 2023
Japan Slashed for Its Hostility toward DPRK
Pyongyang, April 14 (KCNA) -- The policy section chief of the Institute for Japan Studies of the DPRK Foreign Ministry gave the following answer to a question raised by KCNA on Friday as regards the fact that Japan in its recent "2023 Diplomatic Blue Book" groundlessly pulled up the DPRK over its measures for bolstering up the self-defensive military capabilities and called for "solution of the abduction issue"...
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14 April, 2023
AUKUS Disrupts International Nuclear Non-proliferation System and Sparks off Arms Race
Pyongyang, April 7 (KCNA) -- An international affairs analyst, Ri Jong Su, on Friday released the following article entitled "AUKUS crumbles international Nuclear Non-Proliferation system and sparks off arms race": Recently the U.S. made public that it decided to sell 220 Tomahawk cruise missiles worth 895 million US$ to be mounted on destroyers and future Virginia-class attack nuclear-powered submarines of Australia. Britain also made it known that 3 billion pounds out of 5 billion pounds of defence spendings to be additionally expended for the coming two years will be allocated to AUKUS...
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8 April, 2023
Expansion of U.S.-led War Drills for Aggression Is Trigger for Driving Situation on Korean Peninsula to Point of Explosion
Pyongyang, April 6 (KCNA) -- Choe Ju Hyon, an international security analyst, released the following article titled "Expansion of the U.S.-led war drills of aggression is a trigger for driving the situation on the Korean peninsula to the point of explosion" on April 6...
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7 April, 2023
Respected Comrade Kim Jong Un Guides Work for Mounting Nuclear Warheads on Ballistic Missiles
Pyongyang, March 28 (KCNA) -- Kim Jong Un, general secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK) and president of the State Affairs of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), guided the work for mounting nuclear warheads on ballistic missiles on March 27...
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29 March, 2023
Important Weapon Test and Firing Drill Conducted in DPRK
Pyongyang, March 24 (KCNA) -- The intentional, persistent and provocative war drills and confrontational stance of the U.S. imperialists and the south Korean puppet regime of traitors have driven the military and political situation of the Korean peninsula to an irreversibly dangerous point...
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24 March, 2023
Press Statement of Director General for Int'l Organizations of DPRK Foreign Ministry
Pyongyang, March 22 (KCNA) -- Jo Chol Su, director general of the Department of International Organizations of the Foreign Ministry of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, issued the following press statement on Wednesday: At an open session of the UN Security Council on March 20, the U.S. representative to the UN again groundlessly pulled up the DPRK over its exercise of the right to self-defence and spouted a litany of rhetoric about the outdated CVID and the "human rights situation"...
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23 March, 2023
Press Statement of DPRK Permanent Mission to UN
Pyongyang, March 19 (KCNA) -- The permanent mission of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea to the United Nations issued the following press statement on March 19: Despite concern and objection of the international society aspiring to justice, the U.S. mobilized its followers and convened an unlawful ill-purpose meeting in the UN arena to discuss our non-existent "human rights
issue"....
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20 March, 2023
On Root of Situation in Korean Peninsula on Brink of Burst
The situation in the Korean peninsula is inching closer to an uncontrollable and dangerous state. The world is closely observing the tense confrontation among the nuclear powers on the brink of an outbreak of war with deep concern. This grave situation is entirely attributable to the reckless and tyrannical moves of the U.S. and its followers to stifle the DPRK...
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17 March, 2023
5th Enlarged Meeting of 8th WPK Central Military Commission Held
Pyongyang, March 12 (KCNA) -- The 5th enlarged meeting of the 8th Central Military Commission of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK) took place at a time when the whole country has turned out in the efforts to implement the resolutions of the 8th Congress of the WPK and plenary meetings of its Central Committee in singled-hearted unity. Kim Jong Un, general secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea, chairman of the WPK Central Military Commission and president of the State Affairs of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, guided the meeting...
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13 March, 2023
Respected Comrade Kim Jong Un Watches Fire Assault Drill
Pyongyang, March 10 (KCNA) -- 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 to the Hwasong artillery unit charged with important operational task of the Korean People's Army on the western front on March 9 and watched a fire assault drill...
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10 March, 2023
Press Statement by Kim Yo
Jong, Vice Department Director of C.C., WPK
Pyongyang, March 7 (KCNA) -- Kim Yo Jong, vice department director of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea, issued the following press statement on Tuesday: One of south Korean puppet media on March 6 carried an unspecific report that the commander of the U.S. forces in the Indo-Pacific said something on February 24 to the effect that if we fired ICBMs into the Pacific, they would immediately shoot them down...
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8 March, 2023
U.S. Can Never Evade Responsibility for Int'l Disarmament System Crisis
Pyongyang, March 4 (KCNA) -- Ku Yong Chol, a researcher of the Institute for Disarmament and Peace of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), made public an article titled "The U.S. can never evade the responsibility for the fact that it brought the international disarmament system to the crisis of collapse" on March 4, which reads in full text...
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6 March, 2023
Report on 7th Enlarged Plenary Meeting of 8th WPK Central Committee
Pyongyang, March 2 (KCNA) -- The great Workers' Party of Korea (WPK) is leading the revolutionary struggle to a new victory while overcoming the harsh situation, invariably holding aloft the banner of independence in politics, self-sustenance in the economy and self-reliance in national defence. This struggle is the greatest cause of making a fresh change and development in the course of certainly building Korean-style socialism, in which all the people live with nothing to envy...
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2 March, 2023
7th Enlarged Plenary Meeting of 8th Central Committee of WPK Convened
Pyongyang, February 27 (KCNA) -- The 7th enlarged plenary meeting of the 8th Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK) was convened at the office building of the WPK Central Committee on February 26. The meeting will analyze and review the work for 2022, the first year of implementing the programme for the rural revolution in the new era, and decide on the immediate important tasks and the urgent tasks arising at the present stage of the national economic development and the practical ways for implementing them. Kim Jong Un, general secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea, was present at the meeting...
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27 February, 2023
Ground-breaking Ceremony for Construction of New Street in Sopho Area Held
Respected Comrade Kim Jong Un Encourages Youth Vanguard with His Stirring Speech and Shovels First Spadeful of Earth
Pyongyang, February 26 (KCNA) -- In the sacred course of the Workers' Party of Korea which is translating into thrilling reality the grand plan and determination for prosperity and development of the DPRK and the wellbeing of its people, a new street will be built in the Sopho area of Pyongyang, the capital city, as a symbol of the development and future of socialism. The construction of a new street in the capital city, set forth by the historic Sixth Plenary Meeting of the Eighth Central Committee of the WPK as a major construction task for this significant year and entrusted to the youth, is a gigantic...
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26 February, 2023
Article of International Affairs Analyst
Pyongyang, February 23 (KCNA) -- Kim Yu Chol, an international affairs analyst, on Thursday made public an article titled "What does the present situation in Ukraine show". The full text of it is as follows: One year has passed since Russia launched a special military operation in Ukraine. It is the long-cherished desire of mankind to live in a peaceful world free from any armed conflict and war. The present situation in Ukraine, far from such noble ideal of mankind, clearly tells us who is the arch criminal that sparks disputes and conflicts in different parts of the world and threatens the global peace and security and the existence of mankind...
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24 February, 2023
Press Statement of Kim Yo
Jong, Vice-Department Director of C.C., WPK
Pyongyang, February 19 (KCNA) -- Kim Yo Jong, vice-department director of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea, issued the following press statement on Sunday: If all the countries truly worry about the situation on the Korean peninsula and wish for peace and stability, they should never tolerate the high-handed and arbitrary practices of the U.S. to turn the UNSC with heavy responsibility for the international peace and security into a tool for its heinous hostile policy toward the
DPRK...
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23 February, 2023
Respected Comrade Kim Jong Un Watches Sports Games
Pyongyang, February 18 (KCNA) -- There took place sports games between staffs of the Cabinet and the Ministry of National Defence on Feb. 17 in celebration of the Day of the Shining Star (the birth anniversary of Chairman Kim Jong Il), the greatest auspicious holiday of the nation. 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, watched sports games...
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18 February, 2023
Press Statement of DPRK Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Issued
Pyongyang, February 17 (KCNA) -- A spokesperson for the Foreign Ministry of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) issued the following press statement on Friday: In January the United States failed to hold an open meeting at the UN Security Council aimed to take issue with the DPRK's exercise of the right to self-defence. However, it coercively convoked a UNSC meeting again in disregard of the opposition from not a few member states...
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17 February, 2023
Ground-breaking Ceremony of Kangdong Greenhouse Farm Held
Respected Comrade Kim Jong Un Attends Ceremony and Shovels First Spadeful of Earth.
Pyongyang, February 16 (KCNA) -- The construction of a modern greenhouse farm for Pyongyangites started amid the full display of the high spirit of the DPRK and the loyalty and patriotic might of its people dynamically advancing toward the overall development of socialist construction, ushering in a great heyday of creation and construction under the great guidance of the Workers' Party of Korea...
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16 February, 2023
Respected Comrade Kim Jong Un Has Photo Session with Service Members Participating in Military Parade
Pyongyang, February 10 (KCNA) -- Kim Jong Un, general secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK) and president of the State Affairs of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, on February 9 had a photo session with the commanding officers and soldiers of units at all levels who took part in the military parade for celebrating the 75th founding anniversary of the Korean People's Army
(KPA)...
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11 February, 2023
Respected Comrade Kim Jong Un Visits Lodging Quarters of KPA General Officers
Pyongyang, February 8 (KCNA) -- The DPRK greets the significant Day of Army Founding in the grandiose course of vigorously making a new turning point of the state's prosperity while demonstrating the might of independence in politics and self-support in the economy amid the heroic spirit of great self-reliance in national defence. The whole country is now overflowing with the incomparably high pride of our revolutionary armed forces which have paved the road of advance of history in the van as a personifier of the idea and will of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK) and the absolute strength of our state and people...
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9 February, 2023
Enlarged Meeting of WPK Central Military Commission
Respected Comrade Kim Jong Un Guides Meeting
Pyongyang, February 7 (KCNA) -- The Fourth Enlarged Meeting of the Eighth Central Military Commission of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK) took place at the office building of the Central Committee of the WPK on February 6 amid the soaring militant spirit and fighting enthusiasm of the Korean People's Army (KPA) to firmly guarantee the dynamic advance of the Korean-style socialist cause with matchless military muscle. 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, guided the enlarged
meeting...
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7 February, 2023
Press Statement of Spokesperson for DPRK Foreign Ministry Issued
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 U.S. and its vassal forces. The U.S. is now working hard to "demonize" the DPRK, spreading again all sorts of rumors. Meanwhile, it, together with its vassal forces, is intensifying the full-scale offensive for putting pressure on the DPRK in all aspects including "human rights", sanctions and military affairs...
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3 February, 2023
Press Statement by Director General of Department of U.S. Affairs of DPRK Foreign Ministry
Pyongyang, January 29 (KCNA) -- Kwon Jong Gun, director general of the Department of U.S. Affairs of the Foreign Ministry of the DPRK issued the following press statement on Sunday: As regards the press statement of Kim Yo Jong, vice-department director of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea which denounced the U.S. decision on supplying MBTs to Ukraine...
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30 January, 2023 Press Statement of Director General for Int'l Organizations of DPRK Foreign Ministry Issued
Pyongyang, January 14 (KCNA) -- Jo Chol Su, director general of the Department of International Organizations of the Foreign Ministry of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, made public the following press statement on Saturday: At an open seminar of the UNSC sponsored by Japan on Jan. 12, UN Secretary-General Guterres made the very improper remarks that the DPRK is a "clear and existing danger", terming the latter's legitimate and reasonable policy of strengthening nuclear forces an "illegal one"...
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14 January, 2023 What Will Japan-France Summit Bring to Asia-Pacific Region
Pyongyang, January 13 (KCNA) -- Kim Tong Myong, a researcher of the Society for International Politics Study in the DPRK, released an article titled "What will Japan-France summit bring to the Asia-Pacific region" on Jan.12, which said: Japanese Prime Minister Kishida on January 9 arrived in France as the first schedule of his visit to the G7 member states and held a summit with President Macron...
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13 January, 2023 Respected Comrade Kim Jong Un Visits Kumsusan Palace of Sun
Pyongyang, January 2 (KCNA) -- All the people of the whole country have greeted the new year full of confidence in the validity and victory of their cause after proudly concluding the unprecedentedly arduous year 2022 with the indomitable struggle and advance under the guidance of the Workers' Party of Korea. They are now paying the highest tribute to President Kim Il Sung and Chairman Kim Jong Il blessing the rosy future of socialism and communism as eternal sun of
Juche...
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2 January, 2023 Report on 6th Enlarged Plenary Meeting of 8th WPK Central Committee
Pyongyang, January 1 (KCNA) -- The vigorous development of the sacred Korean revolution pioneered and advancing with the most just mission and far-reaching ideal is firmly guaranteed by the wise guidance of the Workers' Party of Korea which sets forth scientific path and clear practical strategy at each period and at every stage and leads to thorough and perfect implementation...
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1 January, 2023
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