Pyongyang, March 23 (KCNA) — Three years have passed since Russia launched a special military operation against Ukraine to counter the U.S. and the West seriously threatening its security leverage. According to the recent data available, in a little more than two years after the start of the special military operation Ukraine lost 444 000 […]
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Pyongyang, March 22 (KCNA) — A delegation of the Russian Maritime Territory led by Oleg Kozhemyako, governor of the Maritime Territory Administration, visited the Kangdong Greenhouse Complex. Accompanying it were Yun Jong Ho, minister of External Economic Relations of the DPRK, and Alexandr Matsegora, Russian ambassador to the DPRK. The members of the delegation went […]
Pyongyang, March 21 (KCNA) — A ballet “Sleeping Beauty” was given by an art troupe of the Maritime Territory Branch of the Mariinsky Theatre of Russia at the Mansudae Art Theatre here on March 20. Among the audience were DPRK Minister of Culture Sung Jong Gyu, officials of ministries and national agencies, officials concerned, […]
Pyongyang, March 22 (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, sent a message of greeting to Thongloun Sisoulith, general secretary of the Central Committee of the Lao People’s Revolutionary Party and president of the Lao People’s […]
Kim Jin Ri, aged 7, is a first-year pupil of Mangyongdae Primary School in Mangyongdae District, Pyongyang, capital city of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. During his kindergarten days he started drawing pictures and was called a fine art prodigy. In July 2022 his colour pencil drawing Flowered Carriage of Happiness won Excellent […]
Historical relics are well preserved in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, and the original paintings in them still retain their colours. Red and blue painting dates back to the period of Koguryo (277 BC-AD 668). The mural paintings from the period, which have been unearthed so far, are in relatively good state of preservation, […]
Pyongyang, March 20 (KCNA) — A ground jet test of a solid-fueled engine for a new-type intermediate-range hypersonic missile, which is of another strategic value, was successfully conducted in the era when eye-opening sci-tech achievements have been successively made in the course of the steady development of the national defence capability. The DPRK Missile Administration […]
Pyongyang, March 19 (KCNA) — In the stirring period when combat training for bolstering up the national defence capability in every way is being staged across the entire army in the flames of effecting a revolution in training kindled by the Party Central Committee, there was a firing drill of the artillery units in the […]
Pyongyang, March 18 (KCNA) — Kim Jong Un, president of the State Affairs of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, Monday extended congratulations to Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin on his reelection to the presidency of the Russian Federation. The congratulatory message sent by Kim Jong Un, president of the State Affairs of the DPRK, to […]
