A residential district of terraced apartment houses for 800 households is under construction on a bank of the Pothong River in Pyongyang, the capital of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. Observers and analysts are paying attention to the meaning of the construction of this residential district. This project is not included in the construction […]
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Nearly ten years have elapsed since President Kim Jong Un of the State Affairs of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea began to lead his country by inheriting the cause of Chairman Kim Jong Il of the National Defence Commission. One saying has it that ten years change the looks of mountains and rivers. During […]
Pyongyang, June 14 (KCNA) — An auspicious event has come to the Komdok area, a large-scale production base of non-ferrous metal ore of the country bustling with a drive of loyalty for implementing the decisions of the 8th Congress of the Workers’ Party of Korea (WPK) and the 2nd Plenary Meeting of the 8th Central […]
Pyongyang, June 12 (KCNA) — Kim Jong Un, president of the State Affairs of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, sent a message of greeting to Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin, president of the Russian Federation, on June 12. The respected Comrade Kim Jong Un in the message extended warm congratulations to the president, government and people […]
Pyongyang, June 12 (KCNA) — The second enlarged meeting of the 8th Central Military Commission of the Workers’ Party of Korea (WPK) took place at the office building of the Central Committee of the WPK on Friday. Kim Jong Un, general secretary of the WPK and president of the State Affairs of the […]
Pyongyang, June 9 (KCNA) — An enlarged meeting of the Asia-Pacific Regional Committee for Supporting Peaceful Reunification of Korea took place through video conferencing. Peter Woods, co-chairman of the Committee and Asia-Pacific ambassador of the United Cities and Local Governments, made a report at the meeting. He recalled that the committee, as befitting its mission, […]
On June 19, 1964, 57 years ago, Chairman Kim Jong Il of the National Defence Commission of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, started working on the Central Committee of the ruling Workers’ Party of Korea. Since then, radical turns were brought about in the work of the WPK. Kim Jong Il developed the Party […]
On June 19, 1964 Kim Jong Il (1942-2011), the eternal General Secretary of the ruling Workers’ Party of Korea, started working at the Central Committee of the Party. His start of working at the WPK Central Committee–this was of epochal significance in its development. His leadership enabled the WPK to hold up the Juche idea […]
From Friend.com.kp http://friend.com.kp/index.php/articles/view/5166 During the Imjin Patriotic War (1592-1598) the Japanese invaders not only destroyed the valuable Korean cultural assets at random but also plundered many of them and even were impudent enough to make them their own national assets. They even organized a special unit only in charge of the plunder of the […]
In the DPRK under the people-centred socialist system children taken good care of , they are viewed as the successors to the revolution. In the DPRK children enjoy the benefits of free education and free health care. Education at all levels including university is free of charge. Children are even supplied with uniforms free of […]