On January 23, 55 years ago, the US armed spy ship Pueblo was captured by the sailors of the Navy of the Korean People’s Army while committing acts of espionage in the sea off Wonsan. It was the first time that an armed spy ship of the United States was captured by another country in […]
75 years have elapsed since the founding of the Korean People’s Army of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. Following are the watersheds in the history of the world-class army. Smashing the Myth of the “Strongest” On June 25, 1950, the United States unleashed an aggressive war in Korea in order to occupy its whole […]
Pyongyang, February 3 (KCNA) — The 24th Plenary Meeting of the 14th Standing Committee of the Supreme People’s Assembly (SPA) of the DPRK took place at the Mansudae Assembly Hall on Thursday. Choe Ryong Hae, member of the Presidium of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Workers’ Party of […]
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 […]
2023.2.1. http://www.mfa.gov.kp/view/article/16453 Gun-related crimes in the U.S. may beat a world record. Not long ago, the U.S. Transportation Security Administration announced that over 6, 540 guns were detected among airplane passengers in the year 2022 alone. This is a 10% increase compared to an all-time record of 5,970 guns in 2021, “breaking” […]
http://www.mfa.gov.kp/view/article/16440 2023.1.31. A few days ago, the Australian foreign minister Penny Wong contributed an article to British newspaper “Guardian” as it marks 50 years since Australia ratified the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT). The article said that Australia, since joining the NPT, has been an example to the world on non-proliferation […]
http://www.mfa.gov.kp/view/article/16435 2023.1.31. In a recent interview with VOA, the so-called head of “the office of the high commissioner for human rights” in Seoul overtly said that the main mission of their office is “monitoring, analyzing and documenting human rights violation in north Korea” and “searching for accountability”. As for the “the office of the high […]
Four-time World Judo Champion 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 […]
Whenever new difficult movements of artistic gymnastics are performed at games, the International Gymnastic Federation deliberates and decides on every movement concerned and names it after a gymnast who performed it for the first time. Among those movements recorded in the Federation are the “Ri Se Gwang Movement” and “Ri Se Gwang Movement No. […]
The appearance of the DPRK in which people are masters of the country is undergoing radical changes as time passes. Especially, new dwelling houses have been built to bring about a dramatic change in the countryside of the DPRK thanks to new program for socialist rural construction. Moreover, such modern yet wonderful dwelling houses […]