October 10, 2026 marks the 81st founding anniversary of the Workers’ Party of Korea.

The WPK, during its longest rule in the history of socialism, has applied the people-first principle, valuing the people and devoting everything for their wellbeing.

President Kim Il Sung, founder of the Party, regarding “The people are my God” as his motto, built the Party into a mass-based party and ensured that all its activities were oriented to meeting the demands and interests of the masses of the people.

Carrying forward his intentions, Chairman Kim Jong Il led the Party to be strengthened and developed into a party that assumed full responsibility for the destiny of the masses and took care of them, thus forming inseparable ties of kinship with them.

Today, led by respected Comrade Kim Jong Un, its General Secretary, the Party is further developing into the one making selfless, devoted efforts for the good of the people.

He continues his journey of devoted service for the people with an ennobling view on life that he has nothing more to wish for, even though his body may be scattered like grains of sand on the road for the good of the people.

Visiting various parts of the country, he ensures that new streets, villages and factories, modern hospitals and bases for cultural and leisure activities are built there.

When an unexpected public health crisis hit the country, he proposed emergency anti-epidemic measures and methods and defended the people’s lives and safety by devoting his heart and soul day and night.

As he finds his pleasure and happiness on the road of devoted service for the people, the revolutionary spirit of making selfless, devoted service for the people prevails throughout the Party.

Therefore, the Korean people call the Party a motherly party and place absolute trust in it.

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September 9, 2026, marks the 78th founding anniversary of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea.

Since its founding, the government of the DPRK has consistently maintained the people-first idea in state building and activities for nearly eight decades. Today, under the wise leadership of the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un, it is ushering in a new era of rejuvenation where its people’s ideals come true.

During the term of the 14th Supreme People’s Assembly alone, modern streets with tens of thousands of flats were built in the capital city of Pyongyang, and many characteristic dwelling houses in the rural areas across the country. All of them were provided to the working people free of charge.

Through the dynamic implementation of the regional development policy in the new era, modern regional-industry factories, livestock farms and large-scale greenhouse farms have been built, bringing about eye-opening changes in the development of the regional economy and the people’s living standards.

Pyongyang General Hospital, Kangdong County Hospital and other modern healthcare facilities have been inaugurated to contribute to the promotion of the people’s health. The city of Samjiyon has been turned into an all season mountain tourist town, and the Wonsan Kalma Coastal Tourist Area built into a tourist destination on the coast of the East Sea of Korea, unfolding a new phase of socialist civilization.

These entities conducive to promoting the people’s wellbeing are inconceivable apart from the devoted efforts of Comrade Kim Jong Un who continues his field guidance tour, regarding “The people are my god” as his motto.

Today the Korean people, full of confidence and optimism that a brighter future is in store for them as long as they remain faithful to the leadership of Comrade Kim Jong Un, are stepping up their advance for the comprehensive development of socialism.

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In the early 1930s, an anti-Japanese armed resistance led by the great leader Comrade Kim Il Sung (April 15, 1912-July 8, 1994) was sweeping the northern part of the Korean peninsula and the vast swathes of Northeast China centring on the Mt Paektu area.

When the Korean People’s Revolutionary Army was formed by him on April 25, 1932 to liberate Korea from Japan’s military occupation, it was only some 100 strong. It could not get state backing or support from a regular army. But the KPRA grew stronger throughout its ten-odd-year struggle that culminated in Korea’s liberation.

Many wonder what created this miracle.

It is said that Kim Il Sung already put forward a plan to wage a decisive battle against the Japanese occupiers through an all-people uprising combined with the general offensive of the KPRA. Accordingly, the Association for the Restoration of the Fatherland was formed and spread across the country, uniting all people opposed to Japan’s military rule, irrespective of ideology, political view, religious belief and property. Small units and groups of the KPRA formed production guerrillas, workers’ shock brigades and other paramilitary organizations, as well as secret bases in the mountainous areas throughout the country, expanding and developing them.

According to Japanese documents, more than 180 anti-Japanese underground organizations were found out in Korea in 1942. After all, if the unfound organizations were added, the number would be countless. This means that Kim Il Sung must have mobilized tens of millions of fellow countrymen against the Japanese aggressors.

Japanese documents said that four divisions composed exclusively of Koreans were preparing for landing and parachuting operations in the Maritime Province of the Soviet Union and the Korean border areas and 100 000-strong Korean troops were poised for a decisive battle against the Kwantung Army of Japan; young Korean people, who had evaded conscription and drafting, formed armed groups and built bases in deep forests in a bid to join the advance of the KPRA.

In fact, when Kim Il Sung issued an order of final offensive operations to liberate Korea, all-people resistance organizations in the homeland rose up in keeping with the general offensive of the KPRA and destroyed enemy ruling organs in their regions. According to data available, such resistance organizations and armed units at home, let alone North and South Hamgyong provinces, raided nearly one thousand enemy ruling organs in a week alone in mid-August 1945.

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July 27, 2026 marks the 73rd anniversary of victory the Korean people achieved in the Fatherland Liberation War (June 25, 1950-July 27, 1953) by repulsing the armed invasion by the imperialist allied forces headed by the United States.

The then two-year-old Democratic People’s Republic of Korea defeated the United States, which had been boastingof being the “strongest” in the world, and its satellite forces, in the three-year war. It was a miracle unprecedented in history.

The victory in the war was the fruition of the great leader Comrade Kim Il Sung’s Juche-oriented military ideas, brilliant strategies and tactics and unexcelled leadership, as well as the will to defeat the enemy, unparalleled bravery and mass heroism displayed by the Korean people, who were firmly rallied around him.

Regarding the great spiritual strength of the masses as a decisive factor in achieving victory in the war, Supreme Commander Kim Il Sung put forward the slogan “Everything for Victory in the War!” and aroused all the people and soldiers for the sacred struggle for defending their motherland.

He created unique strategies, tactics and art of war, including immediate and decisive counterattack against the enemy’s surprise armed invasion, formation of the second front by regular army units, powerful general counteroffensive, positive positional defence, night action, tunnel warfare, aircraft- and tank-hunting team movements and snipers’ team activity, paralyzing the enemy’s numerical and technical superiority.

He also met the soldiers of the Korean People’s Army and other people, instilling confidence, courage and wisdom in them. His affection and trust served as a source of strength for them in performing heroic feats and achieving victory in the war.

Thus he not only defended the prestige, honour and sovereignty of his country and its independent development environment but also firmly safeguarded the peace of humankind by checking and crushing the US strategy for world domination and preventing another world war. His exploits will shine generation after generation.

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Today marks the 32nd anniversary of the demise of President Kim Il Sung, the father of socialist Korea and founder of the Workers’ Party of Korea and the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. More than three decades later, the Korean people still deeply miss him. They recall his warm love for the people and emphasize that, through his outstanding leadership, he laid a lasting foundation for the prosperity of all generations to come.

One of the key aspects of President Kim Il Sung‘s political philosophy and his lifelong motto was “to believe in the people as in Heaven”. As he once explained, the principles he chose to follow were: first, to respect and serve the people as his God; second, to devote everything to them; and third, to do everything by relying on their strength.

He believed in the people’s inexhaustible strength and led them to achieve miracles.

When President Kim Il Sung was born, his motherland was under Japanese colonial rule. The Korean people were deprived of their country and ceaselessly exposed to extreme humiliation and mistreatment. From an early age, he dedicated himself to the struggle for national liberation. After many years of determined and arduous armed resistance, he led the anti-Japanese struggle to victory over the occupying forces.

Just a few years after Korea’s liberation from Japanese colonial rule, the US ignited a war against the newly established DPRK, less than two years old at the time. The young country had to face a technologically and numerically superior enemy. Progressive people around the world were concerned about the fate of the DPRK. However, President Kim Il Sung achieved the impossible, once again leading the struggle to victory. Thanks to his military strategy and leadership, the army and people of the DPRK succeeded in driving back the invading forces.

Since the country’s liberation he devoted himself tirelessly to improving the well-being and happiness of the Korean people. He spent his time among ordinary citizens, traveling to every corner of the country to have frank discussions with them and work to improve their living conditions. Although officials around him tried to persuade him to take some rest, he continued working without pause, as he regarded caring for the people and seeing them happy as his rest.

He inspected more than 20 600 factories, farms, military units, and other places throughout his lifetime. In the course of these field guidance visits, he traveled more than 578 000 kilometers – equivalent to circling the Earth about 14 and a half times. Under his leadership, the Korean people completed the historic task of socialist industrialization in just 14 years, laying a solid foundation for an independent national economy.

Today the Korean people are achieving amazing miracles under the outstanding leadership of the respected Marshal Kim Jong Un. The Marshal works hard every day to turn the aspirations and ideals of the Korean people into reality, without taking a break and regarding it as his lifelong motto to believe in the people as in Heaven, as President Kim Il Sung did.

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On June 29, 2016, the respected Marshal Kim Jong Un was elected President of the State Affairs of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. Ten years have now passed since that day. Anyone who has had the opportunity to speak with DPRK citizens will have noticed the profound respect they hold for their leader and the genuine emotion with which they speak about the work he carries out for the country every single day. The achievements made under his leadership fill them with happiness and pride, and they express their wholehearted support for him, describing him as the most outstanding leader.

Why is this the case? And what kind of decade has the past ten years been for socialist Korea? To answer these questions as objectively as possible, one must look at the changes and development the country has undergone during this period, as well as the circumstances in which they took place. Facts speak louder than millions of words.

The past decade has not been an easy or trouble-free period for the DPRK. It has had to confront numerous serious challenges. The sanctions regime imposed against it, already the harshest in the world, was tightened to a much more extreme degree. It was intended to be an almost complete blockade of the country’s international trade and cooperation. During this period, it was also confronted with successive natural disasters and the global public health crisis. Meanwhile, provocative military moves by forces hostile to the DPRK repeatedly created acute tension on the Korean Peninsula.

Did all of this weaken the country or halt its development? No. Thanks to the remarkably skillful and wise leadership of Marshal Kim Jong Un, the opposite occurred.

In the military sphere, for example, the DPRK expanded its national strength to an extraordinary extent. Despite being a small country with a small population and under harsh sanctions, it achieved a strategic position which had previously been reserved for the great powers, neutralizing the threat of war on its territory, ensuring strategic balance in the region, and making a great contribution to world peace.

The past decade has also been a period of innovation and dynamic development of Korean-style socialism, marked by a remarkable transformation taking place in cities and villages of the DPRK, unprecedented in its history. The capital and many other parts of the country have been transformed beyond recognition. An ambitious program for radical change in the environment of rural life has gathered momentum, while a vigorous policy for regional development has been pursued. Across the country, beautiful futuristic streets and residential districts, modern factories, farms and hospitals, impressive tourist facilities, and many other new projects have risen in rapid succession.

While leading this amazing progress over the past ten years, Marshal Kim Jong Un has never ceased working tirelessly. As he gave on-site guidance and personally led efforts to improve the people’s living conditions, he never cared whether he was standing in heavy rain or freezing in a snowstorm, nor whether it was day or night. He has devoted himself completely, under all circumstances, to implementing his policy of prioritizing the people and respecting and loving them.

In light of the facts, it is not difficult to understand the strong support he enjoys among the Korean people.

We warmly invite you to view the photos below, which show Marshal Kim Jong Un during his work, along with some examples of new facilities that have been built for the people under his leadership over the past ten years.

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The Workers’ Party of Korea, the ruling party of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, adheres to the principle of self-reliance in dealing with the issues arising in national development and improving people’s living standards. This approach has enabled the country to strengthen the independent foundations of its economy and the people to cultivate the spirit of self-reliance and self-determination, empowering them to overcome all sorts of challenges and difficulties through their own efforts.

A typical example was the WPK’s response to the severe flooding that affected the country’s northwestern region in 2024. At the time, several countries and international organizations expressed their willingness to provide assistance. The WPK, however, decided to carry out the large-scale reconstruction effort on its own, viewing it not merely as a response to the damage caused by a natural disaster but as an undertaking to bring about a transformative change with a responsible attitude towards the future. Under the Party’s leadership, the Korean people completed thousands of modern flats in less than six months and built a large-scale greenhouse farm in February 2026, pioneering a new phase of regional development.

Over the past five years, they built tens of thousands of flats and developed an entirely new modern urban district in their capital city of Pyongyang, along with more than 110 000 new rural houses across the country, relying on their own efforts. Besides, under the WPK’s Regional Development 20×10 Policy, they have been constructing modern regional-industry factories in 20 cities and counties every year since 2024. And these are just some of the striking transformations that have reshaped the country’s landscape in recent years.

Leading steel producers and key industrial enterprises, including the Kumsong Tractor Factory and the Ryongsong Machine Complex, are undergoing renovation and modernization through self-reliance, helping to ensure sustainable and stable economic growth.

Local media say that the foremost result of self-reliance is a growing sense of pride and confidence in the country’s own accomplishments, and patriotism inspired by them.

Kim Jong Un, President of the State Affairs of the DPRK, stated in a policy speech delivered at the First Session of the 15th Supreme People’s Assembly of the DPRK in March this year that the absolutely correct path to prosperity lies in achieving self-reliance and self-sufficiency.

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Just three months after the Ninth Congress of the Workers’ Party of Korea (WPK), the DPRK is reporting impressive early achievements in implementing its new Five-Year Plan. According to the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA), the country’s industrial sector recorded a 5 percent increase in overall output during the first 100 days following the Party Congress, reflecting what the agency describes as a vigorous mass technical innovation movement.

The new development strategy, outlined by the Marshal Kim Jong Un at the Ninth WPK Congress, places emphasis on boosting overall socialist development through self-reliance and scientific and technological advancement. It is also rooted in confidence in the Korean working people, who have demonstrated their strength through many decades of remarkable achievements. KCNA reports that this approach has generated strong momentum from the outset, with numerous factories, mines, power stations, transport enterprises, and other units across the economy exceeding their planned targets.

Very strong performances have come from the construction materials industry. The Sangwon Cement Complex achieved an average of 107 percent of its daily production target in March and successfully met its ambitious goals throughout April and May. The Sunchon Cement Complex produced tens of thousands of additional tons of cement during the first 100 days of the plan, while cement producers nationwide collectively exceeded their planned output, providing increased supplies for construction projects across the country.

Coal production has also expanded. Workers at the Chonsong Youth Coal Mine increased production by six percent compared to the same period last year. At the February 8 Jikdong Youth Coal Mine, various workplace innovation campaigns enabled miners to produce well over a thousand additional tons of coal beyond the monthly target in May alone.

Mining enterprises supplying the country’s steel industry likewise reported positive results. The Musan Mining Complex over-fulfilled its production plans of concentrated iron ore for three consecutive months, while the Unnyul Mine’s technicians strengthened its capacity to increase iron ore and concentrated ore production.

The chemical industry has focused strongly on technological innovation. At the Namhung Youth Chemical Complex, engineers and workers introduced original technical inventions that enabled the plant to surpass its fertilizer production goals. The Hungnam Fertilizer Complex also exceeded its planned output by well over a thousand tons through improvements in operating methods and technical measures that increased gas production efficiency.

The power sector has also benefited from engineering improvements. The Pukchang Thermal Power Complex introduced new boiler technologies using far-infrared heating elements, increasing combustion efficiency while reducing coal consumption. Suphung, Jangjingang and Sodusu power stations also reported higher electricity generation through improved water management and more efficient operation of generating equipment.

The country’s machinery industry has concentrated on modernizing equipment through large-scale technical innovation campaigns. The Pyongyang Electric Cable General Factory 326 has made innovations in the production of various types of high-quality electric cables through technical upgrades to its plastic mixers, rolling mills, large-size elongation machines and other equipment. Meanwhile, the Anju Insulating Material Factory has boosted the production of paints and insulating materials by ensuring the efficient operation of its existing production lines, strengthening its technical capabilities and modernizing its insulating varnish production process.

The mining and light industries also conducted a mass technological innovation movement, giving importance to science and technology and introducing incentives to encourage working people to develop their technical knowledge and professional skills.

Railway workers, timber producers and fishery workers have all met their monthly targets for rail freight, timber production and seafood production.

The report emphasizes that the determined efforts of the DPRK’s heroic working class during the opening phase of the new Five-Year Plan have produced industrial growth well above planned levels, establishing a solid foundation for steady and sustained growth of the country’s economy.

While in today’s world many countries continue to face economic uncertainty, the early results of the DPRK’s Five-Year Plan seem to present clear evidence of the effectiveness of its development strategy centered on domestic industrial capacity, technological innovation, and the coordinated mobilization of national resources.

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Present there were Ju Chang Il, Secretary of the Central Committee of the Workers’ Party of Korea, other Party Central Committee officials, youth league officials, and participants in the celebrations of the Korean Children’s Union’s 80th founding anniversary.

Ju Chang Il made an address.

He warmly congratulated the Korean Children’s Union members on celebrating the 80th anniversary of the organization and noted that the occasion had been marked under the loving care of Marshal Kim Jong Un.

He added that the gifts reflected the warm and profound affection of Marshal Kim Jong Un, who wishes the KCU members to grow up uprightly and stoutly.

He called on all the Children’s Union members to study diligently and take an active part in their organizational life so that they could grow into knowledgeable, morally sound and physically strong young patriots and future pillars of a thriving Korea.

Source: KCNA (2026-06-07)

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