The participants in the Fifth International Festival in Praise of the Great Persons of Mt Paektu visited Chairman Kim Jong Il’s birthplace in the Paektusan Secret Camp on August 14. They placed a floral basket and bouquets at the mosaic depicting the three commanders of Mt Paektu and paid tribute to them. In the yard […]
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Kim Jong Un, Chairman of the Workers’ Party of Korea, Chairman of the State Affairs Commission of the DPRK and Supreme Commander of the Korean People’s Army, inspected the Command of the KPA Strategic Force on August 14. He waved back to enthusiastically cheering service members and posed for a picture with them. He went […]
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The 7th Rason International Trade Exhibition opened in Rason City Monday with due ceremony. Exhibited there are machines and equipment, light industrial goods, chemical products, electric and electronic products, building materials, foodstuff and consumer goods, medicines and vehicles presented by more than 110 units of the DPRK and other countries. Attending the ceremony were […]
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Aug
The Dental Hygiene Supplies Factory located in Songyo District, Pyongyang, has started operation. Embossed on the factory’s wall which is decorated with white and green tiles is a logo depicting a white crane in a tooth as well as the letters denoting Paekhak (white crane). The white crane is much loved by the Koreans as a […]
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Aug
Aug
The National Exhibition of Consumer Goods opened on August 3rd with due ceremony at the Consumer Goods Exhibition of the Ministry of Food and Consumer Goods Industries. On display there are more than 85,000 items of consumer goods in 7,700 varieties produced at industrial establishments and housewives’ work-teams across the country.
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Kim Yong Nam, president of the Presidium of the Supreme People’s Assembly of the DPRK, arrived in Tehran on August 3 to attend the Iranian presidential inauguration at the invitation of the government of the Islamic Republic of Iran. He was accompanied by Choe Hui Chol, vice-minister of Foreign Affairs, and other suite members.
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An art performance was jointly given by the Moranbong Band and the State Merited Chorus at the People’s Theater Sunday to celebrate the successful second test-fire of intercontinental ballistic rocket Hwasong-14. Among the audience were Ri Man Gon, Ri Pyong Chol, officials of the party and armed forces organs, contributors to the successful test-fire of […]
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Chairman Kim Jong Il dedicated his whole life to the reunification of the country. He always paid deep attention to the reunification issue, true to the earnest requests of President Kim Il Sung. He scientifically proved the validity and truthfulness of the President’s policy on the reunification movement and illuminated the path to independent reunification. He upheld the […]
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The U.S. Peace Council released a statement to denounce the administration’s hostile policy toward the DPRK. Charging that the present U.S. administration is extremely straining the situation on the Korean peninsula, taking issue with the DPRK’s ICBM test-fire, the statement said: We, together with all anti-war organizations, urge the present government to make a […]
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Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un visited the Fatherland Liberation War Martyrs Cemetery on July 27 on the occasion of the 64th anniversary of the Korean people’s victory in the Fatherland Liberation War, and paid homage to the fallen fighters of the People’s Army. Accompanying him were Hwang Pyong So, Ri Myong Su, Pak Yong Sik and other […]
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Jul
Greeting the V-day, the Korean army and people are looking back upon the immortal exploits of President Kim Il Sung, an ever-victorious, iron-willed brilliant commander who led to victory the Fatherland Liberation War (June 25, 1950-July 27, 1953). The war unleashed by the US imperialists was a hard-fought struggle for the DPRK: Korea was liberated from […]
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A national meeting took place in the plaza of the Monument to the Victorious Fatherland Liberation War on July 26 to celebrate the 64th anniversary of the victory in the Fatherland Liberation War. Present there were Kim Yong Nam, Hwang Pyong So, Pak Pong Ju, Choe Ryong Hae and other senior Party, state and army […]
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Small Spring is a favourite with the Korean people, young and old alike, after a lapse of many years since its publication. The medium-length novel depicts truthfully the noble and beautiful mental world of heroic soldiers of the Korean People’s Army displayed during the Fatherland Liberation War (June 25, 1950 – July 27, 1953). The […]
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Jul
Some days ago I visited the newly-erected Ryomyong Street. Inside the street my eye was soon caught by the peculiar appearance of a 70-storey skyscraper. What kind of persons are living in this wonderful apartment with a unique exterior? I thought, entering the apartment. I went up to the ninth floor by a lift and […]
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Youth and students in Pyongyang had a meeting with a war veteran at the Central Youth Hall on July 24 to mark the 64th anniversary of victory in the Fatherland Liberation War. Labour Hero Jon Ku Gang, a lecturer at the Victorious Fatherland Liberation War Museum, addressed the meeting. The V-day make people recall the […]
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The art squad of the Central Committee of the Kim Il Sung Socialist Youth League gave a performance “July 27 of Eternal Victory” at the Central Youth Hall on July 24 in celebration of the 64th anniversary of victory in the Fatherland Liberation War. The numbers of performance, which began with chorus “Glory to General Kim Jong Un”, […]
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A presentation of winners in the national vocal and recital solo contest of youth and students took place at the Central Youth Hall on July 24 in celebration of the 64th anniversary of victory in the Fatherland Liberation War. The performers sang high praises of the feats of President Kim Il Sung, an invincible and iron-willed […]
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The Korean Friendship Association USA (KFAUSA) condemns the upcoming actions of our country to ban travel for US citizens to the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK). We are truly saddened by this as the people of the DPRK seek peace and it is the mission of the KFAUSA to promote friendship, information and cultural […]
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Members of the Korean Art Association of the Disabled gave a performance “We Love Our Country” at the People’s Palace of Culture from July 16 to 21. Their colourful numbers included female solo “I Love You Socialism”, poem-reciting “I Will Live with You Only”, accordion trio “Young People, Be Loyal to Our Party”, dance “Yearning”, […]