Tag Archives: Sports

Women’s Football Coach Ra Un Sim.

When she began football, Ra Un Sim did not know she would become one of top football players in the country. Born in Kyongsong County, North Hamgyong Province, Ra moved to Chongjin in her childhood, where she took up football. She displayed her football talent in annual national games of juvenile sports schools and was […]

Sports Facilities Built and Renovated.

The DPRK is building up the material foundations for the sports sector. Over the past five years, one thousand and several hundred sports facilities have been built and more than 10 000 existing ones, repaired throughout the country, including gymnasiums, stadiums, training centres and sports parks. Kim Il Sung Stadium and Taekwon-Do Palace have undergone […]

Ssirum—Traditional Sporting Event

Ssirum (Korean wrestling) is one of the cultural assets of the Korean nation. Since long ago, Korean people enjoyed playing ssirum during break times on the edges of fields, on the grass, and on riverside or seaside sandy soil. On folk holidays, in particular, wrestling grounds laid out at scenic spots were thronged with people, […]

Taesongsan-brand Products in Public Favour

The Pyongyang Sports Goods Factory produces a variety of Taesongsan-brand products much favoured by consumers. It turns out various forms of sports goods, including different kinds of balls, gloves for Taekwon-Do practitioners, bags for sportspersons and sportswear, to suit the features of events and the physical constitution of players. Eye-catching is a 3×3 basketball which […]

Kim Jong Un – Letter to Those Attending the Seventh National Conference of Sportspeople

Letter to Those Attending the Seventh National Conference of Sportspeople

Let Us Usher In a New Heyday of Building a Sports Power in the Revolutionary Spirit of Paektu In these eventful days, when all the service personnel and people have turned out in the general offensive in the revolutionary spirit of Paektu and are registering successes in all fields of defending socialism and building a […]

Kim Jong Un Meets with Gold Medalists and Their Coaches

Kim Jong Un, first secretary of the Workers’ Party of Korea, first chairman of the National Defense Commission of the DPRK and supreme commander of the Korean People’s Army, met together with Ri Sol Ju players who bagged gold medals at the 17th Asian Games and recent world championships and their coaches. They were women […]

Kim Jong Un Guides Match for Examining Women’s Football of National Sports Team to Participate in 17th Asian Games

Kim Jong Un, first secretary of the Workers’ Party of Korea, first chairman of the National Defense Commission of the DPRK and supreme commander of the Korean People’s Army, guided a match for examining the women’s football of the National Sports Team which will take part in the 17th Asian Games. The National Sports Team […]

Kim Jong Un Watches Men’s Volleyball Game

Kim Jong Un, first secretary of the Workers’ Party of Korea, first chairman of the National Defense Commission of the DPRK and supreme commander of the Korean People’s Army, watched men’s volleyball game between the General Bureau of Civil Aviation and the Ministry of Land and Maritime Transport. He waved back to the enthusiastic cheers […]

Kim Jong Un Watches Men’s Volleyball Match

Supreme Commander of the Korean People’s Army Kim Jong Un, first secretary of the Workers’ Party of Korea and first chairman of the National Defense Commission of the DPRK, together with KPA service personnel, watched a men’s volleyball match played between the April 25 Team and the Amnokgang Team on the occasion of the 61st […]

Kim Jong Un Guides Match for Examining Men’s Football of National Sports Team

Kim Jong Un, first secretary of the Workers’ Party of Korea, first chairman of the National Defense Commission of the DPRK and supreme commander of the Korean People’s Army, guided a match for examining the men’s football of the National Sports Team which will take part in the 17th Asian Games. The National Sports Team […]

Pyongyang Indoor Stadium

Many sports facilities are built or rebuilt in the Democratic People´s Republic of Korea amid increasing social concern for sports. Last year the Pyongyang Indoor Stadium was rebuilt into a better comprehensive stadium, a mass sports service center. It was built on the bank of the River Pothong in April Juche 62 or 1973. Over […]

Second Premier Soccer Matches Kick off

The second premier soccer matches of the Sports Contest for Pochonbo Torch Prize started in Pyongyang on June 23. Ten men and women’s football teams will play the matches to take place at the Kim Il Sung Stadium and the Sosan Football Stadium from June 23 to July 6. Divided into two groups, they will […]

Kim Jong Un Gives Field Guidance to May Day Stadium Under Remodeling

Kim Jong Un, first secretary of the Workers’ Party of Korea, first chairman of the National Defense Commission of the DPRK and supreme commander of the Korean People’s Army, gave field guidance to the remodeling site of the May Day Stadium. Going round various places of the stadium, he acquainted himself in detail with the […]

Reserve Soccer Players Training

Many successes are registered in the training of reserves in Korea under the increasing state concern for sports. The football circle of the Moranbong District Juvenile Sports School in the capital city Pyongyang is an example in this respect. Recently coaches of different sports teams pay special attention to the members of the football circle […]

Training Hard for Gold Medals in the Ice Rink

  The Ice Rink is standing on the bank of the River Pothong in Pyongyang, the capital of the Democratic People´s Republic of Korea. In the Ice Rink, we find skaters training hard, their bodies wet with sweat. They are short-track speed skaters. They are training various technical skills including beeline linking and curve running. […]

Kim Jong Un Watches Men’s Football Match between Mangyongbong and Sobaeksu Teams

Supreme Commander of the Korean People’s Army Kim Jong Un, first secretary of the Workers’ Party of Korea and first chairman of the National Defence Commission of the DPRK, watched a men’s football match between the Mangyongbong Team and the Sobaeksu Team together with service personnel of the KPA. Those teams which participated in the […]

Kim Jong Un Watches Archery Game

Supreme Commander of the Korean People’s Army Kim Jong Un, first secretary of the Workers’ Party of Korea and first chairman of the National Defence Commission of the DPRK, watched the archery game between the KPA Defense Sports Team and the Amnokgang Defense Sports Team. The game was held, divided into the men’s and women’s […]