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Mass rallies held in Pyongyang and each province, city, and county on the occasion of the June 25th Anti-American Struggle Day
<On the 25th, a mass rally was held in Pyongyang and each province, city, and county to commemorate the June 25th Anti-American Struggle Day.

Pyongyang city and local party, government, economic organizations, workers' organizations, workers, youth and students participated in the rallies.

In mass rallies, agitation activities on class education topics were carried out first.

Speakers at the Pyongyang City rally confessed that although several generations have changed since the gunfire of war ceased in this land, our people clearly remember the eternal crimes committed by the murderous American imperialists, and their determination to destroy the enemy and make them pay a thousand times over in blood for their resentment is growing more and more chilling by the day.

They emphasized that we must live in the capital and deeply cherish the sense of mission to make a revolution, and prepare ourselves vigorously as ardent fighters who will politically and ideologically defend Comrade Kim Jong Un , who is our destiny and our whole life , with our lives, and as vanguard fighters of the class who have embodied a thoroughgoing anti-American class consciousness.

Speakers at mass rallies in South and North Pyongan Provinces denounced the US imperialists for massacring nearly 100,000 people in South Pyongan Province and 116,000 people in North Pyongan Province during the temporary occupation, saying that they were a pack of lynxes wearing iron caps who brutally slaughtered people not even with guns but with all sorts of murder weapons and gruesome slaughter methods.

The mass rallies in North Hwanghae Province, Chagang Province, and Kangwon Province were filled with the will of avengers to ensure that the three years of brutal war, in which the entire region of the republic, once bustling with new life, was reduced to ashes due to the atrocities of the American imperialist beasts and the blood of innocent people flowed like a river, would never be repeated.

Speakers at mass rallies in South Hamgyong Province, North Hamgyong Province and Ryanggang Province stressed that today's world, where the shameless high-handedness and tyranny of the imperialists are becoming blatant and many countries are being forced into the catastrophe of war because they have no power to defend themselves, clearly shows how righteous the idea and line of self-defense chosen and resolutely carried out by our Party and people are.

At the mass rallies in Nampo, Rason and Kaesong, the participants' lofty spirit of dedicating themselves to the battle to defend the fatherland and revolution and to achieve brilliant victory and honor was evident, as was their fervent love for the country and people and their blazing hatred for the enemy.

Then there were mass demonstrations. (END)


Let us achieve a great new victory in the anti-imperialist, anti-American war by multiplying our strong will to fight and our invincible national power.
<A mass rally was held in Sincheon, the birthplace of revenge, on the occasion of the June 25th Anti-American Struggle Day.
The irresistible force of the Korean people, who will shake the dignity and spirit of a great power to the world, firmly defend justice, peace, and socialism from the continued tyranny and invasion of imperialism, and endlessly create a new history of great victory and transformation, is surging even more as we approach the 6.25 War.

A mass rally commemorating the June 25th Anti-American Struggle Day was held in Sinchon, the indictment of history and the source of our people's rising desire for revenge.

The assembly hall, the Sincheon Class Education Center, and its surrounding areas were filled with a large crowd of people who had gathered with a freezing hatred and hostility that declared final destruction to the mortal enemies who were rampaging in the anti-republic confrontation today, adding sin to sin and bringing up the tragedy of the war of aggression in this once peaceful land.

The rally was attended by cadres from the Party and government, including Comrade Choe Dong-myong, Secretary of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea , workers and youth from labor organizations, ministries, central agencies, and Hwanghae South Province.

Before the rally, participants laid flowers and paid homage at the graves of 400 mothers and 100 children.

At the rally, there was an artistic agitation on the topic of class education that exposed and condemned the barbaric atrocities committed against our people by the American murderers and class enemies during the last Fatherland Liberation War.

Through the pieces that vividly recalled the tragedy of that day when the mountains and rivers of our fatherland, which were pulsing with the joy of a new life, were writhing in blood, the masses once again clearly remembered the irony that if we had been as strong as we are today and had a thorough class consciousness, the lessons of 70 years ago would not have existed on this land.

The debaters who came to the podium representing the boiling desire for revenge and the will to resist the US across the country fiercely condemned the heinous atrocities committed by the US imperialists and class enemies on this land and expressed their fiery determination to mercilessly crush the enemies' reckless actions and firmly defend our most just cause, our beloved fatherland and the socialist system.

They said that our will to retaliate is becoming a hundredfold and a thousandfold stronger because of the class philosophy and determination to punish that we embrace in Sinchon, the epicenter of the Korean people's deep hatred and enraged public sentiment, and they condemned the barbarism of the US imperialists, who have been infamous as the "mother country of mass genocide" since the beginning of this world and have solidified their war of aggression and massacre of other ethnic groups as their survival instinct, as they become more vicious by the day.

They emphasized that in order to prevent the bloody history from being repeated and justice from being trampled by injustice, we must first become strong and build a national power that no one can surpass. This is the absolute and unchangeable creed that our people have stubbornly maintained through the Korean War.

The discussants stated that the heroic struggle of our people, who have achieved oneness with the Party Central Committee with a resolute will to resist to the end against forces that seek to infringe upon sovereignty and undermine dignity and a steely belief that their choice is justice, will destroy the hegemony and tyranny of imperialism and create a new world of independence and justice.

Then, a mass demonstration took place.

The ranks of avengers, who regarded it as their rightful duty and generational duty to receive the price of blood as a thoroughgoing enemy, marched forward, stirring up their boiling hostility with the slogan of destruction.

“Let’s eliminate the American imperialist invaders, the mortal enemies of the Korean people!”, “Let’s show the example of heroic Korea in the anti-American showdown!” …

The iron faith and enthusiasm to defend the great Party, protect the country and safeguard socialism surged forth in a torrent, and in every winding ranks, the fighting spirit and courage of the defenders who, with the unwavering inheritance of the patriotic spirit and the undying will to punish, boiled iron water, turned expectations, and cultivated the eve to deliver an iron hammer to the enemies and continuously sound the chorus of strengthening national power and the chorus of the advancement of socialism erupted powerfully.

The mass rally held on the day of the June 25th Anti-American Struggle once again powerfully demonstrated the spirit and example of the Korean people who will achieve the great victory in the anti-American confrontation by completely shaking off the invincibility of the heroic Korea that has won every battle and will forever shine the dignity, honor, and beautiful future of our powerful country. (End)

>>2356440

Shows a that the DPRK's ideological immune system is still strong, at least with respect with recognizing that the u.s. is to be combatted on all important levels (militarily, ideologically, economically)

What I hope is also true is that they stay steadfast against "reform & opening up" but also continue to rollback kosygin-liberman style economic relations.

>>2356440
>They emphasized that we must live in the capital and deeply cherish the sense of mission to make a revolution, and prepare ourselves vigorously as ardent fighters who will politically and ideologically defend Comrade Kim Jong Un , who is our destiny and our whole life

It is interesting how much the personality cult of the Kims has seemingly subsumed a lot of their ideology. What are the reasons for this? I can see the practicality of associating the party/state with a human face, personifying the state from a rigid, grey bureaucracy into a beloved human face who seemingly functions as a sort of father to all. But is this a tactic for continued state stability? Is it vanity of the upper echelon of the party? Is it just korean culture?

Hard to say

It's interesting that this thread is still cyclical. I thought mods decycled everything except /isg/

>>2121109
oh nvm i see

>>2357709
a lot simply got decycled by a server move or a crash. other generals simply get pushed out of the catalogue. We had anarchist general put back on cycle too iirc but it fell off the catalogue. /leftypol/ gets to much trash threads and bait and etc which go un-combated.

The Restructuring of North Korea’s Food Production and Distribution System
Under Kim Jong Un, North Korea has seen significant changes across the economy. While the state dominates the lives of its people, the economy has been increasingly marketized since the 1990s. Building on some of the tentative, furtive efforts of his father, Kim Jong Un allowed his economic advisers to develop a more market-oriented agenda for the country’s state industrial and agricultural sectors.

In industry, this meant that factory managers were given rights to develop new products, to have greater flexibility in price setting and allocating workers and managers to task, to contract with suppliers, and to exercise more influence in enterprise-level planning. It also initially included increased access to foreign markets for trade and investment, though these were later partially rescinded according to the country’s Trade Act (amended in 2018).

This new system was called the Socialist Enterprise Responsibility Management System (SERMS), and was codified in the country’s Enterprise Act of 2014. This points to the importance of North Korean laws as a channel through which the North Korean government sets forth important changes in how systems are supposed to work and defines its policy priorities.

Obviously, the government has a free hand to amend these laws; there are no meaningful checks and balances in the North Korean system. But laws still provide a valuable and unique view into how different institutions inside the North Korean state are supposed to interact, cooperate, monitor and supervise one another.

New laws obtained by 38 North paint a picture of a food system that is undergoing significant changes. In particular, two laws are noteworthy: the Farms Act, last amended in 2023, and the Food Administration Act, last amended in 2022. The first law offers hints of more control over the harvest being given directly to North Korea’s farmers, rather than the managers who run their farms. The second law offers hints of greater autonomy for farm managers when it comes to operations and investment decisions, with the government mandating less how they make decisions. There are also signs that the government may be taking a less top-down approach to grain procurement.

<Farms Act
In 2012-2014, the North Korean government created a new system in agriculture called the Field Responsibility System (FRS), which shrunk the size of the sub-work team, the smallest production unit on farms, to address the issue of free riding—some farmers not working hard but getting the same rewards as their teammates—and began paying farmers a fixed percentage of the harvest for their work.

This was followed by the creation of the Farms Responsibility Management System (FRMS), which essentially was the SERMS framework for industry, giving farm managers greater freedom to develop their lands and farm new crops and livestock. Farms still had to produce grain for their state-set procurement plans, however, but they would have greater flexibility to use lands not given over to grain production in ways that could generate profits for the farm.

This system was the operating framework since then, although there has been talk of dramatic changes since 2020, including new individual-based farming incentive systems, the de facto abolition of collective farms, and their replacement with autonomous corporate farms. These measures, along with other reports, seemed to indicate a new centralization of farm management was planned.

These reports are not reflected in the amended 2023 Farms Act. But the law itself includes several important measures designed to strengthen the position of farmers and their incentives under the FRS. Article 59 of the new law makes it clear to FRS administrators that farmers must be given all the grain they produce in excess of their planned quotas:

Article 59 (Handling of Grain Produced in Excess on Responsibility Plots)

A farm shall distribute the entire quantity of grain produced by a responsibility-plot manager in excess of the state grain-production plan for that plot to the manager concerned.

The previous law (from 2021) provided no such guarantee. Rather, it included a range of provisions allowing the farm and its management to determine how excess grain was allocated or otherwise used. This implies that some power has been decentralized below the level of farm management, to the farmers themselves. In other words, whereas in 2021, farm management had control over the portion of the grain harvest not taken by the state, now it appears to be the farmers who have this control.

Some statutory requirements about how grain production plans are set have also been loosened, such as Article 55, which concerns state grain procurement plans. First, the 2023 variant of the law no longer speaks of “mandatory” grain procurement plans, implying that the government may be utilizing both compulsory and voluntary procurement schemes.

Second, the 2021 variant of the law included references to “mobilizational” planning, i.e., the government mobilizing farms to do its bidding. This term has been deleted from the new law, implying greater scope for autonomous action in grain procurement. That said, once plans are set, the government still does not allow farms or farmers to amend them.

Article 55 from the 2023 variant of the law, with 2021 parts struck out in square brackets is as follows:
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>https://www.38north.org/2025/06/the-restructuring-of-north-koreas-food-production-and-distribution-system/

>>2359289

What wierd bit of synchronicity; I just read that article yesterday.

I wonder if the liberal intelligentsia at 38 north are trouble decoding what is happening because of paucity of information and/or conflicting reports.

Or perhaps, and this would very interesting, they are having trouble getting a good read on things because what the DPRK is actually doing might be slowly moving from collective farms to state farms.

If the latter is case, its interesting because it shows that the liberal conceptual framework has trouble dealing with phenomena and changes that are occuring within a broadly marxist framework (because essentially, a certain number of underlying categories/concepts in marxism simply do not exist in liberalism)

>>2359312
>synchronicity
why do you use this word?

>>2359321

Baki.

>>2359323
>Baki.
tha manga? okay

I wish we had a good way of searching through the archives of Korean news media output in english. Would this be an difficult or expensive project to create with public access translation and archiving tools and putting in to a database?
>>2359312
>I wonder if the liberal intelligentsia at 38 north are trouble decoding what is happening because of paucity of information and/or conflicting reports.
>If the latter is case, its interesting because it shows that the liberal conceptual framework has trouble dealing with phenomena and changes that are occuring within a broadly marxist framework (because essentially, a certain number of underlying categories/concepts in marxism simply do not exist in liberalism)
Yea this was my partial assessment too. Trying to view planets through a microscope, they do not have the correct analytic tools for the job. They also basically say they didn't really come away with anything; "The relative status of farms seems to hinge on whether sales imply more autonomy than contracting, which is still unclear."
Also it seemed like a lot of what was highlighted was over-focused on and could be explained by trying to introduced brevity and conciseness into the texts. However i think it's interesting to see where this goes regardless. I foresee and hope if anything it gives more power to the workers and checks to the managerial layer.
>>2359321
Why would you even ask that here? Why does it matter? stupid question. Why don't you try contributing to the topic at hand instead?

>>2359336
i saw the word while scrolling and wanted to know why it was used instead of more common coincidence, i dont have anything to contribute.

>>2359282
Never forget /crisis/ (which never happened)

>>2359370
Economical illeterate will always tell this new downturn is the next crisis that will end capitalism. Instead its just part of the boom-and-bust cycle and porkies will buy everything cheap in this period not because they are smart but because their financial advisors tell them to do this.

Leninoids are too much of cowards to do class analysis on DPRK.

Is North Korea the ultimate proof that meth should be decrimalized?

>>2362694
there was never any proof it should be criminalized in the first place.

Art in North Korea EXPLAINED | Murals & Mosaics in the DPRK
Walking around the Korean capital, Pyongyang, it's hard to miss the murals, mosaics and paintings with adorn buildings, bus stops, and metro stations.

These artworks define the DPRK, depicting everything from emotion, culture, and ideology.

In this video, we'll break down the hidden meanings behind five of the country's most beautiful murals and mosaics - explaining what each aspect represents within the context of Korean society, and discovering the common threads which link these distinct works together.

>>2363111
DPRK socialist realism mogs anything the soviets ever did tbh

IDK what any of this means but it sounds nice. :)
Introduction of advanced farming methods and technologies to farms around the country
We are promoting projects to utilize advanced farming methods and technologies in farms around the country.
Farms in Gwaksan County, North Pyongan Province are adopting advanced paddy field water management methods and scientifically conducting paddy field water drying and waiting to increase the root activity of rice.
In the rural areas of Cheongdan County, South Hwanghae Province, efforts are being made to promote crop growth and prevent pests and diseases using laser light treatment technology.
At Baecheon-gun Hyangjeong Farm, measures are being taken to use portable semiconductor laser plant splitting devices that are simple in structure and easy to handle for crop fertilization management.
The agricultural sector workers and laborers in Nampo City's Waudo District are pushing forward with a project to install electric impulse water treatment facilities in pumping stations to ensure good growing conditions for rice.

I can't afford to go on holidays like this and if i could others couldn't to enjoy it with me. Plz DPRK liberate my country.
The East Sea's famous ship-shaped islands are booming with attractive coastal tourism.
The great joy and romance of the people who are fully enjoying the new civilization and new welfare provided by the Motherland Party is overflowing in the Wonsan Kalma Coastal Tourist Area.

The 10-mile white sand beach of the Galma Peninsula, which is perfectly equipped with various top-class tourist service conditions and an environment, has been bustling with workers from all over the country visiting to enjoy the attractive coastal tourism since the tourism service began.

It is worth seeing the energetic sight of workers submerging themselves in the rippling sea water and people water skiing and speed boating, but motorcycling on the white sand beach and sand volleyball also attract the attention of guests.

The laughter of people enjoying the thrill of sliding down steep slides and bowl-shaped rapid water slides is in full bloom at Myeongsa Ship-ri Outdoor Water Park.

Uniquely designed food service networks and commercial service facilities also welcome guests by showcasing East Sea specialties.

As the enchanting night view unfolded, the joy and romance of the workers who were absorbed in the nighttime atmosphere of the famous place overflowed everywhere, and the happy songs from the windows of the brightly lit accommodations did not stop until deep into the night. (End)

When will China totally open its doors to the DPRK in terms of food and trade? Fuck yankee gonna do?

>>2368151
What's the situation currently, actually on the ground?
I know that DPRK produced goods for the export market go through China. That the border is pretty porous as many cross for work and for medicine and so on. I seen a slew of headlines insinuating that their relationship is on the rocks but the articles i did read about relationship between DPRK and China deteriorating was around DPRK strengthening it's relationship with Russia, but i do not see particularly why it has to be a zero-sum game in this regard, the spooks and think-tank ghouls were saying the same thing re Vietnam and Chinese relations.
As always with DPRK from the outside it's never so easy to get a straight line from anyone.

>>2368191
China provides pretty much all of its imports. Recently it has expanded what it provides and how freely it provides them, like cars and such. North Korea has traffic now because so many have bought Chinese EVs.

Any decent books on how Kim Il Sung navigated the sino soviet split?

>>2368198
that graph is outdated. the general idea is the same but they trade with way more countries now. check oec.world

>>2372233
NK news auntie is always right.

Laos and DPRK standing up to defend Russian sovereignty

>>2103773
https://archive.org/details/one-day-and-one-night

Watched this film with my gf recently. Overall it's pretty decent, though it's a little hard to follow in parts because some things are left unexplained (probably because the 'true story' is more well known there naturally) and the subtitles on the version I watched were a little wonky.

Basically it's recently after the war and the DPRK is rebuilding. Reactionaries within the party are plotting to sabotage these efforts in order to undermine faith in the party (and Great General Kim Il Sung pbuh ( ;~;)7), and the plot is uncovered by a nurse sent to the household of one of the conspirators to take care of his son.

The conspirator's wife can totally get it.

I like how North Korea is perpetually stuck in a futuristic version of the 1970s

>>2372233
Unfortunately this is fake, but it is very funny

>>2373595
Because it’s the most based of aesthetics
>erm but where are the glass cubes? The universal architectural sign of true societal progress

>>2374543
>south korea getting rid of mount and blade warband mods
I didn't know it was possible to be this obsessed.

I'm in love with this South Korean milsim account that makes obsessive videos on how the US/ROK is going to kick the DPRKs and Chinas ass every time they develop a new weapon.

>>2374543
That sounds cool. Modern day MB mods? Didn't even knew that exists.

>>2377978
Amazing to me that 13,000 real people with real lifes and jobs watched this and at least 600 enjoyed it.
Guy is gonna be claiming asylum in USA or Japan the moment the conflict resumes i guarantee it.

>>2374543
good, fuck the chinletts

>>2378024
he makes a new video every time china or north korea develops a new weapon system, drone or ship
it's incredible, I love the world that lives inside of his head

>>2381097
<Source: some faggot with a twitter addiction
can you not? Let's actually respect ourselves ITT more than you troglodytes who use /USApol/ and etc do, yes?

>>2381097
True and based

could you imagine if the dprk joined brics

>>2381097
pamphlets needs to stop master baiting

the rivers must be improved

>>2381447
This is part of a wider project to do with mitigating flooding and environmental concerns, as well as to build houses for all those affected by flooding, for other examples:
http://www.kcna.kp/kp/category/articles/q/e95919e123df8f756203fb1c4cfd3b3c5ba4baa51eb151f118c0554a58d0c53f5767493e039fd99cafec1d3d3d82686d.kcmsf
And all those are just in relation to rivers, not to mention the forests and so on, they're really in to tree planting for environmental reasons. DPRK is very much ahead with climate change stuff by a wide margin, (it's also one of Kim's large projects these big sometimes vertical greenhouses).
I honestly have not seen other examples of floods and so on being dealt with so well in other countries, i'm old enough to remember Katrina and so on in the USA too.

Also from just this month a report on some of these projects:
Achievement of Results in Nampo City Road Technology Reconstruction, River Improvement, and Coastal Breakwater Construction
Nampo City is pursuing a project to improve the appearance of the region and is seeing results.
The City Environmental Protection Management Office made plans and launched a propaganda campaign and organizational work to get all the workers and laborers to rise up.

So far this year, we have completed approximately 130 km of road paving, tens of thousands of square meters of feldspathic stone piling, and coastal breakwater construction.
In the Gangseo district, gravel and pitch pavement were removed from several tens of kilometers of roads, with labor and materials put in the first place.

In the port area and Yonggang County, they focused on eliminating areas at risk of flood damage and completed dam construction, water ditch construction, and bridge repairs in a short period of time.
In the Cheonrima District and Daean District, concrete paving was carried out in the assigned sections while complying with the requirements of the construction method.

In Oncheon-gun and Waudo-gu, coastal breakwater construction projects such as 20,000㎥ of embankment soil and several thousand㎡ of embankment stone were put forward to secure security to prevent land loss, including farmland.
The Daedong River Dredging Project Office of the National Land and Environment Protection Management Office also increased the operating rate of its machinery and carried out the digging of approximately 8,000㎥ of riverbed. (End)