Thread for news and discussions of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, its material conditions, the status and health of its socialist tradition, disproving common myths about it, etc.
Archive of the previous DPRK thread:
https://leftypol.org/leftypol_archive/res/12395.htmlRespected comrade Kim jong-un joined new year celebration 2025
>>2098661these videos come from @kimnoha._.21 on Instagram, a dprk sponsored social media handler
>>2098668Korea's Place in the Sun by Bruce Cummings
Talks about Korea's history in general and how it was destroyed by imperialism. doesn't deepthroat juche or the Kim's like other "leftist" books on the subject love to do but also explains how they got to that point with their ideology.
Amzing how DPRK has appeared to have waited out the USA through the peak of it's power.
Regularly cannot believe they appear to have managed it when most everyone else fell or were forced to condesced or adapt in to the capitalist world.
It's only up for the workers republic.
>>2100325TFW ur wife wont let you smoke in the house.
>>2100419From what little credible data is available, and with a little bit of logical reasoning & honestly gut-based intuition, I have come to certain conclusions about the DPRK:
1. The "famine" aspect of the arduous march likely was marginal and was exaggerated on purpose, both in order to get whatever free aid they could but also to trick the us into thinking the dprk was on the brink of collapse so they needn't bother spending much in the way of resources on them.
2. Its very likely that the electricity aspect of energy use has recovered to or even exceeded its late 80s level, even if total energy use is likely still lower (basically because of permanently reduced oil use)
3. The DPRK is likely largely self sufficient when it comes to to spare parts both for industrial & military uses thanks to cnc machines. Its also likely largely self sufficient in basic electronic components (like resistors, capacitors, transformers, electric cable, etc.).
4. The main industrial weakness of the DPRk besides little domestic oil & gas production is largely reduced scale economies due to limited trade opportunities (compensated only in limited ways by black market trading, esp. in arms). Beyond this, it likely also suffers from lmited access to advanced chemicals & electronics (thinking microchips that take advanced robotics & chemicals to make).
5. Its likely its actually trading with outside world is somewhere in the 20-40 billion range imports + exports, largely black market or just unreported trade with third world countries with limited stat agency capacities. The main exports are likely in arms & arms related machinery, minerals & machine parts as well as textiles & components that are sub-contracted via chinese forms.
6. Likely its real gdp per capita in ppp terms is somewhere between 14000 and 26000 in recent prices. My guess is lowball estimate of 17-19, just below the lat. am average. The CIA or south korean estimate of 1000-2000, to where its poorer per capita than not only the philippines but haiti is likely based the combo of exchange rate based nominal gdp methods combined to very outdated & incomplete data extrapolated with trends that are "constructed on the basis of subjective biases" (to put it very politely and say they pulled out of their ass completely).
Revolutionary Academy students conduct economic agitation in the new miracle creation light bulbs
Students from Mangyongdae Revolutionary School and Kang Ban-sok Revolutionary School visited the working class in various places and carried out economic agitation activities.
The children who went to the Chollima Steel Complex staged spirited propaganda performances and filled the production sites with revolutionary enthusiasm.
The students of Mangyongdae Revolutionary School, who visited the working class of Pyongyang Thermal Power Plant, performed a variety of events, adding to the pride and self-esteem of the power producers who keep the lights on in the capital.
The students of Gangbanseok Revolutionary School also encouraged the builders who were devoting their patriotic passion to the construction of a comprehensive educational equipment factory.
Welcoming the meaningful New Year 2025 for our people
Our people have meaningfully welcomed the new year 2025.
The hearts of loyalty and admiration, as white as jade, endlessly flowed toward the Kumsusan Palace of the Sun, the supreme sanctuary of Juche where the great leader Comrade Kim Il Sung and the great leader Comrade Kim Jong Il reside in their immortal forms.
The crowd that entered the Kumsusan Palace of the Sun Square looked up at the immortal images of the great leader and the great general and offered New Year's greetings.
Workers, soldiers of the People's Army, and young students visited the statues of the great leader Comrade Kim Il Sung and the great leader Comrade Kim Jong Il , which are enshrined high on Mansudae Hill and in various places, and the mosaic murals depicting images of peerless great people, and placed flower baskets, bouquets, and flower buds there.
Children and elementary school students across the country welcomed the New Year with loving gifts from the Party.
The Korean art films “One Day and One Night” (part 2) and “Day and Night of Confrontation” were screened at movie theaters across the country.
Colorful performances were held in the central and local areas, adding to the holiday atmosphere.
The laughter of workers, school children, and children having a good time at cultural rest areas for the people, such as the Central Zoo, the Museum of Nature, and the Munsu Water Park, never ceased.
The various food service networks, including Okryugwan and Hamheung's Sinheunggwan, also thrived with unique holiday services.
The service of selling chestnuts and sweet potatoes at outdoor stands set up throughout the capital also added to the holiday atmosphere.
In Pyongyang, congratulatory cards were distributed at congratulatory card and souvenir shops, and all over the country, congratulatory cards and mobile phone messages were exchanged between parents and children, teachers and students, relatives, and friends.
Distinctive fire decorations were displayed on the streets and in various places in Pyongyang.
Can you imagine being on the building site doing your job and have all this going on? I have extreme nostalgia for DPRK
Central art groups and art propaganda units carry out economic propaganda activities in major areas
Adding vitality to the march of the new year, the central art groups and art propaganda units are carrying out economic propaganda activities in key areas for implementing party decisions.
Artists from the National Folk Arts Troupe and the National Theater Troupe doubled the fighting spirit of workers and employees at the Kim Jong Suk Pyongyang Textile Mill through powerful economic agitation on their way to work.
At the Pyongyang Thermal Power Plant, members of the Central Art and Economic Propaganda Corps vigorously beat propaganda drums to boost the fighting spirit of power producers.
At the 10,000-household housing construction site in the third phase of the Hwaseong District, members of the Youth Central Art Propaganda Team and the Workers' Art Propaganda Team of the General Assembly of Workers' Associations carried out various propaganda activities, including the introduction of congratulatory messages for innovators, and heightened the atmosphere at the construction site.
Members of the Railway Art Propaganda Unit and the Pyongyang Construction Committee Art Propaganda Unit also visited the working class in the railway transport and building materials industries to encourage them.
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Rodong Sinmun emphasizes that the meaningful year of 2025, the 80th anniversary of the founding of the Party, will be brightened by great victory and gloryThe Rodong Sinmun newspaper stated in an editorial that this year we will be meaningfully celebrating the 80th anniversary of the founding of the glorious Workers' Party of Korea .
The editorial pointed out that the 80th anniversary of the founding of the Party is a grand political festival that will once again powerfully display the refined guiding power, longest history of ruling and bright future of the ever-victorious Workers' Party of Korea, which has taken responsibility for the working people and this country and successfully built the most superior socialism of our own style, the likes of which have never been seen before in the history of the nation spanning 5,000 years, thereby bringing about the highest dignity and glory.
The editorial emphasized that it is a tradition, pride and honor inherent in our people to grandly celebrate the birthday of the great party, which is our dignity, destiny and future, with proud labor achievements, as follows:
Only when we fully commit ourselves to the sacred patriotic struggle for the all-round revival and development of our great nation and achieve miraculous results can we proudly welcome the 9th Congress of the Party as a conference of victors and a conference of glory.
“ Let us fight boldly and confidently for the great victory of 2025 !” This is the important struggle slogan we must raise this year.
We must safeguard the 80th anniversary of the founding of the Party and the Party Congress by successfully completing the five-year plan and achieve great changes and vigorous progress in all aspects of national construction.
The victory of this year's struggle is certain thanks to the seasoned and refined leadership of our respected Comrade Kim Jong Un , the outstanding leader of our Party and revolution, and the great power of the single-minded unity of all the people firmly united around the Party Central Committee . (End)
I wanna seeOne Day and One Night (Part 2) and Day and Night of Confrontation in the Peoples Palace of Culture. :(
Supplying vegetables produced at Kangdong Integrated Greenhouse Farm to Pyongyang citizens
Vegetables produced at the Gangdong Integrated Greenhouse Farm were supplied to Pyongyang citizens on Lunar New Year's Day.
The commercial service bases, including the newly built vegetable sales stores, were bustling with people who supplied various fruit vegetables, leaf vegetables, and functional vegetables, including cucumbers, tomatoes, cabbage, Chinese cabbage, Chinese cabbage, and honeysuckle.
The scent of Gangdongnamsae overflowing in the capital adds to the citizens' gratitude for the party's kindness and a special joy for the new year. (End)
Launching a propaganda offensive to heighten the patriotic enthusiasm of the masses in Kaesong City
A propaganda offensive is underway in Kaesong City to heighten the patriotic enthusiasm of the masses who are rising up to march into the new year.
Revolutionary slogans, catchphrases, and broadcast propaganda posted on the streets and at every workplace are strengthening the fighting will of workers and laborers to successfully complete the five-year plan.
Outside lecturers from city, county, and district party committees went out to rural areas and worked with farm workers to promote agitation activities to help them understand the ideology and spirit of the party plenary session.
The mobile art agitation unit in the Kaepung district also staged an art agitation performance appealing to agricultural workers to uphold the decision of the Central Plenary Meeting of the Party with the achievement of increasing grain production.
The performances of the poetic art troupe and the poetic art propaganda team artists boosted the confidence of the factory and enterprise workers and the working class who are devoted to the production increase movement and struggle.
The agitation on the way to work by the Women's League members, which is being carried out in various places in Xi'an, is also doubling the revolutionary and fighting spirit of the workers.
New intuitive propaganda materials are posted all over the country
Intuitive propaganda materials calling on tens of millions of people to implement the decisions of the 11th Plenary Session of the 8th Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea were posted all over the country.
The propaganda materials fervently appeal to the entire Party, the entire nation, and all the people to join in the sacred patriotic struggle for the all-round revival and development of our great nation and make 2025 shine as a proud year that will be specially recorded in the history of our fatherland.
The will of the working class to actively launch a struggle to increase production and a movement for economy in all sectors of socialist construction and to continuously open an upward phase of national economic development is clearly evident in every slogan and propaganda.
The Party's ideology and policy of prioritizing education and its dedication to the development of education are summarized in slogans and slogans.
In addition, intuitive propaganda materials were posted that reflected the content of significantly improving the quality of construction and making the scientific community work together to achieve more scientific and technological achievements that are significant for the development of the national economy.
Screening of new art films released in various places: “One Day and One Night” (Part 2) and “Day and Night of Confrontation”
The new art films produced by the Korean 4.25 Art Film Studio, “One Day and One Night” (part 2) and “Day and Night of Confrontation,” have been screened at movie theaters in Pyongyang and at film screening units across the country, including the People’s Palace of Culture, since the beginning of the year.
The film kept viewers in a state of tension and excitement throughout, with the introduction of a dramatic plot and the development of character relationships that overturn expectations.
The movie teaches us the lesson that even if time passes a hundred times, the nature of imperialists and class enemies will never change, and the only path for those blinded by selfish desires is the path of treason. (End)
>>2103773Thank you wholesome korea news anon for sharing.
>The movie teaches us the lesson that even if time passes a hundred times, the nature of imperialists and class enemies will never change, and the only path for those blinded by selfish desires is the path of treason. THIS NEEDS TO BE REPEATED LOUDLY.
>>2104022>Thank you wholesome korea news anon for sharing.NP anon! It's probably the least important news i post in threads across the forum but it cheers me up and i don't think anyone reads most of them in any thread anyway.
You can watch part one of One Day and One Night here btw:
https://archive.org/details/one-day-and-one-nightglad to see a revival of DPRK Cinema, about to sit and watch it.
And i forgot to mention in best Korea the only seething you will do is in delight and passion.
>>2104462 (Me)
I didn't know until the end with the footage but it was based on a real story.
Overall 10/10. I enjoyed it and she gave no remorse to the reactionary.
Based comrade. RIP.
https://kcnawatch.org/newstream/1604135899-306208248/supreme-leader-kim-jong-un-sends-wreath-to-bier-of-late-ra-myong-hui/ >>2104519>shitholespoken like a true burger retard
the average prole seem to be living pretty good compared to the country wealth, WHO praised their healthcare, they have good housing and community life, seem to enjoy a safe and developing country. They're a goddamn nuclear power.
>>2104576>Im guessing part2 and the other movie arent available yet?Part two i think refers to the second half of the first movie, probably split for TV. "Day and Night of Confrontation" is not uploaded yet as it only just started playing in DPRK Cinemas (and the People’s Palace of Culture T.T) this year, when it's on DPRK that can be watched free online, if it's not uploaded before then which hopefully it will be.
>>2104579>the average prole seem to be living pretty good compared to the country wealth, WHO praised their healthcare, they have good housing and community life, seem to enjoy a safe and developing country. They're a goddamn nuclear power.Legitimately cannot think of any other developing nations that has as good living standards and opportunities when viewed outside the lens of the eternal burger (seething not with delight reactionaries everywhere).
Even just looking at critical or neutral media in current day presents it as a far healthier state in a social sense than all OECD nations.
>>2104607Who cares, they put up satellites fine enough.
The miraculous beacon of increased production burning in the nation's major construction production base
The working class of the Sangwon Cement Joint Stock Company resolved to increase cement production by hundreds of thousands of tons before the party, and recorded a production performance of over 114% every day from the beginning of the year.
(The historic December 2024 Plenary Meeting of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea set forth the task of making 2025 a miraculous year and a year of great change in which all the people of the country will complete the decisions of the 8th Congress of the Party and prepare a phase of advancement to a higher stage of development through a new struggle for increased production and a patriotic struggle.
In order to successfully complete this year's massive construction projects, which are the epitome of our Party's lofty people-first politics and symbols of the era of comprehensive national revival, as monumental entities of Juche architecture that can stand proudly before future generations for the honor of our era and generation, the Party Central Committee once again called upon the upper class working class guarding the arsenal of grand construction to create miracles.
The working class of Sangwon Cement Complex, which has been the first to respond to the Party's call in every revolutionary era and has vigorously supported the strengthening of national power and the development of socialist civilization through increased cement production, has also stood in the vanguard of the all-people general advance, holding high the beacon of innovation as befitting the owners of the eldest son enterprise of the Party, in the honorable struggle to greet the 80th founding anniversary of our glorious Party and the 9th Congress of the Party with proud labor achievements.
At the joint enterprise, which is bustling with new standards and new record-making, daily clinker production from the beginning of the new year to the present has jumped by 105% and cement production by more than 114% compared to the same period last year, which surpassed the highest production year level.
This powerful labor struggle is a powerful explosion of the heroic Korean working class's absolute loyalty to the Party, revolutionary creative spirit and spirit of thorough implementation, and it is once again confirming the iron truth that the reserve lies in the mental power of the masses, the key to solving the problem lies in increased production and thrift, and that this is precisely our way of advancing and making a leap forward.
The working class of the upper house, upon hearing the news of the 11th Plenary Meeting of the 8th Central Committee of the Party at the end of December last year, respectfully sent a letter of loyalty containing the fiery determination to stand at the forefront of the production increase movement to Comrade Kim Jong Un, whom they had firmly trusted and put forward as the vanguard of the grand socialist construction , an important front for comprehensive national revival.
The cement production increase target that the working class of the upper house pledged in the letter is ten times the amount of production increased last year, and this high target is a beautiful highland that cannot be conquered by existing ideas and methods even for the joint enterprise that has surpassed the highest production year level several times since its operation began in recent years.
However, for the working class, workers, and technicians here, who have preserved the fighting spirit of the Senate, which has been passed down forever, to unconditionally and thoroughly carry out the party's plans and intentions, nothing was impossible.
The slogans and watchwords of belief and struggle posted at each production site, including “If the Party decides, we will do it!” and “Towards a new victory!”, were a symbol of the strong and determined will of the upper class of workers to advance to occupy higher goals.
The workers of the joint enterprise are reaffirming the Party policy demand of prioritizing science and technology as the means of increasing production and achieving the enormous goal with the existing capabilities, and are tenaciously pushing forward the struggle to implement it based on science and technology in accordance with the meticulously drawn up monthly, daily and shift plans.
The most crucial quality improvement of clinker lies in the quality improvement of raw materials, and all employees firmly adhered to the principle, keeping in mind that normal operation and full loading of all equipment depend on responsible technical management and equipment management.
Under the innovative command of the General Staff of the Joint Enterprise, all activities are being directed and implemented without fail to raise the quality of products and lower the level of defects, starting from the mines and coal mines responsible for securing raw materials.
The working class of the Sangwon Limestone Mine, with a lofty determination to open a breakthrough for increased cement production, secured 200,000 tons of limestone ore through three consecutive blasts on January 4, thereby laying the foundation for guaranteeing the production of high-quality raw materials and further improving the capacity of the raw material crusher.
At Ilchulbong Mine, two blasts were carried out consecutively in the first week instead of the previous one in a month, securing a large amount of mining output and waging a fierce struggle to raise daily production and mining performance to an average of 150% per day.
Among the ranks of those creating new standards and new miracles are the working classes of Samcheong and Hwacheon coal mines, who are waging continuous offensive warfare to secure better raw materials and more coal.
Innovations being achieved in the pre-processing process are further enhancing productivity in the basic processes.
An unprecedented four-tier on-site inspection system, including on-site inspectors, shift managers, skilled workers at each workplace, and advanced skilled workers at joint enterprises, is strictly operated to ensure the stable operation rate of the equipment.
The firing workers at the firing shop, who are guarding the basic process of cement production, are focusing on ensuring long-term operation of the main equipment and increasing the number of inspections from the previous two times to five or six times. The workers of the cooling unit 1 and 2 work teams are highly displaying the communist spirit of helping out the next shift.
The pilots in the central control room, with a keen awareness and high sense of tension that the success of increased production depends on their roles, are responsibly monitoring the temperature, pressure, flow rate of the kiln and crushing process and the vibration of various equipment using the integrated automatic control system without the slightest gap, and a popular technological innovation movement is actively unfolding among the workers of the cement factory, resulting in the realization of several valuable creative designs contributing to raising the operating rate of the equipment.
With patriotic enthusiasm that reflects the conscience and loyalty of the working class in every gram of cement, the working class in each workplace, including the raw materials workplace and the coal mill workplace, is also making efforts to ensure the quality of products and is bringing about solidarity innovation.
The unwavering belief that the Party Central Committee's trust is the lifeblood of the Senate, the driving force for increased production and advancement, and the guarantee of certain victory, and the fiery loyalty and patriotic enthusiasm of all employees who share responsibility for cement production before the Party and the country are surpassing their nominal capabilities and pouring out a waterfall of cement.
The proud feats of the working class of the Sangwon Cement Complex, which stood at the vanguard of the grand struggle for increased production in 2025 with extraordinary sense of responsibility and struggle, bearing in mind the great expectations of the Party Central Committee, are a great encouraging force that is stimulating all Party members and workers to the honorable struggle to bring about the era of all-round prosperity of our country and bringing about unprecedented proud fruits and transformational achievements.
《Local Development 20x10 Policy》 Sukcheon-gun Local Industrial Plant Completion Ceremony Held
Under the wise leadership of the great Party Central Committee , which is opening a new era of vibrant local development, noble entities of local industrial revolution are rising simultaneously across the country, and following Songchon County and Jaeryeong County, local industrial plants in Sukchon County have celebrated their completion day.
These joyful events, which are the first fruits of our party's implementation of the "20x10 policy for local development," clearly symbolize an era of great change that will be noted in the history of our country, and at the same time, they prove that our people's century-old wish for local revival is unfolding in real life and not just a dream.
The stylish factories that have sprung up in the West Sea granary, shaking off the new development of local industry, are valuable assets that add warm vitality to the lives of the people of Sukchon County and firmly support the development of the local economy, and are proud creations that increase the confidence that a better future can be achieved in one's own hometown with one's own hands.
The completion ceremony for the Sukcheon County Local Industrial Plant, part of the “Local Development 20×10 Policy,” was held on the 8th.
Party and government officials, workers, military construction workers, and employees of local industrial plants in South Pyongan Province and Sukchon County participated.
Comrade Ri Kyong-cheol, secretary of the South Pyongan Province Party Committee, completed the construction.
The speaker warmly congratulated the residents of Sukcheon County who are facing a heart-warming transformation along with the start of a hopeful new year.
He stressed that the fact that the historic cause of comprehensive development of local industry is blossoming into a shining reality is the noble fruition of the devotion to the people of Comrade Kim Jong Un , who has put forward the promotion of the people's welfare and realization of ideals as the highest activity principle of the Party and the state and has devoted endless effort and energy to them.
He said that the local industrial plants where the people of Sukchon County will fully benefit from the modern light industry are vividly imbued with the sincerity and leadership of the great father who visited construction sites everywhere and paid deep attention to even the smallest details to build the people's wealth without the slightest flaw.
The speaker mentioned that the noble intention of the respected Comrade General Secretary to provide the local people with a proud life year after year in modern houses where they can enjoy delicious food and quality necessities unique to their hometown, should be upheld as a proud achievement of loyalty and patriotism.
He said that workers and employees of local industrial plants in Sukchon County should better manage and operate their workplaces normally so that they can contribute to improving the people's living standards and ensure that the legitimacy of the Party's policies and a precious attachment to their hometown are deeply rooted in the people's minds.
The speaker stressed that everyone should devote themselves to implementing the decisions of the Central Plenary Meeting of the Party with heightened confidence and uplifted spirit and make this meaningful year, the 80th anniversary of the founding of our glorious Party, shine as a year of great transformation and victory that will be recorded in the history of comprehensive national development.
Comrade Heo Yun, Secretary of the Sukchon County Party Committee, participated in the discussion.
He spoke passionately about the noble creation that represented a new era of local transformation and the precious wealth that would bring real welfare to the people that had arisen in his hometown.
He strongly pushed for the normalization of the operation of local industrial plants as a key issue for local development, and expressed his determination to fully display the vitality of the core party policy that our party is pursuing with all its might, and to fulfill his mission and duty as a true servant who has embodied the spirit of devoted service to the people.
Then, the factory owners, filled with great pride and joy at working in a new, modern workplace created with the Party's kindness, cut the ribbon to mark the completion of the building.
After the completion ceremony, the participants toured the factories with deep emotion.
>>2111605neat
they even have posadist posters!
North Korea smuggled nuclear weapons equipment from Spain: Report
<In a case dating back to 2022, a dual-purpose vacuum furnace that could be used for uranium melting ended up reaching North Korea from Spain through Mexico, South Africa and China, the Institute for Science and International Security wrote in a report on Wednesday.
>After being sold by an unknown supplier in Spain, the furnace first went to Mexico, and the recipient then re-exported it to South Africa, altering documents to list it under the Harmonized System (HS) code as “machinery,” according to the think tank. It was subsequently shipped to China and eventually smuggled into North Korea.
<While also an NSG member, China has shown “poor record of preventing controlled or UNSC-banned exports from ending up in North Korea, Russia and other sanctioned countries,” the report noted, emphasizing the need for additional scrutiny of exports to China.https://www.nknews.org/2025/01/north-korea-smuggled-nuclear-weapons-equipment-from-spain-report/>>2113588wtf gucci in NK
0% communism confirmed
>>2117899Marx never defined Socialism as a centrally planned economy, in fact he praised the Paris Commune and explicitly said that it was the dictatorship of the proletariat that he sought, which is literally the opposite of what happened in the USSR.
>>2117896Critique of the Gotha Program
>>1947383North Korea will one day surpass South Korea economically
I know it may sound crazy, but at some point in the late 21st century or perhaps early 22nd century if North Korea still exists, China is likely to be the world's leading power by then. If that happens, US influence in South Korea may wane, leaving it unprotected, but North Korea will not invade.
There will come a point where the increase in productive forces will generate massive unemployment in South Korea, which will last for an indeterminate long time, then it will happen that China, being an ally of North Korea, may occur a technological transfer, being North Korea a country with a centralized economy, by automating the factories it has could overcome the problems of allocation and scarcity, which will make its production skyrocket and they can begin to develop and automate the entire country to such an extent that it surpasses South Korea, since the government of North Korea could easily distribute the product or income generated by automation in its population, which would make everyone immensely rich, and as there are no capitalists who accumulate all the product, North Korea could continue reinvesting massively in all the sectors it wants, as the machines do everything and the costs are therefore minimal, it could do what it wanted, reaching a society without work and with full functional planning
While North Korea The South will be totally destabilized by a monetary economy and massive Luddite strikes, and a deep inequality generated by its technological oligopolies that will keep all the wealth
Or maybe I'm just crazy haha
>>2117942I do not think North Korea surpassing South Korea economically matters. North Korea not sinking to the levels South Korea is, is probably the most important fact in this discussion since it does show communism and left-wing economic policies properly executed are the safe option. People do not want to be rich, they just do not want to be poor and that has been historically speaking the only social edge left wing policies have on a practical aspect outside of mere intellectual discussion or wishful thinking.
You can say all you want about North Korea people not being rich, but when they do not have to use "get paid for watching this ad!" apps to pay for food that is when you have masses of South Korean people considering if what they have is right and the best.
>>2117988good post. (sorry didn't mean to blot it out with a long news post <3)
Hamnam’s growing pride, the boiling excitement and joy of the peopleThe people of South Hamgyong Province, who have become more proud of the new era local development policy that our Party has decided to adopt for the simultaneous and comprehensive revival of the entire country, greeted the completion of the local industrial plants in Hamju County with great joy as a great event.
In the Yeonpo area, where only sandstorms blew hard, a new realm of our style of rural civilization was created, a large and refreshing greenhouse sea was spread out, and in Sinpo City, a unique model base for marine aquaculture was built, and Hamnam was heated up with the excitement and joy of the people who once again encountered the first realities of our Party's local industrial revolution.
The belief that a new world of civilization will unfold everywhere, be it in rural areas, fishing villages or remote mountainous areas, under the great leadership of Comrade Kim Jong Un , who continues his journey of endless thought and devotion to promote the welfare of local people with the heart of a biological parent who cares more for a child far away than one close by, is becoming a great river of public sentiment and is billowing with strength.
The completion ceremony for the Hamju County Local Industrial Plant, part of the “Local Development 20×10 Policy,” was held on the 18th.
The completion ceremony was filled with the extraordinary joy of the workers and officials of South Hamgyong Province and Hamju County, who were optimistic about a new life that would become even more prosperous thanks to the benevolence of the Mother Party, and the pride of the soldier-builders who, upholding the lofty intention of the Party Central Committee, successfully built the local industrial plants as a noble fruit of the people-first ideology and politics and as a conglomerate of pure conscience.
Comrade Ri Jong-nam, secretary of the South Hamgyong Provincial Party Committee, completed the construction.
The speaker said that the completion ceremony of the local industrial plant, which is stirring up the whole country by showing the vibrant phase of local development in the new era, is also being held in Hamju County with great significance, and that today's joyful moment symbolizes an era of great change and transformation worthy of special mention in the history of the fatherland and clearly proves that the century-old wish of our people is becoming a reality.
He emphasized that although it was a short period of less than a year from the groundbreaking ceremony for the construction of the Songchon County Local Industrial Plant until local industrial plants were built simultaneously in 20 cities and counties across the country, this great change in history was filled with the world of love and devotion of the great father who considered hardship for the people as his natural calling and devoted himself so much to improving the lives of the local people.
He mentioned that the respected Comrade General Secretary , who visited the Hamju County local industrial plant construction site despite the sweltering heat last August, praised the labor feats of the soldier-builders who are confidently opening a breakthrough for a new local industrial revolution, specified the principled issues and tasks arising in the construction, and poured endless effort and energy into the creations for the people without even the slightest flaw.
He said that it was the lofty intention of the respected Comrade General Secretary to enable the local people to live in modern houses and enjoy delicious foodstuffs and quality daily necessities peculiar to their hometown to their heart's content, and stressed that officials of party and government organs and employees of local industrial plants in Hamju County should normally operate the newly built bases for improving the people's living standards so that the legitimacy of the party's policies is firmly established in the people's lives.
Comrade Joo Chang-seok, Secretary of the Hamju County Party Committee, participated in the discussion.
He said that when he held the meaningful groundbreaking ceremony in March last year, there was only an empty lot where old buildings were cleared out, but today, fancy factories that will contribute to a dramatic improvement in the people's living standards have miraculously sprung up here, and he touched on his agitated feelings by saying that the people of Hamju County are truly the blessed people who live closest to the heart of the respected Comrade General Secretary .
He said that whatever the people hope and wish for should become the utmost wish of our Party, and he respectfully conveyed the warmest thanks to Comrade Kim Jong Un, the great father of the great socialist family who has devoted himself day and night to the people 's infinite happiness, containing the unanimous heart of all the workers and working people in the county.
The debaters expressed their determination to develop Hamju County into a prosperous place day by day by making the most of the county's natural geographical conditions and economic potential in accordance with the party's will, solidifying the county's economic foundation, and continuously normalizing production at local industrial plants.
The owners of the new factory cut the ribbon on completion amid the excitement and excitement of the people of Hamju County, who were the first to beefit from our party's local development policy.
Adding to the joy of celebration, numerous rubber balloons and fireworks flew up simultaneously, beautifully decorating the sky over Hamju County.
After the completion ceremony, participants toured the factories.
While looking around the revolutionary history education room and the history introduction room of the food factory, daily necessities factory and garment factory, the visitors could not suppress their emotions welling up as they solemnly looked up to the sacred image of the respected Marshal who set the historical cause of comprehensive development of local industry, which they had only dreamed of as an ideal, as the most important task of the Party and the state and tirelessly continued the journey of selfless service to realize it.
The joy and passion of visitors overflowed throughout the factories, which were fully equipped with modern production processes.
At the Yeonpo Greenhouse Farm, fresh greenhouse vegetables are produced all year round, and from modern local industrial plants, various basic foods, confectionery, and high-quality daily necessities with the name of Hamju County are produced in abundance. With unique rural houses springing up one after another every year, stories of joy overflowing in our hearts about how we too can enjoy blessings that are not inferior to those in the city.
They all touched the heart of their hearts by saying that the respected Marshal is truly a great leader of the people and a benevolent father of the people who regards hardships for the people as the greatest joy and devotes his all to the path of cultivating the people 's happiness.
Wherever you go in the factory, wherever you meet someone, you will see the pride and joy of the people enjoying their blessings in the bosom of the Party that makes even a stone bloom for the sake of the people, and you will be filled with a fiery passion to repay that love and favor with a single heart of loyalty and patriotism.
On this day, there was a performance by artists from the National Folk Arts Troupe and a celebratory gun firing to celebrate the completion of the Hamju County Local Industrial Plant under the “20×10 Policy for Local Development.”
The bases for improving the people's living standards that are springing up all over the country in a new and revolutionary form are the shining fruits that only the Workers' Party of Korea can bring about, which regards the slogans "Serving the People!" and "Everything for the Improvement of the People's Living Standards!" as its eternal nature and unchanging mission and resolutely carries out the great revolutionary undertakings to promote the people's welfare.
The successive completion of local industrial plants, which our Party has long desired, is powerfully encouraging the patriotic struggle and creative struggle of the entire nation's people who are making all-out efforts to successfully complete the five-year plan presented by the 8th Congress of the Party with confidence and assurance of a better tomorrow. (End)
Kim Yo-jong, Vice Department Director of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea , announces her position on the issue of the highest-level relations between the DPRK and BelarusKim Yo-jong, vice department director of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea , announced her position on the issue of top-level relations between North Korea and Belarus through the Korean Central News Agency on the 20th.
According to a report by TASS on the 17th, the Belarusian president mentioned that several Asian countries, including the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, proposed to organize a high-level meeting in Minsk to discuss cooperation issues.
I am well aware that the Belarusian side has been eagerly hoping for high-level contacts with the Democratic People's Republic of Korea for at least two years.
However, if we understand the context of the TASS report on the 17th, it does not seem to properly reflect the Belarusian side's demands.
As for the TASS report regarding the statement by the Belarusian President that we have proposed a high-level meeting in Minsk to discuss cooperation issues, at least as far as I know, there has been no such thing.
If you wish to develop a cooperative relationship with us, it is important to clearly state your intentions.
I believe that these facts and honesty should be the starting point in bilateral relations between countries.
If the Belarusian side starts from this position and aims to develop friendly and cooperative relations with us, we have no reason to refuse and will gladly welcome it.
https://hexbear.net/post/4314374Someone allegedly can ask questions to a DPRK diplomat:
>Look ,personally I want this to be perfect ,to include every single detail not mentioned about the DPRK in the west ,also no I’m not gonna tell you how I have contact with a DPRK diplomat ,please ask sincere questions and remember this is a DPRK diplomat, not a citizen so there is stuff that they can’t answer and stuff that they aren’t allowed to answerIf my friend from the DPRK replies ,I will update you but this is for someone else ,I’ve acquired a lot of important info on the DPRK that I want to share with all of you and this is so that it could be perfect ,please ask good questions
What would you ask?
>>2104462I've been away from leftypol for a month or so and only have returned now for this thread. Definitely worth it.
Seething in delight and passion is indeed dignified & proper seething. I must learn to do this more often.
Smile with delight at the thought that there are thousands of hunter biden like degenerates in the next generation of us leadership. Legalize all drugs in the imperialist nations! Privatize and breakup all their industries! Cut all infrastructure investments! 👏👏👏
>>2104518Based & meligalas-pilled.
Find yourself a real Korean beauty just like her!
>>2119741I am curious about electricity production per capita per year. Most western sources basically guess that the DPRK year per capita eletricity output is something like 600-800kwh per person.
This seems to me like it cannot possibly be right, as it puts it on a level comparable to the Philippines, and below Cuba (around 1600-2000kwh before recent troubles), both of which are nowhere near as industrialized as the DPRK.
So without asking for a specific figure (which could be a security issue) could you ask if it is fair to say that the DPRK produces at least 3x the yearly 600-800kwh per capita (Ie. at least Cuba's pre-covid level)?
As complementary question: Ask if the DPRK is actively pursuing geothermal electricity given the enormous potential it has (esp. near Mount Baektu)
>>2121410>Ask if the DPRK is actively pursuing geothermal electricity given the enormous potential it has it does def use geothermal power, yes, not read any of these but it is something i've certainly read about and seen in passing in the DPRK press.
It's mentioned by 38north here as well as other power forms, which is american but i think they're basically paid to give an actually somewhat accurate view of DPRK to a degree:
https://www.38north.org/2019/07/hydropower070319/https://www.38north.org/2023/03/north-koreas-energy-sector-state-solar-electricity-research-and-manufacturing/From this rando site:
3.5. Geothermal Resources>Geothermal energy is also mentioned as a possible source of both heat and power for the NP. At present, we have no information about the extent of the NP’s geothermal resources, though some potential geothermal sites undoubtedly are present in the NP. Recent news articles indicate an ongoing and expanding interest of the NP in geothermal energy, including a recent study tour, funded by a German foundation, by a NP delegation to geothermal-related sites in Germany, with a reciprocal visit by a representative of the foundation to Pyongyang[52], and agreements to cooperate with China on renewable energy development, including geothermal energy[53]. A number (over 120, according to various articles quoting unnamed NP sources) of hot springs exist in the NP, many of which are in use as spas or resorts (for example, the Ryonggang resort in the Nampo area). Our guess is that the NP’s usable resource for geothermal electricity generation is probably moderate, in the range of tens or hundreds of megawatts, but that is no better than a guess, pending further information.https://nautilus.org/napsnet/napsnet-special-reports/an-updated-summary-of-energy-supply-and-demand-in-the-democratic-peoples-republic-of-korea-dprk/ THANK YOU JANNIES FOR CYCLING!Students of Mangyongdae Revolutionary School Conduct Economic Agitation Activities in Major DistrictsStudents from Mangyongdae Revolutionary School carried out economic agitation activities in major districts that were seething with enthusiasm for increased production.
The children who went to the Sangwon Cement Complex put on a revolutionary and spirited performance and appealed to the workers and officers to achieve the goal of increasing cement production.
The children went to the Pyongyang Thermal Power Plant and helped workers who have been working hard to increase electricity production since the beginning of the new year.
The economic agitation of the students of Mangyongdae Revolutionary School, which was actively carried out in the major fronts to implement the decisions of the Central Plenary Meeting of the Party, aroused the workers to continuous productivity upsurge. (End)
>>2122158 >3.5. Geothermal ResourcesI forgot to say, this is from a decade ago.
>>2122158>>2122167Thanks for the replies wholesomedprkanon.
I am hoping that the poster with the friend & diplomat contact can also answer the q about the general power situation.
>>2126264RFA article: "North Korea stages rural wedding in a propaganda bid"
>In efforts to attract tourists to its new Seaside Resort, Kim Jung Un ordered that a wedding ceremony be filmed in rural North Korea. Anonymous sources close to the regime of the most isolated country on Earth said the wedding was faked, organised by the North Korean military and involved forcing prisoners from a nearby labor camp to act out a wedding.
>The display was filmed from a distance with a smartphone camera and the video made its rounds on social media controlled by China and Russia. Only a select few in North Korea is allowed to buy smartphones or connect to the world-wide internet. A London-based foreign policy expert Timothy Aubrey has told Radio Free Asia that weddings in the closed-off country are a rare sight and only reserved for the powerful elite. Rural citizens cannot afford wedding ceremonies and opt for registering their marriage in the nearest government office.
>Marriage is heavily controlled and scrutinized by the Kim Jong Un's regime in an effort to prevent unwanted behavior and chances of escape. "Couples undergo a test and must pledge their loyalty to Kim Jong Un before they are allowed to consider themselves husband and wife", said Aubrey.
>Aubrey works as a senior policy expert at the Anglo-American Institute for Global Peace, Freedom and Democracy (AAIGPFD), a nongovernmental think-thank that focuses on exposing authoritarian regimes and advises the Starmer government on topics such as advancing freedom in the underdeveloped world.
>"The government of North Korea controls every aspect of citizen's lives, so is it any wonder that they would control marriage too?", asks Timothy. However, he confesses that not all is bleak, "We have seen increased resistance within the country, especially once one reads the press releases and public updates of the South Korean Intelligence Service." He is hopeful that Russia's losses in Ukraine and the coming collapse of the Chinese economy will strip North Korea of its two main supporters.
>Aubrey points to the fact that North Korea has sent soldiers to Russia, of which over 10000 have been killed and as many wounded. European intelligence agencies are sure Kim Jung Un will send more, because the citizens have not been informed of it.
>On the importance of that information Aubrey has no doubt. "If North Koreans learn of it, we might see widespread resistance within their military, possibly triggering a coup. Unnamed sources close to the South Korean Intelligence Services have confirmed that South Korea is sending thousands of balloons with notes explaining what is happening in Ukraine and Russia.
>If the plan succeeds, says Aubrey, "Kim Jong Un would become the first dictator to be brought down by balloons." >>2127368>>2127575I am honestly stunned. Like why make up a fake wedding? Why use prisoners to do it?
Even for agitprop it would be far easier (probably much cheaper) to offer a couple that is going to get married anyways some money or gifts in exchange for some footage and pictures.
(all pics taken from story 3, many more are here:
http://www.kcna.kp/kp/media/photo/q/20b1cb77de4029dea87c799921cb266d283314f264fd458d39a7ec36dc1517da.kcmsf )
Nampo City's youth advance to the vanguard of socialist constructionThe patriotic tradition of our youth, who set their life’s coordinates where the Party calls them and make their youthful ideals bloom, continues to this year on the march, and around 60 young people from Nampo City have advanced to the vanguard of socialist construction.
Young people from Oncheon-gun, Cheonrima-gu, and Daean-gu advanced into local industrial plants and raw material base businesses.
Youth League members from Waudo District, Gangseo District, and Ryonggang County petitioned the construction brigades and the Geumseong Tractor Factory.
Young people from the port area and graduating students from Nampo Teachers College volunteered to work at the livestock base and remote island branch schools.
A gathering to celebrate the petitioners was held at the Nampo City Arts Theater on the 26th.
At the meeting attended by Nampo City Party Committee Secretary Choi Yong-dong, youth league members, and young people, petitioners were awarded petition certificates and there were congratulatory remarks and discussions.
After the meeting, there was a performance to celebrate the petitioners.
Soldiers and youths gave bouquets of flowers to the petitioners leaving for the new revolutionary outpost and saw them off.
Women's League organizations at all levels are carrying out good work movements.Women's League organizations at all levels are actively supporting various units and sectors of the people's economy where struggles to increase production and economize are being waged vigorously.
Women's League organizations in various regions, including South Hwanghae Province, Pyongyang City, and Rason City, prepared 270,000 tons of organic fertilizer and sent it to farms.
Women's League members in the Chollima District of Nampho City contributed to the increase in steel production at the Chollima Steel Complex by collecting about 120 tons of scrap iron, and women's league workers and members in South Hamgyong Province and Sunchon City of South Pyongan Province also carried out economic agitation at the Ryongsong Machine Complex, the 2.8 Vinalon Complex, and the Sunchon Cement Complex, giving new strength and courage to the workers.
Women's League workers and members of the Gangdong District Coal Mining Complex contributed to increasing coal production by finding various good jobs at Heukryeong Coal Mine and other places.
There is also a member of the Women's League in Seoktap-dong, Songrim-si, Hwanghaebuk-do, who visited the working class of Hwangcheol with her family, gave them relief supplies that she had prepared with all her heart, and sang songs to encourage them.
Women's League members from Dongsin County and Junggang County in Chagang Province also went to forestry business offices to provide workers with supplies and encourage them to produce more timber.
The grace of the Workers' Party that allowed the socialist ideal to blossom even in the remote mountainsThere is a celebration of the completion of modern local industrial plants in Usi County, Chagang Province.Along with the successive completion news proudly announcing to the world the first fruits of our Party's local development policy implementation for simultaneous transformation and revitalization across the country, the joy of the people welcoming a more prosperous and happy new socialist life is also overflowing in Usi County, Chagang Province.
The outstanding efforts of the great Party Central Committee , which put forward the construction of local industrial plants as a historical task to realize the century-old desire of the local people before it was a simple construction project and devoted unprecedented efforts to it, brought about the joy of completion to the people here who had been counting down the days until the new plants were built, which was miraculously built from the day of the groundbreaking.
Embracing with excitement the modern factories that were out of sight just 10 months ago, the people of Usi County are truly expressing their endless gratitude to the Mother Party, with great pride in bringing prosperity to the new era of the Workers' Party.
《In our county, a remote mountainous area in the north, local industrial plants are springing up, and the great joy of seeing our long-awaited ideals and dreams blossom into reality has occurred.》
《Thanks to the local industrial revolution carried out by our great leader , the long-cherished desires of mountain people have been fulfilled.》
“ Dear Marshal Kim Jong- un , thank you very much.”
The people of Usi County, filled with endless joy and confidence in the better days ahead and happiness growing day by day thanks to the Party's grace, chanted "Long Live the Workers' Party" and "Long Live Socialism" echoed at the foot of Jogol Ridge.
On the 25th, the completion ceremony of the Usi County Local Industrial Plant was held with great celebration for the entire county and province.
At the completion ceremony attended by workers, laborers, military builders and employees of local industrial plants from Chagang Province and Usi County, Comrade Pak Song Chol, secretary of the provincial Party Committee, stressed that the local development policy, which encapsulates the lofty ideology of the great Party Central Committee that upholds the people as the sky, is opening a new era of brilliant changes in the fatherland.
He said that the extraordinary creations that flaunt the vibrant appearance of local development cannot be thought of apart from the devotion to the people of Comrade Kim Jong Un, who has a noble outlook on life and does not hesitate to go through great hardships for the happiness of his beloved people .
He said that today's joyful moment is a powerful proof of the unwavering will and execution power of our Party and state to unconditionally keep the promise made to the people, and sent warm greetings to the People's Army soldiers, officials and working people who devoted themselves to building local industrial plants into the people's wealth as authorized by the Central Committee of the Workers ' Party of Korea .
He mentioned that the workers of Usi County and Doan, and the workers and employees of local industrial plants should fulfill their responsibilities and duties in operating the newly built bases for improving people's living standards normally and making a substantial contribution to the material and cultural life of the local people.
He appealed to everyone to work harder and more vigorously with a hundred times more confidence and courage to brilliantly complete our party's local development policy and to bring forward the future of a prosperous and civilized country as soon as possible, and to greet the 80th anniversary of the founding of the party with proud labor achievements.
In the discussion, Comrade Kang Myong-song, Secretary of the Wuxi County Party Committee, expressed his firm determination to become a pioneer and example better than anyone else in implementing the people-oriented character and people-first politics of our Party and to develop the county, where the Party's leadership achievements are enthusiastically imbued, into a cherished home of happiness for the people where it is good to live and work.
He said that he would direct local party work to widely share and generalize the achievements and experiences in production and management activities of local industrial plants provided by the party and to develop and produce more famous products and goods that highlight the characteristics of the county.
He emphasized that, along with actively promoting the project to train skilled workers, practical measures should be put in place to transform all mountains into golden mountains and treasure mountains in accordance with the natural geographical conditions surrounding the mountains, thereby firmly securing raw materials, and thereby laying a solid foundation for the development of local industries in a more substantial manner.
The owners of the new factory cut the ribbon on completion with a special sense of pride and honor that they, from a remote mountain village, were the first to enter the octopus market of the socialist ideal village under the warm blessings of their benevolent parents.
Beautiful fireworks exploded and rubber balloons flew up, decorating the celebratory sky in a unique way and adding to the joy of completion.
The new hometown, which was far from the capital and the city, was filled with a festive atmosphere as the artistic performance stage and joyful dance performance sang the praises of the fulfilling lives of the people of Usi County who, through their own efforts, were able to build a new life that they would not envy.
As the participants toured the factories that perfectly embodied modernity, civilization, and practicality, they once again felt the great dedication and logo of the respected leader who is dedicated to bringing about changes that can touch the skin of the local people and make everyone cheer.
The more you look, the more stylish the factories become. There are even elderly people who wipe over and over the signboards of factories that actively seek to improve the welfare of residents and promote the development of the local economy, and shed hot tears at the dreamlike reality.
Factories that showcased various products based on local raw material sources in the county, putting an end to the past history of not being able to benefit from the mountains even once, erupted in exclamations from visitors.
It was hard to believe that these were products from the Sangolgun, but the faces of the housewives holding various basic food items and daily necessities in their hands and the workers happily working in their new, pleasant workplaces were filled with endless gratitude toward the Mothers' Party for giving them today's happiness.
Looking with joy at the factories well-equipped with modern facilities and production processes, the workers and residents of Usi County made a firm pledge to do their assigned work well, thoroughly implement the decisions of the 11th Plenary Session of the 8th Central Committee of the Party, repay the Party's favor, and make their hometowns into better places to live.
The night of Ushi County was filled with sleepless nights as celebratory fireworks were fired to celebrate the legend of a new civilization and a new life, painting the sky in a thousand colors and filling the local people with endless joy and romanticism as they welcomed the great event.
The proud reality where everyone enjoys a civilized and affluent life in their changing homeland amid the sloping completion of new stylish factories is an epitome of our flourishing fatherland, the great long-cherished wish of the Workers' Party of Korea that upholds the people like heaven and the most perfect practice.
In an era where even a stone can bloom if it is for the people, the blessed life of the mountain people will blossom day by day with the lively operation of the first entities that the local industrial revolution brought to mind in the era of the great Kim Jong-un.
Report on the 30th Secretariat Enlarged Meeting of the 8th Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea
The 30th expanded meeting of the Secretariat of the 8th Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea was held at the headquarters of the Central Committee of the Party on January 27.
Comrade Kim Jong Un , General Secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea, guided the meeting.
The meeting was attended by members of the Secretariat of the Central Committee of the Party, and was observed by secretaries of provincial, city, and county Party committees and joint enterprise Party committees, leading officials of provincial and central organ Party committees, department heads and first vice-department heads of the Central Committee of the Party, and relevant officials of the Organization and Guidance Department, the Propaganda and Agitation Department, and the Discipline Investigation Department.
The might and invincibility of the Workers' Party of Korea , which has carved the world's longest history of socialist rule on the sacred journey of shouldering the destiny of the country and people and realizing the most just mission and lofty ideal, are guaranteed in the struggle to firmly uphold the uniquely innocent political atmosphere and disciplinary system of our Party and perfectly implement the people-first political ideology.
At present, the Party Central Committee has put forward the idea and line of discipline construction to manage and strengthen the Party through a strict disciplinary system, established a strong disciplinary supervision system throughout the Party, and clarified the work principles and action guidelines for all Party organizations and workers to carry out their work and life in a revolutionary way based on a high level of political awareness.
In connection with the recent occurrence of serious incidents in Oncheon County, Nampho City and Usi County, Chagang Province, in which party discipline was violently violated, negative privileges were exercised, and the dignity and rights of the people were seriously violated, the Secretariat of the Central Committee of the Party convened a meeting attended by all leading cadres of the Party.
The Party Central Committee stressed that it had convened an expanded meeting of the Secretariat to urgently correct the violations of Party discipline and anti-people acts that run counter to the demands of the times when the entire Party and all people should be fully mobilized to implement the decisions of the Party Plenary Meeting, and to further solidify the Party's political atmosphere and revolutionary position.
At the expanded meeting, first, there was a report by the Organization and Guidance Department of the Central Committee of the Party on the violation of Party discipline by the Nampo City Oncheon County Party Committee and the leading cadres in the county who caused a special incident of total refusal of Party discipline and collectively committing wrongdoings, and a report by the Discipline Investigation Department of the Central Committee of the Party.
The actions of the Oncheon County cadres, who blatantly denied the ideas and intentions of the Party Central Committee to firmly guarantee the existence and strengthening and development of the Party through discipline by establishing a strict disciplinary atmosphere and iron discipline throughout the Party, and their toxicity and severity were harshly exposed.
Comrade Jo Yong-won, Organization Secretary of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea , and Comrade Kim Jae-ryong, Director of the Discipline Investigation Department, stated the following in their data reports and information notifications:
In this meaningful year marking the 80th anniversary of the founding of the Party, an unprecedentedly enormous struggle task has arisen for our workers to complete the decisions of the 8th Congress of the Party and open a new phase toward a higher stage of development. Today, the heavy task has arisen for them to fulfill their mission and duty as the core of the Party and loyal servants of the people by displaying more daring courage, drive and dedication than ever before in the vanguard of the revolution.
However, in stark contrast to the demands of the party and the heightened revolutionary atmosphere, a while ago in Oncheon County, they made poor preparations for the county party plenary session to implement the decisions of the plenary session of the Central Committee of the Party, conducted the meeting in an extremely formal manner, and then turned around and collectively committed an irregularity, causing a major incident in which about 40 workers, including party members, committed an irregularity.
This was an act of flagrant violation of the party discipline that prohibits party leaders at all levels from leading a lax lifestyle, such as receiving drinking and entertainment at service organizations, and never before in the history of our party has there been such a reckless act organized directly by a county party leader and carried out by dozens of party and administrative leaders in the county, including county party leaders, en masse.
The collective drinking and debauchery that was openly carried out in Oncheon County is an act that completely runs counter to the Party's line on building discipline, and it clearly shows that the instigators and participants in the incident are a rotten group of people who do not even have the basic qualifications of leading cadres, a bunch of wanton rabble.
Comrade General Secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea made an important speech.
Comrade General Secretary said that the nature of the Oncheon Massacre, which occurred at a time when revolutionary moral discipline must be thoroughly established within the Party and party members, especially leading party cadres, must strictly observe the code of conduct for their lives and activities and strengthen internal discipline more than ever, is considered to be a serious violation of Party discipline and a crime of disrupting moral culture, and an open denial of our Party's line of discipline construction.
Comrade General Secretary said that if there had not been the discipline that has safeguarded the firm solidarity of the revolutionary ranks, the strict political and moral precepts that have established the leadership system of the Party Central Committee and safeguarded the organizational and ideological unity of the whole Party, and the uncompromising struggle, there would not have been the glorious history of 80 years of ruling power and today, when we are planning its succession and innovation, and he mentioned that it is beneficial and advantageous to the revolution to boldly acknowledge such a serious defect within the Party and turn it into a special incident in time.
Comrade General Secretary sharply analyzed the ideological root cause and gravity of the act that ran counter to the intention of the Party by the officials who should be more faithful to their duties than anyone else as the ones directly responsible for regional development at a crucial time when the whole Party is paying attention to strengthening cities and counties and new transformation projects in local areas are being carried out or anticipated one after another. He sternly pointed out that this is not only a grave incident that could destroy the foundation of strengthening our Party and drive a region accounting for one-two-hundredth of the country into the trap of de-partyization, de-politicization and de-socialism, but also a dangerous signal that a privileged class could be formed who would try to enjoy special privileges higher than those of the people by abusing their ranks.
Comrade General Secretary criticized that all kinds of exotic and heterogeneous ideological elements that are tarnishing the sound atmosphere of the Party and hindering the advance of the revolution and political and moral crimes that undermine Party discipline are one incident that occurred in one region and show that the qualitative consolidation of the cadre ranks, to which we have attached special meaning and put effort in party building in the new era, has not been carried out effectively.
Comrade General Secretary gave the Party Central Committee’s assessment that although there appears to be changes on the surface, there is no improvement in work style and discipline-observance spirit, and he emphasized that the conclusion to be drawn from this is that no matter how revolutionary and perfect the Party building line is, if there is no ideological resolve and effort on the part of cadres to absolutely and unconditionally implement it, it will remain only a theory for the sake of theory.
Comrade General Secretary said that this meeting would serve as an opportunity to realistically reawaken to and re-establish the necessity of focusing more on rectifying Party discipline at the beginning of 2025 when our Party will celebrate its 80th founding anniversary, and that it would serve as a turning point for further solidifying the Party consciousness, political awareness, revolutionary temperament and spirit of service for the people among the core and leading force of the Party and for making substantial progress in strengthening the cadre camp and Party building.
Comrade General Secretary said that the core and central task in the new course of Party building is still the revolutionization of cadres and the solution to it is to carry out education, training and struggle more intensively throughout the Party, and mentioned in detail the principles and methods to be employed in the organizational and ideological offensive to be carried out powerfully throughout the Party in order to consolidate the Party's sound political atmosphere in the future.
Comrade General Secretary once again stated that the discipline investigation department should set basic targets and vigorously launch a “sniper war,” “pursuit war,” “search war” and “mopping up war” based on strict regulations and rules to proactively and actively suppress intra-party corruption and all kinds of disciplinary violations that our Party despises the most.
Comrade General Secretary said that this year should be a year of establishing a revolutionary party atmosphere and strengthening the entire party, and that a new stage should be opened for building a ruling party that is strong with discipline and full of vitality with a revolutionary party atmosphere , and he stressed that a resolute struggle should be made to achieve the sacred revolutionary cause for the eternal plan of the Workers' Party of Korea .
The Secretariat of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea decided and instructed to dissolve the Nampho City Onchon County Party Committee, which had grossly damaged the revolutionary atmosphere of our Party and impeded the single-minded unity of the Party and the revolutionary ranks by grossly violating the Party's internal discipline and collectively committing bad acts in accordance with the relevant articles of the Workers' Party of Korea Rules, and announced a plan to strictly deal with the perpetrators of the special incident related to the violation of Party discipline.
The expanded meeting of the Secretariat of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea next dealt with the serious anti-people crimes that occurred in Usi County, Chagang Province.
Comrade General Secretary severely reprimanded the county agricultural supervision organ, which should have professionally and responsibly supervised and controlled the implementation of the Party's rural development policy and agricultural policy in Wuxi County, for abusing its legal authority and violently infringing on the people's interests and property instead of directing its work to suppressing major illegal acts inherent in the agricultural sector and establishing order and discipline.
Comrade General Secretary said that local powerful officials and bureaucrats are destroying the sacred fortress of unity between the Party and the people without batting an eyelid, and he asserted that this is a particularly large-scale criminal case that cannot be forgiven in the slightest for our Party, our people, our system and our law.
At the meeting, there was a report on the special criminal acts committed by inspectors from the Usi County Agricultural Inspection Agency.
The inspectors of the Usi County Agricultural Inspection Agency have committed unacceptable crimes without hesitation, abusing their sacred legal authority to inflict suffering on local residents and indiscriminately infringe upon their property.
The criminal act of challenging our Party's people-first politics of directing all matters of revolution and construction toward protecting the people's rights and interests and serving the people with devotion, and seriously damaging the single-hearted unity of the Party and the people, which is the great foundation of the revolution and our lifeblood, is extremely serious.
The Secretariat of the Central Committee of the Party announced a plan to dissolve the Wuxi County Agricultural Inspection Agency and reorganize it, and to strictly deal with the responsible secretary of the Wuxi County Party Committee and the inspectors of the Wuxi County Agricultural Inspection Agency who encouraged and condoned anti-people acts.
The masterminds and accomplices of major crimes will be subject to legal review.
Through the meeting, it was proven that acts that run counter to the founding ideology and spirit of the Party, disrupt the sound moral atmosphere of the Party, hinder the strengthening of Party discipline, and infringe upon the rights and interests of the people that our Party holds most sacred are being thoroughly repelled.
The 30th Enlarged Meeting of the Secretariat of the 8th Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea has once again impressed upon us the iron truth that the eternal vitality of a party that struggles and advances lies in the rock-solid foundation of iron discipline, and it is a political occasion of great significance in further clarifying the nature and character of our party, which places the people first as its mode of existence and party style, and in strengthening its fighting power in every way. (End)
Is it so hard to accept reality?
Recently, NATO and the European Alliance have been making the world laugh by spouting out absurd and unrealistic nonsense.
The spokespeople of this group, which has evolved into an anti-republican group loyal to the United States, whined about us, saying, “We cannot be recognized as a nuclear state,” and kept spouting outdated nonsense like, “We must completely, verifiably and irreversibly dismantle nuclear weapons, the existing nuclear program, all other weapons of mass destruction and ballistic missile programs.”
No one has ever mentioned “recognition”, but when I hear the nonsense coming from the broken soundboard of an old gramophone, I can only feel pity for these “holy gentlemen” who have now become pitiful beings who have closed their eyes and ears to the ever-changing reality.
This is an opportunity to reflect on what this force, which more passionately advocates for world peace and safety than anyone else, has brought to humanity and what its purpose is in insisting on such inconsistent sophistry.
The world is now experiencing days and months of bitter suffering that no era has ever experienced due to the destruction of peace by the Western powers led by the United States.
It is already well known that the continued escalation of the Ukraine crisis and the vicious cycle of war in the Middle East are the results of the United States and the West's unscrupulous pursuit of geopolitical interests.
Moreover, these old gangs of bandits are now wandering all the way to the Korean Peninsula, which is geographically very far away from them, and are frantically trying to cause another destruction of peace.
Just looking at last year alone, under the direction of the United States, the vast military power of the West, including NATO and European alliance members, was deployed around our country, spending time engaged in provocative military exercises that presupposed the outbreak of a nuclear war.
The first thing NATO did this year was to open a full-time representative office under the signboard of “strengthening security cooperation” to bring the most belligerent forces in the area surrounding the Korean Peninsula closer to them and to carry out invasion maneuvers.
All the facts show that NATO and the EU, while calling themselves “apostles of peace” and spouting nonsense like “irreversible verification,” have nothing to do with the “security” of the world and are merely manifestations of the ambitions of confrontation fanatics who seek to disarm our country and smoothly achieve their impure political and military goals.
This is precisely why the legitimacy of our policy of strengthening nuclear weapons without knowing its limits is being highlighted even more.
Let me state this clearly once again: our nuclear weapons are not “advertisements” to gain anyone’s “recognition,” much less “bargaining items” to be exchanged for a few pennies.
Our country's nuclear forces are for constant combat use to quickly eliminate any invasion attempts by hostile forces that infringe upon the country's sovereignty and the safety of its people and threaten regional peace.
I urge the United Nations, which has recently been swayed by the anti-peace forces, to calmly acknowledge the forces that are causing wars all over the world before making judgments about the legitimate self-defense measures of sovereign states, and to remain faithful to its own purpose and mission.
What is more evident at this point is that hostile forces pursuing evil intentions are feeling a great sense of insecurity and anxiety in the face of the Republic's nuclear weapons.
The epileptic symptoms of the anti-republican group, who recklessly wave their arms and shout nonsense, will suddenly disappear on the day when our country becomes accustomed to major incidents corresponding to the madness of the hostile forces.
Is it so hard to accept reality?
A new spirit of revival and a new spirit of transformation are stirring in the mountains.
News of the gradual completion of modern local industrial plants was also reported in Unsan County.
The footsteps of the great father's devotion , who is unfolding a period of comprehensive national revival and a socialist ideal where all the people of the country can enjoy happiness together, are cherished in the prosperity of this land, and are illuminating a new era of dazzling turbulence with the great joy of the people and the laughter of the people.
The energetic leadership of Comrade Kim Jong Un, who has led the local development revolution at the forefront and made the people's century-old desire a reality, has also brought about a remarkable change in Unsan County by building fancy treasure factories.
The modern local industrial plants that have sprung up in the mountainous region of Unsan, which is also called Unsan because the mountains are high and clouds often cover the region, are valuable creations that will provide a beautiful vitality of life to the people of the region who are confident of a happy future and will firmly support the development of the local economy.
Thanks to the grace of the Workers' Party, the people of Unsan County were able to spread out a sea of flowers in their hometown, heralding the spring of local revival, and the excitement of the people of Unsan County, who celebrated the great event of completion, overflowed throughout the town.
The completion ceremony, which was filled with a festive atmosphere, was attended by workers and laborers from North Pyongan Province and Unsan County, and officers and soldiers of the Construction Corps who were filled with enthusiasm to live up to their reputation as pioneers of change and guardians of happiness who are leading the way in realizing the Party's grand vision.
The completion ceremony for the Unsan County Local Industrial Plant, part of the “Local Development 20×10 Policy,” was held locally on the 7th.
Comrade Kim Chol-sam, secretary of the North Pyongan Province Party Committee, completed the construction.
The speaker emphasized that the historical cause of comprehensively developing local industry was set as the most important political task of the Party and the state and that its brilliant realities emerged as a great revolution that could be carried out only by the respected Comrade General Secretary who cherished devotion to the people as his whole life .
He said that although it was a short period of less than a year from the time the blast sounded for the groundbreaking ceremony until local industrial plants were built simultaneously in 20 cities and counties, this historical turning point and great transformation was strongly influenced by the bold pioneering efforts of the great father who poured his heart and soul into giving the plants, the first seed of local revitalization, to the people as their wealth without the slightest flaw.
He mentioned that workers and employees of local industrial plants should deeply cherish the pride and self-esteem of working in modern workplaces prepared by the Party, and should devote their clear conscience and sincerity to each product so that the Party's love can permeate the lives of residents.
He sent warm greetings to the officers and men of the Construction Corps who have successfully built local industrial plants, the precious foundation for revival that will actively promote economic development and improvement of the people's living standards in Unsan County, as the noble embodiment of the Party's people-first principle idea and politics and as the embodiment of a clear conscience to protect and care for the people's welfare, and expressed the conviction that they will also continue to display the honor of the vanguard in taking the lead in carrying out the Party's grand plan in the new theater.
The speaker passionately appealed to all the workers and laborers of the design to redouble their confidence and courage and strive to achieve the brilliant completion of our party's local development policy and bring forward the future of a revitalized and powerful country, thereby welcoming the 9th Congress of the party with proud labor achievements.
Comrade Shin Myong-sun, secretary of the Unsan County Party Committee, said in the discussion that the exciting new life of local transformation that was once thought of as an ideal of the distant future has become a reality before our eyes, and that this happy event is the noble fruition of the fiery devotion of the Party Central Committee that has shouldered the burden for the people and has accumulated sincerity like a blaze.
He passionately loves the people, finds the greatest joy and fulfillment in the people's happiness, and has transformed the mountainous county into a socialist paradise where it is good to live and work. We would like to express our deepest gratitude to the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un, who has filled the hearts of the people of Unsan County with unwavering gratitude.
He said that today's completion ceremony will be the starting point for a new leap forward, that he will build a good raw material base, strengthen the ranks of skilled workers, normalize production at local industrial plants, develop and utilize the county's abundant forest resources, mineral resources, and hot spring resources to the greatest extent possible and effectively, and turn mountains and rivers into golden mountains and precious rivers.
He always kept in mind the heavy sense of responsibility as the person directly responsible for implementing the party's local development policy, and expressed his determination to become a true servant of the people who takes the lead in carrying out the party's plan for local revitalization and to develop Unsan County into an ideal village overflowing with happy laughter.
The owners of the new factory cut the ribbon on completion amid enthusiastic cheers and applause from the residents of the county who are now enjoying a affluent life in a blessed hometown overflowing with the kindness of the Motherland Party.
A celebratory shower of flowers erupted and countless rubber balloons flew up simultaneously.
After the completion ceremony, participants happily toured the modern local industrial plants.
Participants expressed their excitement at the sight of products bearing the Unsan County trademark pouring out one after another.
Kim Myeong-cheol, Vice Chairman of the Military People's Committee, said with pride that when it came to Unsan County, there was nothing to brag about except for the hot springs, but now that it has been blessed with wealth from the local development policy, the people and mountains and rivers have become unrecognizable, and there are many special products to boast about in the mountainous county.
Gil Yeon-sun, chairwoman of the Primary Women's League of Sangwon Labor District, said that housewives who work harder and harder than anyone else to bring bright smiles and happiness to their families are the ones who are most happy to start a new life in the beautiful Seonkyung Village and enjoy the delicious food and excellent daily necessities unique to our hometown that are the envy of city dwellers. She expressed her endless gratitude to the great Father who brings happiness to all mothers and sons and daughters in this land.
Kim Young-suk of the 12th People's Unit of Mawon-ri said that when she heard the news of the completion from the last mountain village located several tens of miles from the town and rushed there, she felt it was truly extraordinary and expressed her emotions, saying that there was no one in the world like our Marshal who took into account even the wishes of the mountain people and incorporated them into the country's policies and let them be the first to benefit from them .
Whenever I saw the modern light industry factories in the center on TV, I always had in my mind the desire to work in such a factory. The pride of working in a stylish factory, inside and out, with no faults, made me sing the song, “Labor is a song and joy,” said Choe Nam Hyok, a worker at the foodstuff factory, boasting to the visitors with joy that the products were made with our own hands in our factory established by the respected Marshal .
The workers and staff of the raw material base business office also expressed their determination to repay the love of the Mother Party for providing them with excellent treasure factories and to plant and cultivate more golden trees and zelkova trees to bring forward the ideal of girls smiling while looking at flowers in the morning and day and singing among the flowers in the evening, like the main characters of “Echoes of the Mountain.”
To celebrate the military's great achievement, a variety of artistic performances were held followed by an exciting dance performance, adding to the joy of the completion ceremony.
That evening, beautiful fireworks of a thousand colors exploded, blessing the bright future of the people in the county and beautifully coloring the night sky of Unsan County.
The grand completion of the Unsan County local industrial plants, which have opened up a fairyland of local revival in the remote mountains, has strengthened our conviction that, under the leadership of the great Party, the people's dreams and ideals will surely become reality, and all the places in this land will be filled with the people's laughter and joy year after year. (End)
Hundreds of graduating seniors from Pyongyang City's high school decide to wear revolutionary uniforms, petitioning frontline border posts
As the patriotic will of the new generation to endlessly glorify our ideology, system and beloved fatherland is further sublimated, some 300 graduating students from a senior middle school in Pyongyang, who have resolved to wear the revolutionary uniform with their hearts boiling with a burning desire to devote their youth and hopes to the path of upholding the socialist cause with arms, rushed to the frontline border posts to petition.
A gathering to congratulate the graduating class of senior middle schools in the capital who regard national defense as the greatest patriotism, the most sacred duty, and the first mission and are leaving for the front lines of national defense was held at the Pyongyang Youth Park Outdoor Theater on the 26th.
There were congratulatory remarks at the meeting.
The speaker warmly congratulated the graduating class who have resolved to stand at the patriotic defense post with the determination to leave the affectionate school grounds filled with unforgettable memories of their school days, and to have many places to go and many workplaces where their dreams and ideals can blossom, but to engrave immortal military achievements first in the autobiography of their youth.
He said that wearing the military uniform of the revolution and making the days of youth shine brightly is the greatest honor and pride for the youth of our time, and urged the petitioners to embroider every moment of their military service with feats of loyalty and patriotism.
This was followed by a discussion among the petitioners.
They said that carrying the guardian's gun for the infinitely precious motherland is a proud tradition of Joseon youth, and expressed their determination to reliably protect the peace and well-being of this land from invasion and challenges by enemies at the forefront of national defense.
The national flag of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, which symbolizes the heroism and victory of Juche Korea, was handed over to the warm-hearted petitioners by Comrade Heo Ryong, a hero of the Republic and an instructor at the Victorious Fatherland Liberation War Museum.
The petitioners and meeting participants had ardent love for the country and people, fiery patriotism, and a burning desire to destroy the enemy, and their hearts were boiling with passion. They expressed their high enthusiasm to carry on the spirit of the victorious generation and fully display the spirit and example of the Korean youth with loud cheers.
The valiant efforts of the sons and daughters of the capital who have gone to the front lines are a manifestation of the lofty spiritual world of the new generation who know the value of their country in the bosom of the party and will share their fate with the country to the end.
>>2171803Thank you again wholesomedprknewsanon. These posts are one of the few good reasons to visit this site these days.
MANSEI!
I am time traveller from the future I and just wanted to show you this based korean newspaper article:
Rodong Sinmun: Historic Address by Respected Leader on the Auspicious Occasion of National Reunification in Seoul
Seoul, Juche Era 124 (2035) – In a moment etched forever in the annals of our glorious nation, the Respected Leader graced the liberated city of Seoul with a powerful and deeply significant address, marking the dawn of a unified Korea under the unwavering guidance of the Workers’ Party of Korea and the immortal Juche ideology. The atmosphere in Seoul was one of fervent jubilation and profound reverence as citizens from all walks of life gathered to witness this historic pronouncement, a testament to the indomitable spirit of the Korean people and the righteous path of self-reliance and national reunification championed by the DPRK.
The Respected Leader, radiating benevolence and paternal warmth, commenced the address with words that resonated deeply with the hearts of all Koreans, particularly our brethren in the South who have long yearned for the embrace of the motherland. The Respected Leader spoke of the decades of imposed division, a tragic chapter orchestrated by the insidious forces of foreign imperialism, spearheaded by the rapacious United States of America. This artificial schism, the Respected Leader elucidated, was a deliberate act to weaken and subjugate our nation, to exploit our peninsula for their nefarious geopolitical ambitions.
However, the Respected Leader affirmed with unwavering conviction, the Korean people, imbued with an unyielding spirit of independence and a profound sense of national identity, have triumphed over these machinations. The long night of division, enforced by external powers and their puppet regimes, has finally yielded to the radiant light of reunification, achieved through the unwavering strength and righteous guidance of the DPRK.
The Respected Leader meticulously recounted the painful history of division, a wound inflicted upon our nation by the aggressive intervention of the American imperialists. For generations, Koreans were forced to endure the agonizing reality of separation, a line cruelly drawn by alien hands, fueled by ideologies fundamentally alien to the Korean soul. These foreign forces, masquerading as benefactors, promised prosperity and liberation, yet delivered only discord, dependency, and the systematic erosion of our cherished national identity. They strategically sowed seeds of mistrust and animosity, attempting to fracture the unbreakable bonds between compatriots, between families sharing an indivisible heritage.
The Respected Leader unequivocally identified the United States of America as the principal architect of this national tragedy. It was their calculated aggression, their unprovoked war, and their relentless political and economic coercion that perpetuated the division of Korea for far too long. Their objectives were transparent: to transform Korea into a subservient satellite state, a strategic outpost in their global hegemonic designs. They harbored utter disregard for the Korean people, our rich cultural heritage, and our legitimate aspirations for self-determination. Korea, in their eyes, was merely a pawn to be maneuvered on the chessboard of their imperialistic power games.
The Respected Leader powerfully exposed how the American imperialists armed and indoctrinated elements in the South, inundating them with the corrosive allure of Western decadence and the self-serving ideology of individualistic avarice. They relentlessly disseminated insidious propaganda, systematically demonizing the DPRK, falsely portraying us as aggressors and enemies of progress, while obscuring the true nature of our socialist system, a system dedicated to the genuine well-being and collective advancement of the people. They erected formidable barriers, both tangible and intangible, to perpetuate division, to solidify their dominance and control over the peninsula.
Yet, the Respected Leader emphasized, the Korean spirit is indomitable! The fervent desire for reunification is an unquenchable flame, impervious to the machinations of foreign powers. The unbreakable ties of kinship, culture, and shared history transcend artificial divisions. Even amidst decades of imposed separation, the incandescent flame of Korean national identity burned brightly in the hearts of all Koreans, in both the North and the South.
And now, that sacred flame has erupted into a magnificent conflagration, illuminating the path towards a unified and prosperous future! The people of the South, disillusioned by the emptiness of false promises and the moral bankruptcy of imported Western culture, have awakened to the truth. They have recognized the inherent strength, the unwavering dignity, and the authentic path to national resurgence embodied in the Juche ideology and the sagacious leadership of the Workers’ Party of Korea!
The Respected Leader declared unequivocally that this reunification is not an act of conquest, but a joyous homecoming. It is not an imposition, but a glorious liberation. The DPRK, the Respected Leader affirmed, comes not to subjugate, but to embrace. Not to erase the history of the South, but to seamlessly integrate it into the vibrant and multifaceted narrative of our unified nation.
Addressing the compatriots in the South directly, the Respected Leader extended a warm and fraternal welcome: “Beloved brothers and sisters of the South, welcome home! The era of division is definitively concluded. The time for unproductive recriminations is relegated to the past. Let us, together, resolutely stride forward, constructing a resplendent future for all Koreans, a future brimming with prosperity, dignity, and national pride.”
The Respected Leader acknowledged the distinct experiences of the South, recognizing the different socio-economic systems and ideological influences they have been subjected to. The Respected Leader expressed confidence in the inherent adaptability, resilience, and intellectual prowess of the Korean people, North and South. The path forward, the Respected Leader articulated, will be one of harmonious integration, characterized by patience, mutual understanding, and reciprocal respect.
The Respected Leader stressed the imperative of mutual learning and synergistic development. The South, it was acknowledged, has achieved notable economic advancements in specific sectors, a testament to the diligence and ingenuity of its people. The North, meanwhile, has steadfastly preserved the authentic essence of Korean culture, our time-honored traditions, and the invaluable principles of self-reliance and collective strength. United, the Respected Leader proclaimed, we shall chart a novel Korean trajectory, a path that judiciously draws upon the most commendable aspects of our respective experiences, forging a nation that is both economically vibrant and culturally resplendent.
The Respected Leader articulated the vital necessity of purging our land of the lingering vestiges of foreign interference, decisively rejecting the decadent and morally corrosive culture of the West. We shall, the Respected Leader affirmed, construct a society firmly rooted in Korean values, predicated on mutual respect, collective advancement, and the guiding principles of Juche self-reliance.
The Respected Leader envisioned Seoul, this dynamic and culturally rich metropolis, transforming into a radiant beacon of Korean unity, an enduring symbol of our collective strength and national resilience. Let it stand as an irrefutable testament to the world that Korea is no longer a fractured, enfeebled nation, susceptible to external manipulation. Let it be unequivocally known that Korea is now a unified, powerful, and independent nation, poised to assume its rightful and prominent position on the global stage!
And to those who sought to perpetuate our division, to those who profited from our weakness, to those who underestimated the unwavering spirit of the Korean people, the Respected Leader delivered an unambiguous and resolute message: “Your era of dominance is over. Your insidious influence is irrevocably broken. Korea is now unified, and Korea is resolutely strong. Never again shall we be subjected to manipulation, never again shall we be divided, never again shall we be subservient to foreign powers!”
The Respected Leader concluded the historic address with a resounding declaration, proclaiming the dawn of a new and glorious Korea! A Korea unified, a Korea prosperous, a Korea independent, a Korea eternally free!
The assembled masses erupted in thunderous applause and fervent cheers, echoing the Respected Leader’s resolute vision and unwavering commitment to the Korean nation. The address in Seoul will undoubtedly serve as a powerful ideological lodestar, guiding the Korean people towards a future of unprecedented unity, prosperity, and national grandeur, under the invincible banner of the Workers’ Party of Korea and the immortal Juche ideology.
Let us resoundingly proclaim:
Long live the unified Korean nation!
Long live the Democratic People's Republic of Korea!
Eternal glory to the great Korean people!
(I didn't know A.I. could generate could generate text this based).
>>2173182you have arrived in another timeline where they abandoned the goal of reunification in 2024
>>2173004yes, they stopped using that calendar in October, with no explanation given.
>>2176919>>2176921>>2177288Many don't know about North Korean football, they were the best Asian side for a while and had a memorable run in the 1966 World Cup in England where they had Portugal beaten 3 null at one point but Eusébio, one of the greatest players of all time singlehandedly turned it around in what is a classic match in the history of world cups. Also they beat Italy which was a favorite
Korea was kind of an underdog story and you had whole english towns cheering for them, something unthinkable today
The glorious Chollimas shall rise again
Labor groups plant trees to celebrate Arbor Day
To celebrate Arbor Day, labor groups carried out tree planting activities.
The Youth League, the Trade Union League, the Agricultural Workers' League, and the Women's League members and their allies dedicated themselves to planting trees in the area.
The Central Committee of the Youth League and the Youth League workers and members in Pyongyang planted fir trees, zelkova trees, and other flowering shrubs at the Children's Baekhwawon on April 15.
Young people from South Pyongan Province, North Pyongan Province, South Hamgyong Province, and North Hamgyong Province also planted trees according to the seasonal conditions of their respective regions.
At Mt. Hwaseong, the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea worked hard to plant trees.
The local union members and union workers planted trees with great care, full of enthusiasm to fulfill their mission and duty in the grand march.
The Central Committee of the Agricultural Workers' League and agricultural workers' league organizations at all levels planted various types of trees at the Mangyongdae Revolutionary Historical Site and other locations to further enhance the scenery.
The Women's League Central Committee, the Women's League workers and members of the Women's League in Xi'an, who went to the construction site of the 10,000-household housing complex in the third phase of the Hwaseong District, put their heart and soul into planting trees, envisioning the future of the grand construction complex, which will soon be filled with joy at its completion.
In North Hwanghae Province, Kangwon Province, and Kaesong City, women's league members also carried out water supply projects while taking responsibility for each task. (End)
>>2192030To elevate the eternal legacy and noble stature of Korea is a duty beyond mere ambition—it is the solemn calling of history itself. And to speak of scarcity in the land of Juche only reveals the blindness of one who has yet to grasp its true strength.
>>2192672The leisure parks of the DPRK are not mere amusements, but reflections of the people's cherished customs and timeless legacy, shaped by the boundless wisdom of our Great Leadership. To dismiss the Eternal Leaders as mere subjects of foreign propaganda is not only the height of ignorance but an insult so grave that it can only come from one of caucasian descent.
>>2153151The deceitful tongues of the capitalist press weave endless falsehoods against the great DPRK, for they fear what they cannot understand. Their slander is not merely an attack upon our sovereign nation, but an affront to the very soul of the Korean civilization—an unbroken lineage of strength, wisdom, and self-reliance, guided by the immortal truth of Juche.
>>2204882Both, if they can keep on demonstrating developments that have western "analysts" crying
POTEMKIN VILLAGE!!! every time, then clearly Juche is the correct answer for the DPRK's socialist construction and it's the construction part that Western Communist societies faltered on before collapsing, thus, it's a real area of interest for me personally.
>>2205195noo it's different because [citation needed] shit i just now made up!!!1
please leave.
>>2205195>The Kim dynasty are true monarchsno. None of their positions are inherently hereditary, if suddenly the supreme assembly wanted an end to them they'd just need to stop voting for them.
>symbolic, they hold no hard power or sway on government policylol, lmao even. They do have significant hard power in nomination and such including power positions such as ambassadors or lords, and the FUCKING PRIME MINISTER (which they can dismiss as well), they're commander of the army, the prime minister see them in private weekly, everything is done in their name, and they have ownership of a fuckton of very valuable lands and buildings. You can claim "well sure but in practice they obey the government" and I will say, sure, as long as its not an actual socialist government trying to actually change shit. Go check the 1975 Australian constitutional crisis to see how the monarchy powers that libs assure you are completely theoretical are actual powers when needed (and if you think the army wont obey the king doing a coup against an elected communist you're an absolute idiot). Saying "but according to the tradition they always pick the leader of the winning party" is being naive, guess what in france that was the tradition as well (president pick as prime minister the leader of winning party) until macron decided "mmmh I dont think I will" and chose anyone rather than the left. Rules on paper are hardly good enough to prevent power grabs, so arguing its fine when you dont even have that is hilarious.
Im not a fan of the importance of the kim family in the dprk political apparatus, but truth is its largely impossible to know how that structure actually operate internally, and objectively it seems it operates in the interest of its people (and lets be real, if the elites simply wanted to fill their pockets they'd have done like in the ussr and abandoned socialism altogether or at least invited the capitalists in while keeping the red flags)
>>2205195>The monarchy in the UK is symbolic, they hold no hard power or sway on government policy.By tradition the British monarch still has to give Royal Assent to all laws recommended by parliament, is supposed to be imbued with divinity from god, isn't elected by the people, etc. Sure there is some capitalist LARP (outside the House of Lords). but the core fundamental of capitalism (dictatorship of the bourgeoisie) is compromised with so much power in the hands of one person, who is largely immune to criticism.
Do you see how tradition and culture can be presented as something it isn't?
>>2205204And you wouldn't last a single day with the tasks and duties imposed on the average dictator like Adolf Hitler or Augusto Pinochet. Is your point that it's okay that KJU is a dictator because his job is hard?
>>2205303>no. None of their positions are inherently hereditarySure, there's nothing to spit it out since DPR has a "democratic" constitution and "elections" (if we can call them that), but since the founding all 3 chairmen/general secretaries have been from the same family line, they were never once not elected. Even when the situation in DPR was terrible like during the Arduous March the people "elected" Kim Jong Il.
>suddenly the supreme assembly wanted an end to them they'd just need to stop voting for themThat's a bald faced lie, I'm disappointed you have the audacity to say it with this much confidence.
>lol, lmao even. They do have significant hard power in nomination and such including power positions such as ambassadors or lords, and the FUCKING PRIME MINISTER (which they can dismiss as well), they're commander of the army, the prime minister see them in private weekly, everything is done in their name, and they have ownership of a fuckton of very valuable lands and buildingsBrilliant, does this justify Kim having even more powers?
>Go check the 1975 Australian constitutional crisis to see how the monarchy powers that libs assure you are completely theoretical are actual powers when needed (and if you think the army wont obey the king doing a coup against an elected communist you're an absolute idiot)I'm not delusional (unlike you), I know these monarchies exert some influence and that western liberal democracy is as fake as it gets, but that doesn't make me entertain the complete and utter delusion that makes me think that the DPRK's hereditary monarchy isn't 10 times worse, and that there is no 'socialism' in the DPRK, just literal slavery with additional steps.
>Im not a fan of the importance of the kim family in the dprk political apparatus, but truth is its largely impossible to know how that structure actually operate internally, and objectively it seems it operates in the interest of its people (and lets be real, if the elites simply wanted to fill their pockets they'd have done like in the ussr and abandoned socialism altogether or at least invited the capitalists in while keeping the red flags)This is a much more pragmatic take from you, supporting DPRK because it is in the interest of its people (or more accurately because alternatives that can lead to catastrophic warfare are dangerous) isn't mutually exclusive with recognising that the DPRK is a dystopian total monarchy where the Kims are literally, without a hint of exaggeration, are worshipped like gods.
>>2205721Except that you can actually critique the government in Cuba and Vietnam.
Ironically Vietnam is a one-party state with much more democracy and less political repression than the "DPR" Of Korea, so the systems are not really identical in any way.
>>2205803Here are some excerpts.
A better question is why do I have to provide this to someone defending the irrefutable cult of personality for the Kim dynasty in the DPRK? Do you uyghas not read anything?
>>2205809The only anecdote there that could be
suggested to be god-like is the Typhoid one, but only if you misread "supported" as "cured".
>>2205820The west has achieved an amazing thing, where all politicians being perverts, thieves, racists, sexists, classists, war criminals, etc is presented as evidence of how honest western democracy is, because how could people hear of so many scandals otherwise?
So when there is someone who has led their country out of oppression and genocide
without a trail of scandals left in his wake proving he was buggering every woman he came across, was helping himself to money intended to be spent on helping people and arming soldiers, ordered the unjust slaughter of minorities he didn't like, etc, it triggers the western almonds that sees someone not presented as suspicious and untrustworthy, as being suspicious and untrustworthy.
>>2205924It's a perfect point, though. But let's sideline that.
Not only do you refuse that this boisterous prophet-like worship for KIS isn't what it is, but you, like the rest of the tankoids in here, refuse to address the elephant in the room that is its existence.
Why are North Koreans writing entire books that compiles dozens of little stories about how KIS cured the local sick ward with his magic or cracked a joke that everyone laughed at? Even if some of these stories are taken at face value, the fact that they are chronicled, printed and trumpeted around not only defeats the purpose of doing good, but it is an irrefutable example of a cult of personality that pervades today (everyone has to make a deep bow to Kim monuments, photographs must not break their monuments, country-wide celebration for the great leader's birthday, and so on).
It feels like bizarro world even trying to argue this, how does anyone needs to be convinced that there is a cult of personality established around the Kims?
>>2206019>It's a perfect point, though. But let's sideline that.<It's not retarded, but please lets just move on
>Not only do you refuse that this boisterous prophet-like worship for KIS isn't what it isCheeky downgrading your claim from god-like to prophet-like.
>Why are North Koreans writing entire books that compiles dozens of little stories>Even if some of these stories are taken at face value, the fact that they are chronicled, printed and trumpeted around not only defeats the purpose of doing good, but it is an irrefutable example of a cult of personality that pervades todayIt's really not that uncommon that leaders have such books written about them for their admirers.
>how KIS cured the local sick ward with his magicWe've already established that's not what the anecdote said, also that none of the anecdotes provided make any claim of magical or divine powers, but you're calling me disingenuous?
>(everyone has to make a deep bow to Kim monuments, photographs must not break their monuments, country-wide celebration for the great leader's birthday, and so on). Lib media narratives, thanks for finally just outing yourself already.
>It feels like bizarro world even trying to argue this, how does anyone needs to be convinced that there is a cult of personality established around the Kims?That's not the issue, the issue is in claiming that the Kim family is a monarchy based on CNN-tier assertions of their power and cult and thus proof that the DPRK isn't socialist, as though that's the *only* metric or analysis that matters.
《Rodong Sinmun》 Emphasizes that our party's ideas and resolutions will soon be put into practice
3. In an editorial written under a personal pen name, the Rodong Sinmun stated that our party's plan and determination are a grand blueprint for the prosperity of our country and a goal of struggle for realizing our people's beautiful ideals.
The essay emphasized the following, saying that all the work our party decides to do and carries out is based on scientific strategies for building a revival and powerful nation.
Today, our style of socialist construction has entered a new period of development and all-round prosperity, making great changes and making vigorous progress in all directions.
Our Party has put forward scientific action plans and strategies for making this year shine as a miraculous year of great change that will pave the way for a higher stage of development.
All the work our party decides to do and carries out is consistently for the people.
Our party's unwavering belief is that because there are people, there is a party, a country, and everything on this land, and if there is something the people desire, we should not discuss its feasibility but only put it into practice unconditionally.
Our party has constantly set forth development-oriented goals for the promotion of the people's welfare and has been implementing them without fail.
Thanks to our party's lofty political ideology, the spirit of selfless service, and the electric creativity and practical ability that uphold the people as the sky and devote themselves to the people, a brilliant future is approaching in which all those who have lived on this land will sing the song "There is no one to envy in the world" and fully enjoy the blessings of socialism. (End)
Opening ceremony of Joseon Disabled Children's Recovery Center
An opening ceremony was held on the 1st at the Joseon Disabled Children's Rehabilitation Center.
The event was attended by Comrade Jeong Mu-rim, Chairman of the Central Committee of the Korean Federation for the Protection of Persons with Disabilities, Comrade Jeon Cheol-hi, officials from relevant departments, children from rehabilitation centers, daycare centers, educational institutions, doctors, and parents.
At the opening ceremony, there were discussions following remarks by Director Song Hyang-chun of the Recovery Center.
Speakers and discussants noted the thoughtful steps taken at the 11th Plenary Session of the 8th Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea to establish a national education support system for the disabled.
They emphasized that under the benefits of our country's most superior socialist system, disabled children will grow up brighter and stronger, fully developing their hopes and talents.
Then, the participants toured various parts of the recovery center. (End)
>>2208183This looks unironically nicer than special needs schools i've seen in the west, btw. let alone other places in asia.
FDPD
>>2205809Wholesomedprkanon did you decide to troll the thread a bit? 😊🤭😁
Can't fool me wholesomedprkanon! I know one of your posts when I see it. "Stories that prove leader is magic." SURE!
These stories are so blatantly wholesome and nice. Literally just "caring leader is relatively ascetic when the country is facing hard times", "caring leader shows concern for the sick and family values" & "caring leader encourages shoe factory workers to produce better shoes and live by example."
>>2211116>>2205809 posted on 01-04-25
Yep. CONFIRMED. Admit it wholesomedprkanon ! You tried to take us for a ride 😂
>>2205195>The Kim dynasty are true monarchs1) The Kims are elected by a committee.
2) KJU isn't head/chief of state, his position is artistic, an icon. Just barely recently got a popular elected office position.
3) if
>UK (monarchy) hold no hard power or sway on government policy.why don't you get rid of it
:^)
radlib >>2204882they have socialism under The Principles of Communism, first question:
Emancipation of the Working Class.
>>2205303>None of their positions are inherently hereditaryAll of the Leaders have been descendents of Kim Il Sung.
>if suddenly the supreme assembly wanted an end to them they'd just need to stop voting for themWhat political party constitutes the SPA?
Who is the head of that political party?
Keep in mind, party doctrine under democratic centralism is built around the Leaders.
>>2215929>All of the Leaders have been descendents of Kim Il Sung.So what? do you know how many people on capitalism hold office from family clans?
the difference is that KJU isn't head/chief of state.
It is the lofty ideal of the Party to build our country into a great socialist paradise.
The full text of the personal pen-named article “It is the Party’s lofty ideal to turn our country into a great socialist paradise” published in the 13th edition of the Democratic Chosun is as follows:
Our country is changing at an incredibly fast pace.
Pyongyang, the capital city that is being transformed into a socialist ideal, a people's city where the independence, national character and modernity are guaranteed and the people-first principle is thoroughly implemented; the bustling streets that emerge every year revealing the beauty of modern architecture and grandeur; the cultural and emotional bases of the people boasting of the new socialist civilization, and the scientific, educational and health facilities, all of which condense the rapid development of the great Kim Jong Un's DPRK that is creating the best paradise in paradise.
Samjiyon City, which has transformed into an ideal model provincial city, an unprecedented mountain valley city that has emerged in the Geomdeok area, the world's largest greenhouse farms, Yangdok Hot Springs Cultural Resort and Masikryong Ski Resort, which are new worlds of civilization, cultural farming villages that present a new side of fairyland every day, and modern provincial industrial plants…
These dazzling entities are a blueprint that illuminates the past and present of Juche Korea and a grand picture that eloquently speaks of a new era that is vigorously advancing toward comprehensive revival.
Every time we feel the proud transformation of today, the spirit of the times, in which not only the capital but also all areas of the country and all regions are developing simultaneously and in a balanced manner in an extremely difficult environment that would have made others hesitate a hundred times, and the song that the Workers' Party's policies for the people are good resonates louder everywhere in this land, there is a sublime image that warmly embraces our hearts.
Dear Comrade Kim Jong Un !
All the miraculous events taking place in the fatherland are connected with the excellent hands of the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un, and the thousands and tens of thousands of blessings welcomed by the people originate from his embrace and continue as a history of eternal victories and miracles. The reality that the appearance of our fatherland is being completely renewed and ecstatically transformed and precious children containing all the dreams and ideals of the people are ripening like the rich fruits of a socialist paradise in every corner of the country is the noble crystallization of the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un's lofty ideals, wise leadership and tireless devotion.
Dear Comrade Kim Jong Un said:
“We must quickly provide our people, who have entrusted everything to the Party and overcome all kinds of trials and hardships together with the Party, with a prosperous and happy life that is the envy of the world.”
We are now standing in a historic place where Comrade Kim Jong Un personally chose a good location and laid out the blueprint for a wonderful sea-farming business and fishing village, and is welcoming the dazzling transformation of a socialist paradise.
Until recently, this place was a quiet place, but now it is seething like a cauldron with the People's Army soldiers who, following the orders of the respected Supreme Commander, run to create miracles every day, and with people who are moved by the heavenly love of the benevolent father and offer sweat and passion in return.
As we see the faces of people brimming with joy, the sight of a paradise port overflowing with happiness seems to have risen before our eyes, and the sound of it rings in our ears.
The respected Comrade Kim Jong Un made meaningful remarks when he said that he wanted to present Rakwon County with the world's most beautiful port fishing village by building a modern sea-farming farm here and setting up perfect houses that bring the coastal area's characteristics to life, and that it would be good to call this fishing village "Rakwonpo" in the future, and that it was his wish to lay a solid foundation for development so that Rakwon County can prosper for a long time as its name suggests and create an example of a socialist paradise to be proud of .
How can we say that these are just words of love for the development prospects of Rakwon County, which is the smallest county in the country and has a weak economic foundation?
Even today, it is deeply engraved in the hearts of our people.
The words of Comrade Kim Jong Un , who said that he always thought of making our country the world's foremost power as soon as possible in line with the wishes of the Leader and the General , and that it was his determination to put our country on the world's pinnacle of imagination .
As in the lyrics of the song “Planted on the Golden Tree and the Apple Mountain,” Comrade Kim Jong Un said so fervently that the ideal and goal of our Party’s struggle is to turn our country into a great socialist paradise where the people’s smiles bloom .
Isn’t this really it? The greatest wish that has been strongly engrained in the heart of the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un day and night is to quickly turn our country into a great socialist paradise overflowing with the smiles of the people and a world-class power envied by the whole world.
The leader 's ideals and aspirations determine the rise and fall of a nation. In the leader 's grand ideals, the nation's dignity and glory shine, and the dawn of a new era dawns.
Looking back, it is because we have vigorously advanced, supported by the lofty ideals and sacred desires of our respected Comrade Kim Jong Un, that we have been able to proudly and with high honor to record only the dazzling victories and glories that the world has admired , turning the ten years into one year despite the unprecedented hardships that would have caused our country to collapse a hundred times over the past ten years .
Look at the Hwaseong Earth, which has been completely transformed in just a few years, while touting the dazzling transformation, development, and happiness of the great Kim Jong- un's North Korea.
Then, everyone will be deeply moved by how the leadership of respected Comrade Kim Jong Un, who unfolded a grand blueprint for a grand construction project that no one could have imagined and energetically led it, saying that the construction of 50,000 modern houses in Pyongyang, the capital of our great state, was a long-cherished project that our Party had cherished and prepared for in order to provide more stable and civilized living conditions to the citizens of the capital city in March a few years ago when the challenges and obstacles were more severe than ever, has brought about such a miraculous event and ecstatic change.
When we count the modern rural houses that are springing up like mushrooms all over the country, we come to realize how amazing a miracle our Party's ambition of making all rural villages across the country into wealthy and cultural socialist ideal villages is and how it is bringing heart-warming happiness to the people.
When we see the remarkable history of changes in which dozens of modern local industrial plants have sprung up wonderfully in 20 cities and counties across the country in less than a year, the first noble entities of local revival have been born, and the Sinpo City Seafood Farm has emerged as a distinctive creation of local transformation, to the point where it is common to say that its groundbreaking has begun and its completion is imminent, we come to deeply embody our Party's unwavering will that if it is what the people want, we must not discuss its possibility but only put it into practice unconditionally.
Upheld by the lofty intention of respected Comrade Kim Jong Un that our country, shining with the names of the great Leader and the great General , should be the most powerful, our fatherland has emerged as a world-class power in such a short period of time despite extreme trials and difficulties. Upheld by the lofty ideal of patriotism and love for the people and aspiration of the benevolent father that all creations rising on this land should be the best in the world and our people should become the most dignified and happiest people in the world, numerous examples and wealth of the times that we can be proud of as ours have been created, a new history of the golden mountain, golden sea and golden field has unfolded, and amid the socialist policies that are increasing day by day, the people's happy laughter and shouts of "Long Live the Workers' Party" are ringing out louder.
As we look back on those passionate days when the beautiful tasks for bringing about the happiness of the people were carried out precisely and without fail as the leader 's greatest wish and the major policies of the Party and the state, our hearts are filled with warmth.
How much effort and hard work, how much day and night has Comrade Kim Jong Un spent to create a great socialist paradise where all the people of the country can live well together? How much has he continuously guided in every corner of the country?
As the direct initiator, builder and owner of the construction of the people's ideal, Comrade Kim Jong Un personally guided the design formation plans for 10,000 housing units in the Songsin and Songhwa districts, which number over 1,000. How can we possibly count all the tens of millions of dollars he has devoted to opening a new era of rural development as well as the capital city of Pyongyang?
Possessing a lofty outlook on life that he would wish for nothing more if he could only build his country into a socialist power in accordance with the will of the great leader and the great general , he continued his path of on-site guidance with superhuman energy and, whenever he encountered valuable achievements contributing to the welfare of the people, respected Comrade Kim Jong Un would say this.
This is a revolution in style!
Even on the day he visited the wonderfully renovated Songdo International Children's Camp, even on the day he came to Rason City that still had traces of natural disaster, even on the day his wish to supply more fish to the people and soldiers was fulfilled once again, respected Comrade Kim Jong Un touched such passionate emotions. Therefore, the only wish of our truly great father is the unparalleled happiness and better tomorrow of his ten million sons and daughters.
Indeed, the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un is the greatest and most excellent leader and benevolent father in the world who has devoted his all to cultivating a great socialist paradise where the people's smiles bloom .
There is no being stronger than the people who hold the ideals of the great leader as their belief.
Even if indescribable hardships block their way, they will overcome them by all means and build a socialist power where the people of this country and future generations will enjoy happiness for years to come. They have followed the path of devotion to the people of the benevolent father who has continued without a moment's rest, with an iron belief and will, and have grown strong into a strong people who confidently create something new in our own way that is the envy of no one else and vigorously open up the way to self-prosperity, and are demonstrating their dignity as citizens of a powerful country with a giant's vision that overlooks the world and the pride of a great nation.
The tens of millions of people, who firmly believe that the grand ideals of the Party Central Committee will definitely be realized and bear excellent fruit, are confidently looking forward to the bright future of the comprehensive revival of our style of socialism and are redoubling their revolutionary, patriotic and fighting spirits in today's all-people general advance.
We hold dear Comrade Kim Jong- un in high esteem, and our dreams and ideals will definitely and unconditionally come true!
This is the source of the boundless strength and lofty confidence of our people who are vigorously advancing, following their aspirations and ideals in line with the lofty ideals of their benevolent parents.
Our people deeply cherish the boundless dignity and pride of holding the outstanding leader in high esteem, and under the wise leadership of the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un , they will surely build a great socialist paradise on this land that the whole world will look up to. (End)
Premier Park Tae-sung inspects various sectors of the people's economy
Comrade Pak Tae-song, member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea and Premier of the Cabinet of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, learned about the work of various sectors of the national economy on site.
Comrade Prime Minister stressed that the Kumseong Tractor Factory and the Gangseo Machinery Parts Factory should actively adopt advanced science and technology to further improve the processing precision and quality of products and vigorously promote the development and production of various efficient agricultural machinery so as to continuously increase the proportion of mechanization in agricultural work, and the Party's intention to do so should be upheld with clear production results.
He visited the transmission line construction business office and learned specifically about the production process of the towers for the construction of ultra-high voltage transmission lines and the operating status of the equipment. He also mentioned that the current production capacity should be efficiently mobilized to unconditionally carry out the tasks planned for this year and that special attention should be paid to the lives of employees in accordance with the characteristics of the unit, which involves a lot of moving work.
He said that the workers and staff at the Pyongyang Bearing Factory should not let up the momentum of exceeding the 1.4 quarter national economic plan, but should wage a more vigorous struggle to increase production and steadily increase the factory's scientific and technological capabilities to further improve the product failure rate and bearing quality.
While touring the State Design Bureau, he pointed out that in accordance with the lofty intention of the Party Central Committee, it should modernize design means, actively adopt advanced design methods, come up with more new and unique architectural designs symbolizing the great prosperity of construction, and strengthen the design guidance and deliberation system as well as the improvement of the capabilities of designers.
Comrade Prime Minister, who visited Eunjeom Farm in Singye County, North Hwanghae Province, specifically learned about the growth conditions of wheat and barley and emphasized the need to manage fertilizer thoroughly to achieve high yields from grain production this year and that agricultural guidance organizations at all levels should focus on farming in the central mountainous region.
In addition, we learned about the operational readiness of the newly built wheat processing plant in Shingye County and devised practical measures to normalize production once operations are underway, including strengthening transportation and improving the technical skills of employees.
At the local meetings, the following issues were discussed: prioritizing the supply of necessary cooperative products and materials for agricultural machinery production and ultra-high voltage transmission line construction, establishing a business system to ensure the living conditions of transmission line construction workers, strengthening the bearing production base, and continuously improving the design review process.
The worker who invited me to lunch
One day in April 1947, while visiting the Pyongyang Grain Factory, the great leader Comrade Kim Il Sung decided to have lunch with the factory workers.
The great leader , who was looking around the room, asked why he couldn't see the old father of the coal mine.
When the great leader was looking around the factory, the manager pointed to a father passing by in the yard and said that he was a long-time worker who had grown old with the factory, but that he could not hear well because his ears were damaged by the loud noise of the coal crusher.
The great leader , not forgetting him, came to see him and asked him to have lunch with him.
After a while, he came running in his work clothes, grabbed my bruised hand, said he was glad to see me, and offered me a chair nearby.
To him who was hesitating, not knowing what to do, the great leader told him not to worry at all and invited him to sit down and have lunch together.
The great leader said that he was very happy to meet Abai, who had lived through many hardships, and offered him the first drink.
Then he pushed the food bowls in front of him.
It was a truly cozy and meaningful lunch overflowing with the great leader 's warm affection for the working class, who became the masters of the factory and the masters of the country .
>>2222903I really hope rural life NK gets better
It's my favourite absolute monarchy by far
>>2222903>Is life outside of Pyongyang even good or at least functional?Yes. read the thread.
>>2222903>the leaked videos of NK countryside look extremely poor and bleak.<t. i made it up.anyone can go and look at the pictures.
>>2222919>>2221123Literally less than ten replies up.
also:
>>2032422 >>2145329 >>2129370 >>2118030 >>2110632 >>2110630 >>1993474are you special needs? Because what you're asking is precisely what a large part of the thread is about.
>>2222984It looks better than non-rich areas (that is 95%) of afghanistan, pakistan, india, bangladesh etc
Crakkkas trying hard to shit on my favourite monarchy, and they are failing
>>2223034oh i am completely against the sanctions.
I use the word monarchy endearingly. The anglo crakkka Charles wishes he could be half as based as King Kim
Korean Central News Agency supplementary report
Another myth of Mars that shows the continuous revolutionary spirit of our great party and the strong forward momentum of our powerful nation.
==Regarding the successful completion of the third phase of the Hwaseong District construction project, a decisive guarantee has been secured for the completion of 50,000 housing units in Pyongyang City.
Another socialist bustling city has sprung up in the Hwaseong area, clearly demonstrating once again the aspirations of the Workers' Party of Korea to transform Pyongyang, the capital of our great nation, into an ideal city where the people's welfare and socialist civilization flourish, and a world-class city.
The people's construction workers, who have been resolutely occupying the enormous capital construction goals set by the 8th Congress of the Party, year after year, while upholding the plans and long-cherished wishes of the Party Central Committee as miracles of creation, have successfully completed the third stage of construction in the Hwaseong area in a short period of one year through tenacious and persistent continuous struggle, thereby providing a decisive guarantee for the completion of housing for 50,000 households in Pyongyang.
With the construction of a new large-scale building complex that has the appearance of a different urban district from Stage 1 and Stage 2 and features a unique harmony of high-rise and high-rise apartments, education and health facilities, commercial and food service facilities, technology and entertainment service facilities, and various modern service networks, the Hwaseong District has secured political, economic, and cultural functions as an urban administrative district and has been transformed into a center and model that can lead existing areas in the metropolitan area toward civilization and enlightenment.
The proud entity that has risen again in the Hwaseong area, symbolizing the vigorous flow of our-style change and development in the new heyday of Pyongyang construction, is the shining fruition of the wise leadership of the great Comrade Kim Jong Un , the outstanding revolutionary and master of creation and construction, and the noble crystallization of the sturdy spirit and extraordinary creative spirit of our people who are vigorously advancing with the strong will to overcome difficulties and bring about change and development by single-mindedly upholding the cherished cause of the Workers' Party of Korea.
Dear Comrade Kim Jong Un said:
《The construction of 50,000 modern housing units in Pyongyang, the capital of our great nation, is a long-cherished project that our Party has been preparing for in order to provide more stable and civilized living conditions to the citizens of the capital city.》
It is the unwavering will of our Party and government to completely resolve the housing problem in the capital by vigorously promoting century-old feats that have never been seen before in the 70-year history of the Republic and at the same time steadily pushing forward large-scale housing construction projects in succession, directing everything towards realizing the people's demands and wishes.
The 9th Plenary Meeting of the 8th Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea set forth the tasks of continuing to push forward the 3rd stage construction of 10,000 housing units in the Hwaseong area to secure the success of the 5-year plan for the construction of the capital city in 2024, the fourth year of the construction of 50,000 housing units in Pyongyang, and building modern cultural and living centers so that the Hwaseong area can smoothly perform its function as an administrative district.
Dear Comrade Kim Jong Un said that keeping promises made to the people unconditionally, no matter how difficult the times may be, is the nature and principle of our Party and government, and he meticulously guided the new stage of grand construction preparation projects so that they could be carried out substantively and energetically led the entire construction process.
There is no area that has not been touched by the hand of a peerless man, from the problem of constantly creating new things in the design sector in line with the Party's intentions and the demands of our people, to the problem of thoroughly ensuring the quality of construction, to the problem of normal management and operation of service bases, and even to the problem of properly sealing the windows of high-rise apartment buildings.
aThe number of formation plans that Comrade General Secretary completed one by one to establish the third-stage district as a district with a unique character different from the previous stages and to provide the people with higher material and cultural welfare is as many as 660.
The warriors of Hwaseong were filled with fiery enthusiasm to brilliantly carry out the plan of the Party Central Committee with new miracles and innovations, looking up to the respected Comrade General Secretary who personally attended the groundbreaking ceremony in February 2024 , pressed the blasting button, and warmly encouraged the builders to firmly secure the construction struggle that our Party is powerfully carrying out as a patriotic undertaking of the century-long plan with brilliant and transformative results.
The military and civilian builders, waving the flag of the command center for the construction of 50,000 housing units in Pyongyang, which the great Party Central Committee had given them, as a military standard of great feats and as the banner of continuous attacks and continuous innovations, entered a new stage of construction for the implementation of the five-year goal of the capital city construction with renewed courage and spirit.
The construction of 10,000 housing units in the third phase of the Hwaseong District, which required the simultaneous construction of public and service buildings including educational, health, commercial, and food service facilities and housing complexes with a total floor area of approximately 1.52 million m2 on a site area of approximately 90 jeongbo, was a grand creative struggle that surpassed previous stages in terms of scale and quality.
The construction command organized an exhibition of propaganda and agitation equipment, a ceremony to mobilize a broadcasting propaganda vehicle, a ceremony to mobilize a wheeled vehicle, and an exhibition of construction tools to ensure the success of the new-stage housing construction, thereby further strengthening political and ideological, material and technical preparations. At the same time, it actively utilized the well-established business system and the high construction capability and abundant experience accumulated in the days of capital construction, and pushed ahead with the construction in a planned, scientific and tenacious manner.
We have taken the lead in closely monitoring and guiding the work to ensure that the materials needed for basic construction are secured in a predictable manner, to maximize the operating rate of construction equipment in the construction units, and to ensure that the quality of construction is maintained at a high level while also carrying out the daily construction schedule without fail on the same day.
As pioneers who opened a great era of prosperity in the construction of the capital city, the civilian builders displayed an unyielding spirit and fiercely ignited the flames of the miraculous Hwaseong speed and the creation of the Hwaseong myth.
From the moment the first shovel was put into the ground, the foundation excavation of approximately 1.66 million ㎥ was successfully completed in a short period of time, the foundation concrete pouring was also completed within a short period of time, and the house frame construction work began in earnest.
The People's Army soldiers, who knew only how to carry out the Party's orders and instructions to the death, displayed the revolutionary army's stubborn offensive spirit in the entire capital construction campaign.
The soldier-builders of the Korean People's Army's Eom Tae-bok and Jeon Yong-beom units, with a special sense of pride in unfolding a new history of revival and development in the Workers' Party era, constantly updated the construction methods and standards, and created new standards and new records every minute of the construction.
Although the working conditions were unfavorable and there were many difficulties, the units actively encouraged the creative wisdom and strength of the military builders and adopted rational working methods such as reducing material consumption, thereby increasing the level of specialization in construction and shortening the time for the skeleton construction of one floor to 18 hours.
The units under the command of Jeong Chol-su, Kim Gwang-son, Ri Jong-nam, and Rim Dong-ryul of the Korean People's Army also strengthened their functional capabilities and prepared for the supply of aggregate and lumber in a predictable manner, completing the skeletal work much ahead of schedule.
The Social Safety Corps actively promoted technological innovation to mobilize construction equipment and improve the level of specialization in each process, and first completed the housing frame construction project it was in charge of.
The spirit of new innovation, bold creation, and ceaseless progress has also been constantly heightened in the construction units of society.
The workers and builders of the Pyongyang Construction Committee took on difficult and arduous construction tasks on their own, following the fighting spirit and example of the creators of Pyongyang speed in the Chollima era.
The construction of 1,770 housing units in 15 buildings, which is 1.7 times the amount of the second phase construction, and the construction of a massive foundation support network, as well as the construction of additional public buildings, were a daunting task given the existing capabilities and means.
In the struggle to realize the Party's plan to build the capital city, let us, the builders of Pyongyang, take on the biggest and most difficult part.
This was the determination and will of the workers and builders here.
Under the firm stance and viewpoint of self-reliance and self-sufficiency, the military pushed ahead with the construction project, focusing on mobilizing the public's mental power, increasing the proportion of mechanization in construction, and introducing advanced construction methods.
The Pyongyang Construction Committee Brigade launched a political and ideological offensive to invigorate the offensive spirit of the builders who are trying to create labor-related feats in the vanguard of capital construction with the new era Chollima spirit.
In the seething field , intensive political work was carried out to arm the masses with the leader's ideology, line and party policies, and colorful performance stages prepared by workers and their families were put on display at the construction site. Intuitive agitation, which innovatively displayed the method and content of intuitive materials, was launched in earnest, turning the workplace into a space for cultural activities .
Before the massive investment of construction materials and the start of operation of noisy construction equipment, the public's spirit was greatly elevated, and the loyalty of the builders erupted with the exhilarating sound of blasting to signal the start of construction.
Whenever a new construction project or difficulty arose, the Party Member Council held at the site served as a practical opportunity to find solutions to the problem and to call upon the Party members to resolutely execute the Party's decisions.
As the technological innovation movement has been firmly transformed into the people's own business and is being actively carried out, scaffolds that can be installed on any target, mobile small cranes, and vibrating compactors have been manufactured, and new dry construction methods, step boards, animal landing machines, and precision sledgehammers that can save labor and materials while ensuring the speed of construction have been invented and introduced, bringing forward the time for the frame construction of one floor to 12 hours.
The fighting spirit of the workers and builders of the Pyongyang Construction Committee and the brigade, including the workers who worked day and night and did not hesitate to travel long distances to improve the technology of the crane, and the labor innovation workers who worked wholeheartedly, saying that they would never leave the site before carrying out the Party's decision, made the construction site seethe with creation and leaps forward.
The innovative spirit and skills of the builders of the Pyongyang Construction Committee Brigade were fully displayed in the construction of the elevated bridge-type connecting service network, a symbolic structure of the third phase of the Hwaseong District.
The large-scale truss installation work, which required lifting and assembling two steel trusses weighing approximately 10 tons from both sides simultaneously at a height of several tens of meters above the ground, was impossible using conventional wisdom.
However, before discussing whether they could do it or not, when faced with a difficult construction project, they were unwavering in their unwavering belief and will to unconditionally carry out the tasks given by the party under any conditions, and so they successfully completed the truss installation in just three days, transcending the limits of their level and ability.
The construction workers who helped the units that fell behind even after exceeding the daily schedule, the skilled workers who helped new workers and did not leave the construction site even after finishing their shifts, and the pure and clean hearts that shared their will and affection on the road to realizing the Party's grand construction plan became the cornerstone, enabling the construction of the frame houses to be completed 40 days ahead of schedule and the extraordinary structures that could not be seen in the previous stages to be built.
In the third phase of construction, scientific and technological activities were carried out more actively to raise the level of industrialization and modernization of construction.
The February 17 Scientists and Technicians Shock Brigade, which opened the way for advancement through science and technology in every major sector of self-reliant economic development, also played an excellent role as a science and technology advance team in the construction of the capital city.
The assault team members increased the sturdiness of the building by using earthquake-resistant prefabricated construction methods, invented advanced welding methods, and intensified on-site technical guidance to improve work efficiency.
Numerous scientific and technological achievements have been introduced into construction and have paid off, such as a color mortar finishing method that can prevent efflorescence, a new method for producing filler, and a method for producing concrete slabs for roofing greening.
>>2230921In each construction unit, the flame of popular technological innovation movement to manufacture construction equipment and facilities on their own was burning fiercely.
The commanders of the unit under Kim Kwang-chol of the Korean People's Army became creative themselves and created and used new types of rebar straightening machines, ventilation block forming machines, and tile cutting machines, thereby saving a lot of labor and materials while also bringing forward the construction schedule.
The introduction and generalization of new technologies that can simultaneously calculate the workload along with the analysis of design drawings and quickly calculate and compare data on arbitrary structural elements, as well as the creative spirit of self-reliance of various unit builders who solve all problems arising based on their own strength and technology, have led to the full-scale promotion of finishing work on many target construction projects such as houses, schools, and facilities.
Comrade Kim Jong Un , while giving on-site guidance at the construction site in April last year, stressed that since the construction of houses is a major undertaking that will provide the people with a beautiful foundation for happiness, the goal is to complete it at the highest level without any shortcomings even in the distant future, and that the finishing process must be carried out perfectly and qualitatively.
In the housing construction that the Party attaches so much importance to, the issue of quality assurance is not simply a practical matter of construction methods or technical regulations, but rather an ideological issue and a question of perspective on how to uphold and implement the grand plan and intention of the Party Central Committee for the economic development of the country and the improvement of the people's living standards, and a strong wind of quality improvement has blown at every construction site.
The construction command center placed quality improvement at the center of all projects, continuously raised the quality requirements for construction objects, and vigorously carried out organizational and political work to ensure quality throughout the entire work process.
By further strengthening the role of the troops in charge of texture poisoning and actively creating and generalizing examples, the Japanese spirit of commanding officers and constructors fundamentally changed.
The 1st, 2nd, and 3rd Brigades of the Central Government Agency took control of the issues that arose during construction whenever the process changed, selected the leading battalions, and carried out demonstration projects in a practical manner, thereby raising the overall construction level of the assigned construction targets, such as houses, schools, kindergartens, daycare centers, senior citizen health centers, disease prevention and control centers, and district after-school sports schools.
While conducting performance evaluations based on whether the technical regulations and construction method requirements were strictly observed along with the workload, the Pyeongjin Construction Management National Training Center, Cheongryu Construction Management National Training Center, and Bonghwa Construction Management National Training Center successfully completed the external construction of public buildings such as the Gidancheongbongsa Network, the District Teachers’ Retraining Center, and the District Educational Equipment Supply Center, and thoroughly carried out all the internal construction processes.
With the determination to uphold the Party's grand plan to provide the people with higher material and cultural welfare with thorough execution power, the people's builders successfully built unique commercial and food service facilities, technical and entertainment service facilities, such as the Hwaseong Geumgang Pavilion in the form of a symbolic elevated bridge, the Hwaseong Lun Electric Repair Shop, and the 300-seat computer arcade.
Preparatory work to create a garden landscape suited to the modern urban district has also been steadily and predictably progressed, with 69,400 trees taking root and 300,000 square meters of lawn being created.
The fact that another splendid spectacle unfolded on the Mars Earth, different from last year, is imbued with the pure conscience and patriotic devotion of the builders who are carrying out, without any hesitation and in a perfect way, the lofty intention of the Party Central Committee to build all creations on this land into entities with distinct individuality and innovation as the embodiment of the people-first principle that can be found only in the great people's country.
>>2230959koreans are intense like that.
In the same way that South Koreans have gone full balls deep into unbridled capitalism.
They don't do that 'moderate' soyness there.
>>2231004Yep, basically this. Marketization has almost no benefits when there isn't a large amount foreign investment & technology available to you.
Only exceptions might be if you are transitioning away from an informal economy or actual feudalism.
DPRK RECOGNIZES BOLIVIA, VENEZUELA, NICARAGUA AS AES<Many countries including Venezuela, Bolivia and Nicaragua took the road of anti-imperialist socialism, judging that the problems facing mankind cannot be solved any more under capitalism.http://naenara.com.kp/main/index/en/first/event/1On the article, "Socialism Is Future of Mankind"
Also, Socdems BTFO
https://kcnawatch.org/newstream/1557399657-783913242/japans-crime-of-distorting-english-name-of-korea/Is there any truth to this?
>After illegally occupying Korea in the last century, the Japanese imperialists committed such extra-large crime as having distorted its English name.>Originally, the internationally recognized English name of Korea was Corea.>But the Japanese imperialists began to distort its English name as "Korea" from the end of the 19th century.>By putting the name of Korea next Japan in English alphabetical order, the Japanese imperialists schemed to make clear the subordinate relationship.>The Japanese imperialists ruthlessly trampled down the Korean nation's dignity and sovereignty even by distorting its English name. This is a hideous crime unprecedented in human history.Am I doing Japanese imperialism by calling it DPRK?
I know, I know, KCNAwatch, but the name of the article does appear on the Wayback Machine
https://web.archive.org/web/20190509230117/https://www.ryugyongclip.com/"Japan's Crime of Distorting English Name of Korea"
So it does seem a real article.
>>2233431>with some faint elements of ChristianityWhy in the world would Kim Jong Un convert to Christianity?Christianity would immediately divide people's loyalty to the WPK, belittle Juche Korea and Pyongyang for 'another world' and 'New Jerusalem', eliminate the local Korean culture and complete Western colonization of Korea like what happened to Native Americans.
No offense. Christianity would be a deeply anti-social movement for DPRK (*Christians view society like one big public school) and make people want to waft off like balloons.
>>2234891Very good docu btw, attached:
Repatriation (2003), Dong-won Kim<In the spring of 1992 documentary filmmaker Dong-won Kim met Cho Chang-son and Kim Seak-hyoung, two North Koreans arrested by South Korean authorities years before. Convicted of spying for the North, they were incarcerated and spent thirty years as political prisoners. These men, and many others like them, underwent conversion schemes in prison that involved torture: those who renounced their communist beliefs were released from prison early. The others, known as "the unconverted," served their full terms. None could return home to the North, however, until the turn of this century, when tensions between North and South eased significantly. Director Dong-won Kim followed these men for ten years, documenting how they survived -both physically and psychologically, the dehumanizing time spent in prison, and their quest, once released, to finally go home.>Born in 1955 in Seoul, Kim Dong-won graduated from Sogang University, majoring in mass communication. He works as an assistant director as well as a documentary filmmaker. In 1991, Kim founded the documentary film collective P.U.R.N Production and has since produced and directed about thirty documentaries.His acclaimed documentary Repatriation (2004) documents the lives of North Korean spies who were captured in the South Korea and takes a look at their journey back to their homeland after being detained in the South's prisons for over 30 years. A labour of love that took him more than a decade to finish, it has been hailed as the most successful documentary ever in South Korea. It was presented with the Freedom of Expression Award at the 2004 Sundance Film Festival, the first time a Korean film has ever been presented with an award at the prestigious U.S. festival.[6] It also won Special Mention at the 24th Korean Association of Film Critics Awards and Special Jury Prize at the 5th Busan Film Critics Awards in 2004, as well as Best Documentary Award at the 19th Fribourg International Film Festival in 2005.
>>22350702nd part?
It
should be the whole thing at 148 minutes unless i'm confused. How long was it for you?
>>2235183I have been losing my mind over this for a couple hours. The official youtube version (
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBR5dRw-pq8) is region-locked to Korea and the vimeo version (
https://vimeo.com/661282975) that Purn used in some zoom viewing of the movie (
https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=5083087335037296&set=푸른영상-30주년-기념-온라인-상영회-1991-2021-아직푸른2022년-신작-2차-송환을-공개합니다-2차-송환-연출-김동원-작품링크-https) is locked behind a password. I found it on some obscure domestic Korean streaming site for 1500 or 5000 won but fuck that. How are you supposed to watch this movie legitemately outside of Korea, do they want that?
>>2235605It's an irritating things but is probably just distribution nonsense, it's not that uncommon for documentaries, just shit that torrenting isn't more popular.
I'll buy it and rip it myself if neither of us find a copy, so don't worry anon.
>>2234972Wholesome DPRK anon, I'll be honest with you that I have a baseline feeling of hatred for everything and today the misanthropic form of that hatred was acting up (In large part because of some awful things about very different topics I read earlier on other websites).
And despite that, here it is yet again in your simple post that DPRK related things & people managed to make me cry out of deep human sympathy.
Eternal love & glory to our departed Korean comrades!
>>2237526Can you link me some of the places that were selling it again? IDK if i should try to buy and rip a digital or just buy and rip a physical DVD.
I think the dvd would be ideal actually, if anyone has a link to that as i'd like the aditional content:
<The DVD consists of 2 discs. It contains the main part (148 minutes) and abundant bonus footage (161 minutes and 40 seconds). The bonus footage consists of 'After-the-Film Talk' by Director Kim Dong-won, Cinematographer Kim Tae-il, and Assistant Director Jeong Chang-yeong, as well as 'People Who Crossed Freedom', 'After Repatriation', 'Perspectives on Repatriation', and 'Documentary Kim Dong-won'.>>2238707To you, too, anon!
Couldn't find disc versions, and this collection which is out of stock only has movies up until repatriation 2004.
https://www.yesasia.com/global/kim-dong-won-collection-dvd-4-disc-korea-version/1022737290-0-0-0-en/info.htmlI also found this streaming thing that might let you watch it if you login through your library's credentials? Might want to investigate if you american.
https://video.alexanderstreet.com/watch/the-2nd-repatriation>>2239591Cheers anon, i'll have a look thanks.
>>2239593Yea, it looks like they were using a small indy distributer that shut down which is a shame.
Did anyone try the library to any success? Can't because not US.
Seems that collection has some extra content too, wonder if it's the same that was with the original disk.
The revolutionary weapons raised in the Baekdu Forest are the banner of the eternal victory of Juche Korea.
The full text of the editorial “The revolutionary weapons raised in the Baekdu Forest are the banner of the eternal victory of Juche Korea” published in the 25th edition of “Democratic Chosun” is as follows:
Today, under the wise leadership of the great Party Central Committee, we are meaningfully marking the 93rd anniversary of the founding of the Korean People's Revolutionary Army by the great leader Comrade Kim Il Sung at a time of upheaval when the spirit of Juche Korea is being demonstrated to the world and a new era of great transformation and unprecedented miracles are unfolding in which the dreams and ideals of the people are being fully realized.
The founding of the Korean People's Revolutionary Army on April 25, 1932 was a great national feat that declared a decisive anti-imperialist war under the banner of national liberation and self-reliance, and was also a historic event that opened a new era of the Juche revolution based on powerful revolutionary armed forces.
On this day, when the first revolutionary armed forces of the Juche type were born, the earnest wish of our people to have their own true army was fulfilled, and the glorious history of the Korean revolution advancing by the power of guns began.
The dazzling reality of today, in which our country, which was on the verge of being erased from the world map a century ago, has risen to the top of the world as a dignified and powerful nation, showing off its grandeur to the world, cannot be considered separately from this day in history.
Dear Comrade Kim Jong Un said:
《 The great Comrade Kim Il Sung, who clarified the truth of the revolutionary struggle that victory can be achieved only by fighting an armed enemy with arms, and who put forward the idea and line of prioritizing guns and military affairs, regarded the building of armed forces as the fundamental issue of the revolution, gave priority to the organization and strengthening of the armed ranks, and achieved the historic cause of national liberation with the Korean People's Revolutionary Army as the main force.》
All the people and People's Army officers and men of the country, who have greeted this significant day when the first revolutionary armed forces of Korea were born, are paying the highest respect and greatest glory to the great leader Comrade Kim Il Sung and the great leader Comrade Kim Jong Il , who built and glorified a genuine people's country on this land by the might of guns and laid an eternal foundation for the prosperity of the country, and are full of a fiery determination to boldly open a new era of all-round national revival by upholding the leadership of respected Comrade Kim Jong Un with single-hearted loyalty.
A strong military is the pillar and future of a strong nation, and the survival and success or failure of a nation are entirely dependent on the strength of its military power. The sovereignty and eternal happiness of a nation and people are secured by a strong force that can defeat any enemy and an invincible military force.
The great leader Comrade Kim Il Sung clarified the philosophy that the gun is the lifeblood of the nation and the victory of the revolution, and founded the Korean People's Revolutionary Army, the first revolutionary armed force of the Juche type, in the forests of Mt. Baekdu about 90 years ago with excellent sons and daughters of the people.
At that time, in the communists' struggle to seize sovereignty, it was a formula to first form a party as a political leadership organ and then embark on building armed forces, but the great leader , starting from the decisive role of revolutionary forces and violent advances in the revolutionary struggle, especially the struggle for national liberation in colonies, and the reality of our country, put forward the idea that the only way to defeat the armed enemy and liberate the fatherland was through armed struggle, and he focused his efforts on building revolutionary forces first.
On April 25, 1932, the great leader founded the Korean People's Revolutionary Army, the first revolutionary armed force in our country, and with it as its core, led the general anti-Japanese national liberation struggle to a new upsurge. In addition, under the political and military guarantee of the Korean People's Revolutionary Army, he successfully led the organizational and ideological preparations for the founding of the party, the expansion and development of the Fatherland Restoration Association organization and the united front movement, and the preparations for the all-people struggle for national liberation.
The birth of Korea's first genuine armed force under the leadership of the great leader Comrade Kim Il Sung was a historic event of profound significance in the history of our revolution and nation and in the future development of our state and people. The great significance of that event lies not only in the fact that the people who had been forced to a miserable fate in the vicissitudes of history came to have their own genuine army and hope for independence, but also in the fact that it declared at home and abroad the unwavering anti-imperialist revolutionary idea of settling by force to the end those who dare to harass the dignity and sovereignty of our nation, and the unwavering will of the Korean revolutionaries to achieve the freedom and liberation of the people and the victory of the revolution by their own efforts.
The revolutionary weapons that the Korean revolutionaries raised in the Baekdu Forest to open up the destiny and future of our people were the surging spirit of independence of the Korean people, a sign of hope that brought the dawn of national liberation, a banner of great unity, and a driving force that gave pride of self-respect and fortitude to the fists of the Korean people that had been stained with tears.
It was in these armed ranks that the grand plan for the Korean revolution matured, the indomitable spirit and steel power to defeat imperialist tyranny were forged, and a great tradition of fundamental and lasting significance for the development of our revolution was established. It was a great feat of the anti-Japanese revolutionary forerunners to take up arms in the forests of Mt. Paektu and secure a solid guarantee for building a Juche-type revolutionary party, regular armed forces and government with great ideas and beliefs .
The revolutionary weapons raised by the anti-Japanese revolutionary forerunners in the Baekdu Forest are the banner of unity that can strengthen the political and ideological power of our republic in every way.
The irresistible power of our country lies in the solid unity of the leader and the people through blood ties. There is a fundamental guarantee for achieving the comprehensive development of our style of socialism and advancing the prosperity of the country on the path of further strengthening and maximizing our political and ideological power.
The anti-Japanese revolutionary forerunners were passionate fighters who deeply understood in their hearts that in order to win the revolution, they must hold the outstanding leader high as the center of unity and fight firmly around him with a heart of loyalty as pure as jade. For the anti-Japanese revolutionary fighters, loyalty to the great leader was honor, conscience, duty and practice before it was a duty. The gunshots fired by the anti-Japanese revolutionary fighters to destroy the enemy were also the gunshots of the leader’s defense and protection , and all military and political activities of the Korean People’s Revolutionary Army were battles to carry out the orders of the commander.
Loyal vassals who blocked enemy bullets flying toward them for the sake of the well-being of the great leader and did not hesitate to jump into a desperate situation, men of faith who went to the execution grounds with a smile, wishing for the well-being of the commander even at the last moment, and people who fought resolutely without condoning even the slightest act that ran counter to the leader 's ideology and line - these were the anti-Japanese revolutionary fighters. As the ranks of these loyal vassals formed a thousand-layered bulletproof wall, the enemies' vicious and mean schemes and "punitive" offensives targeting the headquarters of the revolution were foiled at every step, and Mt. Paektu came to shine as a beacon of hope, offering our people a ray of hope for national rebirth. During the arduous period of the anti-Japanese armed struggle when it was impossible to predict when the revolution would triumph, the anti -Japanese revolutionary forerunners held the great leader in high esteem as the center of unity, defended and protected him with arms , and created the spirit of resolutely defending the leader and the tradition of loyalty, which they passed on to future generations as a noble legacy. This is precisely where the immortal exploits of the anti-Japanese revolutionary forerunners for the times, the revolution, the country and the people lie.
The spirit of unity embodied in the weapons that the anti-Japanese revolutionary fighters held high on Baekdu is still being firmly inherited today, from generation to generation.
The work to color the entire Party and the entire society with the revolutionary ideology of the Party Central Committee and establish the sole leadership system of the Party Central Committee is being intensified, which is a powerful outburst of our people's thoroughgoing revolutionary view of the leader who is determined to protect and tenaciously strengthen the single-hearted unity centered on the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un like the apple of their eyes.
The victory of the Juche revolutionary cause is certain, as the entire people are advancing with the might of oneness, holding high the weapons raised by the anti-Japanese revolutionary forerunners as the banner of the eternal unity of our revolution, and are firmly united around the Party Central Committee. Our Republic will soar high as a socialist power and display its dignity and might to the world.
The revolutionary weapons raised by the anti-Japanese revolutionary forerunners in the Baekdu Forest are the banner of self-reliance that will enable our people to vigorously open the way to prosperity and prosperity through self-reliance and self-respect.
Self-reliance and self-reliance are the dignity and life of a country and its people. Self-reliance is the best way to firmly protect the independent dignity of our republic and the true life of our people and to bring forward endless prosperity and a brilliant future.
The weapons held high by the anti-Japanese revolutionary fighters were a manifestation of their strong spirit of independence, believing that they were the ones responsible for the sacred cause of liberating their country and achieving independent prosperity for their people, and that they must forge ahead on the arduous path of revolution with their own strength.
In the situation of a hostile public power without a solid national rear or the support of regular troops, the anti-Japanese revolutionary fighters had nothing to rely on but their own strength. Under the leadership of the great leader , the anti-Japanese revolutionary fighters held high the slogan, “Let us accomplish the Korean revolution with our own strength!” and, even in such difficult conditions, without any help or assistance from anyone, they made weapons and bombs with their bare hands, seized the enemy’s weapons, armed themselves with their own weapons, and fought the enemy, thereby achieving the historic cause of national liberation. The spirit of strengthening oneself with one’s own strength, the spirit of self-reliance of the anti-Japanese revolutionary fighters who created something out of nothing and stood up and fought resolutely like immortals, is a precious spiritual treasure for our people that cannot be exchanged for anything else.
The dignity and greatness of our state and people lie in their thoroughgoing self-reliance and their strength, and the road of Juche and self-reliance pioneered in Paektu is the immutable course of our revolution. Today’s struggle to open a new era of comprehensive national revival is a grand march of self-reliance that only our people, who have learned how to win in any hardship and grown into indomitable strongmen, can carry out. Just like the anti-Japanese revolutionary fighters who made a smoke bomb with their bare hands and made the enemy tremble, here lies the path to overcome unprecedented hardships in history and realize earlier the ideal of building a powerful state.
All workers and laborers must take the weapons raised by the anti-Japanese revolutionary forerunners as the banner of eternal victory and fight vigorously for the prosperity of our republic.
We must loyally uphold the ideology and leadership of Comrade Kim Jong- un .
Dear Comrade Kim Jong Un is the symbol of the might of our Republic and the banner of all victory and glory.
All the people should cherish the pure loyalty to the leader that the anti-Japanese revolutionary forerunners had , unite around the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un, and become ardent loyalists and true revolutionaries who carry out the plans and intentions of the Party Central Committee with determination.
We must deeply cherish the unwavering belief that all victory and glory lie on the path of following Comrade Kim Jong Un , and the firm belief that we can become stronger and wealthier if we just do as the Party tells us, and we must unconditionally and thoroughly carry out the decisions of important Party meetings without any hesitation.
We must further strengthen our national defense capabilities.
All workers and laborers should uphold the Party’s idea of prioritizing the military, put the military as the most important national task, study the military faithfully, and thoroughly prepare for the all-people resistance war. The defense industry sector should further accelerate the development speed of our inexhaustible defense technology and steadily develop cutting-edge strategic and tactical weapon systems, thereby steadily building up the invincible national defense capability. Members of the Worker-Peasant Red Guards should conduct combat and political training as if in actual combat, and prepare themselves as real fighting men who can reliably defend their provinces, counties, hometowns and the socialist fatherland in times of emergency. Young people should regard national defense as the most sacred duty and the greatest patriotism and should vigorously rise up in the struggle to defend the socialist fatherland. They should further vigorously develop the socialist patriotic movement, the revolutionary mass movement, and contribute to firmly defending our fatherland and strengthening the country’s defense capability in every way.
We must vigorously open a period of all-out prosperity for national revival.
All workers and laborers should learn from the indomitable fighting spirit of the anti-Japanese revolutionary forerunners who fought a decisive battle with the enemies by getting up a hundred times after falling a hundred times with the determination to strike the enemy even if they had to die a million times, and create new miracles and feats at every outpost and workplace and achieve more and better creations that will shed light on the era of great change. They should follow the example of the revolutionary spirit of self-reliance and arduous struggle displayed by the preceding generations of revolutionaries and fully deploy all their forces and potential to put the overall economy of the country on a firm growth track. They should build more modern houses in the capital and rural areas and thoroughly implement the local development policy put forward by the Party to vigorously open a new era of rural development and local revitalization.
The infinite prosperity and victory of our republic lies in forever shining the revolutionary weapons held high by the anti-Japanese martyrs in the Baekdu Forest as the banner of great victory.
Let us all uphold the ideology and leadership of the respected Comrade Kim Jong- un with single-hearted loyalty and fight vigorously for the comprehensive revival and development of our country. (End)
('People Before Heaven' goes so hard as a slogan, jfc.)
The Korean People's Revolutionary Army, which created a true example of military-civilian relations
Today is a significant day as it marks the 93rd anniversary of the founding of the Korean People's Revolutionary Army.
On this day, our people are deeply moved by the proud history of our revolutionary armed forces, which have always remained faithful to their mission not only as defenders of the fatherland but also as creators of the people's happiness since they inscribed the word "people" in their names.
The great leader Comrade Kim Il Sung , who founded the Korean People's Revolutionary Army (then the Anti-Japanese People's Guerilla Army) on April 25, 1932, put forward the idea that "just as fish cannot survive out of water, guerrillas cannot survive without the people" as the revolutionary army's guerilla activity principle.
The great leader , who regarded loving the people and gaining their support as a matter of survival for the guerrillas rather than a matter of victory or defeat in battle, always taught his men to love the people more, that if we treat the people poorly, the people will turn their backs on us, that what could be more frightening than being abandoned by the people, and that the greatest tragedy for a revolutionary is losing the love of the people.
He reflected the popular character of the revolutionary army in the “Korean People’s Revolutionary Army Stealth Regulations” and led all commanders and soldiers as a practical example to always put the people’s lives and safety first and fight with devotion for the people’s interests.
The revolutionary legend that “the commander is also a son of the people” blossomed during the days of the anti-Japanese war and is still engraved in the hearts of our people today.
There are countless legendary anecdotes that are consistent with his love for the people, such as the story of how he noticed that new recruits had picked ears of corn from a farmer's field and had them placed at the edge of the field, and the story of how, when attacking an enemy village or city, he evacuated the people to a safe area in advance or dragged the enemies out of the residential area and then annihilated them.
Thanks to the leadership of the great leader who took the motto of “People before Heaven”, the Korean People’s Revolutionary Army created a true example of military-civilian relations that has never been seen in history, and was able to achieve victory in every battle with the active support and encouragement of the people.
Dear Father Marshal Kim Jong-un sent musical instruments to newly built schools in flood-stricken areas in North Pyongan Province, Chagang Province, and Ryanggang Province
The warm love and affection of benevolent parents who spare no expense for the sake of future generations and illuminate the bright smiles of children as images of our-style socialism are overflowing even more passionately in the schools of learning that have risen miraculously in the northwestern part of the fatherland after the great flood damage.
Dear Father Marshal Kim Jong Un sent musical instruments including pianos, accordions, guitars, euinkums, gayageums, and harmonicas as gifts to newly built schools in flood-stricken areas in North Pyongan Province, Chagang Province, and Ryanggang Province.
Last year, our dear respected Marshal took special measures for the education of students in flood-stricken areas and personally visited the April 25 Hotel to warmly bless the children's future. He also returned the great consideration by building splendid schools that add pride to his hometown villages that have changed dramatically, sending them modern teaching materials, educational equipment, and sports equipment, and then giving them numerous musical instruments.
This contains the deep love and affection of our Father, who regards our children as precious treasures that cannot be compared to gold and silver, as the whole of our hope and future, and who hopes that our school children will always grow up cheerful and strong without anything to envy in the world .
Meetings were held locally to deliver musical instruments sent by our dear father , Marshal Kim Jong Un .
The gathering places were bustling like a holiday with the endless excitement and joy of the students and faculty who received gifts from their father .
At gatherings attended by party and government officials, officials from related sectors, faculty, students, and parents from North Pyongan Province, Chagang Province, and Ryanggang Province, there were gift-bearers.
The speakers spoke passionately about how our respected father Marshal , who holds the lofty ideal that our children are in the hands of the people, whom our Party holds in high esteem like heaven, has repeatedly brought dreamlike happiness to the growing new generations.
They expressed their deepest gratitude to their respected father , Marshal Kim Jong Un , who has always given priority to education and put it forward as the first national task that requires maximum effort at all times and stages, and has helped to bring about a bright and prosperous future for future generations, with the same heart as that of school children and their parents.
They mentioned that all workers, faculty members and students should deeply engrave in their hearts the great love and trust of the Mother Party, devote themselves to educational work, do well in learning and organizational life, and actively participate in extracurricular activities to prepare themselves well as true sons and daughters of the Fatherly Marshal .
The participants of the gatherings from Sinuiju City Hadan 1 High School, Uiju County Seoho High School, Songgan County Gwangmyeong High School, Jeonchon County Hwaam Elementary School Mupyeong Branch School, and Kim Hyong Jik County Sampo High School, who received the Party's gracious gifts with endless emotion, expressed their emotions by saying that the embrace of the respected Marshal, who looks after the children of the whole country with utmost love and affection as a loving father and parent, is the greatest embrace in the world .
The great grace of our respected father, Marshal Kim Jong Un , who has been making our socialist fatherland brighter and more beautiful with his ardent love and undying affection for the younger generations, will be spread to the whole world, and the cheerful laughter of children and the sound of the song “There is no one in the world who is jealous of me” will echo endlessly across the clear blue sky of our fatherland. (End)
>>2241280"The great grace of our respected father, Marshal Kim Jong Un , who has been making our socialist fatherland brighter and more beautiful with his ardent love and undying affection for the younger generations, will be spread to the whole world"
Oh my god please yes please
Wtf, Korea supports intellectual property? From
http://naenara.com.kp/main/index/en/first>“IP and Music: Feel the Beat of IP”>Across the globe, creators and innovators use intellectual property (IP) to translate their ideas into assets, generating economic and social benefits that improve the lives of people everywhere.>While public awareness of IP is certainly higher than ever, there is still a need to deepen awareness of the pivotal role that IP plays in driving innovation, creativity, and business growth.>In this sense, the World Intellectual Property Day (April 26) is an occasion to hold celebrations in every region of the world.>This year’s theme for the World IP Day is: “IP and Music: Feel the beat of IP.”>Every optimistic man, who has a great love of life, feels deep emotion and tries to build a better future, grows to be fond of music.>From melodies that stick in our heads and rhythms that get us moving, to lyrics that speak to our souls, music creation enriches our lives.>Music permeates every sector, intersecting with science and technology, film, and entertainment. Even when it is not in our minds, the beat and rhythm of music are always present in our lives.>The 2025 World IP Day campaign highlights the central role that creativity and innovation, supported by IP rights, play in keeping music pulsing through our lives. And it shows how IP rights and innovation policies can support creators, innovators, and entrepreneurs to bring new ideas into the world of music, inspiring new generations of artists and fans alike.>Efforts are being made in the DPRK to bring IP rights closer to life and make the best use of IP to promote economic and cultural development.>Yang Ryon Hui>2025-04-26=A great event for the people blossoming amidst the dazzling changes of Pyongyang==
Citizens are moving into the new housing in the 3rd phase of the new city district of Hwaseong District, which has risen magnificently.
Pyongyang, the city of happiness and glory that is growing more prosperous and civilized year after year in the new era of transformation unfolding by the great Party Central Committee, has once again welcomed the “season of new housewarming” with the spring of April.
The socialist bustling city that has risen dazzlingly in the Hwaseong area, in stark contrast to the Pyongyang of yesterday and the modernized Pyongyang of today, is endlessly thrilled with the joy of the blessed people who have become brighter and more radiant along with the new era of prosperity and revival brought about by our Party's people-first principle.
The grand capital construction plan formulated by our Party has borne fruit this year as well, and has been completed with great grandeur amid the warm blessings of our loving parents. Following this, the workers who have come to enjoy a new socialist life and new civilization are settling down in a paradise of blessings.
Embracing the breath of an era pulsating with grand transformation, the area boasts the appearance and grandeur of a splendid urban district, and the unique harmony of high-rise and high-rise apartment buildings and various service networks is causing a surge of new housing construction.
Cars loaded with belongings are entering the new streets in joy and song, testifying to the height of our Party's ideals and goals for realizing the people's long-held desires and the imaginary peak of civilization that we want to bring to the people.
The new homeowners, who are holding their new home occupancy permits close to their hearts and are at a loss in the face of reality that is not a dream, and the builders who share today's joy and send warm congratulations are a fairyland filled with happiness of a great socialist family that blossoms day by day in the years of the Workers' Party.
The joy of welcoming the people's great event that continues every year is immense for everyone, but the emotions of the residents who received the greatest honor of their lives on the unforgettable day of completion were extraordinary.
Elderly people Kim Se-sik and Jeon Sun-bok, who moved into a new four-room house with their descendants, said with tears in their eyes that they were already so happy that they would be able to spend the rest of their lives in such a wonderful and enchanting ideal, and that seeing our enemy up close made them feel like they had monopolized all the blessings in this world.
The family of Choi Seong-chan, who spoke about the excitement and passion of that day, also spoke with confidence that they would enjoy happiness for a long time together with our country, which is becoming more prosperous under the embrace of our respected Marshal, who is trying to put our people first on the pinnacle of civilization and enlightenment.
Everyone who moved into their new homes, including war veterans Han Ran-hee and Kim Gyeong-suk, said that their families were the most proud in the world, and they could not contain their emotion at the great parent's devotion to the people in providing such wonderful homes, visiting the third phase of the housing construction site in Hwaseong District, which was nearing completion, climbing the steep steps to offer the logo, and coming out again late at night to repeatedly leave messages of love.
The people's cheers and voices of emotion echoed throughout the vast Hwaseong district from every window that opened like a painting to show the beautiful scenery of Pyongyang, which was entering a new era of prosperity and civilization.
《The new streets of Hwaseong District are the pride of our Pyongyang, and the more you look at them, the more new and unique they become.》
《I was amazed at how beautiful the houses on Hwasong Street and Rimheung Street were, and when I looked at them from here, I could feel the grandeur and splendor of our Pyongyang, which is developing differently each year, with my whole soul, and it seemed as if I could see the future of the prosperous country that we are about to welcome.》
“ I would like to express my gratitude to our respected Marshal Kim Jong Un , who has been trying to provide our people with only the best and most excellent things in this world .”
In terms of the artistic beauty of architecture and the convenience of living, you can see people smiling happily anywhere in this ideal residential area.
People holding the hands of children who urged them to hurry and go to the volunteer facilities that their father had visited, and residents walking the streets late into the night, saying that the night view was spectacular .
Along with the bright spring season with all kinds of flowers in full bloom, the laughter of the people grows louder day by day, and the shouts of “Long Live the Workers’ Party” and “Long Live Socialism” from the people of the entire country are ringing out louder everywhere in this land.
The new housewarming scene on the Hwaseong Earth, which is the result of the great fatherly love that willingly takes on the burden of the people and brings all the splendid things of the future, is a beautiful picture that realistically depicts the image of the people who will enjoy happiness for generations in an advanced civilized country that is the envy of the world.
>>2243615Theres one further up in the thread which was pretty fun (
>>2104518 )
, as well as two or three documentaries.
>>2243627> Is North Korea poor because of sanctions or genuine poor policies?Sanctions. They honestly do very well considering.
>>2243627While the DPRK has a few poor policies such as remaining a lot more isolationist (though for understandable reasons), its poverty largely is due to fuckton of embargoes, economic sabotage and the fact that most of their socialist trading partners either collapsed or don't pull their weight on the international stage.
https://northkoreasanctions.org/enLike seriously, look at this shit and tell me the DPRK is wholly responsible for its relative economic stagnation.
http://kcna.kp/en/article/q/7f7ecaf7174ecaf1e8c145bcb264ac04fb08cc532ea5a0178e83c7a7fde163fd.kcmsf https://archive.fo/8gRlE WPK Central Military Commission Highly Praises Combat Sub-units of Armed Forces of DPRK for Performing Heroic Feats in Operations to Liberate Kursk Area of Russian FederationPyongyang, April 28 (KCNA) – The Central Military Commission of the Workers’ Party of Korea highly appreciated the combat sub-units of the armed forces of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea for performing heroic feats in the operations to repulse and frustrate the grave sovereignty infringement by the Ukrainian authorities, who invaded the territory of the Russian Federation, and completely liberate the occupied area of Kursk Region.
The WPK Central Military Commission clarified as follows in its written stand sent to Rodong Sinmun and the Korean Central News Agency on April 27:
The operations for liberating the Kursk area to repel the adventurous invasion of the Russian Federation by the Ukrainian authorities were victoriously concluded.
The sub-units of our armed forces, which participated in the operations for liberating the Kursk area according to the order of the head of state of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, fully demonstrated their high fighting spirit and military temperament and made an important contribution to annihilating the Ukrainian neo-Nazi forces and liberating the territory of the Russian Federation by displaying mass heroism, matchless bravery and self-sacrificing spirit.
It is a source of pride for our state and a greatest dignity for our people to have such excellent soldiers.
The victorious conclusion of the operations for liberating the Kursk area is a victory of justice over injustice and, at the same time, a new chapter of history which demonstrated the highest strategic level of the firm militant friendship between the DPRK and Russia and the alliance and fraternal relations between the peoples of the two countries.
Thanks to the precious victory won by the armies of the DPRK and Russia while shedding blood fighting in the same trench shoulder to shoulder, the occupation of the Kursk area by the Ukrainian army for nearly nine months came to an end and the adventurous political and military attempt of the Western forces and the Ukrainian authorities to thwart the special military operations of Russia was frustrated.
The Central Military Commission of the Workers’ Party of Korea extends the warmest and most ardent congratulations to the commanding officers of the special operations group and all officers, noncommissioned officers and soldiers of the combat sub-units, who, participating in the operations for liberating the Kursk area, defended the precious honour of our army and performed immortal feats to be recorded in golden letters in the history of the development of the DPRK-Russia relations.
The Ukrainian authorities, coming forward as the vanguard and shock brigade of the imperialist powers in an attempt to inflict strategic defeat on Russia, launched a vigorous surprise attack on the Russian mainland in August 2024 by enlisting tens of thousands of elite troops armed with the Western-made state-of-the-art weapons and other combat and technical equipment with a sinister intention to reverse the war situation, in which they were thrown into tailspin, and thus occupied an area of over 1 200 square kilometres in Kursk Region, turning many residential districts into ruins and mercilessly killing many peaceful inhabitants.
The reckless military moves of the hostile forces that violently infringed upon the national sovereignty and security of Russia, the fraternal country, constituted a threat to the accomplishment of the common cause of the DPRK and Russia for realizing international justice and defending global peace against the imperialist high-handed and arbitrary practices and a grave challenge to the militant friendship and unity between the armies and peoples of the two countries.
On the basis of the analysis and judgement that the prevailing situation conformed to the invocation of Article 4 of the treaty on comprehensive strategic partnership concluded between the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea and the Russian Federation, Comrade Kim Jong Un decided on our armed forces’ participation in the war, informed the Russian side of it and, in accordance with agreement, issued an order of the Central Military Commission of the Workers’ Party of Korea to combat sub-units of the armed forces of the Republic to annihilate and wipe out the Ukrainian neo-Nazi occupiers and liberate the Kursk area in cooperation with the Russian armed forces.
While making the decision on making the combat sub-units of our armed forces participate in the war, Comrade
Kim Jong Un defined it as a sacred mission for further consolidating as firm as a rock the traditional friendship and solidarity between the DPRK and Russia, guaranteeing the development and prosperity of the two countries and defending the honour of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea.
The military activities of the armed forces of the Republic conducted within the territory of the Russian Federation fully conform to all the provisions and the spirit of the UN Charter and other international laws and the treaty on comprehensive strategic partnership between the DPRK and Russia and serve as a good example and excellent paradigm of the most faithful expression of action to implement them.
Under the order of the head of state, the sub-units of the armed forces of the Republic regarded the territory of Russia as the one of their own country and proved the firm alliance between the DPRK and Russia and recorded legendary tales of military feats with their high will of defence, do-or-die spirit and practical combat actions accompanied by sacrifice.
On the occasion of the liberation of Kursk, Comrade
Kim Jong Un specially stressed the following:
“They, who fought for justice, are all heroes who represent the honour of their motherland.
“In commemoration of the heroism and bravery displayed by the proud sons of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, a monument to their battle feats will soon be erected in our capital city, and before the tombstones of the fallen soldiers, flowers will be laid as a token of the motherland and the people praying for their immortality.
“The fighting spirit and heroism of the soldiers, who demonstrated the great name of the powerful and the glory of the victors, will shine for ever on the high platform of respect and honour generation after generation.
“The motherland should hand down for ever the soul of the soldiers who fought to defend its great honour, and take important state measures to specially and preferentially treat and take care of the families of the brave soldiers who participated in the war.”
The head of state of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea said that he extends warm militant greetings to the Russian army and people who won a great victory.
The government of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea regards it as an honour to have an alliance with such a powerful state as the Russian Federation and is pleased that the participation of the sub-units of our armed forces in the war has further strengthened the militant ties between the two countries and contributed to Russia’s conducting of special military operations.
The Central Military Commission of the Workers’ Party of Korea is convinced that the invincible militant friendship between the two countries, verified at the cost of blood in the flames of battles, will greatly contribute to expanding and developing the future relations of friendship and cooperation between the DPRK and Russia in all aspects, and affirms, on the authorization of the Central Committee of the Workers’ Party of Korea and the government of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, that it will invariably and fully support the sacred cause of the Russian army and people in the future, too, and remain faithful as ever to any action based on the spirit of the DPRK-Russia treaty. -0-
WPK Central Military Commission Highly Praises Combat Sub-units of Armed Forces of DPRK for Performing Heroic Feats in Operations to Liberate Kursk Area of Russian Federation
WPK Central Military Commission Highly Praises Combat Sub-units of Armed Forces of DPRK for Performing Heroic Feats in Operations to Liberate Kursk Area of Russian Federation
Pyongyang, April 28 (KCNA) – The Central Military Commission of the Workers' Party of Korea highly appreciated the combat sub-units of the armed forces of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea for performing heroic feats in the operations to repulse and annihilate the grave sovereignty infringement by the Ukrainian authorities, who invaded the territory of the Russian Federation, and completely liberate the occupied area of Kursk Region.
The WPK Central Military Commission said as follows in its written stand sent to the Rodong Sinmun and the Korean Central News Agency on April 27:
The operations for liberating the Kursk area to repel the adventurous invasion of the Russian Federation by the Ukrainian authorities were victoriously concluded.
The sub-units of our armed forces, which participated in the operations for liberating the Kursk areas according to the order of the head of state of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, fully demonstrated their high fighting spirit and military temperament and made an important contribution to annihilating the Ukrainian neo-Nazi forces and liberating the territory of the Russian Federation by displaying mass heroism, matchless bravery and self-sacrificing spirit.
It is the pride of our state and the greatest pride of our people to have such excellent soldiers.
The victorious conclusion of the operations for liberating the Kursk area is a victory of justice against injustice and, at the same time, a new chapter of history which demonstrated the highest strategic level of the firm militant friendship between the two countries of the DPRK and Russia and the alliance and the fraternal relations between the peoples of the two countries.
Thanks to the precious victory won by the armies of the DPRK and Russia while shedding blood in the same trench shoulder to shoulder, the occupation of the Kursk area by the Ukrainian army for nearly nine months came to an end and the adventurous political and military attempt of the Western forces and the Ukrainian authorities to frustrate the special military operations of Russia was frustrated.
The Central Military Commission of the Workers' Party of Korea extends the warmest and ardent congratulations to the commanding officers of the special operations group and all officers, noncommissioned officers and soldiers of the combat sub-units who participated in the operations for liberating the Kursk area to defend the precious honor of our army and performed immortal feats to be recorded in gold letters in the history of the development of the DPRK-Russia relations.
The Ukrainian authorities, out as the vanguard and shock brigade of the imperialist powers to inflict strategic defeat on Russia, made a vigorous attack on the Russian mainland by surprise with the involvement of tens of thousands of elite forces armed with ultra-modern weapons and combat and technical equipment of the West in August 2024 under the sinister intention to reverse the war situation in which they were thrown into tailspin, and thus occupied an area of over 1 200 square kilometers in Kursk Region, turned many residential districts into ruins and mercilessly killed many peaceable inhabitants.
The reckless military moves of the hostile forces that violently plundered Russia, the fraternal country, of its sovereignty and security became a threat to the accomplishment of the common cause of the DPRK and Russia for realizing international justice and defending global peace against the imperialist high-handed and arbitrary practices and a grave challenge to the militant friendship and unity between the armies and peoples of the two countries.
On the basis of the analysis and judgment that the prevailing situation was conformed to the invocation of Article 4 of the treaty on comprehensive strategic partnership concluded between the Democratic People's Republic of Korea and the Russian Federation, Comrade Kim Jong Un decided our armed forces' participation in the war, informed the Russian side of it and, in accordance with the agreement, issued an order of the Central Military Commission of the Workers' Party of Korea to combat sub-units of the armed forces of the Republic to annihilate and wipe out the Ukrainian neo-Nazi occupiers and liberate the Kursk area in cooperation with the Russian armed forces.
Comrade Kim Jong Un, determined to make the combat sub-units of our armed forces participate in the war, defined it as a sacred mission to further consolidate as firm as a rock the traditional friendship and solidarity between the two countries of the DPRK and Russia, guarantee the development and prosperity of both countries and defend the honor of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.
The military activities of the armed forces of the Republic conducted within the boundary of the Russian Federation fully conform to all the provisions and the spirit of the UN Charter and other international laws and the treaty on comprehensive strategic partnership between the DPRK and Russia and serve as a model example and an excellent model of the most faithful expression of action to implement them.
Under the order of the head of state, the sub-units of the armed forces of the Republic regarded the territory of Russia as the one of their country and proved the firm alliance between the two countries of the DPRK and Russia and recorded legendary tales of military feats with their high will of defence, the do-or-die spirit and practical combat action accompanied by sacrifice.
On the occasion of the liberation of Kursk, Comrade Kim Jong Un specially stressed the following:
"They who fought for justice are all heroes and representatives of the honour of the motherland.
In praise of the heroism and bravery of the proud sons of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, a monument to the battle feats will be soon erected in our capital city and flowers of praying for immortality given by the motherland and the people will be placed before the tombstones of the fallen soldiers.
The fighting spirit and heroism of the soldiers who demonstrated the great name of the strong and the glory of the victors will shine long in the high platform of respect and honor generation after generation.
The motherland should hand down forever the soul of them who fought to defend the great honor and take important state measures to specially and preferentially treat and take care of the families of the brave soldiers who participated in the war."
The head of state of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea said that he extends warm militant greetings to the Russian army and people who won a great victory.
The government of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea regards it as an honor to have an alliance with such a powerful state as the Russian Federation and is pleased that the participation of the sub-units of our armed forces in the war has further strengthened the militant ties between the two countries of the DPRK and Russia and contributed to conducting the special military operations of Russia.
The Central Military Commission of the Workers' Party of Korea is convinced that the invincible militant friendship between the two countries verified at the cost of blood in combat gunfire will greatly contribute to expanding and developing the future relations of friendship and cooperation between the DPRK and Russia in all aspects, and affirms that it will invariably and fully support the sacred cause of the Russian army and people in the future, too, and as ever remain faithful to any action based on the spirit of the DPRK-Russia inter-state treaty, upon the authorization of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea and the government of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.
A new era of local revival unfolds as we honor our great fathers
A new era of great upheaval and prosperity is unfolding before our eyes.
In the socialist countryside, with unusual houses springing up simultaneously in every corner, news of new housewarmings has now become an everyday occurrence. The first-year tasks of our Party’s “20x10 Policy for Local Development” aimed at dramatically improving the material and cultural life of the local people have been brilliantly completed, and dozens of modern local industrial plants of our own style, suited to regional characteristics and with a high level of automation and scientific production, have been splendidly built in 20 cities and counties across the country, vigorously sounding the tone of normalizing production.
How can it be that only the mountains and rivers are changing? The people of the provinces and rural areas are growing into civilized and creative new people who have completely shed their yesterday's appearance.
A large group of patriots who feel gratitude to our Party with all their heart and cherish a single-minded desire for loyalty and repayment to better develop their hometown into a foundation for socialist prosperity are growing like mushrooms along with the rural areas that are changing day by day.
Today's exciting new era in which localities and rural areas are changing is not a change brought about by the passage of time nor is it the result of abundance in all things. It is the noble crystallization of the ambition, ideal, belief, will, energetic leadership and devotion of respected Comrade Kim Jong Un, who is trying to advance the cause of building a socialist power through comprehensive national revitalization and usher in a new era in which localities and rural areas are changing along with the capital city, and build the world's best paradise where the people's happiness will flourish as soon as possible.
Dear Comrade Kim Jong Un said:
“In the new era, our party’s plan is to make the central government the envy of the local governments, to make the promotion of the local governments represent the advancement and development of our country, and to make the ideal appearance of the local governments the true face of our style of socialism.”
It is an inevitable custom that local governments lag behind the central government, and this has been a natural reality for a long time.
However, our Party, which has always put forward the principle of paying attention to the lives of all the people and actively solving them as the basis of its activities, has put forward the task of overcoming this century-long suffering as a historical task that must be boldly undertaken, no matter how beautiful it may be.
There may be geographically distant and close places, and each region may have different economic potential, living environment, and resources, but there should be no region in the territory of the Republic that lags behind in people's lives. This absolute and unchanging will of our Party is reflected in the major decision on local development and is beating fast in the grand plan of the new era rural revolution program.
The tireless contemplation, ceaseless work, and energetic leadership of Comrade Kim Jong Un , who has devoted himself to the great historic feat of local development policy and the new era rural revolution program, will decorate a shining page in the proud history of our republic as we continue to write them, are heartwarming.
Comrade Kim Jong Un, who declared the new-era rural revolutionary program from the high rostrum of the 4th Plenary Meeting of the 8th Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea and expressed his conviction that as long as there is the Party's correct leadership, the most correct rural construction program and the loyalty and patriotic enthusiasm of Party members and working people, victory will inevitably be achieved in the historic work to firmly put the country's agriculture on the track of sustained development and bring about a world-changing change in the rural areas .
New Era Rural Revolutionary Program!
How powerfully is the iron will of the great father to bring forward the future of a prosperous, livable, and civilized socialist countryside through the shining victory of the great socialist rural construction program toward this grand goal ?
How much did every single phrase of the historic policy speech of respected Comrade Kim Jong Un, delivered at the 10th Session of the 14th Supreme People's Assembly, warmly resonate in the hearts of all people: "It is an urgent task facing our government and a cherished desire of our Party to shake off centuries-old backwardness, narrow the gap between the central and local areas, develop local industries comprehensively and in a balanced way while promoting the distinctive development of each local economy and creating a trend of competitive development . "
At the 19th Enlarged Meeting of the Political Bureau of the 8th Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea, respected Comrade Kim Jong Un said that our Party's "20x10 policy for local development" is not an ideal and propaganda that has been talked about only in words in the past, but a huge transformational line decided on the basis of a guarantee for implementation with a practical plan, a grand revolution to fulfill the elementary desire of the local people and bring about a fundamental change in the sphere of our people's perception, and at the same time a long-cherished undertaking of the century .
Each and every one of these teachings that resonated deeply with the hearts of the people across the country was a declaration of the firm belief and will of Comrade Kim Jong Un that whatever the people wish for becomes the Party's resolution and decision and that it will always be realized .
The great long- cherished wish of a loving parent who worries and frets more for his child who lives far away and is going through difficulties than any other parent, to improve the living standards of the local people , the grand plan and ideal of a peerless great man who wanted to open a new era of local industrial development and bring about a turning point in the struggle for the revival and development of our country and the promotion of the people's welfare, have been embodied in the new-era rural revolutionary program and the brilliant condensation of the "20x10 policy for local development."
A refreshing roar announcing the start of a historic local industrial revolution resounded in accordance with the iron determination and will of Comrade Kim Jong Un, who said that we should not just recite in words that a new era of local transformation has arrived, but should clearly demonstrate in reality how our country's socialist countryside is being transformed and how our people's standard of living is being improved.
The great father's words at the groundbreaking ceremony for the construction of the local industrial plant in Songchon County that anyone born in this land should enjoy a prosperous and civilized life under the state's socialist policies regardless of whether they live in the capital or the countryside, in a city or a mountain village, and that making sure that happens is the core of the new local development policy, still resonate strongly in our hearts.
In this way, respected Comrade Kim Jong Un resolutely set out on the unprecedented path of local development and rural revolution in the new era in order to provide the local people with all the good things in the world as soon as possible, and with his great practice , he powerfully aroused tens of millions of people across the country to a bold struggle to create a great new history of local revitalization.
So, this is the news of new houses in the countryside that we can hear every day and see everywhere. This is the news of local revival that is continuously being delivered, drawing the happiness of the people from all over the country every day.
If you go to Hadan-ri, Sinuiju-si, which has been transformed into a fairyland, you can hear the local people's boasts about their unique blessings, such as the love they received during their dreamlike stay in Pyongyang, their pride in the happiness they have built in the modern rural cultural city, and their children who have become top students. Even if you go to Gwangdae Livestock Farm, which is literally a remote mountain village located tens of miles away from Bujeon County Township, the saying that all you can see is mountains has become a thing of the past. The voices of the residents there, expressing their passion and joy, resonate loudly as they say that what they see at first glance is a new village and new life.
Indeed, the beautiful task of making the people happy has become the leader 's greatest wish and the major policy of the Party and the state, and in these passionate days when it is being implemented with such great effort and dedication without an inch of error, isn't it the case that the paradise of happiness that we only dreamed of and the realities of promotion that we only looked forward to as an ideal are springing up day by day?
The world of true and extraordinary creation of our dear Comrade Kim Jong Un , who wants to give ten or a hundred more for every one given to our beloved people , and the mighty gunfire of the grand creative war for local revitalization are still endlessly echoing across the sky today.
Everyone reflects on it with passion.
Attending the completion ceremony of the Songchon County Local Industrial Complex, our Party will further expand and deepen the historic new-era local development policy and rural revolution program so that the people can benefit from them even 100 years later, and be bolder in transforming even one more aspect of the local area, and made an ardent appeal to us to bravely strive to bring forward the day when our beloved descendants and people will enjoy a civilized and prosperous life in their transformed homeland and prosperous locality .
At the historic 11th Plenary Session of the 8th Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea, Comrade Kim Jong Un proposed to the plenary session that the Party's new local development policy formally include the construction of advanced health facilities, science education and living culture facilities, and grain management facilities in parallel with local industrial plants.
In February, at the groundbreaking ceremony for the construction of Gangdong County Hospital and General Service Center under the “20×10 Policy for Local Development,” respected Comrade Kim Jong Un pointed out the deep-rooted cultural backwardness and backwardness of the local areas, and said that if we ignore this stark reality and only discuss the possibility and postpone it day after day, we will never be able to eliminate the cultural backwardness of the local areas, so the Central Committee of the Party has resolved to inject modern science, technology and civilization into cities, counties and mountainous areas across the country through a special, revolutionary decision and to advance without delay toward the set local development goals . How profound are the words of this ?
Thanks to the devotion and dedication of the benevolent father of the people who wanted to add to the people’s smiles even by adding burdens to their homes, this year too, unusual rural houses will be built simultaneously in many parts of the country. Without fail, local industrial plants will be built in each of the 20 cities and counties, and in parallel, modern health facilities, multifunctional cultural centers, grain management facilities and other realities of local revitalization will be splendidly established.
And that's not all.
Supported by the great father's sincerity, the 450-square-meter greenhouse farm and vegetable science research base were built in Hadan-ri, Sinuiju-si and Seoho-ri, Uiju-gun, which are the border gates of the country, symbolizing the dynamic and drastic progress of local revitalization.
Now, in the hearts of the people all over the country, there is a conviction that the new era of local revival will prosper forever, with the infinitely close father who knows only the people, and the pride and self-esteem that the policies of the Workers' Party are the best and our socialist system is the best.
We are brimming with determination and resolve to spare no effort in dedicating our sweat and loyalty to the new era of local revitalization.
All ten million people, let us all devote ourselves to the new era’s rural revolution program and local development policy with a hundredfold confidence and courage, and brilliantly write a great new history of local transformation in the history of our country’s development. (End)
>>2255642I mean, Putin is an outright traitor to the USSR (joining the kgb requires you to swear an oath, and there is plenty of footage of Putin in negotiations to sell state property in the early 90s).
Still I hope the DPRK can milk the fuck out of the Russian government and post-USSR military-industrial weaknesses.
>>2270637Going to buy it tomorrow.
Very much appreciated, anon. Thanks!
>>2270955 (me)
Here's author speaking about book btw.
>>2271134But I have to ask on thing and I was left with from this video? Why damn China is sanctioning North Korea like that?
I get that they dont need to have a power close to their borders but is it something else, like caving to the US?
and btw, I assume that now with Russia Ukraine ware, North Korea is trading more with Russia or not?
>>2272565He might be the perestroikoid minded russian speaker from the other thread.
Reminder Russian libs are worse then western libs usually, because they are a caricatured copy. Same is true for "russian left" that tails perestroika era & western narratives.
I think there is likely plenty to critique the dprk on, but approaching from using the terms and framework of liberalism (individuals, freedom, equality, happiness, property, rights, etc.) is deeply counterproductive. If anything the approach has to be orthogonal, if not actively opposite (at least in some instances).
>>2274870Such a list should probably be compiled because actually decent work on the dprk, or even just reasonable data is very sparse, eben moreso in english.
Occasionally the enemy is forced, if only because pure outofhisass anti-dprk propaganda doesn't actually help him in undermining the dprk, to produce some work that is more sanguine.
>>2277387To be perfectly clear, they are not that good either; They are a non-sensationalist anti-dprk outlet.
They still have the 'poor shithole' bias, just without the '120 starving dog executions, koreans believe in literal unicorns, kim has ninja sex brigade' obvious fabrications
The form this takes is with anything data related that the DPRK doesn't publish: Take for example electricity per capita output: They put at level similar to the philippines. Or gdp per capita, spurced from the cia factbook, which they not only don't put at the level of the philippines, but actually at just about haiti's level (maybe lower, memory is unclear).
So even the academic elite have gotten high on their own supply since the 90s; It's just that drug of choice isn:t the same as the one intended for the masses.
At this point, I am convinced that, at least to some moderate degree, the dprk itself has deliberately been feeding false data making jt appear weaker than it is to foreign sources to buy time, get extra aid, and have sanctions growth be slower and less well accepted/enforced.
In other words, taking advantage of liberal narratives about how the ussr collapsed & liberal humanitarian feelings. I think however is has begun to run its course since the first trump admin, and with the war ukraine & more trade with Russia it no longer becomes credible (and recent tone shifts in 38north seem to signal this).
>>2278719in the US they would give the involved people a decoration and a medal.
hopefully juchegang bros will punish severely everyone involved.
U.N. report details North Korea's widespread forced labor
>The United Nations warned Tuesday of a deeply institutionalized system of forced labor in North Korea, which in some cases could amount to the crime against humanity of enslavement.
<In a damning report, the U.N. rights office detailed how people in the reclusive and authoritarian country were "controlled and exploited through an extensive and multi-layered system of forced labor."
<"The testimonies in this report give a shocking and distressing insight into the suffering inflicted through forced labor upon people," U.N. rights chief Volker Turk said in a statement.
>"These people are forced to work in intolerable conditions — often in dangerous sectors with the absence of pay, free choice, ability to leave, protection, medical care, time off, food and shelter," he said.
<Many faced regular beatings, and women were "exposed to continuing risks of sexual violence," he added.
>The rights office relied on a range of sources for the report, including 183 interviews conducted between 2015 and 2023 with victims and witnesses who escaped North Korea and were living abroad.
<"If we didn't meet the daily quota, we were beaten, and our food was cut," said one victim cited in the report.'Shock Brigades'
>The latest allegations follow a landmark report published by a U.N. team of investigators a decade ago which documented forced labor among other rampant rights abuses such as deliberate starvation, rape and torture in North Korea.
<Tuesday's report zeroed in on an institutionalized system, with six different types of forced labor, including during the country's 10-year minimum military conscription.
>There were also compulsory state-assigned jobs and the use of revolutionary "Shock Brigades," or state-organized groups of citizens forced to carry out "arduous manual labor," often in construction and agriculture, the report said.
<Such projects can last for months and even years, during which time workers must live on site and receive little or no remuneration, it found.
>There were also other forms of work mobilizations, including of school children, and work performed by people sent abroad to earn foreign currency for the state, it said.
<North Koreans had, for instance, reportedly been sent to help build facilities ahead of the football World Cup events in Russia and Qatar.
>Tuesday's report stressed that those sent abroad lose up to 90% of their wages to the state, work under constant surveillance, and have their passports confiscated, with almost no time off.'Slavery'
>The system "acts as a means for the state to control, monitor and indoctrinate the population," the report said, adding that in some instances, the level of control and exploitation "may reach the threshold of 'ownership'."
<This, it said, may "constitute the crime against humanity of enslavement."
>The most serious concerns surrounded places of detention, where forced labor victims systematically had to work under threat of physical violence and in inhumane conditions, it said.
<Tuesday's report called on North Korea to "end forced labor in all its forms," "end slavery and slavery-like practices," and "abolish the use of child labor," among a long list of recommendations.
>It also called on the U.N. Security Council to refer the situation to the International Criminal Court.https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2024/07/17/asia-pacific/un-forced-labor-north-korea/ >>2281378it is CIA sponsor.
>>2281392Correct.
>>2281318Please pay for relocation & korean language lessons. Think about it, everyone wins: We'
ll get to live in People's Korea and you will be rid our backward unenlightened despotism worshiping posts here. EVERYBODY WINS
PLEASE FOR FUCK SAKE PLEASE! SAVE US FROM THIS NIGHTMARE BEYOND OUR WILDEST FUCKING IMAGINATIONS!
Milfags what does this stuff mean? Is this sound milfaggery in modern war or no?
Dear Comrade Kim Jong-un observed the comprehensive tactical training by branch of the Korean People's Army training team training system
On May 13, a comprehensive tactical training of special operation units for breaking through the standard of the universal battalion was conducted as part of the training method of the Korean People's Army Training Corps Conference, and a match and demonstration firepower cooperation training between tank units were conducted.
Comrade Kim Jong Un , General Secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea and Chairman of the State Affairs Commission of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, visited the 60th Training Center of the Capital Defense Corps of the Korean People's Army and observed the tactical training method for each branch of the military branch being conducted under the training system of the training corps conference.
Comrade Kim Jong Un was welcomed on the spot by Comrade No Kwang Chol, Minister of National Defense of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, Comrade Ri Yong Gil, Chief of the General Staff of the Korean People's Army, Comrade Jong Kyong Thaek, Director of the General Political Bureau of the Korean People's Army, and other key commanders of the Ministry of National Defense and the military administrative commanders of the combined combined forces of the Korean People's Army.
Comrade Kim Jong Un learned about the functions and components of the training base before observing the training, and praised the excellent conditions for the divisions to smoothly conduct various tactical training exercises as befitting a multi-functional comprehensive training base.
Comrade Kim Jong Un observed the various tactical training methods together with the commanding officers of the Korean People's Army from the observation post.
Participants in the Korean People's Army Training Corps Conference were in attendance.
The Combat Training Bureau of the General Staff of the Korean People's Army explained to the observers the format, method, and content of various tactical exercises and games.
The training, which was conducted in the order of various tactical exercises of special operation units to break through the standard of the universal battalion and competition between tank units, attracted extraordinary interest from the observers.
Comrade Kim Jong Un said that as a result of our Party's putting forward the five-point policy of revolution in training, its deep concern for thoroughly establishing a training-oriented atmosphere at all levels of the People's Army in line with the recent development pattern and changes in modern warfare, strengthening the integrated system of training organization, judgment and summary, and focusing on practical training, scientific combat training systems have been established throughout the army, and he positively evaluated that this is promoting substantial changes in the training sector and strengthening the combat capability of units and sub-units.
Comrade Kim Jong Un said that while training games by service and branch of arms are being innovatively conducted in various fields to cope with an actual war, changes have begun to take place in the awareness of the workers in the training sector, and that the fundamental change in the training perspective will have a great effect on cultivating a high fighting spirit of our soldiers, perfecting military-technical preparation and improving the combatability and effectiveness of our weapons systems, and that this will become a potential driving force for development in fully enhancing the war-fighting capability of our armed forces.
Comrade Kim Jong Un said that there are quite a few fronts that our revolutionary armed forces are responsible for at present, but the most important front among them is the anti-imperialist class front and the most vital task is completing preparations for war, emphasizing that combat training to make all levels of the army into an elite force that is thorough and perfect in executing any order is the first revolutionary task.
Comrade Kim Jong Un said that in order to implement the Party's military strategic plan to develop the special operations forces into all-rounders and all-round specialists, it is important to vigorously launch a revolutionary movement to break through the standard of all-round battalions.
Comrade Kim Jong Un said that modern warfare is a showdown of military talents and a battle of the brains of commanders, and pointed out that in order to firmly maintain and strengthen the qualitative superiority of our army, all combat training should be organized on the principle of enhancing the initiative, self-reliance and creativity of commanders and practical brain training and practical practical training should be carried out with high intensity.
Comrade Kim Jong Un said that the sure path to building a strong army pursued by our Party is paved on the training front and that the People's Army's combat readiness is completed and guaranteed from the training sector, and that to do so, it is necessary to focus on improving the quality of military education and fostering and strengthening the ranks of training personnel.
Comrade Kim Jong Un mentioned the need to comprehensively complete the training equipment and elements of training grounds capable of preparing all levels for modern warfare in line with the realistic demands urging qualitative changes in our armed forces, introduce an information system and a scientific judgment system into training, and establish a new training system in line with the development trends of the new century.
Comrade Kim Jong Un met with the combatants of the 11th Corps of the Korean People's Army who had passed the standard for a universal battalion on this day, and highly praised them for playing an exemplary role as the vanguard of the revolutionary training front and in completing war preparations, and warmly encouraged them and took a meaningful commemorative photo with them.
Comrade Kim Jong Un clarified various tasks arising in the training sector to fundamentally improve the content, form and methods of operational combat training, make training a part of daily life, a habit and an inherent quality of the training, and prepare the People's Army as an army that can wage war at any time and is sure to win in a fight, and to expand its strategic potential as a strong army.
Comrade Kim Jong Un expressed his hope that this seventh training workers’ conference would be an epochal leap forward in upgrading the qualifications and capabilities of all training workers to the next level, and sent fighting encouragement to all participants in the training workers’ conference. (End)
>>2281310>ancom flag>>2281315>/leftypol/ denies it so DPRK must be a socialist paradise without forced labor and a class society.unironically, yes.
>>2281378The Principles of Communism says DPRK is.
North Korea makes arrests over botched ship launch
North Korea has detained three shipyard officials over an accident during the launch of a new warship on Wednesday, state media say.
Parts of the 5,000-tonne destroyer's bottom were crushed during the launch ceremony, tipping the vessel off balance.
An investigation into the incident, which North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un described as a "criminal act", is ongoing.
KCNA, North Korea's official news agency, identified those detained as the chief engineer of the northern Chongjin shipyard where the destroyer was built, as well as the construction head and an administrative manager.
The report said that the three were "responsible for the accident".
On Friday, KCNA said the manager of the shipyard, Hong Kil Ho, had been summoned by law enforcers.
Satellite images showed the vessel lying on its side covered by large blue tarpaulins, and a portion of the vessel appeared to be on land.
North Korea's state media did not mention any casualties or injuries at the time, downplaying the damage.
KCNA reported that there were no holes on the ship's bottom - contrary to initial reports.
"The hull starboard was scratched and a certain amount of seawater flowed into the stern section," the agency said.
Kim said on Thursday the accident was caused by "absolute carelessness, irresponsibility and unscientific empiricism".
He added that those who made "irresponsible errors" would be dealt with at a plenary meeting next month.
It is not clear what punishment they might face, but the authoritarian state has a woeful human rights record.
It is uncommon for North Korea to publicly disclose local accidents - though it has done this a handful of times in the past.
This particular accident comes weeks after North Korea unveiled a similar 5,000-tonne destroyer, the Choe Hyon.
Kim had called that warship a "breakthrough" in modernising North Korea's navy and said it would be deployed early next year.
>>2281321people saying this with a straight face is why I cant take libs like you seriously on anything international
you have 0 idea how their society works beyond ridiculous propaganda cliches. You apparently dont even know what slavery is, but words means nothing to retards like you, you just bought into the idea dprk has bad vibes from garbage propaganda and cant be bothered to actually inform yourself so you just spit out anything you associate with evil to them
>>2283237there are many books on the life and work of the average citizen and people of the DPRK.
If you want to know more, in English Language, follow in Tiktok comrades Millenial Chaos (@MC) and Madeline Pendleton
(@madeline_pendleton) who have a large list of books and reading material.
ofc, tiktok ban continuously their accounts, but these are a forever thing tiktok won't won.
Millennial Chaos has
Radio Free USA youtube channel, too, with the same book list.
>>2283267>>2283237sorry, @millenial.chaos, not @mc.
though it appears in my search as @mc.
>>2283267Millennium chaos is insanely based lol
Love that dude
>>2287756>So sad how these tour guide people always have to receive all these loaded angry questions from westerners, but I guess it's their job, they're probably used to itIt's so frustrating. Can you imagine having access like this to ask what you like and coming out with the nonsense most the people you see on YT do?
Unfortunately border is still closed but i've been thinking of taking a trip to DPRK when it's open again and unironically just getting to converse with people is a big 'pro' on my pro's and con's list to spending holiday on DPRK instead of a normal place.
Parental Love Embedded in the Transformation of the Mangyongdae Students' and Children's Palace
In the Mangyongdae district of Pyongyang, there is the Mangyongdae Schoolchildren's Palace, a comprehensive extracurricular education center and a center for talent education for school children.
This place is equipped with various rooms for extracurricular activities for students, as well as a theater, library, gymnasium, and swimming pool. Many promising scientists, athletes, and artists are growing up here.
The transformation of the Mangyongdae Schoolchildren's Palace, which has transformed into the world's only palace for children, is imbued with the ardent love of our respected father, Marshal Kim Jong Un, who spares no expense for future generations and gives them only the greatest happiness in this world.
The palace, which was built in 1989 under the grace of the great leader Marshal Kim Il Sung and the great leader Marshal Kim Jong Il, was rebuilt even more magnificently and splendidly under the energetic and meticulous leadership of the respected father Marshal .
One day in May 2014, our respected father Marshal , who visited this place and presented the task of reconstructing the palace, said that it was the party's firm determination to allow the sons and daughters of the working people to freely unfold their talents, and he organized design and construction forces and established measures to secure materials.
Our dear father Marshal personally guided hundreds of construction plans, frequently learned about the progress of the construction, and took benevolent measures.
In November of the following year, he toured the renovated palace and gave valuable instructions that served as guidelines for its management and operation. Afterwards, he sent numerous musical instruments, modern educational facilities, equipment, and buses.
The song “There is no one in the world to envy” sung by our school children, who are spreading their wings of hope and talent to the fullest thanks to the great parental love that is constantly bestowed, is echoing high in the sky of the socialist fatherland. (End)
https://www.youtube.com/@RadioFreeAmericaYTthis
Radio Free America link, just in case youtube algorithms obscure the search of the channel.
>>2287850Oh yeah it's awful hahah, they really dehumanize them. But north koreans are some of the most dehumanized people on the planet, to absurd extents, so it's to be expected.
I would love to visit one day, but unfortunately Im far too poor at the moment. It's definitely something to save up for tho.
But yeah I think it'd be really nice just to speak to them about small stuff yknow, I feel like they don't get that too much from the tourism videos I usually see, where they have such nasty preconceptions or even like pity or something, like awww these poor brainwashed sheep, so gross
>>2288439Why u wanna visit greenland lol?
I wish I could order books from the DPRK embassy lol, I say go for it! Tho you'll probably end up on some kinda list for that little correspondence lmao
Well-connected students use propaganda troupes to dodge N. Korean farm labor
https://www.dailynk.com/english/well-connected-students-use-propaganda-troupes-to-dodge-n-korean-farm-labor/
>With rice transplanting season underway at farms across North Korea, party committees at Pyongyang universities have been enrolling well-connected students in mobile artistic propaganda troupes to spare them from mandatory farm labor.
>“The propaganda troupe at Jang Chol Gu University of Commerce suddenly gained new members in late April on orders from party committee officials. Students view troupe membership as a privilege since members are exempt from farm work,” a source in Pyongyang told Daily NK recently.
>North Korean universities operate propaganda troupes that travel to farms, construction sites and major events throughout the year to boost worker morale through artistic performances, including songs and comedy skits.
>These propaganda troupes exist even at elite party-run universities such as Kim Il Sung University, Kim Chaek University of Technology and Pyongyang Medical University. Kim Il Sung University is considered one of the country’s top institutions, and its propaganda troupe is renowned for exceptionally talented performers.
>These troupes serve a symbolic role as the public face of their universities. To be selected, students are expected to demonstrate skill in areas such as singing, musical instruments, or public speaking.
>However, talent alone isn’t enough to secure a spot. Universities expand troupe membership when spring farm mobilization begins, and recommendation from the university party committee carries significant weight in securing placement.
>“Even students who lacked the skills to join the propaganda troupe when they entered college still dream of joining when farm mobilization season arrives. Party committee members often instruct the troupe leader or Youth League chair to select specific students for membership,” the source said.
<Artistic talent takes the backseat
>Notably, Jang Chol Gu University of Commerce is known for admitting many children from wealthy and influential families. Children from such backgrounds typically possess some artistic ability due to early arts education. This is why officials see little issue with placing well-connected students in propaganda troupes, according to the source.
>Moreover, artistic talent isn’t particularly crucial since the propaganda troupes are simply sent to farms to encourage workers, rather than staging sophisticated concerts. This provides another justification for party committee interference in troupe selection.
>“The propaganda troupes are supposed to focus on artistic performance, but in reality, they’ve become a way to avoid mobilization. Ultimately, students from wealthy and powerful families get an exemption from mandatory farm work. This shows how class privilege is infiltrating the classroom,” the source said.Watched this last night. It's set during the Korean war, where a motley crew of injured soldiers and volunteers have to band together in order to oppose a yankee paratrooper drop behind the line of contact.
A "complete" list of other dprk movies here:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL4D1A9E71A707338B>>2295743The problem us then the right deviationists/revisionists then use this as a critch for indefinite delay of central planning.
The real trick is steady increase in movement of industries into the planning matrix.
From small private to big private or collectives.
Big private and collectives into comercial state owned.
Commercial state owned into break even strategic state owned.
Strategic state owned into centrally planned state owned.
Finance, infrastructure & weapons should go towards the last stage very quickly.
>>2297313we did it reddit
they said it was damaged beyond repair
>>2297313https://www.38north.org/2025/06/quick-take-north-korean-warship-has-finally-launched/North Korean Warship Has Finally LaunchedNorth Korea’s capsized second Choe Hyun Class destroyer was finally launched on Thursday after it was returned to an upright position earlier this week. Commercial satellite imagery from June 5 shows the vessel floating in the harbor at Chongjin Port.
The ship was launched Thursday afternoon. An image taken at 11:32 AM KST shows the ship upright with its bow still stationed on the quay. A subsequent image taken just after 3 PM KST shows the ship floating in the harbor.
Many barrage balloons that were used to manually right the ship appear to still be attached to the vessel, possibly to stabilize it in an upright position or as insurance against further accidents.
North Korean state media has yet to report on the launch.
The ship fell sideways into the water on May 21 following a failed side launch attempt, when a launching mechanism appeared to jam, leaving the bow of the destroyer still attached. Kim Jong Un was present at the time of the incident and instructed workers to repair the ship before this month’s Plenary Meeting of the WPK Central Committee. Earlier this week, 38 North reported that the ship had been repositioned upright.
The mass movement of all the people is a powerful driving force for national revival.
The full text of the personal pen-named essay “A mass movement involving all the people is a powerful driving force for national revival” published in the 7th edition of “Democratic Chosun” is as follows.
Today, our people are holding high the decision of the 11th Plenary Session of the 8th Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea and are redoubling their fighting spirit for great changes and vigorous advancement in the overall national construction.
In order to further accelerate the pace of our revolution toward comprehensive revival and development and bring about the future of a revival power, we must actively launch a mass movement involving all the people.
Dear Comrade Kim Jong Un said:
《Mass movements are a powerful means of arousing the broad masses to popular heroism and collective innovation, thereby bringing about constant upsurge in the construction of a socialist power.》
The mass movement is a creative method for strengthening comradely unity and cooperation among people in all sectors and units of revolution and construction and for fully developing their inexhaustible strength, and it is a revolutionary method for vigorously accelerating socialist construction through the struggle of all the people and collective innovation.
The revolutionary cause is a struggle for the masses and at the same time a historical task that the masses themselves must carry out. Therefore, the success of the revolutionary cause depends on how actively and widely the masses rise up to realize it. In the flames of the mass movement of all the people, the political awareness and creative enthusiasm of the people are greatly heightened, and the boundless strength and wisdom of the masses are fully mobilized, resulting in unprecedented miracles and innovations in the revolution and construction. There is no means more powerful than the mass movement in arousing the spiritual power of the entire people, greatly heightening their loyalty and patriotism, and making the whole country seethe with the struggle for increased production and creation.
The proud achievements being made in the all-people's advance to successfully occupy the goals set forth by the 8th Congress of the Party through the new struggle to increase production and the patriotic struggle clearly demonstrate the enormous power of the mass movement. The present reality in which the mass innovation movement is being vigorously developed in many sectors and units of the national economy in step with the advance of the upper house working class that has raised the beacon of miraculous increase in production and the national economic plan is being exceeded every month clearly shows that if we all increase production and advance together, we can continuously create new standards, new records and new miracles in production and construction.
A mass movement involving all the people is a powerful weapon that can develop all the people into ardent patriots dedicated to the revival and development of the country.
Love for one's country is a noble human emotion and an important factor that determines the existence, development, and future of each country and people. Just as water drops combine to form a mighty river, when patriotic hearts unite as one, the country becomes prosperous and strong and can build a powerful nation that the world will not envy.
The powerful means of uniting all the people under the banner of patriotism and powerfully encouraging them to fight for national revival is the mass movement of all the people. The mass movement is not simply a practical undertaking to create any material wealth, but a movement of human transformation and ideological reform that fosters all people as revolutionaries and ardent patriots who are endlessly loyal to the Party , the leader, the country and the people. In the flames of the revolutionary mass movement, people of conscience and duty who know how to repay the Party's favor, true patriots who spare no blood and sweat for the country and the people, and the embodiment of virtue and good customs who share joy and sorrow together grow. The power of the mass movement lies in the extraordinary cultivation of revolutionary and patriotic spirit among the people, fostering ordinary people into heroes, turning backward people into advanced elements, and making everyone help and lead one another to boldly overcome difficulties.
The history of our revolution is a sacred history of human transformation and ideological reform that has fostered all people as revolutionaries who are endlessly loyal to the Party and creators of feats through mass movements of all the people. The mass movements that have been vigorously carried out in each year of the revolution, including the movement to eradicate illiteracy and the movement to donate patriotic rice to the frontline that emerged during the Fatherland Liberation War, have brought about a fundamental change in the ideological consciousness and spiritual and moral character of our people.
In the historical journey toward socialism and communism, the tasks and subjective and objective conditions of each revolutionary stage are constantly changing, but the truth that the secret of creating miracles lies in arousing the ideological and spiritual power of the masses remains unchanged. The power of the mass movement that remarkably strengthens the political and ideological might of the revolutionary ranks with human and ideological transformation as the basis and powerful driving force of all movements is infinite. When the patriotic movement and mass movement are vigorously carried out, the entire people will maintain absolute loyalty to the leader , unconditionally carry out the Party's line and policies to the end, and fully display the revolutionary spirit of devotedly struggling for the prosperity and development of the country, society and the collective.
The mass movement of all the people is the driving force that fan the flames of collective innovation and accelerates the revival and development of the country.
The power of socialism is the power of collectivism, and socialism is a society that advances based on the boundless power of the united masses. When all the people display extraordinary creative enthusiasm and combine their wisdom and strength, socialism can advance vigorously, brimming with boundless vitality and energy. The power of the mass movement lies in the fact that it leads socialist construction to a constant upsurge through mass struggle and collective innovation in accordance with the nature of the socialist system and the lawful requirements of its development.
The superiority and vitality of the mass movement have been clearly confirmed in our revolutionary practice. The anti-Japanese revolutionary struggle, which began with the struggle of the entire masses to acquire arms, brought about the new spring of national liberation even in the worst conditions and environment without the support of the national rear or the regular army, and my high ground movement, the revenge record movement and the Mincheong movement to win the firearms created a great myth of victory in the war. Mass movements such as the movement to increase production and competition, the Chollima Movement, the movement to win the red flag of the three revolutions and the movement to create speed in the 1980s enabled our motherland to rise from the vacant lot and ashes to become an independent, self-reliant and self-defense socialist state and to open up a period of great prosperity of creation and construction.
Today, in our country, under the wise leadership of the Party, various mass movements, including the Three Revolutionary Red Flag Movement, the Movement to Win the Military Working Class Title, the Multi-Yield Movement, the Socialist Patriotic Forestry Movement, and the Popular Technological Innovation Movement, are being vigorously organized and developed.
In the midst of the fervor of the mass movement, the revolutionary spirit of self-reliance is overflowing throughout the country, and the atmosphere of creating new standards and new records, the competitive fervor to get ahead and learn from others, the virtue and good custom of helping each other, sharing experiences, and being the first to jump into difficult and challenging tasks are becoming a social trend. This is today's reality.
When the entire people firmly hold on to the patriotic movement and mass movement that has brought about a century-long transformation and advanced the times as a powerful weapon for prosperity and development and redouble their fighting spirit and creative spirit with a single mind of loyalty and patriotism, the spirit of collective innovation will blow fiercely throughout the country.
All workers and laborers should actively fight to further fan the flames of the revolutionary mass movement and bring forward the comprehensive revival and development of our country with its absolute power. (End)
Goes hard tbh.
The issue of entering the United States is not our concern.
(Pyongyang, June 10, Korean Central News Agency)
The full text of the article “The US Entry Issue is Not Our Concern” published on the 9th by international affairs critic Kim Myeong-cheol is as follows.
Recently, the United States announced a measure to designate nationals of 19 countries as subject to entry bans under the pretext of "threats" to national security.
The arrogant, exclusive, and racist behavior of the United States is now being strongly condemned and rejected by the international community.
Of course, it is within the sovereign rights of any country to regulate and control the entry of foreigners.
Nevertheless, the reason the above-mentioned measures of the United States are being criticized by the international community is because they are being used as a malicious political tool to discriminate against and pressure other countries.
Some are noting that the Democratic People's Republic of Korea was not included in the US entry ban this time, and are offering a strange interpretation that this may reflect the US administration's conciliatory stance toward North Korea, which seeks to keep the door open for the resumption of US-North Korea talks.
This can only be seen as a one-sided judgment that comes from not knowing much about the past and present of the Korea-US relationship.
The current US administration included North Korea on the list of countries subject to entry bans in 2017, during its first term, on the unreasonable grounds that North Korea refused to cooperate with the US government and did not meet its information sharing requirements, and maintained this list throughout its term.
This year, when the second term began, the effect of the measure to redesignate our country as a “counter-terrorism non-cooperative country” and completely ban travel to North Korea by American citizens was extended again.
Only the United States can explain whether the exclusion of North Korea from the current US travel ban is purely technical or politically motivated.
But one thing is clear: we have absolutely no interest in whether or not we are allowed entry into the United States.
Even if the current US administration did not intentionally put our country on the list of countries subject to entry bans, we would have no interest in it and no reason to be happy about it.
The United States, the country that is most hostile to the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, where contempt for other ethnic groups and racial discrimination are entrenched as social customs and where all sorts of social evils run rampant, can never be welcomed as a travel destination for our citizens.
Recently, the vice president, who is the number two official in the current US administration, criticized a certain American university for lacking “ideological diversity” and made an absurd and groundless argument that criticized our country’s political system. This is another representative example of how we feel aversion toward the United States.
If you thought that we would accept as some kind of “gift” the current US administration is allowing entry into the US that the person concerned neither thought nor wanted, you would be mistaken.
Whether the United States unilaterally creates illegal regulations and includes our country in them or not is not our concern, and I believe that the Democratic People's Republic of Korea will not welcome Americans entering our country in the future, just as it did in the past.
This is a legitimate and legal exercise of sovereign rights to protect the national social system and the welfare of the people from all kinds of hostile threats from the United States, and is completely different in nature from the United States' biased entry ban, which is largely malicious in nature.
We will not evaluate America's actions based on anyone's wishful thinking or subjective interpretation, and we will deal with America as it is and based on our own independent judgment, without adding or subtracting anything. (End)
>>2313037>For as long as North Korea upholds anti-revisionism, the Workers Part of Korea will continue to dominate society, >the violent dictatorship over the enemies of proletarian power will persist, >the class struggle against capitalist tendencies will continue, communist ideological education will remain pervasive,>agriculture will remain collectivised, the commanding heights of industry will remain stateowned and controlled, >the economy will remain centrally planned, the party leader will remain supreme, and the leader’s personality cult will deepen.
<North Korea views itself as “a lone voice of firm and sensible anti-revisionism, alone in being untouched by the madness of straying from the staunchest of socialist paths towards reform and‘opening up’ to the capitalist West”. <This article has argued that this viewis largely justified. Compared to the other remaining socialist states, which have each, to varying degrees, adopted revisionist policies, North Korea has remained steadfast in its communist course. It is the last remaining bastion of anti-revisionism. This is an great example of why i chuckle to myself every time anons start going on about no communists allowed in academia, btw.
>>2313037>>2313351This makes me happy.
But of course, it is acknowledged that there has been some degeneration in the econ. sphere.
Here's hoping it is limited and/or being reduced with time.
>>2313037Very interesting read. I already had a sense that Juche was more-or-less created in order to justify the DPRK taking a path that was non-aligned during the Sino-Soviet split, but seeing the actual reasons they desired that was really interesting. I had no idea Kim Il Sung was so scathing in criticizing modern (ie, Khrushchevite) revisionism. Although it would be hard to adopt the Khrushchevite co-existance line when your country is still technically at war with a bordering capitalist-imperialist counterpart that is being weaponized by foreign powers.
I think, despite the nonsense that the DPRK flings on Marxism-Leninism nowadays in order to justify their nonsense about Juche being an all-original philosophy, their stance of still being friendly with the USSR was way better than the Albanian approach.
>>2313037Why does anti-revisionism seem to require a Cult of Personality? This article makes it seem like anti-revisionism is enforced primarily by harkoning to Confuscian voodoo to pressure people to not deviate from the intentions of the Great Leader and Dear Leader; who essentially have to be become living embodiments of both the nation and anti-revisionism in order to act essentially as the equivalents to the Christian saints in inspiring reverence.
I mean, during Stalin's time, people wanted to publish children's books about how child Stalin could apparently do miracles. Stalin vetoed those but the idea still got pretty far in the party before that. In the DPRK, those sorts of hagiographies seem even encouraged by constast, for example with the Anecdotes series. Does that mean this sort of Cult of Personality is a good thing in the sense that it can effectively resist revisionist incroachment?
I've seen the argument before that, even though Stalin disagreed with this Cult of Personality, that it was a good thing for giving people a figurehead that they could proclaim loyalty towards and thus allow them to contradict the Party at regional level without being disloyal to the state and Communism, since Stalin himself became a sort of embodiment of the Soviet nation and Communist construction.
Perhaps the Cult of Personality can create living embodiments of anti-revisionism to use to leave anti-proletarian ideologues and politicians to a battle where they must contradict the embodiment of the nation.
>>2314401I think your point about the ongoing war and the country literally being split by an imperial power is a good one.
This material reality simply made any arguments about peaceful coexistence obviously false (to the point of absurdity). This probably also had a good unintended side effect of making the DPRK suspicious of other aspects of revisionism (like going full socdem perestroika reforms, maybe even slowing kosygin-libermanization tendencies)
>>2314502I alawy had my reservations too but the way i look at it for the DPRK it has suceeded where many others have fallen by the wayside so i am personally not quick to be too critical of the culture of leadership as a means of keeping the revolution on course.
>>2314401>I think, despite the nonsense that the DPRK flings on Marxism-Leninism nowadays in order to justify their nonsense about Juche being an all-original philosophy, their stance of still being friendly with the USSR was way better than the Albanian approach.At least they have a based reason, lmao.
<North Korea’s main reason for discarding the language of Marxism-Leninism is that it thought revisionists spoiled the ideology after Stalin’s death (Pateman 2021). >>2313683>This makes me happy.For me, i liked:
<Another reason is that North Korea has always valued international communist solidarity. <Even if communists disagree, North Korea does not want this to undermine unity and cooperation (Kun 1967). Wholesome!
>>2316615A hyper-individual society, they cannot fathom collective activities that are not competitive.
I imagine it's the same people will look at pictures of starving african children with smiles on their faces and say 'at least they are happy'.
>>2316615They do this with everything in the DPRK though.
Remember how hair saloon style suggestions were interpreted as what Koreans are forced to get?
Or how they build an entire aqua park and filled it with actors just for a few western tourists?
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I mean to be fair, the rhetoric has slow changed over the past decade or so. Now its "Pyongyang is legitimately decent/good living but its only for the 10-15% of pop. that are 'elites'; The rest of the country is still semi-starving." As other cities start to get more coverage over the next 10 years it will be "cities okayish but rural still semi-starving". Basically the awful material living standards in the DPRK will become like the equivalent of the "god of gaps" for christian fundies.
In June 2000 a historic north-south summit meeting was held in Pyongyang.
When the agreement on the joint declaration was announced, everyone present at the banquet was jubilant as if reunification itself had been realized.
Pointing to a picture on the wall opposite the table of honour, Chairman Kim Jong Il asked the guests from south Korea whether the picture depicted a morning glow or an evening glow.
After racking his brain for the answer, a south Korean minister eventually responded: It portrays a rising sun, symbolic of the bright future of the Korean nation.
The guests present there all nodded at his answer.
Unexpectedly, however, the Chairman shook his head and said that the glow in the picture was both a sunrise and a sunset.
His answer was so simple and yet correct that they could only admire him. They realized what he said was too significant to be a mere witty humorous remark–every judgement depends on one’s viewpoint, and the success of every undertaking is decided by one’s resolve.
If all the fellow countrymen were united in one mind under the banner of the declaration, the future of the nation would be as bright as the rosy, rising sun. On the contrary, the prospects for national reunification would be as murky as the evening if the declaration was not implemented, just remaining as a mere sheet of paper.
At the Chairman’s remarks of philosophical depth the south Korean guests were compelled to look back at their past standpoint towards the issue of reunification.
https://kcnawatch.org/newstream/1563766625-424046778/splendid-answer/>>2330385There were no deaths.
Great speach btw, although to long to post here. quite notable though:
http://www.kcna.kp/kp/article/q/37bca39e754f42000f558d30ec6da5fd.kcmsf >>2316615This is always the case, even the most mundane footage of people in the DPRK going about their business is always flooded with people going "poor brainwashed people, they can't even live life, it's so scary, you're putting them in danger by filming them omg"
Westerners/liberals are disgusting
>>2333579Lots of cultists and propagandist spread this shit sure, but you gotta be delusional if you don't think it's deeply ingrained in the western liberal psyche, normies regurgitate that shit with zero hesitation
It's also not exclusively a western thing, I've seen street interviews with ruskies and Chinese saying pretty much the same shit about north koreans
The aggressors who have brought new warfare to the Middle East will not be able to avoid responsibility for destroying international peace.
Statement by the Spokesperson of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea
Israel's illegal and reckless act of state terrorism, which began an indiscriminate large-scale military attack on the Islamic Republic of Iran in the early hours of the 13th, is raising the risk of a new all-out war in the Middle East and drawing strong condemnation and concern from the international community.
Israel's indiscriminate military atrocities, which are increasingly targeting civilians and are flagrantly trampling on the fundamental principles of international law and the UN Charter, are heinous acts of aggression that trample on the sovereignty and territorial integrity of a sovereign state, and are crimes against humanity that cannot be tolerated in any way.
The Democratic People's Republic of Korea expresses grave concern over Israel's military attack and resolutely condemns it.
The grave situation the world is witnessing today clearly shows that Israel, supported by the United States and the West, is a cancerous presence in the Middle East and the main culprit in destroying world peace and security.
Israel, which has continuously expanded its territory through four Middle East wars and dozens of military invasions in the past, has recently expanded its military attacks in regional countries such as the Gaza Strip in Palestine, the West Bank of the Jordan River, Lebanon, and Syria, massacring tens of thousands of civilians and creating a serious humanitarian crisis.
Instead of condemning Israel for its frenzied ambitions for territorial expansion and for pushing the Middle East situation toward an inevitable catastrophic situation, the international community is instead turning a critical eye toward the United States and Western powers, who are fanning the flames of war by questioning the legitimate exercise of Iran's sovereign rights and right to self-defense, the victim.
The Jewish restorationists who have brought new warfare to the Middle East and the forces behind them who fiercely defend them will be held fully responsible for destroying international peace and security.
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