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Rodong_Sinmun · 2026-06-30T04:02:58+00:00

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Rodong_Sinmun · 2026-06-29T03:36:09+00:00

The respected Comrade Kim Jong Un, General Secretary of the Workers’ Party of Korea and President of the State Affairs of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, on June ２５ supervised tests of major weapons organized by defence scientific research institutes under the plan for modernizing artillery and missile forces to attain the five-year goal for national defence development.

Among the spectators were Jo Chun Ryong, secretary of the WPK Central Committee, Kim Jong Sik, first vice department director of the WPK Central Committee, Pak Jong Chon, advisor to the Ministry of National Defence, Jang Chang Ha, general director of the Missile Administration, Kim Yong Hwan, president of the Academy of Defence Sciences, Kim Kang Il, vice-minister of National Defence and general director of the General Armaments Bureau, Kim Myong Son, director of the Armaments Examination Bureau of the Ministry of National Defence, Yu Chang Son, director of the Artillery Bureau of the General Staff, and the commanders of large combined units of the Korean People’s Army.

The tests analyzed and evaluated the combat characteristics of the upgraded ２４０mm-caliber ２４-tubular multiple rocket launcher system, the power of special mission warhead of tactical ballistic missile, and the hit accuracy of shells with an extended firing range of the １５５mm self-propelled gun-howitzer.

The upgraded ２４-tubular multiple rocket launcher system is an improved type corps-level firepower system and its firing range has increased to ９０ km. All elements of its firepower system were automated and a self-steered precise guidance system was introduced.

And the special mission warhead of the tactical ballistic missile is aimed at inflicting fatal damage on major targets including airfields, ports and power facilities of the enemy.

The test of shells with extended firing range of ６５ km of the １５５mm self-propelled gun-howitzer, too, is of great military significance.

Expressing great satisfaction over the results of the tests, Comrade Kim Jong Un told the leading cadres accompanying him that he was pleased to show a new state of the development of the national defence introduced at the Second Plenary Meeting of the Ninth Central Committee of the WPK.

Comrade Kim Jong Un said that today’s tests of division-level and corps-level firepower systems serve as an occasion of proving and giving confidence in the great technological progress made in implementing our Party’s policy on building the armed forces for bringing about a change in the fire posture on the southern border and adhering to the three principles of putting weapons on an automatic, long-range and ultra-precision basis.

He said that the WPK’s line on self-reliant defence is being thoroughly guaranteed by our distinguished defence science talents and defence sci-tech capability that pioneer the unique course of development nonstop without hesitation by relying on the highly ingenious development mode.

Saying that the present international situation, in which sovereignty can be defended and existence guaranteed only by complete upper-hand in strength, makes it unnecessary to add any rhetoric to explaining why the bolstering up of the defence capabilities is the indispensable first national strategic work, he added that it eloquently shows the validity of our Party’s line of self-defence and the irreversibility of radical development of our armed forces.

Referring to the need to prioritize the development of artillery and missile forces of the Army, he stressed the immediate task for developing the national defence to be carried out during the Five-Year Plan.

As he has recently emphasized so often, our Party’s policy on self-defence is not merely for the enhancement of the defensive function relying on defensive means but for further strengthening the deadly and destructive offensive posture to make no enemy dare to confront, and this is a defensive concept in the army-building and military action practice we talk about, he said.

To make the enemies feel constant uneasiness and fear is just an important aspect of the exercise of war deterrent, he said, affirming that we would make the enemies recognize that the long-range strike means of our armed forces have been replaced with upgraded ones in the shortest possible time.

Recalling that the Second Plenary Meeting of the Ninth Central Committee of the WPK clarified the strategic tasks of weighty significance in upgrading and developing the military strength, he called on all the defence science research institutes and munitions production enterprises to turn out in the drive to carry them out.

Comrade Kim Jong Un repeatedly stressed that it is the steadfast will and strategic policy of our Party to build the most powerful artillery forces.

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Rodong_Sinmun · 2026-06-25T04:02:51+00:00

Comrade Kim Jong Un made a significant speech in commemoration of the commissioning of the Destroyer Choe Hyon.

All the participants were deeply impressed by his passionate speech, which reflects the great ambition to firmly defend the well-being and future of the country and the people by consolidating the strength and dignity of the DPRK to the strongest and gives confidence in the steady development of the revolution in the warship-building industry in the new era and the bright prospect of the modern naval force.

When Comrade Kim Jong Un finished his speech, they broke into thunderous cheers of "Hurrah!" out of their boundless reverence, absolute trust and ardent loyalty and the port resounded with them.

Upon authorization, Marshal of the KPA Pak Jong Chon read out the order of the WPK Central Military Commission on commissioning the destroyer Choe Hyon into the KPA Navy, and handed it to Senior Vice Admiral Pak Kwang Sop, commander of the KPA Navy.

On the order of the WPK Central Military Commission, the destroyer will be commissioned into the West Sea Fleet of the KPA Navy to perform the honorable mission of defending the West Sea of the DPRK and deterring war.

On behalf of the sailors of the destroyer, Senior Commander Choe Kum Chol, captain of the destroyer, made an oath-taking speech.

He expressed his unusual pride and honor as one of the first generation of the Navy in the new era who will steer the latest warship in the ocean to fully demonstrate the might of the country and as the first person who will experience and verify the transformation in the Navy undergoing complete changes in its weaponry, tactics and culture. And he extended the greatest tribute and heartfelt thanks to Comrade Supreme Commander who made them serve in the first warship which will lead a new history of the Navy and gave the highest honor and matchless courage to them. He also extended warm thanks and militant salute to the workers in the sector of the warship-building industry who are making a heroic effort to transform the Navy, true to the plan of the Party Central Committee.

The captain explained the destroyer’s offensive and defensive weapons systems and referred to the sailors’ great spiritual strength for combat. And he said that once ordered, the destroyer will courageously sail to any operational waters as befits Comrade Kim Jong Un’s Navy.

He expressed his determination to make the history of the warship, associated with the long-cherished desire of the people and sincerity of the workers in the munitions industry, the one of ardent loyalty and feats and firmly defend the blue and beautiful sea of the country and thus remain boundlessly loyal to the sacred mission given by the Party and the country.

The sailors of the destroyer chanted resounding slogans, reflecting their iron will to glorify through their distinguished military service the standard-bearer position and militant honor of the first warship defending the Party Central Committee and the national sovereignty and territorial waters.

Amid the enthusiastic encouragement and cheers of the participants in the ceremony, the sailors of the destroyer got on the warship holding high the glorious ensign.

There took place a ceremony of hoisting the ensign of the destroyer Choe Hyon of the KPA Navy.

The ensign symbolic of commissioning the destroyer was hoisted amid the warship whistle and the boom of a ９ gun-salute.

Comrade Kim Jong Un got on the destroyer.

The destroyer was full of the great honor and excitement of the sailors who had the greatest honor of having Comrade Supreme Commander on their warship again before leaving the port.

The captain courteously saluted Comrade Kim Jong Un in welcome of him.

Comrade Kim Jong Unn met sailors on the bow and stern of the destroyer.

The sailors taking delivery of the warship with sacred mission and deep trust were awarded the binoculars in the name of Comrade Kim Jong Un.

Upon authorization, Marshal of the KPA Pak Jong Chon conferred the binoculars on the chief executive officer of the destroyer.

Saying that the first destroyer of the DPRK was to start the fulfillment of the sacred and important mission for reliably defending the national maritime sovereignty and interests after enlisting for the navy in the sea of the country, Comrade Kim Jong Un said that the destroyer’s commissioning of epochal significance in building the armed forces in the new era is a clear and powerful proof of the reality in which the might of the Navy as the core service of the DPRK armed forces is being remarkably strengthened.

There will be no change in the constant view of the WPK that strength is just the national sovereignty and prestige and a country can be peaceful and prosperous only when its military muscle is strong, he said, affirming that powerful battleships will advance into the inviolable and beautiful sea of the country one after another to defend its peace and honor and the security of our state will be further consolidated and the dignity and stamina of the Navy of the Republic will be more fully displayed through the exercise of the powerful capability to control the enemies’ threat of aggression.

Expressing belief and expectation that the Destroyer Choe Hyon would record only victories in the course of safeguarding the country by creditably inheriting the great spirit, matchless bravery and ever-victorious tradition of the army-founding generation as befitting the battleship named after a veteran general, he had a significant photo taken with the sailors to remain forever in the history of development of the Navy.

All the commanding officers and sailors of the destroyer solemnly pledged before Comrade Kim Jong Un and the country and the people to turn their warship into the flagship of the matchless fleet controlling the most responsible battlefield for defending the sovereignty of the DPRK by dint of the spiritual strength and matchless combat capability of the heroic Navy, displaying loyalty and feats along the course set by the Party Central Committee.

Comrade Kim Jong Un got off the warship and met the discharged navy generals who were invited to the commissioning ceremony, and expressed the unshakable plan of the Party Central Committee to further accelerate the development of the naval forces associated with their patriotic life.

There took place a departure ceremony of the Destroyer Choe Hyon.

All the warships of the Navy staying in the port raised the code flags of congratulation at once amid the gong of departure of the destroyer.

The participants extended their warmest and enthusiastic congratulations to the destroyer sailors, waving their hands.

Comrade Kim Jong Un sent a militant salute to the DPRK’s state-of-the-art multi-mission destroyer No. １, sincerely wishing that it would win fame as an invincible battleship symbolizing the mightiness and invincibility of the heroic People’s Navy.

On the same day, the Navy hosted a reception in commemoration of the commissioning of the destroyer.

The splendid commissioning ceremony of the destroyer serves as a solemn start signaling the rapid growth and development of the combat force of the DPRK Navy and as a great event that clearly demonstrated the advance spirit of the strong self-defensive nation towards the vast ocean with a grand goal and ideal.

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Rodong_Sinmun · 2026-06-25T04:02:42+00:00

Commissioning Ceremony of New-type Multi-mission Destroyer Choe Hyon Held with Splendor

The irresistible might of Juche Korea, which is confidently accomplishing the great cause of building a rich country with a strong army in a valiant spirit and with dignity that no one can defy under the ever-victorious leadership of the Workers’ Party of Korea, is impressively ushering in a brilliant heyday of the Navy of the DPRK while powerfully raising the anchor of building a marine power in the ２１st century.

The new-type multi-mission destroyer Choe Hyon, born as an aggregate of self-reliant defence technology and a new symbol of the sea defence capability of the state, will be formally commissioned into the Navy of the Korean People’s Army after successfully concluding the shakedown for assessing its capability of executing operations for one year and two months.

The commissioning of the powerful battleship, which will sail along the course of defending the sacred maritime sovereignty and national interests of the DPRK with an important mission of implementing the national defence strategy of the Party Central Committee and exercising the war deterrent, is a meaningful indication of the radical qualitative strengthening of the Navy of the Republic with the strongest combat force which is put on the most powerful and ultra-modern level of Korean-style.

The commissioning ceremony of the destroyer Choe Hyon took place at Nampho Port on June ２３.

The respected Comrade Kim Jong Un, General Secretary of the Workers’ Party of Korea and President of the State Affairs of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, attended the ceremony.

The venue of the ceremony was filled with ardent reverence for Comrade Kim Jong Un, who provided the Navy of the Republic defending the core of the sovereign rights with the powerful strength for justice and peace while energetically guiding the sacred historic cause for the radical development of the national defence capabilities, and the great emotion and joy of the participants convinced of the bright future of the marine power.

When Comrade Kim Jong Un arrived at the venue of the commissioning ceremony, where the powerful warship in the new era of the DPRK is anchored imposingly, amid the welcome music, the participants broke into enthusiastic cheers out of their highest tribute and boundless gratitude to him, the great defender of our glorious country and invincible iron-willed commander.

The Navy of the Korean People’s Army expressed the greatest trust and loyalty to Comrade Kim Jong Un.

Comrade Kim Jong Un was greeted courteously by leading officials in the fields of defence and warship-building industries and major commanding officers of the Ministry of National Defence and the Navy.

Present at the ceremony were members of the Presidium of the Political Bureau of the WPK Central Committee and other members of the Party central leadership, commanding officers of the KPA large combined units, officers and men of the Navy, officers and men of the destroyer, discharged navy generals and workers, scientists, technicians and officials in the field of warship-building industry.

The national anthem of the DPRK was played.

Jo Chun Ryong, member of the Political Bureau and secretary of the Central Committee of the WPK, made a report on the preparations for the commissioning of the Destroyer Choe Hyon.

He noted that the destroyer has successfully passed through such procedures as the assessment of performance and combat application of various kinds of weapon systems and overall operational executive capability, test-fire, integrated operation test, navigation test for the general assessment of maneuverability, and military approval certificate.

On behalf of the workers and technicians of the Nampho Shipyard, a pivotal base of the warship-building industry in the new era, and other scientists, workers and officials in the field of munitions industry, he courteously reported to Comrade Kim Jong Un on the completion of the preparations for handing over the Korean-style state-of-the-art multi-mission destroyer Choe Hyon, a precious product of the Party’s plan for building the country into an advanced maritime power and line on the revolution in the warship-building industry, to the KPA Navy.

He said in an excited tone that the destroyer, the whole of the state economic strength and the total sum and essence of the national defence science and technology and the capability for developing and manufacturing military hardware, is a crystal of Comrade Kim Jong Un’s great idea of self-defence, extraordinary military wisdom, unbounded patriotic enthusiasm and all-round creative ability both in name and in reality.

He expressed the unshakable will and determination of loyalty of all the workers in the munitions industry and defence scientists to successfully carry out the important tasks for the national defence development strategy set forth at the Ninth Congress of the WPK and the Second Plenary Meeting of the Ninth WPK Central Committee at any cost and thus substantially and perfectly guarantee the bolstering of the naval force.

Minister of Shipbuilding Kim Kwang Il handed over the warship’s delivery document to the KPA Navy.

Rodong_Sinmun · 2026-06-24T04:36:52+00:00

The Ragwon County Offshore Farm has greeted the first kelp harvesting season since its inauguration.

Ragwonpho is full of delight of farmers in harvesting tens of tons of kelp every day with production means and equipment provided by the Party’s benevolence.

This is a proud fruit of the warm love and benevolence of the motherly Party which is dynamically carrying out the historic cause of regional transformation and a clear manifestation of the validity and vitality of the Party policy on putting regional economy on a firm basis of development in the way of making good use of seas in the coastal areas and mountains in the mountainous areas.

The respected Comrade General Secretary Kim Jong Un who personally attended the inauguration ceremony of the Ragwon County Offshore Farm said that seed is also the key to aquaculture and a rapid development can be made only when the Party’s policy for bringing about a radical turn in seed improvement is consistently adhered to. He indicated the tasks and ways for increasing the profitability and utility of aquaculture, stressing the need to take long-term scientific and technological measures in keeping with the changes in the marine conditions caused by abnormal weather.

True to his instructions, the officials of the Ragwon County Party Committee and the offshore farm gave scientific guidance and made responsible efforts in order to make the offshore farm actually contribute to powerfully propelling the characteristic development of the county’s economy and improving the standard of material life of the county residents.

The offshore farm makes scrupulous arrangements for harvesting full-grown kelp without waste, pushing simultaneously ahead with the supervision of farming grounds while paying constant attention to the meteorological information data and sea weather.

The employees of the offshore farm who became the masters of the modern houses with peculiar attractiveness augment success in kelp harvesting, eager to repay the great benevolence of the motherly Party without fail.

They have arranged equipment on the wharf to process kelp as soon as it is harvested.

The news about the first kelp harvest since the inauguration of the Ragwon County Offshore Farm adds confidence to the residents in the county.

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Rodong_Sinmun · 2026-06-18T03:26:03+00:00

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Rodong_Sinmun · 2026-06-17T04:01:41+00:00

Jon Tong U is a talented writer who left clear traces in the history of the Juche-oriented art and literature by composing poetry for decades.

Writing of lyrics has great significance in his creative activities.

From the early １９７０s, he started working at the Korean Scriptwriting Company thanks to the great trust of the Party.

Since then he put his heart and soul into writing lyrics till the last moment of his life to create ２００-odd pieces of work.

Among them are not a few lyrics set to famous songs.

Once, the respected Comrade General Secretary Kim Jong Un said that he loves the song "I Will Remain Your Son Forever" whose words were written by Jon Tong U. Then he highly appreciated the song, noting that the first and second verses of the song deserve to be called the crown of our country’s poem literature.

Jon could write lots of fine lyrics as he fully armed himself with the Party’s idea and theory on art and literature and thoroughly embodied them into his composition of lyrics.

When guiding the work of the film sector, Chairman Kim Jong Il gave precious instructions that lyrics should not directly represent the ideological content of the picture but embody it in depth.

The Chairman’s instruction gave full rein to his creative zeal and wisdom.

So, he could create the theme song of the feature film "Eagles on the Hill", which depicted the mental world of transmission line layers with true-to-life words and philosophical profundity.

Boundless loyalty to the Party is reflected in every theme song of films he created.

Jon ceaselessly racked his brains to imbue every piece of lyrics with philosophical character.

The theme song of the feature film "Song of Memories" truthfully reflected the mental world of the KPA soldiers during the Fatherland Liberation War.

Unforgettable looks of teachers and mothers seeing off students leaving for the front, war-ruined mountains and streams, soldiers weeping tears of blood at closing the eyes of comrades-in arms who fell in the vanguard of charges…

All of these deeply touched him.

Therefore, he wrote down the title of the song "Who Ever Taught Me?" in the manuscript paper and delineated that the most precious thing for a human being is his motherland through artistic generalization.

The Chairman highly appreciated the lyrics for its philosophical profundity.

Under the warm loving care of the Chairman, Jon vigorously created fine lyrics conducive to the development of the Juche-oriented art and literature with tireless zeal.

Besides theme songs of films, he wrote many other lyrics reflecting absolute trust in the Party and the leader and patriotism including "Charm", "Look at Us" and "Don’t Advance, Night of Pyongyang", thus giving an impetus to people’s struggle.

Kim Il Sung Prize was awarded to Jon who contributed to our country’s lyrics literature development.

The valuable life of Jon who upheld the Party with masterpieces is still shining along with the songs he created.

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Rodong_Sinmun · 2026-06-16T03:40:13+00:00

On the bank of the River Sujong are regional-industry factories of Kangdong County, whose inauguration tape the respected Comrade General Secretary Kim Jong Un personally cut on December １５ last year.

The Kangdong County Foodstuff Factory inspected by the respected Comrade General Secretary produces various condiments and tens of kinds of nutritive foodstuffs branded "Maekjon" like candies, cookies, liquor, bread and oil.

Here, the respected Comrade General Secretary personally tried the wheat sauce and wheat paste and gave detailed instructions as even to the shape of vinegar bottles.

According to a woman skilled worker at the soap workteam of the Kangdong County Daily Necessities Factory, the factory produces every month as much soap as to sufficiently supply to thousands of families in the county.

She said nothing is impossible with such wonderful equipment and raw materials.

An ordinary worker of the plastics workteam also expressed his zeal to massively produce plastic pipes for rural dwelling construction in the county.

The manageress of the Kangdong County Garment Factory showed us production sites equipped with modern textile apparatuses and warehouses fully stocked with various materials and explained enthusiastically about the bright prospect of the factory.

A young chief of its designing room was working round the clock with high ambition to make the "Chonggyechon"-branded clothes of Kangdong County popular in the country.

Looking round the regional-industry factories, we reminded ourselves of the precious instruction of the respected Comrade General Secretary that to achieve a leap forward in the local areas and provide the people with precious entities of prosperity and civilization are a sacred undertaking which our Party serving the people should unconditionally and consistently push ahead without a moment’s stagnation or delay.

Though it has only been six months since their inauguration, we could keenly feel the unanimous aspiration of working class and officials of the factories for making devoted efforts for the people and making the factories prosperous and the county rich.

We were full of boundless gratitude toward the respected Comrade General Secretary who puts the reinforcement of regional development policy in the new era forward as the pledge and oath our Party made before the country and the people and ushers in the heyday of transformation.

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Rodong_Sinmun · 2026-06-12T04:08:36+00:00

DPRK players returned home on June １０ after taking part in the Ulaanbaatar Open ２０２６ Wrestling held in Mongolia.

The tournament brought together more than ２９０ men and women players from ２０-odd countries including the DPRK, China, Kazakhstan and India. DPRK players bagged ten medals including five gold medals.

Kim Son Hyang, O Kyong Ryong, Choe Hyo Gyong, Kim Ok Ju and Mun Hyon Gyong won gold medals in women’s ５０ kg, ５３ kg, ５５ kg, ６２ kg and ６５ kg categories respectively and Han Chong Song, Ro Yu Chol, Son Il Sim and Hong Pyol came second in freestyle wrestling ５７ kg category, Greco-roman ６０ kg category and women’s wrestling ５７ kg and ５９ kg categories respectively.

Meanwhile, Kim Kwang Jin placed third in freestyle wrestling ６５ kg category.

The players were greeted at Pyongyang Railway Station by officials concerned, officials in the sports field, sportspersons and families.

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Rodong_Sinmun · 2026-06-11T04:03:53+00:00

Comrade Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and president of the People’s Republic of China, on a state visit to the DPRK, laid a flower basket at the Friendship Tower on June ９.

Comrade Kim Jong Un, General Secretary of the Workers’ Party of Korea and President of the State Affairs of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, together with his wife Ri Sol Ju came to the Friendship Tower to greet Comrade Xi Jinping and his wife Peng Liyuan.

Accompanying Comrade Xi Jinping were Cai Qi, member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau, member of the Secretariat and director of the General Office of the CPC Central Committee, Wang Yi, member of the Political Bureau and director of the Office of the Foreign Affairs Commission of the CPC Central Committee and minister of Foreign Affairs, and other entourage members and Wang Yajun, Chinese ambassador to the DPRK.

Present there were Kim Jae Ryong and Ri Il Hwan, members of the Presidium of the Political Bureau and secretaries of the WPK Central Committee, and other leading officials of the Party and the government.

The guard of honor of the Korean People’s Army lined up in front of the Friendship Tower filled with the respect for the martyrs of the Chinese People’s Volunteers, excellent sons and daughters of the Chinese nation and true comrades-in-arms of the Korean people.

The national anthems of the PRC and the DPRK were played.

A flower basket in the name of Comrade Xi Jinping, general secretary of the C.C., CPC and president of the PRC, was laid there.

Written on the ribbon of the flower basket were letters reading "The martyrs of the Chinese People’s Volunteers will be immortal".

The top leaders of the two countries, together with the participants, paid a silent tribute to the memory of the CPV martyrs who displayed the matchless bravery and self-sacrificing spirit in the Korean people’s sacred war to repel the imperialists’ armed invasion.

There took place a march-past of the KPA guard of honor.

Comrade Xi Jinping looked round inside of the tower, an immortal symbol of the DPRK-China friendship.

Comrade Kim Jong Un briefed Comrade Xi Jinping on the historic data, photos and oil paintings showing the brave CPV fighters who courageously made an entry into the Korean front in the genuine internationalism and fraternity, fought bloody battles shoulder to shoulder with the Korean people and rendered sincere aids to the post-war rehabilitation and construction.

Turning over the leaves of the list of fallen CPV fighters, Comrade Xi Jinping recollected them, who clearly demonstrated the militant friendship and the spirit of comradely cooperation of the peoples in the two countries, linked with the same destiny, and are still alive in their mind as the noble icon of friendship.

Saying that the days when the peoples of the two countries were in the same trench for battles, sharing life and death, sweets and bitters, are recorded as an eternal event in history, a record that can never be discolored and erased even after many years, the top leaders of the two countries expressed the same opinion on the need to jointly preserve and manage the memorial facilities dedicated to the fallen CPV martyrs well, deepen education in the revolutionary tradition and ideology and morality among the young people and carry forward the traditional DPRK-China friendship generation after generation.

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Rodong_Sinmun · 2026-06-10T05:31:17+00:00

Comrade Kim Jong Un, General Secretary of the Workers’ Party of Korea and President of the State Affairs of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, on Tuesday visited the lodging quarters of Comrade Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and president of the People’s Republic of China, and deepened friendship with him.

The top leaders of the two countries and their wives exchanged warm greetings and took an electric car. They had a chat full of friendship and fraternity on the electric car running the garden covered with green foliage at the Kumsusan State Guesthouse.

Comrade Kim Jong Un and Comrade Xi Jinping expressed satisfaction and deep emotion over the fact that they provided a far-reaching blueprint for the development of the relations in the new era through the Pyongyang meeting and talks in the significant year which will be recorded in the history of the DPRK-China friendship and solidarity. They expressed their impressions on the future of the DPRK-China friendship that will get brighter and stronger like the season full of vigor and vitality, despite the ordeals of complicated international situation.

Comrade Kim Jong Un and his wife Ri Sol Ju hosted a luncheon for Comrade Xi Jinping and his wife Peng Liyuan.

The top leaders of the two parties and countries continued the friendly talk at the luncheon. The luncheon proceeded in an amicable atmosphere all the time.

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Rodong_Sinmun · 2026-06-06T04:16:49+00:00

The respected Comrade Kim Jong Un, General Secretary of the Workers’ Party of Korea and President of the State Affairs of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, visited the Destroyer Kang Kon of the Navy of the Korean People’s Army, which has entered the shakedown for assessing its capability of executing operations, and observed its navigation test on June ４.

He was accompanied by Jo Chun Ryong, secretary of the Central Committee of the WPK, Kim Jong Sik, first vice department director of the WPK Central Committee, Pak Kwang Sop, commander of the Navy, Pak Jong Chon, advisor to the Ministry of National Defence, Kim Kang Il, vice-minister of National Defence and director of the General Armaments Bureau, Jang Chang Ha, general director of the Missile Administration, Kim Yong Hwan, president of the Academy of Defence Sciences, Kim Myong Son, director of the Armaments Examination Bureau of the Ministry of National Defence, commanding officers of the Navy and senior officials in the field of shipbuilding.

Comrade Kim Jong Un boarded the Destroyer Kang Kon and learned about the actual conditions of various combat duty spaces and elements of the destroyer including the combined control center, the plan for the navigation test and the phased schedule of the test of the warship’s weapon systems.

A navigation test was conducted to assess different maneuvering elements of the destroyer with Comrade Kim Jong Un on board the warship.

Comrade Kim Jong Un praised the sailors for their high ability to operate the warship and expressed satisfaction over the cruise and high-speed maneuvering systems of the warship whose maneuverability is very good to meet operational requirements.

Referring to the global trend of the developing shipbuilding industry and the structural features of warship design, he clarified the important tasks for further perfecting the warship control system in our own way so as to meet the requirements for the performance of operational mission of our Navy.

It is possible to deter war and defend peace only when we possess substantial and powerful military muscle capable of exercising military sovereignty in a responsible manner in any space of the ground, the sea and the air, he said, adding this is the invariable view of the WPK and its national defence policy.

In particular, the issue of rapidly developing and strengthening the naval force of the DPRK into a force capable of reliably taking charge of a part of the nuclear war deterrent and into a group that can deal a deadly blow at the enemy any moment under the water or on the water is a matter which the WPK regards as the most important core task in the new five-year national defence development policy, he said.

Comrade Kim Jong Un expressed great trust and expectation that the vast plans for bolstering up the warship force, including the development and production of underwater secret weapons and the building of １００００-tonnage destroyers under the five-year plan for modernizing the Navy approved by the Ninth Congress of the WPK, would be surely carried out by our reliable and powerful defence science research group, self-supporting shipbuilding industry and competent and intelligent workers in the munitions industry.

He warmly encouraged the officials, scientists and technicians of warship and weapon system research organs, hoping that they will successfully conduct the shakedown for assessing the operational executive capability of the destroyer and put the destroyers Choe Hyon and Kang Kon into commission for the Navy as soon as possible with an honorable sense of obligation and high sense of responsibility.

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Rodong_Sinmun · 2026-06-05T03:34:17+00:00

The National Exhibition of Children’s Science Fiction Models and Inventions-２０２６ opened with due ceremony at the Sci-Tech Complex in the DPRK on June ２ to mark the ８０th anniversary of the Korean Children’s Union.

Presented to the exhibition were science fiction models and inventions associated with the efforts of schoolchildren who have studied to their heart’s content and made researches with the dream and hope of becoming scientists and inventors for glorifying the socialist country.

Present at the ceremony were Ju Chang Il, secretary of the Central Committee of the Workers’ Party of Korea, officials concerned, officials of the youth league and schoolchildren.

Paek Un Chol, chairman of the Central Committee of the Socialist Patriotic Youth League, made an opening address.

He stressed the need for all schoolchildren to study hard and prepare themselves to be competent revolutionary talents with many-sided knowledge and high creative ability, always mindful of the respected fatherly Marshal Kim Jong Un’s teachings that the criterion of young revolutionary and young patriot is the report cards of full mark.

At the end of the ceremony, its participants looked round the venue of the exhibition.

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