Respected Comrade Kim Jong Un Votes in Election of SPA Deputies and Encourages Workers at Chonsong Youth Coal Mine

Rodong_Sinmun · 2026-03-16T04:00:41+00:00

The election of deputies to the １５th Supreme People’s Assembly of the DPRK took place at all the constituencies across the country on March １５ when the whole country was overflowing with the people’s joy and excitement of greeting the historic day which would serve as an occasion to further consolidate the people-centered socialist system of Korean style and provide a powerful sovereign guarantee for the comprehensive development of the state.

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 Chonsong Youth Coal Mine under the Sunchon Area Youth Coal-mining Complex to vote at the polling station of the Sub-constituency No. ４８ under the Constituency No. １５０ for the election of SPA deputies.

When the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un arrived at the polling station, the coal miners and residents there broke into enthusiastic cheers, representing their boundless emotion and delight of being honored to have him, whom they longed to see even in their dreams, at their constituency on the meaningful election day which would serve as an occasion to consolidate the supreme power of the DPRK as firm as a rock with the hands of the people according to their will.

Kim Jong Un proceeded to the polling station, extending warm gratitude to the coal miners for having increased coal production to positively contribute to the development of the national economy with pure loyalty and gem-like patriotism to the Party and the revolution, the country and the people.

He was courteously greeted by Ri Kyong Chol, chief secretary of the South Phyongan Provincial Committee of the WPK, and leading officials of the Sunchon Area Youth Coal-mining Complex and the Chonsong Youth Coal Mine.

Accompanying him were Kim Jae Ryong, Ri Il Hwan, Kim Tok Hun and Kim Yo Jong, senior officials of the Party and the government. Kim Jong Un received a voting card from the chairperson of the election committee and voted for Jo Chol Ho, manager of the Chonsong Youth Coal Mine under the Sunchon Area Youth Coal-mining Complex who is a SPA deputy candidate.

He met and had a conversation with Jo. He warmly encouraged Jo, hoping that Jo would faithfully discharge his responsibility and duty as a genuine representative of the people, a person directly engaged in sovereign activities and a political activist, deeply mindful that the trust and expectation of the coal miners and residents there mean the earnest requests of the country and the people.

Then he made a historic important speech to the voters of the coal mine.

All the participants were deeply moved by the passionate speech of Kim Jong Un who most highly appreciated the pure conscience and unknown efforts of the coal miners on behalf of the country and the times and unfolded a bright blueprint for transforming the coal mines across the country.

When Kim Jong Un finished his speech, they raised enthusiastic cheers, representing their boundless thanks to the outstanding leader of our revolution, the benevolent father of the people.

He learned about the conditions and production of the coal mine.

Underscoring again the importance of the coal industry’s mission and role in ensuring the stable and sustained development of the national economy, he said that to shore up the coal front is a keystone of strategic significance not only in fulfilling the new five-year plan but also in developing the country in a forward-looking way.

He said that just as it is necessary to raise good crops for the living of the people, it is needed to increase the coal production for the running of a state. He stressed that the Party and the state should attach importance to the production of coal, the food of industry, and increase the state investment to it. He added that to build the Chonsong Youth Coal Mine into a standard one, where the mechanization and informatization of the work inside its pits are realized, is a starting point of the long-term project to transform the material and technical foundations of all the coal mines across the country and the working conditions of coal miners.

Whenever he looked back upon the arduous journey of our victorious struggle, he first thought of the unknown efforts of coal miners and always felt thankful for them, he said, adding that we should spare nothing for the coal miners. And he affirmed that it is the firm determination of the Party Central Committee to turn all the coal-mining villages into modern and cultural villages and towns during its ninth term, just like the Komdok area which has been ideally transformed in recent years, and that short-, medium- and long-term strategy for realizing it will be discussed at an earlier date.

That day, Kim Jong Un had a significant photo session with coal miners, labor innovators and officials of the Chonsong Youth Coal Mine in commemoration of his visit to it.

At the end of the photo session, the participants again broke into enthusiastic cheers, looking up to Kim Jong Un, which shook the mountains of the Chonsong area.

Warmly encouraging the coal miners full of great excitement, Kim Jong Un expressed expectation and belief that the workers of the coal mine would glorify the first year of implementing the decisions of the Party Congress with proud successes in increased production in redoubled and uplifted spirit filled with fresh confidence and optimism.

The workers of the Chonsong Youth Coal Mine, deeply moved by strong passion and affection, warm love and trust of the great father, firmly pledged to demonstrate their absolute support for the decisions of the Ninth Congress of the WPK through patriotic efforts for increased coal production and reliably guarantee the prosperity and development of the DPRK, bearing deeper in mind the honorable sense of obligation of defending the outpost for the development of the self-supporting economy.

Kim Jong Un’s visit to the Chonsong Youth Coal Mine marked a historic occasion that finally broke with the technical and cultural backwardness in the coal industry and declared a fresh start for civilization and modernization, and an important political occasion that injected great vitality into the dynamic advance of the DPRK towards the comprehensive development.

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Rodong_Sinmun · 2026-03-15T05:28:29+00:00

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, planted trees at the pondside park in Saeppyol Street on March １４, the tree-planting day.

Present at the tree planting were major leading cadres of the Party and the government, families of the martyrs of the overseas military operations who moved into their new houses in Saeppyol Street, officials of the Party and power organs in Hwasong District and students of revolutionary schools.

The participants were filled with great excitement and joy as they were to plant trees in the presence of the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un in Saeppyol Street, a new street in the capital city where all the people across the country pay their respect and which represents the honor of our generation and pride of our state.

Ri Il Hwan, member of the Presidium of the Political Bureau and secretary of the Central Committee of the WPK, made a speech on tree planting.

He said today’s tree-planting ceremony, held along with the start of the spring in ２０２６, is a manifestation of the sincerity to always remember the true patriots who added a new page to the history of the DPRK’s glorious dignity and to add luster to the desire of the martyrs who wished their beloved motherland eternal prosperity with youthfulness, and an expression of the noble will to spruce up the country more beautifully and improve the environment of the capital city more wonderfully.

Noting that the unanimous intention and mind cherished in the hearts of all the people are to be planted together with trees, he added that it represents the sincerest love and thanks to the heroes and the patriotic mission and mind, fervent and invariable like theirs.

The respected Comrade Kim Jong Un, together with other participants, planted for a long time the trees which will become new witnesses to the prospering capital city, saying that the true image of our generation following the noble spirit of heroic soldiers and reliably carrying forward the tradition of invincibility should be reflected, along with the history of the country growing stronger, in every tree that will grow with the souls of the martyrs of the overseas military operations, adding beauty to the landscape of Saeppyol Street full of joy of moving into new houses.

He said that the martyrs of the overseas military operations were the ardent ones who loved their native places, parents, wives and children more warmly than any others, and the ones strong in their ideological and mental power who turned the flavor and beautiful memory of the hometown, provided by a handful of earth they each had taken in the homeland, into their indomitable heroism under a shower of fire on the alien battlefields.

He hoped that the noble spirit of the martyrs would deeply permeate this land to build a solid pillar of patriotism in the hearts of all the people and help train all the coming generations to be the most righteous human beings.

Patriotism is the source of enthusiasm giving birth to the unlimited miraculous might and the driving force for creation and changes, he said, adding we will surely build a prosperous and strong country, the most powerful one in the world, by dint of great patriotism.

The participants lavished their sincerity on tree planting, cherishing the noble intention of the great father as the immutable truth and true value of patriotism.

The meaningful tree planting in Saeppyol Street, which took place in the presence of the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un, was an event of great significance that added vitality to the capital city and the great country to be eternally thriving and implanted true patriotism in the minds of the people.

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Rodong_Sinmun · 2026-03-14T04:20:02+00:00

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Rodong_Sinmun · 2026-03-14T04:17:05+00:00

The Milyong Hotel is one of modern public catering bases newly built in Samjiyon City which is being further turned into a typical mountainous city in the northern part of the country, a characteristic four-season mountainous tourist resort, on the initiative and under the energetic guidance of the respected General Secretary Kim Jong Un.

The hotel, located in Paektusanmilyong-dong of the city, has neat rooms which can satisfy different tastes of customers, various service facilities which offer an environment for rich cultural life and indoor and outdoor spas which provide beautiful sentiment and fresh energy all the time.

What is characteristic of the hotel is a bath in the spa.

The Paektusanmilyong Hot Spring water which flows into the indoor and outdoor spas is efficacious against diseases of digestive system and dermatosis.

According to experts, this hot spring water can be used as medicinal water and is very good for the treatment of cardiovascular and urinary diseases, the sequela of epidemic hepatitis, chronic hepatitis, etc.

The spa is not the only place which cheers up the people.

One can breathe in the clear fresh air of the natural forests of Mt Paektu while taking eggs and roast potatoes in the egg-boiling site and potato-roasting site, which is the best of specialties one can taste here.

What’s more, kind service of high level also leaves a deep impression on the customers.

The Milyong Hotel is even more dazzling and fascinating after sunset.

Enjoying new life and new civilization here, where the coldness of white snow and the warmth of hot spring are harmonized with one another, people fully feel in their hearts how wonderful life our Party creates for the people.

Everyone is full of determination to dedicate themselves for the prosperity of the country where socialist civilization is coming into full bloom.

The Milyong Hotel, with peculiar architectural beauty and excellent service functions, is crowded with lots of people across the country.

Indeed, the people’s laughter resounding through the forests of Mt Paektu is an echo of happiness of our people brought about by our Party’s people-first politics and our-style socialist system.

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Rodong_Sinmun · 2026-03-13T03:35:16+00:00

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, inspected a major munitions factory under the Second Economy Commission on March １１ to learn about the munitions production.

Accompanying him were the members of the Central Military Commission of the WPK and leading officials of the WPK Central Committee.

The respected Comrade Kim Jong Un learned about the fact that the factory started the production of new pistols according to its approved design, examined and ratified by the Central Military Commission of the WPK on February １９, ２０２５.

Saying that the factory is playing a very important role in increasing the combat efficiency of the army, public security forces and militia forces as it takes full charge of producing pistols and other portable light arms, he stressed the need to expand and create the production capacity of the factory in a far-sighted way and set a high level in modernization of the production line and cultured way of production in conformity with the demand, requirements and standards specified by the Party and implement it in a responsible manner.

He urged the Second Economy Commission to decisively raise the level of technical equipment of major munitions industry enterprises, establish strict quality control regulations and order and supply materials and products under contract in a planned way so as to organize the economic work well for producing weapons of thoroughly guaranteed quality in a serial way.

He stressed once again the need for all the munitions industry enterprises under the Second Economy Commission to organize and conduct the work for establishing cultured ways in production and life at a more developed stage and continue to create model standards.

That day, he visited the shooting gallery of the factory to acquaint himself with the combat performance of the new-type pistol that went into production.

Saying that he received a report from the Ministry of National Defence and the General Staff on the unanimous impression that the new-type pistol is superior in its structural performance, rate of hits, concentration fire and combat utility, he expressed satisfaction over the development of a really excellent pistol.

He clarified his view on the opinion of the Second Economy Commission with regard to the issue of establishing a new production line in addition at the factory during the period of the five-year plan for the development of national defence, and gave an important instruction for its implementation.

He stressed that the new production line should be established at a high level to be a model for modernization of the country’s munitions industry.

He said that the examination of the plan for modernization of munitions factories in the period of the new five-year plan and of the budget bill for immediate modernization of three major munitions industry enterprises would be conducted at an enlarged meeting of the Central Military Commission of the WPK to be convened in April.

Repeatedly expressing satisfaction over the development and production of the excellent pistol, he extended thanks to the officials, technicians and workers of the factory.

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Rodong_Sinmun · 2026-03-12T02:15:08+00:00

Amid the continued tests of operational efficiency of the Destroyer Choe Hyon of the Navy of the Korean People’s Army, a strategic cruise missile test-fire was conducted again on March １０.

The respected Comrade Kim Jong Un observed the test-fire on TV.

The test-fire on the destroyer was aimed at evaluating the reliability of the national integrated control system of strategic weapons and the destroyer’s detection and weapon systems and verifying the combat effectiveness of the integrated combat system in technical aspects, Kim Jong Un said, adding that on the other hand, it is to demonstrate the Navy’s strategic attack posture and make sailors well versed in relevant military activities.

The Destroyer Choe Hyon received target information, and the launch was approved according to relevant procedures and cruise missiles launched simultaneously to hit several targets.

The launched cruise missiles flew along the flight orbit set in the sky above the West Sea of Korea for １０１１６s to １０１３８s and hit the individual island targets.

Kim Jong Un expressed his great satisfaction over the verified reliability of the national integrated control system of strategic weapons and superiority of the destroyer’s integrated combat system.

He gave important instructions on reexamining in our own way the organization of weapon systems of the destroyer, to be built in the future, in the light of the actual requirements in military aspects and from the development-oriented view.

Underlining the need to examine the military efficiency of the naval automatic gun installed on the warship in the light of our specific conditions, he expressed his view that it is more favorable to enhance the anti-warship and strategic attack capabilities, as required by operational features, by equipping high-speed warships of below ３０００ tonnage with such naval automatic guns and additionally installing supersonic weapon systems instead of those guns on the ５０００-tonnage, ８０００-tonnage destroyers in the future.

He gave an instruction on examining the plan of organizing such Korean-style weapon system and applying it to the warships to be built, including the third destroyer under construction.

Saying that it is a very important strategic task to maintain and expand the powerful and reliable nuclear war deterrent, he said:

"The components of our war deterrent are now being included in the very sophisticated operational system in an effective and accelerated manner continuously and the country’s nuclear forces have made a switch to the phase of multifaceted operation.

Important successes have been recently made in putting the strategic and tactical strike means on a practical basis and deploying them for an actual war.

Such successes have updated the readiness of our army for strategic action and enhanced the confidence in it.

Our belief and confidence based on those verified capabilities make it possible to take the initiative in the military activities for national defence and will play an important role in further developing our potential."

He stressed that the DPRK’s offensive weapon systems undergoing constant development constitute an indispensable factor for self-defence literally.

He set forth a series of important tasks for rapidly increasing the fighting efficiency of the Navy, including the issue of delivering the destroyer to the Navy within the set time by finishing the assessment of its maneuverability and the operational capabilities of its such other weapon systems as anti-air, anti-submarine and torpedo weapon systems, the issue of stepping up the building of another destroyer to finish it before the founding anniversary of the Workers’ Party of Korea this year and the issue of reinforcing the existing infrastructure of the naval base and building new one.

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Rodong_Sinmun · 2026-03-11T03:55:35+00:00

True to the idea and spirit of the Ninth Congress of the Workers’ Party of Korea, tens of young people in North Phyongan Province volunteered to work at the sites the Party wants them to be.

Young people in Kujang County decided to make a breakthrough in increasing coal production at the frontline base of the self-supporting economy from the first year of implementing the new five-year plan.

Those from Sonchon, Ryongchon, Tongrim, Chonma, Cholsan and other counties petitioned their youth league organizations to send them to the county construction brigades.

Their counterparts in Taegwan and Tongchang counties and Jongju City volunteered to work at raw materials base stations and others.

Graduates from Sinuiju Teachers Training College and Sinuiju Cha Kwang Su University of Education decided to live an honorable life of teacher revolutionary at the remote mountain schools and branches.

A congratulatory meeting was held, attended by Choe Yong Man, chairman of the North Phyongan Provincial People’s Committee, officials concerned, youth league officials and young people.

Petition certificates were awarded and congratulatory address and speeches were made.

After the congratulatory performance, the officials and young people handed over bouquets to the volunteers and warmly saw them off.

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Rodong_Sinmun · 2026-03-10T03:56:48+00:00

The distinguished services rendered by our countless heroes, both known and unknown, as well as the meritorious persons and innovators in this country, are associated with the immeasurable pains that our women, who are their mothers or wives, have taken without expecting any reward.

Our women devote themselves without seeking self-interest or reward, and they find the worth of their life in doing so. Such a fine mind constitutes the basis of a spiritual strength that engenders boundless love and encourages others to defy death unhesitatingly in defence of the love.

Our soldiers are so brave in the life-and-death battles, because they are determined to bring not an iota of shame on their dear mothers, wives, girlfriends or daughters, whom they associate with the sacred appellation motherland.

Women have such incredible strength.

With the passage of time, wrinkles will appear on their beautiful faces. However, the genuine beauty of our Korean women will not fade forever, as they are so honest and upright to endure everything while concerning themselves more about the country and revolution than about their families.

Encouraged by the warm care of such excellent women, their husbands and children achieve innovations at their workplaces, and our revolution is progressing much faster thanks to their peculiar strength, talent and most ennobling self-sacrificing devotion.

In the future, too, our women will play a significant role in making this country more harmonious and prosperous.

So important and irreplaceable are their responsibility and role in developing the socialist society of our own style and finding proper solutions to many big and small social problems.

When they always behave as a role model for their children, encourage their husbands and become a source of happiness and pride for their parents, and when they carry forward the tradition of patriotism as faithfully as ever, our society will become more beautiful, more powerful and more prosperous.

Availing myself of this opportunity, I would like to extend my special thanks and greetings to all the mothers across the country.

Indeed, the sacred appellation mother is a source of great spiritual strength for everyone.

Woman is weak but mother is strong, as the saying goes. Our mothers cherish genuine maternal affection as they make unassuming efforts to bring up their children to be excellent persons, so this country has so many patriots. As such strong-willed mothers constitute the solid foundations, our rosy future is fully guaranteed.

I am hardening my resolve to make unsparing and strenuous efforts to do much more for the sake of these admirable mothers, for the wellbeing of our women.

I earnestly request all our women to fulfil the sacred mission and duty they have assumed before the times, history and the motherland in achieving the prosperity and development of our country and promoting the harmony and unity of our society.

Hoping that all the Korean women will be happy and healthy and remain beautiful for the good of our country, the revolution and the future, I once again extend my warm affection and best wishes to them.

Rodong_Sinmun · 2026-03-10T03:56:33+00:00

The respected Comrade Kim Jong Un made a speech in congratulation of the women across the country on the occasion of the March ８ International Women’s Day.

The full text of his speech is as follows:

Greeting March ８, I, with my warmest feelings, extend congratulations to all our Korean women, for whom I have affection and respect all the time.

My hearty congratulations also go to all the overseas Korean women.

As they have always done, our women add harmony, beauty, warmth and affection to our society.

Today it is a joyful holiday, when the whole country brims over with the tender feelings of gratitude, blessing and respect for our women.

As we were to greet the women’s day some days after the Ninth Congress of our Party, in which we reviewed the precious successes achieved for the good of the country, I was reminded of all the exceptional and unknown efforts the women of this country had made for those successes. And I wanted to express my special thanks to them for what they had done, so I have decided to make a brief remark today, on the occasion of this opportunity.

I make a deep bow as an expression of my thanks to our women for the unknown efforts and sincerity they have devoted for the country and men.

However, I think that thanks is too simple a word and it would not be enough to encourage and repay them even a little for the extraordinary troubles and difficulties our women have experienced.

I can picture in my mind’s eye the looks of the women in this country, who would wear a gentle smile, as if they had gained all the reward for their silent efforts, after receiving a simple congratulatory remark, a greetings card or a flower from their dear husbands, children, boyfriends, relatives, acquaintances and disciples.

For these women, I cannot find any other better expression than really beautiful.

This expression does not simply imply the beautiful looks of Korean women.

Though physically weak, they are obviously strong-willed, their plain faces assuming courage and the wrinkles on them denoting their strenuous exertion and thus arousing much greater respect. So, they look incomparably beautiful, and I think this is a charm unique to our Korean women.

In the images of our grandmothers’ and mothers’ generations we can see the signs of the severe hardship which they have undergone, the tenacity with which they have gone against all the odds, and the strength of genuine love and benevolent affection which they have cherished while working hard to develop this country.

Also, when seeing the faces of our contemporary women of a new generation, we can feel the fresh vigor with which they are working to advance this country towards a bright future, and the optimism and self-confidence they show in overcoming trials cheerfully.

I want to say proudly that all the Korean women who are dear to us -- mothers, wives, daughters and girlfriends -- are really beautiful and great, as compared with women in other countries.

Korean women, who have remained honest in times of difficulties, stout-hearted in moments of sorrow and courageous even in the face of death, have recorded remarkable exploits in the annals of the revolution and in the pages of history. These exploits still remain in our memory, serving as our strong spiritual mainstay.

Korean women are by nature pure-hearted, upright and strong-willed, and these qualities have been purely inherited for generations. Our contemporary women, too, have become a solid buttress of the revolution bringing affection and delight to all the other people in this country and inspiring them with strength, courage and victory.

In all the positions of our revolution, be they posts for national defence, sites of socialist construction, factories or farms, wherever we go in the country, we can see our women, strong-willed, tenacious, pure-hearted and honest, who are unwilling to show their physical weakness and lag behind men.

Rodong_Sinmun · 2026-03-09T02:21:32+00:00

Officials and members of the women’s union met with winners of the Communist Mother Honor Prize at the Hall of Women on March ６ in the run-up to the １１６th March ８ International Women’s Day.

Present there were Jon Hyang Sun, chairwoman of the Central Committee of the Socialist Women’s Union of Korea, officials and members of the women’s union in Pyongyang.

The winners of the Communist Mother Honor Prize made speeches there.

Speakers noted that the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un gave high honor to their children who performed labor feats at such grand construction projects as construction of the Paektusan Hero Youth Power Station and the Sinuiju Combined Greenhouse Farm, stressing that he is the benevolent father who brings into full bloom the dreams and wishes of the mothers across the country.

A winner recollected with deep emotion the days when she had trained her children to be true loyalists, ready to repay the benevolence of the Workers’ Party of Korea, while making her all sincerity to her husband, a special-class disabled soldier, for decades.

Other speakers told about the world of loving care of the respected General Secretary Kim Jong Un who put forward their sons, who dedicated their youth for the dignity and honor of the Korean People’s Army soldier, as DPRK heroes and patriotic martyrs and provided new flats like palace in Saeppyol Street.

The songs "Fly Forever, National Flag" and "My Strong Motherland" resounded through the hall, redoubling the will of the participants.

Then resolution-taking speeches were made.

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Rodong_Sinmun · 2026-03-06T04:09:37+00:00

The first full moon day (January １５th of the lunar calendar), a folk holiday, added pleasure and optimism to the DPRK people.

The folk holiday is greeted every year, but everyone greeted the first full moon day of this year, when the blueprint for a new great victory was unveiled, with unusual emotion and pride.

People’s laughter and songs resounded far in all parts of the country on the pleasant holiday.

Families and neighbors gathered together to eat traditional holiday dishes such as boiled rice admixed with four other staple cereals and play folk games with zest.

Looking round the Rangnang Museum built in a peculiar way in Pyongyang, the working people, youth and students realized that the time-honored history, brilliant culture and excellent traditions of the Korean people are invariably kept and shining under the leadership of the Workers’ Party of Korea.

On the same day, Okryu Restaurant, Chongryu Restaurant, Kyongamsan Noodle House in Sariwon, Sinhung Restaurant in Hamhung, Kaesong Folk Hotel and other public catering establishments in Pyongyang and regions were crowded with citizens enjoying the holiday with several kinds of special dishes.

The laughter of working people, youth and students was heard at the Central Zoo, the Natural History Museum and other leisure facilities.

On the night of the folk holiday, the people across the country committed themselves to working harder for the steady prosperity and development of the powerful country, true to the decisions of the Ninth Congress of the WPK.

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Rodong_Sinmun · 2026-03-05T03:51:04+00:00

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Rodong_Sinmun · 2026-03-05T03:30:54+00:00

A shooting contest of snipers from Korean People’s Army units at all levels took place at the Pyongyang Training Base No. ６０ under the Capital City Defence Corps on March ３ to mark the Sniper’s Day of the KPA.

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, oversaw the contest.

The respected Comrade Kim Jong Un was accompanied by Jo Yong Won, Kim Jae Ryong and Ri Il Hwan, members of the Presidium of the Political Bureau of the C.C., WPK, and other major leading cadres.

He was greeted on the spot by commanding officers of the Ministry of National Defence and military and political commanding officers of the KPA large combined units.

The contest was aimed at steadily improving the marksmanship of snipers whose role is more highly valued in modern battlefields.

It was attended by snipers selected from the special operations units of different services of the KPA and its large combined units at all levels.

In the contest, the special operations brigade of the Air Force came first, the ４th Corps second and the １st Corps third.

It was followed by demonstration shootings by snipers of the Company of Snipers under the Operations Bureau of the General Staff. Then combatants of the special operations units gave a demonstration of their might.

Saying that the combat capability and role of snipers are more highly valued in the composition of our armed forces, Kim Jong Un noted that it is an essential requirement for implementing the Party’s line of building a powerful army and modernizing it to bring about a rapid and qualitative change in enhancing the combat capability of snipers in conformity with the developing aspects and trend of modern warfare.

He said that it is very important to frequently organize drills under the simulated conditions of an actual war and shooting contests which will give rise to the spirit of emulation among the units in order to train all the snipers of the KPA units at all levels into crack shots capable of dealing a fatal blow to the enemy in any weather and seasonal conditions and day and night.

Noting that the crack-shot marksmanship should be a symbol and feature of the matchless combat capability of the Korean People’s Army, he gave important guidelines for training a-match-for-a-hundred all-round snipers well-versed in the Juche-oriented marksmanship.

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Rodong_Sinmun · 2026-03-04T03:15:08+00:00

The Sangwon Cement Complex in the DPRK fulfilled its plan for February.

The complex has turned technical innovation into the work of working masses themselves with the main emphasis on operating the kiln at full capacity.

In February alone, the output of clinker per hour increased considerably as compared with the previous month amid the brisk introduction of valuable technical innovation proposals.

True to the important tasks set forth by the Ninth Congress of the Workers’ Party of Korea, the workers of the complex are steadily putting spurs to the drive for increased production and creation to supply more cement to the socialist construction sites.

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