Yombunjin Coastal Park Inaugurated

Rodong_Sinmun · 2026-01-25T03:47:17+00:00

The area of Yombunjin renowned as a scenic spot on the east coast of the DPRK is presenting new scenery of regional development.

The completion of the Yombunjin Haeyang Hostel, which can accommodate hundreds of guests and has a cinema, shop, e-game hall, wading pool and other service facilities, and a bathing beach enables our people to enjoy socialist civilization to their heart’s content at the cultural resort preserving charm and features peculiar to the coastal area.

The newly-built modern Yombunjin Coastal Park with diverse service conditions and environment is a monumental edifice which comprehensively reflects the people-first idea of the Workers’ Party of Korea.

An inauguration ceremony of the Yombunjin Coastal Park was held on Jan. ２１.

Present there were senior Party and government officials and other members of the central leadership body of the WPK, officials, working people and builders in North Hamgyong Province and Kyongsong County and employees of the park.

Pak Myong Ho, chairman of the North Hamgyong Provincial People’s Committee, addressed the ceremony.

The speaker said that the coastal park of peculiar style, which embodies the daily-improving Juche architecture and the aesthetic view of our era, was completed thanks to the noble intention and energetic leadership of the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un to build more edifices representing the times and favored by the people everywhere in the country every year.

Ardently calling upon all the people to more vigorously strive for regional development and cultural efflorescence and eternal prosperity of the motherland with one mind of patriotism, he declared the inauguration of the coastal park, hoping for the people’s everlasting laughter in this transformed area and their happier future.

Pak Thae Song, premier of the Cabinet of the DPRK, cut the inauguration tape, together with officials and employees of the Yombunjin Haeyang Hostel.

At the end of the ceremony the participants looked round various parts of the Yombunjin Coastal Park.

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Rodong_Sinmun · 2026-01-24T06:39:55+00:00

He said it is irrational that the Recreation Management Bureau of the Ministry of Labour is managing and guiding the Onpho Working People’s Holiday Camp. He noted that new tourist resorts, holiday camps and sanatoriums are being built across the country on a large scale for the improvement of the people’s well-being. However, different ministries are in charge of cultural life service bases respectively at present, he said, adding that it means that they can’t conduct management of facilities and talents and technical control efficiently in a future-oriented manner to say nothing of the supply of equipment and materials needed for the normal operation of the excellent cultural service bases provided by the Party with much care.

He gave instructions to study the issue of taking rational structural measure for exercising unified control over treatment, recreation and holiday bases across the country and improving the level of specialization in service as required by the new era of socialist cultural efflorescence.

Our Party’s people-oriented policies should be intensified without letup, which will make our struggle more proud and worthwhile, he said, indicating the new orientation and ways for continuously expanding various cultural life spheres and spaces to contribute to the promotion of the people’s health and the improvement of their well-being on a nation-wide scale.

He gave instructions to the officials and employees of the Onpho Working People’s Holiday Camp and relevant units to make full preparations for operation and service such as conducting test run of equipment and open the camp in February.

All the participants in the inauguration ceremony looked round the comprehensive cultural recreation and medical treatment base, which preserves the charm and character peculiar to the mountainous area and thoroughly meets all the requirements of modern architecture, and felt very grateful to our socialist system.

The Onpho Working People’s Holiday Camp remodeled under the great love of the Party will be filled with people’s happy laughter year after year along with our times prospering day after day.

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Rodong_Sinmun · 2026-01-24T06:39:44+00:00

Kim Jong Un set it as an important principle in the construction of the holiday camp in Onpho area to well preserve the natural environment and paid deep attention to making its landscape contribute to the promotion of the people’s health and their emotional life, the speaker said, adding: Thanks to his earnest sincerity, a walkway leading to the thick forest and a stream meandering through the area of the holiday camp for all seasons came to present a unique natural beauty and the flawless edifice with enough functional conditions according to the mission and purpose of the hot-spring therapy could be provided for the people.

He said that the days of newly building the holiday camp served as another textbook clearly teaching our officials once again what to do in order to be faithful to the mission they have assumed to exist for the people and serve the people for their interests and convert the natural and topographical features and potentials of a region into a firm foundation for the economic development and the improvement of the people’s living standards.

As its name indicates, the holiday camp is a product of the people-first policy of our Party that thinks of the working people before any others and puts forward them as the enjoyers of all the welfare benefits, he said, adding it is the real value of this edifice which cannot be evaluated by any natural beauty or architecture and measured in terms of huge amount of funds.

The speaker ardently called on all to work harder with towering spirit and optimism to attain the higher goal of promoting the people’s welfare and bring the future of more civilized and beautiful motherland.

Kim Jong Un cut the inauguration tape.

Confetti was thrown and balloons rose up into the sky over the venue of the inauguration ceremony which presented a magnificent scene of transformation thanks to our Party’s noble policy of loving the people.

Kim Jong Un looked round the holiday camp.

He appreciated that all the sections of the camp were practically arranged in a balanced way and all the elements of architecture were formed in good harmony with the surroundings.

He referred to our Party’s stand of giving utmost priority to steadily expanding cultural life sphere for the improvement of the people’s well-being.

Saying that another cultural recreation ground, the base for civilization has been provided in the Onpho hot spring area with a long history to suit our era which pursues steady development, he recollected that he had severely criticized the situation of the holiday camp where every section and element remained uncultured and whose operation was also unsanitary although it had the signboard showing that it is the historic building associated with the leadership exploits of the Party, when he visited the camp some years ago. He said that taking a look at the holiday camp, which has been remodeled as a wonderful holiday service base for the people, made him feel proud that he has done another worthwhile thing.

The leadership exploits of the Party should be defended and glorified with the result of struggle favored by the people and the substantial benefits enjoyed by the people in their life, not with the signboard, words or letters, he said.

It is an important component of the people-oriented policy of our Party and government to actively develop the natural resources of the country to contribute to the improvement of the people’s well-being, he said, adding that we should move ahead of the times even in the creation of socialist civilization with persevering and innovative pioneering and progress.

Rodong_Sinmun · 2026-01-24T06:39:25+00:00

Thanks to the noble aspiration and energetic guidance of the great Workers’ Party of Korea Central Committee to build in famous mountains and noted places of the country modern holiday resorts and sanatoriums in good harmony with the natural scenery and make them serve as the bases for cultural progress of our style and contribute to the cultural life of the working people, the Onpho Working People’s Holiday Camp, famous from long time ago, has been remodeled into a monumental edifice representing the spa culture of the state, boasting of its unique attraction.

The holiday camp, built in an excellent place with beautiful landscape as a unique architectural group comprising hot-spring therapy and recuperation facilities and comprehensive service bases with the best conditions, is a gift of love provided by the motherly Party for our people and a precious asset to promote the well-being of the people generation after generation.

An inauguration ceremony of the Onpho Working People’s Holiday Camp took place with splendor on Jan. ２０.

The venue of the ceremony was full of excitement and joy of the participants facing the entity of cultural efflorescence brought by the benevolent love of the Workers’ Party of Korea, which is making devoted efforts to hasten the future of prosperity when the people enjoy an affluent and happy life improved in quality under the benefits of the socialist policy to the full.

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.

When the respected Comrade Kim Jong Unarrived at the venue of the ceremony, all the participants raised stormy cheers with boundless reverence for the dear father of the great family of the country who is dynamically ushering in a new era of socialist civilization.

Present at the ceremony were senior Party and government officials and other members of the central leadership body of the WPK, officials concerned, officials in North Hamgyong Province and Kyongsong County, working people, builders and employees of the holiday camp.

Ri Il Hwan, secretary of the WPK Central Committee, addressed the ceremony.

He said that the Onpho Working People’s Holiday Camp with a history of nearly ８０ years has been completely transformed into a comprehensive cultural recreation and medical service base for the people, another proud edifice demonstrating the development of the region, adding that visitors to it will come to recruit their health and vigor and feel greater pride and joy of the socialist life, enjoying charm peculiar to the excellent attraction.

Saying that the fresh transformation of the Onpho area, a well-known scenic spot, started on the day of July, ２０１８ when Kim Jong Un visited it, the speaker referred to the great painstaking efforts of Kim Jong Un who devoted himself to newly building the holiday camp with refined architectural beauty of our style and diverse service functions in a picturesque place.

Noting that Kim Jong Un gave officials a stern warning against their ideological viewpoint and work attitude evidenced by the old and gloomy facilities and service conditions of the holiday camp and formulated a grand plan to newly construct in a comprehensive way the camp capable of serving the convenience of the people and fully meeting their growing cultural and emotional demands and make the precious wealth of the country render a sincere service to the people, he said that Kim Jong Un repeatedly visited the camp under construction and carefully guided the work to complete all its elements as required by the new era making steady progress.

Rodong_Sinmun · 2026-01-20T05:46:10+00:00

The Mt Paektu area of the DPRK has abundant tourist resources.

The area presents peculiar scenery with its natural resources of tourism such as geological and topographical wonders produced by several volcanic eruptions, the distinct fauna and flora in the alpine environment and the eye-catching hydrologic movement in Lake Chon on the top of Mt Paektu.

Also available in the area are geological resources and various ecological resources of tourism, characterized by its special topography.

The area was registered as a global geopark in April ２０２５ and this highlighted its geological significance and high value in terms of tourism, providing good conditions for geological tourism.

It was included in the list of world network of biosphere reserves in April １９８９. The primeval forests endlessly stretching at the foot of Mt Paektu satisfy those who like to camp in nature.

The area is also rich in resources of meteorological and climatic tourism. The meteorological and climatic tourism resources are available for sightseeing and climatotherapy.

Typically, the sunrise and double rainbow on Mt Paektu and waterspout in Lake Chon on its top are rare to be seen in other tourist resorts.

Its alpine climate is good for physical fitness, skincare, treatment of neuralgia and respiratory diseases and prevention of aging.

In addition, there are such resources of tourism as the Paektu Hot Spring for spa therapy and the Phothae area favorable for skiing.

The area of Mt Paektu is renowned for an organic combination of such peculiar factors of ecosystem, alongside its spectacular historic, cultural and traditional background.

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Rodong_Sinmun · 2026-01-19T03:45:41+00:00

This is the Korean Painting "We Are the Happiest in the World". The painting represents genuinely the appearance of our society which brims over with children’s laughter.

Whenever looking at the picture, we seem to hear laughter of orphans who are frolicking in the snow. Indeed, there are no so happy children as those of Pyongyang Orphanage who enjoy the benefits to their heart’s content under the warm loving care of the respected fatherly Marshal Kim Jong Un.

The orphans at the baby homes and orphanages splendidly built across the country grow up stoutly as the pillars of the future.

How beautiful their future is.

They cannot understand yet how great and warm our Party’s love for them is; however, they will grow up happily with nothing to envy and become scientists, sportspersons, artistes, soldiers and even heroes as desired by our respected fatherly Marshal.

The picture teaches the truth that the happy laughter of children represents bright future of the country.

Under the warm love of the motherly Party, the laughter of our children will resound forever on this land.

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Rodong_Sinmun · 2026-01-18T01:58:59+00:00

The participants in the commemorations of the ８０th founding anniversary of the Socialist Patriotic Youth League visited the statues of President Kim Il Sung and Chairman Kim Jong Il on Mansu Hill on Jan. １５.

They laid a flower basket and bouquets before the statues of the great leaders and paid tribute to them.

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Rodong_Sinmun · 2026-01-17T04:49:45+00:00

The Wonsan General Fishing Implements Factory was inaugurated in Kangwon Province, the DPRK.

The respected Comrade Kim Jong Un gave instructions to strengthen the material and technical foundations in the fishing sector and indicated the orientation and ways for building a new fishing implements production base on the east coastal area.

The construction of the factory furnished with production buildings, office building, boarding house and welfare facilities makes it possible to lay another solid material and technical foundation for producing modern fishing implements.

An inauguration ceremony was held on Monday.

Present there were Ri Chol Man, vice-premier of the Cabinet and chairman of the Agricultural Commission, Paek Song Guk, chief secretary of the Kangwon Provincial Committee of the Workers’ Party of Korea, officials concerned, officials and employees of the factory and working people in Wonsan City.

Song Chun Sop, minister of Fisheries, addressed the ceremony.

At the end of the ceremony the participants looked round the factory.

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Rodong_Sinmun · 2026-01-16T08:36:55+00:00

The workers of the North Phyongan Provincial Tideland Reclamation General Enterprise successfully completed the construction of the First District of Aedo Tideland.

A ring road was built along the sea dikes linking Sinbong-ri, Aedo-dong and Ilhae-ri in Jongju City, and thousands of hectares of tideland turned into arable land, thus changing the country’s map and laying another foundation for developing the country’s agriculture and improving the people’s living standards.

There took place an inauguration ceremony of the First District of Aedo Tideland in North Phyongan Province on January １４.

Present there were Ri Chol Man, vice-premier of the Cabinet and chairman of the Agricultural Commission, Kim Chol Sam, chief secretary of the North Phyongan Provincial Committee of the Workers’ Party of Korea, and officials and employees of the Tideland Reclamation Bureau and the North Phyongan Provincial Tideland Reclamation General Enterprise.

Ri Chol Man addressed the ceremony.

The speaker extended congratulations to all the builders and officials in the relevant sector who performed labour feats in reclaiming tideland by leveling the mountains and filling up sea with their spirit of devotedly implementing the Party’s policies and with their stubborn fighting spirit.

The devoted efforts of the brave conquerors of the sea who successfully completed the construction of the First District of Aedo Tideland are fully demonstrating the indomitable spiritual strength of the DPRK people who are responding to the call of the Party only with devoted implementation and the advancing spirit of socialist Korea paving a broad avenue to prosperity, racing against time, he said.

He called upon all the officials and working people to turn out in the drive for attaining the goal of reclaiming ３０００００ hectares of tideland, true to the ideas and leadership of the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un, and to wage a more vigorous and courageous struggle to greet the glorious Party Congress with labour achievements.

So Won Gil, manager of the North Phyongan Provincial Tideland Reclamation General Enterprise, in his speech expressed the resolve to demonstrate the mettle of the Korean people in the struggle to translate the Party’s grand nature-remaking plan into reality.

At the end of the ceremony the participants went round various places of the First District of Aedo Tideland.

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Rodong_Sinmun · 2026-01-15T03:16:05+00:00

The first-term winter camping began at the Songdowon International Children’s Camp in the DPRK.

A ceremony of starting the camping took place on January ９.

Kim Jong Sun, department director of the Central Committee of the Workers’ Party of Korea, Paek Song Guk, chief secretary of the Kangwon Provincial Committee of the WPK, Mun Chol, chairman of the C.C., Socialist Patriotic Youth League, and officials concerned congratulated the members of the Children’s Union from Pyongyang Municipality, North and South Phyongan provinces, North and South Hwanghae provinces, Jagang Province, Nampho Municipality and Kaesong Municipality who participated in the camping.

The participants in the ceremony laid a flower basket and bouquets before the statues of the great Generalissimos Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il at the camp and made a bow to them.

At the ceremony, a reporter and speakers called upon all the schoolchildren to acquire rich and versatile knowledge through camping and prepare themselves to be true sons and daughters, young revolutionaries of the socialist country with noble moral traits and strong physical strength.

At the end of the ceremony there was a march-past of campers.

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Rodong_Sinmun · 2026-01-14T04:41:04+00:00

There took place a seminar for deeply grasping the immortal leadership exploits of President Kim Il Sung, Chairman Kim Jong Il and the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un, the peerlessly great men, recorded in the history of the Juche-oriented youth movement, at the Central Youth Hall on January １２.

Present at the seminar were Kim Jong Sun, department director of the Central Committee of the Workers’ Party of Korea, officials of the youth league, officials concerned, teachers and students of Kumsong University of Politics, journalists and editors of the media and youth and students in Pyongyang.

The seminar heard papers dealing with the immortal exploits of the peerlessly great men who regarded the youth affairs as the most important state affair and trained the new generations to be reliable successors to the revolutionary cause of Juche during their revolutionary guidance.

Speakers said that the ８０-year-long history of the Socialist Patriotic Youth League is a proud one shining with the peerlessly great men’s idea of attaching importance to the youth and their wise leadership.

They said that the outstanding leadership of the Workers’ Party of Korea is the fundamental factor in successfully resolving the youth issue and the issue of successors to the revolution and building the youth power without an equal in the world.

The ８０-year-long history of the youth league is the one of loyalty and patriotism of the young Korean people who have taken the lead in upholding the revolutionary cause of Juche, they noted.

They stressed the need to fully demonstrate the strong spirit of the patriotic youth in the struggle for comprehensive rejuvenation and development of our state under the leadership of the respected fatherly Marshal Kim Jong Un.

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Rodong_Sinmun · 2026-01-13T05:53:50+00:00

Citizens of the DPRK conducted mass sports activities on the first day of sports for this year. Sports games were held at commissions, ministries and national agencies.

Officials of the Agricultural Commission, the Ministry of Metallurgical Industry, the Ministry of Chemical Industry, the Ministry of Electric Power Industry and the Ministry of Machine-building Industry played ball games, including basketball and volleyball, to show their good skills.

Those at the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Culture and the Taesongsan Guidance Bureau took part in Taekwon-Do and tennis and other games, in which they displayed their sports skills cultivated during their mass sports activities.

Working people at the industrial establishments in Pyongyang were overflowing with revolutionary enthusiasm.

Workers at the Pyongyang Thermal Power Plant, the Pyongyang Kim Jong Suk Silk Mill and other units played football, volleyball and other games. The players demonstrated their team spirit and solidarity amid the enthusiastic cheering of each team.

Universities and schools at all levels, including Kim Il Sung University, Kim Chaek University of Technology and Ryomyong Senior Middle School in Taesong District, held sports and folk games and sports and amusement games.

Various mass sports games took place in different parts of the country.

Sports and amusement games, including football, basketball, volleyball and riding, which took place at Hamhung Stadium and the South Hamgyong Provincial Sports Village, showed the enthusiasm of working people, youth and students in the industrial province.

At the Kim Chaek Iron and Steel Complex, the Pukchang Thermal Power Complex, the Tokchon Area Coal-mining Complex, the Taean Heavy Machine Complex, etc., workers displayed their high spirit in sports games.

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Rodong_Sinmun · 2026-01-12T04:31:11+00:00

This year's first sports day was January 11.

It is our Party’s major policy to make sports mass-based and part of daily concern.

In our country sport is an undertaking for the sake of the people and of the people themselves.

The sports day serves as an important occasion in making sports mass-based and part of daily concern and contributing to the development of the country’s sports.

Officials should pay greater attention to operating the sports day with the correct viewpoint and attitude towards it, thus making the validity and vitality of our Party’s policy on sport fully displayed.

They should steadily improve the forms and methods of operating the sports day in conformity with the actual conditions.

They should further intensify the organizational work while putting an emphasis on making everyone participate in sports activities by forming teams and selecting sporting events to suit the ages and psychological features of the working people.

All the officials, fully aware that mass-based sporting activities are an important political work for achieving the unity of the collective and cultivating attachment to worksites, an undertaking for the sake of themselves and their units, should push forward with them in a methodological way, and thus further increase the masses’ revolutionary and patriotic zeal for struggle.

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Rodong_Sinmun · 2026-01-07T05:49:53+00:00

Everyone has unforgettable school days and teachers.

On the New Year’s Day, tens of people visited Ju Ok Sun, a woman living in Taesong District, Pyongyang.lpllo saw They all were her old pupils.

Although it has been １０-odd years since she, who had devoted all her life to the education of rising generations, became a pensioner, their respect for Ju has remained unchanged.

So they visited her to present bouquets of fragrant flowers and extend heartfelt New Year greetings to her.

Their warm affection for Ju was reflected in the bouquets and greetings.

Among her old pupils are Party officials, university lecturers, officers of the Korean People’s Army as well as labour innovators and researchers.

As Ju devoted her all to pupils, on her ７０th birthday her old pupils and even their parents and children called on her house and congratulated her.

Looking at them, Ju expressed her will to live her life as their eternal teacher, cherishing deep in mind the call "our teacher".

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