Left Review Online December 30, 2020
Quite moving was the image of Supreme Commander Kim Jong Un, when he said, “Esteemed comrade war veterans,” making a bow to the participants at the Sixth National Conference of War Veterans, held in Pyongyang in July. He said that the war veterans, who had brought about the...More
On the Korean TV channels, one can frequently see Chairman Kim Jong Un having unceremonious conversations with the people. When they talk to him, they never hesitate to tell their wishes and problems candidly. Someone even asked him a favour of naming her newborn baby. He seems to...More
November is the month for making kimchi for winter in Korea. Korean ancestors invented a good method of preserving vegetables in autumn so that they could eat them from winter to late spring the following year–it was making kimchi. Traditionally Koreans, whenever they made kimchi for winter, used...More
In May 2017, a Pyongyang exchange group of persons with disabilities gave successful performances in London and other places in Britain, following its performance tour in Britain and France in February 2015. Among the performers was a blind woman, Pae Ok Rim by name, who sang the world-famous...More
Displayed in the stamp exhibition held in Pyongyang on the theme Ever-Victorious 75 Years of Great Guidance are the stamps issued for the first time in new Korea. The stamps Sharon of Rose and Samsonam were created by Paek Tae Jin, a stamp designer, and issued on March...More
Chairman Kim Jong Un of the State Affairs Commission of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea plans everything in a big and bold way and executes it on the highest possible level. The typical examples are modern-style Mirae Scientists Street and Ryomyong Street in Pyongyang, the city of...More
The world admires the people of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea for their boundless reverence to and respect for their Supreme Leader. Why, then, do they respect their leader so ardently? Carrying forward the cause of President Kim Il Sung (1912-1994) and Chairman Kim Jong Il (1942-2011),...More
All the people and service personnel of the country, who are greeting the auspicious October holiday, Officers and men of the Public Security Forces and members of the Worker-Peasant Red Guards and Young Red Guards, Delegates to the celebrations of the 75th anniversary of the founding of the...More
The Workers’ Party of Korea (WPK) has served the people since its founding on October 10, 1945, regarding it as its duty to hold responsibility for their destiny and take good care of them. In February 1946, shortly after its founding, the Party established the Provisional People’s Committee...More
The Workers’ Party of Korea (WPK) carries out without fail whatever it is determined to do. What is the secret then? First, it solves all the problems relying on the people. It is its will that nothing is impossible as long as it believes the people and relies...More
October 10, 2020 is the 75th anniversary of the founding of the Workers’ Party of Korea. Kim Il Sung (1912-1994) founded the Workers’ Party of Korea. Kim Il Sung, who embarked on the road of revolutionary struggle in his teens to liberate his country and people from the...More
The Workers’ Party of Korea has been the ruling party in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea since the first days of its founding on October 10, 1945. The 70-odd-year history of the WPK is the history of the people-first principle, in which it has believed in the people as in heaven and served...More
In a typhoon-stricken area in South Hamgyong Province on the east coast of Korea, Chairman Kim Jong Un of the State Affairs Commission of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, sent an open letter to all the Workers’ Party of Korea members in the capital city of Pyongyang...More
The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) is a people-centered state in which everything serves people. It was founded by President Kim Il Sung on 9 September 1948. He led the anti-Japanese armed struggle to victory, liberated the country from the Japanese colonial rule and wisely led the...More
The national emblem of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) bears the design of a grand hydroelectric power station under Mt Paektu and the beaming light of a five-pointed red star, with ears of rice forming an oval frame, bound with a red ribbon bearing the inscription...More