Left Review Online February 16, 2021
February 16 is the birthday of Great Leader Comrade Kim Jong Il, Chairman of the National Defence Commission of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. Commemorating his birthday, peoples of the world recall him with deep respect and emotion. He was a veteran statesman who achieved great exploits...More
The politics based on the people-first principle is the basic political mode of socialism. It is the politics of regarding the masses of the people as masters of the revolution and construction, relying on them and making selfless, devoted efforts for the good of them. It is rooted...More
The Korean People’s Army, the regular armed force of the DPRK, was founded on February 8, 1948. The founding of the Korean People’s Army provided the country with military guarantee for following the road of independent development. The Korean People’s Revolutionary Army, the KPA’s predecessor, was founded on...More
No one can match the invincible Korean People’s Army, and what is the secret? The first one is that the KPA has been led by outstanding leaders. President Kim Il Sung (1912-1994), who founded the KPA and defeated the US and Japanese imperialists in one generation, was an...More
Dear delegates, This congress, the eighth of its kind in the history of our Party, presented as its agenda items the immediate fighting plans for opening an era of new upsurge, an era of drastic change, in the revolution and construction and the important tasks in developing the...More
Kathmandu. The enlarged meeting of the 21st Political Bureau of the 7th Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK) was held at the office building of the Party Central Committee on November 29, 2020. The meeting was chaired by Comrade Kim Jong Un, chairman of 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