A session of the Permanent Commission of the Standing Committee of the Supreme People's Assembly of the DPRK took place.

The meeting discussed the issues of amending and supplementing the laws of the DPRK on the protection of software, sci-tech talents management, licensing of goods production and landscaping and adopted relevant decrees. 

DPRK player Kim Kum Yong came first at the women's singles of the 2024 Asian Table Tennis Championships.

The championships, held in Astana of Kazakhstan from October 6 to 13, brought together more than 200 men and women players selected from over 20 countries and regions, including the DPRK, China, Thailand, Uzbekistan and India.

Kim Kum Yong beat her Chinese opponent 3-0 in the last sixteen, a player of the puppet ROK 3-1 in the quarterfinals and a Chinese Hong Kong player 3-0 in the semi-finals and advanced to the final match.

The Inter-Provincial Games in Celebration of the 75th Anniversary of Day of Sports-2024 opened in Pyongyang, the capital of the DPRK.

In the contest, players selected from Pyongyang and all provinces (cities under the direct control of the government) will compete in such events as women's basketball, men's volleyball, badminton, Taekwon-Do, tug-of-war and others.

On October 13, there were preliminary women's basketball games at the Basketball Gymnasium on Chongchun Street and preliminary games of men's volleyball, badminton and tug-of-war at the Pyongyang Indoor Stadium. 

This year, more than 41 600 families have so far moved into new houses built by the country in 141 cities and counties.

This is the third year since the start of the implementation of the rural construction programme of the Workers’ Party of Korea.

The WPK put forward in 2022 a new programme for bringing about a revolutionary turn in the countryside, emphasizing the significance and importance of rural development in the comprehensive growth of socialism.

The Chollima Tile Factory, a building materials production base of the DPRK, is seething with the production of finishing materials for major construction projects.

While running the existing first- and second-stage production processes at full capacity, the factory intensified the planning, guidance, technical innovation and socialist emulation drive for ensuring the full-capacity operation of interior wall tile production line No. 1 of the third stage built last year. As a result, it is daily producing tiles over 1.5 times as much as last year when the peak year level was attained.

It also organizes and directs production in a responsible manner to make all the members of workshops and workteams ensure close coordination between processes, while focusing on full-capacity operation of equipment. It takes measures in advance to supply raw materials and secure parts and puts great efforts to the technical updating of production processes and the improvement of quality.

October 15 is Global Handwashing Day.

It is an annual global advocacy day dedicated to advocating handwashing with soap as an easy, effective and affordable way to prevent diseases and save lives.

The first Global Handwashing Day was commemorated in 2008, when over 120 million children washed their hands with soap in more than 70 countries around the world.

Kim Ryo Won, an international security analyst of the DPRK, issued the following article titled "Japan's 'reinvasion' ship is doomed to sinking":

Being preoccupied by the ambition for reinvasion with the confrontation current of a "new Cold War" brought by the US, Japan gets hell-bent on the reckless moves for turning itself into a military giant, escalating the military tension in the region.

The latest attack submarine Chogei (giant whale) to be officially commissioned as a main warship of the Japanese Maritime "Self-Defense Force" revealed its shape on the sea on October 4.

A Russian vice foreign minister clarified at a recent press conference the stand of his country on the reform of the UN Security Council.

Russia cannot allow some more countries of NATO, known as a military and political alliance, and the EU to enter the UNSC because such a measure cannot make the UNSC a more effective and objective organization, he stressed.

Actually, instructions given to those countries are those from Washington and Brussels and the Western countries belonging to the UNSC at present are carrying out the instructions perfectly, he disclosed.

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian in an interview on October 11 censured the US and the West for shielding Israel.

He urged Israel to discontinue bombing houses and bare-handed people, saying that the Israeli authorities have violated different international agreements.

The US and the EU stand behind Israel’s acts which are committed in the Middle East, he added.