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Respected Comrade Kim Jong Un has photo taken with labour innovators and persons of merit on occasion of New Year 2025

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, called labour innovators and persons of merit to the headquarters building of the Central Committee of the WPK and had a photo taken with them on January 2 on the occasion of the New Year 2025. 

The participants were filled with great emotion and joy as they entered the yard of the Party Central Committee with boundless gratitude to the respected Marshal Kim Jong Un who values the life and struggle of ordinary working people devoting themselves to the prosperity of the country, shows warm benevolence for them to participate in the significant New Year celebrations and puts them on the peak of glory again. 

When the respected General Secretary Kim Jong Un appeared, all the participants broke into thunderous cheers of “Hurrah!” looking up to the leader, symbol of the absolute dignity and invincibility of our great Party and our powerful state and the destiny and happiness of all our people. 

Kim Jong Un extended warm greetings to the labour innovators and persons of merit in various fields, who made contributions to bringing about great changes in 2024 which are of epochal significance in the historic course of struggle toward the comprehensive development of socialism. 

He highly appreciated their efforts, saying that the great successes and proud edifices, symbolic of the self-dependence and prosperity of our state, clearly reflect the pure conscience and devoted efforts of the patriotic working people as reliable cornerstones supporting the country. 

Visual information aids posted across DPRK

January 6, 2025

Visual aids greatly encouraging all the people to carry out the decisions of the Eleventh Plenary Meeting of the Eighth Central Committee of the Workers’ Party of Korea have been set up in different parts of the country, spurring the dynamic advance and development towards a greater victory.

They will enhance the high spirit of all the people across the country to translate the Party’s gigantic revolutionary programme into reality.

Kujang Cement Factory carries out 100 000-cubic-metre blasting

January 6, 2025

Workers of the Kujang Cement Factory, who have turned out in an increased production movement and campaign to implement the decisions of the Eleventh Plenary Meeting of the Eighth Central Committee of the Workers’ Party of Korea, carried out a 100 000-cubic-metre blasting on January 4.

The successful blasting has provided a foundation for producing and supplying enough cement for the economic development of South Phyongan Province and the improvement of its people’s living standards.

After making a breakthrough for increased production with the 100 000-cubic-metre blasting at the beginning of the advance of the new year, the workers of the factory are further kindling the flames of collective innovation with high enthusiasm to attain without fail the cement production goals set forth by the Party.

Huge blasts conducted for tideland reclamation

January 6, 2025

Huge blasts were carried out in succession on January 4 to attain the fighting goals for this significant year at Kakhoedo tideland under reclamation where everyone is striving to implement the decisions of the Eleventh Plenary Meeting of the Eighth Central Committee of the Workers’ Party of Korea.

The 150 000- and 100 000-cubic-metre blasts were successfully conducted, thereby opening up good prospects for pushing forward with the Kakhoedo tideland embankment project at a lightning tempo.

The reclaimers of the tideland, who took the first vigorous step of the new year, are pressing on with the patriotic undertaking to broaden the territory of the country with the single mind to glorify 2025 as a year of eye-opening events and a year of great turn to bring about an upward trend towards a higher development stage.

New feature film ‘Days and Nights of Confrontation’ attracts large audience

January 6, 2025

The new feature film “Days and Nights of Confrontation” produced as a sequel of “One Day and One Night” by the Korean April 25 Film Studio has been screened at cinemas, the People’s Palace of Culture in Pyongyang and other film-screening units across the country, since early January to add to the pleasure of the people who greeted the New Year.

Those buildings are packed every day with many people who have great expectation of and interest in the sequel of “One Day and One Night” which had deeply impressed them.

The film constantly led the audiences to tension and thrill with well-knit construction of plots and unexpected developments of human relations.

Patriotic woman places state affairs ahead of family affairs

January 6, 2025

Choe Jong Sun, resident of Ryonbong-dong in Sunchon, South Phyongan Province, is a patriotic woman who got all of her five daughters to become soldiers.

In their childhood, her daughters were good at their studies and singing. She had a precious dream of bringing them up as scientists and artistes.

However, at the news of Chairman Kim Jong Il’s field guidance at the Dwarf Pine Post of the Korean People’s Army, aimed at safeguarding the destiny of the country and people, on the morning of New Year’s Day in 1995, the year after the sudden loss of President Kim Il Sung, she changed her mind and made herself up to raise them to be soldiers.

For independence and peace

January 6, 2025

The international situation is now tense and complicated as never before.

But the struggle for independence against imperialism and for peace is being waged more actively and vigorously on a worldwide scale.


Gazprom announces stoppage of gas delivery to Europe via Ukraine

January 6, 2025

The Gazprom Company of Russia recently announced that the delivery of gas to Europe via Ukraine was discontinued.

The company asserted that, as the Ukrainian side refused to renew the agreement on the gas delivery to Europe via its territory, the delivery through this transport route has lost its technical and legal possibility.

Consequently, the gas delivery was reportedly stopped on January 1 2025(Moscow time).

US applies new sanctions against Russia and Iran

January 6, 2025

The US imposed sanctions against Russian and Iranian entities on December 31 last year.

The US Treasury Department found fault with an organization related to the Russian military intelligence service and a company under the Islamic Revolutionary Guards of Iran, saying they tried to create socio-political tension during last year’s US presidential election and give their influence over it.

In this regard, the Russian embassy in the US released a statement to reject the US argument, noting that Russia had neither interfered in the internal affairs of other countries including the US nor would do so.

Performance given in succession in celebration of New Year 2025

January 5, 2025

The performance in celebration of the New Year 2025 was staged at May Day Stadium in Pyongyang for several days in succession.

It was divided into parts 1 and 2. Put on the stage were such colourful numbers as a narrative poem depicting with boundless joy the phases of the times of eye-opening changes brought about by the great Workers’ Party of Korea’s far-reaching ideal and outstanding leadership and the bright, prosperous future of the Korean people and new famous songs truthfully reflecting the love of all the people for their powerful country.

The venue resounded with all-people paeans to the WPK which ushered in a new heyday of national rejuvenation and is translating the precious dreams and ideals of the people into shining reality while successfully overcoming all challenges and difficulties.

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