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Respected Comrade Kim Jong Un sends message of condolence to Lao President

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, sent a message of condolence to Thongloun Sisoulith, general secretary of the Central Committee of the Lao People's Revolutionary Party and president of the People's Democratic Republic of Laos, on April 2.

The message said:

I express deep condolences, on behalf of the Workers' Party of Korea, the government of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, the Korean people and on my own behalf, to you and the party, government and people of Laos and the bereaved family, upon hearing the sad news that Comrade Khamtay Siphandone passed away.

I am convinced that the party, government and people of Laos would overcome the pain of loss and achieve bigger success in the struggle for defending and advancing the cause of socialism as desired by Comrade Khamtay Siphandone.

Press statement of Kim Yo Jong, deputy department director of WPK Central Committee

April 9, 2025

Kim Yo Jong, deputy department director of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea, issued the following press statement "The anachronistic 'denuclearization' idea of the US, Japan and the ROK can never affect the position of our state" on April 8:

The diplomatic authorities of the US, Japan and the ROK talked again about someone's "complete denuclearization", terming the Democratic People's Republic of Korea's exercise of its sovereign rights a "threat" on the occasion of the recent NATO foreign ministers' meeting.

It fully exposed once again the uneasiness and anxiousness of the US, Japan and the ROK in a desperate plight of having to talk about "denuclearization" in chorus, filled with fear, although they just know that "denuclearization" of us is nothing but a pipe dream that can never come true.

Noticing difference in blueprint in an instant

April 9, 2025

One day Chairman Kim Jong Il met a design official and examined the blueprint for a major construction project.

The designs for a large building with a total floor space of tens of thousands of square metres were very complicated.

While looking at the designs one by one, he suddenly pointed at a part of a design with a pencil and said it was different from what he had seen previously.

Photo exhibition opens to celebrate birth anniversary of President Kim Il Sung

April 9, 2025

A national photo exhibition, "Journey dedicated to happiness of people", opened with due ceremony at the Okryu Exhibition House in Pyongyang on April 7 to celebrate the 113th birth anniversary of President Kim Il Sung.

On display at the exhibition hall are photos showing the personality traits of President Kim Il Sung, Chairman Kim Jong Il and the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un, who are all praised as great men for having laid eternal foundations for building a powerful socialist country with their outstanding ideas and theories, rare leadership ability and gigantic revolutionary practice and working hard to bring earlier the rosy future when the people's dreams and ideals will come true.

The photos deal with the immortal revolutionary exploits of the President who put forward the working class in the vanguard of miraculous creation and wrote a brilliant history of national prosperity.

'President Kim Il Sung is great leader, people’s father'

April 9, 2025

Roberto Gabriele, general secretary of the Movement for Peace and Socialism of Italy, released a statement titled “President Kim Il Sung, great leader of world revolution” on April 1 to mark the 113th birthday of President Kim Il Sung, which said:

On the occasion of the auspicious April holiday, the world progressives reverentially look back upon the whole life of President Kim Il Sung, the outstanding leader of the Korean people and a great revolutionary.

He embarked on the road of revolution in his early teens with a firm resolve not to return home before Korea had become independent.

Chairman Kim Jong Il lays eternal foundations for building a thriving country

April 9, 2025

On April 9 32 years ago, Comrade Kim Jong Il was elected as chairman of the National Defence Commission of the DPRK.

Since then, the DPRK people and service personnel of the Korean People’s Army had performed miracles and feats in the campaign to defend socialism and the struggle to accomplish the cause of building a powerful nation under his wise leadership.

In retrospect, the hostile forces argued that it was a matter of time for the DPRK’s socialism to come to an end, taking advantage of the collapse of socialism in some countries in the 1990s.

National foodstuff exhibition closes

April 9, 2025

The 2025 National Foodstuff Exhibition closed in the DPRK with due ceremony at the Pyongyang Underground Shop on April 7.

The exhibition brought together at least 100 units across the country. It drew many visitors every day as colourful products with regional features were on display.

During the exhibition, the producers shared and transferred their successes made in improving the quality of products and expanding varieties through the presentations of sci-tech successes and experience and sci-tech lectures.

Factory develops over 100 kinds of new hosiery this year

April 9, 2025

The Pyongyang Hosiery Factory is increasing the variety of products by developing functional socks with fresh colours and patterns. 

“The factory produced over 500 kinds of hosiery with diverse colours and patterns and in great demand last year. It newly developed and produced more than 100 kinds of hosiery by expanding variety this year, too,” said Kim Chung Hyok, chief of the technical department of the factory.

The factory directs great efforts to creating designs, which play an important role in increasing the variety of products.

Eight siblings’ family assists army through generations

April 9, 2025

The family of Kim Son Hui, aged 79, who lives in Minhung-dong, Moranbong District, Pyongyang, is one of families most well known for assisting the army.

Starting from her father-in-law who was a war veteran to his eight children and their descendants, the family has assisted the army through four generations. 

“I have been assisting the army with my husband Ho Mong, the eldest of the eight siblings, for thirty years. Despite the passage of time and the replacement of generations, our family’s tradition of assisting the army has remained unchanged,” said Kim.

Russian party delegation returns home

April 9, 2025

The delegation of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation led by Kazbek Taysaev, secretary of its Central Committee and head of the Russia-DPRK Friendship Parliamentary Group of the State Duma, left Pyongyang for home on April 7.

It was seen off at Pyongyang International Airport by officials of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea, the Russian ambassador to the DPRK and his embassy staff members. 

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