The Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea decided to convene the Eleventh Plenary Meeting of the Eighth Central Committee of the WPK late in December to review the execution of the Party and state policies in 2024, confirm the orientation of struggle for 2025 and discuss and decide on a series of important issues arising in achieving the comprehensive development of socialist construction.

A relevant resolution of the Political Bureau of the WPK Central Committee was released on December 2. 

The Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea sent a message of greeting to the General Council of the United Russia Party (URP) on December 1.

In the message, the WPK Central Committee extended warm congratulations to the URP leadership, all its members and its supporters throughout the country on the occasion of the 23rd anniversary of the founding of the United Russia Party.

We are pleased that the URP is dynamically pushing ahead with the implementation of the programme for building a powerful and prosperous Russia by pooling the patriotic enthusiasm of the people of all social strata as one, and express firm support and solidarity with the just cause of the United Russia Party and the Russian people to defend the sovereignty, security and development interests of the country, it said.

The Workers’ Party of Korea and the government of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea constantly pursues the policy of promoting the rights of persons with disabilities to ensure that they hold the position as masters of the country and society and lead a fulfilling life in all fields of social life.

President Kim Il Sung saw to it that the issue of providing living conditions for persons with disabilities was stipulated in the first labour law of the country in 1946, the year after Korea’s liberation from Japanese military rule, and that the first organization of the disabled was established in February 1948.

In the thick of the Fatherland Liberation War, he took a measure to found a school for honoured disabled soldiers to ensure they learned useful techniques and skills. After that, schools for the blind and deaf, honoured disabled soldiers’ factories, workshops for light workers and sanatoriums were built across the country, providing a solid foundation for the protection of the disabled.

Disabled poet

The recent national mass literary work prize contest highly appreciated the lyric “I Go to Work” written by Man Jong Ryong living in Songbuk-dong, Moranbong District of Pyongyang.

The poem impresses people as it is composed with vivid and exciting poetic words on the basis of a novel idea. “This is not simply a poem. It reflects my life and a disabled young man’s gratitude to the socialist system,” said Jong Ryong. 

The mission of the Korea Rehabilitation Centre for Children with Disabilities is to detect symptoms of disabilities among children at an early time, help them recover their functions and nurse and educate them so as to make them be able to receive school education like normal children.

The public takes a close interest in the institution in the country.

According to a well-organized system of detecting children with disabilities in good time, the centre finds them out from across the country to give them timely treatment.

The 2024 Games of Disabled Persons and Amateurs took place at the Handball Gymnasium on Chongchun Street in Pyongyang.

Since all amateurs can take part in the event along with disabled persons, the games grow in scale every year and people’s interest is growing increasingly.

The recent contest brought together over 600 persons with disabilities and sports amateurs in Pyongyang. Table tennis competition was played in four categories and tennis and badminton in three categories respectively.

The 2024-2025 DPRK Premier Football League and Women's Premier Football League started on December 1.

They have brought together excellent male and female soccer teams at home including the April 25, Ryomyong, Sobaeksu, Amnokgang, Kigwancha, Pyongyang, Naegohyang, Wolmido and Rimyongsu teams. They are played in three stages.

The April 25 and Ryomyong teams drew 1-1 and the Sonbong Team beat the Wolmido Team 5-0 at the first stage of the premier football league held at Sosan Football Stadium on December 1.

The Lao People’s Democratic Republic is an inland country located in the southern part of the Asian continent.

Laos, which had been a colony of foreign aggressors for a long time, achieved its independence in October 1945.

But the US stretched its tentacles of domination to Laos, inciting domestic conflict. The Lao people launched an armed uprising in May 1975 under the leadership of the Lao People’s Revolutionary Party to drive out the US imperialists and founded the people’s democratic republic on December 2 that year.

Russian President Vladimir Putin reaffirmed his country’s stand to cope with the attack with West-made weapons on the Russian territory in a press conference on November 28.

He emphasized that having attacked Russia with West-made weapons means direct involvement of the West in the Ukrainian dispute and Russia will tackle the act of aggression.

Mentioning that the advent of the new-type intermediate-range ballistic missile Oreshnik has consolidated the military position of Russia, he said that the missile can be used to attack munitions industry objects or decision-making centres in Kiev.