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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. 

Senior Party and government officials visit Kumsusan Palace of Sun

January 3, 2025

Senior Party and government officials, including members of the Presidium of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Workers’ Party of Korea, and commanding officers of the armed forces organs visited the Kumsusan Palace of the Sun, the sacred temple of Juche, on January 1 on the occasion of the New Year.

The sacred temple of Juche, where the eternal leaders of the Party, state and people of the DPRK and peerlessly great sages are preserved in their lifetime appearance, was wrapped in the most solemn atmosphere.

Seen before the statues of Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il there was a flower basket bearing the name of the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un.

Respected Comrade Kim Jong Un receives greetings from Iranian president

January 3, 2025

Kim Jong Un, president of the State Affairs of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, received a message of greeting from Masoud Pezeshkian, president of the Islamic Republic of Iran, on January 1.

In the message, the Iranian president extended sincere congratulations to the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un and the people of the DPRK on the occasion of the New Year.

He hoped that the world common efforts would put an end to oppression, war and genocide and bring peace, stability and justice in 2025.

Flower baskets come to statues of President Kim Il Sung and Chairman Kim Jong Il from abroad

January 3, 2025

On the occasion of the New Year 2025, baskets of flowers were sent to the statues of President Kim Il Sung and Chairman Kim Jong Il on Mansu Hill in Pyongyang by overseas families of those related to the revolutionary activities of Kim Il Sung and foreign personages.

Placed at the statues of the great leaders were flower baskets in the name of families of Ryang Song Ryong, Pak Kil Song and Kim Chol, China-resident Koreans related to the anti-Japanese revolutionary struggle, families of Chai Shiying, Chen Lei, Jie Qing, and Fan Delin, Chinese related to the anti-Japanese revolutionary struggle, Liu Xing, son of Fan Delin's daughter, Li Ruohong, chairperson of the China World Peace Foundation, Zhang Donghui, president of the Han Mo Dongfang (Beijing) cultural development Co. Ltd., Zhang Peng, director of the Wen Mai Chinese dissemination process advisory council, and Cui Dongyuan, managing director of the Zhejiang commercial service Co. Ltd. 

Nation pays floral tribute to President Kim Il Sung and Chairman Kim Jong Il

January 3, 2025

Officials, working people, service personnel, youth and schoolchildren of the DPRK visited the statues of President Kim Il Sung and Chairman Kim Jong Il in different parts of the country on the morning of New Year’s Day of 2025 to pay high tribute to them.

Placed at the statues of the great leaders on Mansu Hill in Pyongyang were flower baskets in the name of the Party, power and armed forces organs, social organizations, ministries, national agencies, units of the Korean People's Army and the Public Security Forces, and institutions and industrial establishments at all levels and universities in the capital city of Pyongyang and bouquets.

The visitors offered New Year greetings to them, recollecting the sacred careers of the peerlessly great men.

New Year performance given by schoolchildren

January 3, 2025

Amid the blessing of the whole country, a performance of schoolchildren in celebration of the New Year 2025 was given at the Mangyongdae Schoolchildren's Palace on January 1.

Among the audience were Choe Ryong Hae, member of the Presidium of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea, first vice-president of the State Affairs Commission of the DPRK and chairman of the Standing Committee of the Supreme People's Assembly, and other senior Party, government and military officials, labour innovators and persons of distinguished services invited to the New Year celebrations, Pyongyang citizens, students of revolutionary schools and schoolchildren.

Overseas compatriots staying in the socialist homeland enjoyed the performance.

New Year 2025 celebrated in DPRK

January 3, 2025

The people of the DPRK significantly greeted the New Year 2025.

An endless stream of visitors with intense loyalty and deep yearning flowed to the Kumsusan Palace of the Sun, the supreme temple of Juche where President Kim Il Sung and Chairman Kim Jong Il are preserved in their lifetime appearance.

The visitors made New Year greetings to the great leaders looking up to their eternal images at the plaza of the Kumsusan Palace of the Sun.

Sci-tech library inaugurated in South Hwanghae Province

January 3, 2025

The South Hwanghae Provincial Sci-Tech Library has been built in the DPRK.

The library has conditions for information service, academic discussion and dissemination and various kinds of exhibitions to provide another regional base for disseminating the latest science and technology.

An inauguration ceremony took place on the spot on January 1.

Respected Comrade Kim Jong Un receives greetings from President of Democratic Republic of Congo

January 2, 2025

Kim Jong Un, president of the State Affairs of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, received a message of greeting from Felix Antoine Tshilombo Tshisekedi, president of the Democratic Republic of Congo, on December 11 2024.

In the message the President of the Democratic Republic of Congo extended the sincere congratulations on behalf of all the people of his country and on his own behalf to H.E. President Kim Jong Un on the occasion of the New Year 2025.

He expressed his will to further strengthen the good friendly and cooperative relations between the two countries.

Respected Comrade Kim Jong Un receives New Year cards from different countries

January 2, 2025

The respected Comrade Kim Jong Un received New Year cards from heads of state, political party leaders and personages of various circles of different countries on the occasion of the New Year 2025.
The New Year cards came from the general secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China who is president of the People’s Republic of China and his wife, the president of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam and presidents of Mongolia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Belarus.
Kim Jong Un also received New Year cards from the general secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam, the national secretary of the Socialist Workers’ Party of the United States of America, the director-general of the UN Office in Vienna and the president of the International Fund for Agricultural Development.

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