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Respected Comrade Kim Jong Un guides defence science research work

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, guided the defence science research work of the Unmanned Aeronautical Technology Complex and the detective electronic warfare research group on March 25-26.

Accompanying him were Pak Jong Chon and Jo Chun Ryong, secretaries of the WPK Central Committee, Ri Pyong Chol, general advisor for the munitions policy of the WPK Central Committee, Kim Yong Hwan, president of the Academy of Defence Sciences, and other senior officials of the WPK Central Committee and defence science research institutes.

The respected Comrade Kim Jong Un learned about various kinds of reconnaissance and suicide attack drones, newly developed and being produced by an institute and enterprises under the Unmanned Aeronautical Technology Complex, and oversaw their performance test.

The test confirmed the innovative performance of a new-type strategic reconnaissance drone with the detective ability to track and monitor different strategic targets and enemy troops’ activities in the land and sea. And it fully demonstrated the striking capability of suicide drones to be used for various tactical attack missions.

Kim Jong Un made an important assessment of the military effectiveness and strategic value of the strategic reconnaissance drone with improving performance and of the suicide attack drones to which new artificial intelligence was applied.

Juche idea and world

April 1, 2025

On March 31 1982, Chairman Kim Jong Il made public the immortal classic work “On the Juche Idea”. The work is an immortal encyclopedia which comprehensively encapsulated and systematized in an all-round way the Juche idea founded by President Kim Il Sung.

The Juche idea is an idea that the masses of the people are masters of the revolution and construction and they are also the motive force of them. In other words, it is the idea that man is the master of his destiny and he has the power to shape his destiny.

By establishing a man-centred philosophical idea and revolutionary theory and leadership method centred on the masses of the people, the Juche idea clearly indicates the way for successfully pushing ahead with the revolution and construction by relying on revolutionary and scientific ideological theories, strategy and tactics and methods however complicated the circumstances and conditions may be.

Young volunteers grow in number

April 1, 2025

Young men and women in South Hwanghae Province and Rason Municipality have joined the ranks of young vanguard volunteering to work in different sectors for implementing the decisions of the Workers' Party of Korea.

Graduates of Haeju Kim Jong Thae University of Education and Haeju Jo Ok Hui Teachers Training College decided to work as teachers at schools on remote islands and in mountainous areas.

Young people in Rason Municipality volunteered to work in difficult and labour-consuming sectors of socialist construction.

Han Il Ryong sets new record at Asian marathon championships

April 1, 2025

DPRK player Han Il Ryong came first at the 20th Asian Marathon Championships.

The championships, held in China on March 30, brought together more than 70 men and women players from 19 countries and regions, including the DPRK, China and Mongolia.

In the men’s marathon Han Il Ryong renewed the record of the Asian Marathon Championships by clocking 2 hours, 11 minutes and 18 seconds and won a gold medal.

Han Chong Song wins gold medal at Asian wrestling championship

April 1, 2025

DPRK wrestlers have proved successful at the 2025 Asian Wrestling Championship.

Han Chong Song advanced to the final match on March 29 (local time) after beating all his opponents in the men’s 57kg category of freestyle wrestling.

In the final, he beat an Iranian player 8-1 to take the first place.

True educator, teacher

April 1, 2025

Yun So Gwang, teacher of Kaesong Middle School No. 1 with a 20-odd-year teaching career, is held in respect by many students and their parents as a true educator and teacher.

Over the years, with clear conscience and high qualifications as educator, he looked after hard-pressed students with parental care, encouraging them to overcome difficulties together with him, and took responsible care of and taught a sick student, whose parents had given up hope of his recovery, to the last and thereby the latter could enter Pyongyang University of Architecture.     

The teacher has always treated and led students with sincerity and so far brought up all students in his charge as future pillars of the country.  

Master developer of new teaching methods and model lessons

April 1, 2025

Ri Yong Hui, teacher of the mathematics department of Kusong Middle School No. 1 in North Phyongan Province who has been standing on the platform for nearly 30 years, is appreciated as a master in inventing new teaching methods and model lessons.

In recent years alone, she has developed programs of significance conducive to improving the abilities of students in maths and worked out and introduced more than 10 new teaching methods including a discussion-oriented teaching method which developed the students’ cognitive faculty and fostered their application ability in the course of practical activities using various control programs in the maths subject.

Particularly, a heuristic maths teaching method she developed last year came first in the natural science section of the 30th national symposium on teaching methods and she gave a demonstration lesson. The method deduced a theorem on proportional line segment of a triangle and enhanced the application ability of students through practical outdoor activities.      

Five rules of conduct for your good health

April 1, 2025

First, walking exercise is excellent.

It is good in the morning. Wear clothes to suit the seasonal conditions and comfortable shoes and maintain a correct posture.

The walking time, distance and speed may be different according to age, physical constitution and health conditions, and the rational distance is about four kilometres.

Russian FM criticizes Ukrainian authorities and West

April 1, 2025

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in a press interview on March 26 denounced the Nazi regime of Ukraine and the West patronizing it.

He said that the present authorities leading Ukraine as puppets of the West do not represent the interests of their people.

He added that the rulers and Nazi regime of Ukraine worked out laws on obliterating all Russian things but the West did not even try to know about them.

Chinese FM censures US for imposing sanctions

April 1, 2025

A spokesman for the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs in a press conference on March 26 denounced the US Department of Commerce’s inclusion of dozens of Chinese entities on the export control list.

It is a typical act of seeking supremacy and a serious violation of basic principles of international law and relationship that the US administration enforces unilateral sanctions at random by abusing the export control means, he stressed.

Strongly demanding the US stop using economic trade and science and technology as political tools and weapons and putting pressure on Chinese businesses, he noted that China will take necessary measures to defend the legitimate rights and interests of its businesses.

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