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Kim Jong Un sends greetings to Cuban 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 congratulatory message to Miguel Mario Diaz-Canel Bermudez, first secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba and president of the Republic of Cuba.

In the message, he extended warm comradely greetings and congratulations to Miguel Mario Diaz-Canel Bermudez on his birthday.

Thanks to the energetic guidance of the First Secretary, he said, the Cuban party and people are now making steady progress in socialist construction while firmly defending the sovereignty of the country and the gains of the revolution despite all manner of challenges and difficulties.

Expressing his belief that traditionally friendly and cooperative relations between the two parties and the two countries, which have been forged and strengthened in the struggle for independence and socialism against imperialism, would develop more vigorously, Kim Jong Un sincerely wished the First Secretary good health and his family happiness.

Farmers condemn confrontational moves of the US, south Korean puppets

May 6, 2023

Agricultural workers and members of the Union of Agricultural Workers of Korea got together in front of the House of Class Education in Susan-ri of Kangso District in Nampho on May 4 to denounce the extremely frantic acts of anti-DPRK provocation by sworn enemies and vow vengeance against them.

The meeting was attended by Ri Yong Chol, vice-chairman of the UAWK Central Committee, Choe Yong, secretary of the Nampho City Committee of the Workers’ Party of Korea, officials of the UAWK, other relevant officials and agricultural workers and UAWK members in the district.

Speeches were made there.

Farmers in North Phyongan move into new homes

May 6, 2023

Splendid dwelling houses were built in Sangdan-dong of Kusong City, Konbong-ri of Sonchon County, Unha-ri of Unjon County, Posong-ri of Tongnim County and the Chongsu Vegetable Farm in Sakju County, North Phyongan Province.

Meetings for moving into new houses took place on the spot.

They were attended by Kim Kwang Bok, secretary of the North Phyongan Provincial Committee of the Workers’ Party of Korea, Jong Thae Sop, vice-chairman of the provincial people’s committee, officials of Party and government organs in the province, city and counties, builders, officials of the units which contributed to the construction and agricultural workers who would move into new homes.

South Korean ruler’s US trip comes under censure, derision, arouses serious concern (5)

May 6, 2023

Chinese and south Korean media continue to expose and denounce the dangerousness of the puppet traitor Yoon Suk Yeol's visit to the US and serious consequences to be entailed by it.

China News Service carried an article titled "Storm rages after Yoon Suk Yeol's visit to US", which reveals the criminal nature of the "Washington Declaration".

The keynote of the "Washington Declaration" is to expand the US-south Korea negotiations about the nuclear crisis, stage more military exercises and simulation training, set up the Nuclear Consultative Group (NCG), and dispatch the US strategic assets to the vicinity of the Korean peninsula more frequently, the article said, and continued:

Russian political parties, organizations hold joint seminar and adopt statement

May 6, 2023

Russian political parties and organizations held a joint seminar on the theme of “Strategic consolidation of Russia-DPRK relationship” in Moscow on April 25 to mark the fourth anniversary of the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un’s historic visit to the Russian Federation.

It brought together personages from the government, political parties, organizations and institutions including the State Duma, Foreign Ministry, Communist Party of the Russian Federation, Korean War Veterans’ Council and Russian Association for the Study of the Juche Idea and the head of the Group for International Solidarity with the DPRK.

Report and speeches were made in the seminar, which was presided over by the secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation who is head of the Russia-DPRK Friendship Parliamentary Group of the State Duma of Russia.

Spring women’s clothes show comes to end

May 6, 2023

The Spring Women’s Clothes Show-2023 came to a close.

New forms of spring and summer clothes presented by the Unha Trading Bureaus, the Pyongyang Municipal Garment Industry Management Bureau and the Kyonghung Trading Bureau won high appraisal.

Kim Chang Sok, minister of Light Industry, made remarks at the closing ceremony on May 4.

Spring aesthetic symposium held by land and environment protection sector

May 6, 2023

The 2023 spring aesthetic symposium of the land and environment protection sector took place at the Sci-Tech Complex in Pyongyang on May 4 by way of videoconferencing. 

It was attended by Kim Song Jun, minister of Land and Environment Protection, and officials, scientists and lecturers of relevant sectors such as land and environment protection, urban management, designing, industrial design, science and education. 

Officials from the Ministry of Land and Environment Protection, Pyongyang University of Architecture and Hydraulic Engineering Institute of the State Academy of Sciences made speeches at the symposium held on the theme of “River management and landscaping”.

Public protests against traitor Yoon Suk Yeol rage in south Korea

May 6, 2023

Civil society organizations of puppet south Korea vent their wrath on the disgusting sycophancy to the US shown by traitor Yoon Suk Yeol during his US visit that brought the danger of a nuclear war to the Korean peninsula and left south Korean people’s living to the tender mercies of outsiders.

During the traitor’s visit to the US, they held candlelight rallies, demonstrations and press conferences in Seoul and other parts of south Korea, issuing declarations and statements on the current situation to disclose the traces of his sycophancy and treachery.

Public anger raged in candlelight rallies and demonstrations protesting against the traitor’s sycophantic and treacherous visit to the US.

Women’s union officials, members hold meeting to vow vengeance

May 5, 2023

Women's union officials and members held a meeting at the Central Class Education House in Pyongyang on May 3 to vow vengeance.

Speeches were made at the meeting, which was attended by Kim Jong Sun, chairwoman of the Central Committee of the Socialist Women’s Union of Korea, women’s union officials and its members in Pyongyang.

Speakers said that the demons, who started a catastrophic war on this land and mercilessly killed innocent Korean women and children over 70 years ago, are now bringing dark clouds of a nuclear war over the Korean people. The open revelation of the scheme to annihilate the DPRK by the US imperialists, the ringleader of aggression and war, is an unpardonable crime  to which no statute of limitations is applicable and for which we should make them pay a thousand times, they added.

TU members hold indignation meeting

May 5, 2023

Workers and members of the General Federation of Trade Unions of Korea held an indignation meeting in Kaesong, a city along the military demarcation line, on May 3.

The meeting was attended by Pak In Chol, chairman of the GFTUK Central Committee, Kim Kum Ryong, secretary of the Kaesong City Committee of the Workers’ Party of Korea, trade union officials and workers and TU members in the city.

Speakers stressed that workers and TU members would form worker regiments and divisions and courageously turn out to win an epoch-making victory without fail, if the enemies force a war on this land again, being oblivious of the history of shameful defeats they had suffered at the hands of the Koreans for the past over seventy years.

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