A combined tactical drill of special operations sub-units for surpassing the standards for an all-mission battalion and a match and joint fire strike drill demonstration of tankmen’s sub-units were held on May 13 as a demonstration drill under the training course of the Conference of the Training Officers of the Korean People’s Army.
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Before watching the drill,
He watched various tactical drill demonstrations together with commanding officers of the KPA at the observation post.
Russian President Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin, at a press conference in the Kremlin on May 11, praised the combat capability, bravery and heroism of the service personnel of the DPRK who offered assistance in liberating Kursk Region.
He said:
The service personnel of the DPRK, together with Russian combatants, successfully and faithfully carried out the tasks assigned to them in the operation to liberate Kursk Region from the units of the Kiev authorities.
The schoolchildren's art troupe of the Mangyongdae Schoolchildren's Palace visited Primorsky Krai of Russia from May 2 to 12 and returned home after successfully finishing its performance activities.
During the visit, the schoolchildren's art troupe, which gave the premiere at the Primorsky Krai Branch of the Mariinsky Theatre, gave performances in Vladivostok and Artyom cities again amid the admiration of people, thus showing well the features of the proud new generations of Juche Korea.
The schoolchildren fully demonstrated their artistic talents, which they have cultivated to the full under the warm care of the respected fatherly Marshal
The 22nd May 21 Architectural Festival opened with due ceremony at the Sci-Tech Complex in Pyongyang on May 13 under the sponsorship of the Central Committee of the Architects Union of Korea.
On display at the venue for the festival are more than 540 architectural layouts, over 80 successes in introducing architectural information modelling technology and more than 90 pieces of construction equipment and tools, all of which were highly appreciated at provincial (municipal) architectural festivals.
During the festival, an experience-sharing meeting will be held, and a video of the global architectural trend will be screened.
DPRK player Song Kuk Hyang set new world records in the 2025 Asian Weightlifting Championships.
In the women's 71kg category held on May 13, she lifted 155kg in clean and jerk (new world record, new Asian record) and 276kg in total (new world record, new Asian record) to take the first place in clean and jerk and total respectively and bagged gold medals. She came second in snatch.
Students of Mangyongdae Revolutionary School visited the Chongsan Farm in Kangso District on May 13 to conduct motivation activities for increased production.
The performance which started with the playing of the cheerful song "A Bumper Harvest in the Chongsan Plain" revved up the atmosphere of the seething farm field through colourful numbers including medleys of songs and an accordion ensemble reflecting the changed appearance of the country which is turning into a more beautiful people's paradise better to live in under the leadership of the Workers' Party.
In May there are seasonal subdivisions of Ripha when summer starts and Soman when ears of barley start to ripen.
Ripha falls on May 5 or 6 and Soman on May 20 or 21.
This year’s Ripha and Soman fall on May 5 and May 21 respectively.
Russia and Vietnam announced on May 10 a joint statement on the main directions of the comprehensive strategic partnership between the two countries, including such contents as the strengthening of cooperation in the fields of science and education, the power and oil gas industry and power security.
And they signed 25 documents, including an intergovernmental agreement on expanding the scope of activities in the field of geological prospecting and oil gas production in their territories.
On the same day, an agreement was adopted between Russia and Uzbekistan for the implementation of the 2026-2030 plan on their strategic partnership in the military field.
The collective security treaty organization released a statement on May 9 to condemn the moves to distort the history of the Great Patriotic War.
The statement said that the organization decisively rejects any attempt to distort the result of the Second World War and reevaluate the historic significance of the Great Patriotic War.
Calling for sacredly cherishing the memory of unparalleled bravery of the Soviet people, it pointed to the need to preserve the truth of the fight that liberated the world from Nazism for the present and younger generations and not to allow hatred, extremism, racial, national and religious discrimination and other inhuman practices to revive.
The schoolchildren's art troupe of the Mangyongdae Schoolchildren's Palace led by Kim Song Il, vice-chairman of the Central Committee of the Socialist Patriotic Youth League, returned home on May 12 after visiting the Primorsky Krai of Russia.
It was greeted at Pyongyang International Airport by officials of the Central Committee of the SPYL, officials concerned and the Russian ambassador to the DPRK.
