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, received a reply message from Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and president of the People's Republic of China, on October 16.

The reply message says:

The respected Comrade General Secretary,

A joint online seminar titled "The Workers' Party of Korea shining with its 79-year long history" was held by Brazilian political parties and organizations on October 11 to mark the 79th founding anniversary of the WPK.

Present there were personages of political parties and organizations, members of the Juche idea study organizations and organizations for friendship and solidarity with the Korean people in Brazil.

Speeches were made there.

The home-visiting group of students in their final year at Korea University of the General Association of Korean Residents in Japan led by Ryu Chang Sun, head of its administrative department, left Pyongyang by air on October 19. 

In the DPRK, there are clear distinctions between four seasons of spring, summer, autumn and winter.

But a new “season” has been coined in the country.

It is the “season of moving into new houses” welcomed by all people.

September and October are autumn medicinal herb cultivation months in the DPRK.

The Pyongyang municipal Koryo medicine production management bureau is making sure that medicinal herb production units and mass medicinal herb procurement units observe technical regulations in the gathering and storage of herbs and the securing of their seeds, in order to completely collect the herbs that were cultivated with much effort throughout spring and summer.

The Koryo medicine production sector in each province dispatched experts to medicinal herb production units to ensure that the gathering time is set in keeping with the characteristics of each medicinal herb species and the herbs are collected accordingly. 

The primary task to be solved by concentrating all efforts in the period of the current five-year plan is to lay a foundation for safe development of the country’s agriculture without knowing any crop failure.

As farming is unthinkable without water, the informatization of irrigation system should be pushed forward in the future to consolidate the country’s  foundation for agricultural production.

To informatize the irrigation system means putting the operation of irrigation facilities on a scientific and modern basis by digitizing the irrigation-related elements including rivers, reservoirs, barrages and pumping stations and building them up into a spatial database.

The commander-in-chief of the Iranian Islamic Revolution Guards Corps in his speech on October 17 warned that if the Zionist regime commits an aggressive act against Iran, it will have to pay dearly for it. 

Israel mistook that if it assassinated high-ranking figures of the resistance forces, it would create disorder on their side, but this equation was not set up, he said. 

Iran’s missile attack on Israel was a powerful demonstration of its national strength and at the same time a stern warning to the Zionist regime, he said, noting that this offensive power is not all of the military capability of the Iranian Islamic Revolution Guards Corps.

DPRK Foreign Minister Choe Son Hui on October 19 made public the following press statement titled "The countries involved in imposing illegal and outrageous sanctions on the DPRK will have to pay dearly":

Contrary to the recognized principles of international law with equality in sovereignty and noninterference in other’s internal affairs as their core, the US and its vassal countries are working hard to revive the structure of sanctions and pressure against the DPRK, which went bankrupt structurally and is on the verge of collapse.

The "multilateral sanctions monitoring team," which allegedly replaces the panel of experts that withered after having been involved in monitoring the implementation of the UN "sanctions resolutions" for more than 10 years, is utterly unlawful and illegitimate in terms of justification for existence and purpose, and its existence itself constitutes a denial of the UN Charter.

New villages have appeared in Sunghwa-ri and Yonhap-ri of Unsan County, South Phyongan Province.

Present at the ceremony for moving into new houses were Kim Man Jo, secretary of the South Phyongan Provincial Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea, and officials of the Party and power organs, builders and agricultural workers in Unsan County.

Kang Myong Ryong, vice-chairman of the provincial people's committee, delivered a congratulatory address and then the licences for the use of houses were conveyed there.