10 years of prominent leadership   The Korean people celebrate in great excitement the 10th anniversary when the respected President of State Affairs  Kim Jong Un  was upheld at the top post of the Party and state of the DPRK. The assumption of  Kim Jong Un , who enjoys the high esteem of the public for his great personality, is the expression of the DPRK people's absolute support of and trust in him. It is auspicious event to be specially recorded in history as it is the reflection of unanimous admiration and ardent desire of the Korean nation at home and abroad. With his election, the lifeline of the Juche revolutionary cause pioneered on Mt Paektu is steadily maintained, and the rosy future of the DPRK and the happiness and prosperity of all generations to come are in state, and historic advance for realizing the cause of national reunification greets a fresh victory. The past 10 years of his leadership was the most glorious and sacred years during which his great...

  The prospect for policy of president-elect Yun Seok-yol and the People's Power Party is dim. Their commitments of diplomacy and security are replica of the past conservative regimes. Rebuilding of south Korea-US alliance, strengthening of south Korea-US joint military game, additional deployment of THAAD and preemptive strike on north Korea are extremely dangerous and reckless provocation to bedevil inter-Korean ties and unleash war in the Korean Peninsula. Something would happen because of political novice Yun. Yun and the PPP intend to disturb peace and break out a war in the Korean Peninsula, broad strata of south Korean people commented.    It is as clear as daylight if rash acts of the prosecution and warmongers, the descendants of fascist dictatorship, are overlooked. It is an urgent time to wage a unwavering struggle against Yun and the PPP.

  It is spring overflowing with the world people's reverence for President  Kim Il Sung . The President who was born at a straw-thatched house in Mangyongdae as the sun of Juche on April 15 Juche 1(1912) was the auspicious event of the era by which bright prospect for Korea was opened up and the dawn of independent era was ushered in. President  Kim Il Sung  was the greatest benefactor of the Korean nation who provided the Korean nation with the glorious future and rare saint who illumined the way ahead of the Korean people. The President made the treasure of ideology of humankind by fathering the immortal Juche idea which set up masses of working people as the master of their destiny and the world in his teens with his profound idea and brilliant intelligence. He was the peerless patriot who smashed Japanese imperialism with his outstanding wisdom, iron courage and intelligence of brilliant commander and liberated Korea. He created historical miracle of defending th...

President  Kim Il Sung  and Chairman  Kim Jong Il 's View of the People   It was on December 31, 2011, the year the Korean people unexpectedly suffered the greatest loss of the nation, the demise of Chairman  Kim Jong Il . The respected Comrade  Kim Jong Un , who was suffering a greater pain of loss than anyone else, sat with officials of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea. Expressing his firm determination and will to devote his all to the people like the Chairman had done he instructed the officials to do everything in such a way as to strengthen the single-hearted unity, a valuable revolutionary heritage left by the Chairman. Saying that it was his intention to create a wonderful image of officials, servicepersons and people being single-heartedly united around the Party, he said that by learning President  Kim Il Sung  and Chairman  Kim Jong Il 's view of the people, all officials should go among the people, sharing good...

  Several overseas reports criticize the development of the situation exposing the candidates' political immaturity and vulgarity of their kindred during the presidential election. Mass media including the Reuter's, the BBC, the Guardian, the Washington Post, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and the Globe and Mail commented that Yun Seok-yol may be boycotted in the international arena in future ridiculing that he is a mere greenhorn in politics with only a prosecutorial career, he is an amateur who is unable to commit himself even on major policies, and he takes much interest in a claptrap policy without any political experience and is a very self-centered guy as obstinate as a mule. The regime change in south Korea has put the next-term president to test, political revenge will likely be repeated as the predecessors were put behind the bars, because of his careless remarks such as a preemptive strike on the north and resolute reaction in the election campaign, the ...

  Not long ago, the Family Association for the April 16 Ferry Sewol Disaster had a press conference to pray for the souls of the departed of ferry Sewol on the occasion of the 8th year in Seoul. It said that it would conduct various activities including forum, civil march, memorial service and exhibition during the period of memory (from 16th of March to 30th of April) at the press conference. They hardened their determination to wage a dynamic drive to get a sincere apology from the south Korean authorities, which have made thoughtless remarks, and strict investigation into ferry Sewol disaster within this year.    We must clarify the truth behind the death and call the authorities to account for it in the teeth of suppression.       With placards at the press conference    

Anti-Yun Seok-yol trend growing in intensity   Recently, broad spectrum of the south Korean people assert that Yun Seok-yol's winning of the presidency will lead to intensification of conflict and economic crisis. They express their concerns that owing to his extreme diplomatic and security policies including the preemptive strike on the north, additional deployment of THAAD, and tactical nuclear weapon deployment of the US, the inter-Korean military confrontation may be aggravated. Various circles decide to wage the struggle for eradicating the conservative evils and realizing democracy against Yun's government which may drive the inter-Korean ties and security, and the economy into catastrophe resorting to pro-US and Japan as the past conservative regime. Days ago, a civic organization including 60 progressive organizations held the first "Tuesday Action for National Democracy" titled "No war,  keep peace". Demonstrated was their will to fight against Yun,...

  The south Korean military authorities made public to conduct south Korea-US joint military drill side by side with field drill in close cooperation with the US. The south Korean military authorities say that the large-scale field drill is essential as it is for reacting to "threat of north Korea" saying the joint military drill as the regular one in every four years.   They vividly betrayed its true color of confrontation with north Korea. The trigger-happy group is carrying away ill-advised bravery against north Korea encouraged by warmonger taking advantage of Yun's victory in the presidential election. He that seeks danger perishes therein. The warmongers must know that they lead themselves to self-destruction. They must not run about recklessly not to be a burnt moth

  The south Korean military laid bare its attempt to carry out the US-south Korea joint military game. This is clearly reckless and dangerous showdown to worsen the situation in and around the Korean peninsula again. In the meantime the military has indulged in petty wiles saying "reduction" or "postponement". However, it is only an awkward gesture to deceive the mind of the people, mislead public opinion, and veil its wild ambition to invade the north. The need of the US-south Korea joint military drill being urged upon by the military is the one for putting into practice new plan of operations and mastery of it to invade the north. And efficient attainment of the exercise goal means the completion of actual war capacity for the preemptive strike on the north. These facts removed the hypocritical veil from the military. The whole world came to know the true color of the war maniacs hostile toward compatriots, and whipping up confrontation and war hysteria. The mili...

  The overseas reports jeer that the 20th presidential election of south Korea has been the most disgusting election in history. The world mass media including Agence France-Presse, the Sunday Times, the Washington Post and the New York Times censured that the more odious man was elected president after scandalous dispute between corruptions suspects. They said: The presidential election is stained with not only scandals and abuse, but also disputes and insults. Candidates have got at each other's throat in a dogfight for power in this election. It reveals the divided aspect of south Korean society. It has become the most loathsome election in the 35 years of presidential election since the 1980s. Nasty tempers of the candidates were disclosed clearly. The worst was elected in the worst presidential election in south Korea. He was elected president because lots of people dislike him less than the others. Its reputation hit the worst in history as it was called as the election of un...

  The National People's Action makes a plan to hold a peace meeting for independence in demand of permanent discontinuance of the US-south Korea joint military drill inviting war in Seoul on March 26. Civic organizations including the Solidarity for Progress and the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions will join this meeting sponsored by the South Side Committee for Realizing the June 15 Joint Declaration. The National People's Action encourages positive attendance at this meeting by making public the terrible catastrophe to be caused by the US-south Korea joint military drill, a concentrated expression of hostile policy toward the north.  Poster demanding permanent discontinuance of the US-south Korea joint military drill    

Firstly, I'd like to give you an opinion of my own about future policy of president-elect Yun Seok-yol in south Korea. As soon as Yun won the presidency, he rang up the US President and the Japanese prime minister to flatter the US and Japan. In reference to this, the south Korean mass media and broad strata of the people express their concerns that owing to Yun's submissive policy toward outside forces, south Korea will be faced with a serious diplomatic and security dilemma, and the socio-economic crisis. It is obvious that they have been engaged in pro-US and Japan sycophancy whoever comes into office in south Korea. It is our unchangeable stand that Yun is destined to follow his predecessors. Secondly, it is the issue on a large scale of military exercise to be conducted in the future in south Korea. The south Korean military declares openly that it will resume the joint military game against north Korea with the US, and the US made clear its stance after Yun won the presid...

  The 20th presidential election was the worst and the most fraudulent one which was stained with conflict, disgust and violence. The continuous suspicion of illegality and corruption of the candidates of the ruling and opposition parties, negative offensive, meeting and parting and mockery of people are unprecedented. The process of the unification of the candidates of the opposition parties showed vulgarity of the political circles. Two parties discussed unification of the candidates through political compromise as there was no hope to win. What the presidential election brought was the disgust and disillusion about the political circles. South Korean people from different strata figure that the situation and social conflicts would be more exasperated after the presidential election. Words go out that the inter-Korean ties would be more deteriorated and it would invite war on the Korean Peninsula. Meantime, the mass media predict the social conflict and division will get more ser...

  Recently, the Pentagon clarified that a planned test-fire of the Minuteman 3 was postponed because it is liable to lead to misunderstanding in the current complicated situation. This seems to be judged as "measure in advance for détente" by some media. They say without reading the inside of the US. Test-fire postponement of the US is neither a measure for détente nor its self-restraint. What kind of country is the US? It is known to everybody that the US is the root of all evils on earth. The US is not only the ringleader escalating tension and danger of war, but also the principal offender playing the tyrant in the international arena and interfering in other countries' affairs to realize its ambition of world supremacy. It is deceiving the world as if it were an apostle of peace. This postponement is merely a crafty measure of the US administration to get out of its criminal responsibility for the recent situation. Without distinguishing the sinister intension of the ...

Today's March First Popular Uprising   The March First Popular Uprising which arose 103 years ago was a nationwide anti-Japanese struggle of the Korean nation to win back lost country from Japan and realize the independent democracy. The March First Uprising was a grand patriotic struggle as it demonstrated the soul, sturdy mettle and ardent patriotism of the Korean nation. The civil organizations of south Korean opened national independence meeting in front of the statue of a girl near the Japanese embassy in south Korea on the occasion of the day. We must break up the south Korea-US-Japan alliance with the spirit of independence 103 years ago. Japan ruled Korea through Korean government general at that time, the US stationed the US troops in south Korea and enslaved shackling to the south Korea US alliance now as in the past. We must stand against the US imperialism, they raised their voices.    

  South Korean people of every degree denounce the "report on prospect of security threat in 2021~2030" made by the south Korean authorities. The countermeasures made by the south Korean authorities to cope with security threat is nothing but a sheer farce, the crisis on the Korean peninsula will be deteriorated further as long as the security gamble depending on the south Korea-US alliance and subordinated diplomatic policy go on, an expert in diplomacy and security criticized. The public indignation at south Korean authorities is welling up as they have not handled affairs within and without for 5 years, he added. The countermeasures made by the south Korean authorities are bound to be fruitless. The economy would be moribund and the people's livelihood and inequality in south Korea would be worsened, an economics professor expressed his concern. The south Korean government has suffered security crisis due to its passive diplomacy, even if the south Korean government ma...

  Recently, "strategic planning instruction" for making a plan of operations for invasion of the north was adopted by mutual consent between the south Korean military and the US. The military had agreed on "strategic planning guide putting" forward a line of making, amending and complementing a plan of operations including military operation scenario against the north in emergency on the Korean peninsula at the end of last year. "Strategic planning guide" says that preemptive strike on the north should be the first consideration in making, amending and complementing the operation plan. It can be said that "strategic planning instruction" is the direction for military operations concretizing this "strategic planning guide". This proves once again that the present military is the follower as well as the shock force executing the war plan of the US against the north. No one can criticize the step of the north to increase its defense capaci...

  Recently, the south Korean authorities make a fuss over the steps of the north to bolster up its national defense capacity. The authorities make an issue of the test conducted by the north to develop a reconnaissance satellite according to the five-year plan saying something like denunciation and provocation. Provocation means the act of annoying somebody deliberately. The north's step to increase its military capability is self-defensive inside out. It is just and should not be criticized. It is a fact patent to the public that the present authorities have worsened the situation of the Korean peninsula. The real provokers are none other than the authorities and military warmongers. They are the principal offenders who introduce foreign-made murderous weapons into south Korea by spending huge amount of taxes extorted from the people and invite war in the Korean peninsula by waging joint military drill with the US. It is the height of impudence to fault the just plan of the DPRK f...

  Nowadays, south Korean people unleash their wrath on Japan as it was revealed that Japan has planned and made preparations to dispatch its Self-Defense Force to the Korean Peninsula in case of contingency from the 1960s. I can hardly repress my astonishment, Japan is stepping up to become a military power, far from reflecting on its unhappy past and Japanese Self-Defense Force is not allowed to set foot on the Korean Peninsula, a member of an anti-Japanese organization in Gwangju said. . It is surprising that Japan has mapped out its dispatch of the Self-Defense Force to the Korean Peninsula with the US in secrecy and the US and Japan are not allies but aggressors and enemies, a resident in Cheju Province said in excitement.       The Kishida Cabinet has pretended to maintain its policy of total defense and we should not tolerate Japan's bid to be a military giant and overseas expansion, experts in Japanese affairs noted.  

A few days ago, 456 leaders of religious and civil organizations published "declaration on the situation of religious and civil organizations desirous of peaceful Korean peninsula" to voters. The inter-Korean hostility and military tension must be ended now. We must put an end to the era of war and division on the Korean peninsula and open new era of the peace, cooperation and reunification, they asserted in the declaration. Let's put a brake on the policy which instigates war and confrontation and aims at arms buildup and armament competition to advance the democracy, peace and reunification on the Korean peninsula and concentrate power and efforts of the voters, they stressed saying this is the time for the voters

  March 8 is an international holiday for all women in the world. This should be the happiest day when women enjoy their rights to the full. However, south Korean women spend this day in sad tears. The percentage of employment of women is lowered year after year. Nevertheless, women suffer under the burden of toil in poor working conditions, are still threatened of wage discrimination, and liable to be sacked for marriage, pregnancy, childbirth, and so forth. Moreover, crime against women including sexual assault and date violence is becoming an extremely serious social problem. Countless women commit suicide, depressed by sexism, which is rampant in this society. Women are ignored in political circles. and their political views are treated with silent contempt, there are many unbearable discrimination and aversion including a differential wage rate system, sexual abuse and sexual objectification to be endured and fought against in woman's life, an activist for the protection of wo...

President Kim Il Sung, who had devoted himself to the great national unity, left indelible traces in the history of Korea's reunification. It was the will of the President to reject domination and interruption of the foreign forces and achieve the national reunification by dint of the united efforts of the Korean nation. From the first day of national division, he had set the great national unity as the mainstay of the reunification and energetically led the struggle to realize it. He had embraced the people desirous of the national reunification irrespective of their past and led them to the road of reunification and patriotism, valuing their national conscience and patriotism. Thanks to his broadmindedness, a fresh history of the great national unity was opened and the movement of reunification could make a steady progress. The Korean nation highly admires the President as the father of the Korean nation and the loadstar of the great national unity.

  With the presidential election just ahead, the mind of the south Korean people about the political circles is firmly cold. It is due to the abuse of power and graft of the candidates for the next presidency and continuity of rough-and-tumble. Meantime, the ruling and opposition parties are buried in canvass for votes with all sorts of appeasement and honeyed words. It stirs up public sentiment and cloud people's mind. In a word, the south Korean political circles are topsy-turvy as it is struck with power heedless of destitution of the people's livelihood. It is so natural that the south Korean people of different strata express their disillusion and disgust.

  South Korean people from various fields raise their voices to condemn Japan's ambition for seizure of Dok islet. It runs as follows. Event of Takeshima's day is a strategic attempt to seize Dok islet. The Japanese government should give up its bid to take hold of inviolable territory of Korea.   A campaigner in Gwangju   Historically, Dok islet is a territory of the Korean nation recognized by the international law. It is forefather of the Korean nation who discovered Dok islet. The Japanese historical documents stated that the Dok islet does not belong to Japan. The Japanese government should give up its absurd claim on the islet and face the history squarely with sincere manner.     A professor in history at Seoul National University   Japan's dominium over Dok islet is a brainchild of its past crime and an expression of its reinvasion. It is hard to repress Japan's criminal act. We, students, would take the lead in the anti-Japanese struggle with ...

According to information from the Pyongyang Mission of the AINDF , the south Korea authorities have persisted with aggressive and hostile actions against the DPRK which are  detailed below ; "-The south Korean military wages one independent exercise after another since the beginning of this year. It did independently conducted the military games including a large scale of artillery fire exercise, various kinds of maneuvers of air force and naval force, cold-endurance field training and mountain combined exercise of the army, navy and air forces, and special operation training in January. It mobilized huge armed forces to stage the cold-endurance training, various kinds of military equipment control games, tactical drill and artillery fire exercise throughout south Korea. -The south Korean military conducts all sorts of joint exercises in close cooperation with the US. It was involved in "Sea Dragon", an antisubmarine rehearsal of multinational coalition conducted under t...