THE EMBASSY OF THE DEMOCRATIC
PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF KOREA TO SWITZERLAND
No 01/26
Jan 03, 2026
1. Respected Comrade Kim Jong Un's Speech at New Year Celebration
2. Respected Comrade Kim Jong Un Visits Kumsusan Palace of Sun
3. Respected Comrade Kim Jong Un Has Photo Session with Schoolchildren Participating in New Year Performance
4. Respected Comrade Kim Jong Un's Congratulatory Speech to Young People and Soldier-builders Engaged in Construction of Sinuiju Combined Greenhouse Farm
Respected Comrade Kim Jong Un's Speech at New Year Celebration
Pyongyang, January 1 (KCNA) -- The respected Comrade Kim Jong Un made a speech at a New Year celebration.
The full text of his speech is as follows:
Dear Pyongyang citizens,
Labour innovators and meritorious persons, who are invited to this meaningful new year celebration as representatives of our industrious and patriotic working people,
Faithful and courageous officers and soldiers of the Korean People’s Army,
Our students and artistes, who are adding more to the air of festivity of this night,
Comrades,
Happy New Year.
Availing myself of this opportunity, I extend new year greetings to the working people in all sectors, including the industrial and devoted agricultural workers and intellectuals, and other people across the country, who are greeting this meaningful moment at their workplaces, posts and streets, in their villages and houses, with high dignity and hopes.
And I send congratulations to the generals and other officers and soldiers of our heroic army, who are greeting the new year filled with the pride in having glorified the previous year with invaluable feats and with a pledge of sacred service. My militant salute goes to the officers and soldiers of the overseas operations units, who will be greeting the new year in the far-away alien land with deep yearning for their homeland.
I also convey warm greetings to the overseas compatriots, who are devoting themselves to the patriotic work for the development and prosperity of their motherland.
Comrades,
We have just seen off the unforgettable year 2025 with deep emotion.
It was a year filled with so fervent hopes and dear efforts.
We can feel proud that we boosted the strength and dignity of our country that year.
We rounded off everything perfectly, writing great events in every page of the year.
The civilization of the capital city transformed the regions, the transformation of the regions gave a spur to the development of the capital city, and all the regions, sectors and units across the country made progress in a competitive, balanced and simultaneous way. In this way, the historic cause aspiring to overall development of socialist construction has successfully passed its first stage.
Certainly, this is an honour that has resulted from our ideals and faith, our strength and strenuous efforts, and at the same time, it is clear proof that we are following the right path.
The year 2025 was a golden period of epochal significance and transformation that added value to the precious lives of our excellent people and their children, and it was a year, in which we saw in our mind’s eye the future of our state that will grow more powerful and beautiful thanks to their affection, wisdom and sweat.
I really appreciate everyone in this country for having worked hard all year round.
Last year, too, the service personnel of the People’s Army, who have always stood in the vanguard of our cause, went against heavy odds to lead the drive for creation and transformation and achieve amazing successes; they won precious victory even at the cost of their lives, thereby creating a heroic age to be revered by the coming generations.
We will always remember that the glory of this night has been brought by the ennobling sacrifice and exploits of the great sons of our country, and in the annals of our eternal victory, we will etch their names and images as ever-shining stars.
We entered the year 2025 with a heavy heart as we were confronted with huge tasks; what we believed in was nothing but our people’s patriotism and loyalty, and they were the real driving force that propelled our unprecedented struggle throughout the year.
So trustworthy were the workers at the Sangwon Cement Complex, who raised the torch of increased production ahead of others true to the Party’s intentions, so commendable were the agricultural workers, who reaped a bumper harvest by tilling their fields by the sweat of their brow in a display of patriotism, and really admirable were our young women footballers, who had the national flag of our Republic hoisted by winning international competitions.
All our people, irrespective of job or workplace – be it deep pit, construction site of a power station, school or scientific research institute –, gave full play to their self-respect, resourcefulness, strength and enthusiasm befitting Koreans, and they thus filled the pages of the chronicle for the great year with sincerity for the development and prosperity of their country.
Only a great people can write such a great chronicle for the times and history.
As this great people throw in their lot with the country and find their greatest honour and joy of life in devoting themselves to its victory and glory, our Party is invincible and our socialism is ever-prosperous.
I will never exchange for anything else the dignity and glory of living for our great people and waging the revolution for them, and live up to the expectations of all the people in the new year, too, by always remaining faithful to the socialism of their choice, to the sacred ideal of the people-first principle and to the dignity, rights and interests of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea.
Comrades,
The year 2026 began a few minutes before.
A more strenuous struggle and a greater victory are awaiting us.
Let us all make another start full of confidence.
There is no dream we cannot fulfil as we have the confidence and will to live and prosper with dignity and the fighting mettle and creative strength we have assiduously cultivated and fostered.
Let us all unite more firmly on the strength of patriotism and advance more vigorously and courageously towards the new future to be indicated by the Ninth Congress of the Party.
I sincerely hope that love, harmony, delight and happiness will brim over at all the families across the country in the new year.
Dear comrades,
I propose that we all raise a cheer once again to express our warm affection for, and infinite dignity and pride in, our state.
Long live our great country, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea!
Respected Comrade Kim Jong Un Visits Kumsusan Palace of Sun
Pyongyang, January 2 (KCNA) -- All the people across the DPRK are paying the highest tribute to President Kim Il Sung and Chairman Kim Jong Il, eternal leaders of the Party, state and people and great sages of the revolution, greeting the hopeful New Year with the great pride and honor of having successfully concluded the historic struggle of 2025 for the overall development of socialist construction, rallied close around the Workers' Party of Korea.
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, visited the Kumsusan Palace of the Sun on January 1 on the occasion of the New Year 2026.
The respected Comrade Kim Jong Un was accompanied by leading officials of the Party and the government and senior officials of the Party Central Committee, the Standing Committee of the Supreme People's Assembly, the Cabinet and ministries.
Also accompanying him were commanding officers of the Ministry of National Defence of the DPRK.
Flower baskets were laid before the statues of President Kim Il Sung and Chairman Kim Jong Il.
Kim Jong Un, together with other visitors, paid high tribute to the statues of the great leaders.
At the halls where the President and the Chairman lie in state, he paid New Year greetings to the great leaders.
All the visitors made a firm pledge to fulfill their responsibility and duty in the vanguard of accomplishing the sacred cause for the eternal prosperity and development of the great DPRK and the promotion of the people's wellbeing, true to the ideas and leadership of Kim Jong Un with single-minded loyalty.
Respected Comrade Kim Jong Un Has Photo Session with Schoolchildren Participating in New Year Performance
Pyongyang, January 2 (KCNA) -- Presented on New Year's Day was a picture showing the warm loving care and noble world of the benevolent father who represents the bright smile of the children, the hope and future of the DPRK, as the image of Korean-style socialism.
The respected fatherly Marshal Kim Jong Un on January 1 met with the schoolchildren participating in the New Year performance and warmly wished them the bright future.
The venue of the photo session was filled with the schoolchildren's great emotion and joy of meeting the fatherly Marshal, whom they had longed for even in their dreams, on New Year's Day.
When the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un arrived at the venue, members of the Children's Union presented fragrant bouquets to him, representing the deep thanks and New Year's greetings of all the schoolchildren across the country.
Acknowledging the enthusiastic cheers, Kim Jong Un extended warm greetings to all the schoolchildren across the country greeting the New Year.
He met the Children's Union members who glorified the honor of the country with gold medals and set examples in the study, organizational life and good-conduct movement.
He wished the bright future to the schoolchildren who are growing up smartly and boldly, having dreams about demonstrating the honor of the DPRK and studying hard to add more luster to the country.
Saying that the honest and lively features and dynamic steps of the successors and reserves who would ardently love the socialist country and add more luster to it are, indeed, the power of the DPRK making a leap forward and its proud spirit, he had a meaningful photo taken with those schoolchildren participating in the New Year performance, hoping that they would sing of their great ambition, will to carry forward the revolution and growing ideals and passion to the full.
He met with the staff members of an art troupe of Korean schoolchildren in Japan who visited their socialist homeland, and called upon them to successfully train the rising generations of the General Association of Korean Residents in Japan to be the pillars who would carry forward the baton of the patriotic cause.
Respected Comrade Kim Jong Un's Congratulatory Speech to Young People and Soldier-builders Engaged in Construction of Sinuiju Combined Greenhouse Farm
Pyongyang, January 3 (KCNA) -- The respected Comrade Kim Jong Un made a congratulatory speech to the young people and soldier-builders engaged in the construction of the Sinuiju Combined Greenhouse Farm.
The full text of his speech is as follows:
Comrades, young people and officers and soldiers,
I have come here just after the national celebration to share the beginning of 2026 with you, who are greeting the new year while working at the northwestern tip of the country.
I have many things to do, but I have come here with the thought that I have to make a warm congratulatory and rallying speech to you, who are greeting the new year, working hard here far away from your families and dear homes.
Comrades,
I warmly congratulate you on greeting the new year 2026.
You deserve congratulations extended by the whole country.
You have really done a great thing.
I offer thanks to you for your efforts, with which you are erecting a monumental edifice of the times on a northwestern border of the country with your youthful strength and vigour; and greeting the new year, I convey to you salutation in the name of the Central Committee of our Party, the government of our Republic and all our people.
I really feel pleased and encouraged to see the ranks of our young people, who all look sturdier and more stalwart in the new year.
You look more dignified and manly than the columns standing in array for a military parade.
I really feel proud of you, who have turned out for this grand construction project, to which the Party and the state attach importance, and completely transformed this island, which was afflicted by a disaster, into an ideal country town in the new era within 500-odd days. I want to make a boast of you before the world.
With your spectacular feats, you have added brilliance to your glorious fame and etched the appearance of the Korean youth in the most stirring decade of our era.
I feel the real value of and always thankful for waging the revolution together with the ranks of the hot-blooded youth who are faithful and courageous all the time in supporting and implementing the plans and determination of our Party, together with the powerful artists of creation who are writing a new chapter of history of transformation through an unyielding pioneering struggle for the future.
I have made frequent visits to the construction site of this farm and today, at the outset of the new year, I have come here again not only because what you have done is enormous and important.
But it is because, with the gigantic construction struggle to transform this part of the country progressing further, I have felt it more valuable and laudable than anything else that our young people and soldier-builders are growing beyond recognition day after day.
You may also feel surprised at, and proud of, yourselves.
You are living your days of precious youth in the period of unprecedented transformation in our state’s development history. In these days you have chosen it to be worthwhile in your youth to experience hardship and training instead of enjoyment and comfort, and have cultivated a passionate spirit and strong will to learn how to overcome difficulties, how to make innovations and how to love your country. The days constitute the most valuable wealth in your life that cannot be bartered for a mountain of gold.
Witnessing the soaring spirit of our young people and seeing every creation associated with the passion and sincerity of our young generation, our people are picturing in their mind their motherland that will prosper forever; and seeing your vigorous growth, they are assured that our style of socialism is being succeeded.
For our Party responsible for the future of the country, this is a source of great happiness and satisfaction, and it is quite natural for me to call on you, our young patriots, first in the new year, to congratulate and encourage you.
Comrades,
Before long, the large-scale greenhouse farm permeated with your sweat and efforts will greet the moment when it will be dedicated as a token of loyalty to the glorious congress of the motherly Party.
And you will leave again for the theatres of gigantic creation at the call of the Party and country.
But the imprints you have left and the exploits you have performed will live long on this miraculous island, which encapsulates the level of development of your motherland that prospers day after day, and your proud creation and growth will be recorded in your autobiographies and the annals of history of the youth movement of our country.
I have no doubt that all the young vanguard and soldier-builders will further raise your indomitable spirit to present this greenhouse farm to the times as a model structure in the era of comprehensive rejuvenation of the state.
On the inauguration day, let us all pose without fail for a photo as souvenir in this place of transformation.
I am convinced that the hope-filled new year 2026 you opened with the priceless successes associated with your intense devotion will also become more glorious and livelier thanks to your burning passion, tremendous courage and wonderful creations.
On the plaza of the April 25 House of Culture, where you made your imposing departure, the Ninth Congress of the Party will greet our laudable young people.
Young vanguard and soldier-builders, who are brave pioneers of a new era,
Two days ago, Pyongyang raised a cheer in chorus for our state.
With a youthful vigour, let us also raise a cheer louder than that in Pyongyang in reflection of our infinite respect and affection for our mother Korea so that it can reverberate in Pyongyang and all other parts of the country and through the earth.
Long live the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, our glorious motherland that will prosper forever!
Comrades,
I extend new year greetings to you once again.
Let us all meet again on the inauguration day in good health with pride and dignity.