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No 34/25 May 11, 2025
1. Respected Comrade Kim Jong Un Pays Congratulatory Visit to Russian Embassy in Pyongyang to Mark Russia's Great V-Day 2. Respected Comrade Kim Jong Un Pays Congratulatory Visit to Russian Embassy in Pyongyang and Makes Speech 3. KCNA Commentary on Japan's Routine Missile Launching Drills in Its Proper 4. Respected Comrade Kim Jong Un Receives Letter from Participants in Seminar on Juche Idea
Respected Comrade Kim Jong Un Pays Congratulatory Visit to Russian Embassy in Pyongyang to Mark Russia's Great V-Day Pyongyang, May 10 (KCNA) -- 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, paid a congratulatory visit to the Russian embassy in Pyongyang on May 9 on the occasion of the 80th anniversary of Russia's victory in the Great Patriotic War. He was accompanied by his dear daughter. He was also accompanied by Choe Son Hui, foreign minister of the DPRK, Jo Yong Won, Pak Jong Chon and Ri Hi Yong, secretaries of the Central Committee of the WPK, No Kwang Chol, minister of National Defence of the DPRK, and other leading officials of the Party, government and military. The respected Comrade Kim Jong Un was courteously greeted by Alexandr Matsegora, Russian ambassador to the DPRK, and major members of the embassy. Lovely Russian children presented fragrant bouquets to Kim Jong Un who was visiting the embassy with the warm feelings and comradeship of the Korean people for the fraternal Russian people. Saying that he was visiting the embassy to convey the best wish of our Party, government and people to the leadership of the Russian Federation and fraternal Russian people through the ambassador on the occasion of the 80th anniversary of victory in the war, he warmly congratulated the embassy staff on greeting the most sacred and auspicious holiday of their country, and continued: May 9 is the day of the precious victory won by the Russian people at the cost of their blood for the destiny of their motherland and mankind and for justice, and the day which etched immortal dignity and glory in the history of Russia and recorded great epochal significance in the world history of struggle against fascism and aggression. Our state and people regard this day as a holiday common to their country and Russia and share joy with the friends of the ally. The ambassador and his embassy staff extended their heartfelt thanks to Kim Jong Un who visited the embassy on their great V-day to express his sincere congratulations and full support and encouragement to their country, Russia, and its people. A flower basket of best wishes sent by Kim Jong Un to the Russian people on the occasion of the 80th anniversary of victory in the Great Patriotic War was conveyed. Written on the ribbon of the flower basket were the letters, reading "I pay the highest tribute and best wishes to the Russian people on the occasion of the great V-day. On behalf of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. Kim Jong Un" Kim Jong Un made a congratulatory speech. He expressed his impression of having an opportunity to personally convey the tender feeling and intention of the Korean people running towards the Russian people on the occasion of Russia's great V-day. And on behalf of the Party and government, armed forces of the Republic and all the Korean people, he extended warm congratulations to the president of the Russian Federation, the leadership of Russia, the courageous Russian army, all the Russian people, war veterans and others who performed meritorious wartime service. He mentioned the historic traditions of relationship between the two countries that have written countless and indelible chapters of friendship and solidarity over the past more than 80 years, the immortal feats of the Soviet army and people who saved peace of the planet and destiny and civilization of mankind, the historic meaning of the May 9 holiday immutable along with those feats and the firmness of the DPRK-Russia alliance proved at the cost of blood. He expressed the belief that Russia will surely achieve the great cause of building a great power and wholeheartedly wished the Russian people lasting prosperity and happiness. Amid the enthusiastic applause, Kim Jong Un personally conveyed to the Russian ambassador a joint congratulatory message sent by the Central Committee of the WPK, the State Affairs Commission of the DPRK, the Standing Committee of the Supreme People’s Assembly of the DPRK and the Cabinet of the DPRK to the leadership of the Russian Federation and all the Russian people. The ambassador, on behalf of the leadership of the Russian Federation and all the Russian people, paid the highest tribute to the head of state of the DPRK, who is adding lustre to the historic significance of Russia’s victory in the Great Patriotic War with his speech of enthusiastic and meaningful congratulations and encouragement for further consolidating the DPRK-Russia alliance. A flower basket in the name of Kim Jong Un was laid before The Eternal Flame, symbolic of the heroic lives and feats of the unknown soldiers. Kim Jong Un paid high tribute to the martyrs, respectfully recollecting them who defended the dignity and sovereignty of their country and global peace and security at the cost of their lives in the grimmest years. With boundless reverence all the Russian embassy staff warmly saw off Kim Jong Un who left a sacred footprint to be specially recorded in the history of the DPRK-Russia friendship and solidarity with a long history and good traditions. The sacred common cause of the peoples of the two countries for building powerful states and achieving international justice is sure to emerge victorious, and the great DPRK-Russia friendship that has been put on the basis of the most wonderful alliance will be everlasting.
Respected Comrade Kim Jong Un Pays Congratulatory Visit to Russian Embassy in Pyongyang and Makes Speech Pyongyang, May 10 (KCNA) -- The respected Comrade Kim Jong Un paid congratulatory visit to the Russian embassy in Pyongyang and made a speech. The speech is as follows: Esteemed Comrade Ambassador, Dear Russian comrades and friends, Today I am visiting the Russian Federation’s embassy in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea to congratulate Russia on the 80th anniversary of its victory in the Great Patriotic War, pay ennobling tribute to its heroic wartime generation and convey my best wishes to all the Russian people on this V-day. I feel pleased to have the opportunity for personally extending the Korean people’s tender feeling and intention running towards the Russian people on the day of great victory, and to celebrate this historic day with the Russian friends. First of all, I, on behalf of the Central Committee of the Workers’ Party of Korea, the government of the DPRK, the armed forces of the DPRK and all the Korean people, extend heartfelt congratulations to the respected Comrade President of the Russian Federation–my most intimate friend and comrade–the Russian leadership, the courageous Russian army and all the Russian people that are greeting the great V-day. And I pay the most ennobling tribute to all the Russian war veterans and others who performed imperishable feats in the righteous war for eliminating fascism. My warm congratulations also go to the esteemed Comrade Ambassador and all other comrades in the Russian embassy in the DPRK. Dear comrades, I am visiting the Russian embassy for the first time on the occasion of the May 9 holiday. It took me just over 80 seconds to come by car to this embassy, which is a stone’s throw from the headquarters building of the Central Committee of our Party. It is such a short distance. During those just over 80 seconds I was reminded of the history of the relationship between our two countries that have written countless and indelible chapters of friendship and solidarity over the past more than 80 years, its roots, the spiritual intimacy between Pyongyang and Moscow that surpasses the geographical concept, and the ever-deepening friendliness and fraternal feelings between the two countries. And taking the first step in the compound of this Russian embassy, part of the sacred territory of great Russia, I strongly felt as if I was entering Red Square in Moscow, where columns of victors will be parading in fine array. Why should I not? May 9 is a holiday of the Russian people, as well as a holiday common to mankind, a holiday of the Korean people and a holiday of mine. In the do-or-die struggle fought in the 40s last century against brigandish fascism that was ruthlessly violating the destiny of mankind, the Soviet army and people, by courageously overcoming all the unimaginable trials and pains, performed great, historic feats of firmly defending the sovereignty and safety of their motherland and saving the peace of this planet and human civilization. In the grimmest years they defended at the cost of blood not only the dignity and sovereignty of their country but also global peace and security, put the dangerous current of world politics to rights and brought an epochal victory to mankind. These are the immortal feats the wartime generation of Russia performed, and herein lies the special and eternal historic significance of the feats which nothing can tar or cover up. Had great Russia not destroyed fascist Germany, a brutal empire of evil, at the cost of lives of tens of millions of people, there would not have been modern civilization nor our happy life of today. Furthermore, had there not been May 9, V-day for Russia, there would not have been August 15, liberation day for Korea and the rest of the Eastern countries, and the historical course the Korean people have traversed would have been thornier and more arduous. We must not forget that the destiny of mankind was decided at the battles of Moscow, Leningrad, Stalingrad and Kursk. I say we must never forget that we are happy today thanks to the priceless, self-sacrificing struggle of Russia that saved the world. The May 9, 1945 victory, which the Soviet army and people won at the cost of their precious lives, is not merely one of the many moments recorded in the human history of war; it is the hallmark of the precious tradition to be carried forward for ever in the future, too. Russians are the last people to tolerate injustice and yield to any formidable enemy; they win final victory without fail by making incomparably persistent and inexhaustible exertions; their spirit commands universal praise from around the world, and their great spirit of defending their country at any cost serves as a spiritual model for our people. Esteemed Russian friends, The peoples of the DPRK and Russia have dedicated their blood and lives to defending and supporting each other in the struggle for their common ideals and purposes since a century ago. Through their life, not in words, they have experienced that their destinies are inseparably intertwined with each other, and they have got a clear idea that it is far more costly to defend their sovereignty and dignity than to build a place of comfortable life. From this point of view, it is quite natural for me to be here today at the Russian embassy in the DPRK on the May 9 holiday, and I am sure this is also my duty as I have to give the world a fresh understanding of what the DPRK-Russia relations are like at present and should be in the future and of the spiritual value of the friendship between the two countries. This is another moment for me to feel proud and honourable over the fact that we have set the great DPRK-Russia friendship on a footing of admirable alliance. On June 19, 2024, nearly a year ago, I signed the treaty on comprehensive strategic partnership between the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea and the Russian Federation together with Comrade President Putin. This was the clearest manifestation of the determination of the leaderships and peoples of our two countries to share weal and woe as eternally fraternal nations and allies and to make proactive contributions to global peace and strategic stability. Thanks to Comrade President Putin’s outstanding foresight and decision, the DPRK-Russia relationship has regained its original features befitting allies and made the choice which could not be substituted by anything else for all its fate. I deem it a source of immense honour that I have President Putin, seasoned leader of a powerful state, as my closest friend and comrade. And my people also regard it as a source of the greatest pride and honour that they have fraternal relations with the great Russian people and are in alliance with the great Russian Federation. We are absolutely sure that the blood-sealed bilateral relationship will continue to be in its heyday in the future, making a perfect demonstration of its inexhaustible potential in all realms. Comrades, The international community, in the current turmoil of the world situation, is watching with great apprehension the rapid rise of the vicious reactionary group, a modern version of Nazism, which is trying to distort history while disparaging the precious achievements the heroic generation made at the cost of their blood and lives. The revival of Nazism that attempted to reduce mankind to its slaves last century is a crucial problem that has a direct bearing on the destiny of mankind, a serious threat that can never be tolerated. No one is allowed to distort or emasculate the heroic feats of the Red Army that saved the world from Nazism. Today, I am celebrating with my Russian friends the 80th anniversary of the victory in the Great Patriotic War. This itself is the very expression of the unshakably strong will of our two countries to frustrate the challenge by neo-Nazism and contribute to peace of the world and safety of mankind. Today the service personnel and other people of Russia, as descendants of the legendary victorious wartime generation, have again shouldered the heavy responsibility of defending global peace and security of their own accord, resolutely executing the special military operations against Ukraine. As for the hostile forces’ adventurous military moves of blatantly violating the sovereignty and security of Russia, our fraternal country, I promptly shared with Comrade President Putin my view of this as something tantamount to an invasion of our own state and my decision to discharge our treaty obligations with sincerity. Then I ordered the combat sub-units of our Republic’s armed forces to join in the Russian armed forces’ action to wipe out the neo-Nazi occupiers from Ukraine and liberate the Kursk area. The most excellent sons of the Korean people, in answering the call of their homeland, fought shoulder to shoulder with the Russian soldiers in the same trenches, shedding blood amid the flames of battles against the common enemy, as they regarded the territory of our ally as that of their own country. All these proud sons of our Korean people, who were involved in the Kursk operations, are heroes and supreme representatives of honour of this country, I think. They proved the durability of the DPRK-Russia alliance at the cost of their blood, demonstrating the highest strategic level of the strong militant friendship, alliance and fraternal relations between the peoples of the two countries. Even at this moment our government is closely watching Kiev’s unreasonable behaviour. A few days ago, the Kiev authorities committed a reckless and adventurous act of enlisting armed bandits in another heinous and dangerous assault on the territory of the Russian Federation. We condemn this in most vehement and resolute terms as a hysterical action that can be taken only by the Kiev neo-Nazis with the transplanted genes of unreason and inhumanity. Those who are finding fault with our armed forces’ involvement are advised to think it over. And they need to examine what the openly declared, and not secret, treaty between the DPRK and the Russian Federation stipulates. If they had not committed a heinous crime of encroaching upon the Russian territory, the invaders could have avoided the fate of becoming dead souls, hit by our swords and spears. Our involvement in the war was justifiable, and this belongs to our sovereign rights. Let us consider this. If they are allowed to grow undisguised in their military actions against the territory of the nuclear power, the Ukrainian puppets will naturally become brazen enough to make more outrageous and daring attempts, and the troops in Seoul, who are most faithful lackeys of the United States, will likewise become increasingly reckless. Such recklessness will spread like a highly infectious virus. We should be responsible enough to perform the duty of putting these dangerous wrongs to rights. If the henchmen of the United States and the West, with their tacky, defective munitions, attempt another assault on the Russian Federation, our fraternal country, instead of giving up their dangerous attempt for military invasion, I, according to the corresponding article of the DPRK-Russia treaty and its spirit, will unhesitatingly issue an order on using the armed forces of the DPRK in repelling the enemy’s invasion. I regard this as part of the sacred mission we must execute for our brothers and comrades-in-arms. May 9–this is just the day that has been inscribed in history as a symbol of powerfulness and imperishability of the great Russian nation. Along with this, Russia will, in the future, too, exalt its prestige as a representative of justice advancing only along the road of victory and a strong defender of multipolarized world order. My dear friend, respected Comrade President of the Russian Federation, Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin, You and your Russia will for ever be called a representative and incarnation of great fame and glory. The Russian people will certainly emerge victorious. The history of the victor nation will surely be carried forward, and justice and victory belong to Russia. Comrades, Though we are in Pyongyang, far away from Moscow, our hearts are with Comrade President Putin, all the Russian people and the Russian army in Red Square, the venue for a military parade of victory. Firmly convinced that the leadership of the Russian Federation and its people, under the outstanding guidance of Comrade President Putin, will surely accomplish the cause of building a great power, I sincerely wish the fraternal Russian people lasting prosperity and happiness. I wholeheartedly hope that as they advance, the fraternal Russian people are always under a clear sky, and that happiness and prosperity are in store for them. Long live the great day of victory! Long live the eternal DPRK-Russia friendship!
KCNA Commentary on Japan's Routine Missile Launching Drills in Its Proper Pyongyang, May 10 (KCNA) -- Japan plans to conduct the surface-to-ship missile launching drill of the Ground "Self-Defence Force" in its country from around June this year. This proves that Japan has broken the precedent whereby it had mastered the capability of conducting a war of aggression by waging missile launching drill abroad under the signboard of "exclusive defence" so far existed for mere form's sake, and that it has embarked upon the practical action for launching a direct attack from the archipelago where huge missile forces are deployed. It is a proof that Japan's reckless moves for overseas aggression have become more courageous. Japan's possession of the capability of attacking enemy base is already beyond the scope of the discussion and most of its missiles are at the level that can reach the territories of the neighbouring countries. Japan plans to equip surface-to-ship missile regiments with type 12 surface-to-ship missiles with increased range of over 1 000km by the next year and speeds up the development and improvement of capability of submarine-launched guided missiles, high-speed gliding projectiles, long-range cruise missiles and hypersonic missiles. According to the plan of the Ministry of Defence of Japan, the surface-to-surface, ship-to-surface and air-to-surface missiles with increased range will be developed and introduced in a few years. Also being revealed is the data on the research and manufacture of new-type ballistic missile with a range of 3 000 km. Meanwhile, the Japanese militarists are also putting spurs to reorganizing and reinforcing of the "Self-Defence Forces" as the attack-type aggression forces to keep up with the development and introduction of long-range strike means. In March, the "integrated operation command" was formed to command all the "Self-Defence Forces" in a unified way and operate long-range missiles, and the "8th surface-to-ship missile regiment" armed with missiles with range of hundreds of kilometers was organized again to increase the number of regiment-level surface-to-ship missile unit. What should not be overlooked is that the Japanese reactionaries are openly asserting that they will independently make decision on the strike at neighbouring countries and the time for it when necessary. Proceeding from this, clear is the purpose of Japan to conduct a missile launching drill on its proper, away from the existing mode. The ultimate aim of Japan which has dashed toward the militarism is to prepare the archipelago into a state capable of fighting war and thus launch a continental invasion as in the past. Now that all the war preparations on Japan proper are being completed, the verification of actual war capability in the proper is more urgent than the missile launching drills outside the archipelago under the obsolete cloak of "exclusive defence". It is the cunning intention of Japan to launch a surprise preemptive attack on the neighbouring countries while routinely conducting the drills of long-range strike means in its country under the absurd pretext of "security environment getting serious". The countries in the Asia-Pacific region are paying a strict attention to the military moves of Japan, a war criminal state, which is not abandoning its nonsensical ambition for the "Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere". Japan should not be mistaken as it has unhesitatingly taken up the position for preemptive attack.
Respected Comrade Kim Jong Un Receives Letter from Participants in Seminar on Juche Idea Pyongyang, May 11 (KCNA) -- Kim Jong Un, general secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea, president of the State Affairs of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea and supreme commander of the armed forces of the DPRK, received a letter from the participants in the Latin American regional Juche idea seminar on "Independence, global peace and social justice" on May 4. The participants in the letter said that the building of a just and peaceful new world, the ideal and aspiration of mankind, is faced with grave challenges and difficulties and human independence and dignity are being wantonly violated in all parts of the world due to the ever-increasing arbitrariness and high-handedness of the hegemonic forces trying to maintain the unipolar ruling system at present. The seminar held in such circumstances particularly referred to the fact that the DPRK is victoriously advancing for the overall prosperity and development of socialism under the wise guidance of the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un and this is a great contribution to independence, social justice and global peace, the letter said. Only when each country and nation firmly defends and realizes independence, can social justice and global peace be firmly guaranteed and the brilliant embodiment of the Juche idea in the DPRK is powerfully encouraging the struggle of the world progressives advancing along the road of independence against imperialism, it noted. The Latin American regional Juche idea seminar served as a very important and meaningful large meeting which clearly highlighted the immutable truth that the Juche idea is the immortal banner for realizing the human cause of independence and that the DPRK, which is prosperous with independent politics, self-supporting economy and self-reliant national defence, is the beacon of the regional and world's progressive people aspiring after independence and social justice, it said. The participants in the letter sincerely wished the DPRK new eye-opening successes in the future, too, under the outstanding leadership of the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un. |
