2026-03-23 KOREAN NEWS

 THE EMBASSY OF THE DEMOCRATIC
PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF KOREA TO SWITZERLAND

No 30/26
Mar 23, 2026


1. Respected Comrade Kim Jong Un Reelected as President of State Affairs of DPRK

2. Press Statement of Kim Yo Jong, Department Director of C.C., WPK


Respected Comrade Kim Jong Un Reelected as President of State Affairs of DPRK

Pyongyang, March 23 (KCNA) -- The election of the president of the State Affairs of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea representing the state and its people is the most important state affair that the supreme power body determines on behalf of the unanimous will of all the Korean people for the destiny and future of tens of millions of people, the eternal dignity and mightiness of the DPRK and for leading the great pioneering period of national rejuvenation unprecedented in the history of its founding to an everlasting heyday.

The Supreme People's Assembly of the DPRK reelected Comrade Kim Jong Un as President of the State Affairs of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea at the First Session, the first state affairs activity of its 15th term, on March 22.

The Pyongyang Assembly Hall was full of the extraordinary political awareness and revolutionary enthusiasm of the SPA deputies who would decide in a responsible manner the most important state affair of great political significance in reliably guaranteeing the eternal cause of the Juche revolution on the basis of the mission and rights entrusted by the times and the people.

The 15th Supreme People's Assembly solemnly declared at home and abroad the historic decision to elect Comrade Kim Jong Un, the outstanding leader of the Juche revolution, to the top post of the Republic, reflecting the unanimous will and desire of all the Korean people.

Invariably holding Kim Jong Un in high esteem as the head of our glorious DPRK is a political event, to be specially recorded in the history of our state's power activities, and another significant revolutionary auspicious event the Korean people greeted in the course of ushering in a new period of upturn for national prosperity along the bright path indicated by the Ninth Congress of the Workers' Party of Korea.

The election of Kim Jong Un, the most prominent thinker-theoretician of the present world, the great strategist of state building and the great master of creation and change, to the top post of our state opened up a firm prospect for further strengthening the government of the Republic as a powerful political weapon for building a great power and realizing the great ideals and aspirations at an early date.

Growing stronger is the iron faith and will of all the people and service personnel in the country that Korean-style socialism will always emerge victorious and the historic cause of building a rich country with a strong army will surely be accomplished when they advance, always holding in high esteem at the helm of the revolution Comrade Kim Jong Un, who has opened up the bright future for all generations while bringing about unprecedented great changes and great victories only in the course of the sacred struggle of our Party and the state.

Guided by him as the head of state, the DPRK will prosper as a dignified country of the people and a power independent in politics, self-supporting in the economy and self-reliant in national defence advancing along the road of most sacred and bold pioneering.

 

Press Statement of Kim Yo Jong, Department Director of C.C., WPK

Pyongyang, March 23 (KCNA) -- Kim Yo Jong, department director of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea, released the following press statement on March 23:

It was reported by foreign media that the prime minister of Japan expressed her strong willingness to realize the DPRK-Japan summit during the U.S.-Japan summit held in Washington on March 19.

But this is not the one that comes true, as wanted or decided by Japan.

If the prime minister of Japan seeks to resolve its unilateral matter not recognized by us, our state leadership will have no intention to meet or sit face to face with her.

In order for the top leaders of the two countries to meet each other, Japan should first be determined to break with its anachronistic practice and habit.

But today's Japan has gone too far in the opposite direction.

We have nothing to talk face to face to such a party still keen on obsolete thinking and impossible idea.

I don't want to see the prime minister of Japan coming to Pyongyang. However, this is just my personal position.