THE EMBASSY OF THE DEMOCRATIC
PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF KOREA TO SWITZERLAND
No 40/26
Apr 15, 2026
1. Peerlessly Great Man Opens up and Glorifies Era of Independence
2. Press Statement of Policy Section Chief of Institute for Japan Studies under DPRK Foreign Ministry
3. DPRK Foreign Ministry Sportsperson on General Election of Parliament in Myanmar
Peerlessly Great Man Opens up and Glorifies Era of Independence
Pyongyang, April 14 (KCNA) -- The immortal revolutionary hymn "Song of General Kim Il Sung" sung by artistes of different countries is resounding at the stages of the 34th April Spring Friendship Art Festival.
Watching art performances which reflected boundless reverence for President Kim Il Sung, the Korean people and the world progressives are recollecting with deep emotion the immortal exploits the President performed for the times and the revolution and for the human cause of independence.
The President founded the Juche idea and put forward the oppressed and maltreated popular masses as the masters of history and led them to hew out their destiny by their own efforts, at the centre of the times and history.
In October 1972 the President met a friendly government delegation of Burkina Faso on a visit to the DPRK. He told its members that they should increase their economic strength in order to defend their political independence, and if they worship big countries and depend on them, they will have an idea that their own things are bad and the others' things are good.
Hearing the teachings given by the President, the members of the delegation cherished the truth that independence in politics can be realized only through self-support in the economy.
The members of a Guinean party and government delegation, who met the President, came to know the truth of independence while hearing his teachings.
Whenever he met many personages of political and public circles around the world who visited the DPRK, the President said that to maintain independence in the party and state activities is the most just policy that meets the requirements of the present era and that all the matters arising in the revolutionary struggle should be solved in conformity with the actual conditions of their countries by relying on the efforts of their people.
Indeed, President Kim Il Sung is a peerless sage who devoted his all to accomplishing the human cause of independence under the uplifted banner of independence all his life.
Press Statement of Policy Section Chief of Institute for Japan Studies under DPRK Foreign Ministry
Pyongyang, April 15 (KCNA) -- The policy section chief of the Institute for Japan Studies under the Foreign Ministry of the DPRK issued a press statement titled "Japan's diplomatic blue book is a tricky document to beautify its extreme militarist moves with 'threat from the neighboring countries'" on April 14.
The press statement is as follows:
Shortly ago, Japan announced the "2026 diplomatic blue book" woven with conventional gangster-like logic and absurdity.
I do not care whether Japan announced the diplomatic blue book or not, but I can never overlook the fact that it called into question the DPRK's exercise of right to legitimate self-defence, in an absurd attempt to shake the position of a nuclear weapons state specified in the Constitution of the DPRK.
Japan termed the DPRK's measures for bolstering up its defence capabilities, which belong to the right to self-defence, "grave and urgent threat" and "clear and serious challenge" and made an anachronistic and evasive assertion like "complete, verifiable and irreversible dismantlement" and "complete implementation of the resolution of the UN Security Council".
This is a grave provocation encroaching upon the sovereign rights, security interests and development rights of our sacred state and, at the same time, it fully reveals Japan's deep-rooted hostility and confrontational intention toward the DPRK.
In the diplomatic blue book, Japan talked about the "international order based on rules" and "governing by law", but refused to mention its master's top-class rogue act of unhesitatingly resorting to aggression and use of armed forces against sovereign states to hold its unilateral hegemony.
Japan, a vassal state of the U.S., which has neither clear political view nor independence, is making desperate efforts to deny the position of the DPRK as a nuclear weapons state. This is impudent and ridiculous act not quite fit for it.
Whenever an opportunity presents itself, Japan is letting loose rhetoric about the exercise of the right to self-defence by neighboring countries. Such move is aimed at covering up its criminal nature of shaking the keynote of security in the region while pursuing legal and institutional completion as a war state and expansion of its aggressive attack capability.
Japan's diplomatic blue book is a tricky and confrontation document from A to Z to beautify the militarist moves of the Japanese authorities who are dreaming of bringing about the second imperial era and rushing headlong into its realization with "threat from the neighboring countries" as an excuse.
DPRK Foreign Ministry Sportsperson on General Election of Parliament in Myanmar
Pyongyang, April 14 (KCNA) -- A spokesperson for the Foreign Ministry of the DPRK gave the following answer to a question raised by KCNA on April 14 as regards the fact that the general election of the parliament was recently held in Myanmar and that a new president was elected and inaugurated:
We pay regard to the fact that the five-year-long political transition has been ended and the country has entered a new phase of the development of the state and the society as the general election of the parliament was held in Myanmar and the president, elected through constitutional procedures, was inaugurated.
We respect the aspiration and choice of the people of Myanmar to achieve solid socio-political stability and create a peaceful and sustainable development environment in Myanmar.
We expect the development of the new situation in Myanmar will bring about the country's socio-political stability, promote the economic development and lead to the regional peace and stability of the situation.