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No 44/26
May 01, 2026
1. Respected Comrade Kim Jong
Un Enjoys Concert Marking 80th Founding Anniversary of Central Military Band of
Ministry of National Defence
2. Respected Comrade Kim Jong
Un Receives Congratulations from Different Countries
3. Eleventh Congress of
Socialist Patriotic Youth League Held
Respected Comrade Kim Jong Un Enjoys Concert Marking 80th Founding
Anniversary of Central Military Band of Ministry of National Defence
Pyongyang, April 29 (KCNA) -- The
respected Comrade 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, enjoyed a concert commemorating the 80th founding anniversary of the
Central Military Band of the Ministry of National Defence on April 28.
Since it made its debut in the opening
ceremony of the Pyongyang Institute, founded as a base for training military
and political cadres of the country after the liberation of Korea, the Central
Military Band of the Ministry of National Defence has made proud achievements
in the history of development of the heroic Korean People's Army, upholding the
Party and the country and powerfully encouraging the whole army to victory with
the revolutionary military music pulsating with the spirit of the times and the
strong army.
Among the audience were No Kwang Chol,
minister of National Defence of the DPRK, Kim Song Gi, director of the General
Political Bureau of the KPA, and other commanding officers of the Ministry of
National Defence, officials of the WPK Central Committee, officials of
ministries and national agencies and institutions and enterprises in Pyongyang,
creators and artistes of military and civilian art troupes and service personnel.
The concert began with the solemn
playing of the national anthem of the DPRK. Its performers played the stirring
melodies of the revolutionary military music filled with the militant spirit to
powerfully demonstrate the course of development of the heroic KPA, which has
defended the vigorous advance of the ever-victorious Juche revolution under the
leadership of the WPK and reliably guaranteed the invincibility and mightiness
of our state.
The concert was acclaimed by the
audience as it impressively showed the deep ideological and moral world and the
will of loyalty of the service personnel to add eternal luster to the honor of
the KPA, which has always been faithful to the orders of the country and the
sacred appellation the army of the Party and the people and won legendary
victories and created tales of miracles.
Comrade Kim Jong Un congratulated
the performers on their successful performance, praising them for giving an
excellent concert pulsating with the revolutionary character and militant
spirit of our army.
He said that the shining history of the
KPA is clearly associated with the feats of the Central Military Band of the
Ministry of National Defence as it has displayed the tremendous might
incomparable with any military hardware, encouraging the brave and heroic army
with the revolutionary military music decade after decade. He added that he has
always paid respect to the military band as a group of soldiers representing
the revolutionary army, not as an art troupe.
Comrade Kim Jong Un highly appreciated
that the Central Military Band of the Ministry of National Defence is the face
of our state and symbol of the KPA, saying that wherever the military music
resounded, there were the stirring scenes of those displaying matchless courage
and bringing about the epoch-making changes.
He said that the creators and players of
the military band should have boundless loyalty to the Party, the country and
the people and high artistic ability and encourage the advance of the KPA with
their revolutionary military music. And he had a photo session with all the
creators, players and officials, expressing belief that the Central Military
Band would always remain faithful to its most honorable mission.
The members of the Central Military Band
of the Ministry of National Defence extended boundless gratitude to Comrade Kim
Jong Un who is giving great trust and warm blessings, glorifying the band's
honorable 80-year history of following the Party, and made a firm determination
to usher in a new heyday of development of the revolutionary military music,
powerfully encouraging the vigorous historic advance of the army and people of
the DPRK for implementing the decisions of the Ninth Congress of the WPK with
thunderous military music.
Respected Comrade Kim Jong Un Receives Congratulations from
Different Countries
Pyongyang, May 1 (KCNA) -- The respected
Comrade Kim Jong Un received congratulatory messages and letters from
different countries on the occasion of the 114th birth anniversary of President
Kim Il Sung.
The messages and letters came from the
general secretary of the C.C., Nepal Communist Party (Marxist-Leninist), the
general secretary of the Mongolian People's Party, the president of the
Bangladesh People's League, the chairman of the FUNCINPEC Party of Cambodia,
the chairman of the Vatan Party of Türkiye, the general chairman and the
secretary general of the Central Directive Council of the Indonesian Democratic
Party of Struggle, the chairman of the Communist Party of Germany, the chairman
of the Socialist Party of Romania, the chairperson and the first
vice-chairperson of the Left National Party of Romania, the chairperson of
the Party for Peace and Unity of Russia, the chairman of the National Salvation
Front of Russia, the chairman of the Hungarian Workers' Party, the general
secretary of the Communist Party of Switzerland, the chairman and the
international secretary of the Communist Party in Sweden, the general secretary
of the Communist Party-21 of the Czech Republic, the general secretary and the
international secretary of the C.C., New Yugoslav Communist Party, the national
chairman of the People's Progressive Party of Nigeria, the general secretary of
the Democratic Party of Equatorial Guinea, the secretary general of the United
Left Movement of Dominica, the national leader of the Workers' Party of Mexico,
the general secretary of the C.C., People's Socialist Party of Mexico, the
national secretary of the People's Movement of the Brazilian Socialist Party,
the national leader of the Communist Party of Canada (Marxist-Leninist), and
the Central Committee of the Marxist-Leninist Communist Party of Brazil.
Comrade Kim Jong Un also received
congratulatory messages and letters from high-ranking personages of political,
public and economic circles of China, Russia, Nepal, Myanmar, Mongolia, Sri
Lanka, Singapore, Cambodia, Thailand, Pakistan, Palestine, Cyprus, Indonesia,
India, Japan, Norway, Denmark, Germany, Romania, Luxembourg, Malta, Bulgaria,
Belgium, Switzerland, Sweden, the Czech Republic, France, Finland, Croatia,
Poland, Serbia, Britain, Austria, Italy, Spain, Nigeria, Mali, Equatorial
Guinea, DR Congo, Uganda, Mexico, Venezuela, Brazil, Chile, Canada, Colombia,
Peru, Argentina, Ecuador and Australia, Juche idea study organizations and
diplomatic envoys and representatives of international bodies here.
They include the secretary of the C.C.,
Communist Party of the Russian Federation, the secretary of the C.C., All-Union
Communist Party of Bolsheviks of Russia, the international secretary of the
Finnish Communists' League, the director of the International
Department of the Socialist Workers' Party of Croatia, the international
secretary of the C.C., Communist Party of the People of Spain, the
vice-chairman of the Socialist Freedom Party of Egypt, a member of the National
Committee of the Socialist Workers' Party of the United States of America, the
secretary general of the International Kim Il Sung Prize Council and the
International Kim Jong Il Prize Council, the co-chairman of the Board of
Directors of the Kim Il Sung-Kim Jong Il Foundation, the
director-general of the FAO, the director-general of the International
Institute of the Juche Idea, and the head of the Orchestra of the 21st Century
of Russia.
Meanwhile, the Central Committee of the
Workers' Party of Korea received a congratulatory message from the Central
Committee of the People's Party of Cambodia.
Eleventh Congress of Socialist Patriotic Youth League Held
Pyongyang, May 1 (KCNA) -- The Eleventh
Congress of the Socialist Patriotic Youth League was held in Pyongyang from
April 28 to 30.
The congress reviewed in a comprehensive
way the work done by the youth league during the period under review, and
discussed practical tasks and ways for channeling the great strength of the
large contingent of young people into the implementation of the fighting
programme of the Workers' Party of Korea to further cement it as the powerful
driving force for the overall prosperity and development of socialism.
Attending it were delegates elected by
youth league organizations at all levels.
Present as observers were officials of
the Party and armed forces organs, ministries, national agencies and the field
of education of youths and children.
The platform was taken by Kim Jae Ryong
and Ri Il Hwan, members of the Presidium of the Political Bureau and
secretaries of the WPK Central Committee, Ju Chang Il, member of the Political
Bureau and secretary of the C.C., WPK, Kim Song Gi, member of the Political
Bureau of the C.C., WPK and director of the General Political Bureau of the
Korean People's Army, executive members of the C.C., SPYL, chairpersons of the
provincial youth league committees, exemplary youth league officials and
members, officials in charge of youth work in the field of the armed forces and
service personnel.
The congress elected the presidium and
the secretariat.
The agenda items discussed at the
congress are as follows:
1. Review of the Work of the Central
Committee of the Socialist Patriotic Youth League
2. On the Revision of the SPYL Rules
3. Election of the Central Leadership of
the SPYL
Kim Jae Ryong read out a congratulatory
letter of the WPK Central Committee to the participants in the Eleventh
Congress of the SPYL and all other youths across the country.
Mun Chol, chairman of the SPYL Central
Committee, made a report on the first agenda item.
The reporter noted that the DPRK young
people have grown up to be creators and performers of feats and vanguard
fighters of the revolution in the struggle to pioneer a new era of
comprehensive national prosperity, flying high the sacred flag of the youth
league.
He also briefed about the valuable
successes achieved in the course of directing the work of the youth league to
training all the young people as the patriotic youth who staunchly defend
socialism and devote themselves to the struggle for socialist construction.
He referred to the wise leadership of
the respected fatherly Marshal Kim Jong Un who set it as a matter of
great importance for the steady development of our cause to prepare our young
people as the reliable driving force of socialist construction and
energetically led the work.
The reporter highlighted the great
heroic feats performed by young servicepersons in the forefronts of defending
the country, revolution and people and in major theaters of socialist
construction at the cost of their blood, lives and sweat over the past five
years, true to the orders and instructions of the Party.
The young servicepersons, who regard the
Party's order as their absolute mission and unconditionally realize the Party's
desire, fully displayed their honor as reliable revolutionary soldiers and
hardcore youth not only in defending the country's existence and the people's
health from the global health crisis but also in the gigantic creation
campaigns such as accomplishing the historic cause of regional transformation
and building 50 000 flats in Pyongyang Municipality, he said.
He reviewed the achievements made in
ideologically educating young people and enhancing the activity of the youth
league organizations during the period under review.
Stating that the youth league
organizations will steadily develop only when they thoroughly overcome the
shortcomings and deviations in line with the requirements of the times while
consolidating the successes and experience, the reporter comprehensively
analyzed and reviewed the shortcomings revealed in the work of the youth league
in the period under review and their causes and the ways for overcoming them on
the basis of the data on the actual states of the youth league organizations at
all levels.
The reporter ardently called upon all to
courageously advance, redoubling the firm faith and will for the eternal
dignity and glory of the DPRK and for the brilliant hope of youth and bright future
as befitting the young vanguard in the great era of Kim Jong Un.
Speeches were made on the first agenda
item.
Introduced in the speeches were
excellent experiences gained in educating and training young people into
reliable revolutionary soldiers and hardcore youth of the WPK, regarding the
ideas and leadership of the Party Central Committee as the lifeline, and in
training them to be honorable pioneers of socialist construction and those
ready to make practical contribution to the country by conducting the
organization and guidance over the youth league organizational and ideological
life in close combination with the implementation of the revolutionary tasks.
The speakers expressed their resolve to
bring about a new innovation in the youth league work, strictly analyzing the
shortcomings and causes in the work of the youth league during the period under
review.
The congress discussed the second agenda
item "On the Revision of the SPYL Rules".
There was a report on the revision of
the rules of the youth league.
The reporter summarized the contents of
the rules to be amended and supplemented in conformity with the new tasks
facing the youth league and the principles of building the youth league.
Noting that the rules of the youth
league to be revised reflected the practical requirements for developing the
youth league into elite militant reserves of the WPK and enhancing its
organizing ability, unity and activity, the reporter submitted it for
deliberation at the congress.
A decision on the revision of the rules
of the youth league was adopted with full approval.
The congress discussed the
"Election of the Central Leadership of the SPYL" as the third agenda
item.
First, the Central Committee of the
youth league was elected.
All the candidates for the members and
alternate members of the Central Committee of the youth league were elected
members and alternate members of the Central Committee of the youth league with
the unanimous approval of the delegates.
The First Plenary Meeting of the
Eleventh Central Committee of the Socialist Patriotic Youth League was held.
Ju Chang Il, secretary of the WPK
Central Committee, made public the decision of the First Plenary Meeting.
The executive committee of the SPYL
Central Committee was elected.
Paek Un Chol was elected chairman of the
Central Committee of the youth league and Kim Ju Hyok, Pak Myong Jin, Wang Chol
U, Kim Song Il, Ri Myong Hyok and Kim Song Il were elected vice-chairmen.
The Organizing Committee of the SPYL
Central Committee was formed.
The chairperson, vice-chairpersons and
members of the Central Inspection Commission of the youth league were elected.
Department directors of the SPYL Central
Committee were appointed.
The congress elected a committee for
drafting the decision of the congress with members of the newly elected
eleventh-term central leadership of the youth league, and the committee
deliberated the creative and constructive opinions raised by the delegates and
supplemented the draft decision.
The decision of the Eleventh Congress of
the youth league was adopted with the unanimous approval of the delegates.
A letter of pledge to the respected
Marshal Kim Jong Un was adopted amid all the delegates' enthusiasm for
single-minded loyalty.
The congress ended with the chorus
"We Will Defend General Kim Jong Un with Our Lives".
