38 North | DPRK Reference PortalFULL SPEECH TEXT: KOREAN | ENGLISH The 2017 speech was most notable for Kim Jong Un’s announcement that “We have reached the final stage in preparations to test-launch in intercontinental ballistic rocket.” The announcement followed two nuclear tests in 2016 and came less than a month before Donald Trump’s inauguration as President. It immediately highlighted […]
(평양 11월 28일발 조선중앙통신)조선로동당 위원장이시며 조선민주주의인민공화국 국무위원회 위원장이시며 조선인민군 최고사령관이신 경애하는 김정은동지께서 삼지연군의 여러 부문 사업을 현지에서 지도하시였다. 조선로동당 중앙위원회 정치국 상무위원회 위원이며 조선민주주의인민공화국 국무위원회 부위원장이며 당중앙위원회 부위원장인 최룡해동지, 조선로동당 중앙위원회 부장 김용수동지가 동행하였다. 경애하는 김정은동지를 현지에서 조선로동당 량강도위원회 위원장 리상원동지, 삼지연군위원회 위원장 리철동지가 맞이하였다. 경애하는 김정은동지께서는 동행한 일군들과 함께 삼지연군에 정중히 모신 위대한 령도자 […]
Pyongyang, November 28 (KCNA) — Kim Jong Un, chairman of the Workers’ Party of Korea, chairman of the State Affairs Commission of the DPRK and supreme commander of the Korean People’s Army, gave field guidance to various fields of Samjiyon County. He together with officials accompanying him paid tribute to leader Kim Jong Il before […]
Kim Jong Un Report to the Seventh Congress of the Workers’ Party of Korea on the Work of the Central Committee Dear comrades, The decades since the Sixth Congress of the Workers’ Party of Korea have been a period of the most severe struggle and a glorious era of victory when a great […]
Pyongyang, April 23 (KCNA) — Kim Jong Un, first secretary of the Workers’ Party of Korea, first chairman of the National Defence Commission of the DPRK and supreme commander of the Korean People’s Army, provided field guidance to the Paektusan Hero Youth Power Station No. 3 successfully completed as a gift of loyalty which young […]
RETURN TO SPEECH INDEX | ENGLISH TEXT As carried by the Korean Central News Agency. 친애하는 동지들！ 우리는 영광스러운 조선로동당과 조국력사에 빛나는 리정표를 아로새긴 승리자의 긍지와 자부심에 넘쳐 새해 2016년을 맞이합니다. 나는 전체 인민들과 인민군장병들의 열화같은 충정의 마음을 담아 사회주의조선의 영상이시며 주체의 태양이신 위대한 수령님과 위대한 장군님께 가장 숭고한 경의와 새해인사를 삼가 드립니다. 나는 영원히 […]
RETURN TO SPEECH INDEX | KOREAN TEXT English translation by the Korean Central News Agency. Dear comrades, Filled with the dignity and self-respect of being victors, who have set up a shining milestone in the history of the glorious Workers’ Party of Korea and our country, we are greeting the New Year 2016. In reflection […]
FULL SPEECH TEXT: KOREAN | ENGLISH An exchange of rocket and artillery fire in August 2015 marked the first major clash across the inter-Korean border in several years and became a theme of Kim Jong Un’s 2016 new year speech. Kim addressed the incident during the speech, underlining the potential that any small incident could […]
Pyongyang, October 4 (KCNA) — Kim Jong Un, first secretary of the Workers’ Party of Korea, first chairman of the National Defence Commission of the DPRK and supreme commander of the Korean People’s Army, made a speech at the inauguration ceremony of the Paektusan Hero Youth Power Station. The following is its full text: Dear […]
Pyongyang, October 4 (KCNA) — The Paektusan Hero Youth Power Station has been completed as a proud structure built by young people in Songun Korea. A ceremony of its completion took place with splendor on October 3. Kim Jong Un, first secretary of the Workers’ Party of Korea, first chairman of the National Defence Commission […]
