Childcare Policy: Celebrates the 4th anniversary of the childcare policy prioritized at the 8th Party Central Committee's 3rd Plenary Meeting. Highlights the establishment of over 100 new/expanded dairy farms nationwide and milk production/supply systems in all cities/counties, ensuring children receive nutritious dairy products daily.

DPRK-Russia Alliance: Marks the 1st anniversary of the DPRK-Russia Comprehensive Strategic Partnership Treaty signed by Kim Jong Un and Putin. Emphasizes the treaty's strength, accelerated bilateral cooperation (high-level exchanges, trade, infrastructure projects like the border bridge), and specifically highlights the "exemplary practice" of DPRK combat units participating in the "Kursk region liberation operation" as proof of the alliance's invincibility.

Ideological Seminar: Reports on a social science seminar commemorating the 30th anniversary of Kim Jong Il's work "Giving Priority to Ideological Work is Essential for Accomplishing the Socialist Cause." Stresses the eternal vitality of the work and Kim Jong Un's leadership in unleashing the people's spiritual strength for transformation.

Weather Warning: Forecasts heavy rain nationwide (especially south: 70-200mm) and urges all sectors to take measures to minimize damage from torrential rains, downpours, and strong winds. Priority is given to people's safety, agricultural protection, and infrastructure security.

Agricultural Focus:

Organic Farming: Actively promoted as Party policy. Examples include:

• Hongwon County using earthworm-based plant activators for great profit.
• Honam Farm improving soil fertility via green manure crops.
• Kangsan Farm boosting grain yield by integrating farming and livestock (producing organic fertilizer).

Paddy Irrigation: Songchon River Electric Machine Factory is vigorously producing motors needed for irrigation.

Skilled Workers Competition: Reports on the lathe operator and sheet metal worker competitions within the "National Economic Sectoral and Trade-Specific Skilled Workers Competition - 2025," held at Kumsong Tractor Factory. Highlights it as a forum for skill exchange and learning, not just ranking. Criticizes some units for treating it as a burden.

Localization Drive: Scientists and technicians across institutions are intensely researching to raise the localization ratio of equipment for local industry factories, with trial production and testing underway for dozens of prototypes.

On May 27, on the occasion of the historic date — the 100th anniversary of the birth of people’s diplomacy in the Russian Federation — a solemn gathering titled “People’s Diplomacy: History, Present, Prospects” was held at the House of the Russian Diaspora.

The Central Military Commission of the Workers’ Party of Korea highly appreciated the combat sub-units of the armed forces of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea for performing heroic feats in the operations to repulse and frustrate the grave sovereignty infringement by the Ukrainian authorities, who invaded the territory of the Russian Federation, and completely liberate the occupied area of Kursk Region.

Alexander Mostov, Director of the Asian Department of the International Association of Peace Foundations, held a working meeting with the International Secretary of the People's Democratic Party (PDP), the official representative of the World Anti-Imperialist Platform (WAP) and the International Secretary of the American Communist Party (ACP).

Russian government, political parties and organizations held a memorial meeting in Moscow on December 16 on the occasion of the 13th anniversary of demise of Chairman Kim Jong Il.

On December 11, the DPRK media commented for the first time on the events in the Republic of Korea. Below is the full text of the Rodong Sinmun newspaper article, which was also read on state television and all radio stations, including the Voice of Korea in foreign languages.

Large-scale public protests continue in the puppet Republic of Korea to force the resignation of puppet Yoon Suk Yeol, an evil tyrant and fascist dictator who is fomenting a bloody war with the support of the United States.

The soldiers from the DPRK have not even reached the front line yet, and South Korea, under the pretext of “responding to Russian aggression,” is already discussing sending “military and intelligence personnel” to Ukraine without any objective reasons.

The great Workers’ Party of Korea has vigorously led the second revolution in national defence industry aimed at making the Korean People’s Army stronger in terms of military technique after declaring at its historic Eighth Congress a grand national defence development strategy on developing the KPA into an elite army equipped with ultra-modern weapons by highly developing national defence science and technology and researching and developing more ultra-modern weapons and combat equipment.

The WPK Central Committee headed by the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un set it as the most important and priority task for defending the country, revolution and people to highly develop the country’s war deterrent with nuclear force as its pivot and has stubbornly propelled the struggle for its implementation. By doing so, it has uninterruptedly accelerated great quantitative, qualitative and technological changes in bolstering up the country’s capabilities for self-defence and thus steadily increased the combat super power for defending national sovereignty and peace.

The military hardware exhibition Defence Development-2024 opened with splendour in Pyongyang, the capital of the DPRK, on November 21, demonstrating the increased power that knows no limit and radical leap forward of the DPRK.