
In the early hours of October 3, a medium-range strategic missile launch training was conducted in the eastern region of our country toward the East Sea of Korea.
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“We will not permit even the slightest space or room for the possibility of contact between the DPRK and the ROK to be raised, and under no circumstances will there be any occasion to face them.”
Kim Yo Jong, Department Director of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea, said this on the 2nd while receiving a work report from the Military External Affairs Bureau of the Ministry of National Defence of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, and once again made the following position clear to the Korean Central News Agency.
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Page 6 of Rodong Sinmun dated October 2, 2026, carries an article exposing NATO's confrontational manoeuvres, news of the Russian Deputy Foreign Minister's assertion that Japan is an untrustworthy country, the start of joint exercises of the Collective Security Treaty Organization, military cooperation between Russia and Mongolia, epidemic prevention in Pakistan, an increase in automobile production in Thailand, forest protection in Sri Lanka, the arrest of terrorists in Vietnam, the status of epidemic spread in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Cambodia and Japan, a fighter jet accident on a US aircraft carrier, flood damage in Ghana, and general knowledge about the origin of the nicknames of various countries of the world.
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Comrade Choe Son Hui, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), sent a congratulatory message on the 1st to Comrade Wang Yi, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the People's Republic of China (PRC), on the occasion of the 77th anniversary of the founding of the PRC.
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Kim Yo Jong, Department Director of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea, issued the following statement on the 2nd.
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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, had a commemorative photo taken with the teachers and researchers of Kim Il Sung University, which significantly greeted its 80th founding anniversary on October 1.
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The 5th and 6th pages of Rodong Sinmun dated 1 October 2026 carried a letter presented by the participants in the International Academic Symposium commemorating the 80th anniversary of the founding of Kim Il Sung University to the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un; a reception given by the Chinese Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary on the occasion of the 77th anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China; the return home of the Russian delegation that had participated in the Second DPRK–Russia Forum of University Rectors; news concerning China’s construction of a powerful socialist modern country; an article exposing Japan’s manoeuvres to revive militarism; statements by Mexico, the League of Arab States and Egypt opposing interference by outside forces in internal affairs and condemning Israel; the operation of a gold refinery in Burkina Faso; India’s efforts to prevent air pollution; Brazil’s campaign against organised crime; flood damage in Cambodia and Thailand; the growing number of refugees in Yemen; and general information on the prevention of strokes.
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Respected Comrade Kim Jong Un sent a message of greeting to Comrade Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and president of the People's Republic of China, on October 1.
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