Tag: Workers’ Party of Korea

PDP-Laban magpapadala ng mga kinatawan sa bansang North Korea

(Eagle News) — Magpapadala ang ruling party na Partido Demokratiko Pilipino–Lakas ng Bayan (PDP-LABAN) ng kinatawan sa North Korea ngayong linggo. Ayon kay Raul Lambino, PDP-Laban vice president for international affairs, ito ang kauna-unahang pagkakataon na magkakaroon ng party to party contact sa pagitan ng Manila at Pyongyang. “This is strictly party-to-party diplomacy. The invitation was extended to us months ago, and we feel that this visit could not have come at a better time,” […]

Pyongyang opens newly built bag factory

PYONGYANG, North Korea (Reuters) —  North Korea held an opening ceremony for a newly built bag factory on Tuesday (January 10) in Pyongyang. Video provided by North Korea’s official news agency KCNA, which Reuters cannot independently verify, showed state officials and workers celebrating the opening of the new plant. “The Pyongyang Bag Factory is the culmination of love and was constructed with the respected supreme leader’s direct suggestions and his noble love of the future […]

North Koreans hold mass rally to affirm party loyalty

PYONGYANG, North Korea (Reuters) — North Korea held a mass rally on Thursday (February 25) in Pyongyang, to affirm party loyalty ahead of a rare ruling party conference. Video provided by North Korea’s official news agency KCNA, which Reuters cannot independently verify, showed thousands of people including senior officials gathering at Kim Il Sung Square in Pyongyang. During the rally, people marched down a street, chanting and holding banners, one of them saying “Let’s safeguard […]

North Korea’s Kim calls for expansion of nuclear arsenal

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un called for an expansion of the size and power of his country’s nuclear arsenal, state media said on Wednesday (January 13), a week after a nuclear test that drew condemnation from its neighbours and the United States. Last week’s nuclear test was North Korea’s fourth, although the United States and experts doubt the North’s claim that it was of a more powerful hydrogen bomb, as the blast was of […]