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North Korea's premier to visit China to mark friendship treaty's 65th anniversary

Pak Thae-song will travel to China this weekend for events commemorating the countries’ mutual defense and friendship pact.

2026.7.9

Kim Jong-un marks anniversary of state founder's death with midnight mausoleum visit as personality cult expands

The tribute highlighted Kim Jong-un’s claim to the ruling "Paektu bloodline" as North Korea intensifies efforts to elevate his own image and reinforce internal unity.

2026.7.8

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Performers are on stage at Pyongyang on April 13 in celebration of the 114th anniversary of the birth of North Korea's founder, Kim Il Sung, in this photo released by the North’s state news agency, the Korean Central News Agency, on April 14. [YONHAP]

North calls for increased loyalty to leader Kim Jong-un on founder's birth anniversary

North Korea called for increased loyalty from party members and citizens to North Korean leader Kim Jong-un on Wednesday, the birth anniversary of state founder Kim Il Sung, highlighting the two leaders' shared people-centered policies.

2026.4.15

Visitors gather at an art exhibition to celebrate the birth of the regime founder Kim Il Sung in Pyongyang on April 9 in a photo carried by the Korean Central News Agency the following day. [YONHAP]

North Korea marks upcoming birth anniversary of founder with cultural events

North Korea is marking the upcoming birth anniversary of its late founder, Kim Il Sung, with various cultural events honoring his achievements, according to state media on Friday.

2026.4.10

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un visits the Victorious Fatherland Liberation War Museum on July 26 to mark the 72nd anniversary of the Korean War armistice, the Korean Central News Agency reported on July 27. [YONHAP]

North urges loyalty to leader Kim ahead of 80th anniversary of Korean liberation

North Korea invoked state founder Kim Il Sung as a “historic hero” of Korea's liberation and urged loyalty to current leader Kim Jong-un, ahead of the 80th anniversary of the Korean Peninsula's liberation from the 1910-45 Japanese colonial rule.

2025.8.3

North Korea's state-run media Rodong Sinmun reported on April 15 that workers in the Chollima Steel Complex were ″completely resolved to fight desperately to carry out the party's decisions while harboring a deep longing for the leader,″ in commemoration of former North Korean leader Kim Il Sung's birthday. [NEWS1]

'Celebratory joy' fills Pyongyang streets on late founder's 113th birthday

North Korea celebrated the 113th birthday of its founding leader, Kim Il Sung, on Tuesday by reaffirming loyalty to his grandson, Kim Jong-un, and promoting an unbroken ideological lineage that ties the past to the present.

2025.4.15

People take part in celebrations to mark Kim Il Sung's birthday at Kim Il Sung Square in Pyongyang on April 14, 2024. [YONHAP]

North Korea to host large-scale art festival for late founder's upcoming birthday

North Korea on Tuesday announced the hosting of a large-scale art festival to mark the birth anniversary of late national founder Kim Il Sung next month.

2025.3.25

In this footage broadcast by Pyongyang's state-controlled Korean Central Television on July 28, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu stands next to North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, who is using binoculars to review a military parade held in downtown Pyongyang the previous evening to celebrate the end of active hostilities in the 1950-53 Korean War. [YONHAP]

Russian, Chinese officials likely to attend another North Korean military parade this week

Representatives from China and Russia are expected to be present at a large-scale North Korean paramilitary parade later this week in a sign of the three countries' continuing efforts to deepen cooperation.

2023.9.4

In this photo released by the Korean Central News Agency, North Koreans in Pyongyang participate in a mass anti-U.S. rally on Sunday, which marked the 73rd anniversary of the outbreak of the Korean War. The caption on the large poster reads ″All of the mainland United States is within our range,″ referring to the North's intercontinental ballistic missiles. [YONHAP]

U.S. pushing peninsula to 'brink of nuclear war': North

North Korea’s Foreign Ministry vowed the regime would bolster its “defensive capabilities” as it claimed South Korea and the United States were "pushing the peninsula toward nuclear war,” Pyongyang’s state media reported Monday.

2023.6.26

A new solid-fuel intercontinental ballistic missile is shown at a North Korean military parade held in Pyongyang on Feb. 8 in this photograph released by the state-controlled Korean Central News Agency. [YONHAP]

Images suggest North preparing for military parade

Satellite images appear to show North Korea preparing to hold a military parade, according to an analysis by Voice of America (VOA) released on Tuesday.

2023.5.16