Kim Jong Un - Speeches and Statements

Pyongyang, January 20 (KCNA) -- The Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK) convened its 6th Meeting of the 8th Central Committee at the office building of the Party Central Committee on January 19 to discuss and decide immediate work and important policy issues of the Party and the state.

Kim Jong Un , general secretary of the WPK, was present at the meeting.

Report on the 4th Plenary Meeting of the 8th Central Committtee and summary of Kim Jong Un's observations as published and translated into English by the Korean Central News Agency.

Text of the opening and closing speeches delivered by Kim Jong Un to the Sixth Conference of Cell Secretaries of the Korean Workers' Party, as translated and published by the Korean Central News Agency. The opening speech was reported on April 7, 2021, and the closing speech on April 9, 2021.

Opening Speech

Dear comrade cell secretaries,

Full text of a speech by Kim Jong Un delivered at the March 23, 2021 ground-breaking ceremony for a five-year project to build 10,000 new apartments in Pyongyang annually. Published and translated into English by the Korean Central News Agency.

All the builders and service personnel who have turned out in the honourable project for building up the capital city,

Today we are honoured to set up another meaningful landmark in the history of building up our capital city.

Summary of Kim Jong Un’s speeches at North Korea’s Eighth Party Congress, delivered over the course of several days in January 2021, as published and translated into English by the Korean Central News Agency. Although Kim’s opening and closing speeches (both summarized below) have been published by KCNA, his full remarks at the Party Congress have not been published.

The National Committee on North Korea has been made aware that the translation of the following speech has been misattributed to us in several news articles. As we originally stated, this speech was translated from Korean to English by the Korean Central News Agency, a DPRK media outlet, and no current or past NCNK staff members or anyone affiliated with NCNK created, edited, or otherwise contributed to the translation. The original page is below. 

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Esteemed comrades war veterans,

This is July 27.

The victorious July 27 is the day when all the people born on this land celebrate with surging emotions the great victory in the war that is etched in the past history, repeating the word victory.

Greeting the holiday of victory today, I am seeing you, esteemed war veterans, again, who created the great history, at this conference. I am so happy that I cannot find words to express my feelings.

It is an honour for us to have you, valuable teachers, at this conference.

Full text of a speech by the North Korean leader at a ground-breaking ceremony for the Pyongyang General Hospital, as reported and translated into English by Korean Central News Agency. The speech is notable for coming amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, which is not directly mentioned.

Comrades,

Report on the "Fifth Plenary Meeting of Seventh Central Committee of Workers' Party of Korea," as published and translated into English by the Korean Central News Agency. The report effectively functions as Kim Jong Un's 2020 New Year Address, substituting for the major annual speech. The WPK Plenum meeting was a multi-day event held in the final days of 2019; in the weeks and months prior to the Plenum, North Korean officials had warned of taking "a new path" if negotiations with the U.S. did not make progress by the end of 2019.