Kim Jong Un - Speeches and Statements

Text of Kim Jong Un's 2017 New Year Address, as published by KCNA. Notable for a short statement saying that the DPRK had "entered the final stage of preparation for the test launch of intercontinental ballistic missile."

Full text of a letter to the teaching staff and students of Kim Il Sung University on the 70th Anniversary of its founding. 

I extend warm congratulations to all the teaching staff and students of Kim Il Sung University who are greeting the meaningful 70th anniversary of its founding at this historic time when a general offensive is in full swing to build a powerful socialist country according to the bright blueprint unfolded by the Seventh Congress of the Workers’ Party of Korea. 

Full text of a speech delivered by Kim Jong Un at the Ninth Congress of Kim Il Sung Socialist Youth League on August 28, 2016, as reported and translated by the Korean Central News Agency.

Dear youth delegates, 

In May 2016, North Korea’s ruling Workers’ Party held its first Party Congress since 1980. Kim Jong Un made several speeches during the Congress, which the Korean Central News Agency translated, summarized, and published. Those speeches are reproduced below, as well as a document on the “Decision of Seventh Congress of WPK” and a document listing the members of the Workers’ Party of Korea’s Central Committee.

English translation via Rodong Sinmun

Dear comrades,

Filled with the dignity and self-respect of being victors, who have set up a shining milestone in the history of the glorious Workers’ Party of Korea and our country, we are greeting the New Year 2016.
In reflection of the fervent loyalty of all the people and service personnel, I extend the noblest respect and New Year greetings to the great Comrades Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il, the symbol of socialist Korea and the sun of Juche.

Full text of a letter to those attending the Fourth Conference of Frontrunners in the Three-Revolution Red Flag Movement.

Full text of a speech delivered by Kim Jong Un at the military parade held in celebration of the 70th founding anniversary of the WPK, as reported and translated by the Korean Central News Agency.

Heroic officers and men of the Korean People's Army and the Korean People's Internal Security Forces,

Officers and men of the units participating in the military parade held in celebration of the 70th anniversary of the founding of the glorious Workers' Party of Korea,

Members of the Worker-Peasant Red Guards and Young Red Guards,

Full text of a speech delivered by Kim Jong Un at the inauguration ceremony of the Paektusan Hero Youth Power Station.

Dear trustworthy young vanguard,

Dear guests,

Dear comrades,

Today, amid warm congratulations of all the service personnel and people, we are making public to the whole world the inauguration of the Paektusan Hero Youth Power Station.

Full text of a  congratulatory speech delievered by Kim Jong Un at the Fourth National Conference of War Veterans.

Dear war veterans attending the Fourth National Conferenceof War Veterans, 

Other veterans of the Fatherland Liberation War and people who performed meritorious wartime service across the country, 

I extend warm congratulations to you as we prepare to mark July 27, V-day for the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, our glorious motherland. 

Full text of a letter by Kim Jong Un to Chongryon and Koreans Resident in Japan on the Occasion of the 60th Anniversary of Chongryon's Founding.

I am delighted that Chongryon (General Association of Korean Residents in Japan) is greeting the 60th anniversary of its founding in the stirring period when a dynamic struggle is being waged to celebrate as grand national events the 70th anniversaries of national liberation and the founding of the Workers’ Party of Korea.