For the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, 2024 was a proud year, in which gigantic projects for the comprehensive rejuvenation of the state and the wellbeing of the people were designed and promoted forcefully, thus turning into brilliant fruition.
Kim Jong Un, President of the State Affairs of the DPRK, indicated at several major meetings of the Workers’ Party of Korea and the government of the Republic clear-cut ways and means for achieving a fresh upturn in the comprehensive development of socialist construction, and led the efforts to this end.
Housing construction was conducted on a large scale in the capital city of Pyongyang and in different parts of the country thanks to the painstaking and devoted efforts of the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un, and the flood-stricken areas including those in North
Phyongan and Jagang provinces were transformed beyond recognition. With the forceful promotion of the regional development policy in the new era, its entities presented their majestic appearance in 20 counties including Songchon, all the
sectors in economic construction definitely entered an upturn track, and the sportspeople achieved world-startling successes at major international games.
Under the wise leadership of Kim Jong Un cutting-edge strategic and tactical weapon systems were developed one after another, demonstrating to the world the defence capability of the country, which is developing at exponential speed.
Looking back with dignity on the year 2024 filled with miraculous successes noteworthy in the history of the country, the Korean people are taking more powerful strides to achieve fresh victories under the leadership of Kim Jong Un.
- Kim Jong Un presides over the enlarged meeting of the Ninth Plenary Meeting
of the Eighth Central Committee of the Workers’ Party of Korea in December
2023.
The plenary meeting put it forward as the general orientation of struggle in 2024
to successfully implement the struggle programme set forth at the Eighth
Congress of the WPK and provide a springboard for new advance in the future by
further expanding and actively applying the favourable situation and phase won
through a stubborn struggle. - Kim Jong Un presides over the 19th Enlarged Meeting of the Political Bureau of
the Eighth Central Committee of the Workers’ Party of Korea in January 2024.
The meeting discussed as its main agenda item the task of powerfully promoting the
Party’s Regional Development 20×10 Policy. - Kim Jong Un delivers a policy speech On the Immediate Tasks for the
Prosperity and Development of Our Republic and the Promotion of the
Wellbeing of Our People at the Tenth Session of the 14th Supreme People’s
Assembly of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea in January 2024. - Kim Jong Un presides over the enlarged meeting of the Tenth Plenary Meeting
of the Eighth Central Committee of the Workers’ Party of Korea in June 2024.
The plenary meeting reviewed the work in the first half of the year and set the
main orientation of the work and policies of struggle for the second half of the
year to successfully follow the orientation of state work and carry out all the tasks
for 2024, and discussed and decided on the important tasks of practical
significance in preserving the original features and people-oriented character of
Korean-style socialism. - Kim Jong Un delivers a speech Train Party Cadres in the New Era Faithful
to the Party’s Original Ideals and Spirit at the inauguration ceremony of the
Central Cadres Training School of the Workers’ Party of Korea in May 2024. - Kim Jong Un delivers a speech Let Us Further Strive for the Prosperity of
Our Great State on the orientation of state work after meeting and congratulating
the leading cadres of the Party and the government on the occasion of the
founding anniversary of the DPRK in September 2024. - Kim Jong Un looks round a farm machine exhibition in January 2024.
- Kim Jong Un gives on-site guidance at the newly-built Kwangchon Chicken
Farm in January 2024. - Kim Jong Un attends the groundbreaking ceremony for the third-stage project of
building 10 000 flats in the Hwasong area in February 2024. - Kim Jong Un shovels the first spadeful of earth at the groundbreaking ceremony
for regional-industry factories in Songchon County in February 2024. - Kim Jong Un gives on-site guidance at the regional-industry factories in
Kimhwa County in February 2024. - Kim Jong Un looks round the Kangdong Combined Greenhouse Farm in March
2024. - Kim Jong Un blesses the working people, who are to move into new houses, at
the inauguration ceremony of the 10 000 flats at the second stage in the Hwasong
area in April 2024. - Kim Jong Un cuts the tape at the inauguration ceremony of Jonwi Street in May
2024. - Kim Jong Un gives on-site guidance over construction of the city of Samjiyon in
July 2024. - Kim Jong Un gives on-site guidance over the preparation for construction of the
Sinpho City Offshore Farm in July 2024. - Kim Jong Un presides over a consultative meeting for regional development
work in August 2024. - Kim Jong Un poses for a photograph in September 2024 with the footballers and
coaches who won the 2024 FIFA U-20 Women’s World Cup. - Kim Jong Un gives on-site guidance at the construction sites of the regionalindustry
factories in Jaeryong County in November 2024. - Kim Jong Un looks round the regional-industry factories in Songchon County in
December 2024. - Kim Jong Un cuts the tape at the inauguration ceremony of the Sinpho City
Offshore Farm in December 2024. - Kim Jong Un looks round the major service facilities in the Kalma Coastal
Resort in December 2024. - Kim Jong Un commands in July 2024 an operation for rescuing and evacuating
the people in the disaster-stricken and disaster-predicted areas in the city of
Sinuiju and Uiju County, North Phyongan Province, that suffered torrential
downpours. - Kim Jong Un looks round the flooded areas in North Phyongan Province in July
2024. - Kim Jong Un presides over the 22nd emergency enlarged meeting of the Political
Bureau of the Eighth Central Committee of the Workers’ Party of Korea in July
2024.
The meeting adopted with unanimous approval the resolution On Rapidly Repairing
the Flood Damage in North Phyongan and Jagang Provinces. - Kim Jong Un meets and consoles the flood victims living temporarily in tents in
August 2024. - Kim Jong Un warmly greets at their lodgings the people from the flood-stricken
areas in North Phyongan, Jagang and Ryanggang provinces, who have arrived in
Pyongyang, in August 2024. - Kim Jong Un acquaints himself with the preparations for education of students
from the flood-stricken areas at the April 25 Hostel in August 2024. - Kim Jong Un gives on-site guidance over rehabilitation of flood-stricken areas in
North Phyongan Province in September 2024. - Kim Jong Un gives on-site guidance at a project site for rehabilitation of floodstricken
areas in Jagang Province in October 2024. - Kim Jong Un looks round a cultured rural dwelling district built in an afflicted
area in North Phyongan Province in December 2024. - Kim Jong Un makes a congratulatory visit to the Ministry of National Defence
on the occasion of army founding day in February 2024. - Kim Jong Un gives on-site guidance at Kim Jong Il Military and Political
Academy, the highest institute of military education in the country, in April 2024. - Kim Jong Un makes a congratulatory visit to the Academy of Defence Sciences
on the occasion of its 60th founding anniversary in May 2024. - Kim Jong Un inspects O Jin U Artillery Academy in September 2024.
- Kim Jong Un delivers a speech during his congratulatory visit to Kim Jong Un
University of National Defence on the occasion of its 60th founding anniversary in
October 2024. - Kim Jong Un delivers a speech On the Prevailing Situation and the Tasks of
the Battalion Commanders and Political Instructors of the Armed Forces of
the Republic in front of those attending the Fourth Conference of the Battalion
Commanders and Political Instructors of the Korean People’s Army in November
2024. - Kim Jong Un inspects a major operational training base in a western area in March
2024. - Kim Jong Un guides an artillery firing drill of large combined units of the Korean
People’s Army in March 2024. - Kim Jong Un guides a training match between the large combined tankmen’s units
of the Korean People’s Army in March 2024. - Kim Jong Un guides training of air-borne units of the Korean People’s Army in
March 2024. - Kim Jong Un inspects the training base of a special operations unit of the Korean
People’s Army in a western area in October 2024. - Kim Jong Un gives on-site guidance at a major TEL factory in January 2024.
- Kim Jong Un guides the test-firing of submarine-launched strategic cruise missile in
January 2024. - Kim Jong Un guides the evaluation test-firing of surface-to-sea missile Padasuri-6
in February 2024. - Kim Jong Un guides a ground jet test of a solid-fuelled engine for a new-type
hypersonic intermediate-range missile in March 2024. - Kim Jong Un guides the first test-firing of Hwasongpho-16-Na, a new-type solidfuelled
IRBM loaded with newly-developed hypersonic glide vehicle in April 2024. - Kim Jong Un guides the first combined tactical drill simulating a nuclear
counterattack in April 2024. - Kim Jong Un oversees the test-firing of tactical ballistic missile, which employed a
new autonomous navigation system, in May 2024. - Kim Jong Un guides a power demonstration firing of 600mm-calibre super-large
multiple rocket sub-units in May 2024. - Kim Jong Un delivers a speech at the ceremony of transferring and receiving
new-type tactical ballistic missile system in August 2024. - Kim Jong Un oversees the evaluation test-firing of 240mm-calibre MRLS under
production at defence industrial enterprises in August 2024. - Kim Jong Un guides on the spot the test-firing of latest-type ICBM Hwasongpho-19
in October 2024. - Kim Jong Un guides on the spot the performance test of suicide attack drones of
various types, produced by the Unmanned Aeronautical Technology Complex, in
November 2024. - Kim Jong Un delivers a speech at the opening ceremony of the Military
Hardware Exhibition Defence Development-2024 in November 2024. - Kim Jong Un, President of the State Affairs of the Democratic People’s Republic
of Korea, warmly receives Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin, President of the Russian
Federation, in June 2024. - Kim Jong Un holds talks with Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin in June 2024.
- Kim Jong Un and Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin sign the Treaty on
Comprehensive Strategic Partnership between the Democratic People’s Republic of
Korea and the Russian Federation in June 2024. - Kim Jong Un awards Kim Il Sung Order, the highest order of the DPRK, to
Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin in June 2024. - Kim Jong Un enjoys an artistic performance with Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin in
June 2024. - Kim Jong Un gives a warm send-off to Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin in June 2024.
- Inauguration ceremony of the 10 000 flats at the second stage in the Hwasong
area in April 2024 - Jonwi Street inaugurated in May 2024
- New houses built at the Tongnae Farm in Phanmun District, Kaesong
- Houses newly built in the Yombunjin Coastal Park area
- Tens of thousands of families moved into new houses in over a hundred cities and
counties in 2024. - Kwangchon Chicken Farm inaugurated in January 2024
- Kangdong Combined Greenhouse Farm inaugurated in March 2024
- Regional-industry factories in Songchon County inaugurated in December 2024
- Newly built regional-industry factories in Jaeryong County
- Newly built regional-industry factories in Sukchon County
- Newly built regional-industry factories in Unpha County
- Newly built regional-industry factories in Kyongsong County
- Newly built regional-industry factories in Unchon County
- Sinpho City Offshore Farm inaugurated in December 2024
- Inauguration ceremony of an energy-saving oxygen blast furnace held at the
Hwanghae Iron and Steel Complex in December 2024 - Kosong Army-People Power Station in Kangwon Province
- Sariwon Tractor Parts Factory
- Scientific farming methods brought about a rich harvest in the agricultural sector.
- Inauguration ceremony of Songga Senior Middle School in Kangdong County held
in November 2024 - Renovated Hamhung Choe Hui Suk Teachers Training College
- Newly built Jagang Provincial Medical Oxygen Factory
- Riding club newly built in Kanggye, Jagang Province
- Footballers of the DPRK who won the 2024 FIFA U-20 Women’s World Cup
- Footballers of the DPRK who won the 2024 FIFA U-17 Women’s World Cup
- Artistic performance is given at the May Day Stadium in Pyongyang, the capital
of the DPRK, to see in the hopeful new year 2025


