Kim Jong Un, General Secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea and President of the State Affairs of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, inspected the training base of the special operation units of the Korean People's Army (KPA) in the western area on October 2 to learn about the drills of combatants.

The DPRK team beat its Japanese rival in the finals of the 2024 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup held in Colombia and won the trophy.

On September 17, pagers exploded almost at the same time in the whole area of Lebanon, causing many casualties.

Kim Jong Un, General Secretary of the Workers’ Party of Korea and President of the State Affairs of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, on September 13 met Sergei Shoigu, Secretary of the Security Council of the Russian Federation, who was on a visit to the DPRK. 

• The Missile Administration of the DPRK successfully conducted test-fires of the new-type tactical ballistic missile Hwasongpho-11-Da-4.5 and an improved strategic cruise missile on Wednesday.
• The administration also conducted a test-fire of strategic cruise missile whose performance has been highly upgraded for its combat use.
• Kim Jong Un also oversaw several kinds of small arms including a 7.62 mm sniper rifle and a 5.56 mm automatic rifle developed by the Academy of Defence Sciences and set forth the orientation of production and the important tasks for further increasing technical foundation of the factory.

Kim Jong Un, General Secretary of the Workers’ Party of Korea and President of the State Affairs of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, on September 6 inspected O Jin U Artillery Academy, a pedigree establishment for training the backbone of the artillery force in the country.

In order to thoroughly implement the powerful army-building line and policy of the Workers’ Party of Korea, which has set it as an urgent task to bolster up the Juche-based naval force as required by the historic turning point in building up the country’s defence capabilities and the army, the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un made a field survey for the construction of a modern naval base and clarified the orientation and ways to this end.

Kim Jong Un, General Secretary of the Workers’ Party of Korea and President of the State Affairs of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, visited a defence industrial enterprise under the Second Economy Commission to learn about the production of military hardware.

Kim Jong Un, General Secretary of the Workers’ Party of Korea and President of the State Affairs of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, guided the shipbuilding on the spot.

Kim Jong Un, General Secretary of the Workers’ Party of Korea and President of the State Affairs of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, oversaw on August 27 a test-fire of the 240mm-calibre MRLS under production at defence industrial enterprises under the Second Economy Commission.

The Workers' Party of Korea, which set forth the grand national defence development strategy for accomplishing the cause of building a rich country with a strong army at its historic Eighth Congress, has dynamically guided its implementation, thus firmly defending and vigorously leading the grand all-people advance toward comprehensive national prosperity by dint of rapid modernization and super-strength of the armed forces of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.

On August 4 Kim Jong Un, General Secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea and President of the State Affairs of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, attended the ceremony of transferring and receiving new-type tactical ballistic missile system and made a speech.

The people’s Air Force of the Korean People’s Army perfectly carried out the special order of the Central Military Commission of the Workers’ Party of Korea by rapidly flying to the flooded areas in the northwestern part of North Phyongan Province and rescuing over 4 200 precious lives. The legendary feats of the courageous red flying corps of the Workers’ Party of Korea that displayed an indomitable fighting spirit are stirring the whole country.