On October 12, a solemn reception hosted by the Embassy of the Russian Federation in the DPRK on the occasion of the 74th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between our countries was held at the Taedongan Diplomatic Club in Pyongyang.

The DPRK embassy in Moscow gave a reception on October 11 to mark the 74th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic ties between the DPRK and the Russian Federation.

The Ryonpho Greenhouse Farm, a large-scale vegetable producer, was wonderfully completed on the occasion of the significant 77th founding anniversary of the Workers’ Party of Korea. The project was set as a top priority task in the construction policy of the Party and the state for this year and has been successfully promoted under the energetic leadership of the great Party Central Committee regarding it as a top and absolute priority to promote the wellbeing of the people.

A grand inauguration ceremony was held on October 10.

The units of the Korean People's Army (KPA) for the operation of tactical nukes staged military drills from September 25 to October 9 in order to check and assess the war deterrent and nuclear counterattack capability of the country, which comes to be a severe warning to the enemies.

There were the striking drills of long-range artillery sub-units on the front and flying corps of the Korean People's Army (KPA) on Oct. 6 and 8 according to the decision of the Central Military Commission of the Workers' Party of Korea to stage military exercises for neutralizing the enemy's provocation to cope with the grave situation in the Korean Peninsula.

A test-fire of long-range strategic cruise missiles was successfully conducted on October 12 amid powerful practical measures being taken to signally bolster up the national war deterrent as required by the prevailing situation and revolution.

Kim Jong Un, General Secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK) and Chairman of the Central Military Commission of the WPK, guided the military drills on the spots.

Members of the Party Central Military Commission watched the drills.

There were referendums in the People's Republic of Donetsk, the People's Republic of Lugansk and Regions of Kherson and Zaporozhye from Sept. 23 to 27. They were held in keeping with the UN Charter specifying the principles of the equality of peoples and their right to self-determination and according to legitimate methods and procedures so that the will of the residents of the two republics and the two regions could be fully reflected. An overwhelming majority of the voters supported the integration into Russia.

On September 19, students of the Diplomatic Academy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation visited a large exhibition dedicated to the development of Russian-Korean relations, the achievements of socialist construction in the DPRK and Korean national art.

Kim Jong Un, General Secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK) and President of the State Affairs of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), sent a message of greeting to Xi Jinping, General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC) and President of the People's Republic of China (PRC), on October 1.

A photo exhibition and a meeting took place at the DPRK embassy in Moscow on August 18 to mark the 20th anniversary of Chairman Kim Jong Il's historic visit to the Far Eastern Region of the Russian Federation.

The law of the Supreme People's Assembly of the DPRK on the state policy on the nuclear forces was promulgated on September 8.

Today when a dynamic struggle for opening up a new phase of development of our style of socialism is being waged, the comprehensive building of a counter-crisis capability to prevent various types of disasters threatening the prosperity of the state and the wellbeing of the people presents itself as a very urgent task.

A meeting of reviewing the state's disaster prevention work was held from September 4 to 5 in Pyongyang, the capital city of the DPRK, to examine the country's overall situation for disaster prevention and take decisive measures for strengthening the crisis response capacity.