Based on my very good relationship with Kim Jong Un, of North Korea, I am not happy with the fact that the United States has, long ago, agreed to participate in Joint Military Exercises with South Korea. These exercises are not only costly, with much of these costs paid for by the United States of America (as usual!), but send a signal that is totally inappropriate and hostile, to a Country that, as long as Donald J. Trump has been President, has been unthreatening and respectful. Therefore, and based on the fact that it is too late to cancel, I have instructed Secretary of War, Pete Hegseth, to substantially reduce the Joint Military Exercises! While somewhat unrelated (?), I recently asked the President of South Korea if they would like to join us in the Denuclearization of the Islamic Republic of Iran, and they said, “No thanks!” Thank you for your attention to this matter. President DONALD J. TRUMP

https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/117107215379637520

https://nitter.net/RapidResponse47/status/2089099940328796395#m

https://www.reuters.com/world/china/trump-instructs-pentagon-reduce-military-exercises-with-south-korea-2026-08-16/

Respected Comrade Kim Jong Un Enjoys Circus of National Acrobatic Troupe Celebrating 81st Anniversary of National Liberation

Pyongyang, August 17 (KCNA) -- A circus of the National Acrobatic Troupe celebrating the 81st anniversary of national liberation was given at the Pyongyang Circus Theatre on August 16, amid joy and excitement of the people in the DPRK greeting the significant day when their great motherland newly emerged with pride.

Respected Comrade 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, enjoyed the performance.

When Comrade Kim Jong Un appeared in the auditorium amid the playing of welcome music, the participants raised stormy cheers of "Hurrah!"

On the occasion of the 81st anniversary of national liberation, Comrade Kim Jong Un extended warm congratulations to all the people and the servicepersons who are creating a new era of comprehensive development with boundless love for their precious and sacred country and confidence and optimism about their cause.

Among the audience were members of the Presidium of the Political Bureau of the WPK Central Committee and other senior Party and government officials, children of anti-Japanese revolutionary martyrs and anti-Japanese patriotic martyrs, teaching staff and students of revolutionary schools, officials of ministries and national agencies and armed forces organs, and officials and labor innovators of industrial establishments and youth and students in Pyongyang.

The national anthem of the DPRK was played.

Put on the stage were colorful numbers including physical acrobatics "Wire-rope Walking" and "Fly Higher" which won top prizes at international circus festivals.

The elegant folk acrobatic works and refined numbers of high technique, full of deep emotion and vibrant vitality, showed well the appearance of the DPRK's acrobatic art blooming and developing day by day.

The peculiar pieces given by a juggler familiar with the people made the audience imbued with the world of mysterious jugglery.

The performance was acclaimed by the audience as it drew out excitement, admiration and cheerful laughter.

Expressing great satisfaction over the acrobats' successful performance, Comrade Kim Jong Un warmly congratulated them.

He met creative workers, artistes and officials of the National Acrobatic Troupe who added to joy and optimism on the National Liberation Day through their excellent performance.

Saying that the troupe is an authoritative art organization as it has glorified the honor and prestige of the country while being loved by the people through creation of world-famous acrobatic works and active performance activities for over 70 years, he highly appreciated the merits of the creative workers and artistes of the troupe who have contributed to the development of socialist culture with influence peculiar to the acrobatic art.

Expressing belief and expectation that the creative workers and artistes of the troupe would create and perform more excellent acrobatic pieces, welcomed by the times and the people, by giving full play to their extraordinary creative talents, high skill and patriotic enthusiasm and thus usher in a new heyday of development of the acrobatic art, he had a photo taken with them. -0-

http://kcna.kp/en/article/detail/b49d81959591f3ff511d538224427505

https://archive.is/oHI6M

Russian Sailing Ship Arrives at Wonsan Port in DPRK

Pyongyang, August 16 (KCNA) -- The sailors and trainees of the Russian sailing ship for educational practice Palada arrived at Wonsan Port on August 15 to pay a goodwill visit to the city of Wonsan on the occasion of the 81st anniversary of national liberation.

They were greeted by officials of the Kangwon Provincial People's Committee, officials concerned, the charge d'affaires ad interim and officials of the Russian embassy here, and the president of the Far-Eastern State University of Fishery Technique. -0-

http://kcna.kp/en/article/detail/491b887d5257023178663ba32c5e5e4d

https://archive.is/udmS5

Sailors of Russian Sailing Ship Place Flower Basket at Statues of Great Leaders

Pyongyang, August 16 (KCNA) -- The members of the Russian sailing ship for educational practice Palada laid a flower basket at the statues of President Kim Il Sung and Chairman Kim Jong Il in the city of Wonsan on August 15.

They placed a flower basket at the statues of the great leaders who made an immortal contribution to the development of the DPRK-Russia friendly ties, and bowed to them. -0-

http://kcna.kp/en/article/detail/156286c529efd02641359bca25c0f667

https://archive.is/JAkse

U.S. New Nuclear Strategy Is Serious Threat to Push Global Security Environment to Threshold of Nuclear War: Military Commentator

Pyongyang, August 14 (KCNA) -- A military commentator made public the following article "The U.S. new nuclear strategy is a serious threat to push global security environment to the threshold of a nuclear war" on August 13:

The U.S. moves for nuclear hegemony aimed at gaining the absolute superiority in strength has entered a new dangerous stage. This is giving a rise to concern and vigilance among the international community.

According to a foreign report, the present U.S. administration has begun to draw up a new nuclear strategy intended to lower the threshold for nuclear use.

At a recent closed-door consultative meeting of the U.S. strategic command, the under secretary for policy affairs of the U.S. Defense Department asserted that the U.S. needs a reasonable nuclear option while discussing the small tactical nuclear weapons and regional war issue.

Commenting on it, the media and experts said that the present U.S. administration has started to map out a new nuclear strategy with the emphasis on the expansion of its capacity of launching an attack with tactical nuclear weapons in order to cope with the potential regional disputes with China and Russia.

This shows that the U.S. nuclear strategy is offensively turning into the one for using nukes in real war from so-called one for deterrence.

All the successive U.S. administrations examined their nuclear strategies on a regular basis, but the attempt to work out a new nuclear strategy clearly proves how adventurous and serious the U.S. moves for maintaining the nuclear hegemony are.

Given the fact that the U.S. has the world's biggest arsenal of nuclear weapons, we should not overlook the destructive aftereffects of the new nuclear strategy of the present U.S. administration on the global nuclear balance and security environment.

The U.S., the only country in the world which used nuclear weapons, has persistently sought to modernize nuclear forces rapidly and use nukes in a real war, regarding nuclear weapons as a main means for attaining hegemonic and aggressive political and military purposes for a long time.

In the nuclear posture review issued in 2018, the U.S. announced that it would launch the modernization of strategic nuclear forces and the development of the low-yield nuclear weapons and the condition of using nukes is also applicable to the case of being attacked by conventional weapons.

Accordingly the U.S. is busy upgrading the three nuclear strategy assets , including the development and production of the Columbia-class strategic nuclear submarine, the new-type ICBM LGM-35A Sentinel and the 6th-generation nuclear strategic bomber B-21 Radar. And it is putting spurs to deploy the low-yield nuclear warhead W76-2 and the tactical nuclear bomb B61-12 for action.

Shortly ago the U.S. announced that it would enable 19 new Virginia-class attack nuclear submarines to carry guided missiles and make them carry more missiles. This means the U.S. is going to sharply increase the operational capability of its nuclear forces.

The U.S. is also spending enormous funds on modernizing its overseas military bases in order to deploy more tactical nuclear weapons in NATO allies of Europe.

In particular, the U.S. is pressing ahead with its moves to carry out the first test fire of the new missile defense shield Golden Dome within this year as part of its hegemonic space arms buildup.

All the facts prove that the U.S. new nuclear strategy aimed at facilitating the use of nukes in a real war has already entered the implementation stage before its announcement.

Explicitly speaking, the U.S. new nuclear doctrine is a serious dangerous factor as it destroys the nuclear balance in the world, escalates a nuclear arms race and drives global security environment into the threshold of a nuclear war.

It is crystal clear that its new nuclear strategy will most adversely affect the security environment in the Asia-Pacific region where there are many nuclear weapons states.

After making it a fait accompli to unleash a nuclear war against the DPRK, the U.S. has drawn up nuclear operation guidelines in collusion with the ROK, held regular meetings of Nuclear Consultative Group and promised that it would provide Japan with extended deterrence including nuclear weapons.

It predicts that the first target of the new nuclear strategy may be the Korean peninsula.

The reality goes to prove that to overwhelmingly raise the level of versatility, functionality and practicability of the nuclear forces in the direction of more faithfully carrying out two missions of deterrence and retaliation, war prevention and war fighting serves as the best action option to maintain the balance of strength with the enemy states and ensure our state's security right and regional peace.

The most powerful offensive power is the most reliable defense capacity.

We will as ever steadily expand and strengthen the nuclear deterrent for self-defence capable of completely frustrate any nuclear threats and make the enemy states realize the catastrophic consequences to be entailed by their adventurous option against the DPRK.

The U.S. new nuclear strategy will never produce the security interests it calculated. -0-

http://kcna.kp/en/article/detail/a2795aefd7c2d968fe979d2f643e02e1

https://archive.is/YRuZg

Press Statement of Spokesperson for DPRK Foreign Ministry

Pyongyang, August 14 (KCNA) -- The spokesperson for the Foreign Ministry of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea released the following press statement on August 13:

The U.S. and the ROK announced that they would stage the large-scale joint military exercises Ulji Freedom Shield from August 17.

The exercises are expected to involve tens of thousands of troops and combat equipment, including forces of the U.S., the ROK and member states of the "UN Command", and field maneuvers such as Warrior Shield and various drills for real war simulating the environments for the ultra-modern operations like drone, electronic and cyber warfare.

The U.S. announced that the forthcoming exercises are quite different from the ones of the past five years and intended to master the ability of fighting a war on the basis of the new aspects of modern warfare. By doing so, it did not conceal its aim to complete preparations for the substantial military confrontation with the DPRK.

This is tantamount to an admission that the exercises, which the U.S. and the ROK describe as "annual" and "defensive" ones, are a rehearsal for an aggressive war.

Furthermore, the exercises are going to be staged again at a time when military and political situation is becoming more serious with each passing day in Europe, the Middle East and other parts of the world and the U.S. abuse of strength has become part of its daily routine. They are incurring the instability in the Korean peninsula and other regional countries, which is more serious than before.

The coordination of the U.S. forces' offensive posture which has begun in earnest across the world, the expansion of strategic flexibility by the U.S. forces in the ROK which is getting serious as part of it, the U.S.-Japan-ROK tripartite military cooperation system which is turning into a nuclear alliance and the strengthening of the military muscle by Japan and the ROK more clearly show how dangerous the said exercises involving all the military assets and war-fighting modes of the U.S. and the ROK are.

The enemy states' exercises for an aggressive war which have more serious provocative nature and dangerousness than last year are posing a grave threat to security sphere of our state and regional security environment.

The U.S. can never succeed in its attempt to seize military hegemony again and rebuild the unilateral threatening structure, which becomes an irreversible thing of the past in the Korean peninsula, by steadily replacing the old war scenario with a new one and holding rehearsals.

It is our consistent principle of ensuring security to respond to a new level of a threat with a new level of a deterrent.

The DPRK remains steadfast in its will to frustrate outsiders' hostile acts with the most powerful and overwhelming force and absolutely defend the supreme interests of the state security.

The DPRK will not tolerate the grave confrontational situation which is being created by the enemy states but more clearly express its stance on the enemies to cope with any threats and challenges through the responsible and decisive exercise of the right to legitimate self-defense. -0-

http://kcna.kp/en/article/detail/32147322f6e646b505576c1128a81082

https://archive.is/RMizt

US President Donald Trump secretly switched from Air Force One to a smaller US military aircraft after leaving last month’s NATO summit in Ankara, Turkey, in an operation reportedly prompted by an “Iranian threat,” American outlets say.

According to a report by The Washington Post on Monday, Trump initially boarded an older-model Air Force One in Ankara in view of television cameras, while journalists and some White House staff members believed he would travel aboard the aircraft to Royal Air Force Mildenhall in the United Kingdom.

The Post cited material reviewed by the newspaper, a US official familiar with the operation, and another person with knowledge of Trump’s travel.

Secret aircraft switch

Minutes after boarding Air Force One, however, Trump and several aides were moved to a smaller Air Force C-32A, using an airport catering truck normally used to transport meals and supplies, the report added.

The truck was raised planeside and positioned at a door on the opposite side of the aircraft's main entrance.

The reporters, who believed they were traveling with Trump, were instructed to lower their window shades before takeoff. Trump then flew to Mildenhall aboard the C-32A.

The operation came as US forces were conducting large-scale unprovoked attacks on Iran.

The attacks breached both a ceasefire and a subsequent memorandum of understanding, which were meant to halt the cycle of escalation triggered by the American-Israeli aggression launched against Iran on February 28.

As Trump visited Turkey, the Iranian armed forces were delivering a firm retaliatory response to the violations by striking American interests in the region.

The New York Times and CBS News have previously reported that US intelligence officials had raised concerns at the time about a potential operation against Trump or his aircraft.

After arriving at Mildenhall, Trump was photographed disembarking from the presidential aircraft before boarding a new Qatar-provided plane for the remainder of his journey to Washington.

the wapo article https://archive.is/pJotY

Japan's Defense White Paper Is Reinvasion-minded One for Legalization of Operation of War Machine: International Security Analyst

Pyongyang, August 11 (KCNA) -- Kang Won Chol, an international security analyst of the DPRK, issued the following article "Japan's defense white paper is a reinvasion-minded one for the legalization of the operation of war machine":

Japan has been rushing headlong into militarization, seized with an ambition for reinvasion. Against this backdrop, it issued the 2026 Defense White Paper.

In the white paper, being rejected as the one for aggression at home and abroad, Japan groundlessly described the DPRK and other neighboring countries as a "serious and imminent threat" and the "greatest strategic challenge" in order to justify its reckless arms buildup.

It is nothing but an act of turning black into white that Japan stipulated the "threat" from neighboring countries in the white paper although it has been putting spurs to the tightening of the alliance with the U.S. and its followers after setting it as a "state policy" to negate its past crimes and realize its ambition to become a military power.

As everybody knows, Japan, a war criminal state responsible for inflicting a great disaster upon the humankind in the first half of the 20th century, refuses to discard the militarist ambition for reinvasion in the face of all the political and legal restrictions, and have been heading for its conversion into a military power out of vengeance for its defeat for over 80 years. This poses an imminent and serious threat to the world at present.

Following the publication of the white paper, Defence Minister Koizumi stressed the need to beef up and renovate the military muscle with a sense of urgency and crisis in response to the escalating threats from the neighboring countries. This clearly shows how desperately he is pushing Japan into following an extremely dangerous road in the vanguard for militarization.

The reality proves that Japan's political climate and true colors characterized by an aggression gene remain unchanged and mutate into more dangerous forms with each passing day.

No matter how hard Japan tries to describe its real intention for aggression as "defense", it will never conceal its true colors as a root cause of endangering the peace and escalating the tensions in the region.

To build up in every way an overwhelming and powerful war deterrent for self-defence capable of containing and frustrating the enemy states' ambition for reinvasion and their attempt to unleash an aggressive war serves as an indispensable contribution to reliably defending the sovereignty of the country and maintaining the regional peace and stability.

Japan's frantic moves to turn itself into a war state and invasion-minded state will only further endanger Japan's future.

The international community should sharpen vigilance against Japan's neo-militarist move to seriously destroy the regional peace and security and turn itself into a more dangerous entity each day, and strongly condemn and reject it. -0-

http://kcna.kp/en/article/detail/d242566fdde21fbd57ee9c6a064fd74b

https://archive.is/WObjF

It was first reported that Asmongold was banned on August 6. He uploaded a video to youtube ~5 hours ago saying that his ban will last for 2 weeks. The youtube video has around 1 million views.

Pyongyang Hosiery Factory

Pyongyang, August 6 (KCNA) -- Choljuk-trademarked hosiery are popular among the DPRK people.

The hosiery produced by the Pyongyang Hosiery Factory are quality and smart. They are diverse in variety and shape.

The factory, which plays a big role in the production of consumer goods, is associated with the guidance of respected Comrade General Secretary Kim Jong Un who has worked heart and soul to provide the people with better daily necessities.

On August 6, 2014, he visited the Pyongyang Hosiery Factory and taught the issues arising in improving the quality of goods including the betterment of colors and patterns of hosiery as required by developing reality and the tastes of people, and in putting production on a normal basis.

The factory designed hundreds of kinds of hosiery suited to the tastes, likings and the characteristics of seasons, sexes and ages and perfected rational methods of dyeing different fibers, thus making the products diverse and multicolored.

It has developed and produced tens of kinds of hosiery like functional hosiery with strong antibiosis and good for absorption and exhalation of sweat. The number of expanded varieties reached more than 300 this year.

Choljuk-trademarked hosiery attracted attention of many people at the 16th Commodity Exhibition at Pyongyang Department Store No. 1 and the light industrial goods exhibition "Development of Light Industry-2025". And various products and production processes were registered as February 2 Goods and won the certification of quality control system.

The factory was selected as one of the ten best enterprises in 2024 and 2025

It was awarded rotating pennants and citations several times as it fulfilled the yearly national economic plans. -0-

http://kcna.kp/en/article/detail/dcb8f52637680b002e34635d6bcbc0de

https://archive.is/xjgQr

Hexbear users tend to like DPRK, Democratic People's Republic of Korea, or North Korea. Pyongyang is the capital city of DPRK.

DPRK is heavily sanctioned and censored by the West. There is a lot of misinformation spread about DPRK, sometimes positive, sometimes negative. An example of positive misinformation would be all the twitter accounts making up fake Kim Jong Un quotes.

DPRK is communist and practices Juche.

There are websites hosted in DPRK that are accessible internationally. DPRK owns the .kp TLD. Every website that ends with .kp is hosted in DPRK.

Linking directly to websites hosted in DPRK could demystify the western perspective of DPRK. To combat western narratives, all posts on the comm should contain a link to a .kp website or archive of a .kp website.

The concept of the comm is simple. Visit a DPRK website, find something you like, post the link to the page on hexbear. Optionally screenshot the page or archive it with an archive website.

Hexbear has a China comm, so why not have a DPRK comm?

here's a current list of DPRK websites. https://archive.is/RT91h

These webpages tend to post new stuff daily, so the comm would never run out of content.