Evening Gala of Youth and Students Held to Celebrate Founding Anniversary of WPK

Pyongyang, October 11 (KCNA) -- Youth and students in the DPRK had an evening gala at Kim Il Sung Square in the capital city of Pyongyang on October 10, the 81st anniversary of the founding of the Workers' Party of Korea.

The evening gala began amid the playing of the song "Mother's Birthday".

Youth and students danced to the tune of the song, extending the highest glory to respected fatherly Marshal Kim Jong Un who is developing the WPK into the powerful guiding force of the Juche revolution and the genuine motherly party which is responsible for the destiny of the people and taking care of them with his outstanding and seasoned leadership.

The atmosphere of the evening gala was revved up when the song "Dear Father", a monumental hymn, resounded in the sky of the capital city, reflecting the ardent reverence for the respected fatherly Marshal who is bringing happiness and joy of the great socialist family into full bloom with boundless love and devotion.

Gorgeous fireworks were displayed over the sky of the capital city.

The song "Do Prosper, My Motherland" and other songs resounded at the venue of the gala, reflecting the firm pledge of the passionate young people to always straight forward, following the Party, and faithfully uphold the cause of the Party in the van.

The evening gala of youth and students vividly showed the revolutionary enthusiasm and will of the new generation to fully demonstrate their noble honor as the young vanguard of the Workers' Party of Korea in the struggle for paving a wide avenue to national prosperity. -0-

http://kcna.kp/en/article/detail/9217ba8be22948df8af8413177da4440 (6 images, all uploaded to hb)

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Women's Ice Hockey Match Marks 81st Founding Anniversary of WPK

Pyongyang, October 10 (KCNA) -- A women's ice hockey match between Taesongsan team and Pyongyang Railway Bureau team took place at the Ice Rink on October 9 to mark the 81st anniversary of the founding of the Workers' Party of Korea.

Among the spectators were Pak Thae Song, member of the Presidium of the Political Bureau of the C.C., WPK and premier of the Cabinet of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, and other senior Party and government officials, leading officials of sports events sponsoring organizations, labor innovators, famous sportspersons, teachers and researchers of party-cadre training institutions and Pyongyang citizens.

That day the Taesongsan team beat its rival 3:1.

The match added to the festive mood of the people celebrating the founding anniversary. -0-

http://kcna.kp/en/article/detail/066e7c48d8a748fc7d78366e0ab79e2f

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Performance Given to Celebrate 81st Founding Anniversary of WPK

Pyongyang, October 11 (KCNA) -- A celebration performance was given with splendor at the Pyongyang Indoor Stadium on Oct. 10, the 81st founding anniversary of the Workers' Party of Korea, now that the people's absolute confidence in the WPK, the great guide and invincible vanguard for the Juche revolution, is growing stronger along with the significant October holiday.

The WPK is ushering in an era of dignity and glory, a long-cherished desire of all generations of this land, while firmly preserving its revolutionary character and true nature, never to be found in other parts of the world, without any deviation and fading from the day when it solemnly declared its founding with the emblem representing the people embroidered on the red flag held aloft in Paektu. The venue of the performance was overflowing with deep reverence for the Party, alongside the audiences recollecting with deep emotion the sacred founding history of the Party and its immortal exploits.

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, watched the performance.

Stormy cheers of "Hurrah!" went up among the audiences paying the highest glory and respect to Comrade Kim Jong Un, the great leader of the ever-victorious WPK, who is representing the dignity and mightiness of the DPRK.

Comrade Kim Jong Un warmly waved back to the enthusiastically cheering crowds as a token of his congratulations to all the participants on the Party founding day.

Among the audience were members of the Presidium of the Political Bureau of the WPK Central Committee and other leading officials of the Party and the government, officials of the Party Central Committee, ministries, national agencies and armed forces organs, creators, artistes, youth and students and other citizens in Pyongyang.

Present there on invitation were diplomatic envoys and members of foreign missions here.

The performance began with prelude "Long Live the Workers' Party of Korea" and "Fly High, Our Party Flag". Put on the stage were all-people hymns to the WPK and patriotic songs, played in good artistic harmony with vocals, dance, acrobatics, gymnastics and military band's performance.

Enthusiastically singing the odes to the Party, produced by the sacred experiences of the people, the performers sang high praises of the glorious history and immortal exploits of the WPK that built on this land a dignified country, where people's dreams and ideals come true, and made great world-startling miracles and changes century after century, hewing the untrodden path of the socialist cause, arduous yet sacred, for over 80 years.

The audience fervently applauded the famous songs which made them feel proud of the greatness and mightiness of the WPK that has written the longest history as a ruling party in the world, fulfilling the most righteous mission and implementing the noble idea, reminding them of their great honor and fortune of having the wise political staff confidently steering our cause straight to victory.

Performers gave other colorful numbers representing the ardent desire and enthusiasm of the people determined to realize the far-reaching ambition for the comprehensive development of socialism, single-mindedly supporting their motherly Party.

The performance, which ended with the finale "The National Anthem of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea", added to the conviction and optimism that the path being taken by the DPRK is always the one of justice and truth and an immensely beautiful and bright future is in store for it as it is led by the great Party.

The performance was highly acclaimed by the audiences for the songs of undying faith and patriotism.

Expressing satisfaction at the successful performance, Comrade Kim Jong Un warmly waved back to the performers and audiences.

The performance added to the joy of all the people celebrating the birthday of the great motherly Party, the most sacred and glorious holiday. -0-

http://kcna.kp/en/article/detail/81d1cc992751a979ee10be7d5d14c786

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this is fox news reporting the rally appearance
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this article is about Mike Tyson hanging out with Trump earlier in the day.
https://thehill.com/policy/sports-gaming/6139732-mike-tyson-white-house-trump/

This 1 minute clip is based on real operations by churches in Texas to scare teenagers into being Christian during Halloween.

cw wikipedia article mentions themes of sexual assault.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hell_house

Press Statement of Spokesperson for DPRK Foreign Ministry

Pyongyang, October 10 (KCNA) -- A spokesperson for the Foreign Ministry of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea released the following press statement on Friday:

Recently the U.S. Department of State committed another grave politically-motivated provocation of malignantly slandering the DPRK through the "2026 Trafficking in Persons Report" which is full of lies, fabrications, prejudice and hostility.

This clearly proved once again the U.S. vicious and malicious intention to politicize and weaponize human rights and use them as the primary lever for its hostile policy toward the DPRK.

The Foreign Ministry of the DPRK brands the U.S. deceptive "report," which has nothing to do with genuine human rights as an intensive expression of the hostile policy encroaching upon the sovereignty and internal affairs of our state and hurting the rights and interests of our citizens, and denounces and rejects it in the strongest terms.

The U.S. "human rights" reports, which deviated from the basic principles of human rights and seriously distorted their core values, are nothing but false documents to justify interference in internal affairs and overthrow of social systems in other countries, and herein lies the moral and ethical vulgarity and problematic policy pursued by the U.S.

Human traffic has been an evil of American society for a long time, and it is also the U.S. "specialty" which is difficult to imitate.

The U.S. is the world's most heinous human-trafficker nation which is run and administered by a national flesh-traffic organization and is prospering thanks to it.

We will never regard the U.S. publication of the "report" as an annual and formal habitual practice, but as an unconditional and invariable continuation of the hostile policy toward the DPRK and as a nonstop confrontational attempt aimed at overthrowing the social system of the DPRK and disintegrating it from within.

The essence of the U.S. policy toward the DPRK is to obliterate our people's inalienable right to existence and development, and herein lies the main reason why we should concentrate our more efforts on building up powerful strength for defending our sovereignty.

The U.S. "human rights" racket against the DPRK, which poses a serious threat to the DPRK's sovereign rights and the rights and interests of its citizens, will be the first target of the toughest counteraction against the U.S. together with other hostile acts.

Falsehood has a short life and it cannot cover up the truth in any case.

The DPRK will redouble its practical efforts to neutralize the U.S. hostile acts, lay heavy responsibility on those who did malicious practices and implement justice through the most resolute and decisive action for defending its sovereignty and social system, uncompromising criterion of human rights. -0-

http://kcna.kp/en/article/detail/ed0e9aece7b4f6dce7fd1dc1dd644910

https://archive.is/gjOmu

https://x.com/NYCMayor/status/2108332127318073528#m

Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani

This afternoon in Marble Hill, a New Yorker was shot by an ICE agent in a residential neighborhood. Early reports indicate agents surrounded him and a 5-year-old child in his car before firing multiple rounds. We believe the child was physically unharmed.

This is an unconscionable and incredibly serious situation. I have called the President; when we speak I will demand that he ends all ICE enforcement actions in our city. I will not stand by while ICE agents terrorize our communities.

Our thoughts are with the injured New Yorker and his family tonight. We are praying for his recovery.

Get ICE out of our neighborhoods. Get ICE out of our hospitals. Get ICE off our streets. Get ICE away from our children.

Abolish ICE.

https://x.com/dhsgov/status/2108345517990129675

Department of Homeland Security

On October 8, at approximately 4:00 PM ET, ICE officers were conducting a targeted enforcement operation in the Bronx, New York, to arrest a criminal illegal alien from the Dominican Repubic with a prior criminal conviction for grand larceny, and multiple prior arrests for assault, robbery, possession of drugs, and weapons possession. He has associations to the Trinitarios gang. The same gang who brutally killed a CBP officer last year.

This criminal illegal alien was arrested by the NYPD on December 7, 2023, but was released into the community a few days later by reckless Democrat sanctuary policies that put American lives at risk.

During the incident, an ICE officer discharged his weapon and the criminal illegal alien was injured.

ICE officers immediately rendered aid. The individual is alive and at a local hospital. The FBI and HSI are on the scene. The incident remains under investigation. More information will be shared as it becomes available.

When dangerous illegal aliens are released back onto the streets by radical sanctuary politicians, our officers are forced to make arrests at large in the community in unpredictable and dangerous environments. Our officers should not have to risk their lives, and innocent Americans should not have to face unnecessary danger, because sanctuary politicians refuse to cooperate with federal law enforcement.

U.S. Is Acting Rashly: International Affairs Analyst

Pyongyang, October 7 (KCNA) -- Kim Myong Chol, an international affairs analyst of the DPRK, released the following article "The U.S. is acting rashly":

"Peace and stability of the Taiwan Strait" is something always repeated by the United States and its allies in the international arena.

However, the U.S. has systematically destroyed regional stability and persistently escalated the situation under the pretext of "opposing unilateral attempt at change of phenomenon" in the Taiwan Strait.

The emergence of fighter jets sold by the U.S. on the island of Taiwan a few days ago is another typical example of the U.S. "peculiar contribution" to "peace and stability" of the Taiwan Strait.

The U.S. says that the sale of weapons to Taiwan is for "peace in the strait", but this is nothing but a shameless act of planting a bomb at the gate of other's house and asserting that the bomb is for ensuring the security of the house.

When the People's Republic of China and the U.S. established their diplomatic relations, the latter recognized the government of the former as the only legitimate government of China and Taiwan as a part of the former. But the U.S. made it its policy and obligation to sell weapons to Taiwan, irrespective of the change of its administration, and has supported the separatist forces pursuing "Taiwan's independence" and challenging the "one-China" principle.

In the past decade alone, the cost of munitions supplied by the U.S. to Taiwan in the form of overseas arms sales totaled more than 39 billion US dollars. This includes 11 billion US dollars, the largest-ever arms sales approved by the present U.S. administration at the end of last year.

Not content with this, the U.S. has made it a fait accompli to additionally sell weapons worth 14 billion US dollars to Taiwan.

Herein lies the reason why peace and stability have not been restored in the Taiwan Strait for decades.

Recently, the U.S. proclaimed the first island chain including Taiwan as the forefront for suppressing China. It seeks to deploy the latest missiles on an island of Japan closest to Taiwan and "internationalize" the Taiwan issue by making its warships and aircraft pass through the Taiwan Strait under the signboard of "freedom of navigation".

This proves once again that "peace and stability of the Taiwan Strait" touted by the U.S. is, in essence, "support for Taiwan's power-based independence" and that the "one-China" policy advocated by it is nothing but the one for "perpetuating the division of China by force".

The Taiwan issue is an internal affair of China, so how to settle it is entirely the affair of the Chinese people, and no outside forces have the right to interfere in it.

Obviously, the U.S. did up the wrong button on the Taiwan issue and has taken again a dangerous course whose consequences are difficult to imagine.

Some American fighters to be deployed in Taiwan may be a comfort to the separatists for a while, but it cannot bridge the striking gap between the both sides in terms of capability.

No matter what method the Taiwanese separatists employ and what support the U.S. renders to Taiwan, it can neither deny the fact that Taiwan is a part of China nor influence the basic recognition of the international community that adheres to the principle of "one China".

The U.S. should think twice whether it is ready to stand in frontal confrontation with the powerful national power of the People's Republic of China for the security of Taiwan and whether it can cope with its consequences. If it is worried about the consequences, it had better think and act rationally.

Justice is not afraid of confrontation with injustice.

No one should question the ability and will of the People's Republic of China to defend its sovereignty, territorial integrity and core interests.

China's effort to retake Taiwan is an indispensable and just sacred cause for making abnormalities normality, making injustice justice and making instability stability. It is an irrefutable law-governed historical process that the island of Taiwan becomes a part of China again.

The instability of the Taiwan Strait precisely means the crisis of the United States. Taiwan's return to China is a matter of time. -0-

http://kcna.kp/en/article/detail/a76390ba490b00cd8a3da9998674ee93

https://archive.is/mZ3Uu

"Archaeopterix Coreanica"

Pyongyang, October 5 (KCNA) -- "Archaeopterix coreanica", registered as a natural monument, is on display at the Natural History Museum of Kim Il Sung University.

It was discovered in Paektho-dong, Sinuiju City, North Phyongan Province, the DPRK on March 10, 1989.

President Kim Il Sung was told that it is a progenitor bird fossil discovered in the stratum dating back about 150 million years. He named it "Korean archaeopteryx" and said that the excavation of the fossil shows that our country is the cradle of birds.

The fossil is composed of a skull, pterygoid, neck bone and feathers. The pterygoid has clear hook-shaped talons.

The Korean archaeopteryx with the most primitive shape of a bird clearly proves that the birds originated from the reptiles.

The age of the Korean archaeopteryx was most suitable for the birth and development of life. The fossil is of great significance in the study of biodiversity and ecological environment as it was unearthed with fossil fish, insects, pterodactyls and plants, etc. -0-

http://kcna.kp/en/article/detail/fe32c51f0f86d94c5f0d500e18d9f0b7

https://archive.is/o1azX

a couple snippets from the interview. the first snippet is about Tom Morelloa doing some concert to promote voting in the midterms. the second snippet is him saying that he didn't vote for Kamala because of her complicity in Gaza genocide, he doesn't use the word genocide.

https://archive.is/o6xOR

bold is interviewer, non-bold in tom

Is there an argument that people’s focus on Ed Sheeran is indeed a distraction from what they should be focusing on?

Yeah, 100 percent. It’s all right to shame him in this moment because he deserves the shame, but not the focus. The focus is your and my tax dollars are going to commit horrific war crimes in the Middle East, and that, I believe, should be the focus and what we should be doing our best to stop in its tracks.

It’s a clickbait, it’s salacious, it’s, “Oh my gosh, poor Ed Sheeran.” First of all, has Ed Sheeran never seen a Macklemore performance before in the last three years? He certainly should’ve known what he was getting into.

The one thing that’s sort of adjacent is, this is a time where speech is being vilified and is a crime, where the truth is a crime, where skin color is a crime, where immigrant status is a crime, where gender is a crime, where sexual orientation is a crime. And it’s my belief that the true crime is the rise of authoritarianism, and the true crime is the erosion of freedoms, and the true crime is an impending environmental disaster. And so my hope at each one of my shows, I deputize the audience as anti-fascist crime fighters, and that’s really the way that I think you have to look at the world right now. Like, what are the real crimes that are happening, and what is it that you and I can do to stop it?

Now that I’ve gotten you fired up — your Power to the People Festival. What is its most essential purpose?

It is not PR or hyperbole to say it is a festival of peace, love, justice, and music. In a time where war is celebrated, this is a festival of peace. In a time where hatred and division are rife, this is a festival of love. In a time where injustice is the norm, this is a festival celebrating fighting for justice. In a time where there’s a lot of shitty music, there’s gonna be a lot of great music on this stage, so we’re going for four for four.

How much were the midterms on your mind when you scheduled this?

As my dear departed mom, Mary Morello, who passed away at 102 years old, was a very political person, said, “You’ve got to fight the fascists every which way you can.” One of those ways is at the ballot box. It’s not the only way, and you should not just think that because you’ve done that. Voting is a piece on the chessboard, and that you try to create an environment where in between the voting you can fight for a more just, a more peaceful, a more equal world.

And so, is the festival three weeks before the midterms? Yeah. Does the money from the festival go to voting rights organizations? Yeah, it does, but the festival is about something much bigger than that. It’s about what kind of world do you really wanna live in, and should we fight for that world, or should we settle for the one that’s being spoon-fed for us by the oligarchs?

Returning as promised to the electoralism issue — there are some on the left who tend to argue it doesn’t matter, don’t bother voting, both sides are the same. So what would you say to someone on the left who says, “Listen, man, I listen to Rage Against the Machine, and I know everyone’s the same. It’s about tearing down the power structure. Doesn’t matter who you vote for. I’m not voting”?

On the one hand, I think that rebellion is self-care, in a way, but I answered that already. Mary Morello was 100 percent right. You have to stop the fascists every which way you can. First of all, a lot of people who I greatly respect and admire the sacrifice they’ve made to try to get people with my color skin to be able to vote in this country, and have died, been lynched for it, they’ve been shot in the back for it, and it’s very disrespectful to their memory to do that.

But that in and of itself is not going to change the levers of power in a significant way. It’s not. It’s not. You should do it. But it would be like, okay, great, you vote, and on the next day you start working. You start working harder for the world you really want without compromise and without apology. And not just putting in the hands of whatever corporate Democrat you choke down your vote for in that particular election, that it’s your job to make the world the way that you think it could be to help those that are the most in need and to hold those accountable who are most guilty.

Do you feel that people on the left should have voted for Kamala Harris?

I’m crystal clear that people’s conscience cannot allow them to do something that they fundamentally believe is wrong. I was the scheduling secretary for United States Senator Alan Cranston. I saw how the corporate Democrat sausage is made. It is worse than you think. And there is a reason, there is a righteous fury at the corporate controlled, money controlled electoral system we have that is absolutely legitimate, and people cannot choke down — I understand it — voting for a candidate that’s responsible for what happened in Gaza, and they just can’t do it, and I’m not gonna blame them for that.

But I think that putting it on them is the most cowardly thing. Put it on the fucking Democratic Party. First of all, I don’t believe it’s their responsibility and they’re never gonna necessarily never do the right thing, but I think it’s all of our responsibility to co-create the world that we want and not point fingers at people that were just like, “Well, you know, my conscience didn’t allow me to do that, so it’s your fault.” I will not co-sign that.

Did you vote for Kamala?

I certainly did not.

You did not?

Did not. I couldn’t do it.

I didn’t realize that.

V for Vendetta — that one inch of who you are belongs to you, and they can’t have it. Now, I live in a state where it may not have moved the meter, but I just couldn’t do it. Couldn’t do it.

When’s the last time that you didn’t vote for the Democratic candidate?

Can’t remember the last time I did.

Wow, okay. I thought you were softening a little bit.

Can’t remember the last time I did.