North Korea s largest youth group drops late founder s name from title after 25 years
Posted : 2021-04-30 13:18
Updated : 2021-04-30 17:20
Members of the Kimilsungist-Kimjongilist Youth League clap as a flag bearing the group s new name, the Socialist Patriotic Youth League, is introduced during the group s 10th congress in Pyongyang, according to the Korean Central News Agency on Friday. Yonhap
North Korea dropped the name of late national founder Kim Il-sung from the title of its largest youth organization and put the word socialist back into the title, according to state media Friday, a move aimed at tightening ideological discipline of younger generations.
Kim Jong-un visits mausoleum to mark grandfather s birth anniversary
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Seoul: North Korean leader Kim Jong-un reviews the military units participating in the country s largest-ever live-fire drill to mark the 85th founding anniversary of its armed forces on April 25, 2017, in this photo released by the party organ Rodon. Image Source: IANS News
Seoul, April 16 : North Korean leader Kim Jong-un visited a mausoleum of his late grandfather and the country s founder, Kim Il-sung, on the occasion of the latter s birth anniversary, state media reported on Friday.
In its report Pyongyang s official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) said that Kim Jong-un and his wife, Ri Sol-ju, visited the Kumsusan Palace of the Sun on Thursday to mark Kim Il-sung s 109th birth anniversary.
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Di bat bien, ung van bien’ a phrase evoked by Ho Chi Minh in 1946 is the Vietnamese rendering of a Chinese maxim which may be translated ‘to respond to the changing with the unchanging’. This could sum up the essential lesson to be drawn from the 13th Congress of the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) held from 25 January to 1 February this year.
The Congress began with an upbeat tone. Vietnam has been lauded by the international community for its handling of the COVID-19 pandemic. With a population of 97 million people, Vietnam has only recorded 35 deaths. It seems to have done all the right things closing borders early, heavily controlling locally targeted confinements and maintaining transparency in its communication strategy to encourage patriotic behaviour to combat the virus. While the rest of Southeast Asia is in recession, Vietnam recorded a growth rate of 2.9 per cent in 2020.
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