North Korean leader Kim Jong-un attended a ceremony in Pyongyang marking the 53rd anniversary of the country's Socialist Constitution. The event at Mansudae Assembly Hall featured a national flag-raising and oath-taking, where Kim took a commemorative oath. He praised participants for making this year a pivotal moment in North Korea's development.
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un attended a national flag-raising and oath-taking ceremony at the Mansudae Assembly Hall in Pyongyang on December 27, 2025, to mark Constitution Day, according to the North's official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA). The event commemorates the promulgation of the Socialist Constitution on the same date in 1972, which North Korea observes annually as a national holiday.
Kim took a commemorative oath for Constitution Day, followed by participants who pledged to "dedicate themselves ... by always remaining faithful to promoting the people's well-being and the growth and development of the state," KCNA reported. The leader commended invited labor innovators and meritorious persons, describing this year as "one of a great turn to be specially recorded in the history of the development" of North Korea.
"The country is prospering and our cause is dynamically advancing without a moment's stagnation, thanks to the well-known and unsung patriots who devote their diligent and sincere efforts to the work at their workplaces and posts," Kim said, as quoted by KCNA. He added that the government "firmly believe in and exclusively rely on high patriotic enthusiasm of the people in the historic struggle for the overall development of socialist construction."
Kim expressed hope that attendees would continue to "creditably play their role as the vanguard and standard-bearers of the times." Among the invitees were female footballers and coaches who won the 2025 FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup earlier that year; Kim personally met them and wished them greater successes in the future.
The ceremony underscores North Korea's emphasis on socialist ideology and national progress amid ongoing internal developments.
