14-15 February
New Year's Day

16 February
Birthday of Kim Jong Il (1942), General Secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea and Chairman of the National Defence Commission

15 April
Birthday of President Kim Il Song (1912), founding father of the DPRK and eternal president.  Also now known as the Sun's Day

16 April
Second day of the holiday commemorating the birth of President Kim Il Sung

25 April                    
Day commemorating the founding of the Korean People's Army

1 May                    
International Labour Day

27 July                    
Holiday

15 August                    
Liberation Day, celebrating the country's liberation from Japanese rule in 1945

9 September                    
Anniversary of the founding of the DPRK in 1948

22 September                    
Chuseok

10 October                    
Anniversary of the founding of the Workers' Party of Korea in 1945

27 December                    
Anniversary of the promulgation of the Socialist Constitution of the DPRK in 1972

Lunar Holidays

The DPRK sometimes also designates as public holidays some of the festivals which are celebrated in other parts of Asia, based on the lunar calendar.  These include the lunar New Year, and the mid-autumn harvest moon festival ("chuseok").