At the Fifth Plenary Meeting of the Seventh Central Committee of the Workers’ Party of Korea held in December last year, Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un said that we should make a frontal breakthrough by dint of self-reliance to tide over the difficulties lying in the way of advance of socialist construction. The spirit of […]
July 11 is World Population Day. In November last year, a meeting on the population and development was held in Nairobi, Kenya. Many agreements were made at the meeting, including the specific plans for reducing the possibly preventive mortality rate of pregnant women and nursing mothers in all countries, fully meeting the demands of women […]
The lacquering art is the national craftwork indigenous to Korea which decorates various furniture and utensils by painting them with lacquer. It has such features as durability, purity and lustre for its peculiar material. Wood is mainly used as the groundwork material for lacquering, and sometimes metals and unglazed ceramics. It applies various decorating methods; […]
President Kim Il Sung established friendly relations with a number of foreigners and bestowed benevolence on them throughout his life. Among them was a Bulgarian woman named Vasilka Nikiforoba who rendered material aid and moral support to the Korean people during their hard-fought Fatherland Liberation War (June 1950 to July 1953). She wrote in her […]
Working people, service personnel of the People’s Army, youth and students visited the statues of the great leaders Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il in all parts of the country on July 8, the greatest national memorial day. Laid before the statues of Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il on Mansu Hill were […]
Korea has a long history of taming a horse. The Korean ancestors broke horses to the copper bridle and decorated them with outfittings. Horse riding was all the rage in the period of Koguryo (BC 277- AD 668). Koguryo people were fond of riding since childhood and set horsemanship as one of yardsticks to select […]
Nearly half of the whole journey for on-site guidance made by President Kim Il Sung in his lifetime was the guidance given to the rural communities. Regarding it as his lifelong desire to make his people well off, he gave energetic guidance to the farm work across the country. In May Juche 67 (1978) he […]
Pyongyang is the capital city of the DPRK and the centre of politics, the economy and culture. As the cradle of the Taedonggang Civilization, it has over 5 000-year-long history since Tangun, father of the Korean nation, established Ancient Korea and set Pyongyang as its capital. Major Attractions: Grand Monument on Mansu Hill, Tower of […]
The period from March to July is designated as the period for protecting useful animals in the DPRK. In this connection, staff reporter Ham Kwang Hyok had an interview with Choe Jong Sik, chairman of the Korean Zoology Society. Ham: Protecting and propagating useful animals poses itself as an important undertaking in our country with […]
The open-worked white ceramic vase is a gift the 87th batch of home-visiting group of Korean residents in China presented to President Kim Il Sung in September Juche 80 (1991). The group consisted of veterans who fought in defence of the country during the Fatherland Liberation War and witnessed the greatness of the President. Whenever […]
Among foreign figures who had the highest admiration for President Kim Il Sung, the great leader of the Korean people, was the former Indonesian President Sukarno and his family. When Sukarno visited the DPRK in Juche 53 (1964), Kim Il Sung went to the airport to warmly welcome him, and accorded cordial hospitality to him. […]
The nano engineering branch of the State Academy of Sciences has developed a new technology of producing a bio-binding material by making use of such by-products of agriculture and forestry as rice chaffs, sawdusts and wood shavings which are abundant in the country. This binding material is a kind of liquid tar produced during the […]
Chonju Falls is located in a deep valley 14 km away from Puyon-ri, Sinhung County, South Hamgyong Province. Chonju Peak stands in the east of the waterfalls and Mt Kodae in the north along the Pujonryong Mountains. The area, which is formed of granite, is overgrown with such trees as oak, maple and Aceraceae meno. […]
The Central Committee of the Workers’ Party of Korea sent a floral basket to the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China on the occasion of the 99th founding anniversary of the CPC. Ji Jae Ryong, DPRK ambassador to China, conveyed the floral basket to Wang Yajun, deputy head of the Internal Liaison Department […]
Students of Kim Il Sung University gave full play to their academic abilities in the international arena by taking the first place in the Codechef Contest held from June 5 to 15. The contest drew tens of thousands of students and program experts from over 80 countries and regions. The DPRK students solved all eight […]
Chonju Falls is located in a deep valley 14km away from Puyon-ri, Sinhung County, South Hamgyong Province. Chonju Peak stands in the east of the waterfalls and Mt Kodae in the north along the Pujonryong Mountains. The area, which is formed of granite, is overgrown with such trees as oak, maple and Aceraceae meno. The […]
Green architecture technologies have been introduced into the construction of Ryomyong Street in Pyongyang. Solar-heating technology and geothermal cooling-and-heating system have been applied in the buildings, with the result that a large amount of heat energy is being saved every year. Solar panels have been installed to provide necessary illumination by means of renewable energy. […]
The Pyongyang Sports Goods Factory produces a variety of Taesongsan-brand products much favoured by consumers. It turns out various forms of sports goods, including different kinds of balls, gloves for Taekwon-Do practitioners, bags for sportspersons and sportswear, to suit the features of events and the physical constitution of players. Eye-catching is a 3×3 basketball which […]
The one and only weapon for the Korean revolution, which started from nothing, was the Juche idea, a great revolutionary ideology. Ninety years ago, President Kim Il Sung created the Juche idea, which elucidates that the masses of the people are the masters of the revolution and construction and they have the strength with which […]
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