Among those who celebrate Mother’s Day, November 16, in the DPRK is Pak Song Suk, deputy chief in charge of technical affairs of the Pyongyang Maternity Hospital. On this day she recollects her medical career begun and peaked with that of the Pyongyang Maternity Hospital. Pak was born into a workers’ family in Chonnae County, […]
Thousands of new dwelling houses were built in over 10 dongs and ris in Samjiyon City. Ceremonies for moving into new houses took place in Paektusanmilyong-dong, Sinmusong-dong, Rimyongsu-dong, Phothae-dong, Ohomuldong-dong, Junghung-ri, Hunggyesu-ri, Sobaeksan-ri, Paeksam-ri, Poso-ri and Thongsin-ri. Present at the ceremonies were Tong Jong Ho, vice-premier of the Cabinet, Pak Hun, minister of Construction and […]
On Mirae Scientists Street laid out in 2015 on the bank of the picturesque Taedong River for scientific and educational personnel in Pyongyang is the Phyongchon District Mirae Nursery.The nursery is amply furnished for upbringing of the children, their growth and intelligence development, including 50 rooms for children’s daily routine and others for their exercises […]
There are the Chongchon River and other over 30 rivers, big and small, in Kujang County, North Phyongan Province. Twenty of them are over 5 km long. In the past, the county had suffered from frequent flooding. So, officials of the county pushed forward the work to improve all rivers in a far-sighted way while […]
The Kim Jong Thae Electric Locomotive Complex, established on November 10, 1945, is the leading base which exclusively engages in manufacturing electric locomotives and rolling stock. The workers of the complex have made contributions to stepping up the railway modernization and easing the shortage of means for transporting passengers and freight by manufacturing a large […]
The National Accreditation Association (NAA) of the DPRK, founded in April 2002, is a standing organ which engages in conformity assessment of all authentication bodies of the country. The association gives certification to the auditing and registering bodies, testing and analytical laboratories and product authentication bodies and undertakes regular control of those bodies, and evaluation […]
More and more units in the DPRK are producing building parts by making use of light burned magnesia. Light burned magnesia board can reduce energy loss when heating or cooling a room as it absorbs carbon dioxide and keeps low heat conductivity. A board of 20 square metres has the same effect as having a […]
Today, disposable plastic goods are exerting aggravating influence on the environment. Various kinds of disposable biodegradable vessels which are low in production cost and environment-friendly are produced in the DPRK. The vessels are made of by-products of potato starch. Their substance disappears one week after being discarded and degrades naturally and completely in three months. […]
The letters of Korean Braille are those printed as groups of raised dots on a special paper for the blind to read and write Korean alphabets and other marks with the help of six braille types. Korea started giving education to the blind in 1445. By the mid-19th century, Chinese characters were used as the […]
On Moran Hill in the capital city of Pyongyang is a tree fossil, which is rare to be found around the world. It is a pine fossil which grew in the Jurassic period of the Mesozoic era. It is 1.6 metres high and 3.4 metres round at the lower part. It is very hard and […]
The renovated Educational Books Printing Plant went into production. Its production capacity doubled as against the previous one. It is printing textbooks for primary schools and junior and senior middle schools across the country for the new school year.
Kumyagang Power Station No. 2 went into operation. Its completion has brought about big progress in the afforestation and water conservation in the county and provided another foundation for making contribution to economic development and improvement of its locals’ living. Its inaugural ceremony took place on the spot on October 30. Present at the ceremony […]
Among the national intangible cultural heritages is the medical theory on four kinds of physical constitutions, which was authored by Ri Je Ma, a scholar of medicine, in the late 19th century. The theory divides persons into four categories according to their physical constitutions and gives out prescriptions according to them. Ri Je Ma made […]
The Thaechon County People’s Hospital in North Phyongan Province is improving the quality of medical service through telemedicine system. Its medical workers are making efforts to learn advanced techniques and experience in keeping with the trend of developing modern medical science and apply them into treatment through consultations and technical and practical workshops on line […]
The Korean people are now having photos taken in front of their new houses. They are the residents who were left homeless due to an unexpected natural disaster which hit their living area early in September. The scene of their devastated village still remains etched in their memory. But on October 18, over one month […]
The Victorious Fatherland Liberation War Museum, located on the banks of the Pothong River in the capital city of Pyongyang, has a hall for the Chinese People’s Volunteers (CPV) which shows the noble internationalist spirit and militant friendship displayed by the soldiers and peoples of the DPRK and China. On display in the hall are […]
An apple and pear taste prize show took place at the Unjong Teahouse located in Changjon Street in Central District, Pyongyang, on October 20. Presented to the show were a variety of fine species of apples and pears produced at the Teadonggang and Kosan combined fruit farms and other fruit farms in Kwail and Pukchong […]
The Chollima Statue was unveiled on April 15, Juche 50 (1961) to mark the 49th birthday of President Kim Il Sung. The statue depicts Chollima (a legendary winged horse which gallops 400 km a day) soaring high into the sky, with a worker holding aloft the “Red Letter” of the Central Committee of the Workers’ […]
Dr. and Associate Prof. Jong Chol, head of the Central Mining Research Institute under the State Academy of Sciences, is a scientist who has rendered tangible services to developing the country’s mining industry. He often says to researchers that a scientist can produce world-level findings only when he or she works with an inexhaustible courage […]
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