A porous cast iron sleeve bearing-making technology of great economic value is widely used in the machine-building industry sector of the DPRK. The sleeve bearing is made of expensive nonferrous metal and its melting, moulding and machining processes are very complicated, with large power consumption. The new technology makes it possible to make the sleeve […]
President Kim Il Sung was the benevolent father of the Korean people, who ensured that they, oppressed and maltreated for centuries, enjoyed the genuine life and happiness. Among them who glorified their lives under the meticulous care of the President were numerous intellectuals, including Kye Ung Sang, a renowned scientist in genetics and sericulture. Kye […]
In January this year, a man who got hurt in his arm during work was carried to the Pyongyang University of Medical Sciences Hospital. The patient was in a critical condition—mutilation of blood vessels, nerve and muscle in his right arm. It was a demanding task. However, Kim Kuk Chol, researcher of the laboratory of […]
The Pyongyang Golf Course is located in Thaesong-ri, Kangso District, Nampho City. Renovated in 2019, it covers an area of about 200 hectares and has an accommodation capacity of over 200 persons at a time. In its compound through the golf ball-looking gate, one can enjoy a bird’s-eye view of golf courses. The courses, with […]
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; […]
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 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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
One November day in Juche 101 (2012), Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un visited a horse riding ground used by a unit of the Korean People’s Army on the outskirts of Pyongyang. After riding a horse to examine the tracks he said the ground is quite suitable for riding and that the horse riding is a […]
Kim Su Chol, a typical painter of realistic tendency active in the 19th century, was good at painting landscapes, flowers, grass, etc. Typical of his works are A Farmhouse Surrounded by Prunus Mume, A Pine Grove, Waterfalls, Jangan Temple and Kuryong Pool. In particular, the painter gave full play to his skills in drawing Pyongyang […]
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