Prof. and Dr. Kim Chol Su is a lecturer at the Physics Faculty of Kim Il Sung University with a high-profile authority in the optical sector. In the past, he achieved many scientific successes, including the modernization of equipment of Pyongyang University of Medical Sciences and manufacture of holographic telescope for display in the children’s […]
A few years ago, a foreign delegation visited the cardiovascular surgical department of the Okryu Children’s Hospital in the capital city of Pyongyang. After looking round its operating theatre and sickrooms, the members of the delegation were amazed to learn that the department is provided with sophisticated medical facilities, quite contrary to their expectation. They […]
The people of the natural disaster-damaged area in Kangbuk-ri, Kumchon County, North Hwanghae Province moved to new houses built as the socialist fairyland, a model village of the socialist countryside thanks to the struggle the service personnel of the People’s Army waged true to the noble intention of Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un. A ceremony […]
At present, protecting the ozone layer presents itself as a vital issue for the living of human beings and the future of the earth. Proceeding from the necessity to take a realistic and strong measure to ban the use of substances that deplete the ozone layer, the UN Environment concluded the Vienna Convention for the […]
The Monument to the Juche Idea stands on the banks of the Taedong River that bathes this capital. This tallest stone tower in the world was inaugurated in April 1982 (71 Juche era) on the occasion of the 70th birthday of President Kim Il Sung. For several decades from the beginning of its construction until […]
There is a renowned singer in the arts group of the Korean Disabled Art Association. Singing with a rich voice and clear and beautiful tone “Voice of my heart”, “Ode to the Fatherland” and other songs, she left a deep impression on the audience. She is none other than Pak Jin Ri, a blind woman […]
Forty-three years have passed since President Kim Il Sung made public the immortal classic work, titled, The Theses on Socialist Education. Our socialist education system clarified by the theses is the universal compulsory, free education. Socialist education is an education for all members of society to bring them up as socialist human beings. All the […]
Over the past two decades, Dr. and Associate Prof. Pak Yong Hui, section chief of the Drug Form Developing Institute under Pharmacy Faculty of Pyongyang University of Medical Sciences, developed many medicines conducive to promoting the people’s health. After graduation from Pharmacy Faculty of Pyongyang University of Medical Sciences, she was appointed to the institute. […]
The fossil of Archaeopteryx Coreanicus was unearthed on March 10, Juche 78 (1989) in the argillaceous siltstone layer piled up between the Jurassic period and the early Creataceous period in the Mesozoic age. The layer is located in Paektho-dong, Sinuiju City, North Phyongan Province. The fossil, the first of its kind in the DPRK, consists […]
On July 24, many residents in Rangnang District, Pyongyang, sent off the war veterans who were to participate in the Sixth National Conference of War Veterans, extending warm congratulations to them. Among them was a woman who was called “our daughter” by war veterans. She was Kim Kum Suk, a worker at the direct sales […]
Of late, the sponge goods produced at the Sonbong Koast Joint-Venture Company are stealing the public limelight. Tens of kinds of sponge goods are divided into several categories for home and outside use and medical treatment. The peculiar and quality sponge decoration plaques and wallpapers are gaining public favour as they produce mild, comfortable and […]
Six decades have passed since the establishment of diplomatic relations between the DPRK and Cuba on August 29, Juche 49 (1960). Since then the history of friendship between the two countries began. The bilateral relationship is that of an invincible friendship and a permanent comradeship established in the struggle for realizing common ideals under the […]
Kim Jong Hak, researcher of the cutting-tool laboratory at the Mechanical Engineering Institute under the State Academy of Sciences has obtained the qualifications for modern physics and mechatronics. Born into a military family in a local town, he studied at the Physics Faculty of the University of Sciences from 2006 after graduation from a middle […]
People and service personnel of the Korean People’s Army throughout the country paid tribute to the statues of the peerlessly great leaders Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of Kim Jong Il’s start of leadership over the revolutionary armed forces. Placed before the statues of the great […]
The Pyongyang Embroidery Institute, located on the bank of the Pothong River, has been widely known as the centre of studying, producing and spreading the traditional embroidery of Korea. The institute studies and develops embroidery that preserves the pictorial features of the Korean painting which is peculiar to the Korean nation, and produces manual and […]
The DPRK is building up the material foundations for the sports sector. Over the past five years, one thousand and several hundred sports facilities have been built and more than 10 000 existing ones, repaired throughout the country, including gymnasiums, stadiums, training centres and sports parks. Kim Il Sung Stadium and Taekwon-Do Palace have undergone […]
The Agricultural Information Institute under the Academy of Agricultural Science has recently completed the field digital map and introduced it into the agricultural sector of the country. The map contains databases of all arable lands in the country according to classification of fields and land categories. It supports the data of soil and weather conditions […]
Many little talents are being produced in the DPRK. Recently, Kim Su Ryo entered a primary school after finishing Phalgol Kindergarten No.1 in Mangyongdae District, Pyongyang. Since she was three years old, she has been called a literature prodigy as she would make stories of her own way after reading illustrated books, to the wonder […]
The participants in the 6th Plenary Meeting of the 7th Central Committee of the Workers’ Party of Korea visited the Kumsusan Palace of the Sun on the evening of August 19 to pay homage to the great leaders Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il. The members of the central leadership body of the WPK […]
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