Democratic People’s Republic of No. 18 (3 106) weekly http://www.pyongyangtimes.com.kp e-mail:[email protected] Sat, May 2, Juche 109(2020) Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un cuts ribbon to inaugurate Phosphate Fertilizer Factory Kim Jong Un, and the tremendous chairman of the might of the DPRK Workers’ Party of state and brought Korea, chairman great delight to all of the State Affairs the agricultural Commission of the workers and other DPRK and supreme Korean people. commander of the He referred to armed forces of the the fact that the DPRK, attended Supreme Leader the inaugural had set forth ceremony for the the militant task Sunchon Phosphate of building the Fertilizer Factory factory, which held on May Day. m a s s - p r o d u c e s The factory is a high-concentration model and standard a m m o n i u m e s t a b l i s h m e n t phosphate fertilizer in the sector of urgently needed the chemical in agricultural industry which production, in a fully embodies the modern and big requirements of way and provided Juche-orientation energetic guidance and modernization so that it could be and which is built as a model perfect in terms factory in the of production, chemical industry a r c h i t e c t u r e sector and as a and protection of ecological Pak Pong Ju, member of the Central Committee, other officials of labour-saving enterprise whose all environment. Presidium of the Political Bureau the WPK Central Committee, army production processes are automated The establishment of the Juche- of the WPK Central Committee, and civilian officials and builders and put on lines. based phosphate fertilizer industry vice-chairman of the State Affairs who took part in the construction and He said that the builders, scientists relying on domestic efforts, Commission of the DPRK and working people of South Phyongan and soldier builders, who made the technology and raw materials under vice-chairman of the WPK Central Province. spirit of devotedly implementing the wise leadership of Supreme Committee, attended the ceremony. Pak Pong Ju in an inaugural speech Party policies as part of their mental Leader Kim Jong Un constitutes Also present at the event were described the completion of the qualities, devotedly strived to hasten a breakthrough in adding eternal Premier Kim Jae Ryong, member fertilizer factory as a great auspicious the day of completion as they waged brilliance to the immortal exploits of the Political Bureau of the WPK event which has powerfully a drive of loyalty and a fierce 24-7 performed by President Kim Il Sung Central Committee and member of demonstrated the revolutionary spirit struggle and settled in an original way and Chairman Kim Jong Il and the State Affairs Commission of of the heroic Korean working class lots of scientific and technological in drastically increasing grain the DPRK, Kim Tok Hun and Pak who are determined to win a fresh problems arising in putting the production. Thae Song, vice-chairmen of the victory in socialist construction phosphate fertilizer industry on a Amid the playing of welcome WPK Central Committee, Kim Yo through a courageous frontal Juche basis. music, Kim Jong Un appeared at the Jong and Jo Yong Won, first deputy offensive to achieve a breakthrough venue of the ceremony. department directors of the WPK under the leadership of the great Party SEE PAGE 2 Page 2 Sat, May 2, Juche 109(2020)

training of talents is a political issue to which the Party gives top priority. The completion of the Sunchon Phosphate Fertilizer Factory is the first success made after the Fifth Plenary Meeting of the Seventh Central Committee of the WPK and an important occasion for making the chemical industry of the country leap a stage further, he said, stressing the need to more fiercely raise the flame of achieving prosperity by dint of self-reliance in all fields of building a powerful country with the valuable success as a spark. He specified tasks to be tackled in the management and operation of the factory including the matter of taking thoroughgoing measures for the provision of raw materials for putting phosphate fertilizer production on a normal footing, that of further rounding off the integrated manufacturing system and ensuring the stable operation of production processes and that of paying special attention to environmental protection. He set forth the tasks and ways for Ceremony: Kim Jong Un Kim Jong Un warmly waved back Now our agricultural workers developing the country’s chemical to the cheering builders and other have become able to concentrate on industry in the correct direction as attends inauguration of people. achieving the grain production target required by the new century including fertilizer factory As he was briefed about the set by the Party without worry, he said, the rebuilding and updating of FROM PAGE 1 production processes of the factory he describing the factory as the proud fertilizer factories as a whole and the looked round several places including fruition that those who absolutely building of more chemical industry He called for getting rallied close the raw material processing process, follow Party policies brought about bases. around the Supreme Leader and yellow phosphorus production on the strength of army-people He expressed expectation and giving fuller play to the fighting process, ammonium phosphate unity. And he highly appreciated the conviction that the officials, scientists, zeal for the frontal offensive to make fertilizer production process and feats performed by all the builders, technicians and builders would wage a a breakthrough so as to continue to packaging process. scientists and technicians. courageous offensive for opening up a register notable achievements of self- Feasting his eyes on the overall He expressed satisfaction with new avenue of socialist construction in reliance, while making a dynamic view of the wonderfully built factory, the fact that the lecturers and the spirit and stamina they displayed as advance full of confidence in victory he said with deep emotion that researchers of Kim Chaek University they created the new industry relying on for the prosperity of the socialist President Kim Il Sung and Chairman of Technology established an domestic raw materials and technology country. Kim Jong Il, who had worked heart efficient integrated manufacturing and thus more powerfully demonstrate Kim Jong Un cut the ribbon to and soul to solve the food problem system of the factory in cooperation the might of the Party’s great idea of inaugurate the factory. for the people, would have greatly with relevant units, and repeatedly waging a frontal offensive to achieve a All the participants burst into been pleased if they had received emphasized that talents are a great breakthrough. thunderous cheers as they looked up the report that the modern phosphate resource of a country and a motive to the Supreme Leader. fertilizer factory has been built. force for its development and that the KCNA-THE TIMES Sat, May 2, Juche 109(2020) Page 3

PROFILE RECOLLECTION Daughter of slash-and-burn farmer ‘We will keep singing the basks in care of great leaders song of worker couple’ Every May Day, the holiday We were moved to tears On April 19, Supreme Leader of all working people around overwhelmed by ecstasy as Kim Jong Un sent a birthday the world, our couple are filled we saw the Supreme Leader spread to Ri Sin Ja, former with special happiness. who reminded me of President adviser to the Pyongyang My wife and I working at the Kim Il Sung and Chairman Municipal Rural Economy Hungnam Fertilizer Complex Kim Jong Il. Committee, on her 80th were lucky to sing a song at The great leaders had visited birthday. the concert in celebration of our complex time and again to “I was born to a poor slash- May Day which was held indicate the way ahead of it and and-burn farmer, but I grew at the People’s Theatre in show warm affection for our to be a leading agricultural Pyongyang in 2012 in the workers’ health and living. official well-known to all under presence of Supreme Leader I cannot yet remember how I the warm care of President Kim Jong Un. left the stage as I was in the grip Kim Il Sung. Though I’m I felt as if I were in a dream of great excitement. an ordinary pensioner, warm as we were to perform at After the performance all fatherly care continues to the concert given at such a congratulations of the world be granted to me and so KIM RYE YONG wonderful new theatre. seemed to be poured on us. I’m overwhelmed by deep Ri Sin Ja (second from right) sees the list of the presents from Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un with her family members. As if she read my feeling, Other performers including gratitude,” said Ri that day. the compere asked me if I got big stars from central art groups Hailing from a mountainous members as she motivated them of the Hyongjesan District nervous on the enrapturing lavished praise on us though they village in Yonthan County, to join efforts and do farming Cooperative Farm Management stage. “What would make this were very successful in play, and , with zeal. Committee in Pyongyang and worker nervous in this world of during our stay in Pyongyang during Japanese military On his visit to Rihyon-ri on then the head of the Pyongyang the working class?” I asked back for performance many strangers rule over Korea, she moved January 23 1961, the President Municipal Rural Economy to her unawares as I looked up to welcomed us, affectionately to Rihyon-ri in suburban listened to Ri’s simple and Committee. Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un calling us a “worker couple Pyongyang with her parents honest speech in a meeting and In those years, the President who was smiling at us. from Hungnam”. after national liberation (1945). highly appreciated her as he showed deep concern for her Then the entire audience broke And the entire complex offered At the time when the whole called her a “Red motivator” in work and guided her at each into laughter and applause and us warm congratulations. country was bubbling with the the Chollima era. step and when she produced the Supreme Leader gave me a Everyone was pleased to efforts to embody the Chongsan- Her commendable deeds were good results in work he saw to thumbs-up and a big hand. say that we finely sang of the ri spirit and Chongsan-ri publicized all across the country it that official commendations At that time our couple sang happiness of Hungnam workers method created by President and there was a campaign to were given to her. We Are a Worker Couple. and congratulatory phone calls Kim Il Sung, Ri worked hard to follow her example. Ri served as a deputy to the The song is the sheer reflection came from my comrades-in- rally all farmers as an information Although she was busier Supreme People’s Assembly of the feeling of our couple who arms during military service worker of a workteam at the than others as she took part in for five terms. came to love each other at work and many other people in my Rihyon Cooperative Farm. national and local conferences “As I met President and built a beautiful life through wife’s native village. The Chongsan-ri spirit is an and experience-sharing Kim Il Sung on over 80 fulfilling labour full of joy and We swelled with pride in idea embodying the requirements meetings, she fulfilled her duty occasions and received precious optimism. So we had sung it living in the world of workers. of the Juche idea for considering as a farmer, while tending farm instructions, I keenly realized many times as we conducted Our song which became a everything with man as the main fields until late at night and the unlimited benevolence of the mass-based cultural and favourite of all the employees of subject of attention and serving weaving straw-bags. great leader who valued, gave artistic activities and on other our complex is now sung by my man, while the Chongsan-ri In the course of this, she grew prominence to and led whoever occasions like congratulatory two daughters who also work at method is a method of work to to be a steady and competent worked faithfully for the good performances and radio shows the complex. solve all problems by positively farmer and the chairwoman of a of the people,” recalled Ri. held at theatres in our province As we sing the song, the mobilizing the creativity of farm management board. Despite her advanced years, and Pyongyang. This time, fertilizer output of the complex the masses of the people as As she skilfully managed the she is still deeply concerned too, we sang it merrily in good rises and our family of masters of the revolution and farm she ensured that farmers about farming at Pyongyang concord. workers feel greater pride and construction. did farming well and increased farms and gives them useful Our singing was greeted with happiness. True to the intention of the their income while bringing advice. deafening applause and the President, Ri showed sincere benefits to the state. Later, she Supreme Leader clapped his Ri Jong Son, staffer at the devotion to the workteam worked as the chairwoman By Kim Rye Yong PT hands first and longest as well. Hungnam Fertilizer Complex

and medical fields, but also varieties of cactuses including Developed by Kim Il Sung ridges between farm fields, Nationwide in the food processing, public Echinocactus grusonii and University, the material won straightening of waterways catering, livestock and fish Aporocactus flagelliformis the best appreciation at the and filling up of puddles, and Broad-spectrum sterilizer farming sectors. which have an indoor air 2019 national exhibition of wound up the preparations for widely used in combat purification effect. sci-tech achievements in the their utilization in farming. against COVID-19 Flowers cultivated for eco- Over 70 kinds of flowers and field of finishing building Kumgang County in The home-made chlorine friendly greening 14 species of rare flowering materials. Kangwon Province reclaimed dioxide stable solution is plants cultivated by them are some 20 hectares of land in the widely used in anti-epidemic holding visitors spellbound Over 37 000 ha farmland water area by arranging rivers work in the DPRK. at the exhibition hall of the secured throughout country in Kumsaem-ri. More than The solution can kill viruses, floricultural wholesale store. 1 300 hectares of new farmland bacteria, true fungi and other were secured in the province. kinds of pathogens. Functional decorative Anju of South Phyongan It is applicable to any material developed for Province is making preparations objects in various ways under green architecture for farming in some 200 hectares any conditions and is higher DPRK horticulturists raised Researchers of the DPRK of newly-acquired farmland. in concentration and can be flowering plants to be applied have developed a new Hochon County in South stored three times longer than for eco-friendly greening. functional decoration material According to information Hamgyong Province also the previous chlorine dioxide. They grew thousands of for green architecture. available, over 37 000 hectares obtained a dozen hectares of Many units across the rose bushes with nine different The building material has a of new land have been secured new land near the rivers in country have used it in the colours and sent them to good effect on human health across the country last year and Suui-ri and Jangpha-ri areas. fight against COVID-19 the construction site of the by emitting far infrared rays activities are being conducted North Phyongan, North since the national emergency Kalma coast resort and anions. briskly to apply them to Hamgyong, South Hwanghae anti-epidemic measures were and other units, and discovered It is convenient for the agricultural production. and other provinces are striving taken. new properties of deep pink execution of construction, has Jagang Province acquired to use new land secured last The demand for the solution carnation and acclimatized it. high relief decoration effect over 1 500 hectares of farmland year in this year’s farming. is now growing not only in They also cultivated by and is superior in technical through the embankment the hygienic, anti-epidemic way of tissue culture 68 specification indexes. of rivers, rearrangement of THE PYONGYANG TIMES Page 4 Sat, May 2, Juche 109(2020)

RECYCLING Wastes processed into production materials Government measures add vitality Farm makes fish feed “At present recycling is widely Measures have also been taken Factory in South Phyongan encouraged in our country and to promptly fix prices, set and Province has developed a with organic waste the DPRK law on recycling approve standards and license well-organized plastic waste resources was adopted at the the production of recycled collecting system to produce The Unha Fish Farm They use an insect belonging recent Third Session of the 14th products, pay premiums for such fuel oil on a regular basis. in Pothonggang District, to Stratiomyidae as an early Supreme People’s Assembly,” products and give preferential “There is nothing to throw Pyongyang, produces fish foods feed for fish. said an official of the Cabinet. treatment to their production away in the fuel oil production from organic leftovers. According to technical According to him, factories units. process. We produce fuel oil According to Kim Myong Jin, instructor Pak Chol Hwan, and enterprises across the They have proved their great and use the dregs as a material a member of the managing staff since the insect mainly feeds on country are now eager to collect, vitality in practice. for road paving,” said manager in charge of production, the lees and other by-products from process and recycle industrial The State Academy of Kim Kwang Song. farm raises many chickens and food processing and excrement and household wastes, leftovers Sciences introduced a method The Textile Mill in uses the excrement to culture of poultry, it is high in protein and scrapped materials. of recycling leftovers of feed North Hwanghae Province has helminth, earthworm and other content and widely applied as To this end, government and excrement into the Samchon applied a high count cotton yarn fish foods. an essential protein-rich feed. measures have been taken to Catfish Farm to reduce the production technology by short They also ferment the chicken The farm has developed and build a nationwide recycling production costs. fibre to recycle a large quantity excrement using compound introduced a technology for system to provide favourable The Railway Bureau of waste fibre so far thrown lactobacilli. raising the temperature of the conditions for the collection of produces plastic brake shoe by away, as raw materials for the “The fermented excrement breeding ground in keeping idle materials like procurement itself by making thermosetting production of various kinds of contains amino acids and many with the insect’s physiological and organize extended resin and impregnated cloth. other nutrients. When it was characteristic of having little production based on it. insulation varnish from plastic According to an official of added to the protein assorted feed resistance to low temperature, Procurement agencies have waste, opening a prospect for the mill, waste fibre from the for fry in the proportion of 10 to thus increasing the output. been organized to meet the supplying insulating materials factory amounts to nearly 2.5 15 percent, the feeding coefficient The fish feeds produced at the economic and geographical needed for the repair of electric tons a month. was lowered and the production farm are supplied to several other features of administrative motors and transformers. The Phohang district fuel cost decreased to one third as fish farming units including the districts and an integral The employees of the bureau service station in , compared to the past when grain Sunchon Catfish Farm. procurement system has say that they have keenly , feed was used,” said technical been established to employ a realized how important the produces quick-ignition instructor Ri Hyo Jin. By Kim Il Jin PT variety of forms and methods recycling of resources is as briquettes that can catch fire including exchange, mobile, they collected plastic wastes from only a piece of paper with field, contract, consignment and by classifying them according sawdust, fly-ash and waste from intensive procurements in order to their qualities and saw it paper production and supplies to arouse the public desire and was very helpful in solving the them to the residents. will for procurement and tap problems arising in reality. new sources of procurement. The Sunchon City Drink By Yun Kyong Il PT Sewage turns into feed, fertilizer The Pyongyang Meat the environment and domestic of this process has dark brown Production and Processing animals, and organic fertilizer colour and a pleasant smell. Complex has established an by fermenting various kinds of According to analysis data, organic sewage treatment organic sewage at high speed. it contains enough nutritive process. In the course of this, they and biological stability indices “The quantity of sewage separated and selected microbial including crude protein, free KIM IL JIN is on the rise day by day due strains which are indispensable amino acid, crude fat and Employees sort out fries to move them into outside ponds on the Unha Fish Farm. to the continuous population for fermentation and carbohydrate. Especially, its growth, rapid economic degradation of sewage, found crude protein content is over 15 development and increased out their cultural characteristics percent. rate of urbanization,” said and, accordingly, manufactured Many fish and livestock farms Urban rubbish reused as an official of the complex. the equipment and set up the are now adopting it as quality “Among the sewage, the process. feed. proportion of kitchen garbage The equipment is only one Consequently, a breed fish building materials from public catering facilities third in volume as compared farm has increased the survival and households rose up from to the foreign-made one but rate of loaches by 20 to 25 Brisk activities are conducted Tongdaewon District Committee 37 percent to 62 percent, has six times higher processing percent and saved assorted feed across the country to recycle of Science and Technology giving rise to a serious social capacity. The process is also by dozens of percent, while a pig municipal waste into building produce drainpipes of all sizes, problem.” very simple as it does not farm adopted it as a substitute materials. door-knob, furniture ornament, In collaboration with the involve such pre-treatment steps for bean cake and discovered “Ash of coal and plastic waste linoleum, large shuttering and Life Science Faculty of as sterilization and storage. that it prevents diarrhoea among take a large proportion in city naphtha. Kim Il Sung University, the “When the materials and pigs. rubbish. At present different Technicians in Taedong complex buckled down to the bacteria are injected, the According to the developers, units in the city recycle them to County of South Phyongan research on producing quality whole course of crushing, it is also very effective as an make various kinds of building Province developed cement by fodder, which does no harm to mixing, fermenting and drying organic fertilizer as it can parts needed for sprucing up adding different materials to ash takes place activate the land in a few streets and villages,” said an of coal, a mixed heat-insulating simultaneously years without using chemical official in the sector of urban wainscot with good insulating or successively in fertilizers. management in Pyongyang. and soundproof characteristics the single closed The organic sewage treatment The urban beautification from waste polystyrene foam machine,” said a device obtained a national companies in Central and resin, and a flash-setting agent technician of the patent. Moranbong districts annually by mixing different substances complex. “We are now working to turn out tens of thousands of with waste aluminium and slag. A c c o r d i n g standardize the process in blocks with ash of coal and waste Many provinces, cities and to him, it has order to introduce it into fish from cement factories, while the counties produce non-calcined an output per and livestock farms and urban Pyongyang municipal floricultural cement, wainscots for insulation run of 0.8-1 management sectors across the farm makes flowerpots from slag and finishing decoration, ton and power country,” said an official of the from boilers and ash of coal. construction blocks, ceiling boards SONG TAE HYOK Equipment made by the Pyongyang Meat consumption of complex. The water supply and and paints with city waste. Production and Processing Complex to 7kW. sewage management station in process organic sewage. The product By Jong Hwa Sun PT District and the By Chae Hyang Ok PT Sat, May 2, Juche 109(2020) Page 5

ANNIVERSARY BUS Institute plays key role in Upgraded trolley buses standardizing metrological units run along Chongjin streets It has been 70 years since scales and quantitative feeders State Commission of Science the establishment of the central in dozens of factories and and Technology. metrological science institute in enterprises throughout the In addition, the researchers the DPRK. country to make a contribution brought out iron bar torsion During the past decades the to optimizing production and controllers which are designed institute has developed into the business activities. to reduce consumption by hub of metrological research A new kind of electronic enhancing the tensile strength and examination of the country. dynamic wagon balance, among of iron bar to send them to According to its director, the others, helps ensure the accuracy and other construction institute established a unified of coal supply between thermal sites. metrological verification power stations and coal mines. They also set up an system throughout the country The institute also developed examination system for fixing from the central to local a device of measuring grain precise standard values of factories, enterprises and farms, moisture to meet international such typical analysing means and has examined the standard standards after quantitatively as photoelectric colorimeter gauges of all sectors every confirming the moisture and spectrophotometer so as to year in a qualitative way so as measuring scale of cereals. ensure the scientific accuracy PAK KWANG HUN Trolley buses manufactured at the Chongjin Bus Factory. to accurately settle standard It is said that the evaluation, of experiments and analyses in values. procurement and supply of different sectors. A new type of trolley buses remove the major axis of door In the meantime, it nationwide grain yields are “We will further develop the recently started service in without using plastic brush developed and introduced lots carried on more scientifically country’s metrological science the route between Sinam for seal and to fix the sliding of prototypes, standards and thanks to the measuring device. and technology by developing and Songphyong districts in door separately at ceiling and gauges for industrial use, giving “The non-electric ohmmeter new prototypes and standards Chongjin, North Hamgyong floor. impetus to the development of of electrode and noise and adjusting and reinforcing Province. The factory invented and science and technology and measuring system developed by the system of transferring “The running of trolley buses made a moulding machine economic growth. the researchers of the institute metrological units,” said the made by our province in streets, to produce different sizes of In recent years alone, it has prove effective in the production director of the institute. which are as fashionable and square-shape beam which installed electronic automobile of large electrodes and new-type convenient as the new-type ones could be claimed to be weighing machines, conveyor tractors,” said an official of the By Ri Myong Jun PT in Pyongyang, makes our city fundamental in the production look much brighter,” said Ri of trolley bus. Pok Sun living in Songphyong It also remodelled the ENERGY District. scrapped electric motors into These trolley buses facilitating induction motors, and reduced the traffic of citizens are noise in the mode of electric- Wind-driven power system wins produced at the Chongjin Bus power control based on control Factory. board and decreased power “We have set an ambitious consumption by 40 percent as popularity among residents goal to produce dozens of new- compared to before. A power supply system The room of converter “The electricity generated type trolley buses this year “We increased the power of based on wind turbine has been underground is furnished with from the wind turbine is used for on the basis of achievements traction 1.2 times even with introduced into a new high-rise batteries and converter set. lighting, TV screening, cooking and experience of having the same output as previously apartment building in Phohang “In the converter room, the and water heating,” said Kim manufactured several trolley by improving framework and District of Chongjin, North direct current from batteries is Song I living on the 13th floor. buses last year,” said manager structure of chassis frame to Hamgyong Province. converted into alternating current The company plans to develop Hwang Kwang Il. reduce the curb weight,” said “It is unavoidable in the to be supplied to households highly efficient generating The local bus producer senior engineer Kim Kuk solar-powered system that the and for the operation of a lift. facilities with a simple structure makes imported parts with its Song. efficiency of power generation Batteries are mainly charged so as to introduce them into every own effort by introducing new The trolley bus is a 25-seater drops in cloudy days or at night, with electricity generated by a high-rise apartment building. technologies. with no trailer. but our coastal city has favourable wind turbine and that from solar A sliding door mechanism, conditions for setting up a wind- panels as well,” said technician By Kim Il Jin PT for example, is designed to By Chae Hyang Ok PT driven power generation system An Il Mu. as the wind constantly blows According to him, wind- the straw of bean plants and from the sea,” said Kim Kwang powered generating facilities LIVESTOCK maize and the by-products Hyok, initiator and director of the including turbine have been of vegetables they gather in Yoram building parts company made in a new form. autumn and leave animals free of the material supply store for The semi-circular vertical Family good at raising when they run out of the feed. schools for orphans in North axial wind turbine blades They grow bok choy, mallow Hamgyong Province. stretching for over seven metres and pumpkin around their house Wind turbine is installed on and the roof structure in the domestic animals and potato and other vegetables the rooftop, and it easily rotates form of fixed structure guiding Many people visit the family 27 breed chickens and seven as intercrops among maize to in slight wind, though its turbine wind are enough to accelerate of Kim Myong Hun who dogs in the family. get the non-cereal feed for pigs blades weigh heavy. the speed of wind. works at the Songha Industrial His family also keep honey and geese and widely use silage Crop Cooperative Farm under bees every year. They have as feed. the Jagang Provincial Rural produced a maximum of 170 The fermented silage is said Economy Committee in kilograms of honey a year. to be well-liked by domestic Manpho, Jagang Province. “People think that we have animals and highly efficient. Because his house bears any special secret in raising In raising pigs, the silage a striking resemblance to a different species of animals so helps considerably reduce the livestock farm. well, but they are wrong,” said consumption of grain feed and There are 11 breed pigs in a Kim’s wife Kyong Myong Hui. fuel for processing feed. two-storey pigsty of a vinyl- According to her, her family In April, they gather various sheet greenhouse style and the found the way to solve the plants like evening primrose to sows already gave birth to 58 growing feed problem in making make silage and feed animals. piglets this year. the most of green feed. “By doing so, we have been His target is to produce more They gradually increase the able to ensure the reproduction than 120 piglets this year. proportion of green feed for and raising of animals without He keeps 30 breed goats, four animals from the outset and a hitch while decreasing the medium-size ones and 28 kids attach importance to grazing amount of dry feed in the whole

SONG YONG SOK and is going to increase their by taking advantage of the period,” said Kyong. A wind turbine installed on the rooftop of an apartment house number to 100 this year. mountainous area. in Chongjin, North Hamgyong Province. There are also 24 breed geese, In winter, they feed goats By Kim Kum Myong PT Page 6 Sat, May 2, Juche 109(2020)

ZOO CONTINUING EDUCATION Central Zoo captivates millions College instrumental in of visitors after reconstruction keeping doctors up-to-date Pyongyang doctors’ in-service and makes them find more than training college is focusing on two troubles they encountered developing clinical expertise in clinical practice so as to solve of medical practitioners in its them during the lectures. educational efforts. Kim Ryong Bom, lecturer at It puts main stress on specially the tuberculosis department, organized lectures to suit the said that the students have characteristics of in-service more experience with newly training, said vice-rector Ri developed medicines, Yong Ae. diagnosing equipment and According to her, since the currently widespread diseases, students received professional so the lecturers have to put education at universities and much effort in order to give are doctors in active service adequate answers to their with certain degrees of clinical unpredictable and hard expertise, the three-year in- questions. service training course focuses The mode of lecture which on giving them lectures on involves telling the students the recent achievements and the constitutions of patients development trend of medical and the results of blood tests science, different physical and examinations through constitutions and causes of several diagnosing devices diseases and unusual symptoms and comparing the diagnoses developing in various forms pronounced by the students and according to environment and the actual cases is very popular conditions and experiences in among students. treating them. According to rector O Song More than 3.5 million people have visited the Central Zoo since its reconstruction four years ago. It invites prominent doctors Hwan, when the development It will take over a day to total facelift through the visitors could get access to with rich clinical experience of the online education system look round all the places in the reconstruction in 2016. data showing the ecological and professors in biochemistry and education support software Central Zoo. All animal houses were characteristics and ways of life to give lectures and encourages is completed, the college will The zoo is located at the built distinctively in terms of of animals in a systematic and optional lectures. be able to properly utilize western foot of Mt Taesong in formative arts while preserving taxonomic way. In order to raise the efficiency achievements made and cases the suburbs of Pyongyang. The the characteristics of relevant The director said that the zoo of education, it introduced 3D found at hospitals, which mountain was named thus in the animals, including the entrance has over 6 000 gift animals multimedia presentations and might bring about a bigger meaning that it is a mountain of the zoo representing a Korean in some 640 rare species videos of actual operations into innovation in doctors’ in- with a big fortress which was tiger with its mouth wide open, presented by heads of state, lectures. service training. built in the period of Koryo to and the interior of buildings personages and organizations It informs the students of the repulse foreign invasion. has natural effects thanks to of different countries to themes of lectures beforehand By Ri Sung Ik PT According to the employees the introduction of modern President Kim Il Sung, of the zoo, the mountain architectural techniques. Chairman Kim Jong Il and achieved more fame along with Since large water tanks stand Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un, the discovery of revolutionary on each wall of the aquarium, adding that their numbers slogans written on barked trees they make visitors feel as if they are on the increase year after during the anti-Japanese war, the are under water. year thanks to the sincerity of construction of the Revolutionary The reptile hall keeps relief technicians and breeders. Martyrs Cemetery on Mt Taesong murals of dinosaurs, sculptured Over 3 566 280 people and the renovation of the Central figures and natural rocks, as well have visited the zoo since its Zoo. as dozens of species of tropical reconstruction. Chon Chol, director of the plants forming a tropical forest. Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un Central Zoo, said that more than The main hall involving provided field guidance at the 60 million people visited the zoo the sci-tech learning space, zoo in May 2016 and on other in the past six decades, including e-reading room and scientific occasions for its reconstruction. over a million foreigners. knowledge exhibition hall was The zoo was given a newly added to the zoo so that By Ri Sang Il PT

ecological features. NATIONAL FLOWER CHAE MYONG RIM According to her, magnolia Lectures are given for medical workers at Pyongyang doctors’ grows in damp soil with high in-service training college. atmospheric humidity and Magnolia widespread sunshine, as well as in a slightly shady place. So, residents plant EDUCATION magnolias in streets and water in Pyongyang them every morning, she said. The national flower of The residents in Chilgol-dong The nameplates hanging on Preparations under way for magnolia is widely spread in the No. 3 of District each flowering tree and white capital city of Pyongyang. planted some 40 magnolias in fences put up neatly around “Citizens have planted many their villages and tend them each of them clearly show the new teaching programme magnolias in different places with utmost care. sincerity of the residents. Universities of education are presentations, experimental of the city in this tree-planting “Magnolia is a flowering tree “Many families grow accelerating preparations for apparatuses and teaching season. Especially, those in mainly growing in valleys or beautiful flowers in rooms or the fulfilment of a new teaching tools, and compiled some 120 Mangyongdae District planted hillsides. However, our residents on balconies, and flower trees programme. e-textbooks. hundreds of magnolias,” said ask their relatives in local areas are seen growing in the resting The Education Commission Lecturers at Cha Rim Chol Ju, chief engineer of or the botanical garden to get the places of our village. Therefore, scientifically defined a general Kwang Su University of the landscaping and greening flowering tree,” said Choe Son other villagers call our village a goal of universities of education Education No. 1 worked out management bureau under the Mi, chief of the dong office. ‘flower village’, but now it will on a new height and worked out rational teaching plans for Pyongyang Municipal People’s She added that residents are be named a village of magnolias, a new education programme. different subjects and developed Committee. so anxious to plant magnolias I think,” said Jo Yong Gum, Kim Chol Ju University of new simulated programs for He said that the residents that they choose the right head of neighbourhood unit No. Education worked out over experiments and practical have ensured the rooting rate of soil and plant them like 41. 10 000 new teaching plans for training. newly-planted magnolias at 100 horticulturists do by acquiring hundreds of subjects, invented percent. detailed information about their By Kim Kum Myong PT and made new multimedia KCNA Sat, May 2, Juche 109(2020) Page 7

JAPAN Briefly True motive behind missile unit China President Xi Jinping stresses need to build space power deployment on Miyako Chinese President Xi Jinping emphasized the need hortly ago, Japan Okinawa adjoining Diaoyu in 2019. And since March this that its defence expenditure has to realize the dream of space deployed a new ground- Islands in the sensitive water year Japan has pushed the recently reached a record high. power as early as possible in Sto-air and ground- area over which China and construction for the deployment However, it must bear in mind his letter sent on Apr 23 to the to-vessel missile unit of the Japan are in dispute. of 500- to 600-strong missile that the more it is hell-bent on scientists of older generation Ground Self-Defence Force on According to the “plan to and security units in Okinawa. risky military build-up, the more who launched the country’s Miyako Island of Okinawa. cope with a potential clash with Japan incessantly strains the neighbouring countries will first satellite to mark the 50th At present, the construction China over Senkaku Islands (its the situation in disputed water grow wary of it and the faster it anniversary of the launch. of an ammunition chamber for Chinese name is Diaoyu Islands) areas in a bid to create objective will face self-ruin. The successful launch 50 storing multi-purpose ballistic at an early stage by committing conditions favourable for It is natural for the islanders years ago demonstrated the great missiles, mortar shells and missile units”, the Japanese becoming a military power, to raise their voices of protest spirit of Chinese nation, he said, missiles is in full swing with an government pressed on with ensure military operations in against the deployment of the calling on officials of younger eye to completion until March the formation and stationing any places of the world beyond missile unit on Miyako, saying generation in the aerospace next year. of security and missile units the boundary of the archipelago the militarization of the island sector to overcome all difficulties The deployment of the and units for restoring landing and put the SDF on a real war will only hasten a war crisis and and scale the high peak of space missile unit was carried out on strips of fighters. As a result, format and modernize it, thereby urging the government to stop science and technology. the pretext of the strengthening a 160-strong coast guard unit realizing its wild ambition for the readjustment of the island of defence posture, but its real was stationed in Okinawa in reinvasion. This is just its real for war. Cuba intention is too obvious. 2016 and 500-strong missile aim. US’ drug-related argument Miyako is an island of and security units in Kagoshima It should not go unnoticed By Choe Yong Nam PT dismissed as frame Cuban President Miguel Mario Diaz-Canel Bermudez in CLIMATE CHANGE his Twitter account denounced as sham the US’ argument that Cuba might be implicated in the Extreme weather poses threats to drug trafficking by Venezuela. Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez Parrilla global security landscape rejected the US claim as ccording to the the people of the world to have global warming. should switch from the use of unilateral and groundless, while definition of a foreign a more correct understanding of In recent days alone, heavy fossil fuel to that of renewables the Cuban Foreign Ministry Aweather station, extreme weather conditions and rains and landslides occurred in economic activities. sent a note of protest to the US abnormal climatic phenomenon their aftereffects. in succession in many countries Extreme weather conditions embassy in Havana to dismiss occurs only once in 30 years. Australia has been afflicted including Afghanistan are aggravating serious social the allegation as frame. However, as if to deny it, by unprecedented forest fires and Kenya, causing many crises of hunger and water the present climate of the earth since last year. According to casualties. shortage. Russia displays unusual symptoms information made available The UN in a report noted that It is estimated that in some Russian FM rejects US every year and people suffer last January, a total of some it is impossible to explain the African countries the output of report on arms control from destructive disasters 170 000 square kilometres destructive climatic change crops would decrease by about The Russian foreign caused by extreme weather of forests were burned away in the past 50 years with only 50 percent and 75 to 250 million ministry in a recent official conditions like typhoon, flood, and over 1.2 billion animals natural factors and that over people would be faced with statement rejected the US State drought and boiling heat. They including koala bears and 90 percent of global warming severe water shortages. Department’s report on arms even change the taste of foods. kangaroos died in the fires. is attributable to human It forewarns a flood of control, non-proliferation and The content of carbohydrates in Although the cause of the fires activities. environmental refugees in the disarmament. crops is constantly increasing is still unclear, many people It can be illustrated by the near future. If such refugees The annual report the State and their nutritive components remember that last year was the fact that over 10 000 scientists move to different countries Department submitted to are being changed due to the driest one in Australia with the warned of a climatic crisis. The and regions, the world security Congress shows that the US’ pollution of underground water highest temperature in history, study paper jointly signed by landscape will be badly shaken. standpoint on discharging and soil. which gives them a good reason some 11 000 scientists of 153 its obligation in these fields The present situation requires to think that they are related to countries demanded humankind By Om Ryong PT is intolerant, utilitarian and imprudent, the statement said.

RUSSIA Arab Arab league decries Israel’s seizure of lands Efforts put in to boost regional economy and The League of Arab States in a statement on Apr 23 branded Israel’s decision improve people’s livelihood on confiscating the lands ussia is making target of the development plans, Norilsk, Chelyabinsk and Perm hospitals, a midwifery clinic, a belonging to some Palestinian endeavours to develop he added. and building modern harbours dozen fitness centres and sports people in Hebron city in the Rregional economies At present the government in the Russian Far East. fields and 70 other facilities. West Bank a violation of and improve residents’ living spares no investment in It has also buckled down to Trans-Baikal plans to international law. standards. construction as it set it as a major regional community projects undertake more than a hundred Shortly ago, the Russian sector for boosting regional involving construction and renovation projects including 40 US Prime Minister stressed the need economies and stabilizing and repair according to the social midwifery clinics, two schools, US bid to deploy satellite to help regions experiencing improving the residents’ life. development programme for three kindergartens and eight jamming weapons economic difficulties in the President Vladimir Putin said economic growth centre. cultural facilities. According to Bloomberg, face of COVID-19 spreading in a consultative meeting on the In the Far East alone, The government’s effort to the US forces are now working throughout the world. Referring development of the construction 2 283 construction projects spur regional growth is not to build a ground base to jam to the government’s decision sector that it is a driving force are underway backed by the confined to construction. satellites. to support underdeveloped behind the revitalization of the government. It is said that 300 In accordance with the “Far The space force, which was regions with their 2020-2024 economy. buildings have already been Eastern hectare” programme, organized in December last development plans, he said The government is pressing constructed and additional 200 nearly 80 000 residents have year, would possess 48 satellite it would take all necessary on with a large-scale renovated. been given land and become able jamming weapon systems in measures to assist local infrastructure construction Construction projects are also to start agricultural activities. seven years, it said, adding that residents and provide them programme which involves going on in Buryatia and Trans- In Khabarovsk Territory, they would be used to disturb with jobs. projects for expanding the Baikal region, which were five complexes producing meat the signals from Russian and It is particularly important for traffic capacity of the Baikal- integrated into the Far East and milk are reportedly to start Chinese satellites in case of these regions to find out new Amur trunk line and trans- Federal District. operation. emergency. economic indices with growth Siberian railway, modernizing Buryatia carries on renovation potentials and this is the major airports in Khabarovsk, projects including three By Min Chol PT the pyongyang times Page 8 Sat, May 2, Juche 109(2020)

CLUB DRINK Jangsan makes its name in Tea likely a good cold wrestling event remedy People often catch a cold when The Jangsan Sports Club in to train them into professional wrestling championships in season changes or there is sharp Sosong District of Pyongyang wrestling players, and since 2014. And Pak Wi Song was temperature differences between is well known at home and then it has been a destination triumphant in the men’s 42 kg day and night. Children and the abroad for its good performance of schoolchildren with a special category at the Asian juvenile aged who have lower immunity in training reserve wrestlers. It taste in the sport. In the course wrestling championships in than young and middle-aged produced lots of star wrestlers of this, the club won over 2015 and an international people are especially vulnerable who got fame in international 80 medals in domestic and juvenile wrestling tournament to it. Patients usually choose and national games. international games. held in Iran in the same year. chemicals to treat the cold, but Wrestling group members of Among them, there is Ri “Our sports club attaches these medicines do a certain Sosong Juvenile Sports School Yong Sam who made his name importance to the extracurricular harm to their health. in a litre of water and the more were the focus of domestic on the Asian arena by winning training course of reserve These days medical experts they are infused, the higher the wrestling front in the 1980s as three titles. players on a par with the training argue that medicinal tea and content of vitamin C gets. they made a clean sweep of gold Ri Kum Chol and Pak Jin of professionals. Especially, other drinks made of natural Broad bellflower tea contains medals in local tournaments. Hyang won the men’s 42 kg we give promising players a materials are more effective saponin and inulin which taste The Jangsan Sports Club was category and the women’s 44 scientific and systemic training than chemicals to cure cold. uniquely hot and slightly bitter organized in 1989 with an aim kg event at the Asian juvenile on the basis of comprehension According to them, aspirin and they are very effective of them,” said Pak Ryong Chan, or paracetamol are generally in relieving coughing and chief of the club. taken to reduce fever and loosening phlegm. Head coach Kim Hak Won relieve pain, but as just a Welsh onion root tea has a rich and other coaches researched and little overdose of them would content of calcium, potassium, introduced hundreds of training produce such symptoms as vitamins A and C and others. methods which prove effective prostration, leukopenia or Onion roots are put into water in applying attack and defence enterohemorrhage, they have and boiled. And the boiled techniques. They direct much adverse effects on the patients. water is cooled before mixing effort to the teaching based on They also say that as cold it with honey. If children often video clips showing the matches remedies for children in the drink it, they are prevented from of world-famous players and form of syrup contain artificial caching cold. training sessions, as well as to colours, they have a high risk of Schizandra chinensis fruit theoretical and technical lectures developing asthma, allergy and tea is well known to be very so that players can acquire cancer. effective in the treatment of the principle of movement For these reasons, the world cough, asthma and bronchitis. is now turning to the use of Other drinks can also be made CHOE YONG NAM performance by themselves. Wrestlers are under training session at the Jangsan Sports medicinal tea made of natural in families for the treatment of Club in Pyongyang. By Choe Yong Nam PT materials which are good cold. for health. If children drink For example, honey and RELIC medicinal tea and have a sound spices are put into red wine to sleep, it reportedly starts to take heat it until the alcoholic content pharmacological effect soon. evaporates before drinking. Some of landmark historic sites Typical medicinal teas Ginger is also sliced and put include persimmon leaf, broad into water at room temperature bellflower, onion root and before it is boiled. It is mixed in Pyongyang omija, or Schizandra chinensis, with a proper amount of sugar fruit teas. before drinking. It helps warm The Taedong Gate and As it has the architectural were found there to prove that As persimmon leaf contains the body and excrete heat from Ryongwang Pavilion in style and structural features in the pavilion had been rebuilt 30 times as much vitamin C as the body. downtown Pyongyang are the early period of the feudal many times. The Ryongwang an apple, children reportedly Such teas or drinks are very the destination of visitors Joson dynasty, it embodies Pavilion has been known as one do not contract cold easily if good for improving health of throughout the year. magnificence, beauty and of the eight scenic spots in the they drink persimmon leaf tea children and adults as well if The Taedong Gate showcasing nimbleness. northwestern part of Korea for regularly. The persimmon leaf they are regularly drunk. the typical architecture in the The site of the Ryongwang its beautiful scenery since olden tea is made by putting about period of medieval Korea was Pavilion was used as the eastern times. The present one was 10 grams of persimmon leaves By Om Ryong PT the eastern entrance to the inner terrace for a general in the rebuilt in 1670. castle of the Walled City of period of the Koguryo dynasty. Hanging on the pavilion is a by Kim Hwang Won, a poet a little oblique angle to form an Pyongyang during the Koguryo The pavilion was first called calligraphic board with a poem of the Koryo dynasty, when he “L” shape. It stands on a rock dynasty. Sansu Pavilion, but later renamed reading “The river flows in a climbed Pubyok Pavilion on the near the edge of the cliff to blend It was built in the mid-6th thus while undergoing several rush along the foot of long walls banks of the . in well with the surrounding century and rebuilt in 1635. It repairs and reconstructions. and mountains are seen here The Ryongwang Pavilion has natural scenery. was severely damaged by US Over twenty kinds of roofing and there to the east of the vast a special layout. It looks as if bombing during the Fatherland tiles marked with different years plain”. The poem was written two buildings are dovetailed at By Song Jong Ho PT Liberation War (1950-1953), but restored to its original state soon after the war. The most important and largest of the six gates in Pyongyang, the gate consists of an embankment and imposing gatehouse built on it. In the middle of the embankment is an arched gateway. On the plane surface its four corners gradually widen outwards so that it can bear the weight of the structure. The gabled roof of the gatehouse is very beautiful as the ridges and roof surface form soft and graceful curves in all SONG JONG HO directions. Spring-tinged Taedong Gate and Ryongwang Pavilion (right) in Pyongyang.

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