Democratic People’s Republic of Korea No. 34 (3 174) weekly http://www.pyongyangtimes.com.kp e-mail:[email protected] Sat, August 21, Juche 110 (2021) General Secretary Kim Jong Un gives field guidance over riverside terraced houses building project Kim Jong Un, most convenient general secretary and hygienic of the Workers’ environment can Party of Korea be provided for and president of the people. He the State Affairs also pointed to the of the DPRK, need to make the gave on-the-spot configurations of guidance over the cities and towns construction of the diverse, attractive Pothong Riverside and unique so as Terraced Houses to create features District. peculiar to each of He was greeted them. on the spot by Jong Saying that it Sang Hak, Jo Yong would be good to Won, Ri Hi Yong give the district and other senior the administrative officials of the division name Central Committee “Kyongru-dong” of the Party and meaning a beau- c o m m a n d i n g tiful gem terrace, officers and leading he gave an officials of the instruction for the units involved in relevant sector to the construction. deliberate on it. He learned about He expressed the construction great satisfaction project as he over the fact that looked round several places of the viewpoint of architectural beauty. Calling for carefully making a radical change has been brought construction site. He said that the project should and implementing a plan for urban about in the riverside area to leave He said that the residential district, be pushed as scheduled by taking construction for raising the level no traces of some 140 days ago, built with the land undulations timely measures for the supply of of modernization and civilization despite lack of everything and left intact, looks nice, and that an equipment and materials in keeping of the capital city and local cities difficulties, thanks to the builders’ example has been set for a terraced with the rapid progress of the and towns, he underscored the patriotism and loyalty, and highly houses district that is built on sloping project. need to plan and arrange buildings, appreciated the labour feats of all ground perfectly in architectural Saying that it is necessary to pay facilities, roads, green spaces and all the builders. aesthetics. He noted that such close attention to further sprucing up other elements from the viewpoint experience is of great significance parks on the Pothong River banks, of interconnection so that the KCNA in developing architecture under the he stressed the specific conditions of the country need to take where lots of dwelling houses have thoroughgoing to be built nationwide and the most sci-tech mea- parts of which are mountainous sures in order areas, and in implementing the to improve the Party’s policy of construction. quality of the The residential district should river water. serve the main purpose of ensuring Emphasizing the convenience of residents of each that the dwelling house, not just meeting c o n s t r u c t i o n the aesthetic requirements, he said, project is of adding that paths should be arranged i m p o r t a n c e and transport means should be in making allocated rationally so that the Pyongyang residents can walk straight down to M u n i c i p a l i t y use them without going round the more modern residential district. and civilized, He emphasized that it is important he called for to ensure a high level of afforestation speeding up the and greening in and around the c o n s t r u c t i o n residential district while giving final qualitatively to artistic touches to the retaining walls make it a model for the terraced houses district after of urban housing carefully considering them from the construction. Page 2 Sat, August 21, Juche 110 (2021)

ANNIVERSARY DISASTER RELIEF Long journey remembered for WPK CC officials help flood promoting ties with neighbours sufferers in South Hamgyong Officials of the Central and soul into the relief effort Chairman Kim Jong Il equality and equally beneficial member of the State Council to Committee of the Workers’ and called on the local officials devoted tireless efforts to cooperation on the basis of Heilongjiang Province to kindly Party of Korea provided a to share joy and sorrow with the consolidating and further the spirit of the DPRK-Russia greet the Chairman. large amount of food and funds residents of the stricken areas promoting the DPRK-Russia Joint Declaration in 2000, The foreign media commented needed for stabilizing the living and relieve them of difficulties and DPRK-China friendship in the DPRK-Russia Moscow on it, saying that it was the first of flood victims in the afflicted in life in time. Acquainting 2011, the last year of his life. Declaration in 2001 and time in the history of Chinese areas of South Hamgyong themselves with the living He visited Russia’s Siberian the Treaty on Friendship, diplomacy to send a member of Province as soon as possible. conditions and health of flood and Far Eastern regions from Good-neighbourliness and the State Council and the head The relief supplies were victims who are now living August 20 to 25 2011 at the Cooperation between the DPRK of the International Liaison delivered to residents of Sinhung in the office building of the invitation of Russian President and the Russian Federation. Department of the CPC to the County who had greatly suffered county Party committee, they Medvedev. The Chairman’s visit to relevant area to greet a foreign from floods on August 15. called on the locals to build new The Russian president and Russia’s Siberian and Far leader who passed through China Party Central Committee houses by pushing ahead with government and the people in Eastern regions was an after visiting other country and it officials told the residents that the rehabilitation campaign and Siberian and Far Eastern regions epochal event which marked a showed well the high prestige of the respected General Secretary significantly greet the founding welcomed him, who visited watershed in the development National Defence Commission Kim Jong Un fails to go to anniversary of the WPK. Russia again after nearly 10 of relationship between the two Chairman Kim Jong Il and sleep at the thought of the flood years to further consolidate and countries and a historic long the closest attention Chinese sufferers and is putting his heart KCNA develop traditional friendship journey which contributed to party and government direct to between the two countries, as defending peace and security strengthening and developing RECONSTRUCTION the most honoured state guest. in Northeast Asia and the rest the traditional DPRK-China Chairman Kim Jong Il held of the world and advancing the friendship. talks with President Medvedev cause of independence against The distance of the course of Disaster recovery pushed on August 24 in Ulan-Ude, the imperialism. his visits to Russia’s Siberian capital of the Buryat Republic After visiting Russia’s and Far Eastern regions and of Russia. Siberian and Far Eastern several cities in Northeast China in South Hamgyong At the talks the leaders of regions, he chose the route totals over 8 000 kilometres. the two countries informed home along Northeast China The immortal exploits of the Transport routes have In farmland in inundated each other of the situations of and paid a historic visit to it Chairman who made a great been reopened in some ten areas, drainage and digging their countries, satisfactorily between August 25 and 27. contribution to the development days, housing construction of of drainage canals have appraised the DPRK-Russia Hu Jintao, the then general of friendship with Russia and hundreds of families pushed been carried on and various relationship which was secretary of the Communist Party China by conducting energetic and damage to crops in scores germicides and liquid nutrients developing well, exchanged of China, specially dispatched external activities are still of hectares repaired in Sinhung sprayed to promote the growth opinions related to the the head of the International remembered by the peoples County, South Hamgyong of crops and minimize damage development of bilateral Liaison Department of the of the three countries and will Province, which was worst hit to them. relations and reached a CPC Central Committee to shine forever along with the by heavy rain and flood. The Pyongyang Railway consensus of opinion on all Manchuria, border city between inheritance and development of Units of the Korean People’s Bureau scrupulously organizes discussed issues. China and Russia, to receive the DPRK-Russia and DPRK- Army restored dozens-of- the transport of cement, They also emphasized the the Chairman courteously China friendship. metres-long banks with structural steel and other need to expand and strengthen and accompany him all the thousands of cubic metres of materials needed for the relief the bilateral ties of friendship, way. And he personally sent a By Om Ryong PT earth and stones and opened effort in South Hamgyong transport routes. Builders of Province. the province and other working It ensures that engines pull power industry sector Complex have carried out the people in Sinhung County are more cargo than the standards The Central Committee plans for each process ahead pressing on with the rebuilding every day and schedules Nationwide of the General Federation of of schedule by waging a 24-7 of embankments extending for processes in a well-knit way Science and Technology of campaign at the construction hundreds of metres along the so as to send trains carrying Railroads reconditioned in Korea hosted a national sci- site of an energy-saving oxygen Songchon River after repairing cement and steel materials in Jagang tech presentation in the field of blast furnace. roads damaged by landslides. time. Jagang Province has repaired electric power industry through Members of youth shock Soldier builders have buckled It strictly examines the over 2 340 square metres of videoconferencing between brigades in coal mines have down to the building of walls technical conditions of retaining walls along the rail August 16 and 18. dynamically waged such mass and floors after carrying out engines and wagons, directs lines, supplemented the railway The presentation on the movements as the helping of the foundation work at the transport meticulously to bed with over 23 900 cubic theme of maintenance and next shift to fulfill their yearly construction site of multi-storey raise the traffic capacity and metres of gravel and produced reinforcement of production production plans ahead of apartment houses in the county concentrates efforts and means many railway fixing parts and foundation and optimization of schedule. town area, and the provincial on restoration of railways to sleepers. operation of power station was Amid the brisk youth shock working people have carried ensure on-schedule arrival of Meanwhile, many trees of aimed at exchanging rational brigade activities, nearly 2 out their daily assignments trains at afflicted areas. good species were planted sci-tech plans for generating 000 young people have carried over 1.2 times at apartment around railway stations and more electricity and widely out their two-years’ or yearly house construction sites. KCNA along railroads. introducing and generalizing national economic plans and them to sufficiently meet over 15 300 fulfilled their first Highly-efficient compound the demand of the national half-yearly national economic nutrient developed economy for electricity. plans ahead of schedule. The industrial crop institute Over 60 sci-tech hits were of the Academy of Agricultural presented by scientists, Technical innovations for Science developed Kaengsaeng technicians and members of increased cement output 1, a new generation of the three-revolution teams The Chonnaeri Cement compound nutrient. from over a dozen units. Factory is stepping up the The nutrient is mainly technical modernization of its composed of various amino Youth shock brigade overall production processes, acids, enzymes and fulvic activities gain momentum while implementing its cement acid and rationally contains Over 200 000 young people production plan at over 105 microelements and different have joined the youth shock percent every month. kinds of rare-earth elements, brigade activities throughout It is now solving technical and makes it possible to the country up to now since problems arising in the increase grain and vegetable the 10th congress of the youth operation of the fire brick outputs per hectare by over 10 league held at the end of April burning process based on a new and 30 percent respectively in this year. combustion technology and the the barren land. Members of the Kim Jin coal pulverization process. Youth Shock Brigade at the Visitors look round fine art pieces at the Okryu Exhibition Hall Sci-tech presentation held in Hwanghae Iron and Steel THE PYONGYANG TIMES in a show held to mark the 74th anniversary of Pyongyang University of Fine Arts. Sat, August 21, Juche 110 (2021) Page 3 Rabbit rearing carried on, yielding solid results Good breeds raised The breeding stock farm built in the Pyongyang Municipal Rural Economy Committee has rabbit hutches covering several hundred square metres and is equipped with feed processing and anti-epizootic facilities. Growing there are hundreds of mother rabbits of good breeds that are high in meat and fur productivity, breeding rate and disease resistance and low in feed consumption. “Most important is to provide them with adequate nutrition during and after the breeding period,” said Rim Myong Il, an official of the livestock farming department. The farm raises the fattening rate of rabbits by feeding them on the lumps of a mixture of boiled ground bean, rice bran and grass and improves their nutrition by giving them a swelling feed. It pays particular attention to anti-epizootic work especially in summer season. It regularly sterilizes rabbit Rabbit-raising is in vogue across the DPRK at farms, establishments, families and schools. coops with flame, ultraviolet rays Hutches are fully dried in and indigenous microorganisms itself. the yard by avoiding direct and takes thorough anti- Young rabbits of good breeds sun every day, except on rainy epizootic measures by applying produced in the farm are supplied A family good at rabbit days. preventive medicines made by to several stockbreeding units. In the evening ash of coal is rearing spread on the floors of hutches to sterilize them. There is a family good pleasure in rearing them and “Leverets grow healthy and Healthy rabbits reared at raising rabbits in Sinmi- decided to do massive raising. strong when they are given an ri, Hyongjesan District, The family secured good seed appropriate amount of milk Pyongyang. rabbits and multiplied them according to the standard chart with help of microbe It is the family of Pak Yong every year. indicating the daily quantity Min, farmer at the Sinmi They use as feed the grass of milk and fattening rate,” “In the rainy season, rabbits chance to visit a unit and learn Vegetable Cooperative Farm. from their kitchen garden, by- said Sok Yon Ok, mother of are highly vulnerable to various from its experience in rabbit The family has dozens of products from cooking and the Pak. diseases including coccidiosis. rearing such as reducing the hutches in which over 100 like. “Rabbit breeding is very So we are trying hard to put death rate by using indigenous rabbits are growing. They pay special attention helpful to enriching our life and rabbit breeding on a scientific microorganisms.” “It was a few years ago when to preventing the animals from I can frequently prepare rabbit basis so as to prevent such On that basis, the school my family started to raise catching diseases. dishes for my grandchildren. diseases,” said Pak Yon Ho, purchased necessary substrates rabbits on a large scale,” said Pak said rabbit diseases can It’s beneficial, indeed,” she headmaster of Paegyang Senior and confirmed the composition Pak. effectively be prevented by added. Middle School in Ryongsong rate of fermenting agent and As the number of rabbits feeding about a-month-olds Pak’s family produces over 1 District, Pyongyang. substrate. increased from the initial ten antibiotics and cleaning hutches 000 young rabbits a year with The school is well known “Since we started using the to twenty, his mother found and drying them up every day. some 30 breeding rabbits. across the country as a leading indigenous microorganism, unit in rabbit rearing. rabbits grow well free from of the meat blends in well with Its rabbit house is equipped disease,” said teacher Kim Sun those of dates, ginkgo nuts and with all necessary facilities Hyang. Restaurant lures customers chestnuts,” said chef An Hyang including a hygienic passing According to her, it is also Mi. room and sterilizing room as very effective in the rearing of The rabbit soup which well as rabbit hutches. breeding rabbits in winter. with signature rabbit dishes has remarkable tonic effects They raise different varieties Covering the floor of hutches after illness is also good for of rabbits, some of which weigh with the substrate treated with Rabbit dish is widely known Among them, the rabbit soup, the treatment of heart and over 5 kilograms when fully indigenous microorganisms as good for health. registered as a famous food circulatory diseases. grown. ensures an appropriate “Demand for rabbit dishes of Korea, is rated as the best “The mouth-watering rabbit What is noticeable in their temperature in them and removes is on the rise as research into health-promoting food. soup is good to eat and very rabbit breeding method is the smell of excrement. traditional national dishes is “What is important in preparing digestible as the meat is soft the application of indigenous As substrates are made from intensified and the medicinal a nice rabbit soup is to butcher and it is best for recuperation,” microorganisms. fallen leaves easily obtainable effects of rabbit dishes are the animal properly not to burst said Choe Chon Su, resident “In the past, we purchased in surrounding hills, the school scientifically ascertained,” said its bladder and completely of Ryomyong-dong, Taesong rabbits of good breeds and never runs out of material but Ri Yu Mi, chief of the Taesong remove its blood. When a certain District. built fine hutches but we still makes profits with little labour. Rabbit Restaurant in Taesong amount of radish slices are put in The restaurant was highly had difficulties in increasing While breeding rabbits, District, Pyongyang. the pot before boiling the meat, appreciated for the soup at the number of rabbits due students cultivate a patriotic The restaurant has been there will be no impure taste and different cooking festivals and to the effects of seasons mind that they give the country specializing in rabbit dishes for the meat is fully boiled and good competitions. and various diseases,” said what little help they can offer, decades and the menu includes to eat. The flavour of the soup Pak. “At that time, we had a said Pak. over ten categories of dishes. is enhanced as the original taste By Chae Hyang Ok PT Page 4 Sat, August 21, Juche 110 (2021)

AFFORESTATION PROFILE Rangers tend green forests to Woman ensures domestic benefit locals production of insulating bricks findings on insulating brick The forests throughout the Forestry Management Station, fruit tree forests as he led locals were issued, its mass production country are getting greener who has tended green forests to fulfil their responsibility based on domestic materials had thanks to the patriotic mind of through generations, planted and duty as the performers of not been realized. forest rangers who devote their mixed forests in the section afforestation. After painstaking quest and sincerity while regarding every in his charge, made different The ranger at the branch office efforts, she established an single tree and every single vegetable growth accelerators for the control of reservoir forest insulating brick production blade of grass like their own and microbial agrochemicals reserve under the Sijung County process based on white soot, flesh. that meet geographical Forestry Management Station, before making trial products The chief of the Jongdong characteristics by his own effort, who has steadily pushed the and going to the Pyongyang branch forest control office at the used them to create and protect planting and management of Thermal Power Station so as to Phyonggang County Forestry forests and laid a foundation woodland for the section of introduce it. Management Station, who has for the settlement of firewood reserved forests near reservoirs, “Every sci-tech research grown hundreds of hectares problem for the life of locals. produced over ten tons of wild finding would be impractical of Korean larch and pine-nut Among the patriots who have fruits last year to benefit the and empty talk, if it is not forests for 20 years together devoted their whole lives to county population. introduced into reality no matter with his family members, has protecting forests while taking The chief of a post at the how valuable it may look. I sent wood which was produced preventive measures against the Ryanggang provincial forest There is a woman who strives wanted to prove my research at the woodland in his charge destructive elements of forests management bureau has planted to ease the strains on electric success in reality,” said Hyon. to the construction sites in including wildfire according to a pine-nut trees and other species power supply in the country. The old insulation walls of the province and county, and well thought-out plan, there is a of wild fruit trees in the forests She is Hyon Ok Ju (pictured), a boiler were pulled down and contributed greatly to protecting forest ranger at the Kwangyang in his charge and produced many manager of the thermal the walls were built with newly- useful animals as well. branch forest control office saplings in the tree nursery built insulation building materials made insulating bricks, then the The wild fruits collected from of the Yonsa County Forestry by his own effort. branch factory of the Pyongyang combustion efficiency of the over 900 hectares of forests Management Station. Many forest rangers turn Thermal Power Station. boiler began to rise. created by the forest ranger The forest ranger of the the forests in their charge into Earlier, she worked as director “I was very happy to see of the Maun branch forest Tachon branch forest control “gold and treasure mountains”, of an analysis station. electricity production increase. control office of the Junghwa office of the Kowon County including those at the Sugu Though insulating brick was At the thought that I did County Forestry Management Forestry Management Station branch forest control office of not her major, she set foot on something helpful to relieving Station prove effective in the has made strenuous efforts the Kujang County Forestry the area under the influence of power shortage in the country, improvement of the county for over 20 years to grow tens Management Station and the her father. the pains I had taken so far people’s livelihood. of millions of tree saplings Yangsung branch forest control “My father had long seemed to turn into a happy A forest ranger of the Kaechon while putting main stress on office of the Toksong County researched insulating brick. He memory. And I felt an urge to City Forestry Management improving the rooting rate of Forestry Management Station would say that if insulating brick dedicate my all to this place,” Station planted different kinds young saplings. and the chief of the Sajong consisting of thermal insulating she added. of wild fruit tree forests while The ranger of the Chongsu branch forest control office of materials is applied to the boiler, Therefore, Ok Ju became an manuring and tending trees in a branch forest control office the Singye County Forestry combustion efficiency would be employee of the power plant responsible manner. of the Sakju County Forestry Management Station. enhanced and environmental and afterwards an insulating The ranger in Ungok- Management Station turned the pollution prevented,” recalled brick workteam was set up there ri of the Chongdan County forests in his charge into wild By Jong Chol PT Hyon. before being expanded into a She succeeded to her father’s branch factory. FOODSTUFF Chol, staffer at the technical research project. She went to other thermal department. During her study she drew a power stations to help them In addition, the factory conclusion that insulating brick build insulating brick production Factory improves upgraded different processes could be made from white soot processes. including production processes from a thermal power station Hyon Ok Ju is continuing of various highly nutritious and locally-abundant clay with her research to improve the quality of sugar instant grain foods and a glucose no additive. technical specifications of the packing process. At the beginning, some insulating brick. The Pyongyang Cornstarch making the reagent and sodium technicians regarded it as a Factory in Songyo District, carbonate needed for glucose By Jong Hwa Sun PT fancy. Though many research By Kim Il Jin PT Pyongyang, introduces various production. technical innovation plans to The introduction of these improve the quality of sugar. techniques has halved the sugar BAG The factory developed an production cost as compared enzyme essential for oktang to previously and ensured its sugar production with domestic quality indexes. Technical innovation campaign raw materials and established “Now that we can turn out a technique for culturing the sugar, our main index, as we enzyme. like, we have a solid foundation becomes mass-based It also developed techniques for activating the production of to use domestic raw materials in confectionery,” said Jon Tong The Sinuiju Bag Factory in of new designs, improvement of the designs presented by some North Phyongan Province has the quality of products, lowering technicians at the technical led others in the annual national of costs, training of skilled preparation department, but bag exhibition for several workers, domestic production now good designs created by years. of equipment and raw and other other employees are applied to “All the employees take an materials and recycling. production, she added. active part in developing new The factory ran its sci-tech Through the mass technical technologies and introducing learning space on a regular innovation drive, the factory them into production. This basis to encourage technical produces more than 10 kinds is how we can set the pace study and diffusion, made sure of consumer goods with scraps for others in bag production that each experienced worker and makes plastic core needed throughout the country,” said took charge of a novice to train for bag production. manager Pak Jong Chol. them and quarterly arranged an “We now have many things to According to him, the factory examination to assess the state do including the establishment has encouraged not only of training skilled workers. of a process for producing technicians and skilled workers, “In this course, all the compressed sponge and the but all other employees to join employees improved their work to increase the varieties the technical innovation drive. technical knowledge and of consumer goods by using The subjects of such plans skills,” said workteam leader various by-products,” said the cover every domain of work Sin Kwang Suk. manager. RYU KWANG HYOK Two technicians test enzyme activity at a lab of the Pyongyang from production to business In the past, bag production Cornstarch Factory. management, including making was carried on according to By Ri Sang Il PT Sat, August 21, Juche 110 (2021) Page 5

GREENING Rungna and other islets new standards for urban and were developed into parks and environmental management and cultural and recreation grounds pay close attention to cultured A city in the park of the people and a series of environmental management landscaping projects were including landscaping. undertaken continuously to go According to information Pyongyang is now in green and recreation grounds are also As he assigned designers the well with streets. available, more than 400 000 foliage. adorned with various species of task of drawing up the master As he looked round the trees and lots of ground-cover Wherever you go, roadside trees and flowering shrubs. plan for the reconstruction of construction site of the Pothong plants were planted in a large trees line the streets, providing Pyongyang has favourable Pyongyang in 1951 in the thick Riverside Terraced Houses area and millions of flowering passers-by with cool shade with conditions for landscaping of war, President Kim Il Sung District last March, the respected plants produced to decorate their green leaves, and flowers as Mt Taesong, Moran Hill, said that the capital city has Comrade Kim Jong Un said flowerbeds and flowerpot stands are in full bloom on flower beds Mansu Hill, Mt Changgwang, many scenic places for building that landscaping around the in the urban management sector and flowerpot stands and in the Namsan and Jangdae hills, Mt parks and pleasure grounds, residential district should be this year. middle of green areas, giving Haebang and other mountains emphasizing the need to create designed well and parks on the Pyongyang Municipality is delight to the viewers. and hills adjoin the other along greenbelts in a large area and banks of the river built more now putting efforts into the Up on Choesung Pavilion at the Taedong River which flows plant many trees of various wonderfully to provide residents greening of roofs of dwelling the top of Moran Hill covered through the city centre. species. with great convenience in their houses and planting of street with flowers you can command But the beauty of green Later, Pyongyang has actually life and improve the natural trees and hedges. a bird’s eye view of the Pyongyang is not merely the been turned into a city in the environment. And he specially greenbelts, parks, the fountains provision of nature. park. emphasized the need to set By Ri Sung Ik PT spewing out water into the sky from the Taedong River and thickly wooded Mt Taesong, experiencing unusual feeling about nature. The beauty of Pyongyang thick with luxuriant foliage in midsummer differs from one street to another with their unique charms. Along the Changgwang food alley line zelkova trees widely spreading out their leafy branches. Chollima Street has an impressive array of ginkgo trees with countless small fan-shaped leaves “fanning” themselves uninterruptedly, the branches of willow trees on the banks of the Pothong and Taedong rivers droop over the water and Moran Hill boasts the features of traditional natural scenery of RI KWANG SONG / PICTORIAL DPR Korea the nation. Other streets, parks A panoramic view of Rungna Islet from Pyongyang’s Moran Hill in luxuriant foliage. Theme parks attract visitors Flower arrangements add The Mansudae fountain- There are dozens of people with a more flower park located in the such parks in Pyongyang. wholesome ecological beauty to streets centre of Pyongyang now Each one varies environment for a life full draws lots of visitors as it according to theme. As of cultured emotions and Pyongyang streets distinctive style this at the centre and it is is thick with foliage with seen above, the Mansudae feelings. are now decorated with year,” said Sin Jong surrounded by various flowers in full bloom. fountain-flower park is a “Urban schoolchildren distinctive flower beds Nam, manager of the kinds of flowering plants. The park consists of combination of the features who have less contact and flowerpot stands, Phyongchon District And the flowerpot stand different types of rest of the fountains and with nature become bringing joy to citizens. Floricultural Farm. made by weaving willow sections, a flower garden, flowering plants. There familiar with plants and What are eye-catching Streets have been branches has unique flowerbeds and flowerpot are also a flower park insects as they see flowers are baskets arranged with brightened by the decoration effects. stands centring around a which provides a variety appearing according various flowers to go hexagonal flowerpot Streets of Ryokpho rhythmic fountain. of relaxing environments to seasons, bees and well with the surrounding stands put up in the District have also been Visitors seat themselves in resting places with butterflies in such parks environment, mobile Puksong-dong area in the decorated with flowering in resting places shaded only greens and flowering and recreation grounds,” flowerpot stands, large district and the flowerpot plants in a novel, by coloured glass and shrubs and a sports park said Kim Pom Sun, flowerpots and floral stands made of plant parts distinctive style. wisteria to enjoy the view in which various sporting teacher at Okryu Primary decorations made by at the roadsides. In Mangyongdae of the rhythmic fountains apparatuses and resting School in Taedonggang applying plastic arts. The hexagonal District a flower garden is throwing up a spray sites go well with the District, Pyongyang. “Our floricultural farm flowerpot stand has a being remodelled afresh. of water and beautiful green environment. made over 80 special magnolia, the national flowers. Such parks provide By Sin Pyol PT flowerpot stands in a flower of the DPRK, By Ri Myong Jun PT

From left: Mansudae fountain-flower park. Roses in full bloom add more beauty to Pyongyang. Page 6 Sat, August 21, Juche 110 (2021) EATERY EDUCATION Changgwang food alley still Teacher devotes herself at draws many citizens remote mountain village Ro Yong Bok has been including physics that students apricot seed tea and sunflower teaching for 16 years at Yaksan find it hard to understand. seed tea of the Unjong Teahouse Senior Middle School in “Practice makes perfect. So are very popular with a wide Nyongbyon County. I usually organize experiments range of customers. She made remarkable and practical training by The restaurants specializing educational successes even old bringing teaching contents in Chinese and Western foods teachers would be surprised closer to the reality so as to also draw many diners. at, though her career was not make students experience what The Zhajiang House longer than that of those who they have learned at lessons,” specializing in Chinese cuisines devoted their whole life to she said. serves over a dozen kinds of education. To fully understand students’ foods like chow mein, broiled She created dozens of psychology is one of her jiaozi and roast duck and its new educational methods, priorities. service environment is also delivered scores of county-level She always places herself special. demonstration lectures, earned into students’ position to make Celebrating lanterns, lighting, the title of central October students have interest in lessons kitchen utensils, dining tables 8 model lecturer, first-class to suit their psychology. and all other interior designs teacher’s qualification and so Always making exact and environment are provided on. demands on herself, she has PAK KWANG HUN in Chinese style and waitresses Such successes are attributed never neglected attention to Diners have lunch at the Zhajiang House in Changgwang food also serve the diners, wearing to her painstaking speculation education and edification for alley. cheongsam, traditional Chinese and efforts. students even when she got Over 20 restaurants stand “Still vivid in my memory is women’s dress. “In fact, I had no idea sick. side by side on both sides the time when I came here for According to Ryu Kum Sun, to become a teacher after Thanks to her efforts, the of Changgwang Street of the first time. I wanted to visit manageress of the restaurant, graduating from a university. class in her charge has always Pyongyang, which serve all the restaurants here because customers came to have But I came to this remote won good results at the school- different kinds of dishes their styles made me feel as if knowledge of the food culture mountain village following wide academic contest. including traditional and world I could savour the pleasant and and dishes of China as they my husband after marriage “My desire as an educationist cuisines. sweet flavour of all the dishes. enjoyed Chinese cuisine. and I took it as my duty to is to teach students to give “Decades have passed since Since I tasted the dish of the Dozens of kinds of dishes become a teacher,” said Ro satisfaction to the respected they opened and now many Rice-Cake Soup House on lunar are served in the Western food Yong Bok. Comrade Kim Jong Un,” said famous restaurants cater to New Year’s eve, I have become house, including pizza, pickled Ro graduated from Ro Yong Bok. the citizens in all parts of a regular of this food alley,” seafood, fried drumstick, Kim Il Sung University. Pyongyang. But still there is said Yang Chol Ryong living in steamed calf of pig, broiled She teaches natural science By Kim Rye Yong PT no other street with restaurants, Ryonhwa-dong No. 2 of Central celery with minced beef each specializing in one cuisine, District, Pyongyang. and seasoned potato with standing in rows on both sides,” The restaurants in the mayonnaise. said Ryang Yun Mi, a service Changgwang food alley mainly Ri Il Sim, resident of Yokjon- staffer at the Changgwang Public serve traditional foods including dong in Central District, Catering Service Management uncurdled bean curd soup, Pyongyang, said that her whole Agency. entrails soup, catfish soup, family often visit it to enjoy Though more than 10 rice-cake soup and mung-bean traditional Korean and world years have passed since pancake. cuisines in the restaurants of they were modernized, the At the outdoor stalls, the Changgwang food alley on restaurants preserve their customers are served different holidays or Sundays. original architectural styles and foods made on the spot, and charming features. green tea, black tea, fruit punch, By Kwon Hyo Song PT

ALTRUISM Hamgyong Provincial People’s Hospital donated their skin for a dying patient and a workteam Virtues widely leader of the August 28 Youth KIM RYE YONG Shock Brigade sacrificed Ro Yong Bok, teacher at Yaksan Senior Middle School herself to save a shock brigade in Nyongbyon County, helps students study during an promoted member under her charge from extracurricular lesson. an unexpected danger. Noble virtues and traits have were the couple who serve her A switchman at the Tanchon become commonplace in the as their own mother at home, railway branch bureau jumped Programmes upgraded DPRK. those who have taken good care into the river to save a drowning Shortly ago, an old woman of her for dozens of years since student and an employee of the living in Sojang-dong, they formed connections with North Hamgyong provincial for postgraduates Pothonggang District of her, disciples of her husband, a medical source mobilization Pyongyang, celebrated her general of the Korean People’s company unhesitatingly leaped “One of important things in and practical and teaching birthday amid the blessings of Army and meritorious persons. from an elevated bridge into building up the ranks of teachers qualifications. many well-wishers. It really touched the heart of all the water to rescue a drowning at universities of education and To this end, the universities She had devoted herself to to see them call her “mother” child. teachers training colleges is to that play the role of the hub of taking good care of her husband, with warm affection and say Players of the Suyangsan boldly innovate the teaching learning in the teacher training an honoured disabled soldier happy birthday to her. Sports Club rushed without programmes of postgraduate sector are fulfilling their and writer, for dozens of years All the Korean people delay to extinguish the forest courses,” said an official of the responsibility and duty, while and done a lot of good things for regard their society as a large fire which broke out in a forest Education Commission. developing new subjects of society after his death. harmonious family. reserve around Mt Suyang The contents of postgraduate educational science including “Though I lost my husband All of them share a common during their training in the education have been further educational comparative science who was the main support and idea that there must never be a mountain. subdivided. and decision-making theory. pillar of my life and have so far man who live in gloom in it. They were in their teens and Teaching contents have been Universities of education lived without children, I have Therefore, young men and twenties. expanded so that new subjects and teachers training colleges never felt lonely or unhappy,” women happily marry special- All the heroes of these in the fields of pedagogy across the country pay constant said So Jae Ryol in her eighties. class honoured disabled soldiers laudable deeds have one thing in can be created, cutting- attention to supplementing the “Because many people have and help others sincerely common—that they take them edge and cross-disciplinary latest scientific achievement become my family members despite their own difficulties, as a matter of course and do not sciences can be pushed back data to the teaching programmes and children and grandchildren feeling their sufferings as their think of them as something self- and postgraduates in the of special and selective and showed love of my own own. sacrificing or heroic. teacher training sector can subjects. flesh and blood to me.” This year alone over 140 acquire appropriate political Among the many well-wishers doctors and nurses of the North By Kil Chung Il PT and theoretical, scientific By Pang Un Ju PT Sat, August 21, Juche 110 (2021) Page 7 CHILD RIGHTS Briefly Child protection, shared responsibility Iran President calls for regional cooperation for international community Iranian President Seyed Ebrahim Raisi at the talks ccording to foreign The Russian presidential On August 3, Uzbekistan and middle schools for orphans, with the Iraqi foreign minister media, 100 children envoy for the rights of the approved as a cabinet decision Okryu Children’s Hospital and on August 10 called for Awere recently killed by child said all issues concerning the regulations on running schoolchildren’s palaces. enhancing dialogue and an armed attack on refugees in a children require urgent solution preschool educational courses And children in the northern cooperation between countries public health facility and school and practical measures, adding by mobile groups by bus free of flood-stricken areas of the in the region. in northern Ethiopia and over that the document will be helpful charge and introduced them into country enjoyed camping as Collective cooperation is 160 000 children are suffering in resolving specific problems several regions of the country. a state measure and teachers a prerequisite to achieving from hunger on their way to concerning all children. In the DPRK, it is one of the training colleges were security and peace and refuge from disputes. The Uzbek chief delegate most important Party and state wonderfully upgraded. promoting the welfare of the In South Sudan one in ten for the rights of the child noted affairs to protect the children’s The Korea Rehabilitation Centre people, he said, urging regional children lose their lives before that the protocol is an apparent rights and improve their living for Children with Disabilities was countries to solve complex five due to the protracted legal document in solving the conditions. established and projects are under problems through dialogue dispute, coupled with natural problem of protecting the rights A crucial decision on feeding way to get disabled children ready and improve relations. disasters, and about 1.4 million and interests of the children of dairy products to children for receiving school education children are expected to suffer immigrants. across the country was made like normal children under the Palestine severe malnutrition this year. The Ugandan government in June and it is now being state concern. Israel’s settlement project The reality urgently demands expressed its will to study effective implemented dynamically on a The Korean children are denounced children’s rights be fully joint measures for the prevention of nationwide scale. now leading a happy life free The Palestinian presidential guaranteed and their living violence against children, work out In the past ten years alone, the from worries at nurseries, office published a statement conditions improved. a new strategic plan for providing universal 12-year compulsory kindergartens and schools under on August 12 to condemn the In early August, Uzbekistan and safe educational environment education was introduced in the the care of the state despite the Israeli plan for building Jewish Russia signed a protocol on mutual and implement it in cooperation DPRK and childcare facilities worldwide public health crisis settlements. understanding and cooperation in with several international sprang up in succession and natural disasters. It said that the Israeli the field of protection of children’s organizations including UNICEF throughout the country authorities now plan to build rights and interests. and UNESCO. including orphanages, primary By Min Chol PT 2 200 new houses in the West Bank. JAPAN Zimbabwe President calls for united efforts for national Exhibition accentuates diametrically different development The Zimbabwean President in a speech delivered on the approaches to sinful past occasion of hero’s day on August 9 appealed to his n exhibition was community. Both Germany and Japan are “their service in the war”. countrymen to make devoted recently held on the According to the curator of the war criminal states of WWII. The sex slavery crime is not efforts for the development of Atheme of history of museum, the minister in charge of But they have completely what fades away and alters as a the country. war or violence at the national culture of the Japanese embassy contrary views on the past result of negation or evasion of The heroes of the past museum in Dresden in eastern in Germany sent a letter to the history. Germany admitted responsibility. generation fought to the death Germany. museum asking it to withdraw the crime it committed during Underlying Japan’s perverse for national liberation, he said, On display were materials on the monument one day before the the Nazi period and made an view is the pining for the past adding all the people should damage from war or violence press conference for the opening apology and reparations to the when it ruled other countries build a modernized and around the world, including of the exhibition was held. This international community on and nations by occupying them developed country in order to the holocaust by the Nazis in was followed by the coming of several occasions. However, and the sinister design to repeat glorify their noble spirit. Dresden during the Second over a hundred emails containing Japan has not admitted its crime, the history of aggression. World War, and a monument similar message a day, the head but tries to distort history as it “Through the exhibition I China dedicated to the memory of of the museum said. imbues rising generations with keenly realized the importance FM decries Japanese victims of sex slavery for the So the museum side requested a wrong outlook on history. and difficulty of maintaining politicians’ shrine visit Japanese imperial army. the local authorities to conduct It shamelessly justifies its past a right attitude under pressure. A spokesman for the Chinese It is said to be the first time for an investigation and asked the history of aggression, saying Many visitors said they came Ministry of Foreign Affairs on the monument to be displayed in Japanese embassy to discontinue there is no need to feel guilty to know the ‘comfort women’ August 15 dubbed the recent a public museum of Germany. sending emails repeatedly. But about the bygones and insists issue for the first time and Japanese Prime Minister’s It is a reflection of the the embassy replied they did that the Japanese should not be sympathized with the victims. offerings and some cabinet aspiration of the international not send them every time. Only destined to keep apologizing as The display of the monument members’ and dietmen’s community toward atoning with the help of the German 80 percent of its population are brought about great changes and visit to the Yasukuni Shrine for the past wrongs, drawing a Foreign Ministry did the email the post-war generations. continues to produce changes,” as a disgrace to history and lesson from them and building influx discontinue. And it insults the victims of said the curator. justice. a peaceful society free from war It is a typical example the sex slavery as “prostitutes” Japan ought to make a sincere He said that the behaviour and violence. showing Japan’s approach to its and argues that the wartime rape apology for the past unheard-of of Japanese politicians Japan, however, applied sinful past. does not constitute a war crime crimes with a guilty conscience concerning the shrine pressure on the museum both During the exhibition, the or an unethical crime. and atone for them, instead of issue showed their wrong overtly and covertly to remove museum invited Japan to a It has gone to such lengths negating the clearly evident and attitude toward the history of the monument during the round table conference and as to forbid the use of the undeniable fact. aggression. exhibition by running counter to forum for discussing the culture expression “sex slaves” and is the aspiration of the international of memory, but was refused. now trying to remove the word By Song Jong Ho PT Kenya Afforestation underway RECYCLING Kenya is channelling efforts city will be able to daily treat into implementing the strategy 3 000 tons of waste to produce of increasing the forest cover electricity when complete. rate by 10 percent till 2022. Nations direct efforts to recycling Austria recently succeeded The government is taking in making trainers with waste. steps to lay foundations roactive efforts are being quantities of waste. carry 500 tons of household More than 90 percent of their for producing 2.5-3 billion made around the world to Shanghai increased the waste to a recycling factory materials are said to be plastic saplings a year at a forest Pconvert different kinds of number of factories that collect every day. waste from the sea, scrapped research institute and provide waste into resources. cloth scraps to make various The factory turns the waste shoes and recycled cloths. necessary funds. Beijing of China built over 1 kinds of goods including clothes, into 70-75 tons of organic An electronic waste treatment It called on all residents to 200 refuse heaps and set up or scarves, pouches, pillows and manure and 15 tons of useful facility was inaugurated in turn out in afforestation. remodelled more than 60 000 gloves. materials. Uganda. dustbins from May last year to In Istanbul, the largest city in A waste incinerating facility THE PYONGYANG TIMES date to collect and reuse large Turkey, about 80 garbage trucks that is now being built in the By Choe Yong Nam PT Page 8 Sat, August 21, Juche 110 (2021)

ICH Time-honoured city of Kaesong Folk songs with distinctly preserved in original state national flavour Among the invaluable spiritual songs in the region, the song was and cultural assets of the Korean widely sung in rural areas where nation are folk songs. local farmers were busy with The northwestern provinces rice-transplanting, weeding, grass of Korea consisting of today’s cutting and other farm work. North and South Phyongan, A story is still told in Jagang, North and South Ryonggang and Kangso areas Hwanghae provinces are widely about “ginari” that the song known as the place where folk sung by two weeding girls part Kaesong, which is about King Kyonghyo (1330-1374), Songgyungwan in its original songs have fully developed by part was so pleasant that 160km south of Pyongyang, is the 31st king of Koryo, and state. It was the highest from olden times in Korea. even passers-by stopped to hear a city with a history of over 1 Manwoltae, royal palace site of educational institute of the Yangsando is a typical folk it without noticing that it got 100 years. the kingdom. Koryo feudal state and it can be song of the northwestern dark. Well over a hundred historical The walled city of Kaesong is claimed to be one of the oldest provinces of Korea. Ballad of Phyongbuk sites have so far been surveyed comprised of the palace, keep universities of the world. Yangsan here is the Nyongbyon is a folk song and registered in the city and and outer castle. As the castle to Sungyang Confucian School abbreviation of such places as which sings of picturesque those from the period of Koryo defend the capital, the city walls was built in 1573 at the site Yangdok and Maengsan. Yaksandongdae in Nyongbyon Kingdom (918-1392), the first were erected between 1009 of the house of Jong Mong Ju The song graphically County of North Phyongan unified state of the Korean and 1029 and the South Gate (1337-1392), a high ranking describes the beautiful scenery Province. nation, take a larger proportion was built when the keep was Koryo official and competent of Yangdok, Maengsan and There is a beautiful mountain of them. The city had been the constructed between 1391 and military strategist and diplomat. Moran Hill in Pyongyang along in Nyongbyon, called Yaksan, capital of Koryo for nearly 500 1393. In the gatehouse of the There are many other the Taedong River. round which the clear water of years. South Gate there is the famous historical sites in Kaesong, such Folk songs in the region are the Kuryong River meanders. Koryo was remarkably bell which had hanged at the as the Kaesong Chomsongdae generally soft and beautiful in Yaksan is said to be derived advanced in handicrafts and Yonbok Temple. Observatory, Sonjuk Bridge, melody and bright and lively in from the fact that many species commerce and Kaesong was a The Seven Tombs Cluster at Monuments to Fidelity of emotion. of medicinal herbs grow and hub of trade in East Asia. the foot of Mt Mansu are tombs Jong Mong Ju and Myongrung The song is still performed mineral waters gush out there. The historical relics preserved from the Koryo period. The Cluster. Twelve of them in different forms to meet the The song sings of the beauty in the city provide a window owners of them are known as were inscribed in the world modern aesthetic taste. of Yaksandongdae covered with of opportunity for an in-depth related to the royal family at the cultural heritage list in 2013 as Ryonggangginari is one light-pink azaleas. study of the ancient civilization close of the Koryo period in the representative heritage elements of typical Korean folk songs Today it is mostly sung as a of the Korean nation. light of their scale and structure testifying to the culture and reflecting the diligent working solo by female folk singers. There are the mausoleum of and the relics discovered in history of Koryo. life of its people. King Wang Kon (877-943), the them. With excellent features of folk By Kim Kum Myong PT founder king of Koryo, that of Especially in the city there is By Min Chol PT CULINARY Famous dish of Pyongyang Hotel Pleurotus eryngii boiled down in soy sauce seasoned with oyster is particularly favoured by clients at the Pyongyang Hotel. The dish, which left a deep impression on diners for its special taste for many years of service, was recently registered AN YONG CHOL as a famous dish of the hotel Pleurotus eryngii and oyster restaurant. boiled down in soy sauce. Cook Ham Jong Ho explained seasoned with oyster into the pan its recipe, saying that Pleurotus to go on with roasting, pour the eryngii, which is widely used dark soy sauce and chicken broth in the dietary life of people, and boil it down for 15 minutes contains many different nutritive together with the mushroom. components including proteins. And then season it while putting At first, prepare Pleurotus farina solution, sesame oil and eryngii and soy sauce seasoned black pepper into it. with oyster as the main Meanwhile, parch rape in the materials, and use dark soy heated frying pan after applying sauce, salt, Welsh onion, black oil and then improve flavour pepper, monosodium glutamate, by adding salt, monosodium oil, sesame oil, chicken broth, glutamate and farina juice. rape, potato starch and ginger as It is served when it is hot after auxiliary food materials. putting the boiled mushroom on After cleanly washing the a plate, before sprinkling it with mushroom, cut it into slices and the starch juice and putting rape scald them in the boiling salt around it. water of 0.1 percent. Clean the The dish in red brown colour rape and then scald it. makes diners’ mouth water as Put oil in a frying pan, it presents savoury taste plus which has been heated to the chewing taste with the harmony temperature of 150oC, roast of little fishy soy sauce seasoned peeled ginger slices and Welsh with oyster. 1. Mausoleum of King Kyonghyo. 2. South Gate in Kaesong. 3. Koryo Songgyungwan. 4. Part onion cut into 1 cm sizes on it and of walled city of Kaesong. 5. Sungyang Confucian School. 6. Sonjuk Bridge. 7. Monuments to Fidelity of Jong Mong Ju. then take them out. Put soy sauce By Yun Ki Song PT

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