Democratic People’s Republic of Korea No. 11 (3 099) weekly http://www.pyongyangtimes.com.kp e-mail:[email protected] Sat, March 14, Juche 109(2020) Kim Jong Un oversees frontline artillery units’ live-fire drill and corps artillerymen’s competition Kim Jong Un, to opt for further chairman of the i n t e n s i f y i n g Workers’ Party of artillery training, Korea, chairman he put forward of the State Affairs highly important Commission of the tasks to be tackled DPRK and supreme in improving commander of the the quality of armed forces of the artillery training DPRK, directed and conducting it another fire strike under actual war drill of long-range conditions. artillery sub-units The might of of the Korean the artillery is just People’s Army on the power of our the front line on army, he said, Mar 9. stressing the need The purpose to set it as the most of the drill was important task in to inspect the the line of building surprise military the Juche-oriented c o u n t e r a t t a c k r e v o l u t i o n a r y capability of the armed forces to long-range artillery strengthen the units on the front. artillery force of Supreme Leader the KPA into the Kim Jong Un world’s strongest set forth battle arm everyone circumstances to is afraid of and the chief of the General Staff and demonstrating their combat power as highly appreciated the perfect continue to wage a vigorous struggle watched the drill. a-match-for-a-hundred artillerymen. operational readiness of the long- to this end. The frontline artillerymen hit the Expressing great satisfaction with range artillery sub-units on the front. target with marksmanship, fully the drill result, the Supreme Leader Referring to the need for the KPA SEE PAGE 2 Page 2 Sat, March 14, Juche 109(2020) Artillery competition: Supreme Leader guides live- fire competition FROM PAGE 1

Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un oversaw an artillery fire competition between the artillery units under the 7th and 9th corps of the Korean People’s Army on Mar 12. On his instruction, the corps commanders directly commanded the artillery fire at the observation post. The Supreme Leader received a report on the General Staff’s appraisal of the competition results from its chief. He praised the militant enthusiasm and attitude of the artillerymen who participated in the competition which was organized without prior notice. The 7th Corps overpowered the 9th Corps in the firing of artillery pieces of all calibres. Army General Pak Jong Chon, chief of the General Staff of the KPA, awarded the certificates, medals and badges of artillery marksmen to artillery battalions and companies under the 7th Corps which scored excellent marks in the competition. The Supreme Leader hoped that the day’s training would be an occasion for awakening the entire artillery of the KPA to its sense of mission once again and for firing it with the enthusiasm for training and competitive spirit. He specified important military tasks to be tackled in further bolstering the Juche- oriented artillery forces. KCNA

cherished desire of our nation, saw through the tricks and VIEW on our own by strengthening fake peace of the imperialists our motive force.” and maintained a position The line of self-reliance, of defending the DPRK’s British figure lauds Kim Jong Un which is an application of the independence, refusing to Juche idea, was also stressed accept one-sided unilateral at the 4th and the recent 5th disarmament that the US tried as successor to the cause of Juche plenary meetings of the 7th to impose on the DPRK. Central Committee of the We can never sell our dignity For eight years Marshal produced its own metro train reliance and self-development, Workers’ Party of Korea. which we have so far defended Kim Jong Un has led the DPRK and light aircraft. At the trial based on the principle that man Kim Jong Un has always as valuable as our own life, through immense challenges run of the new metro train is the master of his destiny and followed the people-orientated in the hope of gorgeous as the US-led imperialists in November 2015 he said, should carve out his destiny by policies that were established transformation, he said. This stepped up their attempts at “Our heroic and resourceful himself, inspired our people to by President Kim Il Sung and was a rejection of the false stifling the DPRK and Juche Kim Il Sung’s and become stronger than anyone Chairman Kim Jong Il. He promises of prosperity made by socialism as they not only Kim Jong Il’s working class, else in spiritual strength, not has always put the people’s the imperialists to the DPRK. wanted to destroy socialism in scientists and technicians knowing the word impossible, interests first and chastised In reality it would have meant any part of the world but were boundlessly faithful to the Party and to develop theirs into an those who practise bureaucracy. the restoration of capitalism and obsessed with the idea that a proved in practice, not with indisputably powerful nation. He has visited construction sites the enslavement of the Korean “fourth generation socialist words, that the words ‘proclivity “Today we have nothing many times and thrown his people by the imperialists and country” could not be tolerated to import’ should be eliminated but our own strength to rely energy into grand projects such international monopoly capital. and must be knocked down at from people’s minds through on. No one is willing to as the construction of Samjiyon It was very wise of him to see all costs (this idea is based on the successful trial operation.” help us and see our country City and the Yangdok Cultural through this and reject. Sadly, the theory of some reactionary At the 7th Congress reunified, powerful, well- Recreation Centre. some leaders of former socialist anti-communist ideologists of the Workers’ Party of off and flourishing. It is only He has shown himself to be a countries allowed themselves to in the West that a socialist Korea in May 2016 Marshal when we are possessed of most shrewd and astute leader be fooled by the imperialists. country cannot last beyond Kim Jong Un made it clear the spirit of self-reliance and who has maintained a most Marshal Kim Jong Un is the one or two generations). how important self-reliance self-development that we sturdy independence whilst at great revolutionary successor to He has carried forward the and self-development are, can go through any trials and the same time boldly expanding the Juche cause. ideas, policies and lines of saying “The history of the hardships and achieve the the external relations of the President Kim Il Sung and Korean revolution is the one greatest success even in the DPRK. Dr Dermot Hudson, Chairman Kim Jong Il, which of self-development; the worst conditions. We should Over the past few years he president of the Association have at their core the Juche revolution was pioneered and reject big-power worship visited Russia, Singapore, for the Study of Songun Politics idea. has advanced victoriously by and dependence on foreign Vietnam and China. However, UK, He has always stressed self- means of it. The basis of this forces, and push ahead with he does not copy any of these chairman of the Juche Idea reliance, self-development spirit is the great leaders’ building a powerful socialist countries but sticks to the stand Study Group of England, and self-sufficiency, saying revolutionary idea that a country with our own strength, of Juche firmly adhering to chairman of the UK Korean that the Juche character is the country must carry out the technology and resources and building Korean style, Juche- Friendship Association and nature of socialism. He also revolution on its own, and the in the revolutionary spirit of based socialism rather than chairman of the British said that the inclination towards form of struggle for applying self-reliance and fortitude. We any foreign model. He has held Solidarity Committee for importing should be ended. He it is self-reliance and fortitude. should also achieve national two summits and one meeting Peace and Reunification on the was delighted when the DPRK The great leaders’ spirit of self- reunification, the long- with US president Trump but Korean Peninsula Sat, March 14, Juche 109(2020) Page 3

POWER PREVENTION Minor power plant projects Nationwide efforts to pushed to enhance capacity prevent COVID-19 According to media, every the first half of this year. At to give the fullest play to their province is pushing ahead with the construction site of Hungju existing power generating the construction of small- and Youth Power Station Unit 5, capacity. medium-sized hydropower whose construction started The Pukchang and Pyongyang stations in order to ease in November last year, the thermal power complexes and electricity shortage by local excavation for the foundations the Chongchongang Thermal efforts. of the dam and generator room Power Station are pressing on Kangwon Province cut has reached a 70 percent level, with undertakings for recovering through a thousands-of-metre- while the concrete placing for the original performance of long waterway tunnel for the dam is being stepped up boilers as they replace high- the Munchon Army-People simultaneously. pressure drawn pipes and air Power Station after finishing North Phyongan Province preheaters with new ones. the Ichon Army-People Power is pressing on with the The Sunchon Thermal Hygienic and anti-epidemic personnel disinfect a park in Station project this year and the construction of such minor Power Station carries on the Pyongyang to prevent novel coronavirus infection. building of waterway tunnels power stations as Kujang remodelling of feed pumps Amid the nationwide convenience of its employees and dams is being carried on for Youth Power Station Unit to increase the output of each emergency campaign to prevent under medical observation, Kosong, Sepho, Phyonggang 2 and Phihyon Power generator, while the East COVID-19 in the DPRK, while the South Phyongan and Hoeyang army-people Station Unit 2, while South Pyongyang and other thermal Pyongyang has deployed Provincial People’s Security power stations. Hamgyong, North Hwanghae power stations push the projects loudspeaker vans in public Bureau has supplied those Builders of Hungju Youth and South Phyongan provinces for increasing generating places to inform citizens of the under medical observation with Power Station Unit 4 in are expediting the building of efficiency. routes of spread, symptoms staple and subsidiary foods and Jagang Province introduced several other power stations. The general overhaul of of outbreak and preventive the like. construction methods capable According to an official of hydropower structures is under measures against novel The Sinuiju Hotel has arranged of markedly reducing the the Ministry of Electric Power way at different power stations coronavirus and given wide birthday spreads for more than consumption of cement, steel Industry, the completion of in Jagang Province. publicity to the reports and 20 people in quarantine. materials and timber, thereby minor power stations planned Meanwhile, power plants in presentations about infected The DPRK strictly abides completing the building of for this year will add over 100 North Hwanghae Province have cases around the world and new by rules in releasing from hydraulic structures ahead 000kW of power generation put water conservation on a aspects of spread through large- quarantine the persons of of schedule, and are now capacity to the nation. scientific basis by introducing sized electronic screens in a secondary risk (contacts), speeding up the assembly Thermal and hydropower advanced methods. concentrated way. foreigners whose quarantine of equipment in order to stations across the country On passenger transport means, terms have expired and the inaugurate the power plant in scrupulously organize work By Yun Kyong Il PT passengers are informed of the locals who have been isolated matters related to the prevention together with foreigners after of the virus through radios and coming into contact with them. TVs, while factories and farms Among the persons of in the capital city timely make secondary risk who have been public the affirmative and in quarantine in their homes negative practices exposed in and institutions, those who have the anti-epidemic work in their not yet developed suspicious units. symptoms though it has been Arrangements have been 40 days since they contacted made to make the people feel with the persons of primary risk no inconvenience in life. (returnees) are set free from People’s committees across quarantine before anybody else, the country are ensuring the but medical observation goes on timely supply of food for for them. residents by tapping all latent Accordingly, more than 1 020 reserves. people have recently been freed Samsu County in Ryanggang from quarantine in Kangwon JANG SONG BOK / RODONG SINMUN Province pays close attention Province, while over 2 630 in The Chollima Steel Complex in Nampho applies a new jig to reduce the continuous casting process time by two hours and introduces an electromagnetic induction and agitation technique to minimizing residents’ Jagang Province. to improve the quality of steel. inconveniences in living in time. Along with the release of Orang and Kumya counties foreigners who have been of North and South Hamgyong quarantined, civil servants, several districts of Pyongyang harmful insects on over provinces give priority to guides, interpreters and drivers Nationwide in such a way as to enhance 700 hectares of forests last providing people with every that have been kept separate the charm and elegance of February. And the province convenience in life including the together with foreigners in the Electronic protective mask the evergreen national tree. produced and applied highly supply of food, daily necessities same place find their way out and thermometer developed Flowering shrubs were put effective agricultural chemicals and fuel. of quarantine according to the DPRK researchers developed in around the trees to add with long duration of effects. The Bureau for Affairs with established order. an electronic anti-epidemic to their ornamental effects. Diplomatic Corps has secured mask that protects against Sosong and Moranbong Finest cast gypsum making necessary materials for the By Ri Myong Jun PT bacteria and viruses in the air. districts are planting tall technology established The protective mask pine trees at the roadsides The technicians of the completely destroys various so that they go well with the metalwork production unit of patent. medicinal herb acreage. germs and viruses contained surrounding landscape. the Mansudae Art Studio has in the breath of patients so established a new technology North Hamgyong plans to Farm profits from growing as to prevent pollution of of making finest cast gypsum increase herb acreage sesame surrounding air and infection and a casting process based on North Hamgyong Province The Taesan Cooperative of contacts. it. They developed a casting has undertaken a programme Farm in Yonsan County, North They also developed a material by relying on locally for reclaiming over a thousand Hwanghae Province, has been diagrammatical electronic available raw materials and hectares of land for the benefiting from sesame farming thermometer with a digital established a new casting cultivation of medicinal herbs on non-cultivating lands for ten display. The measurement time method. this year to suit the topographical years. According to a farmer, is very short and the displayed Anti-blight campaign They can reportedly be features of the province with the county produces edible oil diagram is highlighted. launched in North introduced into making metal many mountains. with its seeds and purchases Hwanghae parts of precision machines as In particular, cooperative materials needed for farm Pine trees planted in North Hwanghae Province well as the production of fine farms in the province have management with them. Pyongyang streets conducted work to prevent nonferrous metal craftworks. introduced an intercropping Pine trees were planted in damage from blights and The technology won a national method to increase the THE PYONGYANG TIMES Page 4 Sat, March 14, Juche 109(2020)

RETAIL Kimchi stands attract many customers A long queue of buyers is sprout watery kimchi, mung- According to Kang In Chol, often seen at the stands of the bean sprout kimchi, bok choy a staffer of the factory, the Ryugyong Kimchi Factory in wrapped-up kimchi, nutritious number of families ordering the all parts of Pyongyang. kimchi for children and other factory’s products is increasing “Our stand is always crowded functional kimchis made to the year by year. Kimchi stands with shoppers as it sits in a age-old traditional recipes and play a very important role in Effective broad-spectrum antiviral injection developed by the park just in front of Pyongyang sweet and hot kimchis according increasing production of the Bioengineering Branch of the State Academy of Sciences. Railway Station. Among them to customers’ likings. factory, improving the taste are those on business trip to Children especially like and quality of kimchi and CUISINE Pyongyang and foreigners as nutritious kimchi for children developing new products as well as Pyongyang citizens. as it is made by adding nutrients they fully reflect the consumer Mostly housewives and girls, like yogurt, honey and chlorella demand. App helps housewives but even men,” said saleswoman and zinc-enriched lactobacilli “Kimchi factories and their Pak Un Ha. and has a unique flavour. stands built across the country She said kimchi stands draw They also sell the red show an aspect of popular improve culinary skills lots of customers these days pepper, garlic and cucumber policies of our government. partly because spring has come preserved in soy sauce, the Recently, Supreme Leader Cooking information browsing like cereal, meat and marine and every family is running out radish preserved in bran and the Kim Jong Un tasted and highly program “Ryorisegye (Cooking products dishes, they are very of their winter kimchi. fermented walleye pollack. appreciated kimchi produced in World)” (2.0) developed by the convenient to use. More important is that the “On my way back home I our factory,” said manageress Cooks Association of Korea is a Also available are animations factory has steadily improved often buy kimchi, soy preserved Paek Mi Hye. good, dependable companion of of photos of dishes presented the quality of products. vegetables or fermented food She said that kimchi stands of housewives as well as experts to and demonstrations of Customers say that its products and it is a big help in improving her factory would be set up in and fans in the DPRK. excellent cooks at various have a more refreshing, savoury diet of our family. Now, all my larger numbers in Pyongyang in The mobile app includes cooking festivals and contests and sharper tang than those they family members have acquired the near future. animations and e-books on held in the country every year prepare by themselves at home. a taste of this factory’s kimchi Full bok choy kimchi of the cookery, data on cooking including cooking festival in Full bok choy kimchi, so much that I cannot imitate or Ryugyong Kimchi Factory festivals and contests, the 10- celebration of the Day of the chonggak kimchi (a kind of copy their taste. We have ordered won the December 15 Medal of volume Complete Collection Sun, culinary skill contest in radish kimchi), white kimchi and the factory’s products since last Quality last year. of Korean Dishes, Folk Foods celebration of the Day of the pickled sliced radishes seasoned year,” said Jang Hye Yong living in Four Seasons and other Shining Star, national kimchi with pepper are popular all the in Yokjon-dong, Central District. By Jong Hwa Sun PT cookbooks. show and sweets and cake year round. As the animations of more sculpture exhibition. “Generally, the name of than 700 recipes are divided chonggak kimchi reminds into over a dozen columns KCNA everyone of hard radish. When I was young, I liked it very RECYCLING much. As I got older, I had a set of false teeth put in and didn’t have much of it. But the factory Materials for rubber products has matured it so well that it is very soft and tasty,” said Yun Ryong Hyon in his seventies ensured by recycling living in Sochang-dong, Central District of Pyongyang. The Pyongyang Rubber developed reinforcing agent White kimchi seasoned with Factory directs efforts to to double the reinforcement various spices without using red recycling. efficiency as compared to pepper is mostly favoured by the “In recent years our factory previously. aged, children, dyspeptics and has intensified research to The factory directed a lot of patients who had operations. PAK CHANG BOK / THE PYONGYANG TIMES ensure the domestic production energies to putting equipment on These days the factory’s A customer is happy with a product from the Ryugyong of materials, which were a modern and IT basis to lower kimchi stands sell bean- Kimchi Factory in Pyongyang. imported in the past,” said Kung power consumption by a third as Jong Sun, head of the lab of the against before, and streamlined factory. the operation of equipment PROVINCE According to her, the most by converting the press of the important thing in the research wedge belt production process is to resinate the fabric for from circular type into flat North Phyongan pushes ahead with rubber products and the factory one and making an automatic secures necessary materials by temperature control device for dint of recycling. the press. industrial renovation “We extracted a reagent, “Our various rubber products which was imported in the past, including all kinds of conveyor An undertaking is carried on factory. construction and reconstruction from the liquid pulp waste from belts, hoses and belts fully in North Phyongan Province to Other cities and counties projects this year. a paper mill, and the resinating satisfy physical and mechanical rebuild and upgrade locally-run also upgraded condiments The construction of the method based on it is highly indices like toughness,” said factories. production processes, and a provincial tree nursery is efficient,” said engineer Won chief engineer Kim Hyon Ju. The province organizes dozen city and county garment nearing completion. Jong Hyok. work scrupulously to renovate and clothes factories underwent The construction of a seed In addition, they added a newly By Ri Myong Jun PT factories one by one in cities reconstruction. Besides, paper selection and sowing ground, and counties with the Samjiyon factories spruced themselves light substrate production College, Kujang Youth Power is stepping up the construction Blueberry Drink Factory as a up. ground, sapling exhibition hall, Station Unit 2, Phihyon Power of ring roads, securing of useful model. The province is pushing dwelling houses for employees Station Unit 2 and other small- animals including roe deer and Sonchon County made all a project to build a modern and workers’ hostel has already and medium-sized hydropower building of fences. the production processes of provincial condiments factory been completed and such stations is being pushed in real Such reconstruction projects the county foodstuff factory in Sinuiju City within this year. construction projects as outdoor earnest. A modern, model farm as the Sinuiju Textile Mill and automatic, streamlined, germ- Meanwhile, machine factories cultivation ground, adaptation specializing in the production of the Sinuiju Chicken Farm also free and dust-free so as to turn in the province are speeding up area, tall-tree cultivation ground cheese and butter is being built progress apace. the factory into an exemplary the manufacture of equipment and several blocks of outdoor in Samgwang-ri, Unjon County, Meantime, the Kujang unit in the province, while for the automation and assembly greenhouses are now under as it has favourable grazing Cement Factory is pushing Kujang County set up a sugar line of other factories and way. conditions. cement production to supply it beet processing process with an enterprises. The construction of over 60 The province set the favourable to construction sites. annual capacity of thousands North Phyongan Province school buildings including the areas in Sinuiju and Cholsan of tons in its county foodstuff plans to undertake more than 70 one for Sinuiju Teachers Training County as animal reserves and By Kil Chung Il PT Sat, March 14, Juche 109(2020) Page 5

UNIVERSITY SHOOTING Hub of sci-tech ‘Hunters’ practise education and research shooting at gallery The Meari Shooting Gallery pheasant in his first try by firing March 10 is a display technology in nestles in the sports village ten shots at the outdoor range. meaningful day for all the subject of computer on Pyongyang’s picturesque So, he practised hard at the the teaching staff of Kim graphics and generalized Chongchun Street. indoor shooting ground for a Chaek University of dozens of them at Perhaps, the cooks of the month until he hit one pheasant Technology. technical colleges across Meari Shooting Gallery will outdoors. On March 10 the country. be the best hand at pheasant Other shooters said that they last year Supreme The university cooking. also acquired marksmanship by Leader Kim Jong Un organizes various events “We are particularly good training hard like him. visited the university to significantly such as at preparing pheasant dishes However, it is not impossible vote for the president programming, machine thanks to the ‘hunters’ at our to acquire such marksmanship. of the university, a designing and foreign shooting gallery,” said cook The indoor shooting ground candidate for deputy language contests, Pak Sol I. has a 50m rifle range on the to the 14th Supreme students’ scientific Senior attendant Kim Su Ryon ground floor and a 25m pistol People’s Assembly, and forum and scientific said that shooting live pheasants range on the first floor, and gave an instruction on presentation in order to 50 metres away is very popular anyone who can win 100 points developing the university fire students with the zeal with shooters at the outdoor by firing ten rounds is said to be before bestowing great for study and research. shooting ground. able to shoot dead pheasants. favour on it. Students of the “Shooting is a good sport. According to Kim Ju Yang, The university recently university became the The thrill of hitting the bull’s- attendant of the indoor shooting innovated teaching Asia East Champions at eye cannot be felt in other ground, it usually takes about content and form to make the world’s finials of the sports. Especially, no words can three months to achieve 95 remarkable progress in the 43rd ICPC, came first express the pleasure of hitting to 100 scores and those who training of scientific and at the Codechef Long live pheasants,” said Pak Il can attain the level can be technical personnel and Challenge and won the Gwang, a regular visitor to the “hunters”. came up with hundreds of International Grand shooting gallery. Hanging on the walls of sci-tech hits conducive to Master of Memory at However, it is not so easy to the photo service room at the reenergizing the economy the 28th World Memory hit a live pheasant. shooting gallery are many photos and improving the people’s Championships. In fact, Pak is called a of beaming “hunters” holding standard of living. The research groups marksman capable of hitting pheasants as if they were prizes It also made of the university have nine targets by firing ten in air- at shooting contests. achievements in played a key role in gun. improving and perfecting the country’s major But he said he hit none of By Ri Myong Jun PT the educational system construction projects and innovating teaching HONG KWANG NAM / PICTORIAL KOREA and the modernization of content, form and method. The Mirae science and technology centre factories and enterprises In line with the in Kim Chaek University of Technology. and pushed ahead with global trend of educational also made more than 200 kinds research and development of development and the country’s of experimental apparatuses high-tech products. specific conditions, it integrated and equipment of practical use In addition, over 50 essays and readjusted dozens of major including parallel robot working written by its lecturers and subjects, introduced over 90 cell with vision and general researchers were carried on SCI- subjects including the modelling electrical engineering bench. class international academic of hydraulic process and the It also devised over 400 journals of different countries physical properties of nano- teaching methods like the including the UK, Germany and materials and compiled over 470 one that combines students’ India. kinds of textbooks including preparations for lecture and Theory of Satellite Orbit. It discussion by using the hologram By Kim Rye Yong PT

RYU KWANG HYOK / THE PYONGYANG TIMES ATTIRE Visitors enjoy shooting at the Meari Shooting Gallery in Pyongyang. Tinge of spring reflected About 60 heroines emerge in on citizens’ attire eight years Spring is felt in every spring. Not only young people “We now receive lots of Nearly 60 women have been who produced surprisingly Pyongyang street. but also the middle-aged prefer orders for overcoats. Our coats honoured with the title of hero high yields, sportswomen who Many have changed from dark light-coloured overcoats and made in various styles with in the DPRK since 2012. added glory to the country at and thick winter clothes into jackets. The streets seem to various decorations enhance Among them are a manageress international competitions and light and bright spring dress. have become brighter,” said the customers’ figures,” said Jo and a primary school teacher who those who gave birth to many “People’s outfits have Kim Myong Gil, a trolley-bus Kyong Ae, chief of the tailor’s looked after orphaned children children and raised them up markedly changed from last driver. shop on Chollima Street in and a student who contracted excellently. Central District, Pyongyang. an incurable disease, a merited Some wives of military “Cream, light grey, light keeper who has worked in the officers, who devoted their all pink and verdant green colours Central Zoo for decades since to husbands and soldiers, also brighten people’s attire and her girlhood, a kindergarten became heroines. meet the sentiments of our headmistress who trained many Korean people,” she added. musical prodigies, farmers KCNA According to saleswoman Son Ok Ju, the shop designs “I used to opt for deep-coloured their conventional black or dark overcoats to suit the customers’ clothes in view of my occupation blue clothes. complexions and figures and age. But this time, I ordered Young men choose cream and and they come in those with a cream-coloured overcoat light grey suits, while middle- turndown or closed collars, on the advice of the shop’s aged and elderly men select collarless ones, those with dressmaker. My colleagues and light brown ones. narrow or wide sleeves or all my acquaintances say I look The original ideas of slightly slit sleeves and those younger,” said Kim Song Hui, designers are transformed into with such decorative elements as middle-aged woman official of nice garments by skilled tailors PAK KWANG HUN / THE PYONGYANG TIMES ribbon, floral pattern and stripes, the Ministry of Public Health. to give pleasure to customers. A tailor’s shop in Central District, Pyongyang, is popular with and therefore the customers like At present, men also favour customers for serving them with a variety of seasonal suits. them very much. light-coloured suits instead of By Kil Chung Il PT Page 6 Sat, March 14, Juche 109(2020)

Q&A PROFILE Nation strives to Lecturer challenges century-old bridge educational gap quantum theory A DPRK scientist offered Jong to As part of its ambitious effort a model in every field among has reexamined the publish free of charge for developing education, the local colleges and making others basis of quantum the book “Quantum DPRK is now focusing on copy them and for normally mechanics which, mechanics based narrowing the gap between operating the online academic with Einstein’s on statistical central and local educational unification systems at central theory of relativity, ensemble in phase facilities. universities that serve as hubs constitutes the space”. The book Recently, The Pyongyang of relevant scientific branches twin pillars in the got an ISBN and, Times reporter Pang Un Ju so as to disseminate excellent development of thereby, was sold interviewed officials of the practices of lecture, experiment physical science. through bookstores Education Commission on that and course to colleges, faculties Q u a n t u m worldwide such account. and departments dealing with mechanics takes as Morebooks The problem of narrowing corresponding disciplines. on ever-growing Publishing, Amazon the differences in the level of At the same time, local colleges importance now UK and Amazon education between the central are encouraged to invite lecturers when man’s sphere US, Hachette and and local areas was pointed out from central universities and of domination is through more than at the Fifth Plenary Meeting of those universities serving as expanding toward 80 000 booksellers. the Seventh Central Committee scientific centres will provide space. PAK KWANG HUN / THE PYONGYANG TIMES Jong received of the Workers’ Party of Korea. short courses for lecturers from R e g r e t t a b l y , Jong Chol works on a research project on quantum invitations to mechanics. Could you specify how such local areas. however, quantum i n t e r n a t i o n a l differences surface? The general secondary mechanics is still hiding too basis of the present-day quantum gatherings of renowned Vice-chairman Ri Kwan Il: education sector will continue many things for man. A typical mechanics and to develop new scientists including the Firstly, there are differences to create new teaching methods example is the explanation about theoretical basis,” said Jong International Conference on between qualifications and spread appreciated ones to the existence and movement Chol. “It proved that quantum Physics and Networks USA of teachers and between all schools across the country. of particles, which is the main mechanics should be formulated 2019, Physics Annual Research attainments of students. More efforts will be directed to concept and principle of this in phase space instead of the Meet 2019 and SCON World If we make a comparison of distributing superior pedagogic physical branch. present configuration space and Congress on Optics, Photonics the qualifications of teachers methods and experiences created Over the past 100 years, the that the Schrodinger equation and Laser Technologies. in central and local areas, the at schools and kindergartens in physical world has witnessed a is an approximation, derived a It was the common view of the gap between their academic Pyongyang. serious conflict on this matter new fundamental equation and organizers of the international and pedagogic qualifications In particular, the teachers’ between the viewpoints based on suggested a new methodology meetings that Jong’s theory is becomes obvious. What in-service training system will statistical explanation started by for explaining quantum- original in conception, scientific especially matters is the further be enhanced to improve Einstein and complementarity mechanical phenomena using and specific in research and disparity in capabilities the qualifications of the teaching principle by Bohr. the equation.” unimaginable in amplitude of between the teachers in urban staffs of rural schools. Skilled To the age-old dispute, Jong The paper shook the physical successfulness. and rural areas involved in teachers of urban schools and Chol, lecturer at the materials world as soon as it was made Jong’s paper is also expected general secondary education. reeducation facilities will be science and technology faculty public online. to shake up the circles of As those in rural areas lack dispatched to rural schools to of Kim Chaek University A judge commented that the philosophy and experimental the ability to deal with give model lessons and help of Technology, suggested a essay was an interesting and physics. information technologies as local teachers improve their groundbreaking opinion. stimulating attempt at expanding Fascinated by physics, well as their major field of qualifications through panel In March last year, he the foundational base of quantum he majored in the subject at study, they could not grow discussions on lessons and published a study paper entitled theory. Another judge said that Kim Il Sung University, out of conventional teaching development of new teaching “Ensemble in phase space: every new approximation of when he already doubted the methods and find it hard to methods. Statistical formalism of quantum quantum mechanics devised fundamental basis of quantum create and introduce new ones. Besides, projects have been mechanics” in the Pramana from a different standpoint in mechanics. He is now working This eventually resulted in the scheduled to build model Journal of Physics of the Indian comparison to standard theory hard to further his achievement difference between attainments schools and refurbish schools Academy of Sciences. should always be welcome and which is the brainchild of over of students. in cities and counties on a high “The core of the paper is to the paper should be published 20 years of painstaking efforts. Moreover, there exist level so as to put them on a par prove the contradiction in the without any revision. differences between central with central model schools. explanation of fundamental The Lambert Publishing By Kim Rye Yong PT and local areas in terms of content, method, condition and FLOWER feelings. and framed dried flowers on environment of education. It sells flowers grown naturally the walls and a variety of These differences are or by gardeners and artificial decorative flower baskets and attributable to the economic and Shop flourishes by flowers including those made of wall-decorating flowers are cultural disparities arising from paper and, recently, many kinds filling the whole space. regional characteristics. of ornamental flowers. “On the occasion of So what measures are being arranging lovely flowers With cultural aspirations International Women’s day, taken to address the problems? growing high, more of working I gave my mother and wife Ri: We are intensifying From ancient times, flower beautiful mind and face as they and living spaces are being bouquets newly designed at the scientific analysis of the was a symbol and synonym for saw flowers. decorated with flowers. shop and they really liked them,” contributory factors of beauty. A flower shop can be called a Recently, the Okryu flower said Ri Yong Il, a customer at the education gap. On the People had a craving for business reflecting such human shop has become a favourite the flower shop. basis of this, we are making haunt of Pyongyang citizens He often buys his daughter detailed plans and taking who want to purchase special decorative flowers on holidays scrupulous measures to decorative flowers. and significant anniversaries, vitalize the dissemination “As well as naturally grown and ordered a wall-decorating of good experiences of flowers, various decorative flower for her some days ago. central educational facilities flower arrangements made According to assistants, to local areas and to make of dried flowers or synthetic some customers choose among central, provincial and county materials such as rubber those on display but, more institutions help education and sponge are on sale at often, they have to make flower work of their subsidiaries. our shop,” said Choe Kum arrangements on order. We are also planning to Hyang, manageress of the “Sometimes, customers steadily improve educational shop in Taedonggang District, suggest a surprisingly unusual conditions and environment Pyongyang, adding all of them arrangement,” said manageress in close collaboration with are in high demand. Choe. “So we must work to officials of regional Party and The shop reminds anyone improve our skills constantly government organs. entering it of a flower exhibition in order to meet their exact hall. demands.” Department director Pak Il: JON KWANG HUN / THE PYONGYANG TIMES The higher education sector has A flower shop in Taedonggang District, Pyongyang, sells various Flowerpots of different sizes, worked out plans for creating decorative flowers. paintings depicting flowers By Kwon Hyo Song PT Sat, March 14, Juche 109(2020) Page 7

US launched nuclear-armed cruise missile to counter “nuclear Briefly threats” by China, Russia and In pursuit of military other countries and earmark Russia US$5 million for preparations Ready for any aggressions, for the development of the Putin says cruise missile. Russian President Putin supremacy Analysts comment that recently told TASS that Russia such moves of the US show is ready to cope with any unday Express and other Russian politicians described rivalry with China and Russia its ambition to maintain and aggressions. foreign media recently those who organized the war to get the upper hand in the strengthen military supremacy. Russia is prepared to confront Sreported that the US game as insane. relevant sector. The US’ exit from the any aggressors who want to staged a war game in simulation Bloomberg also said that the The US Department of INF Treaty on the pretext repeat the fascist Germany’s of nuclear conflict with Russia US plans to form special units Defense recently announced a of “Russia’s violation of the invasion of the former Soviet under the direct supervision of to contain Russia and China. plan to deploy for action a new treaty” and “Chinese missile Union, he said, adding dangers the US Defense Secretary in an These units will be stationed in type of nuclear-armed cruise threat” can also be construed in are overcome by dangers. air base in Nebraska. the Philippines and the Pacific missile which can be launched this context. They said the US has islands in the east of Chinese from submarine and warship Russian President Vladimir Venezuela conducted military exercises Taipei and armed with high- in the coming seven to ten Putin recently told TASS that Venezuelans determined to in various grades including precision weaponry. years. A high-ranking defense his country does not want to live at liberty top-secret simulated drills to The US Defense Secretary department official was quoted fight with anyone. Venezuelan President devastate Russia with a nuclear asserted in December last year as saying that it has decided Nicolas Maduro Moros on attack. that it would concentrate on to deploy a new kind of sea- By Choe Yong Nam PT Mar 9 expressed his will not to yield to the imperialists on small ones surrounding them as JAPAN Twitter, saying any aggressive Japanese territory. Accordingly, move against his country will Japan set it as its diplomatic encounter the valiance and Ulterior motive for claiming goal to secure as “many small resistance of the Venezuelan islands in the surroundings as people who are determined to possible” and resorted to every live at liberty forever. sovereignty of Tok Islets possible means to attain it. Japan’s territorial disputes Cuba n February a Tokyo 1905. Korean territory. with Russia and China over the Cuban FM censures US mass rally took place Some of the declassified Others include the transcribed Kuril Islands and Diaoyu Island sanctions Iallegedly to mark the documents in Japan say that copy of the Taedongyo Map can be claimed to find their Recently, Cuban Foreign Third Takeshima Day in the at the time the prefectural discovered in Japan, the marine origins in the San Francisco Minister Bruno Rodriguez Japanese diet and the chief of population knew Ullung and chart which was drawn by treaty. Parrilla on Twitter denounced Cabinet Secretariat asserted Tok islands were originally the Russians and the successive For the US, which regards the US as the very one that Tok Islets (Japanese call them islands in the East Sea of Korea, Japanese textbooks, which show Japan as the advanced and aggravates the living conditions Takeshima) are part of Japanese but the Japanese government clearly that Tok Islets are part of logistics base for its Asia of Cuban people. territory, saying he would deal railroaded the annexation of Korean territory. strategy, the latter’s securing of His tweet came as a rebuke to with the issue with a cool head Tok Islets in order to set up an A separate peace treaty the dominion over the islands will the sanctions the US imposed and resolution. observation post to be used for US concluded with Japan during not only be in the interests of on a company which dealt in Later, the 15th “Takeshima the Russo-Japanese War. the 1950-53 Korean war by Japan. remittances to Cuba. Day” meeting was held in And the two maps of excluding the DPRK, the USSR, The fact that Japanese The US tramples down on Shimane Prefecture with the unidentified sources made public China, Mongolia and other politicians openly argue that the sovereignty of not only governor and a Cabinet official in Japan a few years ago mark related nations, the September they should retake the disputed Cuba but all other sovereign in attendance. Tok Islets as “Matsushima” and 1951 San Francisco treaty Japan islands by fighting a war states, he said, adding such Japan’s claim to Tok Islets is Ullung Island as “Takeshima”. bases on as international law is warns a lot to the international sanctions bring to light the ungrounded from a historical Korean historical records say an illegal document which does community. hypocritical nature of US and legal point of view and that in 512 the Korean state of not meet the requirements of Analysts say Japan’s claim politics. has a very dangerous ulterior Usan covering the two islands international law. The DPRK to Tok Islets will be an excuse motive. was incorporated into Silla. Foreign Ministry published for Japan which runs headlong Iran In historical terms Japan’s And in 1900 the feudal Joson a statement on September 15 to revival of militarism to US sanctions described as arguments for dominion over dynasty issued royal ordinance 1951 to clarify the illegality of provoke military conflict with medical terrorism the islets are not persuasive. No. 41 to repeatedly declare its the treaty and declared that the neighbouring countries and Iranian Foreign Minister The most powerful evidence dominion over Tok Islets. treaty is invalid and it does not become a flash point of the third Mohamad Javad Zarif Japan has come up with is that The maps published in the US recognize it. world war. tweeted on Mar 7 that the US its Cabinet attached the islets to in 1949 and in Britain in 1951 The treaty delicately defined is maliciously intensifying Shimane Prefecture on Feb 22 all mark Tok Islets as part of the four major islands and By Om Ryong PT illegal sanctions against Iran in a bid to deplete its resources STATEMENT crime against humanity, it said. needed for preventing “We strongly condemn COVID-19. them, as we can hardly repress He called on the world to Japan urged to make full apology mounting anger at the Japanese no longer stay mum about the authorities and right-wingers, fact that the US’ economic who are distorting and covering terrorism is leading to medical and reparation up the truth of history without terror. feeling guilty about having ell over ten The terrible disaster is without informing their families forced our nation to suffer US thousand Korean entirely attributable to the and is now blocking the way of untold misfortune, pain and US ranks first in arms sales Wpeople who had Japanese imperialists’ military the bereaved families to find the miserable and unjust death, and According to a Stockholm been forcibly drafted to Japan occupation of Korea and remains of their fathers, it said. rubbing salt into the wound of International Peace Research were killed and tens of thousands forcible drafting of Koreans The Japanese rightists are the victims and their families. Institute report on Mar 9, of others wounded during the and therefore we can never making a vicious attempt to “The Japanese government the volume of the US’ arms indiscriminate bombing by forget the thrice-cursed crimes remove the memorials to the should drop the shameless export in five years until the US forces on March 10 against humanity committed by Korean victims of forcible attitude to conceal the crime- last year increased by 23 1945, said a spokesman for Japan even though time passes drafting built in Japan, it noted. ridden past behind the curtain percent as compared to the the Association of Korean and generations may change, it Lurking behind the move of of history, make a full apology corresponding period until Victims of Forcible Drafting noted. the Japanese authorities and and reparation to all the Korean 2014. and Their Bereaved Families in The Japanese government, right-wingers is an intention to victims of forcible drafting and Accordingly, the US is, as a statement on Tuesday. however, is trying in every way do away with the evidence of their families and take practical it used to be, taking the first The statement coincided with to play down and cover up the the crime, thus hushing up the measures to find out all the place in arms sales. During that the 75th anniversary of the damage inflicted on the Korean crime of forcible drafting of remains of the Korean victims period it exported weapons to tragic death of lots of Korean victims while trumpeting only Koreans and the issue of their and bury them in accordance 96 countries and regions of the people in the air raid on Tokyo about the damage to Japanese remains, beautifying the history with the wishes of the bereaved world, with half of them to the by the US air force during the nationals, the statement said. of their aggression and then families”. Middle East. war of aggression ignited by the It also disposed at its own will disclaiming responsibility for Japanese imperialists. of the remains of the victims making reparations for the past By Song Jong Ho PT the pyongyang times Page 8 Sat, March 14, Juche 109(2020)

CLUB SILK Toward higher goals Korean silk boasting Founded in 1956, the DPRK’s Pyongyang Sports Club is long history the one with a long history Korean silk has a time- silks were produced in the which has been engaged in honoured history. period of Koguryo, especially 13 sporting events including Many of the earthenware twilled cloth with patterns and football and other ball games, objects unearthed at the dwelling the one woven with gold and marathon, artistic gymnastics sites of Pyongyang’s Namgyong other threads. and wrestling. site, which belongs to primitive With silk production Last year alone, players of and ancient times, have pictures technology making rapid the club snatched a total of 40 of mulberry leaves at their progress in the period of Koryo, medals including 13 golds, bottoms, and similar pottery silk fabrics saw a remarkable 15 silvers and 12 bronzes in and the sculptures representing increase in their variety and different international games. silkworms were also discovered improvement in their quality. So The top ten coaches and at the Jithap-ri site in Pongsan they found their way to markets players of the DPRK last County, which dates back to in neighbouring countries and year included two coaches ancient times and middle ages. even those in the Middle and and players of the club, and CHAE MYONG RIM / THE PYONGYANG TIMES Forest Economy, Kosasinso Near East. its football coach and player Players are under training at the Pyongyang Sports Club. and other old books say that Among the famous present- were also chosen as best silkworm indigenous to Korea day silk cloths of Korea, there football coach and player of of People’s Athlete, the top lots of excellent players moults three times, describing are Yaksan and Kuryong the year. honour for the DPRK players, in boxing, weightlifting, the characteristics of Korean silks. The former with azalea Pak Yong Mi won the in November last year. volleyball, table tennis and silkworms that dislike moisture patterns was named after women’s 53 kg category Woman judoist Kim Jin many other sports, especially and smoke. Yaksandongdae in Nyongbyon, at the Asian Wrestling A took the first place in the footballer Sung Hyang Sim, The Korean three moulter while the latter was called after Championships held in China women’s 57 kg category at the winner of the best technical has a short growth period and the Kuryong River flowing in April last year, earning Asian Judo Championships prize and youth player prize in is highly resistant to diseases beneath Yaksandongdae in four consecutive wins in the held in the United Arab different games. and very viable. In particular, the meaning that the pattern of championships. She also Emirates in April last year, “Our coaches and players its cocoon thread can be woven the cloth is as graceful as the came first in the same event the 2019 IJF Hohhot Grand are now training hard to attain into soft and light silk cloth and flowing river. of the 2019 World Wrestling Prix judo championships in higher goals,” said Jo Song is dyed easily and beautifully. These silk fabrics are produced Championships in Kazakhstan China’s Inner Mongolian Sam, an official of the club. Large quantities of silk fabrics at the Nyongbyon Silk Mill. in September to claim the Autonomous Region in May, The club’s several athletes are were discovered from ancient The mill which is equipped world title for the first time and the 2019 IJF Grand Slam to take part in the 32nd Olympic tombs in the area of Rangnang with modern machines and in the country’s women’s in Abu Dhabi in the UAE in Games this year. District, Pyongyang, and an equipment, turns out dozens of wrestling. October. analysis of them shows they kinds of quality silks. She was awarded the title Besides, the club produced By Song Jong Ho PT were woven with the very fine The silk threads produced at threads of the three moulter. the Pyongyang Kim Jong Suk CAR In ancient times, there were Silk Mill are winning popularity different sorts of Korean silk among other silk mills at home fabrics including the one woven and abroad. Amusement car developed with double-ply thread, and diverse kinds of high-grade By Choe Yong Nam PT A new type of amusement imported car to develop a more Park. I saw the trial run of the car will appear in amusement practical design and made new new car with my children at the parks in Pyongyang in the near jigs to manufacture section Taesongsan Amusement Park future. steels, thus completing the car on lunar New Year’s Day this “Imported amusement cars in a little over 40 days. year, and it was quicker than the were small in number and it was “When we unveiled a trial imported one. I look forward to impossible to repair them when product, every viewer was driving it soon,” said Choe Jin they got out of order. Therefore, surprised at it. Though some Hyok living in Pothonggang we made a new amusement other units had also tried, they District, Pyongyang. car,” said Ri Hyok Chon, staffer were unsuccessful as they failed At present, the station is of the Taesongsan amusement to make the power transmission receiving a large order for it facility management station. device. But we have done it,” from other amusement parks According to him, the car can said Mun Jong Su in charge of in the city and even from the run at the speed of 50kmh and technical preparation. provinces. cover a longer distance with less The trial product attracted fuel than the imported one. interest of many at the trial run. By Ri Sung Ik PT Silk quilts come in different forms. Technicians of the “I frequently drove amusement management station studied cars at the Mangyongdae MONUMENT lots of technical data on the Amusement Park and Ryonmot Phenomenal spring water and bamboo thicket Masikryong Spring Water ageing and its temperature is 8.5 County, Kangwon Province. Masikryong Spring Water is degrees Celsius. It is very mild and rainy well known as a good spring It is effective in relieving in Kosong County which is water for health and longevity. heart burden and indigestion relatively favourable for the It is found on Masik Pass of the and restoring vigour as it cultivation of bamboo. DPRK where the Masikryong contains a proportional amount Over 1 600 bamboo shoots Ski Resort is located. of potassium, calcium and other sprout in the thicket every It is free from contamination minerals. year. by any germs or bacteria as its It was listed as a natural The county has planted catchment area is the natural monument of the country in bamboo groves covering over forest zone of the Masikryong 2016. 300 hectares around the thicket. Mountains and it flows through And it produces various a long layer of granite. Kosong bamboo thicket bamboo products like flower RYANG KUM CHOL / THE PYONGYANG TIMES Low in association degree, The famous Kosong bamboo basket, fan and fishing rod. A new type of car designed and manufactured by the Taesongsan amusement facility management station in it is slightly alkaline (pH 7.2) thicket sprawls across Samilpho- Pyongyang. which is good for retarding ri and Sunhak-ri of Kosong KCNA

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