Democratic People’s Republic of Korea No. 34 (3 122) weekly http://www.pyongyangtimes.com.kp e-mail:[email protected] Sat, August 22, Juche 109(2020) Chairman Kim Jong Un guides sixth plenum of Seventh WPK Central Committee The Central Committee of the Workers’ Party of Korea has decided to call the Eighth Party Congress at the Sixth Plenary Meeting of the Seventh WPK Central Committee. The decision adopted at the plenum said: “Today our Party and people are carrying on the historic task set forth at the Seventh Congress of the Workers’ Party of Korea while smashing straight through all the difficulties standing in our advance by organizing and waging an arduous revolutionary struggle. “Through the indomitable struggle for implementing the decision made at the Seventh Congress of the WPK in the past the dignity and position of our state has been remarkably raised, the single-minded unity of the Party and the people further consolidated and a great revolutionary turn made in the building of the Party and its overall activities. “On the other hand, the economy has failed to improve in the face of the persistently severe internal and external situations and unexpected manifold challenges, with the result that many of the planned goals for national economic growth have not yet been attained nor the people’s living standards improved markedly.” It said that the plenary meeting, after analysing and reviewing the experience and lessons drawn from the work in the past five years for building a powerful socialist country, decided to convene the Eighth Congress of the WPK in January 2021 in order to put forward a correct line of struggle and strategic and tactical policies on the basis of the new requirements of our developing revolution and the prevailing situation. The agenda items of the Eighth Congress will include the review of the work of the WPK Central Committee, that of the work of the WPK Central Auditing Commission, the revision of the rules of the WPK and the election of the Party’s central leadership body, it said. A delegate with the right to vote to the Congress will be elected from among every 1 300 Party members and one delegate with the right to speak from among every 1 300 probationary Party members, it added. SEE PAGE 2 Page 2 Sat, August 22, Juche 109(2020)

FROM PAGE 1 Upon authorization of the of the Party and to discuss and decide construction and in strengthening the Political Bureau of the Party Central on the strategic tasks facing the Party Party by making sure that all the sectors Plenum: Seventh WPK CC meets Committee, Chairman Kim Jong Un and the government in the new stage and units including Party organizations presided over the plenum and made a of struggle in the crucial period of the and government and military organs at The Sixth Plenary Meeting of historic speech. Korean revolution. all levels review their work in time and the Seventh Central Committee of In the speech he analysed the He referred to the need to convene the on a regular basis, positively promote, the Workers’ Party of Korea took subjective and objective environments Party congress, the supreme guidance expand and develop good results, and place at the office building of the this year in which the country organ of the Party, on a regular basis promptly overcome shortcomings Central Committee of the WPK on faced unexpected and unavoidable in order to confirm the line and and take corrective measures, so Wednesday. challenges in different aspects and the strategic and tactical measures for that they would not deviate from the Kim Jong Un, chairman of the situation in the region surrounding the steering the development of the times implementation of the Party’s basic Workers’ Party of Korea and also Korean peninsula, and assessed the and the revolution, and adjust and lines, policies and decisions. supreme leader of the state and achievements and mistakes that have reinforce the Party leadership body He called on all the participants to armed forces of the DPRK, guided been made in the work of the Party and for guaranteeing their execution, and greet the Eighth Congress with high the plenary meeting. the state for the past four years since indicated the important guidelines political zeal and shining feats of The plenum was attended by the historic Seventh Party Congress. for the running of the congress. labour by simultaneously pushing the members and alternate members of The Supreme Leader, based on data, He said that the Eighth Congress development and strengthening of the WPK Central Committee and made a detailed report on the goals would review this year’s work and the the internal potentials and the motive members of the Party Central Auditing achieved by different economic sectors work of the Party Central Committee force for development as required Commission. in this year, the final year in attaining in the period under review and set by the frontal offensive to achieve Officials of departments of the Party the goals of the five-year strategy for forth a new five-year plan for national a breakthrough and the major tasks Central Committee were present as national economic development set economic development including the set forth at Party Political Bureau observers. forth at the Seventh Party Congress, orientation of work for next year. meetings held this year. The meeting discussed as the major in particular, and analysed the results. Noting that the Eighth Congress The Supreme Leader read out a draft agenda the issue of convening the He said that the Political Bureau of should become a congress of decision of the Sixth Plenary Meeting Eighth Congress of the WPK in order the Party Central Committee suggested struggle, a working congress and a of the Seventh Central Committee of to set forth a new line of struggle convening the Eighth Congress congress making a comprehensive the WPK on convening the Eighth and strategic and tactical policies in of the WPK in order to conduct a review of Party work, he specified Party Congress. keeping with the requirements of the comprehensive, three-dimensional and the agenda items to be discussed at The plenum decided to convene developing Korean revolution and anatomical analysis and review of the the congress and the issues arising in the Eighth Congress of the WPK in the changed situation and to further deviations and shortcomings that were the preparations for it. January 2021. strengthen the Party organizationally revealed in the work for implementing He stressed the need to achieve new and ideologically. the decisions of the Seventh Congress progress in advancing the revolution and KCNA-THE TIMES Participants in Party plenum pay homage to great leaders The participants in the Sixth Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il and Plenary Meeting of the Seventh paid high tribute to them. Central Committee of the Workers’ At the halls of immortality where Party of Korea visited the Kumsusan the President and the Chairman are Palace of the Sun on Wednesday preserved in their lifetime appearance evening to pay homage to President they made a deep bow to them, pledging Kim Il Sung and Chairman themselves to remain faithful to the Kim Jong Il. revolution to the last by defending Members of the Party’s central socialism of Juche, the patriotic legacy leadership body laid a basket of bequeathed by the great leaders. flowers in the name of the WPK Central Committee at the statues of KCNA Sat, August 22, Juche 109(2020) Page 3

GUIDE TO VICTORY AND GLORY Holding fast to the people-first principle The history of the Workers’ its revolutionary leadership it held in high esteem like the for overcoming them. frontal offensive for achieving Party of Korea is a proud went among the people first, great leaders the essence of All lines and policies of the a breakthrough of this year course in which it has taken lent an ear to their simple and Kimilsungism-Kimjongilism, WPK are directed towards consistent with selfless, devoted responsibility for the destiny of honest opinions and gathered the guiding ideology of the bringing smile and happiness to efforts for the good of the people the people and led the Korean inexhaustible courage in their Party and state of the DPRK, the people. and taken a series of measures to revolution along the road of sincere support whenever it was formulated as the people- The WPK Chairman ensure the safety of the people victory. faced a grave situation and had first principle, the idea on continues to follow the road against the spread of the global President Kim Il Sung and to set the course of advance. applying the President- and of making selfless, devoted epidemic. Chairman Kim Jong Il built the For the WPK, it has been its Chairman-style view on the efforts for the good of the The recent 16th Political WPK as a revolutionary party top priority and duty to take full people emerged and the slogan people with the noble view on Bureau meeting of the Seventh which works for the people responsibility for their political “Everything for the people and life that even if he is spread as WPK Central Committee together with them. integrity and look after their everything by relying on them!” grains of sand on the road for discussed and decided on the The aggressive forces material and cultural life, which has become the fundamental the good of the people, he does important issues of repairing the obsessed with a wild ambition it has never neglected even a principle and mode of Party not wish for anything better flood damage as early as possible to dominate the world forced moment. and state activities. and with the firm will never to and providing the people with a bloody war on the Korean In the face of the worst The WPK now solves all hesitate to suffer excruciating a stable life by concentrating people, increased the danger adversities, it made painstaking problems by relying on the pain if it were for the good of all efforts and of more strictly of a new war when they efforts to sow the precious seeds, inexhaustible strength of the the people. On the way he went maintaining the state emergency rehabilitated the country from secure the wealth and invariably masses of the people, regarding to the front without hesitation anti-epidemic system and the war debris with so much enforce the popular policies for its faith in them as the most staking his life on the dignity perfecting the regular anti- effort by tightening their the people’s well-being. valuable asset. of the state and the destiny of epidemic command system in belts and stood in their way Today the politics of WPK As it maintains the unique the people, rode the tramcar, line with the requirements of by imposing unprecedented Chairman Kim Jong Un based political mode of attaining trolley bus, metro train, chair the world health crisis. sanctions and blockade when on the people-first idea have its ideal by relying more on lift and amusement facilities To always mix with the they tried to develop the uplifted the people to the highest the people and enlisting their to be used by the people before people, see what they think and national economy. position. strength when the tasks are anyone else, continued his want, share good and bad with In the vortex of the difficulties On his mind the people are uphill and the situations are forced march at night and even them and grope together with of history the WPK only trusted engraved as the noble images more serious, it goes among under the scorching heat and them for the way and lead them and relied on the people and of President Kim Il Sung and the people first and candidly drove his car along the muddy to victory and prosperity—this they were its only supporters, Chairman Kim Jong Il. tell them its innermost thoughts roads to meet the people in the is the WPK’s mode of politics. advisers and helpers. From his noble mentality whenever it is faced with disaster-stricken areas. During the whole period of that the people should be difficulties and works out plans The WPK has made the By Ri Sung Ik PT

Meanwhile, footwear INSPECTION factories throughout the Nationwide country established a recycling technology that relies on Senior officials visit flood-hit Huge blasting conducted plastic and rubber waste. in tideland reclamation site They introduced softener The General Tideland and modifier to produce air- Kangwon and North Hwanghae Reclamation Enterprise of foamed plastic soles, which Pak Pong Ju, member of facelift to the residential and ensure the steady North Phyongan Province has are light and durable, and the Presidium of the Political districts. transport of materials for carried out a 300 000-cubic- recycled a kind of plastic Bureau of the Central Meeting with the inhabitants rehabilitation. metre blasting in the area of that had been thrown away Committee of the Workers’ of the township of Kimhwa Premier Kim Tok Hun, Wol Islet, thereby making a in the past to turn out more Party of Korea, vice-chairman County, he acquainted himself member of the Presidium of the breakthrough in pushing the footwear while saving sole of the State Affairs Commission with their living conditions Political Bureau of the Central primary dam project for section materials. They also settled of the DPRK and vice-chairman and discussed different Committee of the Workers’ A of the Woldo tideland. the problem of materials for of the WPK Central Committee, matters and took necessary Party of Korea, inspected sole with industrial waste and toured different flood-stricken measures. different counties of North Power station project gains made insoles and adhesives areas in Kimhwa, Cholwon At the Paengnosan Hwanghae Province to learn momentum with locally-available raw and Phyonggang counties in Cooperative Farm in Cholwon about their flood damage and According to KCNA, South materials, thus lowering Kangwon Province. County, he underscored the need reconstruction. Hamgyong Province has production costs. They make As he familiarized himself to put efforts into stabilizing the Touring Taechong-ri in carried out technical upgrading materials for the production with the damage suffered living of farmers and improving Unpha County, he urged of nearly 100km road sections, of injection-moulded boots by by relevant areas and their the growth conditions of crops officials to pay primary built over a dozen concrete using cuttings from production reconstruction plans, he in the afflicted paddy and non- attention to providing the bridges and completed the and lower the norms for the urged officials of Party and paddy fields. afflicted people with a better construction of over 180 blocks consumption of materials per government organs to fulfil In Phyonggang County, living condition. of houses for the residents of unit. the areas to be submerged, their responsibility and duties he referred to the need to He stressed the need for in providing the people with a reexamine the technical all the service personnel as part of the Tanchon power New software for settled life and giving a complete conditions of railway stations and builders involved in the station construction project. preschoolers available reconstruction project to strictly Hasin Kindergarten in abide by the anti-epidemic Shoe-making industry Sosong District of Pyongyang rules, calling for stepping up set to locally produce has developed a new education the repair of the embankment and recycle materials support program, according to and the construction of The shoe-making industry KCNA. structures. sector is reenergizing This software showing Acquainting himself with the production by ensuring the over 50 Korean words along rehabilitation project in Sohung local production and recycling with pictures with the help of and Pongsan counties, he urged of raw and other materials. the three-dimensional image the designing organs to design Its researchers intensified technology helps children not the structures in a responsible research for improving the only get familiar with, read and way. He also discussed and physical properties of plastic write Korean words but also took practical measures to waste, thereby succeeding in observe in detail their shape, rehabilitate the drainage moulding plastic particles. appearance and feature while pumping stations immediately, And they collected and using mouse by themselves. improve all the waterways as condensed gas from production It is being introduced into planned and put the cultivation processes to extract plasticizer kindergartens throughout the of crops on a scientific and and ensured the domestic country. production of an agent which Senior official Pak Pong Ju (second from left), inspects technical basis. is used to tan hides. THE PYONGYANG TIMES Kimhwa county town, Kangwon Province, to learn about flood relief effort. KCNA Page 4 Sat, August 22, Juche 109(2020)

REHABILITATION HEALTHCARE Nation out to recover from flood Hospital reaches intl damage, stabilize people’s livelihood information standards True to the decision of the all levels are putting great efforts transmission and supply systems 16th Meeting of the Political into draining off standing water is also making progress. Bureau of the Seventh Central from waterlogged farmlands and The Ministry of Posts and Committee of the Workers’ Party restoring the viability of crops. Telecommunications carried out of Korea, the metal, construction The recent torrential rains the repair of communications and building-materials, and floods wreaked havoc on facilities in the flood-stricken agriculture, land administration, a huge hectarage of farmlands areas in the eastern and western electric power, railway transport and a large amount of crops in parts of the country to link and other economic sectors are Kangwon and North and South Pyongyang with provinces and out in the rehabilitation in flood- Hwanghae provinces, Kaesong counties. It has now buckled stricken areas. and many other regions. down to the restoration of The recent Politburo Service personnel and communications between meeting pointed to the need to residents are now joining efforts counties and ri. concentrate all efforts on the in the afflicted areas in order The electric power industry ongoing campaign to clear away to concentrate equipment and sector presses on with the the aftermaths of the floods as manpower on draining water rehabilitation of power grids. PAK KWANG HUN soon as possible so as to provide from flooded areas without In particular, the North Paediatricians discuss a method of heart surgery online at the people with stable living delay and restoring waterways Hwanghae provincial power the heart ultrasonography room of the functional diagnosis conditions. and embankments. They are distribution station set up power department of the Okryu Children’s Hospital. After the meeting, powerful also stepping up the washing of poles which had been toppled by The Okryu Children’s education. construction forces were muddy leaves and application of flood, downpour and rainstorm, Hospital has put medical service “By using these databases immediately dispatched to the various nutritious solution and and placed the power lines. on an IT footing on the basis of we have set up a hospital flood-stricken areas. germicide to improve nutritive Coal-mining complexes international health information information system with EMR Accordingly, the headquarters condition of crops, while across the country are working standards. and PACS as the backbone,” split up the tasks for rehabilitation building levees around buried to minimize the flood damage “The aim of the informatization said Ri Kum Chol, department properly, while concentrating paddy fields and sowing seeds so as to push forward with coal of public health is to provide chief of the hospital. the forces on major targets. of other crops. production uninterruptedly. better treatment environment, The establishment of the As a result, the reconstruction The restoration of the which means the improvement information system has of dwelling houses and ruined communications and power By Jong Hwa Sun PT of quality of medical services,” made it possible to build the roads, bridges and railways is said An Jin Yong, deputy foundation and infrastructure of pushed ahead on a full scale director of the hospital. national health informatization, while proactive measures taken According to him, formulate the standard of for the supply of materials interchangeability needs to be e-clinical chart and open up a to satisfy the needs at the realized to share information prospect for exchanging clinical construction sites. produced in the course of information data with medical The Pyongyang General treatment activities in order to treatment and prevention units at Electric Cable Factory 326 introduce IT into public health. home and abroad and realizing finished the production of To this end, it is important to the unified management of the hundreds of kilometres of cables digitize information based on national health information of various kinds needed for the international standards. data centring on the Ministry of rehabilitation. Therefore, the hospital Public Health. The Sangwon and Sunchon established a database containing Thanks to the information cement complexes, the Kim more than 20 000 clinical terms system, doctor Pak Il Yong Chaek and Hwanghae iron and a medical image database said, the hospital ensures the and steel complexes and other with high memory capacity on promptness and correctness of industrial establishments are the basis of international health treatment while maintaining the working hard to produce cement, An excavator loads a truck in the reconstruction project for information standards. consistency of the diagnosis of iron and steel in time. flood-stricken Taechong-ri, Unpha County, North Hwanghae In the clinical terminology outpatients and inpatients and Agricultural communities at Province. database, the terms of the diagnosis before and after complaint, disease, operation surgical operation by more APPLIANCE and control, diagnosis and than 98 percent, shortening the experimental test and medicine period of hospital treatment are encoded according to their by more than 15 percent and Innovation gives factory chance semantic, hierarchical and saving 20 percent of medicines multi-dimensional systems, and and supplies. each synonym corresponds to The system is being to diversify products one code. The hospital designed introduced into the Ryugyong the database to be an open General Ophthalmic Hospital The Pyongyang Automation into developing new products. manager of the factory. type so as to make everyone in Pyongyang, the Samjiyon Appliances Factory in “We aim to develop highly The factory built a CNC take part in establishing the City People’s Hospital in Phyongchon District, efficient products with low plasma cutter and introduced database. It also added obstetric Ryanggang Province and many Pyongyang, channels its efforts costs,” said Kim Chang Won, it into the pipe-making and and odontological terms and is other hospitals, and it is used assembly process. The new continuing to expand them. to analyse disease tendency cutter can produce various The medical image database and predict the consumption of products under the automatic contains digitized medical medicines and pharmaceutical control of programs and improve image information resources, plan on a nationwide scale. the processing accuracy and which will be used effectively work efficiency. in medical research and By Ri Myong Jun PT According to Han Kwang Hyok, a workshop manager of the factory, the introduction of raw materials. voltage transformer and high- the CNC cutter made it possible It also developed a lead tension current transformer. to increase productivity and twisting device and thus solved “Our factory is planning to save production cost by 90 the technical problems that bring out a small automatic percent. arose in manufacturing small switch and a new type of AC In order to remodel the high- and 200A automatic switches. motor for fans in the near pressure vacuum breaker, Besides, the factory is working future,” said Ryang Song Jun, the factory made a mould for to improve the performance of chief of the technology division insulated arc-extinguishing KIM HYOK CHOL household electrical appliances of the factory. An employee processes a workpiece at the Pyongyang box, the core part of vacuum while developing several kinds Automation Appliances Factory. breaker, by relying on domestic of alternating current contactor, By Ju Kyong Jin PT Sat, August 22, Juche 109(2020) Page 5

FORESTATION Effort focuses on turning mountains into profitable ones Afforestation makes headway Pine nut-grafted The DPRK has attained ecological environment,” said jam, essence and jelly at a considerable successes since it Kim Song Jun, deputy director local processing plant. Jagang forest grows thicker launched into the second-stage of the General Forest Bureau Province produced over project of the forest restoration of the Ministry of Land and 155 000 chokeberry saplings campaign. Environment Protection, last year and planted them in Good progress has been made adding these species take up over 60 hectares this year. in putting sapling production over 90 percent in the overall Ryanggang Province in on a scientific, industrial and afforestation. collaboration with the Academy intensive basis. Among the fruit tree species of Forest Science of the General This year alone land- and are such oil-producing trees as Forest Bureau of the Ministry labour-saving tree nurseries pine-nut tree, Korean evodia, of Land and Environment have been completed and wild walnut and toothache tree, Protection introduced and put into operation in North such wild fruit trees as chestnut, cultivated hundreds of thousands Hwanghae Province and Rason sand pear tree and wild vine of seabuckthorns of a good City, and a provincial tree and such medicinal fruit species in over 70 hectares. nursery equipped with modern trees as black chokeberry and During this year’s spring processes from seed sorting to seabuckthorn. Also, there are tree-planting season, millions seeding and production built many species that are effective of trees newly took roots in in South Phyongan Province. as materials for wood pulp and the mountains surrounding the KIM YONG CHAN Employees of the forestry management station in Riwon Meanwhile, the construction building parts. Evergreen trees Yangdok Hot Spring Resort in County, South Hamgyong Province, discuss how to improve of parent nurseries has been including pine tree and “Kumya South Phyongan Province. the cultivation of chestnut saplings. almost completed in cities black pine”, Pyongyang maple Besides, different kinds of Visitors can see a spectacular onto pine tree, which grows well and counties of Kangwon and and clammy locust are widely root protective agents, growth view of pine nut forests in Riwon even in infertile soil. North Hwanghae provinces. planted to add beauty to the accelerators and nutritive County, South Hamgyong “It costs much labour to make The Ministry of Land and scenery. activators were developed to Province. slits in hundreds of thousands Environment Protection is At present, a nationwide effort ensure a high rooting rate of It owes a great deal to the of pine trees and insert pine nut stepping up the projects for is going on to further improve newly planted trees. Notable efforts of the county forestry tree scions into them. But it is the reconstruction of the the growth rate of trees and the achievements were also made management station, which more profitable to graft pine nut Central Tree Nursery and the carbon dioxide absorption and in the research for making turned all mountains in the county onto pine than to cultivate pine construction of the Academy of water storage capacity of forests tree-planting possible in any into forests of pine nut-grafted nut seedlings as it bears pine Forest Science. by planting mixed forests in a season. Primary attentions are trees by grafting pine nut tree onto nut earlier,” said Ko Son Il, an Tree planting is pushed ahead rational way. paid to thoroughly preventing pine tree. employee of its tree nursery. on a full scale. Yonthan County in North forest fires and damage by “Riwon is a seaside county And the station set the grafting “This year over 50 species Hwanghae Province created a blight and harmful insects and and many pine trees grow here. time between late March and early of trees for fruit and timber chokeberry forest in an area of efforts are directed to reducing Especially, there is Songdan, a April to ensure the rooting rate of production and landscaping are over 100 hectares according to the dependence on forests in all scenic attraction along the seaside grafted trees. mainly being planted as they a yearly plan to yield a large parts of the country. of Riwon Bay with sand dunes Decades-long painstaking are of high economic value quantity of fruits, which are stretching as far as the eyes can efforts bore fruit: now pine nut- and favourable to improving processed to make extract, By Pak Song Min PT see and evergreen pine forests,” grafted forests cover hundreds of said Yun Su, manager of the hectares in the county. station. The station also produces According to him, the station saplings of various good tree Ranger follows in his father’s began to introduce the pine nut- species at the plastic panel grafting technology decades ago. greenhouse equipped with an At the time, it set a goal to automatic control system. footsteps to build forest transform the forests by grafting At the sunny foot of Mt shrubs, so he made up his mind inflicted damage on the forests. pine nut tree of economic value By Chae Hyang Ok PT Taemok in Sonchon County, to cover the mountain in his He developed an efficient North Phyongan Province, home village with forests as his insecticide by mixing a new there stands a small house with father had done. additive with the roots of alder its garden serving as a tree Above all, he turned his and invented a method of Oil-bearing plant nursery. garden into a sapling field. injecting the roots of pine-nut It is the home of Pak Si Ho He trekked through mountain trees with it to exterminate the who has been working as a ranges to familiarize himself with harmful insect. cultivation encouraged forest ranger at the Sonchon every nook and cranny of the He makes hundreds of Recently, many local blight and harmful insects, thus County Forestry Management forest area in his charge, acquired kilograms of insecticide each communities are channelling producing a good crop. Station for nearly 20 years. knowledge of afforestation and year. He introduced a ridge-type big efforts into cultivating oil- Foodstuff factories and “My father was a forest mapped out a plan for it. sapling raising method to double bearing crops. chemical necessities factories patrolman and he was the first “Before anything else, lots of sapling output as compared to Hochon County in South in the county increased the person who implanted in me an saplings were needed. That’s previously. Hamgyong Province produced production of sunflower oil attachment to trees,” said Pak. why he decided to build tree The saplings he raised dozens of tons of edible oil from and soap by improving the He often recollects his father nurseries in the forests in thus were transplanted in the hundreds of tons of sunflower performance of facilities who often took him to the addition to that of the forestry mountain to grow healthy and seeds harvested in recent including oil press and mountain in his childhood, management station,” said green and the forest area in his years, and used over 10 tons of saponifier. fixed a plate bearing his name Pak’s wife. charge is getting more verdant byproducts from the oil pressing Ryokpho District in Pyongyang to a young tree together with To fertilize soil, he went with the passage of time. process as a raw material for soap is also benefiting from oil- him and told him that the tree up mountains shouldering a Every year his forests yield and hundreds of tons of sunflower bearing plant cultivation. would grow very tall after ten knapsack filled with humus dozens of tons of pine nuts and leaves and stalks as animal feeds. “Having solved the problem or twenty years and lots of such every day with his family acorns, various kinds of wild It increased the sowing of edible oil by planting rape, trees would form a thick forest. and members of a mountain fruits and medicinal herbs, and area to dozens of hectares sunflower, flax and perilla last In those days, he developed workteam. timbers with different uses as and cultivated sunflowers in year, our district has planted an affection for each tree they He was delighted to see the well. a scientific and technological oil-bearing plants in right soil planted, he recalled. young trees put out leaves one He always finds himself in manner by ensuring a proper in dozens of hectares this year,” Back home after his demob, after another. the mountain to hear the rustle number of bunches per said an official of the district he climbed Mt Taemok. One year, all of a sudden, of leaves in the thick forests. phyong and carrying out seed people’s committee. His heart ached at the sight of Acantholyda sp., or a pine-nut thinning, weeding, manuring the mountain with only sparse tree leaf bee, broke out and By Jong Chol PT and preventing damage from By Kim Kum Myong PT Page 6 Sat, August 22, Juche 109(2020)

LITERATURE CHILDCARE Enthusiasts go for Nursing environment literature prize contest improved Namsin Nursery in Songyo of loving their friends and The national mass literary drama and critique according value, he added. District, Pyongyang, is improving respecting their parents and work prize contest is going on to its general outline and more “Originally, I had thought the nursing and upbringing of seniors from their childhood with animation in the DPRK. than 800 literary works have that only experts could write children. as they see multimedia According to Song Nam Jin, so far been contributed since literature,” said Kim Il Ok, As part of the efforts to presentations and animations,” vice-chairman of the Central last March. silk reeler at the Pyongyang spruce up the children’s living said Kang Mi Ran, head of the Committee of the Writers “Some enthusiasts have Kim Jong Suk Silk Mill. “But environment more cozily, nursery. Union of Korea, the contest contributed over 10 works. as I read publications, it hit me it carved on the walls of its They cultivate rich emotion and takes place on the occasion of Contributions have not yet that I could write, too. Since building the leading figures from artistic talents as well through their national holidays and major undergone examination, but then I have written literary animations and collections of daily routine in which song and anniversaries every year, and many of them are splendid works with what happens in world-famous juvenile stories, dance take a large proportion. the first contest of this year enough to surpass the products everyday life, my workshop starry worlds of night sky and The nursery runs mushroom was held to mark the Day of of professional writers. And and village as material. pictures showing their happy cultivation and loach breeding the Shining Star (February among the contributors Although I have not studied life in relief. grounds, while growing cherry, 16) and another one is the are many housewives and literature much, experts Its outdoor playground is grape, jujube and other fruit current competition held to schoolchildren as well as appreciated my works as furnished with new amusement trees. mark the 75th anniversary of workers and farmers,” said original. I think everyone can facilities. It freezes the fruits of wild the Workers’ Party of Korea Son Yong Bok, a judge of the become writers and creators if The nursery contrives and persimmon just after picking (October 10). mass literature department. they try hard.” makes moving visual aids and them from trees and thaws them The contest is open to all The contributors have Prize-winning works are ensures that children develop before feeding children and the DPRK citizens, including described vividly and lively carried in such magazines their intelligence and independent fruits have no astringent taste, workers, farmers, service their attachment to their as Korean Literature, Youth thinking and observation faculties but taste sweet and have high personnel and students. home towns and villages, Literature and Juvenile through various intelligent games nutritive value. The ongoing prize workplaces and alma maters Literature and Munhak Sinmun and observation in the nature It planted Aronia arbutifolia on competition is divided into in different forms of literature, . study room and thus have a its field last year, and it will bear such literary forms as novel, and many of the works are of correct understanding and general fruits next year. poetry, juvenile literature, high ideological and artistic By Kwon Hyo Song PT idea of matters. “Our children foster the mind By Kil Chung Il PT SERVICE Restaurant provides distinctive service to visitors The cooking festival hall festival. In the festival the for me to see that the customers on Ryomyong Street lures jury estimates everything receive their ordered foods with many visitors with its special from hygiene specifications satisfaction and relish them to service. to the tastes of foods, but the last. We work tirelessly to People usually call it a here customers are judges at give them as much smile and “place with gourmet cooks ordinary times. Which means joy,” said Pae Yong A, a cook and foods”. we are competing at the of the restaurant. Probably it is because they ‘cooking festival’ every day.” With special environment can see all the movements of Therefore, cooks in the and distinctive service, it the cooks who make foods festival hall always pay attracts an increasing number they order and eat readily special attention to their attire of visitors. CHAE MYONG RIM made foods. and looks as well as the whole Children play with construction toys at Namsin Nursery in “In a word, we can process of cookery and work By Kim Rye Yong PT Songyo District, Pyongyang. see everything at a look. hard to fully comply with the Everything, from the kitchen standard regulations. to the selection of cooking The open kitchen also does HEALTH ingredients and the whole them a “special favour”. process of cookery, is In ordinary restaurants Temperature rise and disease interesting and it is a pleasure cooks come to know whether to ‘see’ them,” said Jo Ki the diners like their creations Chol, a regular visitor to the or not through waitresses, but prevention restaurant. here they can see the visitors’ Head chef Ri Chun Ho said, expressions when their ordered Sharp rise in temperature by them, together with environment convulsion and mental disorders “The kitchen is open to all, foods are served and the whole global warming is the main management work including like hallucination. which demands all of us, cooks, course of dining with their factor causing various infectious the filling in of puddles and In medical terms, such always work as intensely as if own eyes. diseases and loss of lives. draining of ditches. medical symptoms as sunstroke, we are attending a cooking “It is the greatest pleasure Typical examples are dengue Especially, the government heatstroke and heat lipothymia fever, Lassa fever, malaria demands that the public health and heat convulsion are called and cholera which have been sector enhance the role of specific syndrome caused by high prevalent in different countries household doctors and that temperature damage as a whole. in recent years. the urban management sector Experts say that the syndrome Therefore, the DPRK is strictly test water quality and can be easily prevented when working hard to prevent disinfect drinking water. people cope with it with a better infectious and other diseases that In the past, the DPRK was understanding of common might break out in summer. attacked by sustained heat medical knowledge. Pak Tong Chol, chief wave as temperature went up in In order to prevent the of the Korea Fund against summer. syndrome, all units inform Tuberculosis and Malaria, said High temperature makes their employees of common that the issue of environment is humans develop physical knowledge of diseases, very important in eradicating trouble symptoms due to especially sunstroke and infective diseases including thermoregulation dysfunction, heatstroke, encourage them to malaria and cholera. leading them to suffer from put up umbrellas or put on hats Hygienic information languor, headache, vertigo and with wide visor in order to avoid activities are conducted briskly tinnitus. In serious cases, people direct rays and prohibit working RYANG KUM CHOL to inform residents of common develop collapse, dysbasia, outside for a long time. A cook prepares a dish at the cooking festival hall on knowledge of such diseases so dysphasia and disorder Ryomyong Street, Pyongyang. that they can thoroughly prevent of consciousness, muscle By Ri Myong Jun PT Sat, August 22, Juche 109(2020) Page 7 ANNIVERSARY Briefly Long journey etched in history of Kyrgyzstan President vows to improve quality of farm produce Kyrgyz President Sooronbay DPRK-Russia, DPRK-China friendship Zheenbekov told a state broadcasting company on Chairman Kim Jong Il toured well-being in the Far Eastern company greater progress in its China, he encouraged the August 15 that the country Russia’s Siberian and Far region.” work for the promotion of the peoples of the two countries would improve the quality Eastern regions and Northeast As he looked round Lake people’s well-being. to fresh successes in economic of its agricultural products to China in August 2011. Baikal, he described the lake as He appreciated the people’s construction and further boost their exports. The historic journey which a pride of the Russian people painstaking efforts at the sight strengthened friendship with It is an important matter to was made in his last year was of and referred to the need to of every creation and every them. produce ecologically-friendly great significance in bolstering properly preserve and manage scenic attraction and Russian Victor Isaev, presidential farm products and increase up the traditional ties with the natural environment of the and Chinese peoples were envoy to the Far East Region of their exports at present, he Russia and China. lake and its environs in order fascinated by his popular Russia, said that everyone who said. As to his visit to the Bureya to hand it down to posterity traits. met Chairman Kim Jong Il Hydropower Station, a leading and make sure that it positively In different places associated would become his close friend, Russia power generation base in the contributes to the improvement with the activities of President attracted by his personality traits Japanese media decried Russian Far East, the August 22 of the living and well-being of Kim Il Sung he reverentially and affection. for history distortion 2011 issue of the Russians. recollected the brilliant career The world media described Japan’s leading mass media reported: The Chinese people were also and exploits of the President his tour of Russia and China reported that the former Soviet “Chairman Kim Jong Il moved by the noble personalities who had devoted his all to the as an “event that had a great Union had committed an act spoke highly of the brave of the Chairman who associated friendship with the peoples impact on the political circles of aggression in Manchuria and talented Russian people everything with the pains taken of the countries and the and public of the world”. in perfidious breach of the for having built the modern by working people and the accomplishment of the cause of The exploits the Chairman Soviet-Japan neutrality pact. and large-scale hydropower promotion of the people’s well- independence for mankind. performed for the development Russia brands the media’s plant through the decades of being. While travelling through of the bonds of friendship claim as groundless and demands battle to ameliorate nature and Touring the Tonghua Wine many places on his over 8 000- with the two countries will be the Japanese authorities take expressed the expectation that Co. Ltd in Jilin Province, the kilometre-long journey from imperishable forever along with relevant measures against those the workers of the power station Chairman familiarized himself Khasan on the Pacific coast to the ties that are cemented in line who committed such act, said would produce electricity on a with the history and production Amur and Trans-Baikal regions with the requirements of the the official report publication regular basis to contribute to system of the company and of Russia and from the Inner new era. department of the Russian the economic development and even the storage and taste of Mongolian autonomous region Foreign Ministry in an official the promotion of the people’s its products and wished the to Jilin Province in Northeast By Om Ryong PT report on August 12.

COMMENT gunfire for overseas reinvasion Palestine at all costs. PLO criticizes for It is scheming to cause human rights abuses Japan’s bid for military resurgence armed conflict by arguing A member of the executive for its dominion over others’ committee of the Palestine territories, while driving the Liberation Organization on menace to global peace and security regional situation to a crisis with August 17 said that the Israeli It is 75 years since Japan was military equipment as the latest Not content with the denial incessant war games allegedly army and settlers are infringing defeated in World War II, but its stealth fighter jet F-35. of its history filled with crimes to ensure its “security”. on the Palestinians’ rights ultra-rightists are hell-bent on Now Japan, which has steadily including the sexual slavery for The world has been thrown almost every day, appealing to the revival of militarism with a expanded the attack capability the Japanese army and forcible into great turmoil by COVID-19 the international community to wild ambition to reinvade other of the SDF, tries to throw off the drafting, Japan justified it and this year, but Japan has staged take a measure to put an end to countries, far from making nominal shackles by amending totally distorted, scaled down a series of war games on every such acts. an apology for the crimes it the constitution. or downplayed the history of pretext, arousing serious concern Referring to the recent committed against humanity in And Japanese politicians visit aggression in most of the middle of the international community. incident in which an Israeli the past. the Yasukuni Shrine in group school textbooks to be used The reckless behaviour of policeman kicked and clubbed This year alone the Abe regime and offer tributes to it every year from 2021 to instil militaristic Japan aimed at achieving its wild two arrested Palestinian young allocated a record high of well in a bid to honour the war dead view of history and revanchism ambition of overseas reinvasion people, he called on the United over 5 trillion yen for building up as “heroes” and imbue Japanese into the rising generations. poses a grave threat to peace Nations to investigate into the the defence capacity in the new society with a sentiment of Emerging as a leading military and security of the world. flagrant human rights abuses domains including outer space praising chauvinism and entity in the world, it is now by Israel immediately. and cyberspace and buying such militarism. frantic to make the sound of KCNA Iran Irrigation project finished WRONGDOING the supreme representative of A large-scale irrigation Korea’s sovereignty. project was completed in the In his request made on his western part of Iran with due Worst ever state-sponsored deathbed in 1926, the last ceremony on August 13. emperor of the feudal Joson The completion of the dynasty said that he did project has made it possible terrorism not ratify the Korea-Japan to supply water to 23 000 The Japanese imperialists “to annex Korea as part of the Koreans’ strong opposition. annexation treaty but the group hectares of farmland and thus fabricated the Korea-Japan Japanese empire is the most The royal instruction of of rebellious subjects cooked increase agricultural output. annexation treaty to reduce reliable way for establishing our Emperor Sunjong (1874- it up as they liked and that at The region reportedly plans Korea to their colony 110 years real ability on the peninsula”. 1926) on the proclamation the time of its fabrication, the to expand the irrigation area ago. In the unequal treaty, of the treaty bears the royal Japanese locked him up and by 35 000 hectares until March Unyogo Having provoked the Japan specified that Korea’s seal but not his signature. As blackmailed him. next year. incident in 1875 and launched sovereignty should be the Korean emperor rejected The historical facts prove into a full-scale invasion of transferred to it completely and the promulgation of the that the fabrication of the treaty China Korea, Japan fabricated the permanently and Korea should instruction, the Japanese drew was an unheard-of act of state- Agreement inked on Ulsa five-point treaty and the be annexed to it. it up as they liked, stamped sponsored terrorism. cooperation with Qatar Jongmi seven-point treaty To cook up the treaty, Japan it with the royal seal which This is only the tip of so many China and Qatar recently respectively in 1905 and 1907 declared a martial law in the the “residency-general” had crimes Japan committed against concluded an agreement on to seize the country’s diplomatic Hansong area, committed large seized at the time of attacking the Korean people in the past. cooperation in developing right, military command and forces of the Japanese army the Korean state seal office, Japan, however, is trying water-saving farming. administrative power and and police there and created a and proclaimed the instruction to justify all those unethical Accordingly, Qatar will enforced colonial rule by gruesome atmosphere as they devoid of the emperor’s crimes it committed against the introduce the digital water- “resident-general”. encircled the Changdok Palace. signature. Koreans and mankind in the saving irrigation technique and It examined the Korea- Though it finally invented the This shows that the document last century, far from admitting facilities developed by China. Japan annexation plan in April annexation treaty on August 22 on Korea-Japan annexation was them. 1909 and finalized the plan for 1910, it proclaimed the treaty forcibly adopted against the will THE PYONGYANG TIMES occupying Korea, asserting that on August 29, fearful of the of Emperor Sunjong who was By Choe Yong Nam PT Page 8 Sat, August 22, Juche 109(2020)

PROFILE TOURIST ATTRACTION Taekwon-Do star Jang Mt Myohyang area still inspirational refurbished The area of Mt Myohyang, one of Samgyong (three scenes) and Among DPRK Taekwon-Doists, perfect and the DPRK exalted of the six celebrated mountains Chonthae, Sochon and Isonnam who have devoted themselves the honour as the birthplace of and one of the eight beauty spots falls. to the development of Korea’s Taekwon-Do. in Korea, has been spruced up. “The site of Samgyong makes traditional martial art, there is Jang Jang won the women’s top “Many sections of roads and tourists reluctant to leave, Kyong Ok (pictured). technical prize cup and four gold mountain-climbing routes have fascinated by the crystal-clear Jang was born and brought up in medals at the championships, to newly been paved and relaxation water, rocks of fantastic shape a mountainous village of Kosong be recognized as the world’s facilities built in several places of and graceful mountains. In the County, Kangwon Province. Taekwon-Do queen. scenic beauty,” said Kim Chol, past mountaineers commanded She began to learn Taekwon- Later on, she gave full play director of the Myohyangsan a bird’s-eye view of them on Do in her childhood and made to her power as the world’s scenic spot management station. the bridge, but this time we’ve her international debut at the Taekwon-Do ace at many The Hyangsan county built a path and stairs so that 7th ITF Taekwon-Do World international competitions. population conducted the road they can go down the bridge Championships held in Canada’s In nearly a decade since her paving project without damaging and have photographs taken and Montreal in 1990. international debut she bagged the scenery of the mountain, thus take a rest,” said Kim In Guk, a In the individual sparring 26 golds and four top technical completing the tarmac covering department chief of the station. of the championships, she prize cups at international of road between the Hyangsan Resting places furnished with finished runner-up to draw the competitions including five Hotel and the car park of the stone stairs and stone benches attention of experts and fans and distinguished herself as a Taekwon-Do championships. Myohyangsan History Museum have been provided near the contributed to her team’s win. Taekwon-Do star. Jang is the winner of and the concrete paving of road Chonthae and Isonnam falls, he Afterwards, she trained harder She put on a stellar performance Kim Il Sung Youth Honour from the car park to the monument said, adding lots of flowering to hit higher goals and won at the 9th championships in Prize and Labour Hero and to Piro Peak and other mountain- shrubs have also been planted to gold medals in the over 70kg- Malaysia in 1994. People’s Athlete of the DPRK. climbing routes. add more beauty to them. division sparring and other At that time many experts She now works as a staff Meanwhile, resting places individual and team events of and stakeholders in the member of the Korean Taekwon- were newly built around the site By Yun Ki Song PT the 8th championships held in championships lauded her as Do Committee. the DPRK in 1992. Taekwon-Do queen, saying her HANDICRAFT In the championships she movements were powerful and By Min Chol PT

HERITAGE Age-old grasswork Grasswork-making has long fancy articles as traditional top been practised in Korea and has hat and fan and such furniture Martial art classic Muyedobothongji the longest history among folk and covering as chair and blind. handicrafts with an overriding In particular, the flower- Muyedobothongji is an military arts. Consisting of five was a huge box-office hit among position. patterned mat made of sedge illustrated book of martial volumes of thongji and one the Koreans and appreciated It made progress in the periods and the basket in beautiful arts which comprehensively volume of chongbo, the book highly in the Pyongyang of the Three Kingdoms and colours were widely known systematized the martial art explains the arts of handling International Film Festival, Koryo dynasty and developed to other countries as Korea’s movements handed down such main weapons in the was made on the basis of such into a traditional handicraft typical famous commodities through generations in Korea. feudal age as sword, spear, historical background. reflecting the unique sense and specialities. The old book shows the bow and cudgel on the ground Once a Russian news agency of solidity of objects, beauty Fan was also outstanding. movements of traditional or horseback together with reported that Japan, which and national sentiment in the In those days, people of a Korean martial arts and different drawings according to their occupied Korea by fabricating modern age. Moreover, this neighbouring country compared methods derived from them. movements. the Korea-Japan annexation craft was widely spread among the craftsmanship and beauty Published in 1790 in the period It was published in the 18th treaty in the beginning of the last people since there are abundant of the Korean fan to “heavenly of feudal Joson dynasty, it was century as part of the effort of century, prohibited the Koreans raw material resources, it does skill”. compiled by Ri Tok Mu, Pak Je the feudal Joson dynasty to from holding traditional, not require special equipment or According to a historical Ga and Paek Tong Su, and its compile and publish books and national martial art games in tool and the craftworks can be record, an envoy from China’s pictures are estimated to have used as a teaching material for Korea and its troops ruthlessly made easily with comparatively Song dynasty was so impressed been drawn by Kim Hong Do, practising martial arts in the destroyed or plundered the less labour. As a result, they got by a Korean folding fan he renowned artist in those days. army. It was reprinted several historical and cultural assets of diverse in kind and shape. recited a poem which goes that Earlier in the 16th century times. Korea. The main materials for “It’s more than one foot in extent Han Kyo wrote a book entitled The book narrowly escaped According to the state measures grasswork included sedge, rush, when unfolded and as small as Muyebo dealing with six kinds in the past century when Japan taken after Korea’s liberation osier, bush clover, reed, hemp, two fingers when folded”. of martial arts, and in the mid- banned all martial art games of to collect national and cultural straw, corn shuck and the barks Today, grasswork in the DPRK 18th century there was a book the Korean people and viciously legacies and prevent them from of linden, cherry plum and elm. sees radical development based introducing 18 kinds of martial tried to obliterate the fine suffering slightest damage The grasswork came in such on locally-run industry with arts by adding 12 military arts to tradition of martial arts of the during the Fatherland Liberation matting as mat and cushion, abundant material resources. the former. Korean nation. War, Muyedobothongji was such containers as basket and Muyedobothongji was Korean feature film discovered in the area of North straw-net and mesh bags, such By Sin Pyol PT compiled by adding six more Pyongyang Nalpharam, which Phyongan Province in 1952 and donated to the then national central library. Today, it is preserved in the Grand People’s Study House. The national classic which helps people have a better understanding of the origin and history of Taekwon-Do, the orthodox martial art of the Korean nation, was registered in the Asia and Pacific Regional Committee for the Memory of the World Register of UNESCO in 2016 and the Memory of the World Register of UNESCO in 2017.

Korean martial art classic, Muyedobothongji. By Song Jong Ho PT Various kinds of grasswork products.

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