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KOREA TODAY No. 12, 2013 51 http://www.naenara.com.kp Porcelain Vase A gift presented to Chairman Kim Jong Il by D. T. Yazov, former Soviet Defence Minister and Marshal, in August 2001. 52 KOREA TODAY No. 12, 2013 KOREA TODAY Monthly Journal (690) Printed in English, Russian and Chinese C O N T E N T S Living on Honour ················································································································ 3 Kim Jong Il and CNC (1) ···································································································· 5 Motive Force for Building of Economic Giant··········································································· 8 Poultry Research Institute ··································································································· 9 An Old Scientist Recalls······································································································10 Beneficial Fish Farming······································································································11 Lifeline·····························································································································12 High Goal ·························································································································14 Relying on Their Own Resources ··························································································15 KOREA TODAY No. 12, 2013 1 Supreme Commander and Soldiers ············································· 16 Faithful to Songun Idea ···························································· 18 Parental Affection ···································································· 19 Chima and Jogori Permeated with Lofty Wish······························ 20 Images of Gold Medalists ·························································· 22 Sport Brings Life to the Disabled················································ 24 Land of Popular Policies···························································· 26 Front Cover: Statue of Korea—One Big Family ···························································· 28 Chairman Kim Jong Il is A Clinical Medicine Researcher’s Hobby ······································ 30 unveiled at Kim Il Sung University in October 2013 Doctor Couple·········································································· 31 Short Story A Rainy Evening ······································································ 32 The Bell Rings on Jamae Islet···················································· 34 When Teachers Work Hard························································ 35 Distance Despised ···································································· 36 Strong Fighter Against Rheumatoid Diseases······························· 37 By Our Nation Itself ································································· 38 Struggle to Achieve the Independent and Peaceful Reunification of Korea (3)·························································· 39 Culprit of Instability································································· 40 Souls Accuse············································································ 41 Back Cover: Moran Hill in Where Japan Heads for····························································· 42 winter World Heritage in Kaesong························································ 43 Photo by Ra Jin Hyok Korean Central History Museum (7) ··········································· 46 13502 ㄱ-38229 Kwak Jae U’s Wife ··································································· 48 © The Foreign Language Address: Sochon-dong, Sosong District, Magazines 2013 Pyongyang, DPRK ISSN 0454–4072 E-mail: [email protected] 2 KOREA TODAY No. 12, 2013 Living on Honour Y SINAM COOPERATIVE FARM IS AN True to his advices, we ex-servicemen members of M ordinary one you can find anywhere in Korea. I the Youth Subworkteam worked hard in the van of returned home from military service in September the group. Younger members also worked assidu- 2007, three months after Chairman Kim Jong Il ously, emulating us, to boost the grain production. visited the farm for the fourth time. In January the Chairman Kim Jong Il sent our farm tractors of next year I began to work as leader of the Youth a new style and other rolling stocks in February 2009 Subworkteam, when the farm’s management board helping us to do farming much better. chairwoman Kim Yong Sun admonished me, “I hope My team tried hard to do farming in a scientific you young people will be pillars and pioneers in and technical manner. One day my colleague Ri Hy- farming at our farm which has been honoured to be ang Mi said to me applying fertilizer in the field, visited by our great national leaders Kim Il Sung “Why don’t we study a method of giving fertilizer? and Kim Jong Il several times. The future of our The way we do it now, we can’t give an equal and farm rests on you.” I knew hers was a meaningful exact amount of fertilizer. And I think we waste a lot remark. of fertilizer.” That year my subworkteam was the first to finish That evening we had a collective discussion re- rice transplantation and begin weeding in the farm. garding the problem. The technical assistant Ku One June day around the time Chairman Chol Min suggested the idea of granulizing the fer- Kim Jong Il called at my farm again to our happy tilizer before applying. Soon a research team was surprise. He was satisfied that my farm was making organized and a machine was made to produce a change in agricultural production by improving granular fertilizer. With this as a momentum the management and operation including labour man- subworkteam began a course of learning agricultural agement and doing farming as required by science science and technology by themselves. Ku Chol Min and technology. He gave wise advices on making a took charge of the work. We helped and led one an- leap forward in production. other forward in getting agricultural knowledge. ► Youth Subworkteam members return home from work. KOREA TODAY No. 12, 2013 3 They are engrossed in learning agricultural science and technology. hard in the field day in and day out to increase grain production while leading the effort to make a facelift of the farming village, Kim Jong Il kindly asked us to have a souvenir photo taken together, saying we were praiseworthy. He was probably proud of us who were trying to develop our village into a wonderful They work hard to increase the grain produce. place with our own hands. After the photo was taken, he asked us to do a good farming while living in the ► Thanks to the efforts of all the members of the sub- good house and promised to come to see us again. workteam, a good machine was made to apply fertil- Hoping to welcome him to our farm in a rich au- izer. The machine took first place at the national tumn and show him our rich table, we built a stock- youth’s scientific and technological achievements breeding house and a greenhouse in addition. Look- exhibition held in commemoration of Youth Day in ing in the souvenir photograph we looked forward to 2010. Now enrolled in the study-while-working sys- his visit. One day we heard unexpected sad news that tem, all of us are assimilating latest farming knowl- the great national leader had passed on a train while edge. travelling for field guidance. We were gripped with My subworkteam developed an enjoyable life as sorrow, but rose up making a pledge in front of the well. First we carried out a project to refashion our souvenir photo to do a better farming to accomplish lodging to suit the features and tastes of us young his desire. people. At night we made bonfire and continued the Happy or sad, we turned to the photo, renewing construction. Some fell asleep by the fire, losing their our pledge. This year my subworkteam grew vegeta- shoes or clothes in the fire. But none of us yielded to ble seedlings in the greenhouse successfully before the difficulties, looking forward to the completion of transplanting them in the field. This was the first to our wonderful lodging. In a little over a month we be introduced in my farm. The biggest problem was finished a new lodging, totally different from the old how to heat the greenhouse. To solve the problem, one. Sim Kum Ok and her colleagues made a study untir- Building on this achievement we spearheaded the ingly despite repeated failures, and thus set a ra- effort to make a facelift of the farm. On July 6, 2011 tional heating system in the greenhouse. This in the season of weeding Chairman Kim Jong Il brought about a bright prospect for increased vege- visited my Sinam Cooperative Farm again. He was table production while saving a great deal of materi- pleased with the fact that my farm had considerably als and manpower. boosted the grain production and renewed the ap- We often stand in front of the souvenir photo pearance of the farming community by implementing these days, feeling proud of our successful fulfillment the Workers’ Party of Korea policy on rural develop- of our assignment of production this year, too. En- ment. He looked round the newly laid mechanization shrining the photo we will continue to work hard to workteam and our lodging of the Youth Subwork- increase production and thus make a contribution to team. Going round the bedrooms, youth school, din- the improvement of the people’s living standards. ing room, and the wash-cum-bath room, he praised us, saying it
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