Democratic People’s Republic of Korea No. 26 (3 114) weekly http://www.pyongyangtimes.com.kp e-mail:[email protected] Sat, June 27, Juche 109(2020) Chairman Kim Jong Un presides over preliminary to Party Central Military Commission meeting A preliminary meeting for the presided over the preliminary. the Seventh WPK Central Military WPK Central Military Commission Fifth Meeting of the Seventh Central It was attended by Ri Pyong Chol, Commission, and made a study of took stock of the prevailing situation Military Commission of the Workers’ vice-chairman of the WPK Central a report and decisions which would and shelved the military action plans Party of Korea took place by way of Military Commission, and some be submitted to the fifth meeting and against the south which the General video conferencing on Tuesday. members of the commission. some documents containing national Staff of the Korean People’s Army Kim Jong Un, chairman of the The meeting deliberated on agenda measures for further bolstering the presented for the fifth meeting. WPK and chairman of the WPK items about major military policies war deterrent of the country. Central Military Commission, to be laid before the Fifth Meeting of At the preliminary meeting, the KCNA

ANNIVERSARY All out to fight against aggressors On June 25 1950 the Korean more than 2 800 students of involving all the people. As liberated three days after the liberation, they displayed a war broke out due to the Kim Il Sung University a result, a fund amounting to start of the counterattack as well matchless self-sacrificing spirit US’ anti-DPRK policy of volunteered to go to the front more than 174 497 000 won as over 90 percent of the area of and heroism in the defence of aggression. and three to four days after was raised in a little over a the south and at least 92 percent their country and shattered to At the extraordinary meeting that almost all students and month after the start of the war, of its population in a little over pieces the myth of the US that of the DPRK Cabinet that day, other young people in the north the sum of the fund reached at a month. boasted of being the “strongest” Premier Kim Il Sung pointed petitioned to be sent to the front. least 400 million won by the As the situation of the war in the world. to the need to show the mettle Workers of industrial end of August that year and the turned unfavourably for the US, For the Korean people, June of the Korean people to the establishments across the aircraft, tanks and warships that it committed over two million 25 not only brings back the enemies who were pouncing country made a resolution to were named after “Minchong troops to the Korean front bitter memories of the war, but on them without knowledge go to battlefields and farmers (democratic youth league)”, including one third of its ground also engraves in their mind the of them and stated that the also turned out in the defence “Taehaksaeng (university force, one fifth of its air force, invaluable truth of history. armed invaders should be of their land provided by him student)”, “Nyosong (woman)” most of the Pacific fleet and The truth is that they wiped out through a decisive and the democratic system. As a and “Sonyon (juvenile)” were the troops of its 15 following can defeat any formidable counterattack. result, the number of volunteers presented to the units of the countries as well as south Korea enemy when they uphold an “I was struck with admiration for the army reached over 740 Korean People’s Army. and Japan. outstanding leader in one mind by General Kim Il Sung’s grit 000 as of July 11 1950. As combatants of the Korean As the DPRK people had and when they have burning at that time,” recalled the then Meanwhile in the rear, a People’s Army advanced enjoyed a happy life as they patriotism and indefatigable Vice Premier Hong Myong Hui. movement for contributing southward like surging waves exercised their right as masters fighting spirit. “In view of war history, it was money to war funds was to annihilate the enemy, Seoul, of the country for the first widely recognized that even conducted as a patriotic drive the enemy’s stronghold, was time in their life after Korea’s By Kim Rye Yong PT powerful nations, if they were under preemptive attack, should inevitably make a retreat for a certain period until they retrieve their loss and straighten out confusion caused by that. But no one with ordinary courage could ever have imagined such an immediate counterattack on the aggressors who made a surprise attack.” In the radio address he delivered the following day, Kim Il Sung fervently appealed to the Korean people to direct all efforts to the victory in the war. Students of Kim Il Sung University and many other young people of the DPRK volunteer to go to the front immediately after the Greatly inspired by his speech, Korean war was launched by the invaders.

REPORT nation to live on a peaceful land without war, and has long persevered in its efforts to Withdrawal of US’ anti-DPRK policy realize the desire, but in vain. Its underlying cause is the sinister design, that is, the US prerequisite for peace and stability on Korean peninsula policy hostile towards the DPRK. The Institute for Disarmament States and to reveal the aggressive from the report: wounds and tremendous human Korean war was an inevitable and Peace of the Ministry of and predatory nature of the US and material losses upon the product of the US policy Foreign Affairs of the DPRK on policy hostile towards the DPRK, Seventy years have elapsed Korean people, and the suffering hostile towards the DPRK June 25 released a research paper which imposes immeasurable since the bursts of gunfire of of national division still persists in order to lay bare before the misfortunes and pains on the war were heard on this land. to this day. The Korean war is a criminal whole world the truth behind the entire Korean nation. The Korean war forced by the The Korean nation cherishes Korean war started by the United The following are excerpts United States inflicted painful a stronger desire than any other SEE PAGE 3 Page 2 Sat, June 27, Juche 109(2020)

LEAD ANECDOTE With extraordinary Regarding the people’s leadership ability good as his top priority First ‘client’ of ski resort conditions in detail, he was very June 29 is the fourth the criterion for evaluating an unexpected natural calamity Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un satisfied to say the damping anniversary of Kim Jong Un’s national strength is the was declared a war to defend inspected the completed device was good, there were election as chairman of the people’s happy laughter, the the people and a sea change Masikryong Ski Resort in late no vibration and noise and the State Affairs Commission of strategic line of concentrating was brought about in a matter December 2013. speed was also good. the DPRK. all efforts on economic of a few months. Meanwhile, He took a chair lift as he In the past four years, the construction under the banner facilities for cultural and leisure satisfactorily said that the resort Never allowing any privilege Supreme Leader brought of self-reliance, the idea of activities and other structures was built by making the best It was one day in April 2012 about fresh turns in all fields making a leap forward by dint for younger generations were of the characteristics of the when the Supreme Leader of socialist construction and of science and guaranteeing built all across the country. Masikryong area and it was looked round the People’s dramatically boosted the the future by dint of education In recent years, he provided flawless. Theatre nearing completion. strategic position and might and the idea of consolidating a most powerful war deterrent It was so unexpected that Seeing armchairs in the of the DPRK with his noble the material foundations of amid the do-or-die showdown the officials dissuaded him central auditorium which was view on the people, matchless socialism through the grand with imperialism and radically from taking it, saying it was specially arranged in the 1 500- courage, innovative approach, onward march of economic enhanced the DPRK’s dangerous to take the chair lift seat natural acoustic concert tenacity and tremendous power construction, all of which international status and in a test run. hall, he told officials to remove of execution. served as reliable instruments influence by dint of independent But saying that he was going it and said that he would sit on He defined Kimilsungism- for making rapid progress diplomacy. to see all the courses to be used the same chair as the people Kimjongilism as the guiding in boosting overall national The relationship with by the people, he stayed on the when he would come to the ideology of the DPRK power. big powers has newly been cold seat and headed for Taehwa theatre to see performances. government and enriched Under his wise leadership, established thanks to his mode of Peak on Masik Pass. Recalling that Chairman the Juche-oriented ideas and the DPRK directed big efforts speedy and constant diplomatic After all, he became the first Kim Jong Il never allowed any theories on state building of to making the national economy activities that is not bound “client” of the ski resort. privilege in his lifetime, he said President Kim Il Sung and Juche-oriented and self- by established practices, his One day in early February that if the central auditorium Chairman Kim Jong Il in line sufficient and all the people personal charisma captivating 2018 a new model of trolley bus was removed and chairs were with the requirements of a well versed in science and everyone at the first meeting was running along Pyongyang put there, the number of seats new stage of the developing technology, thus achieving a and his firm principled stand streets in the evening. would increase. revolution. great deal of sci-tech successes, not to make any concession as The Supreme Leader got on Later, he saw the inaugural He also set the Juche- while pressing on with huge to the matters relating to the it, saying he would feel relieved performance of the People’s oriented view on the people, construction projects. fundamental national interests. only after travelling by it lest Theatre on an ordinary seat like anthropocentric philosophy and He led the revolution and The Korean people regard it the bus to be used by the people other people. the line of independence as the construction in the spirit of as their great fortune to have should have any failings. DPRK’s political philosophy making selfless, devoted efforts held him at the top post of the As he examined its technical By Pang Un Ju PT and immutable political line, for the good of the people as he state and firmly believe that thereby specifying the basic prioritized and absolutized their success and glory are always in INSPECTION policy for strengthening the interests and convenience. store for socialist Korea as it is country into a dignified and The campaign to rehabilitate led by him. powerful socialist nation. North Hamgyong provincial Premier Kim inspects chemical He put forward the idea that areas which were devastated by Pak Hyang Nam giants in South Hamgyong and filling oxygen. Planes have been employed to spray fertilizer over the Premier Kim Jae Ryong, The Premier also inspected the Nationwide Taedonggang beer registers vast fields of the large-scale member of the Political Bureau Ryongsong Machine Complex Supreme Leader sends record sales reed production base in Sindo of the Central Committee of and Kumya Youth Coal Mine. birthday spread to Taedonggang beer is one of County, North Phyongan the Workers’ Party of Korea The field consultative centenarian in Sunchon the famous domestic products Province. and member of the DPRK State meetings discussed measures Kim Jong Un sent a birthday favoured by the Korean The Sindo County Combined Affairs Commission, inspected to promote scientific research spread to Jang Tuk Gum living people. Reed Farm pays special the Hungnam Fertilizer for the development of in Sunchon-dong of Sunchon, For the refreshing taste, the attention to providing good Complex and February 8 chemical industry and ensure South Phyongan Province, on fizzy drink is now selling like conditions for the growth of Vinalon Complex in South the production and supply of her 100th birthday. hot cakes at public service reeds. Hamgyong Province. equipment and materials needed She worked as an official facilities across the country, The planes are applying He learned in detail about the for the chemical giants and their and even after becoming a especially in Pyongyang. fertilizer over hundreds of production capacity expanding transportation to them. pensioner she did a great deal The Taedonggang Brewery hectares of land every day. project, the construction of a of things for the country. with an annual production new production process and the KCNA She likes fruit and capacity of tens of thousands Project for Tanchon Power p r o d u c t i o n soybean foods and is living of tons turns out seven kinds Station Unit 5 near to of chemical a pleasant life while helping of beer with domestic raw completion g o o d s with household chores and materials on demand. The The construction project i n c l u d i n g cultivating the kitchen garden drink is packaged in different for the large-scale Tanchon c a r b i d e , in good health. kinds of bottles to be sent to Power Station is being pushed caustic soda destinations. dynamically, and vinalon. Medical oxygen plant built Chairman Kim Jong Il At present, different At the in South Phyongan visited the newly built brewery structures of power station H a m h u n g The South Phyongan in June 2002 and pointed to unit 5 out of multi-tier power Branch of the the need to steadily conduct stations are being built at the State Academy research so as to produce final stage. of Sciences he Korean-style beer with unique The vertical pit of the emphasized flavour. equalizing tank has already the need Thanks to the employees’ been finished and the to further sustained efforts, the construction of the generator e n h a n c e brewery’s products obtained room and the assembly of the scientific and Provincial Medical Oxygen the December 15 Medal of pressure iron pipeline are now technological Factory was inaugurated on Quality which is awarded to nearing completion. guarantee and Monday. the best domestic products. The construction of the economic Built in Phyongsong, it is The beer also wins favour outdoor substation has effectiveness equipped with an integrated with foreigners. exceeded a 97 percent level. of the C1 automatic control system that c h e m i c a l can control all the facilities and Planes spread fertilizer over THE PYONGYANG TIMES industry by has the sections for separating reed fields intensifying s c i e n t i f i c Premier Kim Jae Ryong (foreground left) looks research. round the Hungnam Fertilizer Complex. Sat, June 27, Juche 109(2020) Page 3

FROM PAGE 1 US$ 36.6 billion to US$ 28.4 "We have chosen the 25th and massacre committed by the US conclusion of the Armistice billion during the period this explains our prudence. It imperialists in particular cannot Agreement. But it meant war of aggression which was between September 1948 and is Sunday. It's the Sabbath for be detailed on this short paper. neither the end of war nor systematically prepared and March 1949. both the United States and south The US imperialists, who the conclusion of a peace triggered by the US under Soon after the Korean Korea, Christian states. No one occupied Sinchon County in agreement. thoroughgoing plans to stifle war broke out, American will believe we have started a October 1950, massacred over The Armistice Agreement, the DPRK by force of arms and publications splashed that "the war on Sunday. In short, it is to 35 380 innocent residents, at the time of its conclusion, hold in its hands Asia and the business called Korea revived make people believe that we are equivalent to 25% of the constituted no more than a rest of the world. the economy" and "the outbreak not the first to open a war." county's population, in a little transitional step aimed at Even though the US of the Korean war exorcised After triggering the Korean over 50 days. They burnt the withdrawing all foreign troops continues to fabricate all sorts the evil of recession that had war, the US manoeuvred innocent people to death, from the Korean peninsula to of tricky information designed been agonizing the American cunningly to cover up its true drowned them in a reservoir, ensure lasting peace. to cover up its aggressive commerce since the end of colours as aggressor. shot them to death, burnt them No sooner had the Armistice crimes of having started World War II". This fact speaks On June 25, the US asked for to death on firewood, ripped Agreement been signed than the the Korean war, the truth of itself that a "special recipe", i.e. convening a United Nations apart the limbs of living persons US drove the situation of the history can neither be covered a war, was needed for the US at Security Council meeting, and and cut off the abdomens of Korean peninsula to the brink of up nor obliterated. that time in order to rid itself of forged the UNSC "resolution" pregnant women. war in flagrant violation of the Well over a hundred years the economic crisis. 82 which designated the According to official statistics Armistice Agreement, driven ago, the US adopted it as its The true aggressive colours DPRK as "aggressor" and on alone, the US imperialists, by its wild ambition to make the state policy to invade and of the US that took the lead July 7, it forged yet another during the Korean war, killed Korean people its slaves by all dominate Korea, a gateway in preparing for the Korean UNSC "resolution" 84 which more than 1.23 million people means and seize the whole of to the Asian continent, and war are also evidenced by the "recommended" that the allied in the northern half of Korea and the Korean peninsula. desperately pursued the policy formulation of the war plan. forces should be attached to more than 1.24 million people Around 22:20 on July 27 hostile towards Korea for its The plan of the US to occupy "a unified command under in south Korea, and attempted 1953, less than half an hour implementation. the Far East was divided into the US", "asked" the US to to eliminate the Korean nation after the Armistice Agreement The US ruling circles presented three phases. It envisaged the designate its commander and by using even the chemical and became effective, the US forces the "proposal on opening Korea" first phase as beginning with "authorized" it to use the UN germ weapons. fired several machine gun to Congress in February 1845 the Korean war (A), the second flag. In 1951, an investigation shots towards the DPRK's area and caused a series of incidents phase as its expansion into The DPRK was thus termed team of the Women's and fired shells into its area such as intrusions of the USS China (B) and the final phase as the "provoker" of the war International Democratic successively for several hours General Sherman in 1866, the the invasion of Siberia (C). The and the Fatherland Liberation Federation, who investigated at intervals of tens of minutes. USS Shenandoah and the USS start of operation was slated for War of the Korean people an the atrocities committed In disregard of Paragraph China respectively in 1868, and 1949. "aggression", and the "UN by the US imperialists on 10, Article I of the Armistice a large-scale armed invasion in A Japanese magazine dated forces" made an appearance as the site, wrote in its report: Agreement, stipulating that 1871. September 1964 quoted a a belligerent party to the war. "The massacres and tortures only pistols and rifles shall be After signing the Taft-Katsura former colonel of the imperial In June 1994, Boutros committed by the US troops carried in the Demilitarized Agreement in 1905, the US Japanese army, who had been Boutros-Ghali, the then UN in the areas of their temporary Zone (DMZ) including the Joint backed Japan's occupation of involved in this conspiracy for secretary-general, admitted that occupation are more atrocious Security Area (JSA), the US and colonial rule over Korea the war, as saying: "the UNSC did not establish the than those committed by forces introduced automatic while systematically attempting "The operation was divided 'Combined Forces Command' Hitler's Nazis in Europe." rifles and machine guns and to turn it into its eventual into three phases. First, 10 as a subsidiary organ under Openly clamouring that they even cannons, tanks, flame colony. By the end of World divisions comprising the US its control and that came to be would "wipe out 78 cities and throwers, helicopters etc., and War II, it perfected its plan to Army and south Korean Army placed under the command of towns of north Korea from the opened gunfire towards the occupy Korea. were to be deployed along the US." (June 24 1994 letter map" and "leave nothing intact", DPRK's posts and guardsmen In the letter sent in March the 38th Parallel, and two from the UN secretary-general the US, throughout the Korean indiscriminately almost every 1951 to US senator Joseph operation zones, i.e. the east to the Minister of Foreign war, dropped almost 600 000 day. Martin, MacArthur, the then zone and the west zone were Affairs of the DPRK) tons of bombs including napalm From 1968, the US forces by commander of the US Forces in to be formed. It was envisaged In December 1998, Kofi on the northern half of Korea, mobilizing fully armed troops the Far East, wrote: that the west front would Annan, the then UN secretary- which are 3.7 times the amount repeated the military operations "If we lose this war to directly advance to Pyongyang general, said that "none of my of bombs dropped on Japan which it had conducted in the Communism in Asia, the fall of and a landing operation at predecessors have granted any proper during the Pacific War. areas along the 38th parallel Europe is inevitable. northern Pyongyang with the authorization to any State to During the Korean war, including Mt Songak just "By conquering all of Korea cooperation of the Navy and make the use of the name of the the US imperialists severely before the provocation of June we can cut into pieces the one Air Forces would be conducted UN" as he referred to the forces destroyed 50 941 buildings 25 war. and only supply line connecting in parallel with it. It was also and their command dispatched of factories and enterprises, The US forces committed Soviet Siberia and South …, anticipated that the east front by the US into the Korean war. 28 632 buildings of schools innumerable acts of provocation and control the whole area would choose Yangdok as (December 21 1998 letter from at all levels, 4 534 buildings in the Panmunjom JSA, between Vladivostok and its left flank and ensure the the UN secretary-general to the of medical facilities including including the Panmunjom Singapore. Nothing would connection between Pyongyang President of the Presidium of hospitals and clinics, 579 incident on August 18 1976 and then be beyond the reach of and Wonsan and its right flank the Supreme People's Assembly buildings of scientific research the incident of gunfire towards our power." (Herschel Meyer, would march directly towards of the DPRK) institutions, 8 163 buildings of the security personnel of the Modern History of America, p. Wonsan. Here again, a landing On July 27 2004 and March press and cultural institutions DPRK on November 23 1984. 148) operation at northern Wonsan 6 2006, the UN spokesperson and 2 077 226 dwelling houses. The US nullified Paragraph In a word, the US regarded was to be conducted by a confirmed that the "'UN Owing to their atrocities, 563 60, Article IV of the Armistice Korea as a "dagger" to cut off naval unit. These two fronts Command', despite its name, is 755 hectares of farmland were Agreement, which envisages a "lump of meat" which meant were to advance together up not the army of the UN, but a damaged and 155 500 hectares the withdrawal of all foreign Asia. to the River Amnok and break US-led force". of paddy and non-paddy fields forces from Korea and the The Korean war was badly through the Sino-Korean It is not the UN but the US were lost. peaceful settlement of the needed for the American border. This was the first phase which has the power to appoint When the war was over, there Korean issue. munitions monopolies which of the operation and a detailed the "UN commander". It is not was nothing left but ashes, and Paragraph 60 of the Armistice had been too fattened by piles of plan based on data provided the UN but the US administration the US bragged that Korea Agreement stipulated that money they had amassed during by the former Japanese army which has absolute power to would be unable to rise up again within three months after World War II. was worked out. Next, the decide on either reduction or even in 100 years. the Armistice Agreement The economic crisis which operation was to enter the increase of the US forces in becomes effective, a political had started in the US from the second phase the moment south Korea that are wearing Criminal acts of US – conference of a higher level end of 1948 became more acute the Sino-Korean border was the helmets of the "UN forces". systematic abolition of is recommended to be held to by 1949. broken through, followed by Despite all these facts, the UN armistice agreement negotiate the questions of the The industrial production participation of the Japanese flag is still brazenly hanging withdrawal of all foreign forces fell by 15 percent compared army and the UN forces. This at Panmunjom, which is the The US manoeuvres of from the Korean peninsula and to the previous year, the was the sequence." shame on the part of the United hostility towards the DPRK the peaceful settlement of the prices nose-dived, and the With a thoroughgoing plan Nations. after the Korean war are Korean question. investment in machinery and concrete preparations, the This fiercest war ended in the characterized in a word as a At the preparatory talks for a and equipment reduced US at last ignited the Korean miraculous victory of the heroic pursuit of permanent division political conference that were sharply, which resulted in the war by inciting the south Korean Korean people who were under of the Korean peninsula and held at Panmunjom on October bankruptcy of nearly 4 600 puppet army at 4 a.m. on June the leadership of President ceaseless nuclear threats and 26 1953, the US laid artificial companies and the increase of 25 1950. Kim Il Sung. Yet the human blackmail against the DPRK. obstacles, only clinging to the the unemployed to 6 million On the eve of the war, and material losses suffered The Korean war, which war obstructive manoeuvres, and during the first half of year Robert, the then head of the US by the Korean nation were chieftain Truman described on December 12 that year, it 1949 alone. The revenue of military advisory group in south tremendous indeed. as no less than a third world the monopolies shrank from Korea, gabbled as follows: The nefarious atrocities of war, came to a pause with the SEE PAGE 4 Page 4 Sat, June 27, Juche 109(2020)

FROM PAGE 3 The US incessantly threatened the Joint Observer Team already happened. it kept the nukes-mounted and blackmailed the Inspection under the MAC which were tactical bombers on emergency unilaterally withdrew from the Teams of Neutral Nations provided for by Paragraph Strengthening war deterrent standby. The then US President meeting room. Thus the talks Supervisory Commission which 23, Article II of the Armistice is DPRK's final option Nixon made reckless remarks did not proceed to the main were mandated according to Agreement. On March 25 that he decided to approve the conference, but was ruptured in Sub-paragraph 13(c), Article 1991, it designated as senior It is 67 years since the gunfire use of atomic bombs in case the preparatory stage. II of the Armistice Agreement, member of the US forces of the war ceased on this land. north Korea strikes back. These Afterwards, the Geneva to supervise and inspect the side to the MAC a puppet But there is one thing that has nuclear threats and blackmail Conference was convened introductions of military army officer of south Korea not changed at all. made by the US against the for the peaceful settlement materiel from outside of the which is not a signatory to It is none other than the DPRK are just the tip of the of the Korean issue, but the Korean territory, and eventually the Armistice Agreement and US policy hostile towards the iceberg. US deliberately disrupted the expelled them from south Korea therefore does not have any DPRK. The war in Kosovo that was conference. in June 1956, thereby paralysing qualifications or authority to The United States is becoming triggered by the US and waged On August 8 1953, the US their inspection functions. handle issues relating to the ever more undisguised day by from March to June 1999 was held the ceremony of signing In May 1957, the then US Armistice Agreement. day in its scheme to annihilate a war of injustice simulating a the Mutual Defence Treaty State Secretary openly stated Thus, the MAC which had the DPRK by force and gain second Korean war. with south Korea in order to that "the US should consider functioned for more than four military upper hand in the Former Yugoslavia served legitimize permanent stationing sending more modern and decades ceased to exist, and the Asia-Pacific region and then to as the US’ test ground for a of US troops in south Korea. effective weapons to south NNSC that lost its partner also realize its ambition for world new Korean war, because the On January 2 1955, the Korea", and on June 21 that withered away by itself. hegemony at any cost. country has the natural and then chairman of the US Joint year, the US forces side that The US also abrogated the The government of the geographical conditions similar Chiefs of Staff made reckless attended the 75th meeting of the Preamble and Paragraph 12 DPRK put forward a number of to the Korean peninsula and remarks that its forces would Military Armistice Commission of the Armistice Agreement, peace proposals and initiatives the distance to it from the US be stationed for an indefinite (MAC) announced its unilateral which provides for a complete including the proposal for mainland is almost same as that period in south Korea which is abrogation of Sub-paragraph cessation of hostilities and concluding a DPRK-US peace between the US mainland and of great strategic significance 13(d) of the Armistice of all acts of armed forces in agreement (1970s) and the the Korean peninsula. in its world hegemony, and that Agreement. Korea. proposal for establishing a new The facts that the US together it would continue to hinder the The US shipped into south Since 1954, when it staged peace mechanism (1990s), all with NATO conducted ceaseless peaceful coordination of the Korea more than 1 000 nuclear Focus Lens, the first joint of which were rejected outright and indiscriminate air raids of Korean question. weapons in the period between military exercise with south by the US. zero operational significance After the UN resolution on the late 1950s and the 1980s. Korea, the US has ceaselessly In the latter half of the 1990s, and ruthlessly used depleted dissolution of the UN Command As a result, south Korea was staged all kinds of war drills four-party talks were held uranium and WMDs spreading for durable peace on the Korean converted into an area with so far, including Freedom Bolt, involving the DPRK, the US, toxic bacteria gave a glimpse of peninsula was adopted at the the highest nuclear weapons Team Spirit, Ulji Focus Lens, China and south Korea for another Korean war planned by 30th session of the UN General density in the world, or over RSOI, Key Resolve, Foal Eagle the establishment of a durable the US. Assembly in November 1975, four times higher than NATO and Ulji Freedom Guardian. peace mechanism on the Korean At the turn of a new the US clung more openly to member states, and into an These exercises far exceeded peninsula, but owing to the millennium, nuclear threats its scheme for the permanent advanced outpost for the launch any other war exercises insincere attitude of the US, no by the US against the DPRK occupation by cooking up the of a nuclear war. The US also taking place in different fruit was produced. became ever more blatant. US-south Korea Combined formalized the provision of regions of the world in terms In the new century, the DPRK On June 6 2001, Bush Forces Command. nuclear umbrella to south Korea of frequency and scope, put forward the proposal for announced the so-called "North In early March 2006, the US at the 14th session of the US- and all of strategic nuclear pushing the issue of declaring Korea Policy Statement" where worked out the plan and got south Korea Annual Security triad such as nuclear aircraft the complete end of the war he claimed that the US would down to its implementation for Consultative Meeting in March carriers, nuclear submarines and the proposal for convening wield its military strength expanding and reorganizing 1982. and nuclear strategic bombers a meeting at the earliest including nuclear weapons if the nominal UN Command At the outset of the 21st were mobilized in its nuclear possible date for replacing the the DPRK did not accept its into a permanent organization century, the US designated the war drills targeting the Armistice Agreement with a demand for nuclear inspection, of multinational forces by DPRK as a target for preemptive DPRK. peace agreement in 2010, the suspension of development and way of increasing the role of nuclear strike in its Nuclear The exercises turned more 60th year of the outbreak of the launch of missiles, and reduction belligerent states in the Korean Posture Review and shipped into aggressive and provocative Korean war. But the US turned of conventional weapons. war and permitting them to take south Korea military hardware in nature into "decapitation down all of those proposals. In 2002, the US stated that part not only in the formulation worth an astronomical sum of operation", "tweezers-style Instead, the US openly it could be the first to use of emergency and operational money, together with nuclear strike", "occupation of designated the DPRK as nuclear weapons on the Korean plans but also in detailed weapons. Pyongyang", etc. throwing off part of an "axis of evil", peninsula and it would develop activities. The US deployed in south the "annual" and "defensive" "outpost of tyranny" and small nuclear bunker busters Consequently, the process Korea all sorts of sophisticated veneer. "target of pre-emptive nuclear to this end, thereby making its for converting the Armistice attack weapons such as F-117 The pre-emptive nuclear strike" and falsely accused preemptive nuclear attack on Agreement into a peace stealth fighter, F-15 and F-16 strike scenarios were further it of "sponsoring terrorism", the DPRK a fait accompli. agreement miscarried, and the fighters, Shadow 200 tactical specified into OPLAN 5026, "proliferating weapons of At the 41st session of the US- unstable state of neither war nor reconnaissance drones, Apache OPLAN 5027, OPLAN 5029, mass destruction", "abusing south Korea Annual Security peace continues on the Korean helicopters, new-type Patriot OPLAN 5030, OPLAN 5012, human rights", "laundering Consultative Meeting in 2009, it peninsula. missiles, Stryker armoured OPLAN 5015, OPLAN 8044, money", "counterfeiting" and stipulated that it would provide In August 1953 the US vehicles, guided missile OPLAN 8022, OPLAN 8010, "trafficking in drugs" in order to extended deterrent such as went totally against Sub- destroyers, Abrams M1-A2 tailored deterrence strategy and justify its policy hostile towards nuclear umbrella, conventional paragraph 13(b), Article II of tanks, ATACMS ground OPLAN 4D. the DPRK. strike capabilities and missile the Armistice Agreement, and to ground missiles, Mine- As was mentioned above, It did not even hesitate to defense system to south Korea. unilaterally drew the "northern Removing Armour-Protected the US left no stone unturned make reckless remarks about The American nuclear threats limit line" in the West Sea (MRAP) special vehicles, and in abrogating each and every the "total destruction" of the against the DPRK reached its of Korea, which is an act of even introduced the THAAD article and paragraph of the DPRK. peak in 2017. illegal and outrageous crime, system. Armistice Agreement which The US policy hostile towards The US pushed the Korean thereby transforming its And recently, the US consists of five articles and the DPRK is well evidenced by peninsula onto the threshold surrounding areas into the introduced into south Korea 63 paragraphs in total and the fact that it posed nuclear of a nuclear war by deploying hottest spot in the world. It F-35A stealth fighters, consequently the Armistice threats to the DPRK, openly nuclear strategic assets and the is also attempting in every Global Hawk high-altitude Agreement was dumped like a talking about the use of nuclear latest war materiel including way to impose a blockade on reconnaissance drones, scrap of waste paper. weapons. the super-large nuclear- the DPRK under the pretext AWACS and many other ultra- Owing to the hostile policy The US had openly stated that powered aircraft carriers USS of Proliferation Security modern attack weapons, thus of the US and its endless it would drop atomic bombs on Carl Vinson and USS Ronald Initiative, running counter to transforming south Korea into nuclear threats and blackmail the DPRK during the Korean Reagan, nuclear strategic Paragraph 15, Article II which literally a showcase of lethal towards the DPRK, the Korean war, and gradually escalated its bombers B-1B, B-52H and prohibits any kind of blockade weapons. peninsula has turned into the nuclear threats against it after B-2A, nuclear-powered against the DPRK. The US even went to the world's hottest spot, where a the conclusion of the Armistice submarines USS Columbus, The US nullified Sub- lengths to abolish the MAC and nuclear war could erupt at any Agreement. USS Tucson and USS Michigan paragraph 13(d), Article II of the Neutral Nations Supervisory moment. When its armed spy ship in south Korea and its the Armistice Agreement, which Commission (NNSC), the only If the DPRK had not built Pueblo was captured in January surrounding areas. called for a complete cessation remaining supervisory bodies up its self-defensive deterrent 1968, the US reviewed the The US hostile policy and of introduction of all military for implementing the Armistice radically, the Korean peninsula option of nuclear attack against nuclear threats against the DPRK materiel from outside of the Agreement. would have suffered the the DPRK, and when the large became further aggressive after Korean territory and turned In the 1950s, it dissolved the ravages of war hundreds of reconnaissance plane EC- the DPRK-US summit was held south Korea into a world's Neutral Nations Inspection times and the calamity of a 121 was shot down from the weapons exhibition hall. Teams under the NNSC and third world war would have DPRK airspace in April 1969, SEE PAGE 5 Sat, June 27, Juche 109(2020) Page 5

FROM PAGE 4 experience. Facts clearly prove that the Korean peninsula, and the US automatic answering machine, The Korean nation suffered root cause of the aggravated military moves to contain China on denuclearization betrays in Singapore for establishing a directly from the US nuclear situation on the Korean and Russia are bound to grow only its brigandish intention to new bilateral relationship and attacks on Hiroshima and peninsula lies in the US hostile more pronounced as time goes disarm the DPRK and open the building a lasting and durable Nagasaki and it is the second policy and nuclear threats by. way to a war of aggression. peace mechanism on the Korean largest victim of them after the against the DPRK, and the Under this circumstance, there At the Fourth Enlarged peninsula. Japanese people. dark cloud of a nuclear war can is no guarantee that a second Meeting of the Seventh Central Despite the fact that the To the Korean people, who never be cleared away from the June 25 would not be repeated Military Commission of the DPRK voluntarily took crucial personally experienced the Korean peninsula unless the US in case the US interests coincide Workers' Party of Korea, and meaningful initiatives horrible ravages of nuclear withdraws its hostile policy that with the ones 70 years ago, a Kim Jong Un, chairman of including the discontinuation of bomb, the atomic bomb threat treats the DPRK as an enemy far departure from maintaining the State Affairs Commission nuclear test and ICBM test-fire of the US during the Korean war and a belligerent state. the armistice on the Korean of the DPRK, set forth new for the sake of building mutual was literally a nightmare, and a The US might have its own peninsula. policies to further bolster up the confidence, the US, far from procession of "A-bomb refugees" calculations in keeping the For the Korean people who national nuclear war deterrent responding to these initiatives streaming from the north to the dogged persistence of its concept were subjected to disastrous and operate the strategic force with corresponding measures, south appeared on the Korean hostile towards the DPRK and disturbances of war imposed on full alert in accordance with conducted tens of joint military peninsula during the Korean war. continuing belligerent relations by the US on this land, the the overall requirements for drills the President had personally Many families who could not with the DPRK. strong war deterrent for building and developing the promised to stop, and threatened move together sent only their While the Far Eastern strategy national defence has become state armed forces. the DPRK militarily by way of husbands or sons to the south of the US had been shifting into an indispensable strategic Under the condition where shipping into south Korea ultra- in the hope of carrying on their Nixon doctrine, Neo-Pacific option. the US, the biggest nuclear modern war equipment. family lines. doctrine, Pivot to Asia-Pacific It is an indisputable, open power and the only user of The US conducted a test in This is how the separated strategy and Indo-Pacific and above-board exercise nuclear weapons, clings to the simulation of the interception families of millions of people strategy, the environment of the legitimate right to morbid and inveterate policy of the DPRK's intercontinental came into being, and they still surrounding the ceasefire on the self-defence that the DPRK hostile towards the DPRK, ballistic missile, and did live separately in the north and Korean peninsula was abused further consolidates the war while indulging itself in extreme not hesitate to carry out test south of the Korean peninsula to militarily deter the potential deterrent for defending national nuclear threats and blackmail, launches of all kinds of missiles and abroad. rivals of the US. security and guaranteeing its the DPRK will continue to including ICBM Minuteman-3 In order to eliminate the In recent years alone, the development. further build up its strength to and SLBM Trident 2D-5, thus nuclear threats from the US, the US deployed the terminal high The 70-year history of contain the persistent nuclear maximizing the nuclear threats DPRK government made every altitude area defence system the DPRK-US showdown threats from the US and will against the latter. possible effort either through (THAAD) in south Korea under graphically shows that any self- never shrink from this road it Even amid the unprecedented dialogue or with resort to the pretext of "missile threat", restraint or broad-mindedness has chosen. crisis triggered by COVID-19, international law, but in vain. thus making it possible for it to cannot contain the US high- Nobody in this world can the US military threats against It had only one last option watch over Northeast China and handedness and arbitrariness, check the victorious advance the DPRK have not abated at all. left, and that was to counter the Far Eastern region of Russia aggression and war manoeuvres, of the Korean people and army Rather, it staged a joint air drill nukes with nukes. like seeing the palm of its hand. but will only encourage it to who have inherited the heroic and marine corps joint landing All in all, the US compelled The US is also openly revealing persist in such practices. spirit and mettle of the great drill in April this year. the DPRK to possess nukes. its evil intention to deploy It is no more than the generation of victors that had No other nation on this This brought to an end the intermediate-range missiles in despicable double-dealing defeated the US-led gang of planet has so directly suffered nuclear imbalance in Northeast the surrounding areas on the tactics for the US to talk imperialists in the Fatherland from nuclear threats for so Asia, where the DPRK only had pretext that the INF Treaty has about a sort of dialogue while Liberation War, a de facto long as the Korean nation, and been left without nukes while become null and void. maximizing its pressure confrontation between a rifle to the Korean people, nuclear all other countries had been As a result, it has now become on the DPRK politically, and an atomic bomb. threat is not at all an abstract equipped with nuclear weapons a matter of time when a nuclear economically and militarily, concept but actual and concrete or nuclear umbrella. arms race starts around the and its repeated harping, like an KCNA

MACHINE-BUILDING FOOD SAFETY Modernization projects Microbial analyser helps pushed ahead ensure fast safety inspection F o o d “Factories and enterprises in on combustion model and Electrical Appliances Factory researchers have the machine-building industry introduced the CNC technology and other electrical machine recently brought sector are pushing ahead with into major processing equipment producers introduced presses out an inspection the projects for modernization to raise the quality of equipment into the iron core production device which and quality improvement of and accessories, especially processes and are building the can analyse the products,” said an official of the the hydropower generation equipment production processes microbial content Ministry of Machine-building equipment, needed for different based on CNC machines. The of food quickly Industry. economic sectors a step higher. Kyongsong Insulator Factory and accurately According to him, annual In particular, the Ragwon and the Pyongyang General by using a plans have been worked out and General Machine Enterprise Electric Cable Factory 326 c o m p u t e r i z e d technical preparations are now completed a control program work to increase the accuracy a u t o m a t i c underway to build the Taean conducive to establishing of finishing of facilities, make r e c o g n i t i o n Heavy Machine Complex and the flexible manufacturing high-performance measuring system. the Ragwon General Machine system at the heat treatment instruments and invent and Instead of using Enterprise into archetype and process of cementation and introduce rational jigs and the foreign-made model factories of the machine- nitration, thereby shortening equipment. culture medium building industry sector. And the operating time of equipment Efforts are also being made for microbial an undertaking is in full swing and increasing the productivity to develop and produce modern analysis, they to upgrade major industrial and heat treatment effectiveness machines and equipment. developed a establishments in parallel with of machine accessories. The The Taean Heavy Machine new one for a project for establishing new Ryongsong Machine Complex Complex and the Sunchon rapid inspection production processes at the improved the quality of Engine Factory rounded off the with bean-flour PAK KWANG HUN Kumsong Tractor Factory and globular graphite cast iron, production of several kinds of drink as its main Employees work on a microbial analysis a factory specializing in the one of important materials, trial dynamotors and are pressing ingredient. at the lab of the Pyongyang Children’s Foodstuff Factory. production of tools. and produced electrode chucks on with the manufacture of They carried Special attention is being by metal mould casting to motors in earnest. out the microbial inspection of time to 8 hours and lowered the paid to enhancing the quality of remarkably shorten the time of The Ryongsong Machine foodstuffs by way of camera cost per unit to one fifth. products and productivity. manufacture and save costs. Complex and the Ragwon image analysis on a computer “We are going to establish The Taean and Ryongsong The Kumsong Tractor General Machine Enterprise are program. a microbial analysis process machine complexes and the Factory and the Sungni Motor engaged in the manufacture of According to Ju Hyon Song, based on a molecular biological Ragwon General Machine Complex established the machines for construction and technical instructor at the method,” said senior staffer Jon Enterprise set up advanced fittings production processes coal-mining industry sectors. Pyongyang Children’s Foodstuff Chol Ju. production processes including based on glass fibre reinforced Factory, the introduction of this a casting process based plastics, while the Taedonggang By Jong Hwa Sun PT system reduced the inspection By Kim Il Jin PT Page 6 Sat, June 27, Juche 109(2020)

REPORTER’S LOG UNIVERSITY On a visit to Unjong tea Centre flaunts its dignity plantation with pioneering research hits Recently, I visited the Kosong has over 30 hectares of tea-tree times every year between mid- Unjong Tea Plantation, one of fields, and has been carrying on May and late September and the the Unjong tea leaf production the production of tea leaves in joy of collecting tea leaves is base. earnest since 2009. indescribable, she said. Greeting me who was Since it is situated in a breezy As the demand for Kosong tired after a long journey, place and its annual percentage Unjong tea increases, so do the Pak Kyong Nam, manager of sunshine and yearly mean order for the tea and the income of the Kosong Unjong Tea air temperature are suitable of tea-tree growers, she added. Plantation, offered me a cup for the production of tea “Our tea promotes circulatory of tea saying it would soon leaves, foreigners wh\o made and digestive systems, prevents relieve my fatigue. the rounds of the plantation arteriosclerosis and hyperpiesia Located in Jangpho-ri, Kosong admired that it is an “area of and has good effect on the nerve County, Kangwon Province, famous tea” and “pollution-free system. The regular drinking of on the coast of the East Sea of tea leaf production base”, he the tea helps prevent different KIM RYE YONG Korea, the plantation was a very said proudly. diseases and retard aging,” said Researchers perform a titrimetric test on reagents to be used beautiful place. When I went out to the fields Pak Jong Chol, technical staffer in sensor materials at the Mirae science and technology It was an excellent place for with the manager, the employees who has been working at the centre of Kim Chaek University of Technology. tea cultivation where balmy were tending tea trees with plantation for over 30 years. It has been a year since the The shipbuilding technology wind blows from the vast sea utmost care. He introduced the biological Mirae science and technology of high-speed steel catamaran and the sea joins a river and Light green soft tea leaves features of the Unjong tea tree. centre of Kim Chaek University for fishing with trawl nets in which forms the contiguous were budding on every branch of The ever-green tree starts to of Technology was inaugurated deep sea and transporting and line of a stratum with Lagoon tea trees after the first harvest. sprout in late April and grows on June 24 last year. the integrated fish farming Samil famous for its beautiful “It requires much labour until frost falls through two or Researchers of the centre and culture production and scenery. to grow tea trees. Fertilizer three rounds of growth period. played a pivotal role in management system which helps Unjong tea trees grow in rows application, for instance, is Tea leaves are mainly picked establishing the integrated solve technological problems along the six-kilometre-long laborious as we have to dig deep when new leaves amount to manufacturing system of the arising in the cultivation of coastline in this place of scenic holes like a trench along furrows five, and only two leaves are Sunchon Phosphate Fertilizer fry on the basis of a water beauty. and bury them after spreading left among five to make them Factory which was inaugurated cooling and heating control and According to Pak Kyong fertilizer. The same is true for develop new sprouts. The last May. automatic water cycling system Nam, the plantation had weeding,” said sub-workteam number of branches increases Their research hits are for freshwater and seawater fish only 15 tea trees when it was leader Pak Jong Son. constantly, but the growth speed appreciated to have high farming and a filtering device are inaugurated in 1983, but now it They pick tea leaves four is not so fast. economic effectiveness. Typical also promoting the development I turned my steps towards the examples are a system-parallel of the fishery sector. tea processing workteam while and independent photovoltaic The centre also developed listening to him with interest. power generation system electronic sensors. Green and black teas were for the momentary power of According to Kim Kum Chol, being processed there with relevant units, a geothermal chief of the electronic sensor collected tea leaves. heating and cooling system laboratory, they researched and It is said that it takes two or based on cooling-and-heating developed the core technology three hours to process green tea, exchangers with different forms of sensor to develop various but five to six hours for black and outputs, an integrated kinds of analysers. tea. power management system, The water quality and The green and black teas and a high-temperature air harmful gas analysers which produced at the Unjong Tea combustion technology which were developed by the lab have Plantation are sought-after helps preheat combustion air of 0.1 percent of errors, sensitivity in Pyongyang as well as in fuel gas to more than 1 000oC is about two minutes and 30 Kangwon Province. and infuse it into the furnace by seconds respectively and life Farmers are gathering the first harvest at the Kosong Unjong retrieving waste heat as much as spans are two years. Tea Plantation. By Kwon Hyo Song PT possible. In the course of ensuring the domestic production of the core surprise and admiration. The creators of stunt technology of sensor, researcher ACROBATICS The stunt “Flyers” was “Flyers”, which emerged as Kang Hwi Song carried his awarded seven top prizes at the masterpiece representing technical study plan on the different international circus the Korean acrobatics, are seawater saltiness measurement Imagination translated festivals from the 22nd Monte redoubling efforts to further data on an SCI-level journal to Carlo International Circus develop their work. have a public response. Festival held in Monaco in 1998 Besides, the centre brought out into reality to the 12th Izhevsk International By Pang Un Ju PT an atomic luminous spectrum Circus Festival in analyser, infrared absorption Though the circus theatre has floating swing, including triple March last year. carbon-sulphur analyser, atomic been closed due to the spread of backward turns and continuous The festival fluorescence analyser and X-ray COVID-19, stunt “Flyers” has double turns, double turns with p a r t i c i p a n t s , analyser. left deep impression on both straight body followed by triple jury members Jon Ryong Jin, chief of the locals and foreigners. side turns and continuous triple and spectators analytical mechanical device Produced in 1987 by turns in the air. lavished praise laboratory, said that the cost of Kim Jae Gun, winner of the The stunt, which is performed on the acrobatic the atomic luminous spectrum Kim Il Sung Prize and People’s by ten acrobats, is climaxed stunt, describing analyser is only one third as Artist, the acrobatic piece has with the performance of 20- it as the one and compared to the imported won top prizes one after another metre diagonal flying to hold only performance analysers as it ensures over 95 at international circus festivals the hands of an acrobat in the in the world, percent of accuracy and does although it has been over 30 opposite side. the acme of not use expensive argon gas. years since its production. The creator said that the c o n t e m p o r a r y According to researcher Kye It has constantly been refined movement reflects the spirit aerial stunt Myong Ho, the lab is pushing and developed thanks to of the Korean people to build performance, a the research and manufacture of valiant acrobats that translate a powerful socialist nation as very distinctive stream-oriented cell separator, imagination into reality. they make a leap forward higher and excellent one of advanced apparatuses in In the work, acrobats towards the world. work that nobody animal husbandry and biological admirably perform diverse Acrobats Jo Song Nam can imitate and engineering fields, at the final aerial trapeze and stunts as and Kang Sin Song soar up the one pulsating stage. they fly high from the ground the distance of 20 metres at a with the spirit of to the sky with the help of go, filling the spectators with the DPRK. A scene from acrobatic stunt “Flyers”. By Kim Rye Yong PT Sat, June 27, Juche 109(2020) Page 7 US Briefly Racial inequality, deep-rooted evil of Russia Anniversary of start of war commemorated American society On the occasion of the 79th anniversary of the start of the n June 12, another the white police under the is 5.9 times higher than that at least one crime in Minnesota Great Patriotic War, Russian black man was killed pretext of law enforcement among whites in the US. between 1995 and 2017, but President Putin together with Oby a white policeman and the eruption of public What is more problematic three quarters of them escaped war veterans and students of in Atlanta, Georgia, the US. sentiment against it are the is that, though the number of punishment and over 140 of military academies on June 22 According to local media, epitome of the deep-rooted murders and abuse of blacks is those who had been convicted laid a wreath at the Tomb of the policeman fired shots at social inequality in American staggering as ever, the judiciary are still in active service. the Unknown Soldier beside the unarmed young black man society. continues to patronize the Some of them are said to have the Kremlin walls and mourned while trying to detain him. He The UN Committee on police. strangled or shot people to the Soviet soldiers who fell in was taken to hospital but died the Elimination of Racial In recent years alone, it death. the war. soon afterwards. Discrimination disclosed successively acquitted the According to the survey That day, he looked round a The tragic murder committed that racial discrimination criminals of charges of results issued by a research museum in Patriot Park in the in Atlanta at a time when has systematically taken murdering bare-handed black centre last year, an outskirts of Moscow and the anti-racist demonstrations root in government agencies men, igniting the public fury. overwhelming majority of church of the Russian Federal triggered by the brutal of the US for the last few According to a local black respondents said that the Armed Forces. killing of George Floyd in centuries, threatening the newspaper, only one policeman authorities are to blame for the Events were held across Minneapolis are sweeping safety of African-Americans was sent to jail out of those escalating inter-racial conflict the country, including the across the country is the and trampling down on their involved in the 15 cases of in American society. ceremonies for unveiling half- revelation of reality in the US economic, social and cultural killing of blacks by the police, They lamented that racial length statues of Soviet heroes where racial discrimination is rights as well as legal rights. which caused a great sensation equality can never be achieved and burying the remains of the rampant. According to a UN special in 2017. in the US. people killed by fascists. Analysts claim that the rapporteur, the rate of Over 500 present and former clampdown on blacks by imprisonment among blacks policemen were found guilty of By Om Ryong PT Europe European parliament adopts ISRAEL build an industrial zone resolution against racism there. This means that about The European Parliament on 3 000 Palestinians will be left June 19 adopted a resolution Naked territorial ambition of homeless. opposing all forms of racial The Israelis are also hell- discrimination rampant in the bent on construction for US and other countries. Zionist regime the expansion of Jewish The resolution hit out at the settlements. crackdown of the US police srael is getting ever area. pointed to the need to increase Their authorities decided to upon peaceful demonstrators more undisguised in its As is known, the Israeli the number of Jewish settlers carry out a plan for building and journalists and urged the Iintent to seize other’s authorities submitted to in the region to a million more than 1 930 blocks of their US administration to address territory. parliament a bill on the within ten years. dwellings in the region this year. the problem of institutional Shortly ago, the Israeli annexation of the Jordan valley At present, more than half a At present, the construction racism and inequality in the troops arrested dozens of in the West Bank they had million Jews live in the region project for 786 blocks has country. innocent Palestinians in already occupied. embracing East al-Quds, and already been given the final It also appealed to the East al-Quds. According to They are scheming to seize the Zionists are attempting to approval. European Union and its information released by the not only the valley but also double the number so as to The ever-growing territorial member nations to put an Palestinian prison population section C which comprises over force a demographic change ambition of the Zionist regime end to all manner of racial committee, the Palestinians 60 percent of the area of the in the region and accelerate is arousing the indignation and discrimination. who have been arrested in West Bank. Judaization. denunciation of the Palestinians the area this year amounted As he unilaterally declared Israel is planning to dishouse and the international ALBA to more than 840. This shows the section has come under residents from a Palestinian community. Another US’ anti-Cuba that Israel is trying to remove the jurisdiction of Israel, village in the northern part sanctions measure censured their existence from the the Israeli Defence Minister of the region in a bid to By Choe Yong Nam PT ALBA member nations described the US’ inclusion of DEVELOPING WORLD installed with high-tech seven Cuban organizations in the equipment by relying on sanctions list as a unilateral act its own technical force. of interfering in internal affairs In pursuit of independent Independent space exploration and flouting international law. also gains momentum in Iran, They in a recent statement the United Arab Emirates and denounced that the US’ criminal development other countries. measures of economic, trade Developing countries are and financial embargo against eveloping countries sources, Bangladesh made of Congo presses on with a strengthening unity and Cuba are inflicting tremendous strive to boost public a new prospective plan project to double industrial cooperation on the principles of damage on the Cuban people. Dthe economy and of the national economy which establishments. respecting sovereignty, equality achieve social progress by would be implemented by Shortly ago, and mutual benefit. WHO relying on their own efforts and relying on domestic resources. Algeria assembled a UN official expresses resources. It is said that the plan telecommunications satellite By Min Chol PT concern over further Cuba works hard to overcome numerically shows the COVID-19 outbreak the hardships and crisis caused remarkable growth of national The director-general of the by the vicious moves of the income and amount of export, World Health Organization at US to tighten the anti-Cuba and the goals for developing the the video-conference on June blockade. country into a middle income 22 said that COVID-19 is Pointing to the need to get rid state till 2031 and a developed still spreading rapidly and the of the proclivity to import at a country with high income till number of the infected exceeds meeting in April, the Cuban 2041. the previous record every day, president said that the country In order to discard dependence and underlined the need to join should make the production on imported seeds and increase efforts to combat the pandemic processes of industries and agricultural production, instead of politicizing it. agriculture rely on their own Tanzania makes sure that Although a million people efforts and technology, reuse research centres under the were infected in three months machines, tools and equipment agricultural research institute at the onset, the same number and replace imports with resolve the seed problem by of people have lately been domestic products while their own efforts and presented affected in only eight days, he launching a brisk economy the budget for the new fiscal stated. drive. year to lay foundations for Unlike the past when it industrialization. the pyongyang times depended on foreign fund The Democratic Republic Page 8 Sat, June 27, Juche 109(2020)

EATERY CUSTOM Scenic beauty adds more to Table manners of popularity of the restaurant Koreans One of the characteristic unfavourable feeling by making The Moran Restaurant is features of dietary custom of noise with the crash of vessels a favourite haunt of many the Korean people is to respect or speaking and laughing people who visit Moran Hill for seniors and show them warm boisterously. mountaineering, exercises and hospitality. They regard it as a matter of stroll. They first serve rice or side courtesy not to complain about Back in 1977, it was built on dishes in bowls for elders and the taste and colour of foods by Moran Hill which is known as do their best to serve excellent likening them to anything and one of the scenic beauties in foods to seniors when they set make unpleasant remarks that Pyongyang. the table. would hurt the feeling of diners A Korean-style building Especially, they prepare during mealtime. roofed with blue tiles in an area separate tables for the aged at Juniors do not put down their of 1 200 square metres, the the best place so that the old spoons and chopsticks before restaurant adds more national persons can have meals in a seniors do, but wait until elders flavour to the beauty spot which leisurely manner and juniors finish their meals while placing was named Moran Hill in the start to have meals after elders their spoons and chopsticks on meaning that it is as beautiful as pick up spoons and chopsticks. soup bowls. a peony. The other feature of their Koreans deem it impolite and As the saying goes, bread SONG YONG SOK table manners is to take care of uncultured to apply vinegar to is better than the songs of The Moran Restaurant on the scenic Moran Hill in speech and behaviour during others’ noodle vessels before birds. So those who visit the Pyongyang. mealtime. they ask for and to serve foods hill naturally drop in at the famous in the capital city for Min, an old man in Wolhyang- Before having a meal, with spoons or chopsticks that restaurant. their pleasant tastes. dong, Moranbong District, they wash their hands, primp they have used. The eatery consists of indoor “The sight of various kinds Pyongyang. themselves and have their Since ancient times, the and outdoor dining areas. of bread makes our mouth “My family members have meals with good manners while Korean people have warmly It serves such soft drinks as water. So, I always buy one meals at the restaurant on restraining themselves from welcomed guests and offered Taedonggang Beer, the most more plate of bread for my holidays after having a rest stretching their legs under the them warm hospitality. popular drink of Koreans, grandson attending school,” on Moran Hill. Though I have dining table or shaking bodies. The host offers the best seat soda pop and ice cream as said Kim Ok Nyo, an old often eaten the foods of the When elders have meals, to the guest and picks up spoon well as a rich selection of woman living in Pongji- restaurant, they make me feel juniors refrain from lying down and chopsticks prior to the foods like bread, twists, dong, Phyongchon District, new tastes each time because or going to and from the dining latter to say help yourself while seasoned rice rolled in laver, Pyongyang. my head becomes clear and I place, holding both spoon and putting tasty and rare foods by millet pancake, roast chicken According to head chef Ro feel refreshed as I climb the chopsticks in one hand, having the visitor. and potato pie stuffed with Jang Son, they serve more hill,” said Kim Chol Man living meals hurriedly while using It has been considered as a meat. than 10 kinds of bread like pie, in Kyongnim-dong, Central spoon carelessly and making good manner to sit up when “With the beginning of cake, bread with cream puff District, Pyongyang. noise as they chew foods. others have a meal, even though summer, many guests visit our fillings, yeast bread spread The restaurant prepares 1 200 Koreans like to have a meal the diners are juniors. restaurant. Our restaurant’s with cheese, and honeyed meals every day and its service in a family atmosphere as foods are very popular with bun. amount grows on holidays, they dislike giving others an By Choe Yong Nam PT diners as they can have a smell “I often have lunch at the according to waitress Jin Un of pine and flower fragrance Moran Restaurant whenever Il. RELICS while commanding a bird’s-eye I go up Moran Hill together Roast meat served in the view of the scenery of Moran with my aged villagers for outdoor dining area is one Hill,” said manager Kim Yong stroll and exercise. The of the popular foods of the Pavilion and stone lion Il. taste of Taedonggang Beer restaurant. The soft drinks and bread after exercise is beyond served at the restaurant are expression,” said Choe Kyong By Ri Sung Ik PT in Sami Among the cultural relics granite pillars. NATURAL MONUMENT of Korea, there are the Sami The colourfully painted Pavilion and Stone Lion in pavilion enhances the elegance Elephant-shaped rock in West Sea Sami-dong, Haeju, South of the old building. Hwanghae Province. Standing near the pavilion is Built in the 19th century, the the Stone Lion in Sami-dong of Korea pavilion is one of the typical which dates back to the period pavilion structures. of Koryo Kingdom (918-1392). There is Elephant Rock on called thus as it takes the shape the elephant" is 9 metres in It looks like a crane, which The stone lion shows well Pidan Island in Sindo County, of elephant. circumference. has perched a moment ago, the refined sculpture of Korean North Phyongan Province. It is 46 metres long, 15 metres It was a small islet formed by looking down as a gabled roof ancestors. The rock standing in a place high, 8 metres wide in its upper ground subsidence in the period is covered on wooden pillars with tideland and vast field is part, while the "proboscis of between the late 3rd century and put up on several well-trimmed By Min Chol PT the early 4th century. Abrasion and weathering turned the islet to be the present-day rock. In the part of “head”, it has a small rock resembling an "ivory" and a small hole in the middle of "proboscis". Some parts of the rock are submerged in the sea at high tide. When the rock is flooded at high tide, it looks like an elephant swimming in the sea, but it seems to have fallen into the marsh when the tide is out.

Elephant Rock, a natural monument in the DPRK. By Song Jong Ho PT Sami Pavilion and Stone Lion in Sami-dong.

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