Democratic People’s Republic of Korea No. 13 (3 101) weekly http://www.pyongyangtimes.com.kp e-mail:[email protected] Sat, March 28, Juche 109(2020) Kim Jong Un directs live-fire artillery competition, oversees demonstration launches Kim Jong Un, rifles. chairman of the He received Workers’ Party of from the chief Korea, chairman of the General of the State Affairs Staff a report on C o m m i s s i o n its evaluation of of the DPRK the competition and supreme results. commander of The 3rd Corps the armed forces o v e r p o w e r e d of the DPRK, on others, while Mar 20 directed the 8th and 4th an artillery fire corps took second competition and third places between large respectively. combined units The Supreme of the Korean Leader was so People’s Army on satisfied with the the western front. combat readiness Supreme Leader of the 3rd Corps Kim Jong Un he signed his was greeted at c o n g r a t u l a t o r y the competition autograph on the ground by Army certificate of crack General Kim artillerymen to Su Gil, director be awarded to an of the General artillery battalion Political Bureau under the 3rd of the KPA, Army Corps, which read, General Pak Jong Chon, chief actual war. on the order and method of the “I admire the amazing combat of the General Staff of the KPA, Taking part in the competition were competition before guiding it. capability of the battalion. I am so commanding officers of the large the artillery units under the 3rd, 4th On his order, the corps satisfied and give special thanks combined units on the western and 8th corps of the KPA. commanders directly commanded to it. Kim Jong Un. March 20, front and other KPA commanding In the competition, the forward the artillery fire at the observation 2020”. officers. manoeuvre to the firing line of every post. Army General Pak Jong Chon The competition was aimed unit was assessed first and the firing In the contest the artillery units on awarded the certificates, medals and at inspecting and assessing the order was set by drawing lots to the western front showed amazing badges of crack artillerymen to the preparedness of the artillery forces fire guns of different calibres at the results with the marksmanship artillery battalions and companies on the western front without target islet from the set distances. they had polished in their ordinary which were successful in the prior notice to take necessary The total standings were decided drills. competition. measures, awakening all the units, by aggregating the firing results The Supreme Leader expressed The Supreme Leader gave fundamentally improving all the and the time taken to complete the satisfaction, saying that the important instructions on the forms, contents and methods of missions. artillerymen on the western front, direction of military and political artillery drills and definitely turning At the observation post, the especially those of the 3rd Corps, work, including the issue of ordinary drills into practicable Supreme Leader received a report were sharpshooters and they seemed warlike ones to provide against from the chief of the General Staff to be hitting the target with sniper SEE PAGE 2 Page 2 Sat, March 28, Juche 109(2020) tremendous Juche-oriented defence science and self-supporting defence industry of the DPRK state. The successive birth of new weapon systems of a Korean style constitutes a great event in the development and transformation of the armed forces of our state, the Supreme Leader said, describing the success as the brilliant fruition brought about by the Party’s correct line of developing the independent national defence industry and its policy of attaching importance to defence science and a clear demonstration of the might of the DPRK’s defence science and industry. The new-type weapon systems we have recently developed and the tactical and strategic weapon systems under development will make a decisive contribution to the realization of the Party’s strategic plan to bring about a radical turn in the national defence strategy, he said. We must further build up the striking capability to exterminate any enemy out of our territory if they Demonstration: Yong Song, Kim Jong Sik, Hyon After Kim Jong Un gave an order dare attempt to take military action Kim Jong Un oversees tactical Song Wol and other leading officials to fire, the Juche shells were fired against our state, and this is just the of the WPK Central Committee, with roaring sound and dazzling flare goal of the defence upbuilding set by guided rocket launches Army General Pak Jong Chon, to precisely hit a target islet. our Party, the most perfect national FROM PAGE 1 chief of the General Staff of the The fire clearly demonstrated the defence strategy and a truly credible Korean People’s Army, and KPA characters of differently-set flight war deterrent, he noted. intensifying training for all the KPA corps commanders. trajectories and falling angles, The Supreme Leader gave units as required by the prevailing Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un accuracy of guided shells and the important instructions on the situation. was greeted on the spot by leading power of payload. tasks to be carried out by every Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un officials in the field of national Recollecting with deep emotion defence science research field and watched the demonstration fire of defence science research, including the painstaking efforts made the new direction to be taken by tactical guided weapon on Mar 21. Jang Chang Ha and Jon Il Ho. by the Supreme Leader for the the munitions industry in order The demonstration was also seen The fire was aimed at reconfirming development of the powerful to implement the Party’s line of by Ri Pyong Chol, vice-chairman and showing the KPA commanding Korean-style tactical guided developing the independent defence of the Central Committee of the officers the tactical characters and weapon, all the observers including industry. Workers’ Party of Korea, and Jo power of a new weapon system to be the KPA commanding officers Yong Won, Kim Yo Jong, Hong delivered to KPA units. were filled with the pride in the KCNA

LEAD the top and absolute priority to the interests of the people and performs miracles by relying Work indicates path of independent development on their united strength, modern streets and cultural and leisure centres have sprung up to be followed by people in succession and Korean-style technical innovations have Chairman Kim Jong Il in human history by creating development of history and the DPRK to win the widely been encouraged even authored the immortal work On the Juche idea to develop social revolution and guiding two revolutionary wars, under the vicious obstructive the Juche Idea on Mar 31 1982, the revolutionary struggle principles to be maintained in successfully carry out several moves of the hostile forces. in which he systematized the of the masses of people for the revolution and construction stages of social revolution The Juche idea is now Juche idea created by President independence onto a new, in a comprehensive way, and become independent in spreading across the world, Kim Il Sung. higher level and opening up a providing the Korean and politics, self-sustaining in the maintaining its powerful The Juche idea made it clear new era of history, the Juche world’s revolutionary peoples economy and self-reliant in influence. that man is a social being with era. And he integrated into with guidelines for waging a national defence. Juche idea study groups are independence, creativity and a system the philosophical vigorous struggle to champion Now the DPRK has launched active in many countries and consciousness and that he is principle, socio-historical and win their independence. an offensive to smash straight seminars, lectures and short the master of everything and principle and guiding The Juche idea fully proved through all difficulties by dint courses on the Juche idea are decides everything. principles of the Juche idea its scientific accuracy, of self-reliance to win fresh organized on a large scale every Kim Jong Il demonstrated and deepened and enriched it truthfulness, validity and victories in the building of year. And many people visit the in depth scientifically with new, original ideological vitality throughout the a powerful socialist nation, DPRK to feel and experience and theoretically that the and theoretical wealth. historical course of the Korean holding higher the banner of the vitality of the idea. President had achieved a great In the work he clarified revolution. Juche and independence. ideological feat unprecedented the law governing the It made it possible for In the DPRK, which pays By Kim Rye Yong PT Sat, March 28, Juche 109(2020) Page 3

FERTILIZER generators. It also developed and introduced a new program to monitor in real time and realize Production lines upgraded to cut cost the automatic control over the power production system and made power generating and increase output equipment including an efficient measurement protection device, The Namhung Youth thermal power station to get generating process by making said Hong Chol Nam, deputy large transformer and circuit Chemical Complex increases steam for fertilizer production. the most and effective use of chief engineer for production. breaker. fertilizer production by pushing It is said that the new steam waste gas from the generator in The new power generation Electricity generated here ahead with the technical production process consisting of the drying of rod coal, and other system was made by remodelling is used for lighting at various upgrading of overall production three large-capacity circulating processes also register good the process of handling steam public welfare facilities and processes. fluidized bed boilers, a fuel results in production, especially generated at the large boiler residential quaters as well as It remodelled the gas depot and dust-collecting gas purification and ammonia which works for supplying the hospital, kindergarten and generating process, washing system ensures over 98 percent and urea fertilizer production steam for the production of nursery of the complex. towers, heating process and combustion efficiency by using processes. fertilizer. Engineer Pak Ryong Ho said other production lines to meet industrial waste and waste gas Several technical innovation It produces steam needed for if they operate the generating new technical indices and from production process as plans presented by the complex power generation by burning equipment at full capacity, boosted the output of semiwater fuel and turns out well over a were highly appreciated at the the remaining dust coal after their power output will be gas, a basic material for fertilizer hundred tons of steam per hour. scientific and technological extracting the main raw-material enough to satisfy the needs of production. “By establishing this presentation for the chemical gas from the fertilizer production a fairly big county and they In particular, it introduced a process our complex has been industry sector last year. process and adding various kinds can supply electricity to major technical innovation plan into producing high-pressure steam The Complex recently set of waste gas from ammonia raw- local industry factories in Anju, the supply of castings needed for fertilizer production with up a power production system material gas generator to it. South Phyongan Province. for overhaul, thereby shortening our own efforts, and turned with a capacity of well over ten To establish the new power Now, the complex is focusing the casting time from ten days hundreds of thousands of tons thousand kilowatts. production system, the complex on the solution of technical to two hours while reducing the of industrial waste into highly- “The system was given a test developed a process of reducing problems that arise in making consumption of materials by a efficient fuel,” said Hong Chol run late last year and now it is the high-pressure steam to low the new power production twentieth. Nam, deputy chief engineer in generating several thousand pressure and purchased five system noise-free and eco- In the course of this, it built charge of production. kilowatts of instantaneous boilers, over a dozen turbines, friendly. up the capacity for increasing Besides, it sends much power. It will produce more if six electric motors and two tens- fertilizer production by more raw materials to the gas it is put into normal operation,” of-thousand-kilowatt capacity By Yun Kyong Il PT recycling the waste gas from the ammonia synthesizing process and applied the heated gas from generator to the steam production process so as to save hundreds of tons of fuel on a daily average. It also added a new conveyor belt to the rod coal drying process to increase productivity 1.2 times while saving manpower and electricity. According to Pak Song Hak, a staffer of the technical section, the steam production process established by the own effort of the complex is a recyclable, energy-saving one. PHOTOS BY PAK KWANG HUN / THE PYONGYANG TIMES In the past, it largely depended Fertilizer is carried by a conveyor belt at the Namhung Youth The production process is monitored at the central control on imported fuel or nearby Chemical Complex. room.

month in the country. production of plate glasses for METAL Nationwide North Phyongan Province, in the construction. particular, has provided schools Pyongyang, Nampho and 500th triplets born at in the province with hundreds other cities and counties, Steel giant applies new maternity hospital of LCD TVs, well over 1 000 ministries and national Ri Yon Hwa from Chongjin, computers and thousands of agencies have rendered North Hamgyong Province, pieces of modern educational material and moral assistance technical solutions gave birth to all-female triplets experimental apparatuses and to the construction. The Chollima Steel Complex lining of the heating furnace for at the Pyongyang Maternity facilities in over 10 kinds for increases the quality and the 6 000-ton press forging. Hospital on Mar 20. the past two months. Power station project in full quantity of iron and steel by The slag-alkali cement The 29-year-old spent swing introducing new technologies. is a heat-resistant concrete over 120 days receiving free Hospital construction well North Hamgyong Province It has introduced an compound which can replace medical care at the hospital. under way is now pressing on with the electromagnetic induction and alumina cement. At present, the triplets weigh construction of Orangchon agitation technology into the Researchers developed the 2.09kg, 1.92kg and 1.33kg Power Station Unit 3. continuous ingot moulder. slag-alkali cement that is highly respectively. The building of well over a It solved various scientific and resistant to heat in the course of The hospital delivered the thousand metres long working technological problems arising research into the effective use first triplets in1980, the 100th pit for tunnelling the main in designing and manufacturing of slag. in 1990, the 200th in 1995, waterway has been finished the inductor, the core of the The forging furnace at the 300th in 2001 and the 415th and waterway tunnelling is agitation technology, thereby Chollima Steel Complex is the just before the Day of the Sun The construction of the pushed on a full scale. establishing the electromagnetic first industrial furnace of metal (April 15) in 2012. Pyongyang General Hospital At the construction site of induction and agitation process. factory in the country that has And the 500th triplets were is progressing at a fast pace. Kwangdok dam the builders The application of this introduced the technology recently born this year which Builders remove tens of have already installed first technology has made it possible of producing heat-resistant marks the 40th founding thousands of cubic metres crane and lay over a hundred to increase the actual output concrete with slag-alkali anniversary of the hospital. of earth every day. On Mar cubic metres of concrete every of iron and steel products, cement. 23 the first convoy of trucks day. The installation of the remarkably improve steel Experts say that its Public support rendered to carrying hundreds of tons of second crane and the building quality and produce alloys with introduction constitutes a education sector iron and steel products and of a sorting plant and other various steel grades. step forward in ensuring Positive support is being a large quantity of cement projects are now going on at The complex also introduced the domestic production of offered to the educational arrived at the construction the final stage. the slag-alkali cement, which fireproof materials needed in sector throughout society in site. The Taean Friendship was developed by the silicate metallurgical factories. March, the school-supporting Glass Factory completed the THE PYONGYANG TIMES engineering institute of the State Academy of Sciences, into the By Ri Myong Jun PT Page 4 Sat, March 28, Juche 109(2020)

INSULATOR PROFILE High quality insulating Worker inventor the attention of experts as varnishes produced soon as it was launched because The Anju Insulator Factory is by manufacturing various “The development of the it ensures relief concentrating on ensuring the equipment including a plate- 155-class freon resisting effect and gloss domestic production of raw and frame pressure filter and remote- insulating varnish provided of the logo at the other materials and equipment. controlled product shipping a guarantee for ensuring the same time, while “In the course of using device. satisfactory production and consuming little locally-abundant fish resources The introduction of the plate- repair of electric motors to be electricity in the as a substitute for basic material frame pressure filter made installed in geothermal pumps printing process. for production, the concept that it possible to shorten seven and super-quick freezers, and In succession, had been believed as impossible days needed for maturing the serviceable life of motors he brought out a to carry on production without insulators and save a great deal increased 1.4 times,” said Choe “I formed a close connection luminous logo, whose afterglow imported materials vanished and of coal consumed for ensuring Kyong Chol, staffer in charge of with Sonamu (pine tree) brand remains for more than six hours an idea that self-reliance based temperature. The remote- production. a few years ago when I was at night after being exposed to on science and technology is controlled shipping device helps The factory now turns out employed in this factory” said sunlight for only five minutes in the only way out became to be fully prevent the risk of fire in various kinds of insulators and Yun Chang Nam (pictured), a the daytime. predominant,” said Pak Kwang the shipping area. electro-insulating cloth such as worker at the Pyongyang Bag Last year he developed a Hyok, staffer in charge of At present, the factory insulating varnishes for traction Factory. localized printing ink. technology. produces high-grade insulating motors of electric locomotive At that time the factory used “The printing ink dries at The factory newly established varnishes including 155-class and metro car, high-and-low steel plate to make its logo, so proper speed compared to the a high-class insulating freon resisting insulating tension motors and transformers it failed to produce the desired imported one, is highly adhesive varnish production process varnish. and varnish for wire, and the effect, he recalled. to bag cloth, good in softness, insulators satisfy quality indices An idea began to form in his colour and gloss for printing in terms of the content of mind to introduce an embossing delineation and eco-friendly,” involatile powder, viscosity and printing method, which said printing workteam leader electric intensity. produces three-dimensional on Kim Kyong Hun. “Now our factory is carrying the printed matter. The introduction of this on an undertaking for turning He had already worked at a printing ink helped significantly production processes into printing factory for years and improve the production recyclable and electricity- and finished a college course by efficiency of the factory. labour-saving ones. When they joining the study-while-you- The resin-based embossed are completed, our factory will work system at that time. logo printing technology and take a big stride in ensuring “He voluntarily took on localized printing ink won normal production, improving the research into embossing national patents and were the quality of products and printing technology to improve highly appreciated at the 34th developing new products,” said the quality and beauty of the National Festival of Science An Jong Hak, manager of the logo. He wanted to make the and Technology last year. SONG TAE HYOK / THE PYONGYANG TIMES factory. Sonamu brand really smell the “The Sonamu brand was Workers monitor tanks at the Anju Insulator Factory in South fragrance of pine tree,” said Ju named by Supreme Leader Phyongan Province. By Kim Il Jin PT Jin Su, his workshop manager. Kim Jong Un. Though small, its Yun Chang Nam decided logo mirrors the lofty intention established a canned lemonade to use resin as the embossing of him who hopes that our DRINK production line in which all material, conducting repeated children grow strong and healthy processes are automated, thus experiments and analysis. like the pine, the national tree of laying material foundations Finally, he succeeded in the country. I am determined to Employees encouraged to for producing more delicious making the pine tree resin logo. devote all my life to upholding carbonated drinks. The new embossing printing his intention,” said Yun. In the course of the technical technology with resin as the get innovation-minded innovation movement, the main raw material attracted By Chae Hyang Ok PT “We are putting big efforts than 80 employees presented factory won the title of thrice into the technical innovation over 110 plans for technical honoured model technical movement in which all innovation on the occasion of innovation unit and its scientific DISASTER MANAGEMENT employees take part,” said chief the Day of the Shining Star (Feb and technical successes such as engineer Kang Jong Hun of the 16). “soda pop production method Kyongryon Aeguk Soda Pop As a result, it set up a process using vegetable extracts” and Disaster risk reduction Factory. for filtering oktang sugar for “liquid carbon dioxide strainer According to him, the soda pop production and built using functional activated factory added tens of thousands a new steam boiler saving charcoal” were highly evaluated strategy in the pipeline of pieces of data on global electricity by over 80 percent. at the 34th National Festival of development trends and It turns out over ten kinds of Science and Technology. The DPRK adopted the It is also planned to advanced technologies related functional soda pops. 2019-2030 National Disaster complete the national disaster to soft drink production to the Recently, it has newly By Jong Chol PT Risk Reduction Strategy management and emergency database of its sci-tech learning in conformity with such response systems, raise the space so that all employees international agreements as public awareness of disaster risk could learn from them. Sendai framework document and response, develop science Many employees have and is now working for its and technology for disaster enrolled in the online courses implementation, said Kim Yong management, foster the ability of Pyongyang Han Tok Su Chol, department director of to supply funds and materials University of Light Industry, the State Emergency Disaster and establish a disaster fund. Pyongyang University of Committee. At the first stage of Mechanical Engineering and According to him, it is the implementing the strategy, others, and nearly half of them general aim of the strategy to provincial, city and county have already graduated or are in prevent in advance the existing people’s committees will work the course. or potential disaster risks under out their regional disaster risk What is special in its mass- the unified guidance of the reduction plans in accordance based movement for technical state, guarantee sustainable with the NDRRS and confirm innovation is that it encourages socio-economic development the basic data for ensuring all workers and technicians by enhancing the ability to scientific accuracy in disaster to take part in factory- cope with and recover from management and the survey wide technical innovation the disaster and reduce to the of dangerous objects will be competitions, said Choe Won maximum the damage to the finished on a nationwide scale RYU KWANG HYOK / THE PYONGYANG TIMES people’s lives and properties and till 2022. Il, a member of the factory Bottled soda pops roll off the production line at the Kyongryon managing staff. This year, more Aeguk Soda Pop Factory in Pyongyang. to the economic, social, cultural and environmental wealth. By Kil Chung Il PT Sat, March 28, Juche 109(2020) Page 5

VIRTUE DRESS Couple takes in children of Manageress has a knack dead fellow miners of mixing colours People liken Kang Kum Chol, When she once visited her they could directly have her chief of the Kang Ho Yong husband, she regretted herself maternal love. Youth Shock Brigade of the after seeing miners endeavour The couple bought new Chonsong Youth Coal Mine, to do more good things for Un clothes for and offered special and his wife Kim Jae Ryon to Gil while taking care of him at foods to the adopted children a “pearl”. every break. before their own offspring. The couple bring up six Therefore, Kang’s family Though he was busy doing children including four took in Un Gil for the first and coal-mining work, Kang was parentless children. then Jong Hyok, Tae Nam and present without fail at the “It has been said since olden Mi Hyang one after another, and meeting of parents with his times that 50 000 days’ work their family members increased children, showed concern for is required to bring up a child. to eight. their study and life and prepared Kang and his wife, however, But as the saying goes, birthday tables and souvenirs on have been devoting much more determination and practice are their birthdays. efforts to the adopted children different things. It was not easy At one time, he broke the river than their own offspring,” said to bring up orphaned children ice and caught fish to stimulate KIM RYE YONG / THE PYONGYANG TIMES Kim Hyong Nam, an official of like their own. the appetite of Mi Hyang who Hong Song Hui, manageress of the Korean Costume Shop the coal mine. “When we adopted them, suffered a cold. on Sungni Street, Pyongyang, selects cloth colour for a new It has been four years since I was at a loss first how to When there were sport suit. the couple started to bring up treat them,” Kim Jae Ryon meetings in schools, the couple The chima and jogori made different likings of customers, orphaned children. recollected. “And they also felt would not go to the school of at this shop give a warm and she added. One day after coming home it hard to call us ‘father and their own children, but to the elegant feeling at first sight and The shop makes Korean from work, Kang proposed to mother’, felt awkward and did school of their adopted children. seem to become more beautiful costumes mainly with silk his wife to take into their family not open their hearts to us. They As their affection flowed into and charming every time I fabrics in soft, neutral tints. Un Gil, son of his fellow worker used to run away from home, the hearts of adopted children see them, said a customer at The tailors pay particular who died at his shock brigade. so once we had to bring them as it was, they unreservedly call the Korean Costume Shop on attention to harmonizing colours “I could not readily make up back, who took their shelter the couple “Papa and Mama”, Sungni Street, Pyongyang. of upper and lower garments as my mind to do so as it required from the rain under the eaves of showing fondness to their Korean people like dressing in well as patterns and ornaments so much labour to look after a house.” parents. Korean costumes on meaningful according to seasons and my own children,” recalled his Jae Ryon put her heart into and pleasant occasions from customers’ age and lineament wife. the orphaned children so that By Pang Un Ju PT first birthday to wedding and and in consideration of whether sixtieth and seventieth birth they are holiday wear or casual ALTRUISM anniversaries. Therefore wear. their aesthetic demand on the In the case of a wedding traditional costumes is growing dress, they select the showiest People help each other in combat day by day, which in turn colours for upper, lower and stimulated a fierce competition over clothes to fully display the for making better Korean gorgeousness and add large and against epidemic clothes among costume shops. small patterns in contrasting or Many stories are told about A department chief of the protective masks free of charge According to the introduction similar colours. the laudable deeds of helping Sunam District Hygienic to the passengers who did not of Ryu Chol Jin, deputy And in the case of an everyday each other among the Korean and Anti-epidemic Centre in wear them and voluntarily secretary general of the Korean dress, they choose white, light people during the nationwide Chongjin, North Hamgyong transported the supplies for the Costume Association, the pink, cream and light green campaign against the global Province, died of incurable quarantined people. And the Pothongmun Korean Costume for girls to add freshness and epidemic, COVID-19. disease in the line of duty. Kaechon City Hotel in South Shop with a long history and enhance beauty, light orange, Provinces and cities including He had reportedly been in Phyongan Province took care the newly-emerging Korean light purple and neutral tints for Kaesong City have taken hospital, but left the hospital of the quarantined people, Costume Shop on Sungni Street the middle aged who require appropriate steps to solve the as soon as he heard that the preparing birthday spreads can be counted as the best in elegance and jade green and difficulties of residents in their emergency anti-epidemic for several of them including Pyongyang. light navy blue for the elderlies living such as food shortage measures have been taken and foreigners. Hong Song Hui in her early to suit their ages and give them and military organs sent a carried out water quality tests Pak Myong Su, director of 30s is the manageress of the youthfulness. large quantity of supplies to and sterilization. the national sanitary inspection Korean Costume Shop on “The colours of patterns and quarantine places near their Health workers at the agency of the Ministry of Sungni Street. ornaments are minor details stationing places. Phyongchon District Hygienic Public Health, said that many She specialized in costume but they have a considerable Ministries and national and Anti-epidemic Centre and people across the country have art at Pyongyang University of influence on the colour tone and agencies provided reagents the Taedong County People’s performed noble deeds from Fine Arts and had special skills aesthetic effect of the whole for test, protection equipment, Hospital helped the quarantined the beginning of the emergency in harmonizing colours. dress,” said the manageress. medicines and medical supplies families lead a life without anti-epidemic campaign. These “From olden times, our nation With keen observation, for anti-epidemic efforts and feeling any inconveniences impressive stories are greatly which aspired for nobility aesthetic sense and skills, she educational institutions are while carry out temperature encouraging our people in their and purity have chosen light always satisfy her customers by taking responsible care of the measurement and medical fight against the epidemic, he colors for their clothes,” said matching the colours of patterns students who are quarantined observation of them several added. Hong. It is important to match and ornaments with those of at the university and college times a day without fail. such national sentiments with fabrics in perfect harmony like dormitories. A bus conductor offered By Kim Kum Myong PT modern aesthetic sense and a magician. “The decorative striped cloth training college in Nampho to teach at branch and other fixed on the breast and sleeves VOLUNTEER and South Hamgyong schools in Samjiyon City, of jogori makes my 20-year-old Province asked to send them frontline areas and island and daughter look more attractive to a school in an isolate island mountain villages, especially and prettier,” said Jo Hye Song Graduates-to-be volunteer post and branch schools in Kim Jong Suk Teachers living in Tonghung-dong, island villages, and a student Training College, Sinuiju Central District, Pyongyang, of the graduating class in Cha Kwang Su University who ordered made-to-measure to teach at faraway schools Phyongsong University of of Education No. 1, Sinuiju Korean chima and jogori for her Students of graduating area in the northern part of the Education decided to work Teachers Training College, daughter at the shop. classes at Kim Hyong Jik country, while those at Wonsan at a remote mountain branch Haeju Jo Ok Hui Teachers Now with the balmy spring University of Education University of Education and school in Nyongwon County. Training College, Kanggye setting in, more customers who in Pyongyang and Hyesan Sariwon Teachers Training Besides, many students of universities of education Nos. 1 want to wear beautiful Korean Teachers Training College College pleaded to work at a universities of education and and 2 and Wonsan Ri Su Dok costumes are making orders at in Ryanggang Province have school in the frontline area. teachers training colleges Teachers Training College. the Korean costume shop. petitioned to teach at schools in Those at the university in different parts of the Samjiyon City, a mountainous of education and teachers country have volunteered By Ko Kwang Yon PT By Kwon Hyo Song PT Page 6 Sat, March 28, Juche 109(2020)

WELFARE Health complex provides good services to citizens: 40 years on The Changgwang Health provide fresh air and suitable to directly draw water from the Complex was built on the temperature to the interior. Taedong River so that the health banks of the Pothong River in According to Jo Hui Sun, chief complex could supply water on Pyongyang in March 1980 as of attendants, the bathhouse the principle of drawing out a large-scale comprehensive can accommodate over 10 000 all the water and refilling it hygienic and cultural public people a day. 100 percent, saying even one service facility. The wading pool is linked percent of old water cannot be It largely consists of with the bathhouse, as well as allowed,” he added. sections for bath, wading and the swimming pool. As he gave field guidance swimming. It consists of indoor and on several occasions at its The bathrooms at the outdoor pools. construction site, the Chairman health complex are widely The depth of water is from reportedly provided meticulous known throughout the DPRK 60cm to 1.2m according to the guidance for the successful enough to coin the buzzword inclination of the floor and the construction of the health “Changgwang Health Complex- pools are equipped with such complex, a gift presented to style bathhouse”. auxiliary facilities as float, slide the Pyongyang citizens by the The circular four-storey and sauna. Workers’ Party of Korea. bathhouse has individual The 2 000-odd-seater According to him, the Customers have their hair cut at the barber’s shop. bathrooms, face treatment swimming pool is provided Chairman named it the room, barber’s shop and beauty with all conditions for national Changgwang Health Complex salon on the ground floor, public and international events and has in the meaning that it is a blue bathrooms on the first and underwater lighting facilities and shinning house symbolizing What they say second floors, and individual for synchronized swimming. a happy and cultural life of and family bathrooms and “The quality of water for people. During my stay in What made me more massage rooms on the third bathhouse and wading and The complex was awarded Pyongyang, I, together with surprising is though an over floor. swimming pools is as high as the Order of the National Flag my colleagues, had a bath 70-year old man who was The public bathrooms, which drinking water,” said Choe 1st Class and selected as one and received beauty treatment having a haircut beside me take the biggest proportion in the Chol Jung, an official of the of the top ten informatization at the Changgwang Health suddenly developed a cramp, health complex, are furnished complex. model units in 2019 for Complex. he was soon restored to life with supersonic wave bathtub, “At the outset of the its achievements made in Everybody was surprised to thanks to the immediate and sauna and shower. Bathers can construction it was designed service and management and see their beautiful and refined kind medical aid given by a have a rest drinking beer after to recycle water. But after modernization. looks. health worker. After having baths. being told about it, Chairman They were so pleased his hair cut, he went home Air-conditioners always Kim Jong Il took a measure By Kim Rye Yong PT that they unanimously said by an ambulance of the they became the “fairies of complex. Pyongyang” after dressing Indeed, the Changgwang their hair to meet their facial Health Complex is a service shapes and features. facility epitomizing the Whenever I visit Pyongyang love of our Party and the in the future, I will receive employees are true servants beauty treatment without fail of people. at the health complex. O Song, a resident of Jang Un Ha, teacher of Ryusong-dong, Central Paeksa Primary School in District, Pyongyang Sinuiju When I had a haircut, I came I had my hair cut at the tenth to know about the quality of seat in the cosy and clean my hair, combing direction barber’s shop. and grooming method. I was attracted by the The service accompanied handiness of a barber, who by good service and excellent had my hair cut nimbly educationist qualifications can be the scientific and popular PHOTOS BY CHAE MYONG RIM / THE PYONGYANG TIMES according to my demand The hall of the Changgwang Health Complex in Pyongyang. with refined skills, but I was one, I think. much moved by the fervent The service offered by the SHOES spirit of devotion of servants exemplary unit in the country in their bright smile and in terms of haircut and beauty warm voice. culture is really on a high Sci-tech learning space keeps They showed all sincerity standard. during a 40-minute service Nam Sung Chol, staffer involving haircut, beauty at Kim Chaek University of workers abreast of development treatment, massage and hair- Technology “Workers competitively come schedules for using the sci- influence of the drying drying. up with new shoe designs with tech learning space and the temperature and time of glues improved shapes and qualities factory’s technicians, sci-tech on adhesive strength” and “The Jo Yong Hun, head of the last year with very high marks and new processing technologies disseminators and workshop influence of gluing frequency cutting workteam, said she as the mother of a young child every month, and some of and workteam leaders give on adhesive strength” by is striving to take the lead in studied hard at the sci-tech them are enough to inspire lectures at such sessions. the shoemaking workshop, learning advanced technologies learning space. admiration of technicians,” said The learning space has “The essential characters of as she set it as a goal for this Amid the competitive chief engineer Kim Ik Chol of over 453 000 pieces of data soles” and “The method of year to raise the technical atmosphere charged with the Sunchon Leather Shoes related to shoe production in testing vulcanizing state of qualifications of workteam the enthusiasm for learning Factory in North Phyongan its database which is updated soles” by sole workshop and members a grade higher. A science and technology, the Province, attributing it to the once a week and categorized “The cause and solution of master hand at cutting, she factory produced glue from active operation of the sci-tech by the disseminators, said Ri wasteful use of threads” and aims to find out a rational way plastic wastes and realized the learning space. Pong Hak, head of the sci-tech “The essential characters of for raising the success rate of recycling of synthetic leather All the factory workers are learning space. threads” by uppers workshop cutting. scraps and increased the kinds enthusiastic readers at the sci- This month’s schedule and other problems of practical Ri Un Ju, worker at the press of shoes during a few months of tech learning space. for learning science and significance. workshop, entered the online this year. Each workshop and technology submitted by Married women are said to be college of Pyongyang Han Tok workteam have their own workshops include “The more diligent in studying. Su University of Light Industry By Ri Myong Jun PT Sat, March 28, Juche 109(2020) Page 7

COMMENT militarism, as to try to bring the fierce flames of war again Briefly to the Korean peninsula and Japan should show remorse the Asian continent. That is Iran why Asian nations including Iranian leaders clarify stand Korea neither trust it nor forget to cope with US sanctions the thrice-cursed crimes. Seyed Ali Khamenei, leader for past wrongdoings Japan should make a of Iran’s Islamic revolution, sincere apology and show said in a TV and radio speech apan is the only country of aggression against Korea argue that it should embark on deep remorse for the past made to mark the new year among the war criminal and other Asian countries as overseas reinvasion by revising crimes first before resorting of Iran on Mar 20 that the Jnations of WWII, which a “liberation war” for colonial the “pacifist constitution”. to every means to take up a US’ sanctions enabled the has failed to properly settle its states and an “advance” which The island nation is so responsible position in the Iranian people to attain self- sinful past. brought “civilization” and shameless as to distort UN by dangling its purse as a sufficiency in all aspects, In the first half of the 20th “prosperity” to them. history, so morally base as to bait for drawing support from calling on all the people to century it invaded Korea When UNESCO discussed deny the bloodstained, crime- other countries. maintain unity. and other Asian countries the inscription of the materials ridden past history and so That day, Iranian President and started the Pacific war, on sexual slavery for the recklessly mad, obsessed with Kim Kwang Chol Hassan Rouhani said though the spreading the flame of the Japanese imperial US schemed to bring Iran to its Second World War to the Asia- army on the knees by dint of the harshest- Pacific region. Memory of the ever sanctions in history, the It committed an World Register, Iranian people stubbornly unprecedented crime against Japan behaved resisted them and that the US’ humanity in human history: it o u t r a g e o u s l y , sanctions and pressure were drove over 8.4 million young threatening to doomed to failure. and middle-aged Koreans to suspend the the battlefields for overseas payment of its WHO aggression and backbreaking contribution to the Constant medical supply slave labour and reduced as UN agency and vital to combating COVID- many as 200 000 Korean withdraw from it. 19 women to sexual slaves for J a p a n ’ s The director general of the its army, mercilessly killing militarization and WHO on Mar 19 called for at least a million of them. deviation to the establishing distribution routes However, it has not yet made right have already for constant supply of medical a sincere apology and full gone far beyond the goods. reparation for its bloodstained dangerous level. Whether they have infected past history. Rather, it distorts And Japanese patients or not, all the nations history, describing the acts politicians openly should make preparations to repress the novel coronavirus, MIDEAST for refraining from eliminating he stressed. the practical possibility of the two states solution, adding he is China Arabs decry Israeli expansionist complicating the matter. China takes retaliatory In spite of such protests, the measures against American Israeli high-handedness and media moves arbitrariness are getting ever China took retaliatory more blatant. measures against the US he 153rd foreign foreign ministers said, calling settlement in the West Bank and The Jewish settlers assaulted administration on Mar 18 as ministers’ meeting of on all capitals of Arab nations Jerusalem. some Palestinian villages in the it has restricted the normal Tthe senior council of to establish sister-city relations The area in question that links northern part of the West Bank activities of the Chinese the League of Arab States was with al-Quds. East Jerusalem annexed by and such acts of aggression media outlets and journalists held in Cairo on Mar 4. Such repulsion of the Arab Israel with the rest of the West against Palestinians are getting in the US while steadily The meeting discussed the world can be viewed as a Bank is politically sensitive more frequent. ratcheting up discrimination matters of resolving disputes warning against the Israel’s though it covers only 12 square Pundits comment that Israel and political crackdown on and crises in the Arab world so wild ambition for territorial kilometres. has doubled the intensity of its them. as to enhance the international expansion, which has recently Therefore, Netanyahu’s offensive against Palestinians in Accordingly, it is said prestige of the league and taking become undisguised. announcement aroused the wake of the US’ release of the that similar discriminative a collective counteraction In the run-up to the national immediate opposition of “Mideast peace programme”. restrictions the US has taken against COVID-19. The election in late February, just Palestine. Palestine is making a strong against the Chinese journalists participants unanimously raised before the meeting, Israeli The spokesman for Palestinian protest against such moves, would be imposed on American critical voices against Israel’s Prime Minister Netanyahu said President Mahmud Abbas while appealing the international columnists in China. invasion of holy lands including that the government would said that Netanyahu’s decision community to stop Israeli al-Quds. resume the project for building constitutes a challenge to the recklessness. Russia Peace is indeed the strategic some 3 500 blocks of houses Feb 24 statement of the UN Genome of COVID-19 option of the Arab world, the in the area between the Jewish Security Council, which called By Om Ryong PT brought to light The Russian ministry of public health announced on ENVIRONMENT to over 11 million people as well as being habitats to a great Mar 19 that they succeeded in many animals and plants. elucidating for the first time the Though coral reefs take up complete genome of COVID- Protection of ecosystem guarantees 19. only 0.1 percent in the total area of the sea, they provide The public information fish resources to 200 million department of the ministry said human future that experts of the influenza people and protect the sea, ccording to 90 percent of the birds have natural heritage elements. said a professor specializing institute explained the complete rough estimates deteriorated enough to arouse The World Natural Protection in environmental problems. genome of “SARS-CoV-2” of researchers, international concerns. Fund in a survey report claimed Meanwhile, the forests and with a substance extracted A from a case infected by novel the amount of losses due Such human activities as that nearly a half of the natural grasslands in the tropical zone to ecological destruction excessive fishing and timbering heritage elements worldwide has a 40 percent share in the coronavirus. caused under the pretext of and natural disasters like are at risk due to various forms carbon storage of the land The relevant research development worldwide reaches drought are endangering many of industrial activities. The biosphere and play an important findings were reportedly an astronomical sum every year. living things. The extinction survey is said to have covered role in making rainfalls for transmitted to the WHO and A recent research report of living species which form about 230 world natural heritage some granaries. international data bank of suggested that the living characteristic chains in the elements. Experts say that the potential the world’s research groups, conditions of vast grasslands, natural world not only destroys What should not go without profits to be earned from nature who have been engaged in forests, lakes, rivers and coral the stability of ecosystems but noticing is the fact that the by protecting ecosystems will be the investigation into global reefs in the tropical zone which also has serious effects on human regions comprising these over 100 times the investment. evolution of the epidemic. is home to three quarters of existence and development. heritage elements supply food, the world’s living species and The same is true for world water and medicinal materials By Choe Yong Nam PT the pyongyang times Page 8 Sat, March 28, Juche 109(2020)

MODELLING BOARD-GAME Coach leads duo to four Janggi boasts long history Janggi, or Korean chess, is janggi moves are introduced one of the folk games liked by through the mass media every Asian crowns the Korean people. week on a regular basis. It has been said since olden The Korean chess is constantly “Success of the characteristics of the times that “janggi is for military improved, supplemented and past does not always sport. officers” while “paduk is for completed in terms of its lead to future success Selection of players civil servants”. content, system, way of playing since there are many is her primary concern The historical record on janggi and style. rivals who dream of as modelling duo in Korea traces its history back On holidays and ordinary championship in Asia requires a quick to the mid-fifth century when days, janggi lovers are engrossed and the world,” said shift in generation the Three Kingdoms existed in in the folk game in parks and Merited Athlete Kang as compared to other the country. elsewhere. Kum Hwa. sports. Samguksagi (Chronicles of When janggi games start, She coached her She has very the Three Kingdoms) says that many people throng around women’s modelling high standards in Kaero, king of Paekje at that the venue to see the matches duo team to win gold player selection and time, liked to play janggi and and they competitively help at the 11th Asian training. That is paduk games. the players with what move to acrobatic gymnastics why those who went This shows that janggi came make. championships held in through her one- into being before that time in Nowadays, online games are Uzbekistan last year, year training course Korea and that it has the longest also available. thus achieving four overwhelm oppo- history, given that the birth The number of amateur janggi successive victories nents at competi- of the European and Japanese players is sharply increasing and of the DPRK in the tions by perfectly games of chess is considered to even women challenge high- event. performing technical be around the late 12th century ranking players on the internet, Having taken up movements. or the early 13th century. said Kim Ho Sik, member of the the sport at the age Those who won Today, janggi is an janggi association. of six, she attended RYANG KUM CHOL / THE PYONGYANG TIMES championships under indispensable item at martial a special course at Kang Kum Hwa (left) from the Ministry of her coaching all arts games and the solutions to By Song Jong Ho PT Commerce Sports Club coaches a player. Korea University of received the title of Physical Education and started scientific way and possess Merited Athlete. her career as a coach at the high qualifications but more “When we fail to perform LIVING MONUMENT sports club of the Ministry of important is to pick up technical movements properly Commerce in 2003. capable players, I think,” said in the training ground, the coach Maengsan black pine forest She did not bloat out with Kim Jong Gwan, manager of is more uneasy than ourselves. the first golden success in the the Ministry of Commerce Even after training, she has so The Maengsan black pine the crown and are covered with women’s modelling duo at the sports club, adding it was one many concerns and worries. forest is found at the foot of Mt dark brown bark. 8th Asian acrobatic gymnastics of Kang’s strong points to At such times, she is like our Tongji in Maengsan County, Their sharp and pointed leaves championships in April 2013 strictly choose her trainees. own sister or mother. So we South Phyongan Province of begin to grow from May and but went on to lead the team to She selects future acrobatic try to satisfy all her demands the DPRK. fall in October next year and are successive wins at the 9th, 10th gymnasts after careful and alleviate her worries,” said The forest sprawls in an 9-17 centimetres long and about and 11th events. consideration of their gymnast Ro Hye Song. area of about 220 hectares. 1.5 millimetres wide. “It is important for a constitutions, personalities and The evergreen needle-leaf tall Maengsan black pine grows coach to give training in a physical fitness as well as the By Choe Yong Nam PT tree pertains to pine tree and is quickly for 40-50 years and distributed only in the northern lives for 400-500 years. areas. Black pine trees here have In recent years, the Central Tree FOOD grown for hundreds of years, Nursery under the Ministry of forming a thick forest. Land and Environment Protection The black pines stand 16 metres and other tree nurseries across Hamgyong cuisine offers spicy high on average and the tallest the country have grown a large ones are 25 metres high. They are number of acclimatized seedlings 55 to 110 centimetres in diameter as part of their efforts to cover the goodies to foodies at 1 metre height and 8 to 11 whole country with greens. The Hamgyong provincial Among them, songi Other well-known dishes metres in that of their crown. region was an administrative mushroom dish is well-known include pickled squid and They have no branches under KCNA section in the period of feudal even to foreign countries. anchovy peculiar to Korea, Joson dynasty when it divided The mushroom with a loach soup, Hamhung rib soup, the country into eight sections. It distinctive flavour and steamed spring chicken, squid Zelkova and ginkgo at included today’s North and South conspicuous pharmacological sausage and broiled walleye Hamgyong and Ryanggang effect is used as a main Pollack with spiced soy sauce. Songgyungwan provinces and some parts of ingredient in many dishes such The recipes for Hamgyong Jagang and Kangwon provinces. as roast, broil and boiled rice. specialties which are simple yet A zelkova and a ginkgo from damage by worms. And Also called the Kwanbuk as it Also, noodles with seasoned hot and fresh have been handed stand high in the compound he gave instructions on how to was located in the northeastern raw-sliced fish is a favourite of down through generations and of Songgyungwan in Kaesong protect them well as valuable part of the country, it is mainly many for its savoury taste. spread beyond the regional City of the DPRK. living monuments of the made up of steep and high The ingredients for the raw- area and now people can taste Kaesong was the capital of country. mountainous areas as well as sliced fish were walleye Pollack, them in Pyongyang. However, Koryo Kingdom (918-1392), The zelkova is 25 metres the areas along the coast of the ray, flatfish and others and, gourmets who seek original the first unified state in Korea. in height, 5.32 metres in girth East Sea of Korea and some especially, the flesh of walleye taste and flavour are still visiting President Kim Il Sung visited and 18 metres in diameter of plains spread along the coast. Pollack is regarded as best as it Hamgyong. it in May 1992 and said though the crown and the ginkgo is 31 According to such natural does not have fishy smell and is they are about 1 000 years old, metres in height, 5.31 metres and geological features, the good for digestion. By Om Ryong PT they are fresh and green free round and 27 metres in the provincial people cultivated diameter of the crown. foxtail millet, oat, bean, millet Visitors show keen interest in and potato and fish has been the trees, living testimony to the indispensable in their diet. long history of the building and Most of the Hamgyong the city. provincial dishes are quiet big These trees are also of great in size and has hot taste with the significance in the study of seasonings of salt, garlic and botany as priceless natural hot pepper. wealth of the country. It has over 100 kinds of Typical specialities of Hamgyong (from left to right): Pickled anchovies, songi mushroom saute famous specialties. and sliced squid sausage. KCNA

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