Democratic People’s Republic of Korea No. 52 (3 140) weekly http://www.pyongyangtimes.com.kp e-mail:[email protected] Sat, December 26, Juche 109(2020)

ROUNDUP Gifts sent to parentless children Harmonious whole fully and elderly at rest homes demonstrated year round The harmonious whole of Looking round the disaster- Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un filled with deep emotion and and disability care homes the DPRK has been further stricken areas and typhoon- sent gifts to children and happiness as they received a extended their warmest thanks strengthened through the stricken areas in South elderly persons at orphanages variety of foodstuffs. to the Supreme Leader who struggle for braving difficulties. Hamgyong Province, the and old people’s homes The same was the case provided them with happy This year the Korean people Supreme Leader specified in throughout the country on with children at baby homes, homes at scenic places and fully demonstrated once again detail the tasks and ways for Thursday. orphanages and primary and constantly bestows special the might of their harmonious stabilizing the people’s living. Students at Mangyongdae, middle schools for orphans all favour on them. whole closely rallied around the He rapidly dispatched the Kang Pan Sok and Nampho across the country. Workers’ Party of Korea. divisions of Party members revolutionary schools were Residents of old people’s KCNA They launched an offensive for from the capital city and service making a frontal breakthrough, personnel to the disaster-hit areas true to the great programme for and visited the rehabilitation ANNIVERSARY opening up a broad avenue for sites to inspire their efforts. the victory of the revolutionary Thanks to the tender care of the cause of Juche and the decision Supreme Leader who sets it as Floral tribute paid on Chairman’s on splendidly celebrating the an important issue to safeguard 75th birthday of the WPK the life and safety of the people adopted at the Fifth Plenary and takes care of those suffering supreme commandership anniv Meeting of the Seventh WPK from misfortune, the security of Central Committee at the end of the country and the people was Officials, service personnel to the great leaders at their beaming images at Kim Il Sung last year. reliably defended and better and working people across the statues as they looked back University, the Ministry of From its start, this all-people villages appeared. DPRK laid baskets of flowers upon the undying exploits they Public Security, the Mansudae grand march faced difficulties Overcoming the difficulties, at the statues of President had performed to consolidate Art Studio and others in different caused by the worldwide health the people were rallied closer Kim Il Sung and Chairman invincible military power of the parts of the capital city. crisis and unprecedented natural around the Party and greeted Kim Jong Il to mark the 29th DPRK so as to firmly defend Officials, service members disasters that hit the country in its 75th birthday as a festival of anniversary of the appointment the sovereignty and dignity and working people in all parts succession. victors. of Kim Jong Il as the Supreme of the country and nation of the country paid homage However, the Korean people The Korean people are now Commander of the Korean and demonstrate the might of to them at their statues and made great miracles and stepping up the 80-day campaign People’s Army on December socialist Korea. beaming images in their areas. changes by overcoming the to glorify the Eighth Congress 24. Flower baskets and bouquets manifold hardships under the of the WPK, in the same They paid their respects were placed at their statues and KCNA wise guidance of the WPK. surging spirit as they displayed At major meetings of the in significantly celebrating its CAMPAIGN Party Central Committee, 75th anniversary. sectional indices of its 80-day Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un This year’s struggle shows campaign goals earlier than the took important steps one after that there is no insurmountable set time. another to protect the people’s difficulty nor unconquerable Plans completed with The apatite concentrate output life and security and to heal fortress for the Korean people increased 5.9 times over the the flood damage and provide who have formed an integrated same period of last year. the inhabitants in the flood- whole with the leader. campaign near to end The Phungnyon Mine hit hit areas with stable living its campaign target far ahead conditions. KCNA As the 80-day campaign for The complex remodelled the of schedule. The Jungsan and greeting the Eighth Congress dust collection system, improved Yongyu mines also overfulfilled of the Workers’ Party of Korea the quality of molten iron and the apatite concentrate has reached the final stage, raised the output per charge, production plans by 24 and more and more industrial and thus carried out its pig iron 2 percent respectively. The establishments have fulfilled production plan and increased Ssangryong Mine produced their plans in succession in the production of rolled steel dozens of tons of phosphate different economic sectors. products. Especially, the steel fertilizer more than the plan, Dozens of coal-mining and workshop has overfulfilled its while the Jongju microelement tunnelling units at the Sunchon daily plans by over 10 percent superphosphate fertilizer factory Area Youth Coal-mining every day by introducing a hit its campaign target. Complex and the Kujang rational working method that The Riwon and Namgye and Anju area coal-mining can reduce the production cost mines exceeded all their quotas complexes have accomplished and shorten the melting time. on all indices by over 40 percent their campaign targets. The Wonsan Youth Power and the Taedonggang Battery Over 270 units and hundreds Station has reached its 80- Factory produced well over a of engine drivers overfulfilled day campaign target at 101.4 thousand batteries more than their plans throughout the rail percent. the plan. Crowds cheer as they march past the Kim Il Sung Square transport sector. In particular, power station The Hamhung Youth rostrum in the procession for celebrating the 75th founding Several locomotive corps units 1 and 2 increased their daily Electrical Appliances Factory anniversary of the Workers’ Party of Korea on October 10. have exceeded their daily electricity output over 1.3 times supplied well over a thousand transport quotas by applying by scientifically organizing feeder boxes to disaster relief The Kyongsong Insulator thus raising the productivity by appropriate driving methods, the management of water and sites and major construction Factory overfulfilled the index- half as compared to previously. while many railway stations facilities in accordance with projects in time, while increasing wise plans by 26 percent and The Machine Tool increased freight traffic and the winter conditions and the the production of electrical the Anju Pump Factory boosted Factory, Pyongyang Grindstone ensured intensive transport of characteristics of the power appliances needed at coal and output by creating and adopting Factory and Wonsan Ventilator crucial materials. station in tiers. other mines 1.2 times. many technical innovation plans. Factory have also carried out The Hwanghae Iron and Steel The mining industry sector Over 10 units in the machine The Songchongang Electrical their plans. Complex has hit its production has fulfilled the production industry sector have exceeded Appliances Factory provided targets ahead of schedule. quotas on over 10 major and their annual production targets. itself with technical guarantees, By Jong Hwa Sun PT Page 2 Sat, December 26, Juche 109(2020)

LEAD INSPECTION Big stride forward made in Premier Kim inspects Mt cultural construction Kumgang tourism project Premier Kim Tok Hun, conveniences and architectural The Workers’ Party of Korea findings. A telemedicine service member of the Presidium of the beauty first in the development set forth important tasks to be Teachers made vigorous system was established between Political Bureau of the Central of Mt Kumgang area into tackled in building a thriving efforts to enhance their the Koryo Medicine General Committee of the Workers’ a modern and all-inclusive socialist country at its Seventh qualifications, with the result Hospital and provincial Party of Korea, visited Mt international tourist and cultural Congress five years ago. that the number of model Koryo medicine hospitals Kumgang tourist area to learn area so that the people can fully Since then, the DPRK has teachers and academic degree and a medicine management about its development. enjoy natural beauty. made remarkable achievements and title holders went up. information system was Looking round the Kosong The field consultative meeting in education, public health and The online education developed. Port coastal tourist area, discussed measures to properly art and literature. system saw a boost in many The art and literature sector Haegumgang seaside park area, set priorities in the development The Third Plenary Meeting universities. produced lots of excellent sports and cultural area and project according to the master of the Seventh WPK Central As public interest in works and conducted vigorous others, he discussed technical plan and fully apply the Juche- Committee in April 2018 education grew throughout artistic activities to encourage matters arising in correctly oriented idea on architecture discussed and decided on the society, dynamic activities were the people on a march for a reflecting the development of and construction policy to the issue of bringing about a radical conducted to better educational great upsurge. scenic spots in the master plan for design and construction of a turn in science and education, conditions and environment. The DPRK’s acrobatic works the development of Mt Kumgang world-class hotel, golf course, and after the 14th National Achievements were also made were given top prizes at the tourist area and carrying it out. skiing ground and others. Conference of Teachers in in public healthcare. Idol-2017 World Acrobatic He referred to the need September 2019, efforts were Modern medical service bases Art Festival, the 16th Wuqiao to maintain the principle of KCNA intensified to develop the were built and notable successes International Circus Festival in country into a talent power and made in medical treatment and and other festivals. make all the people well versed prevention. The DPRK Ministry Korean sportspersons exalted in science and technology. of Public Health was awarded the honour of the country More than 190 technical a prize of the public health by snatching gold medals at senior middle schools were sector by the World Health international games. Meanwhile, established, and progress was Organization Regional Office brisk mass sporting activities made in the efforts to improve for Southeast Asia in September injected vim into society. vocational technical education 2016. The Yangdok Hot Spring and teacher training systems. Hospitals across the country Resort was built and a Teacher training colleges positively applied advanced multifunctional complex for created and introduced good methods of diagnosis and sporting and leisure activities, teaching methods and new treatment in keeping with the while Samjiyon transformed into teaching aids so as to further latest trends in health care, an ideal mountainous city and improve the quality of teacher ensured the domestic production the areas hit by flood damage training, while lecturers and of hi-tech medical materials and this year turned into models of researchers at universities apparatuses and researched and socialist rural civilization. across the country came up with developed highly efficacious Premier Kim Tok Hun (centre) inspects the project for the valuable scientific research medicines. By Pang Un Ju PT development of the Mt Kumgang tourist resort.

Sindo County, North Power station rebuilt to Hamgyong before the time set. Phyongan Province, where exploit renewables Rural houses for over 920 It carried out a 300 000-cubic- Nationwide reed harvest is in full swing, The natural energy power households have been built in metre blasting on Wol Islet on is expected to produce over 10 station has been rebuilt in , South Hamgyong Province. December 20 in the wake of 000 tons of more reeds than the North Phyongan Province. Modern new dwellings the one in the Posan area in Dozens of construction same period of last year. The provincial power preserving regional features December, thus securing huge projects completed in North It reinforced the distribution station installed have been built in different rubble stones and soil. Hwanghae embankment for over 100- thousands of solar panels and counties. kimlometre reed field built over 30 wind turbines Power generation capacity and finished the cleaning while solving scientific and enhanced in Jagang of waterways and built, technological problems arising Jagang Province has built reconstructed and repaired in the manufacture of speed several new medium and pumping stations to carry out increaser and blade. small hydropower stations a-dozen-time irrigations of this year, including Hungju the reed fields. Dwellings for hundreds of Youth Power Station Unit 4, North Hwanghae Province households newly built in Tongsin Power Station Unit has completed the construction South Hamgyong steps Ryanggang Factory turns out new-type 3 and Kophung Power Station of the Sariwon Youth Open up dozens of construction Dwelling houses for motors Unit 3. Air Theatre and Taekwon-Do projects hundreds of families have been The Pyongyang electric training hall and the project for built in Paegam, Kapsan and motor factory of the Pyongyang expanding the capacity of the Unhung counties in Ryanggang General Electric Cable Factory Kyongam Cement Factory in Province. 326 developed a variety of succession. The houses were constructed motors including that of a new Besides, it is pushing ahead in keeping with the type for lift, succeeded in trial with the construction and characteristics of the northern production and is now mass renovation projects for the alpine areas, with each one producing them. Jongbangsan Hotel, Sariwon Dozens of construction having several living rooms, The motors reportedly help Hard alloy production Schoolchildren’s Palace, and renovation projects have a kitchen, washroom and save materials as compared to process established North Hwanghae Provincial been pushed ahead in South warehouse and hawthorns and the production of general ones The Munchon Steel Works People’s Hospital, a medical Hamgyong Province. other wild fruit trees planted and have a high efficiency. in Kangwon Province has oxygen factory, aviation club It reconstructed the South around them to add beauty to newly established a hard alloy and others. Hamgyong Provincial People’s the landscape. Huge blasting offers production process. Hospital and Sinpho Fish prospects of steady It remodelled a 100-ton Reed harvest in full swing in Cannery, and built Hamhung reclamation hydraulic press for extruding Youth Power Station Unit 1, A 300 000-cubic-metre hard alloy and manufactured an the Hamhung Kimchi Factory, blasting was conducted in electric boiler, mixer and other the chemistry laboratory succession by the General equipment to set up the hard of Hamhung University Tideland Reclamation alloy production process in a of Chemical Industry and Enterprise of North Phyongan few months. gymnasium of Hamhung Province to complete the College of Medical Sciences. Houses built in South reclamation of Woldo tideland THE PYONGYANG TIMES Sat, December 26, Juche 109(2020) Page 3

BIODIVERSITY Research focuses on sustainable development Hoechang County in South tree nurseries to create forests from being washed away and Phyongan Province is doing a of economic value with such prevent forest destruction and The biodiversity institute of detailed survey of water bird good job of afforestation. highly economical plants as inundation. the State Academy of Sciences resources in over 30 wetlands. In the past its mountains were black chokeberry, mulberry and County of North has applied a lot of energies to It was performed according to rocky and shallow in soil depth, magnoliavine. Phyongan Province also controls scientific research on biodiversity the AWC, said Ri Chung Song, a so the county planted large areas Songchon County in South water properly. for the country’s sustainable section chief of the institute. of forests over the past decade. Phyongan Province is noted for “We built an embankment economic development. The institute also made a At present, it is gathering benefiting much by conserving to drain away rainwater even One of the projects is the detailed survey of the animal such fruits of oil-bearing trees water properly. if hundreds of millimetres of study of wetland migratory bird and plant species in the main as pine nuts and black walnuts Located in the middle part rain fall in an instant,” said an reserves. biodiversity priority areas like and such edible fruits as of Korea, the county would official of the county people’s “We have undertaken research Mts Paektu, Kumgang and acorns and chestnuts in tens of suffer much flood damage in committee. into ecological resources in over Myohyang in each season to thousands of hectares of forests the rainy season as thousands This year the county removed a dozen reserves including the make an estimate of their monthly and such medicinal materials of hectares of arable land were hundreds of thousands of cubic Mundok and Sindo migratory bird and annual distribution. as fruits of hawthorn and inundated. metres of unwanted materials reserves over the past five years,” In addition, it performed magnoliavine in hundreds of The county developed a from river bottoms, repaired said Yun Chol Nam, director of research to assess the state of hectares of medicinal plant design for an embankment in dams, built over 200 metres the institute. habitats in major natural reserves forests. consideration of the highest of earth dam and cleared To this end, the institute and is now engaged in the The locals say that as forests precipitation and completed waterways. conducted a survey of animals and project for reasonably setting grow thicker, factories run at the bank revetment project for It has been freed from cold- plants including water birds and the boundaries of reserves and full capacity and in turn the the Piryu River. It expanded weather damage and improved plants in wetland, their habitats increasing their areas by verifying output of consumer goods gets the junction of several streams irrigation conditions as it built and diversity of ecosystem and the state of over 20 animal larger. by dozens of metres to prevent strong banks, straightened that of the regular flyways of reserves and adding information The same is the case with flooding there. winding river courses, expanded migratory birds from January to about them. Yonthan County in North Each ri has carried out narrow river sections and November. Hwanghae Province. a conservation project for dredged rivers. In particular, it carried out a By Kim Il Jin PT Industrial establishments medium-sized and small in the county built their own rivers every year to keep earth By Chae Hyang Ok PT

PROFILE Researcher throws himself into machine building

One day 20 years rather than making it. ago, authoritative But the researchers scientists and of the institute, keeping technicians of the their national self- textile industry got respect, strived to together to discuss the develop the most rational upgrading of shuttle and ideal design. A snap at the Mundok migratory bird reserve, which is a looms at textile mills “The knottiest problem wetland. across the country. was the thread-knotting Amid heated debate, machine. The device is a man in his early 30s the smallest in size, but COUNTY took the floor. the highest in degree of Referring to the difficulty. It is designed need to introduce a to perform eight kinds Every possibility tapped modern elastic staff loom into study, and the actual conditions of movements in 0.2 seconds, the textile industry, he said his of the country’s textile machine including thread reeling, knot university would develop it. industry. making and thread cutting. for local economic growth The participants in the After finishing the Although it is smaller than a meeting were deeply impressed postgraduate course he became volleyball, the sophisticated “Each local area has enough stones in all sizes and colours by his logical argument proving a lecturer at the university. device contains dozens of potential for its development. The with the stones from rivers. the feasibility of development Though busy with teaching, parts,” recalled Ri Ryong Su, point is how to find out and use It used them in sprucing up of the elastic staff loom that he worked hard to clearly section chief of the institute. it,” said an official in Nyongbyon different units and buildings as none of them had ever seen. understand the elastic staff The research team based on County, North Phyongan part of its ambitious effort to The speaker was Choe Tong loom. great imagination and novel Province. give a total facelift to itself in a Il (pictured) who was a lecturer He and his research team ideas finally set up the tampon The county, however, used to characteristic way. of Pyongyang University of developed the loom for the production process in which bring building stones from the By-products from stone Mechanical Engineering at the first time in the country in every work is automatically other area far away from it, which processing were recycled to time. collaboration with relevant controlled, from the feeding of required huge funds and labour. produce columns, rails, flower Back in his twenties, he units including the Pyongyang raw materials to the packaging Therefore, the county officials pots and the like. already drew the attention Textile Machine Factory, before of products. trekked along rivers and through The demand for processed of the academic world as he introducing it into different Recently alone, he succeeded rugged mountains in search of stone goods constituted an scientifically demonstrated textile mills. in automating the detonator building stone sources. incentive to further development the introduction of high-speed After becoming the director production process for coal and “A comparative analysis of the county. textile machines and contributed of the machine design institute other mines for the first time between our trial product and the The county which established to increasing the efficiency ten years ago, which was newly in the country, in developing processed stone of a local area an acrylic paint production base of production facilities of a set up at the university, his a pneumatic jet loom and the renowned for stone processing is using stone dust from stone textile mill in Pyongyang by 10 first task was to establish an automatic shoes packaging showed that ours is of high processing in construction. percent. automatic tampon production machine for the Ryuwon quality,” said the manager of the It is now engaged in the His credo in life is to become process at the Pyongyang Kim Footwear Factory and in county construction company. development of a quarry to a pioneer in scientific research. Jong Suk Silk Mill. completing the garter packaging Encouraged by this, the county increase granite output and He always applies himself At that time, foreign line for the Pyongyang Hosiery built a granite production base the upgrading of processing to the analysis of the global technicians were said to have Factory. and equipped it with necessary facilities. trend of development of textile suggested purchasing the whole facilities in a matter of a few machines, his major field of equipment they were using, By Jong Hwa Sun PT months and turned out building By Jong Chol PT Page 4 Sat, December 26, Juche 109(2020)

Waste processing gains momentum More units introduce A campaign has dynamically on with it on a long-term basis. been pushed in recent years in National priority projects recycling various sectors of the national related to recycling have economy to recycle scrap been fixed realistically on an Different factories and purity of recycled lead. materials and domestic waste. annual basis and industrial enterprises across the country The Haeju Kumgang Youth The Third Session of the establishments are now eager are briskly engaging in the work Smeltery completed a process 14th Supreme People’s to apply new technologies of recycling for sodium bicarbonate Assembly of the DPRK in line with their actual The Pyongyang Building- production. held in April adopted a law conditions. materials Factory contrived The Myongchon County on recycling to ensure the It is also important to promote and introduced new methods Essential Plastic Goods Factory sustainable development of recycling in combination with for ensuring the domestic produced tens of thousands of the economy and protection of the development of green production of raw materials metres of plastic pipes. ecological environment. The economy on the principle of for tile production, thus The Rangnang Disabled law enforcement regulations environmental protection and in overfulfilling the tile production Soldiers’ Essential Plastic were issued to encourage recovery and reproduction a far-sighted way. plan of the 80-day campaign by Goods Factory recycles waste recycling, paying premiums would form a close link. We are now faced with a task 50 percent. plastic bottles to use them as raw for such products and giving To this end, steps are of grasping the actual situation The Pyongyang General materials for plastic bottles. preferential treatment to their now being taken to set up and controlling the entire Electric Cable Factory 326 The Wonsan and Kangso production units. standardized facilities in the process properly to ensure all recycled hundreds of tons of footwear factories and many Practical measures have also workplaces, public places and sectors and units establish a waste in some 10 kinds this other units properly organized been taken to conduct recycling residential quarters, collect and regular production system and year alone as it produced a great the work of recycling all sorts under unified guidance. sort a large amount of scrap conduct recycling as required number of aluminium rods from of by-products and waste so as Recently, the government materials and domestic waste by the relevant law. scrap aluminium and high- to reenergize production. took a measure to ensure into kinds and reuse waste We will organize and purity aluminium from low- In particular, the Wonsan industrial establishments would paper, plastic waste, waste supervise the work for recycling purity one. Leather Shoes Factory solves use the profits made from the rubber and others that are in more carefully to give a much- The Taedonggang Battery the problem of raw materials for recycling of waste and by- abundance and that require less needed boost to the national Factory reclaims lead from production by using different products for their management investment before anything economy. waste batteries to prevent kinds of idle and available and technological development. else. environmental pollution and materials like plastic and rubber What is important here is to The introduction of science Ri Jong Im, department reduce production costs. waste and old boots. draw up a recycling development and technology into recycling is director of the State Planning It turns out lead for battery Now it produces soles, boots, strategy properly so that the an important matter in pressing Commission by building a new electrical slippers and even winter shoes resistance furnace, and has from idle materials. established a new dry-type costs by 10 percent. refining process to increase the By Chae Hyang Ok PT The factory also mixes the By-products reused for certain amount of vinyl chloride with insole by-products from its insoles production process and shoe production EVA plastic ones and heat- treats them to make the insoles The Ryuwon Footwear Factory According to him, the factory of shoes. The insoles can be in Mangyongdae District, had thrown away the cuttings of used in different purposes of Pyongyang, is effectively synthetic leather and insoles and footwear production as they are recycling by-products from the EVA plastic by-products from similar to paper fibre ones in cutting and injection processes the cutting and EVA injection terms of its quality. for footwear production. processes in the past. It is now recycling 90 percent “We set the recycling of Researchers settled technical of by-products. raw and other materials as problems for the heat-treatment The factory is now working an important strategy for of by-products of synthetic on research to make paper fibre reenergizing production, leather that had been dumped insoles with wastepaper and the rather than a simple work of previously so as to recycle them process to recycle raw materials developing technology,” said in the production of sole. The for the pasting of shoemaking. KIM HYOK CHOL / PICTORIAL DPR KOREA Im Ui Ung, chief engineer of sole can help satisfy quality Recycling technology is applied to production at the Rangnang Disabled Soldiers’ Essential Plastic Goods Factory the factory. indexes and reduce production By Jong Hwa Sun PT in Pyongyang.

contain some that have been recycled for several times, the Factory turns waste product quality largely depends on how they are separated and what kind of additives are into goods applied, she added. The factory classifies plastic The Pyongyang Plastic materials in a technical way to waste according to the quality Building-materials Factory is ensure the quality of products. of materials and recyclability benefitting substantially from According to section chief before sending them over to the recycling. Kim Yong Ok, the selection of production processes. It has been producing a variety raw materials takes an important “We barter some of our of goods with plastic waste as share in the whole process. products for plastic waste raw materials for several years. For instance, she said, it is to recycle. It not just makes “Our factory’s flagship hard to guarantee the quality effective use of plastic waste but products are plastic pipe and when 100kg of plastic waste also saves costs and protects the bucket,” said manager Kim collected to make pipes contains environment,” said workteam SONG YONG SOK Hyong Ju, adding they are only 100g of another kind of leader Kim Song Jun. Workers produce insoles with by-products at the Ryuwon striving to diversify them. plastic. Moreover, given the Footwear Factory in Pyongyang. The factory selects raw collected plastic waste may By Kim Kum Myong PT Sat, December 26, Juche 109(2020) Page 5

SURGERY GARMENT Surgical team garners Tailor shop provides reputation in heart operation customers with warmth Now, as winter sets in, a lot customers, and recommend the of customers are coming to get best design for them. The cardiovascular surgery their winter suits made at the “As no two people may have department of the Okryu Kaeson Tailor Shop under the the same characteristics and Children’s Hospital has carried Moranbong District Tailor Shop physique, the clothes that suit out over 410 rounds of heart Group. each person should be different,” operations so far this year, “Many people used to go for said needle worker Sim Mi Ran, enhancing its reputation as a winter clothes in dark colours adding they make every piece competent medical team. in the past, but now they seem of clothes with great devotion. The medical team has 20- to have developed a liking for “I am already feeling warm odd-year-long experience in bright and warm colours.” said at the thought that I can wear cardiovascular operations. They manageress Kang Kyong Hui. clothes made at this tailor have solved another knotty The shop makes bespoke shop,” said Son Kwang Song problem this year to extend clothes for women in orange, red from Phyongchon District, the range of their operations to and pink colours and those for Pyongyang, who visited the patients with a body weight of men in blue, brown and grey. shop to order a winter coat. lower than 5 kilograms. However, to provide warmth The shop also makes suits, plain “It is most desirable to CHAE MYONG RIM Surgeons perform a cardiovascular operation at the Okryu is more important than colour clothes, close-buttoned jackets operate on patients with Children’s Hospital in Pyongyang. to winter clothes. The shop and Korean traditional clothes. congenital cardiovascular adds collars, lapels and tucks in “Many customers send us diseases when they are order to improve their treatment the department,” said Ri, adding various shapes to the neck, waist photos of themselves wearing newborns,” said department effects. the groups in charge of surgery, and sleeves to provide additional clothes made at our shop as a director Ri Chol Jin. “We were They brought out over 30 narcosis, intensive treatment and warmth and elegance. token of their appreciation,” said only able to operate on children valuable inventions such as extracorporeal circulation were With rich experience and the manageress. “Whenever I who weighed more than 6kg. ring-type traumatic suture of one mind in the treatment and consummate skills, the cutters at receive thanks from customers, However, we succeeded in an needle, fibrotic materials with technical innovation. the tailor shop choose the type, I feel really proud of our work operation on a baby weighing valve, pericardial retractor “Next year,” he continued, colour, material and pattern and come to think that we should 4.7kg, who was suffering for right thoracotomy, which “we will try with greater of the clothes in consideration further improve our service.” from large ventricular septal can help reduce the operating efforts to complete treatment of the physique, occupation defect complicated with severe time by half and shorten the methods for two diseases which and even characteristics of By Ri Sung Ik PT pulmonary hypertension.” period of recovery yet with less remain as last bottlenecks in The department also invented medications. cardiovascular operations.” efficient medical facilities and “The secret of our achievement appliances by themselves in is the unity of all members of By Kim Rye Yong PT

HARMONICA Young actress steals the show musical instrument for the first my wrists. However, seeing time when she was 14. well-delighted people from my A music group instructor of performance always refreshes her school found that she had a me. I will work hard to be an good ear and respiration. actress who lives up to their Her skills developed rapidly expectations,” said Kim Un

enough to stun even her Sim. HAN KWI HUN instructor. Designers discuss how to improve dressmaking at the Kaeson She made her debut three By Han Kwi Hun PT Tailor Shop. months after she started to learn how to play the harmonica and MUSICAL INSTRUMENT instruments so that any modern won a gold medal at the national music can be easily performed,” schoolchildren’s vocal and said Ri Thae Hyon, deputy instrumental solo contest five National instruments director of the institute. months later. Previous thungso was only She received a big hand used to play pentatonic classical at the annual New Year’s improved music and old folk songs. “A harmonica recital played performance of schoolchildren Typical examples are Sinau by Kim Un Sim steals the and the artistic performance of The National Institute of (Korean lute), national classical or Arirang, pentatonic thungso show. Her technical skills are schoolchildren for celebrating Musical Instruments have instruments. music pieces, which reflect well worth seeing as she plays the 70th founding anniversary of updated thungso (Korean “We have expanded the well the national sentiment with several harmonicas by turns,” the Korean Children’s Union. bamboo flute) and komungo compass and volume of both the enchanting and pathetic timbre. said O Nam Jin, official of the “It is not easy to create the The institute expanded Pyongyang Rubber Factory. artistic representation peculiar the scale into twelve while A 19-year-old actress of to a harmonica belonging to preserving the timbre peculiar the central youth artistic popular instruments. In addition, to thungso, widened compass motivational team, Kim Un Sim to be flawless in playing several and volume by updating sound (pictured) has only worked a harmonicas, every player is holes according to it and little over one year. required to correctly control shifting the position of pith of Her solo always thrills the their breath and acquire a variety a reed and newly installed caps audience as she skilfully plays of techniques,” said Kim Tong over the sound holes to provide harmonicas with different Uk. convenience for performance. timbres and tones. Her skills have further It increased the original four “Our motivational team been polished at the artistic strings of komungo to six, used includes many experienced and motivational team. staples instead of the previous renowned actors and actresses. Finally, she completed her additional string that had been However, Kim’s harmonica solo recital performed with six used to fasten strings and added has been regarded as an integral harmonicas with different three more fixing bridges so whole of our performance,” said timbres and tones by displaying that modern music could finely team leader Kim Tong Uk. untiring efforts and passion. CHAE MYONG RIM be performed. Born of a worker’s family in “I often feel broken down Employees evaluate the tones of musical instruments using a Nampho City, she picked up the from exhaustion or rigidity on program at the National Institute of Musical Instruments. By Kwon Hyo Song PT Page 6 Sat, December 26, Juche 109(2020)

LAW R&D Constitution committed to Father and daughter pioneer people’s rights and interests cross-disciplinary science

and military, the missions and physical disability and seniors principles of activity of national and minors who have no means agencies and the rights and of support are all entitled to duties of citizens reflect the material assistance from the popular characteristics of the state. country. This right is ensured by the According to the articles of the free medical care system which Socialist Constitution related to covers the whole population and the economic and cultural rights other social security systems. of citizens, for example, all The Socialist Constitution able-bodied citizens may choose which was adopted on December occupations in accordance with 27 1972 has been amended their wishes and skills and work and supplemented on several according to their abilities in occasions to further strengthen December 27 is the stable working conditions and its popular characteristics. Constitution Day of the DPRK. are paid in accordance with The Fourth Session of the 13th The Korean people the quantity and quality of Supreme People’s Assembly commemorate the auspicious their work. They also have the of the DPRK decided to name day when the legal framework right to relaxation, which is it Kim Il Sung-Kim Jong Il of the socialist country was ensured by the establishment Constitution in order to hand KIM YONG CHAN established. of working hours and the down the undying exploits of Chon Chun Chu, head of the Koryo medicine pharmaceutical The constitution of a country provision of holidays, paid the great leaders who drew up laboratory at the Koryo Medicine Production Management is the most fundamental law that leave, accommodation at health and developed the constitution Bureau of the Ministry of Public Health, and his daughter reflects the political character of resorts and holiday homes at of the people. Chon Song I work on minerals. the country. state expense and by a growing The Korean people take it as Mineral Koryo medicines mineral haemorrhoids ointment As the Socialist Constitution network of cultural facilities. the greatest pride and happiness have been developed in the they invented. This year they prescribes, the guiding The constitution also to have this constitution. DPRK in recent years, which unveiled a mineral tablet for ideology and characters of the stipulates that they are entitled prove surprisingly effective in the treatment of gastric ulcer to DPRK, the principles the state to free medical care, and all Hong Chol Hwa, director of the treatment of diseases. obtain another national patent. should uphold in the domains of persons who are no longer able the Law Institute of the Academy Their developers are Chon “I took the mineral gastric politics, the economy, culture to work because of illness or of Social Sciences Chun Chu, head of the Koryo ulcer tablet for a month and medicine pharmaceutical had a medical check-up. It When unprecedented natural laboratory of the Koryo Medicine showed all were negative,” WORD disasters hit the country in Production Management Bureau said a worker at the Rangnang succession causing heavy of the Ministry of Public Health, Disabled Soldiers’ Essential damage throughout the country, and his daughter Chon Song I. Plastic Goods Factory, who had Buzzword of year the WPK came up closer to Chon had worked for a long suffered from gastric ulcer for the people who were suffering time in the mineral production years. “Thanks” is an expression hoarse voice, all the Korean difficulties and took all necessary sector as a mineralogist. In the Their developments are also which impressed itself on the people wept silent tears, saying measures to provide them with period he came to know that some producing good therapeutic minds of all the Korean people it was the Supreme Leader who a stable life. Korean People’s minerals have powerful cellular effects in clinical practice. in 2020. should receive their grateful Army soldiers and the elite tissue activating, staunching and After being dosed with their This year the DPRK thanks. divisions of Party members from anti-inflammatory effects. So, mineral Koryo medicines celebrated the 75th anniversary In fact, “thanks” is a common the capital city were dispatched he embarked on research into a against incurable injuries, of the Workers’ Party of Korea word so much used in everyday to the disaster-stricken areas new cross-disciplinary science cancer of the rectum and as the most important political life in the DPRK, but its meaning and houses furnished with all which combines mineralogy cervical cancer, patients became holiday. A military parade took was much more amplified this household goods provided to and medicine. free from inflammation and the place as part of its celebrations, year as it was eventful and flood victims gratis. As a result, He assiduously studied wounds were skinned over and in which Supreme Leader difficult. they expressed their gratitude to medical science research the bad granulation tissue which Kim Jong Un made a speech It is the most important Party the country full of excitement materials and reference books, was hard to remove by means and repeatedly “thanked” all the and state affair in the DPRK to and joy. while intensifying research into of operation was cleared among Korean people for celebrating defend the life and security of The reality, in which the minerals to be used as medicinal them. the holiday by overcoming all the people and provide them people are grateful to the materials. “Their inventions are really the difficulties they faced this with happy living. Therefore, devotion and love shown by the At that time his daughter innovative,” said O Yong Chol, year, particularly arduous and a state infectious disease Supreme Leader and the leader graduated from Pyongyang head of the traumatic surgery trying in the 75-year history of prevention system was already expresses his thanks to them University of Medical Sciences department of Pyongyang the WPK, and for being healthy declared in it before COVID-19 for leading a healthy and joyful and joined in his research. Municipal People’s Hospital and free from illness in spite of caused a world health crisis and life, made “thanks” the most To her, mineralogy was not No. 2. the world pandemic. the pandemic prevention was meaningful word of the year. unfamiliar as she had grown up They, father and daughter When he mentioned the the number one issue in Party seeing his father dealing with a developers, received several heartfelt, sincere word in a and state activities. By Kim Rye Yong PT variety of mineral samples. diplomas at the Pyongyang Chon and his daughter international health and travelled to rugged mountains sports science and technology and hills and deep valleys across exhibition in 2018 and were the country together to find out highly appreciated at the minerals with special medical national sci-tech festival and effects for over 10 years. And inventions exhibition. they worked day and night to “We have gained extensive conduct component analysis experience on the way of of the collected samples and pioneering a new cross- their basic pharmacological disciplinary science which tests and continue research combines mineralogy and into treatment methods. Their medicine. We are confident house gradually turned into a that such diseases as cancer laboratory filled with mineral would not remain incurable in analysis apparatuses and the future if scientific research reagents. into minerals is intensified still Their painstaking efforts further,” said Chon Chun Chu. RYU KWANG HYOK began to bear fruit: they were Pegae Hill with a ski slope in the City of Samjiyon. awarded a patent in 2016 for the By Choe Yong Nam PT Sat, December 26, Juche 109(2020) Page 7 JAPAN Briefly Another revelation of deep-seated China Xi refers to poverty relief Chinese President Xi Jinping said in a letter published hostility towards DPRK on December 14 that the Communist Party of China hortly ago, the Japanese authorities have legal and and the Chinese government authorities have Growing discrimination against Koreans in Japan humanitarian responsibilities have set a goal to provide Sexcluded students of for guaranteeing their human its people with a happy life, Korea University from the rights and encouraging the adding nearly 100 million application of the “emergency On March 10, Japan’s Saitama mud to the General Association development of their national rural population have got out subsidy program for students” City authorities excluded the of Korean Residents in Japan education. of poverty this year thanks to related to the world pandemic kindergarten of Saitama Korean and the university. Notably, the Koreans’ right the continuous efforts made in crisis. junior middle school only from On September 2, Japan’s to national education is in full the past eight years. Such a cruel measure has the supply of masks for local Supreme Court turned down compliance with the World shocked the international sanatoriums, nurseries and the claim of damage suit for Declaration on Human Rights, Mongolia community and even Japanese kindergartens. the illegality of discrimination the international convention on President clarifies stand to citizens feel shame for it. The Japanese right-wing against the Korean economic, social and cultural stabilize people’s livelihood Representatives of Japanese gangsters on May 10 thronged school by the Japanese rights and other international The Mongolian President university professors issued a to Korea University with authorities filed by the graduates laws accepted by Japan and its said on December 14 that statement calling for impartial placards and the likes, which from Aichi Korean middle and domestic laws. the government would support. This was approved read “Korea University is a high school in 2013, saying the Japan seeks to trample down lower living expenses on a by hundreds of university murderous university”, “Tokyo government decision to exclude the future of the movement nationwide scale until early professors. Metropolis should cancel the Japan-based Korean schools of Koreans in Japan and do June next year, describing The discrimination and incorporation of the university” from state subsidies to high harm to the DPRK, far from it as an important measure persecution by the Japanese and others, viciously slinging schools is legitimate. dropping the foolish way of for providing its people with authorities against the overall thinking to abuse the issue stable conditions of life in educational system for Koreans of education for attaining its connection with COVID-19. in Japan are a fascist outrage nip in the bud the development the Japanese. They have even disgusting diplomatic and aimed at preventing Koreans of national education. In 1949, imposed taxes on the donations political purposes. This is the India of younger generations from they dissolved 348 Korean offered by Koreans to Korean true colours of Japan. Modi calls for directing carrying forward their movement schools by enforcing the “law schools in a bid to disturb Japan should abandon its efforts to space programme in Japan by stamping out the on closure of Korean schools”. their efforts for improving the despicable policy hostile to the Indian Prime Minister democratic national education. Afterwards, they forced educational environment. DPRK and moves to obliterate Narendra Modi referred Their moves to stamp out the assimilation education on Their ceaseless moves to national education, being aware to a series of measures the national education, which have Koreans in Japan and pursued obliterate national education that the guaranteeing of national government has recently taken been made since Japan’s defeat cruel national discrimination have inflicted untold damage on education for the Korean to promote national space in World War II, are getting against the Korean students. the Koreans in Japan. students is a sincere approach programme, saying that this ever nastier and crueller. They do not provide subsidies As the Koreans in Japan to the proper settlement of its field requires more telematics The Japanese authorities didn’t for the Korean schools for no are the direct victims of crime-ridden past. talents. recognize the establishment of reason though Koreans in Japan Japanese military rule, and Korean schools in an attempt to are obliged to pay taxes like their descendants, the Japanese By Song Jong Ho PT Cuba Vice-president points to energy plan CONGO Many wood-processing The vice-president of the factories have been built to Council of Ministers of Cuba satisfy the domestic demand for said at the National Assembly of Country of tropical forests timber and the country is a big People’s Power on December 17 wood exporter. that solar power stations in the he Republic of Congo The two thirds of the are inhabited by elephants, Close attention has been middle area of the country and is located in mid- Congolese territory is covered chimpanzees and other animals. directed to upgrading relevant the Mariel special development Twestern Africa on the with tropical forests, which are There are nature parks in equipment, ensuring the timely zone generated large quantities Atlantic coast. remarkably dense particularly different parts of the country transport of logs to processing of electricity and the bio-power Colonized by France in 1886, in the northern area. Grass which contribute to protecting plants and creating forests of station started operation this the country became independent savannah stretches over its precious animal and plant economic value. year. Power production by on August 15 1960 within the southern area. recourses. The DPRK established natural energies is a primary French community. Its name Tall trees form forests also in The equatorial country has diplomatic relations with task for economic development, is derived from the namesake the north-eastern plains. a high temperature all the year the Republic of Congo at he noted. river. The riverside of the southern round and a high rainfall as ambassadorial level on The Congo River is the next area is thickly wooded to unfold well. December 24 1964. East Africa biggest to the Amazon in terms spectacular scenery on the The Congo focuses on Nations promote cooperation of catchment area in the world. savannah. The tropical forests developing the timber industry. By Min Chol PT Defence ministers of the East African countries decided on ENVIRONMENT and use natural energies in place December 18 to scale up the of fossil fuels. East African Rapid Reaction According to information Forces from 6 000 to 7 000 so Carbon dioxide emission emerges of the UN, the capacity of as to promote regional peace generating natural energies and stability. has increased four times in the as pressing issue world in recent ten years. CIS The world’s capacity of Leaders committed to synergy in many fields he UN Secretary- dioxide density is high enough destroy ecosystem and pose generating such natural energies The council of heads of General has recently to remove clouds and raise serious threats to human as solar, wind and geothermal state of member nations of the underlined the need to the temperature by 8 degrees existence and activities. powers was reportedly 414GW T Commonwealth of Independent declare a climate emergency centigrade at maximum. Sultry weather, heat waves in 2009, but it increased to States held a videoconference worldwide, with regard to In the beginning of this and dry weather reduce grain 1 650GW in 2019 which on December 18. the fact that carbon dioxide year, the International Energy output in the agricultural sector accounted for 12.9 percent of The meeting discussed the emissions causing global Agency said the amount of and flood, forest fire and other the total electricity output. issues of collaboration between warming have amounted to 34 carbon dioxide emitted last natural disasters occur to cause Thanks to the benefits of the CIS members in the fight billion tons this year. year for power generation and huge human and materials natural energies, 20 billion tons against the pandemic and of Experts warned that the energy reached about 33 billion losses. of carbon dioxide emissions strengthening cooperation in all density of carbon dioxide will tons, which was similar to that Today, the reduction of amount were inhibited in 2018. domains including politics, the pass the limit of 1 200ppm in of 2018 when the amount of of carbon dioxide emission is a Therefore, different countries economy and military. 2104 if no measures are taken. emission marked a record high. pressing task for mankind. work hard to harness them. According to research data, Abnormal weather conditions Many countries are making THE PYONGYANG TIMES about 1 000-2 000ppm of carbon caused by global warming positive endeavours to develop By Om Ryong PT Page 8 Sat, December 26, Juche 109(2020)

LEGEND LETTERS Sin Kum Dan secures a place Alphabet of Korean in athletic history nation Korean ancestors created and the countries of the world, its used Sinji characters in ancient creators asserted it could “write Perhaps, people would not 1960. times and Ridu characters later. down all the sounds of the believe that an athlete reset the She reset the world records But by dint of the latter world”. world’s track and field records and came first in the 400m characters, it was impossible It was made on the original 11 times. But it is a fact. and 800m races at the same to freely write down everyday principle of shaping characters Sin Kum Dan of the DPRK, international competition in language and they were difficult after the human speech who was brought into sudden June 1962, and bettered her to learn. organs. The creators made prominence in the 1960s, was world records again in the two In 1444, renowned scholars of the main letters in the shapes called the “queen of the world’s races of the same competition Jiphyonjon, a national agency of such speech organs as athletics circles” by renewing held in July the following year. for authoring important books the tongue, lips and throat the world’s records 11 times Sin was placed first in the during the feudal Joson dynasty, that change according to each during her playing career. 200m race at the First Games created Hunminjongum under sound and, on that basis, they She was born to an ordinary for New Emerging Forces the supervision of the dynasty’s systematized their derivatives railway worker’s family (GANEFO) which were fourth king Sejong. as well. in Riwon County, South held in Jakarta, Indonesia, Hunminjongum literally In view of the world Hamgyong Province, in 1938. in November 1963 and means “correct sounds to teach history of development of After finishing the middle established new world records the people”. At the time of its letters, it is hard to find such school course, she started to again in the 400m and 800m creation the alphabet consisted alphabet as Hunminjongum work at the Machine races to breast the tape before Sin Kum Dan celebrates of 17 consonants and 11 vowels, that was made on such a Tool Factory. It was in a others. after winning races at the 28 letters in all. scientific principle. factory-wide sports contest Games for New Emerging While working as a There are mainly three types of Hunminjongum is easy to on May 1 1958 that her Forces (GANEFO) which track and field coach at the system of writing in the world: learn and convenient to write outstanding sports talent was were held in Jakarta, Amnokgang Sports Club later, pictographs, ideographs and and has many other advantages. fully displayed. Indonesia, in November she trained many sports aces 1963. She established two phonetic script. And phonetic “I feel as if the Korean That day, everybody admired including the one who topped new records and won three script is classified into syllabic alphabet was created centuries her as she won the 100m the rankings at the Asian athletics gold medals at the games. and alphabetical characters. Of before in anticipation of the and 400m races. She made a games in 1987 and devoted her them, the alphabetic characters advent of computer,” said a sweeping victory at the 100m, 800m races of the then national all to the development of the are known as the most perfect. Japanese university professor. 400m and 800m races and high athletics games and was awarded sport. Hunminjongum is just the And a European university jump at the provincial sports the title of sports ace. She is now over 80, and the developed type of this writing prestigious in the linguistic games held on August 15 that She made her international people keep loving memory system. circle announced that the year to mark the day of national debut in the international of her along with the high It was invented on the basis Korean alphabet came first liberation from Japanese athletics games in Moscow of decorations she received of an in-depth study of the when it ranked all the scripts of military rule. the former Soviet Union in June including Prize and Kim Il Sung relationship between sounds the world by the standards of A story about her was 1959. She finished runner-up at the title of People’s Athlete. and letters and the consonants rationality, scientific accuracy published by a newspaper, the 400m event. She received the 70th and and vowels of Korean. and originality. and she was picked to the Some years afterwards were 80th birthday spreads sent Since it can record almost Amnokgang Sports Club her heyday in playing career. by Chairman Kim Jong Il all the sounds of words of all Hong Sung Il afterwards. She surprised the world people and Supreme Leader She competed in the national by renewing the world’s record Kim Jong Un. track and field contest to break at the 800m race at the same FOOD new records at 200m, 400m and international event in July By Kim Rye Yong PT

SCENERY Clam dish of Wonsan Wonsan boiled rice with of leopard plant or perilla clam meat is a special dish to steam them for about 40 Snow-clad Moran Hill prepared with shellfish from minutes. It is December and Pyongyang they are wearing thick-wadded On their way to work along the the East Sea of Korea. The dish tastes hot and spicy is in the depths of winter. coats. roads covered with fresh snow, Clam meat is well known but not fishy. The rice is well A snowy wind rushed As the white snow reflects the people admire the scenery, for its distinctive flavour as cooked and oily and preserves through tree branches bare of morning sunshine, the scenery saying that the Choesung well as rich content of such its original shape. leaves with whistling sounds of Moran Hill in Pyongyang Pavilion is like a stamen and the nutrients as proteins, fat and It may have different and left them well covered resembles a peony blossom ridges with different heights are vitamins. flavours depending on what with snow, and it looks like drifting on the Taedong River. like petals and that Moran Hill The speciality of Wonsan, kind of leaves are used for in white glows like a a coastal city of the DPRK, wrapping. gem. is not only famous for being Wonsan boiled rice with Photographers and cooked with savoury and clam meat is palatable artists are the first to nutritive clams but also for its and appetizing as all the climb the snow-clad unusual recipe. ingredients and elements hill as they are eager To make the dish, some red blend in well with each other, to take the scenery pepper is boiled down in oil in such as colour, smell, taste, into their photos and a saucepan until it smells hot. chewiness and even the sight paintings. And then, 200 grams of of clam shells. The snow-covered bite-sized clam meat, red and green pine, refreshing green pepper, smashed leek By Pang Un Ju PT sound of water and garlic, ginger, wine, salt flowing under the and pepper are put into the thick blanket of saucepan, followed by 80 snow, twitter of grams of rice and sesame oil. birds and flurries of The pan is heated until the shiny snowflakes in food picks up flavour, and a gentle breeze are then it is put into shells of the scenic beauty clams over which clam soup is peculiar to winter. poured. You then shut the shells and Wonsan boiled rice with clam Ulmil Pavilion on Moran Hill in winter. By Ri Sung Ik PT wrap them with the leaves meat.

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