Democratic People’s Republic of Korea No. 17 (3 105) weekly http://www.pyongyangtimes.com.kp e-mail:[email protected] Sat, April 25, Juche 109(2020)

ANNIVERSARY Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un congratulates Revolutionary spirit of Cuban President on his 60th birthday Paektu imperishable Kim Jong Un, chairman smashing the frantic sanctions forged through the struggle The DPRK has been bubbling who lured the enemies from of the DPRK State Affairs and blockade of the hostile for realizing the cause of with the enthusiasm for touring the headquarters to himself and Commission, sent a message forces, under the leadership socialism would steadily be the revolutionary battle sites those who implemented the of congratulation to Miguel of the president, he said in carried forward and developed in the Mt Paektu area since leader’s order by making bombs Mario Diaz-Canel Bermudez, the message, expressing in line with the requirements of December last year. from scratch. The spirit of defending the invariable support to and the new era by their common Many people are climbing the president of the Republic of mountain braving the blizzards leader with lives and the spirit Cuba, in celebration of his solidarity with the cause of will and efforts, he sincerely which are so strong as to freeze of implementing his orders to 60th birthday. justice of the Cuban party, wished the Cuban president their ears off and cut into the death, which were created He was pleased that the government and people. and all his family members their skin like a knife, solely by them, constitute the main Cuban people have achieved Expressing the belief that good health and happiness because they wish to learn after core of the revolutionary spirit great successes in their efforts the traditional relations of and greater successes in his the revolutionary spirit of the of Paektu. to firmly protect the gains of friendship and cooperation responsible work. soldiers of the Korean People’s The KPRA soldiers were socialism and make socio- between the two parties and Revolutionary Army during the staunch revolutionaries who economic development, peoples of two countries KCNA anti-Japanese armed struggle. fought to the end with unbeatable The predecessor of the KPRA tenacity. was the Anti-Japanese People’s They wrote in blood the slogan RELATIONS Guerrilla Army. “Keep the revolutionary faith to Founded by President the death!” on barked trees in Kim Il Sung on April 25 1932, the the forests and continued the DPRK-Russia ties make guerrilla army was reorganized struggle even though they had into the KPRA between March to cut out bullet wounds with and May 1934 according to the the fillets of cans. steady progress requirements of the developing Cherishing a steadfast faith in Friendship between the 2000 and visited the Russian heyday of the development of revolution. victory of the revolution, they DPRK and Russia has seen a Federation several times to bilateral relations true to the The KPRA soldiers fought produced revolutionary dramas steady growth in recent years. further strengthen DPRK- intentions of the preceding against the Japanese imperialists during the intervals between In 2019 the two countries Russia friendly and cooperative leaders. for over 10 years with a fierce battles and inspired celebrated in splendour the 70th relations. At the summit meeting and burning desire for the country’s people to join the anti-Japanese anniversary of the agreement The DPRK-Russia Joint talks the top leaders of the two liberation. struggle everywhere they went. on economic and cultural Declaration and the DPRK-Russia countries agreed on the detailed Having declared a guerrilla Thanks to the resolute cooperation, following the Moscow Declaration adopted by ways and measures to further war against Japan’s one million- fighting spirit, the indomitable 70th anniversary celebrations the leaders of the two countries promote mutual understanding strong army, the KPRA waged revolutionary spirit created in of the establishment of and the treaty on friendship, good- and trust, friendship and an arduous armed struggle the forests of Paektu, the Korean diplomatic relations in 2018. neighbourliness and cooperation cooperation and stimulate the unprecedented in history people could accomplish the The development of bilateral concluded between the two growth of bilateral friendly ties without any flanks and the rear. historic cause of national collaboration, exchange and countries in February 2000 were in the new century. They had to constantly undergo liberation and emerge victorious cooperation in diverse forms important milestones in bolstering The world media splashed manifold trials and difficulties in such gigantic struggles as the shows that the atmosphere up relations of friendship and the news, saying the summit such as hunger and diseases, new country building, hard- has further been improved to cooperation between the two meeting and talks were an the biting cold of around 40 fought Fatherland Liberation develop bilateral ties. countries. important occasion of great degrees Celsius below zero, War, post-war reconstruction In the first half of the past Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un significance in developing battles against Japanese “punitive and socialist construction. century the peoples of the two visited the Russian Federation friendly relations. forces” which they sometimes Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un countries forged a friendship in April 2019, which was an The summit meeting between had to encounter dozens of times stressed the need for growing as comrades-in-arms in the event of great significance the leaders of the two countries a day, and persistent moves to generations to learn the anti-Japanese war. The Korean in developing the traditional gave a renewed impetus to persuade them into defecting. revolutionary spirit of Paektu as People’s Revolutionary Army friendly and cooperative ties the collaboration, exchange In the course of this fierce he travelled around the Paektu waged a series of battles and between the two countries onto and cooperation between the struggle, the KPRA soldiers tableland. harassing operations under the a new high stage in line with governments, parliaments, upheld Kim Il Sung as the only The revolutionary spirit of slogan “Let us defend the Soviet the requirements of the new era regions and organizations of leader of the Korean revolution Paektu, which has been the Union with arms!” contributing under the new situation. the two countries. The minister and safeguarded him with their spiritual pillar in every stage greatly to frustrating the plan Through the historic first of Development of the Far East lives and carried out his orders of as the dauntless spiritual of the Japanese imperialists to summit meeting with President and Arctic, the delegation of the without fail under any adversities. strength propelling the cause invade the former Soviet Union. Putin, the Supreme Leader built Ministry of Defence, the deputy Among them were the one of a powerful socialist country Many soldiers of the Red Army good friendly relations with him foreign minister, the delegation who bit his own tongue off in building. shed their blood in the battles to and further strengthened the of major media organizations prison so as to keep the secret liberate Korea. bond of strategic and traditional and others of Russia visited of the headquarters, an officer Jo Tae Hyon In his speech at the reception to friendship between the DPRK and the DPRK welcome President Kim Il Sung and Russia. government delegation, the who visited the Soviet Union in In his speech at the reception delegations of the Supreme A couple honoured with state early 1949 leading a government to welcome the DPRK leader on People’s Assembly, the Ministry delegation, Stalin said that a visit to Russia President Putin of Foreign Affairs and others commendations Comrade Kim Il Sung was a expressed his willingness to visited Russia. true proletarian internationalist continue to work together with The DPRK and Russia will According to a decree issued Jin and Order of the National who defended the Soviet Union the DPRK to defuse tensions work hard to contribute to by the Presidium of the Supreme Flag 1st Class to Ri Yong Sun at the cost of the blood and with on the Korean peninsula and ensuring regional and world People’s Assembly of the DPRK for their distinguished patriotic arms from the imperialists’ strengthen security in the whole peace and security while further on Apr 23, the title of DPRK services in supporting the aggression in the East. Northeast Asian region. consolidating bilateral friendly Labour Hero, Gold Medal construction of the Pyongyang Chairman Kim Jong Il met In his return address the and cooperative ties. (Hammer and Sickle) and Order General Hospital. President Putin on a visit to the Supreme Leader expressed of the National Flag 1st Class DPRK for the first time in July his decision to usher in a new By Kim Tae Ho PT were awarded to Jo Myong KCNA Page 2 Sat, April 25, Juche 109(2020)

LEAD MARRIAGE What the two Sessions are Triplets tie the knot telling the world all together The meeting of the Political anti-epidemic system and take water quality in rivers and lakes Bureau of the Central emergency steps in the world as well as in residential areas, Committee of the Workers’ after COVID-19 broke out in institutions and enterprises and Party of Korea held on Apr China in December last year. stepped up inspection of wild 11 discussed as the first item An immediate and strict animals and birds, and the work on the agenda the matter of emergency anti-epidemic to maintain sanitary environment taking more thoroughgoing system was set up from the throughout society in spring was state measures to protect the life central down to the lowest local conducted scrupulously in close and safety of the people from levels, and thorough inspections combination with anti-epidemic the world-sweeping pandemic were made and strict quarantine work. and, accordingly, the Central was enforced at all points of The household doctor system Committee of the WPK and the passage including borders, whereby all families are under State Affairs Commission and harbours and airports under the the care of doctors in charge Cabinet of the DPRK adopted a unified command of the central proved very effective. joint resolution. emergency anti-epidemic The household doctors JI WON CHOL / RODONG SINMUN The resolution specified the headquarters. Foreigners, made the rounds in the areas Women triplets and their spouses are happy with the wedding need to steadily strengthen returnees from overseas trips, under their charge on a regular gifts from Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un. national emergency anti- contacts and other local people basis to disseminate hygienic Women triplets living in the Supreme Leader telling how epidemic work, detailed were put under strict medical information about the danger City of Samjiyon, Ryanggang they met their spouses and targets for this year in boosting observation and check-ups. of COVID-19, the route of its Province of the DPRK, got expressing their desire to repay economic construction and Careful preparations were spread, its clinical symptoms, married on the same day. the warm care shown by him. defence capabilities and made to detect and quarantine preventive and curative Jang Un Hye, Jang Chung Sil The Supreme Leader read the stabilizing the people’s those who would be suspected of measures and antisepsis and and Jang Po Dap had lived in letter and sent wedding gifts to livelihood and tasks and ways contracting the epidemic, while made sure that everyone took Pyongyang before volunteering them. to be adopted by Party and efforts were made to secure their temperature more than for the construction of Paektusan Their wedding ceremony took government organs, working reagents for examination and three times a day. Hero Youth Power Station as place on Apr 19. people’s organizations, military diagnosis and disinfectants as A series of state measures girl shock brigade members. Party and government organs and all other sectors and well and a hygienic information were taken to look after people They have settled in Samjiyon officials of units. campaign was conducted on a including those in quarantine. out of a desire to contribute, and Samjiyon, officials of Both the enlarged meeting large scale. Officials of Party and though little, to sprucing up the Construction Division 216 and the meeting of the Political The anti-epidemic measures government organs and sacred place of the revolution. and families and relatives Bureau of the WPK Central were ratcheted up a level higher working people’s organizations When Supreme Leader congratulated the three wedding Committee held this year dealt on Feb 29 and no exception at all levels took immediate Kim Jong Un inspected couples. with the prevention of COVID- was allowed under the national steps to solve problems Samjiyon in April last year, The three couples extended 19 as the most important agenda emergency anti-epidemic arising in people’s living by he visited the new house into their heartfelt gratitude to the item and took strong and drastic system. prioritizing the work to ensure which the triplets moved to see Supreme Leader for valuing measures to this end. All the people turned out as that isolated patients, residents how they lived and told them what they did as the young The devastating epidemic one in the fight against COVID- and employees suffered no with parental affection to write people of the present times and found its way to 210 countries 19. inconvenience in life. a letter to him after getting showing warm care for them as of Apr 16, bringing the death Everyone regarded it The fine trait of helping one married to good men. repeatedly. toll to more than 145 000. obligatory to wear a mask, took another forward was displayed Before the wedding ceremony Fortunately, however, no temperature three times a day innumerably to constitute a they wrote a letter to the KCNA infected case has been reported and disinfected hands, public social feature. in the DPRK. places and dwelling houses. All the foreign visitors in the This provides clear testimony Vacation was declared for country have been released from of the people’s health and integrated control system. to the timeliness of its anti- all students and the mothers lockdown and normal activities the one to which he attaches epidemic measures and the with infants who had no one to have been allowed for those great importance. And he gave proper maintenance of them at turn to for childcare were given who have gone through 30 days precious teachings that should a due level. temporary leave. of medical observation. be regarded as a guideline in The DPRK was the first to Hygienic and anti-epidemic managing the factory. declare a national hygienic and institutions at all levels examined By Kim Rye Yong PT It now turns out tens of millions of toothpastes, gargles and dental sanitary Accordingly, disinfection, and others in real time and a implements annually. Orangchon Reservoir medical check-up and other power supply system based on Nationwide completed, starts irrigating preventive steps are taken in solar panels. fields Classes begin partly at some a more thoroughgoing way at The Orangchon Reservoir educational institutions the educational institutions. ‘Paekhak’ dental supplies was inaugurated and started Schools opened for fashionable irrigating fields in North university students and senior North Hamgyong opens The “Paekhak”-brand Hamgyong Province on Apr middle school students in their cage-net fish farming dental hygiene products are 17. final year all over the country grounds in Lake Jangyon very popular among the local The province has finished on Apr 20. people. Breeding pond built in the huge construction project The DPRK was the first to They are produced at the North Hamgyong involving the building of a declare the national emergency Pyongyang Dental Hygiene The Komalsan Offshore dam with a volume of nearly a anti-epidemic system in Supplies Factory equipped with Atlantic Salmon Farm in North million cubic metres in a little the world to cope with the over 30 synthetic analysers and Hamgyong Province built a over one year. pandemic of COVID-19 and, over 100 advanced production new keeping and breeding The completion of the as part of state measures, facilities. pond with a total floor space Orangchon Reservoir has it prolonged the vacation North Hamgyong Province In February 2015, Supreme of 2 000 square metres. The provided a guarantee for of all universities, middle has newly set up two mobile Leader Kim Jong Un initiated pond is provided with all increasing cereal production and primary schools and cage-net fish farming grounds, the construction of the factory conditions for artificial culture in Orang and Myonggan kindergartens and suspended one in rectangular and the and gave detailed guidance of fishes including salmon and counties and made it possible the operation of nurseries. other in petal shapes, to breed over its miniature for several walleye pollack, and stocking to apply the water from the Since no one has been freshwater fish of various times. and breeding as well. At Phalhyang Reservoir to infected with the epidemic species in Lake Jangyon. When the factory was present, the pond is stocked electricity generation and fully and amid strong and strict The fish farming grounds are completed in June 2017, he with hundreds of thousands of supply residents with water for preventive measures taken equipped with a remote control came to the site and said walleye pollack fries, and an sanitation. steadily, those students have system to monitor and control that it is a factory greatly undertaking is being pushed at been freed from quarantine. feed supply, temperature, pH conducive to the promotion the final stage to establish an THE PYONGYANG TIMES Sat, April 25, Juche 109(2020) Page 3

POWER-SAVING Businesses adopt power-efficient modes Hoechang leads the way in applying Steam generator helps cut power-generating systems power consumption Industrial establishments in to transport ore and several 30 transformer, while building up a The Anju Unha Garment Only 100-130kg of coal is Hoechang County of South kW- and 50 kW-capacity ones backup generator and repairing Factory in South Phyongan said to be enough to produce Phyongan Province are satisfying at the dressing plant. generators in a planned way. Province made and installed a steam for the ironing process power needs by themselves by According to manager Sin Wind-driven turbines and steam generator to free itself and the surplus steam is used for establishing different power Myong Chol, the introduction solar panels are also employed from electricity consumption in heating cutting and packaging generation systems relying on of the dynamotors has helped to ensure lighting for office the ironing process. workshops covering 600 square locally-abundant fuel. reduce per-hour diesel rooms and operate electronic “Until only last year we metres. The Sinhung Mine set up consumption by a third or fourth equipment. used 28 steam irons and seven The temperature of the waste an electricity production as compared to previously. The textile mill in the county table boilers consuming one or water is 30oC on average and system with a total capacity of The mine also ensures the full fixed over 20 large-capacity solar four kilowatts of instantaneous it automatically enters into the 960kW with the help of coal operation of 160 kW-capacity panels so as to produce a great power in the ironing process. water jacket of the boiler. Thus gas dynamotors with different high-voltage motors even at deal of electricity by itself. This meant our factory used it is heated quickly, reducing power outputs. low voltages by conceiving a Technicians of the mill up 980 kWh of electricity on coal consumption that much. It installed a 300 kW-capacity novel idea of changing the low- replaced AC motors in twister, a daily average in the process “I am elated with work as coal gas dynamotor at a shaft and high-tension axles of pole joining machine, woof winder alone,” said chief engineer Pang the steam pressure is high. and looms with highly-efficient Yong Ae. And it ensures the quality of DC motors with larger torque, The factory set the reduction products, while increasing thereby reducing power of power consumption as a productivity,” said worker consumption of each equipment crucial issue in increasing Han Myong Sim. by 50-77 percent. production. According to Ho Song Il, as The industrial source “We visited different steam circulates, no water furs mobilization company advanced units to acquaint form in radiators. manufactured several 50 kW- ourselves with their actual “We have reduced and 75 kW-capacity coal gas situation and experience. In production costs by dynamotors to ensure the full the course of that we came to introducing the steam operation of dozens of electric know that the establishment of a generator. We are going to motors and supply surplus steam production process based provide heating for the multi- electric power to dwelling on a coal-fired boiler is the most storey production building houses. effective way,” said technician and the office building by The farm machine station, Ho Song Il. means of this boiler,” said medicine management station, The steam generator of the manageress Ri Un Hui. Mirae E-library and different factory is only 150cm high and schools in the county are now 80cm in diameter. By Chae Hyang Ok PT working to build their own SONG TAE HYOK power supply systems. Production processes are run at the Sinhung Mine in Hoechang County, South Phyongan Province, with electricity generated from coal-fuelled dynamotors. By Jong Hwa Sun PT Production processes turn Methane adopted to produce electricity into energy-saving The Pothonggang Footwear The factory refashioned Factory in Pothonggang District, injectors to remove the adhesive- and ensure heating Pyongyang, earns considerable dependent shoe-making process profits by remodelling its and directly covered various The Muan Farm of the Sungni as well,” said workteam leader The dregs from the production processes into shoe moulds with outer rim, Motor Complex established a Pak Kwang Chol. fermentation process help electricity-saving ones. thereby halving the consumption power generation and heating It is said that a piglet in the accelerate the growth of pigs, “Recently, our factory of raw materials and manpower system based on methane gas. farm grows to weigh 10kg in 25 shorten their fattening period refashioned the uppers drying while saving 60-70 percent of “Our farm raises more than days, as compared to 7-8kg in a by one or two months and furnace in the sewing process, electricity per hour. 1 000 pigs and over 3 000 household. save large quantities of feed in thus remarkably reducing the It also downsized a ducks, which daily pass out 5.5 The temperature of the egg growing a pig weighing 100kg. consumption of labour and plasticizer preheater and tons of excreta. It ferments and hatching room is steadily And when they are applied to electric power as compared to adhesive stirrer, which had turns into methane whose daily ensured at 38oC to maintain the paddy and non-paddy fields as previously,” said Kim Song consumed much electricity in output is 200 cubic metres,” hatching rate at comparatively fertilizer, the yields rise 1.5-3 Hui, chief engineer of the the injection process, in order said staffer Han Tong Ho. high 75 percent. times more than when using factory. to produce much pulverized According to him, the The residues from the ordinary humus or chemical In the past, the furnace was matter for adhesion with less produced gas goes through a production of methane are said fertilizer. designed to spread electric heat electricity. dynamotor to turn into 40 kW to be good for growing pigs, by running a motor connected to According to operator Ri Hye of instantaneous power. fish, cereals and vegetables. By Yun Kyong Il PT the blower installed at heating Ryon, the renovation of the The electricity is used to run rods, thereby consuming much injector helped decrease power over ten machines including electricity. consumption and shorten the grain crusher and feed mixer in Technicians of the factory assembly time of products to the feed processing ground on conceived an idea that the two-thirds. a regular basis while providing fixation of a radiator plate Besides, the factory reduced heating and lighting for eight made of metal with high power consumption by one blocks of animal barn with each heat conductivity at heating seventh as compared to before being 180 square metres, the rods will enhance the heat- by introducing a high-speed ducks’ egg hatching room and exchange capacity and thus pulverizer into the waste mushroom cultivation ground. evenly distribute heat in material pulverizing process. “We ensure the temperature the furnace, and carried “We are going to remodel all in the barn at over 18oC on a out the remodelling of the drying furnaces in the factory constant basis and the daily equipment. into electricity-saving ones in lighting time for more than 16 They invented not only a the future,” said manager Ri hours. This has helped increase SONG YONG SOK radiator plate to be installed at Mi O. the fattening rate of pigs and A methane-fuelled power generation and heating system set up the heating rods but different ducks and meat and egg outputs on the Muan Farm of the Sungni Motor Complex. jigs and equipment. By Kim Il Jin PT Page 4 Sat, April 25, Juche 109(2020)

STONE TEXTILE Natural stone processed into Mill brings out new good products cold-proof fabric The Pyongyang Kim Jong Suk by adding a waterproofing The Pyongyang Building flooring panels for dwellings colours including red, green and Textile Mill has developed a layer. Stone Factory has recently or office rooms and have good yellow. functional cold-proof fabric They decided on a suitable brought out processed natural durability. It also developed an and established a corresponding plastic coating liquid and its stone products of good quality. In the past, a colouring ornamental artificial coloured production line. thickness so as to raise the “The natural stone kitchen method based on metallic salts stone by relying on locally According to lead developer cold-proof and waterproof unit produced by our factory was applied to the production of abundant raw materials, Ri Sun Hui, the fabric is great qualities and ensure elasticity is much favoured among users artificial coloured stones, which and established a process of in terms of cold-resistance, and came up with an for its beautiful and elegant revealed some defects in which colouring natural granite based air-permeability, intensity, appropriate coating method appearance and long serviceable the colour of product failed to on non-aqueous dyes. tensility and waterproofness and process. life, and the demand for it is blend in well with the internal “We are going to further and elasticity. “We fully guaranteed such growing day by day,” said environment. develop the nano-colouring The technicians analysed the qualitative indices as tensile developer Ri Yong Sun. That was why the factory method by channelling big texture of a foreign-made ski strength, extensibility and In the past, the kitchen unit researched a technology for efforts into developing a stone suit to draw up specifications repeated creasing resistance by made of tile or stainless steel introducing the nano-colouring colouring substance which is for the new fabric. finding out the most suitable lost lustre with the passage of method with simple process, highly resistant to weathering,” After that, they carried out coating liquid concentration, time as its serviceable life was which is conducive to changing said Kim Song Ho, chief several rounds of tests using coating speed and drying about five years. the colour of stone surface into engineer of the factory. Tetron rayon. temperature for ensuring the But the life span of the any colours, thereby producing In the course of this, they adhesive strength of the coating kitchen unit made of natural artificial stones in a dozen By Yun Kyong Il PT found a rational method of layer,” said developer An Jong ashy granite or granite coloured eliminating frequent snapping Chol. in different dyes is said to be caused by napping on cloth “The home-made ski suit longer than the previous one, and solved the problem of is very comfortable as it with its glossiness reaching vibration of looms stemming preserves elasticity even over 95 percent. from the high density of weft when the temperature is “When I use the kitchen unit threads. very low,” said Pak Kwang made of natural stone, it is very They also established a Chon who has been to the ski convenient since it does not dyeing process which is ground of the Yangdok Hot discolour even if oil, alkali or optimized according to the Spring Resort. acid is applied to it,” said Pak properties of the new fabric Kum Ran living in Phyongchon and improved its functionality By Chae Hyang Ok PT District, Pyongyang. The factory also turns out SOFTWARE artificial stones in different colours. They are widely used in Stability evaluated for building floors of corridors and PAK KWANG HUN stairs of structures, look fine A worker engages in cutting of processed natural stones at even though they are used as the Pyongyang Building Stone Factory. speedy rotary machines WATER Pyongyang University pump which are now operative of Mechanical Engineering in the country were made and has developed a system of installed before the development To provide people with fresh and evaluating the stability of high- of this system. speed rotary machines. At first, researchers brought The system models such out a portable measuring clean water rotary machines as feed water apparatus, which is designed to pump and turbine generator assess imbalance, deflection of “Everyone in our city knows up in the upper side of the which part requires replacement of thermal power stations in shaft centre and shaft bending the name of Ri Jung Gun. He filter beds. A few months and how long it can serve even terms of dynamics and makes on the spot by measuring the always works hard to supply later, dozens of tons of fresh if he hears only the sound of a comprehensive analysis of vibration of equipment and water to citizens,” said an vegetables and catfish were running machines,” said Kim installation elevation, assembly helps make troubleshooting official in . produced from there. Won Hak, workteam leader of feature, bearing’s stability and accordingly. It was some ten years “This was the starting point the youth pumping station. others in the working condition “We introduced the ago when Ri Jung Gun was for the station’s revitalization,” Ri made the blades of water to evaluate the overall stability technology into a feed water appointed manager of the said Ri Jung Gun. turbine with scrap iron and of machinery and equipment pump, which had stopped water supply and sewerage Later, the station built several brought out a new method of before indicating renewal ways. working for several years, in the and heating station in large-scale purifying facilities making the friction plate with “The stability evaluating Chongchongang Thermal Power Tokchon. including Sinhung and Kangan cast iron instead of red copper system for high-speed Station. As a result, we lowered The station has lots of settling ponds. The employees to annually economize on a rotary machines is one of the vibration level of pump’s equipment in nearly 20 produced much compost by large amount of nonferrous the technologies which are motor below the tolerable limits pumping stations. However, relying on the ponds and metal. competitively being researched of international standards and at that time many water pumps harvested vegetables in spring The station replaced water worldwide,” said Kim Su Gwan, made it run without repair over were out of order and almost all and autumn and hauled catfish supply and drainage pipes lead developer and section three years,” said developer water pipes were so corroded and other freshwater fishes measuring a total of well over chief. Kim Jong Gil. their replacement brooked no every year. 100 kilometres and hundreds of According to him, most of In the course of introducing delay. Afterwards, it buckled down pumping and purifying facilities such rotary machines as thermal the measuring apparatus into Ri racked his brains to solve to the reconstruction of water and expanded their capacity in a turbine generator and feed water several units, they established the problem. One day, he found supply and drainage network few years. the system of evaluating the out a decades-old settling pond with materials and equipment Without resting on his He set up a modern water stability of feed water pump in the Undok area. In actuality, it had provided by its own laurels, the manager searched quality examination room and and turbine generator at thermal it was a huge swamp overgrown efforts. all mountains and valleys in introduced an advanced water power stations and introduced with weeds. Ri travelled around the city the city for the mineral water sterilization method based on the system into different thermal All the employees of the in the daytime to learn about source with good quality so that local materials into all pumping power stations. station turned out to cut the actual situation of the the citizens could drink quality stations. The system is applicable deposits out of the pond and water supply and drainage water. “It is simple. There are many to different kinds of rotary plough the land around it. As network and read books According to service things to do around us and they machines, especially pumps a result, four filter beds came at night-time to acquire worker Kim Son Nam, can be found only by those who of all sizes, compressor, high- into being after a while and the knowledge about water the mineral water is very want to work,” said Ri Jung speed pulverizer, centrifuge and land in their vicinity turned supply and drainage and effective for curing colitis for Gun. blower. into vegetable fields, with a machines as well. its high contents of calcium small greenhouse springing “Our manager is able to guess and ions. By Kim Il Jin PT By Kim Kum Myong PT Sat, April 25, Juche 109(2020) Page 5

COMBAT GARDENING Emergency anti-epidemic Pyongyang streets measures ratchet up dressed in spring attire The Non-permanent Central the combat against the epidemic personnel and materials from Public Health Guidance on the principle of subordinating abroad and supplying materials. Committee of the DPRK has everything to ensuring the Information activities and taken a series of measures to people’s health and life. medical observation keep further build up the national Since the borders, airspace, growing for residents while emergency anti-epidemic system waters and the areas along the those who have been under until the world can control the Military Demarcation Line have medical observation are released spreading of COVID-19. completely been blocked, strict according to the anti-epidemic Under the unified guidance steps are being taken to ensure rules. of the central emergency anti- that there is no inflow route of All foreigners have now been epidemic headquarters, the the epidemic and prevent any freed from quarantine in the emergency anti-epidemic negligence. country and normal activities are headquarters at all levels are The anti-epidemic work provided to those who underwent working energetically with has been intensified to ensure a 30-day medical observation. their main stress put on strictly consistency in examining, maintaining the stable situation in quarantining and sterilizing the KCNA PAK CHANG BOK Floricultural workers tend a crossroad flowerbed in Sosong EDUCATION District, Pyongyang. Spring is setting in and the seeing passers-by wear smiles streets of Pyongyang have been watching the flowers in the covered with beautiful flowers. bright streets,” said Hwang Son Original teaching methods prove “We are decorating the streets Ok, a farm employee. in our district with beautiful The farm grows flowers at flowers we have cultivated in the greenhouse covering over effective in powering brain the greenhouses to make them 1 000 square metres all the year “Human intelligence largely more attractive. So the district round, transplanting into the depends on the development population call us gardeners streets tricolor chrysanthemum, of the right brain. The right who not only grow flowers but cat’s face and others in April, brain, which is called an image also landscape streets,” said four o’clock, zinnia and or sentimental brain, develops Mun Myong Nam, manager of Tagetes erecta in May and very fast until one gets twelve the floricultural farm of Taesong globe amaranth, cockscomb and years old and it is related to District in Pyongyang. others in September. education in this period. We According to him, the farm It also cultivates flowers of have created new intelligence employees transplanted over the same species in various developing educational 8 000 flowers in seven kinds colours. For example, the methods by introducing the including common marigold, flowers of cat’s face come in world’s achievements made cat’s face, French marigold and yellow, white, violet, purple, in intelligence education to tricolor chrysanthemum into the light purple and spotted ones. meet our actual conditions,” flowerbeds and flowerpot stands “I feel pleasant whenever I said O Chun Gyong, director on the streets to decorate them come out to the street decorated of the pedagogy institute of KIM RYE YONG beautifully to mark the Day of with beautiful flowers,” said Pyongyang Teachers Training Researchers of Pyongyang Teachers Training College hold a the Sun (April 15) this year. Choe Un Ha, a resident of Misan- College. group discussion about teaching methods using robot. Every year the farm grows tens dong No. 1, Taesong District. The institute devised and conceive, manufacture and reference books related to the of thousands of flowers on the Floricultural farms in other adopted the abacus calculation- control robots for education that development of intelligence flowerbeds and flowerpot stands districts also direct a great deal based children’s intelligence are designed to do any simple and developed a system of on the seven streets of the district of energies to landscaping the developing method and the ‘work’,” said O Chun Gyong. evaluating the development of including Podunamu Street. streets in spring. They have set general education method based Researchers made sure that children’s right brain through “It is not easy to decorate up new mobile flowerpot stands on robot. schoolchildren manufacture robot for education and an all streets of the district with and added illuminations to The former makes logical a robot for education that can education control system in various flowers according flowerbeds to provide fine night operation easy through abacus perform a simple function which teachers lead the whole to seasons with only dozens views of the streets. And they calculation. The children who by taking advantage of their course of lesson so that the of employees. But we’ve set made park benches attached to learned how to calculate numbers curiosity and interest in robot. schoolchildren can be proactive up flowerbeds and flowerpot flowerpot stands and installed with an abacus for three months They complete their creation inquirers and learners. stands in various artistic forms them in the resting places. are able to mentally make the with the help of such robot parts and shapes to adorn streets with addition or subtraction of three- as construction set they used to By Kim Rye Yong PT flowers. We take pleasure in By Kwon Hyo Song PT digit numbers more than three play during their kindergarten per second and do accurate days while conceiving a robot PHARMACY Research projects are calculation while conducting they want to make, designing also pushed to increase the two or three mental activities the one with computer and proportion of Koryo medicines including the playing of piano or making required parts with a Over a hundred kinds among essential drugs. speaking of foreign language. 3D printer. “Achievements have also According to the trial In the course of this, they been made in making extracts introduction of this teaching come to acquire wide scientific of medicines released of Koryo medicines, raising method for 40 second-year and technological knowledge, their standardization level in pupils, more than ten pupils engineering principle and The pharmaceutical industry hundred kinds of medicines. keeping with GAP and securing performed a precise calculation programming through practice sector is working to increase Essential drugs take a larger herb resources,” said Yu Yong of 46 three-digit numbers in 15 before theory and to cultivate medicine production by relying proportion of them, such as Il, department chief of the seconds while carrying out such cooperative spirit while on domestic raw materials. hydrocortisone, dopamine, Koryo medicine production complex tasks as doing Rubik’s pooling their intelligence and According to An Song Il, rifampicin, ciprofloxacin, management bureau of the cube, hearing and telling triads efforts. deputy department director dimedrole, diclofenac and Ministry of Public Health. and conversing in a foreign After finishing robot-making, of the Pharmacology Institute bupivacaine. As they cultivate medicinal language. they express their views while of the Academy of Medical Sin Yong Sik, senior staffer herbs in a scientific way, herb The latter is a kind of STEM operating their creation. Sciences, said that the institute, of a department of the science producers work to increase education devised to suit the The two above-mentioned in cooperation with such and technology bureau of the production through tissue culture, psychological characteristics of methods developed by the educational units as Pyongyang Ministry of Public Health, said put the production of age-old primary schoolchildren. researchers prove effective University of Medical Sciences, that new drug intermediate Koryo medicines on a more “It will be unbelievable if in kindergartens and primary deepened the study of drug compounds that have undergone scientific basis and increase the primary schoolchildren are schools throughout the country. materials and intermediates, trial tests are being introduced varieties of traditional medicines. said to make robots with their The researchers have so thereby ensuring the domestic into several pharmaceutical own efforts, but they can easily far written several valuable production of more than a factories. By Ri Sung Ik PT Page 6 Sat, April 25, Juche 109(2020)

DENTAL CARE RIDING Implantation Equestrians polish up dressage The athletes of the Mirim said to be a fast pace. Our riders seem to perform ballet and their Riding Club are engrossed in are really great,” said trainer Sin passage resembles the hopping methods improved enhancing their dressage. Jong Chol. of kids. Unfortunately, the riding club The front-runner in dressage And the athletes look like is still closed due to COVID-19, is 19-year-old Ri Kum Il. acrobats when they perfectly but the riders are assiduously He was fond of horse- perform the complicated honing their skills in keeping riding in his middle school dressage movements as with the growing demands of days and attended the juvenile they straighten their backs, clients who are eager to make extracurricular riding course in breathing the same breath as friends with horses. the riding knowledge learning the horses. “People get more interested space of the club. “We are going to perfect our in horse riding as the days “Piryugang has now become skills as early as possible so as go by. The amateur riders my close friend. She promptly to make people happy, and take competitions which were held understands my intention and is part in international dressage in spring and autumn last year very good at leg-yielding in trot, events,” said trainer Sin. were a great success. And the pirouette in canter and piaffe,” The riders of the club also set riding exhibitions that were said Ri. new records in steeplechase and arranged at the time also catered When Piryugang and other race. for people’s growing cultural horses smartly trot as they KIM YONG CHAN and emotional needs,” said Ri stretch their hoofs straight, they By Kim Rye Yong PT Surgeons undertake an implantation at the Ryugyong Dental Tong Jun, secretary general of Hospital. the Equestrian Association of The Ryugyong Dental For instance, dental the DPRK. Hospital devised and introduced surgeons are disallowed Dressage can claim to be different implant treatment to tear maxillary sinus an equestrian event which methods. membrane, which is as thin showcases the polished and A dental treatment method as inner skin of egg, when smart skills of horses. of directly fixing an artificial they carry out maxillary That is why dressage is tooth on the alveolar bone sinus lift. appealing to not only amateur in the place of drawn tooth, The overdenture implant riders but many other people. implant treatment is as effective by hook is a way of hooking “It has been about three for patients as retaking their implant and a tooth to be years since we started dressage original teeth. placed above it together, and practice and our athletes “Implantation is generally the overdenture implant by bar completed the basic training applicable after a certain is a way of transplanting four and have entered the stage of period of time since the implants at certain intervals perfecting high-grade dressage removal of a tooth. But under the condition that no movements. As compared to RYANG KUM CHOL we have developed and tooth remains and putting foreign information, it can be A rider practises dressage at the Mirim Riding Club. introduced different methods bars between them so as to fix which facilitate immediate teeth. HERB The farm has also applied implant treatment while These methods are winning a method of cultivating such improving the defective state growing popularity for their herbs as Salvia mileriorrhiza of alveolar bones,” said Kang original ideas. Advanced methods and yam on ridges by merging Chol Man, a department chief Dental surgeons cured two furrows, which has enabled of the hospital. hundreds of patients by it to increase yields in the same While applying various employing the new methods. introduced into herb farming area of fields as compared to implant treatment methods, “At the end of last year I previously. I’ve keenly realized that received implant treatment The Sangwon herb farm sowing seeds of herbs to meet “As we work more easily high operating skills and rich soon after having my two under the Koryo medicine their characteristics and has than before and double experience are very important, lower back teeth pulled out and production management bureau introduced seed- and land- harvests, our living standards said prosthetist Ham Tong the result is very satisfactory. of the Ministry of Public Health saving cultivation methods to improve. All our farmers Hwan. Now I have solid food easily is one of the country’s leading double herb production. pay close attention to putting What is crucial in the like the days when I was medicinal herb farm. “We employ advanced cultivation on a more scientific immediate implantation is to young,” said Ri Ok Song, Established in 1968, the science and technology basis and positively introduce pay attention lest alveolar bones 60-year-old woman living in farm grows over 30 species to register good results in advanced farming methods,” are injured when teeth are Songnim, North Hwanghae of medicinal herbs and trees herb production,” said chief said sub-workteam leader Ri pulled out and to fix implants Province. on hundreds of hectares of engineer Jong Chun Jo. Chun Ae. based on an accurate decision At present, the dental fields. According to him, the farm At present the farm is about the quality of alveolar surgeons are working on “Every herb is different in planted 1-1.5 tons of 3 to working on the projects to bones. Odontologist of the the research into effective seeding time, number of plants 4cm-long herb seedlings per breed a new variety of herb hospital conducted thousands treatment methods including per hectare, manuring time hectare in the past, but now and innovate a cultivation of simulated operations to this the implant treatment by side and harvest season. If you it raises nutritive granulated method. It is said that when end. expansion of alveolar bones miss the right time, the yields seedlings to transplant them, they are completed, the farm The vital condition for the which lighten burdens on and medicinal efficacy drop thereby planting hundreds will be able to produce 15-20 implant treatment is the state of patients. remarkably,” said manager Kim kilograms of seedlings per tons of more herbs. alveolar bones. Hyong Guk. hectare to save more than 1 But every patient has By Ri Sang Il PT The farm is punctual in ton of them. By Kil Chung Il PT different alveolar bone conditions. ROAD SIGN that ensure reflectivity and a several times longer lifespan For example, some patients directivity of light and adjusted than the foreign-made light have broken alveolar bones the resolution, printing plate reflecting papers applied on or uneven heights of alveolar Directional reflectors applied movement speed and printing road signs. bones. Others find it hard to speed in the computer-aided Besides, the production cost apply the implant treatment in printing process. is only some 60 percent of the accordance with the number to roads in Pyongyang Developer Ri Kum Chol said light reflecting paper since of drawn teeth due to the poor that the light reflected from computers directly print the condition of overall alveolar Shortly ago, directional light directional light reflectors, the directional light reflector signs. bones. reflectors were installed into a production line was set up is so intense that the driver The directional light reflector To cope with this, doctors road signboards in Pyongyang involving such processes as can distinguish the road signs is also applicable to the came up with such treatment to help ensure safe driving. cleaning, anodic oxidation, at the distance of hundreds of production of license plates, methods as maxillary sinus The background of the plastic coating, minute bulb metres even at a speed of 80- doorplates of public service lift, overdenture by hook and light reflectors is made of the spraying and computer-aided 100km/h. amenities and street decoration overdenture by bar, all of which aluminum foil, a leftover from printing. According to him, the light plaques. presuppose high operating printing shops. Developers found out element reflector has better resistance skills. For the production of the variables of minute bulbs to sunlight and weathering and By Ri Myong Jun PT Sat, April 25, Juche 109(2020) Page 7

CRISIS Briefly

Water crisis remains serious UN Human rights expert reveals t present, about 2.2 dwellers. and building basic facilities fibre gas gel, and the sponge US’ neglect of the vulnerable billion people of the Therefore, experts fear that related to water and boost water is said to be able to absorb an The UN Human Rights Aworld live in the areas the current situation is likely to utilization efficiency. amount 190 times greater than Council special rapporteur on lacking clean water. lead to a world war to get water Well aware of the seriousness its weight. extreme poverty and human Climate change is one of the resources. of the water crisis, many countries The technology reportedly rights in a statement on Apr major factors causing serious The world witnessed more around the world focus on makes it possible to deal with 16 said that the poor has been water shortage. It changes the than 20 cases of military research into the effective use of a large volume of waste water, left out of the US’ strategy flow of rivers and reduces conflicts over water resources water, desalination of seawater, pollutants, micro plastic, etc. for coping with the novel the quality of water, thereby in the latter half of the 20th increase in its efficiency and The country is planning to coronavirus infection. exerting a negative impact on century. The fact is eloquent others to secure water resources. use it in purifying waste water The poor people are suffering water circulation on the earth. testimony to the possibility that An Asian country, which and sewage, storing water and the most from the pandemic in If such abnormal phenomena water resources could spark relies on import for 40 percent disposing of plastic waste. the US, he said, adding those in persist, it is said that 3.5-4.4 clashes and wars. of water, has come up with a Different countries will make low-income brackets are faced billion people would be troubled In order to overcome the new technology for addressing constant endeavours to resolve with a far bigger danger of by water shortage worldwide by serious water crisis, it is needed water scarcity. It is to purify the water crisis. infection due to the inveterate 2050 and more than one billion to increase investment in waste water using the small neglect and discrimination. out of them would be urban securing clean water resources black sponge called a carbon By Song Jong Ho PT Cuba JAPAN Cuban FM highlights danger of US anti-Venezuelan military action Children most vulnerable to abuses The Cuban Foreign Minister warned that the recent N and other published by a relevant Japanese reported. Japanese children not only deployment of the US warships i n t e r n a t i o n a l agency after synthesizing child It is the bounden duty of suffer from family violence. and special forces around the Uorganizations express abuse cases that occurred in parents to love and take care Many of them were seduced waters of Venezuela is a serious concern over the desperate Japan last year. of their children and it is their by persons they knew through threat to peace and it may lead plight of children in the More shocking is that most normal thinking that they have SNS and fell prey to sexual to a military invasion against countries plagued by civil war of the offenders and criminals to even flog their children to crimes, the number reaching Venezuela at any moment. and disputes. were fathers and mothers of the correct their bad habits or faults. over 2 000 last year alone. However, children have victims. But the Japanese society is so The figure is much higher Call become a major target of crimes The figures seen above rife with the perverted thought than that in 2018 and a record Russia, Syria appeal for of different kinds in one country merely account for uncovered of considering children as the high. pressurizing the US which is free from civil war and cases. No doubt more children subjects whom they vent their It is said that student abuse Russia and Syria issued dispute. did not dare to report to the anger on or commit outrages cases on campus also increase a joint statement on Apr 15 Last year, child abuse cases police for fear of coercion against and the decadent way and the number of students to call on the international uncovered by the police and threats of their parents of life by which they abuse arrested or called into question community to put pressure amounted to 1 972, with 1 991 and offenders and there were children as a pleasure that by the police is on the rise. on the US to lift sanctions children falling victim to them. much more cases of violence many children terribly suffer against Syria. The figures were recently against children that were not from them. By Om Ryong PT The US, like the international terrorist organization of ISRAEL Islamic State, is indifferent to the danger of spread of the epidemic in Syria and does Outright challenge to the call of not heed the UN’s suggestion of ending the sanctions, the statement said, calling for international community pressurizing the US and its allies into lifting the unlawful espite the firestorm through the 1967 Six-Day international community took the international community. and inhuman sanctions. of protest and War. Since then it encroached a measure to fix the boundary Analysts express their Ddenunciation from on al-Quds and other regions between them according to concern, saying that if its plan China the international community, by building and expanding the borderline set up before for extending the settlements is US criticism dismissed as Israel is going to extend Jewish Jewish settlements. 1976 and asserted that both carried out, it would swallow unfounded settlements in East al-Quds on a Consequently, the sides should reach a peaceful up the whole of al-Quds and “The US has repeated a large scale. Palestinians were driven out agreement without conflict dominate the Middle East, and number of untrue criticisms It is reportedly aiming to of their native place and their and dispute. yet that would not be enough to and China exposed the lies it build 3 000 and 2 200 dwellings right to existence was put in On that account, Israel’s satisfy the greed of the Israeli is telling by enumerating facts in two districts of East al-Quds serious jeopardy. moves to expand Jewish rulers. in detail,” said a spokesman for respectively. In order to solve the settlements in East al-Quds is an the Chinese Foreign Ministry Netanyahu blatantly said Palestine-Israel issue, the open challenge to the demand of By Choe Yong Nam PT at a routine press conference in public that the housing on Apr 15. development projects will deal IRAN His remarks came after the a blow to the dream of the US Secretary of State asserted Palestinians for liberation. that China should be called to Al-Quds is a very sensitive US decried as source of instability account at an opportune time, place politically. saying it didn’t inform them of The name al-Quds is derived he Iranian minister Islamic Revolution Guards conventions in the Persian the disease in time. from an Arabic word meaning of defence and armed Corps in a statement on Apr Gulf and Gulf of Oman and “holy place”. Also called forces logistics on 19 said that the US navy is refrain from running any risk Germany Jerusalem, it has been the T Apr 17 censured the US for posing threat to regional peace and spreading false rumours, it Germany brands US as Holy Land of Judaism since causing troubles with threat and creating a new danger said, warning that Iran would present-day pirate the 11th century BC, that of and sanctions, describing while repeatedly committing cope with it resolutely if the US According to German Christianity since 335 and that the illegal and aggressive illegal acts in the Persian shows any folly. magazine Spiegel, the US of Islam since 662. It also has stationing of the US forces Gulf, branding the US’ illegal In another development, the recently snatched 200 000 some part of al-Aqsa Mosque, in the Persian Gulf region as presence in the Persian Gulf Iranian army has received new masks in Thailand’s Bangkok one of the three Muslim shrines the source of troubles for the and West Asia as the source drones on Apr 18. which were on their way of the world. Therefore, a regional peoples. of instability. The only way The drone can fly up as high as to Berlin on the order of United Nations decision in The Iranian Islamic to ensure sustainable security some 14 000m and cruise as far as Germany. 1947 declared the place as an Revolution Guards Corps is to completely withdraw all 1 500km. A German newspaper “international city”. demanded the withdrawal of the US troops, the statement It can reportedly load three branded the US act as present- However, Israel occupied US troops from the Persian Gulf noted. bombs. day piracy. the western part of the city and West Asian region. The US should abide by in 1948 and the eastern part The navy of the Iranian international laws and maritime KCNA the pyongyang times Page 8 Sat, April 25, Juche 109(2020)

PROFILE DOG Taekwon-Do practitioner not National dog of resting on her laurels Phungsan A native breed of Korea, Among the top ten Taekwon- the home front afterwards, and Phungsan dog has been famous Doists of the DPRK of last year launched her professional career for its bravery, cleverness and was Kim Hyang Sim (pictured) at the Taekwon-Do club of the vitality. at the Taekwon-Do club of Korean Taekwon-Do Committee According to a researcher at the Korean Taekwon-Do in 2007. the Academy of Social Sciences, Committee. The cheerful yet fiercely many animals of all sorts had lived Born of an ordinary worker’s competitive woman worked out in Korea’s northern uplands with family in Chaeha-dong of hard at the training ground even steep mountains and thick forests , North Phyongan on holidays. in the middle ages. At that time, That is why it has particularly Province, she was fond of music At the fifth Asian juvenile Korean ancestors had selected been loved by locals. since childhood. Taekwon-Do championships in dogs of superior strains among It was registered as a national As she flaunted her music 2010, she won the first place natives for hunting and bred living monument in April skills learning piano, sohaegum and obtained a technical prize such hunting dogs in the Samsu, 1956. President Kim Il Sung (a kind of traditional fiddles), in 64kg-category individual Kapsan, Phungso and Phungsan underscored the need to look accordion and other musical a presumed consent from her sparring by overpowering all (present Kim Hyong Gwon into the pure-bred of Phungsan instruments at Sinuiju City parents who believed their her rivals by capitalizing on her County) areas of Ryanggang during his visit to Ryanggang School of Arts, her parents innocent babe would give up the forte of jumping 360-degree Province. Province in May 1958, saying expected she would make a sport soon. spin kick. The name of Phungsan dog the thoroughbred is a very good brilliant musician. This was how she began to She bagged lots of gold was derived from this local breed. However, Hyang Sim learn Taekwon-Do at Sinuiju medals by taking part in five name. The home of the dog was Chairman Kim Jong Il indicated opted to be a Taekwon-Do City Juvenile Sports School. rounds of world Taekwon-Do an isolated mountainous area, ways for breeding Phungsan dog player contrary to her parents’ She adapted to her new championships and four Asian which constituted a fundamental and visited Kim Hyong Gwon expectations. “One day when “vocation” in no time and as she events and is now a Taekwon- basis for the dog to carry on its County in Ryanggang Province I was 11, I saw through TV acquired its skills, she got ever Do star. comparatively pure breed. in the mid-1970s to take a step to Taekwon-Do practitioners in more interested in Taekwon- She was awarded Kim Il Sung The Phungsan has thick and quickly breed its thoroughbred. white uniforms polishing their Do. The girl with outstanding Youth Honour Prize in 2011, the solid hind legs suitable for As a result, a sanctuary for the skills. Their movements were kinaesthesia won the individual title of Merited Athlete in 2015 running in mountainous areas native dog came into being in the so appealing I was fascinated by pattern event (second gup) at the and that of People’s Athlete in and is highly resistant to cold and county. the martial art of our nation. So then Jongilbong Prize national 2017. diseases. Though it is of gentle The Phungsan dog is now I decided to turn to Taekwon- juvenile Taekwon-Do contest six “I love Taekwon-Do which nature and quite obedient to its enjoying its fame as the national Do and badgered my parents to months after she started Taekwon- is everything in my life. I will keeper at ordinary times, it has a dog of the DPRK. give me consent,” she recalled. Do. The triumph came as a train hard and achieve good strong fighting spirit of biting to Her parents adamantly turned pleasant surprise to her parents and results to live up to everyone’s death its opponents at any cost. KCNA down her request, saying music transformed them into her active expectations,” she said. was better for girls. But she was and encouraging supporters. unyielding and finally obtained She enjoyed the limelight on By Song Jong Ho PT MONUMENT

TEA Cliff known for unusual Korea’s tea culture dates back to height and length A magnificent yet elegant mainly lies east and west and the Three Kingdoms period cliff comes into sight after slope of fold north and south. The passing Sinphyong county town cliff is 50-60 metres high and According to had tasted the delicate in North Hwanghae Province about 100 metres long. Samguksagi, or the flavour of tea while along the motorway between Around the cliff there rise Mt Chronicles of the growing tea trees by Pyongyang and . Haram which is 1 486 metres Three Kingdoms, the himself, which shows It is located in the middle of above sea level, Mts Tumu and Koreans had taken tea that the Korean people the western region of Korea. Mannyon and other main peaks since the period of the had close relations The locals call the cliff of the Ahobiryong Mountains Three Kingdoms. with tea. Talhaesansong, or the fort of Mt and the terrain is terribly Their tea culture Explaining that Talhae, as it spreads like a high weather-beaten, forming steep made a rapid tea tree represented fort. slopes and ravines. development in the chastity and fidelity The cliff was formed of The wall of the cliff is thickly period of Koryo. as it easily dies when quartzite in the upper Proterozoic wooded with pine and oak At that time, the transplanted, a historian era and is the highest and longest trees. production, processing said a bride offered it to in Korea. Talhaesansong is of great and treatment, RYU KWANG HYOK her husband’s family as Its parent rock was formed significance in scientific study as transport, sale, A cup of Unjong tea and its products. a present and mother- about 1.1 billion years ago and it a typical quartzite cliff formed in supply and consumption of tea elegant Koryo ceramics were an in-law gave her daughter-in-law came to take on the present shape the middle of the Proterozoic. were undertaken by a central important factor which furthered its seeds as a show of her wish by weathering and erosion. It is under good protection as government office called tabang tea culture in that period. that she would keep her faith The cliff that came into being natural monument No. 179. (teahouse). The shape, kind and use of like the tea tree and honour her as the quartzite stratum was Tabang also passed as the the ceramics were diverse, and family. influenced by faulting and folding By Choe Yong Nam PT pharmaceutical office for the teacup took a huge proportion Today, tea culture is widely medicinal efficacy of tea. of them. encouraged in the DPRK. All national events of Koryo There were so many Especially, insam tea can be Kingdom were preceded by masterpieces among teapots, tea- used as a cardiac and tonic and tarye (tea drinking function). leaf jars and teacups that they is highly effective for curing Tea consumption was so high were instrumental in enhancing indigestion, anemia and nervous in Koryo that the scale of tea culture to a high level. system disorders. chasochon, tea production unit, Koryo’s tea culture was widely Teahouses like Unjong was also large. known to other countries. Teahouse and Ryugyong Jangmi Chasochon was run in Jong Yak Yong, a renowned House can be found everywhere different forms including Korean scholar, named his nom in Pyongyang alone. government and civil grades. de plume Tasan (a mountain of The eastern cliff (left) and western cliff (right) of Talhaesansong, The production and use of tea trees) in the meaning that he By Om Ryong PT or the fort of Mt Talhae.

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