On April 11 seven years ago, the 432nd triplets were born at the Pyongyang Maternity Hospital. The mother of the triplets was Hyon Yong Ae, wife of a secondary school teacher, living in Pothonggang District of Pyongyang. Hyon, who was confirmed to be in multiple pregnancy during a routine medical checkup entitled to all pregnant […]
The bamboo thicket in Kosong is found at the foot of a mountain at the back of Lagoon Samil and at the foot of Chilsong Pass in Sunhak-ri, Kosong County, Kangwon Province. The tallest bamboo is 16 metres high, its root neck and chest, 58 cm and 55 cm across each, and its crown 1.8 […]
Women’s union officials and members held a rally in front of the Sinchon Museum on June 9 in denunciation of the anti-DPRK hostile acts committed by the south Korean authorities and the “defectors from the north”. The rally was attended by Jang Chun Sil, chairwoman of the Central Committee of the Socialist Women’s Union of […]
Youth and students held a rally at the Youth Park Open-Air Theatre in Pyongyang on June 6 to denounce the anti-DPRK hostile acts committed by the south Korean authorities and the “defectors from the north”. Present there were Pak Chol Min, chairman of the Central Committee of the Kimilsungist-Kimjongilist Youth League, officials of the youth […]
Great bustard, one of threatened species of birds in the world, lives in the Onchon Plain area, located in Jungsan County, South Phyongan Province and Onchon County in Nampho City. The area is rich in feed resources for its inhabitation. They include such plants as Juncus decipiens, Typha orientalis, Scirpus tabernaemontani and Suaeda glauca, scattered […]
Janggo, an hourglass-shaped drum, is a national percussion instrument of Korea. Musicians playing the janggo are depicted in the tomb mural paintings of Koguryo (277 BC-AD 668). Janggo dance, a Korean folk dance, was at first played in such folk dance works as a peasant music dance in which janggo beaters produced various rhythmic patterns […]
The Wonsan Disabled Soldiers’ Essential Plastic Goods Factory is building up its production capacity. The factory increased the output of plastic tube 2.5 times by manufacturing plastic tube extruder, air compressor and other machinery by itself. It perfected the technical processes of chloride vinyl leather and sponge production, manufactured a washing machine necessary for recycling […]
Kangwon Province in the middle eastern part of Korea consists mostly of mountainous regions and has unfavourable, changeable climatic conditions and fragile industrial foundations. However, it is now being transformed into a place that is making tremendous development in the fierce flames of creation and construction. The construction of the Wonsan Army-People Power Station in […]
With the advent of spring the Taedonggang Combined Fruit Farm has turned into a sea of snow-white blossoms of apple trees on several thousand hectares of orchards along the bank of the Taedong River. Workplaces and villages are full to the brim with sweet fragrance of apple flowers, and people with delight. This spectacular sight […]
A large-scale Hwangju-Kindung waterway project kicked off. The project is of great significance in boosting grain production in North Hwanghae Province. It is a gigantic nature-harnessing project for fully providing irrigation water to the Hwangju-Kindung Plain by building hundreds-of-kilometre-long gravitational waterway. The waterway builders successfully conducted the blasting of 100 000 cubic metres of earth […]
The primary damming project of District No. 2 came to completion at the site of reclaiming Woldo tideland. Its successful completion opened a prospect for finishing the reclamation of the tideland ahead of schedule. The General Tideland Reclamation Enterprise of North Phyongan Province prepared stones and earth by successfully conducting the blasting of 250 000 […]
The Japanese imperialists plundered a large number of Buddhist statues during their military occupation of Korea from 1905 to 1945. Taking advantage of the Japanese imperialists’ occupation of Korea, the Japanese historians buckled down to investigating the temples and Buddhist fine arts of Korea and made a collective list of the Korean cultural assets. On […]
Nampho University of Fisheries is training practical talents in a far-sighted way. Based on a detailed plan for improving the creativity and practical ability of students and the standard target of each subject, the university ensures that its lecturers make teaching preparations as required by modern pedagogy. Several cross-disciplinary science subjects, including “Industrialization of fish […]
The Pyongyang Wheat Flour Processing Factory, located in Mangyongdae District, Pyongyang, produces tens of kinds of wheat flour processing goods, including instant noodles, cakes and twisted doughnuts. The factory has established an integrated manufacturing system. All its production lines, ranging from the feeding of raw materials to the packaging of products, are on an automated […]
The Pyongyang Dental Hygiene Supplies Factory is producing quality goods. It is provided with tens of combined analyzing facilities, including laser grain-size analyzer, and advanced equipment. It produces tens of Paekhak-brand toothpastes, including poplar antibacterial toothpaste and phytic acid toothpaste for preventing tartar. These functional and curative toothpastes have a special virtue for the treatment […]
The Taedonggang Condiment Factory produces over 60 kinds of Pyongyang-brand soybean paste and soy sauce, including malted soybean paste, rice and red peppered bean paste and fermented soy sauce. Its products are winning growing popularity among the people. It has raised a hot wind of competition among its employees for developing more than one product […]
It was early February when a 12-year-old boy and his mother from Wonsan of Kangwon Province arrived at the Okryu Children’s Hospital situated on Munsu Street, Taedonggang District in Pyongyang. The boy was An Ryong Ju, an ordinary worker’s son, who was diagnosed through telemedicine system as having a cardiovascular disease and admitted to this […]
Jang Un Hye, Jang Chung Sil and Jang Po Dap who are sister triplets living in Samjiyon City, Ryanggang Province, the DPRK, got married happily on the same day. They who are from Pyongyang now live in Samjiyon City out of the desire to spruce up the holy sanctuary of the revolution. They performed feats […]
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