Pyongyang, January 18 (KCNA) — Enthusiasm for writing is getting high among working people in the DPRK. Activities of mass literary groups gain momentum in different areas and units, and works for picking out those with high writing ability have been conducted. The amateur writers in different cities and counties and at various industrial establishments […]
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Pyongyang, February 10 (KCNA) — The State Art Performance Operation Bureau in the DPRK pushes ahead with the preparations for successful progress of the First People’s Art Festival Celebrating the Day of the Shining Star to be held on the occasion of the 80th birth anniversary of Chairman Kim Jong Il. -0-
Pyongyang, February 10 (KCNA) — The Standing Committee of the Supreme People’s Assembly of the DPRK issued a decree on conferring Order of Kim Jong Il, the title of DPRK Labor Hero together with Gold Medal (Hammer and Sickle) and Order of National Flag First Class, titles of honor and orders on 8 732 officials, […]
Sa Ok Jin, coach of the Taekwon-Do Team of the Korean Taekwon-Do Committee, is one of sportspersons who are adding lustre to the honour of the country with Taekwon-Do, the orthodox martial arts of the Korean nation. She is known as “a woman with indomitable mental strength and fortitude” and “a woman with strong courage […]
The Jangsan Sports Club boasts of a wrestling ace. He is Pak Wi Song, a 57-kg freestyle wrestler. From his childhood, he began to learn the event at Sosong District Juvenile Sports School and took part in the national sports games of juvenile sports schools several times, ranking among the first three. Whenever he won […]
The Paektusan Prize Games in celebration of the Day of the Shining Star (February 16, birth anniversary of Chairman Kim Jong Il) was opened at the Basketball Gymnasium in Chongchun Street on February 3. The participants will compete in football, basketball, volleyball, ice hockey and other events in Pyongyang, Samjiyon, Phyongsong and Sariwon cities and other […]
Preschool education has been encouraged in the DPRK. Changgwang Kindergarten in the capital city of Pyongyang is one of the units taking the lead in this work. According to its head Jon Chang Suk who is a winner of the title of People’s Teacher, the kindergarten regards it as a principle to discover the natural […]
By the close of the year Juche 98 (2009), in a bid to invade the northern half of Korea, the south Korean belligerent forces cranked up tension on the West Sea. Kim Jong Un ensured that the sailors of the Korean People’s Army kept a watchful eye on enemy movements. In a November skirmish they dealt […]
Kim Jong Un, general secretary of the Workers’ Party of Korea and president of the State Affairs of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, inspected a site in Ryonpho area of Hamju County, South Hamgyong Province set for building a large-scale vegetable greenhouse farm. He was accompanied by Jo Yong Won, member of the Presidium […]
In his lifetime Chairman Kim Jong Il made ceaseless journey of field guidance for the Korean people’s wellbeing. This journey covers at least 669 844 kilometers equivalent to going round the earth nearly 17 times. Starting his Songun revolutionary leadership with inspection of the Seoul Ryu Kyong Su Guards 105th Tank Division of the Korean People’s Army, […]
Kim Jong Un, general secretary of the Workers’ Party of Korea and president of the State Affairs of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, inspected a munitions factory producing a major weapon system. He was accompanied by Jo Yong Won, member of the Presidium of the Political Bureau and secretary for Organizational Affairs of the […]
All the people of the DPRK missed and revered Chairman Kim Jong Il very much on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of his demise. The national flag was hung at half-mast at all units, including institutions and industrial establishments at all levels, farms, fishing villages and schools in Pyongyang and other local provinces, and at far-off […]
All the people in the DPRK greatly missing Chairman Kim Jong Il, the venerable image of socialist Korea, look back upon his life with the deepest reverence for him on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of his demise. In first decade of the sacred struggle for realizing his desire for building a powerful nation under […]
Mt Paektu where the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un made a horseback march is the holy mountain of revolution associated with the soul of the Korean nation and showing the spirit and stamina of the DPRK.
Houses for a hundred and tens of families have been newly built in Kaesong City. Villages in Haephyong-ri of Kaephung District and Sinhung-ri of Phanmun District house cosy dwellings with living rooms, kitchens and warehouses for the conveniences of farmers, whose view has been improved with fruit trees around the houses. Ris in the districts […]
The Eighth Conference of Military Educationists of the Korean People’s Army was held at the April 25 House of Culture on December 4 and 5. The Central Committee and the Central Military Commission of the Workers’ Party of Korea convened the conference involving the entire army with a view to consolidating the core position of […]
Ho Chun Gum, after graduation from Pyongyang University of Agriculture in Juche 85 (1996), worked as a technical consultant and then became its chief engineer and chairwoman of the management board of the Kumdae Cooperative Farm in Rangnang District, Pyongyang. She started her career as a farmer with a determination to do farm well by […]
December 5 is World Soil Day. The day was set to raise global concern about soil protection and encourage it. Today, it serves as a forum of soil scientists across the world to protect soil resources. Such soil destruction phenomena as soil erosion and pollution caused by climate change due to global warming pose a […]
The 5th Political Bureau Meeting of the 8th Central Committee of the Workers’ Party of Korea took place at the office building of the Party Central Committee on December 1. Kim Jong Un, general secretary of the WPK, was present at the meeting. The meeting was attended by members of the Presidium of the Political […]