A combined tactical drill of special operations sub-units for surpassing the standards for an all-mission battalion and a match and joint fire strike drill demonstration of tankmen’s sub-units were held on May 13 as a demonstration drill under the training course of the Conference of the Training Officers of the Korean People’s Army.
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Before watching the drill,
He watched various tactical drill demonstrations together with commanding officers of the KPA at the observation post.
Dozens of young people in North Hamgyong Province offered to work at theatres of socialist construction.
Those in Puryong and Kilju counties requested their youth league organizations to send them to the county construction brigades. Those in Kim Chaek City and Orang, Kyonghung and Myonggan counties volunteered for raw materials base stations, while those in Chongjin and Hoeryong cities and Musan and Myongchon counties advanced to mines, farms, forestry stations and other workplaces seething with the drive for increased production and economy.
A girl teacher of Myonggan County Town decided to work at a branch school in a mountainous area, leaving a deep impression on people.
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Amid the congratulations of officials of the Tongsin County Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea, families, relatives and villagers, the centenarian extended thanks to
News about happy events is reported in succession, bringing joy and laughter to the people.
As the seasons come without fail, so does the “season of moving into new houses” giving delight to all people across the country. A happy event of moving into new houses took place again in the Hwasong area, which has changed beyond recognition.
The news about the launch of the powerful multi-mission destroyer Choe Hyon, on which the tremendous national power is focused, and about the successive inauguration of the Kangnyong and Singye wheat processing factories, Phyongsong Irrigation Machine Factory and others directly related to the life of people also adds joy to them all.
Deep gratitude is now overflowing in the new street built in the Hwasong area as a flourishing socialist living space.
Trucks, bearing a piece of paper, reading “Moving into new house in Hwasong area”, on their front windows, enter the street one after another and passers-by wave hands to the owners of the new houses.
Happy laughter and cheerful songs are heard in every block and building on the new street wrapped in a festive mood.
Fried glutinous rice cake is one of the favourite national foods of the DPRK people.
Today’s fried glutinous rice cake is a kind of cake made of fried cereals, sesame, soybean and other materials mixed with liquid sugar. But according to old historical records, it was a kind of oil-and-honey pastry made by kneading glutinous rice flour with liquor, boiling, shaping and drying it, before frying, covering it with glucose syrup and dressing with bean flour.
They say it was called pine-nut and five-colour fried glutinous rice cake according to the garnishes as it was dressed with white sesame, black sesame, pine nut, yellow bean and green bean flour and used as a festive dish for ceremonies and the New Year.
The 17th Symposium on Architectural Aesthetics took place at the Sci-Tech Complex in Pyongyang on May 14 by way of video-conferencing.
Present there were officials concerned and officials and technicians in the fields of construction design, construction inspection, building operation, city management and land and environment protection.
The symposium was held on the theme of "New era of efflorescence of socialist civilization and Juche-oriented architecture". Speeches were made by Kim Kang Chol, head of an office of the National Design Administration, Min Hyon Ju, deputy general director of the National Industrial Design Administration, Ri Il Gon, chief of staff of the Pyongyang Construction Commission, Jo Won Chol, vice-minister of State Construction Control, and Ryang Pong Jin, dean of a faculty of Pyongyang University of Architecture.
The 2025 Pyongyang Underground Store Spring Commodity Show closed with due ceremony on May 14.
On display at the exhibition, which was held with splendour amid the deep interest of many visitors, were foodstuffs, household goods and regional specialities produced by well over a hundred units across the country.
During the exhibition, the participants from production units across the country exchanged successes and experience gained in the technical innovation for developing new products and expanding their varieties.
Belarus and Vietnam established strategic partnership.
Talks were held between Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko and To Lam, general secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam, in Minsk on May 12.
At the talks, referring to the fact that the two countries have stepped up cooperation in the field of munitions industry complex, the Belarus president said that his country is ready to continue such cooperation in the future.
A total of 826 businesses went bankrupt in Japan during April.
According to a survey group on May 12, the monthly number of corporate bankruptcies has increased as compared to the corresponding months of the previous years for 36 months.
Price rises and labour shortage are reportedly the contributory factors to the bankruptcies.
