A proud frontrunner of new Korea

On May 1 1947, President Kim Il Sung arranged a lavish banquet for the exemplary workers across the country and highly praised the labour innovators with a warm smile, saying that all of them present there were all revolutionaries and patriots. 

Holding the hands of a coal miner from North Hamgyong Province, he said he had suffered a great deal under Japanese military rule in the past, but today workers and farmers were masters of the country and it valued the coal miners most and put them forward first.  

Russian presidential press secretary Dmitri Peskov said at a news conference on April 28 that the treaty on mutual assistance between the DPRK and Russia is in operation in an effective way.

“The two countries have a treaty in force. According to the treaty, both sides have a duty to provide powerful assistance to each other if necessary,” he noted.

He added the actions of the DPRK sub-units that contributed to liberating Kursk Region proved the effective operation of the treaty.

Among the making of traditional foods of the Korean nation is that of yot (taffy) by converting starch of grain into sugar.

The Korean word “yot” is derived from the meaning that it continues to stretch without breaking when it is pulled.

In the period of the feudal Joson dynasty (1392-1910), yot was further diversified in kind and the method of making it further developed.

The forestry sector has carried out its annual timber production plan at over 90 percent by March 31 through a drive for increased production to greet the 80th anniversary of the founding of the Workers’ Party of Korea with proud labour achievements.

This is a notable success made in the struggle for implementing the Party’s policy on timber industry to carry out a large share of the annual timber production in winter.

Officials and workers in the forestry sector channelled efforts into the preparations for production after setting a high goal and repaired and maintained vehicles by securing fuel and materials and tapping internal reserves in a short span of time.

The Pukchang Thermal Power Complex, which takes a large share of power production in the country, adopted an innovative management method to update the record of the number of workdays per ignition and lay a foundation for producing hundreds of millions of kWh of more electricity every year.

Officials of the complex solved technical problems arising in achieving the increased production target using the existing equipment, by taking the normal operation of generating equipment as a key to attaining the electricity generation goal for this year.

The complex introduced in an all-round way a new evaluation method which orients and subordinates all economic arrangements and production control to the management of equipment and technology and gives precedence to the quality of repair.

In the DPRK all higher and general educational institutions in the capital and provinces are making efforts to actively introduce advanced methods for training talents.

Wonsan Jong Jun Thaek University of Economics has made achievements by conducting the work to introduce new educational management systems in an accurately targeted method.

Kim Chung Hyok, chief of the instruction guidance department, who is progressive and ambitious, has spared no effort to study and introduce a new educational management system for raising the lecturers' teaching levels, regarding as a guideline the Workers' Party of Korea's definition that a radical improvement in education is, in essence, a radical improvement in teachers’ qualifications.

Pak Ho Chol, head of the West Pyongyang Locomotive Corps, is one of those honest people who shoulder the heavy burden of the country by themselves and faithfully follow the road of patriotism. 

He was appointed head of the West Pyongyang Locomotive Corps in early spring over 20 years ago.

Though he was diagnosed with a fatal disease by which others might have fallen long ago, Pak got up and burnt his body like a candle for over 20 years with a strong will, turning the locomotive corps into a group of innovators in the rail transport sector.  

There is a truck crane operator loved by builders at the construction site of Hwasong Street.

She is 21-year-old Mun Won Ok at the heavy machine workshop of the Pyongyang Construction Commission.

"Everyone chooses their job according to their ideals. Mun Won Ok volunteered to become a truck crane operator though other girls hesitate to become that," said Pak Sung Hyok, department head of the Pyongyang Construction Commission.

China decided to impose sanctions upon a US congressman, official and others who are interfering in the issues related to Hong Kong.

A spokesman for the Chinese foreign ministry, in a press conference on April 21, accused the US of unilaterally applying sanctions against six persons including an official of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region and said that China strongly decries this base act.

He emphasized that Hong Kong belongs to China and any wrong measure the US takes as regards the Hong Kong-related issue will be unable to evade decisive retaliation of China.