Electric power producers at the Chongchongang Thermal Power Station have carried out their daily, every-ten-day and monthly production plans with their devoted efforts.

Through the intensified April 15 technical innovation shock brigade activities, the station applied valuable inventions and rationalization plans, thus ensuring the normal operation of major equipment and raising the level of IT-based production management.

The workers and technicians of the fuel workshop introduced a device for coal separation through a vibrating screen to increase combustion rate and save a lot of manpower.

The 22nd May 21 Architectural Festival closed with due ceremony at the Sci-Tech Complex in Pyongyang on May 16.

Exchanged at the festival were successes and experience gained in the work to build structures which serve as models and standards of the times embodying the architectural idea based on the people-first principle and to put architectural science and technology on a higher stage.

During the festival there were a presentation of experience gained in designing and creating the architectural aesthetic features of 10 000 flats at the fourth stage in the Hwasong area and a video show on the world trend of architecture.

The Jindallae Mobile Phone Factory is constantly building up its reputation. 

Established in 2018, it produces dozens of types of mobile phones, including those using AI technology.

“Our factory set it as the long-term goal to realize full automation of the production line which would raise the proportion of domestic production and guarantee the stabilization of quality control,” said senior engineer Ko Song Bo. “We are concentrating all technical and talent forces to this end.”

More and more cultural and leisure facilities are being built in Pyongyang and other parts of the country. 

Recently, sports parks have been created on Unha and Kumnan islets in the Pothong River flowing across the capital city. 

Courts for volleyball, tennis and badminton, a table tennis house, a restaurant and other service facilities have been built on Unha Islet, while outside sports grounds, including basketball, badminton and volleyball courts, and a Korean wrestling site were put up on Kumnan Islet.

Recently, the military buildup of Japan, a war criminal state, has entered a grave phase day by day amid the frequent geopolitical crises of raising concerns about the outbreak of a new great war in the world.

According to media, Japan is planning to conduct a test-fire of a ship-based electromagnetic gun, an ultra-modern weapon system that continuously launches shells at hypersonic speed by using electromagnetic power, in the near future.

Japan, which started the developing of the electromagnetic gun in 2016, conducted the world's first test-fire of ship-based weapon with a small prototype in 2023 and is going to conduct the test-fire with a prototype for actual war this time.

Russia continues to spur the buildup of defence capability for defending national sovereignty and security.

Russian President Vladimir Putin, at a munitions industry committee meeting on April 23, stressed the need to actively update the military hardware in conformity with the rapidly changing forms and methods of military operations on the basis of experience gained in the special military operations.

It is necessary to effectively adapt weapons and equipment to the forms and methods of military operations and there is every possibility for Russia to do so, he said.

French President Emmanuel Macron asserted in a TV interview on May 13 that Europeans should rid itself of dependence on the US.

Saying that if Europe fails to get ready for achieving “strategic independence” from the US within 5-10 years, it will lose its ability to fulfil its responsibility, he argued that the European Union has now been compelled to face the challenge called “single-handed” due to the persistent America-first doctrine.

Answering the question as to the way to cope with the US’ levying of tariffs, he stated that he opposes trade war and that they will fight it out.

Amid the invincible prestige of the revolutionary armed forces of the DPRK being fully demonstrated in firmly defending the national sovereignty and well-being of the people with arms and powerfully promoting the comprehensive rejuvenation and development in the vanguard of the sacred struggle for defending the ideology and cause of the Workers' Party of Korea, the Seventh Conference of the Training Officers of the Korean People's Army took place in the capital city of Pyongyang on May 14-15.

The conference, the seventh in the history of building the Juche-oriented army, is of weighty significance in accelerating the qualitative change of the armed forces of the DPRK by possessing the overwhelming capability for countering a war and thoroughly keeping full war posture capable of smashing at a stroke the reckless war hysteria of hostile countries and their undisguised act of aggravating the tension by kindling further fiercely the flames of effecting a revolution in training throughout the entire army.

The conference analyzed and reviewed the successes and experience gained in the training sector of the People's Army over the past seven years since the Sixth Conference of Active Training Officers of the Korean People's Army. And it discussed the tasks and practical ways for consolidating the training front as a strong fulcrum firmly guaranteeing the mightiness and invincibility of the revolutionary armed forces of the DPRK and a reliable fortress for training the elite army, and for highly improving the actual war capability of all units and sub-units.

On his visit to the Taesongsan General Hospital in May eleven years ago, the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un showed parental affection to dozens of orphaned children from South Phyongan Province, who were recuperating there, as he embraced them warmly.

At that time, the little kids ran toward him to throw themselves into his arms, saying, “How are you, fatherly Marshal?” and “Please hug me, fatherly Marshal”. They are now growing soundly and healthily as reliable future pillars of the country at Phyongsong Middle School for Orphans.

According to Principal Kim Chun Yong, all of them who received warm blessings of the respected fatherly Marshal Kim Jong Un that day, are studying well and growing brightly as they cultivate talents to their heart’s content at different hobby groups including accordion, vocal music and football groups according to their aptitudes and wishes.