Respected Comrade Kim Jong Un  guides construction of Sinuiju Combined  Greenhouse Farm again 

• Shah Huma Parveen ( EDITOR-IN-CHIEF )
• October 23, 2025

No. 42(3 391) Sat, October 18, 2025

DEMOCRATIC PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF KOREA weekly

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Respected Comrade Kim Jong Un  

guides construction of Sinuiju Combined  Greenhouse Farm again 

He expresses belief that all the builders would perfectly complete the large-scale  greenhouse farm without fail and present it to the glorious Party congress

KCNA 

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,  guided again on the spot the  construction of the Sinuiju  Combined Greenhouse Farm in  its final stage on October 17. 

The respected Comrade  

Kim Jong Un was  accompanied by Jo Yong Won,  Pak Jong Chon, Kim Tok Hun,  No Kwang Chol, Kim Jae  Ryong, Kim Yong Su and other  leading officials. 

Kim Jong Un was greeted  

on the spot by commanding  officers of the units of  theKorean People’s Army and  officials of the Paektusan Hero  Youth Shock Brigade and designing and  

relevant institutions, which are involved  in the construction. 

True to the on-site instructions given  by Kim Jong Un on September 18, the  KPA units and members of the youth  shock brigade are pushing ahead with  the last stage of construction after mainly  completing the construction project  covering a vast area. 

At present, nearly 90 percent of the total  workload of the project has been carried  out. 

He went round the section of edaphic  glasshouses, the vegetable science  research centre, Soho Branch Farm and  other places of the construction site to  learn in detail about equipment assembly  and site clearing. 

He said that the construction of the  Sinuiju Combined Greenhouse Farm is  another gigantic creative undertaking  for promoting the independent and  diversified development of the local  economy and proving the validity and  vitality of the Party’s policy on regional  

 

development in the new era and, therefore,  it is necessary to open up a new path of  rural civilization not only in architecture  but also in environmental arrangement  and landscaping. 

Placing a particular emphasis on the  issue of creating a distinctive landscape  by making effective use of the natural  environment while preserving the  characteristics of the island area, he gave  an instruction to direct all efforts and  means to dynamically push ahead with  site clearing, landscaping and creation  

of windbreak forest in the  vast area of the greenhouse  farm.  

He pointed out some  

deviations revealed in  designing and paving roads  in the area of the greenhouse  farm. 

He set forth a series of  

important tasks arising in the  last stage of construction,  the operation of the farm  and the conservation and  

administration of land and  river, including the issue of  making good preparations  for the management of the  farm, the issue of mobilizing  machinery in a concentrated  way to qualitatively complete  the environmental arrangement  of the surroundings of the  construction site and the issue  

of taking measures to raise the level of  specialization in environmental protection  and management. 

He expressed belief that all the  soldier-builders and members of the  youth shock brigade would perfectly  complete the large-scale greenhouse  farm without fail by redoubling efforts  and displaying dauntless courage,  always bearing in mind the trust and  expectation of the Party and the people,  and thus present it to the glorious Party  congress. 

 

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TOP NEWS 

Eleventh Meeting of International Kim Il Sung Prize Council and Second Meeting of International  Kim Jong Il Prize Council held 

Delegation of Kim Il Sung-Kim Jong Il Foundation Conference visits DPRK 

KCNA 

The Eleventh Meeting  of the International  Kim Il Sung Prize Council  and the Second Meeting of  the International Kim Jong Il 

Prize Council were held in  Pyongyang on October 11. Present there were  Mukesh Sharma, secretary  general of the International  

 

Kim Il Sung Prize Council  and the International  Kim Jong Il Prize Council,  their directors and Kim Un  Je, vice-chairperson of the  Korean Association of Social  Scientists. 

The meetings reviewed  the work of the councils  over the past period,  indicated directions for  future action and by-elected  

some directors of the  councils. 

The meetings discussed  and decided on the issue of  awarding the International  Kim Jong Il Prize to  figures who made special  contributions to the cause of  global independence on the  occasion of the 85th birth  anniversary of Chairman  Kim Jong Il. 

That day, Choe Ryong Hae,  member of the Presidium of  the Political Bureau of the  Central Committee of the  Workers’ Party of Korea,  first vice-president of the  State Affairs Commission  of the DPRK and chairman  of the Standing Committee  of the Supreme People’s  Assembly, met and had a talk  in a friendly atmosphere with  Mukesh Sharma and directors  of the councils Alexandr  Prokhanov, Dewi Soekarno  

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A delegation of the  Kim Il Sung-Kim Jong Il Foundation Conference led  by Johnny Hon, co-chairman  of the Board of Directors of the  Kim Il Sung-Kim Jong Il Foundation, visited the  DPRK on the occasion of the  80th founding anniversary of  the Workers’ Party of Korea. The Kim Il Sung Kim Jong Il Foundation  Conference-2025 took place  in Pyongyang on October  12. 

Present there were Kang  No Ul, chairman of the  Board of Directors of the  Kim Il Sung-Kim Jong Il 

Foundation, officials  concerned and members  of the delegation of the  Kim Il Sung-Kim Jong Il 

Foundation Conference led by  Johnny Hon, co-chairman of  the Board of Directors of the  

formed and some contents  of the rules of the foundation  and the regulations of  membership were amended  and supplemented. And  the conference reviewed  the work done by the  members of the foundation  in the past and informed the  participants of the successes  and experience. 

It also discussed and  decided on the practical  issues arising in developing  the foundation work onto  a higher stage by 2027, a  significant year marking the  115th birth anniversary of  President Kim Il Sung and  the 85th birth anniversary of  Chairman Kim Jong Il who  made immortal contributions  to accomplishing the  cause of independence of  humankind, and on the  2026-2027 work plans. 

A letter to the respected  Comrade Kim Jong Un was  

Central Committee of the  Workers’ Party of Korea,  first vice-president of the  State Affairs Commission  of the DPRK and chairman  of the Standing Committee  of the Supreme People’s  Assembly, met with Johnny  Hon, co-chairman of the  Board of Directors of the  Kim Il Sung-Kim Jong Il Foundation, members  of the board of directors  and exemplary members  of the foundation and  had a talk with them in  a friendly atmosphere at  the Mansudae Assembly  Hall. 

The delegation visited  the Tower of the Juche  Idea, the Arch of Triumph,  Okryu Children’s Hospital,  Pyongyang Baby Home and  Pyongyang Orphanage. And  they took part in the joint  friendship gathering held  in the Taekwon-Do Palace  

The Eleventh Meeting of the International Kim Il Sung Prize Council and the Second Meeting of the  International Kim Jong Il Prize Council are held in  Pyongyang on October 11. 

and Matteo Carbonelli who  paid a courtesy call on him at  the Mansudae Assembly Hall  on October 11. 

Kim Il Sung-Kim Jong Il Foundation. 

The Board of Directors of  the foundation was newly  

adopted at the conference. Choe Ryong Hae, member  of the Presidium of the  Political Bureau of the  

and deepened the feelings of  friendship, playing colourful  sports and amusement  games.  

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Indonesian foreign minister visits Pyongyang 

Indonesia, at the Mansudae  

Assembly Hall on October  

Representatives of intl  democratic organizations  visit DPRK 

Indonesian Foreign  Minister Sugiono, who is  secretary general of the  Central Directive Council  of the Great Indonesia  Movement Party, and his  party arrived in Pyongyang  on October 10 to take part in  the celebrations of the 80th  founding anniversary of the  Workers’ Party of Korea. 

Talks were held between  Choe Son Hui, foreign  minister of the Democratic  People’s Republic of  Korea, and Sugiono, foreign  minister of the Republic of  

11. 

At the end of the  talks a memorandum  of understanding on  establishing a system  of bilateral negotiations  between the governments  of the DPRK and Indonesia  was signed. 

Foreign Minister Sugiono,  who is secretary general  of the Central Board of the  Great Indonesian Movement  Party, and his party took part  in the celebrations of the  80th founding anniversary of  the WPK. 

 

DPRK Foreign Minister Choe Son Hui and Indonesian  Foreign Minister Sugiono exchange a memorandum  of understanding at the Mansudae Assembly Hall in  Pyongyang on October 11. 

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Goncalo Lopes, president  of the World Federation of  Democratic Youth, Lorena  Pena, chairwoman of the  Women’s International  Democratic Federation, and  Swadesh Dev Roye, deputy  general secretary of the  World Federation of Trade  Unions, visited the DPRK  from October 7 to 14. 

During their stay, they  visited the Kumsusan Palace  of the Sun to pay homage  

to President Kim Il Sung and Chairman Kim Jong Il,  attended the celebrations of  the 80th anniversary of the  founding of the Workers’  Party of Korea and looked  round several places in  Pyongyang. 

Kang Yun Sok, vice chairman of the Standing  Committee of the Supreme  People’s Assembly of  the DPRK, met with the  representatives of the  international democratic  organizations.

House moving continues to take place at rural communities 

At the Taedok Farm in Unhung County. 

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Eye-opening changes have  taken place simultaneously  in the rural areas across  the DPRK in the era of  the Workers’ Party and  the agricultural workers  are enjoying a civilized  material and cultural  life.  

New houses have been  built this year again after last  year at many farms across the  

country. 

Ceremonies for moving  into new houses took place  at the Taedok Farm in  Unhung County, Ryanggang  Province, the Ripsok Farm  in Mundok County, South  Phyongan Province, the  Sangphyong Stockbreeding  Farm in Kim Chaek City,  North Hamgyong Province,  and the Songhak Farm of  Anju City, South Phyongan  Province,  

Present there were officials  of the Party and power  organs in the provinces,  cities and counties, builders  and agricultural workers.  Addresses were made there  and licences for using houses  were handed over to be  followed by speeches. 

The speakers extended  thanks to the respected  Comrade Kim Jong Un for unfolding a grand  plan for the revolution  

in regional construction  and rural construction  and energetically leading  the work to carry out the  plan. 

At the end of the  ceremonies, congratulatory  performances and cheerful  dance parties were given.  

Officials visited the  families of farmers to  congratulate and encourage  them, sharing joy with  them. 

At the Songhak Farm of Anju City. At the Sangphyong Stockbreeding Farm in Kim Chaek City. At the Ripsok Farm in Mundok County. 

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Steel producer 80 years on 

ECONOMY

By Kim Il Jin PT 

The Chollima Steel  

Complex greeted  its 80th birthday on  October 9. 

The complex known to  the Korean people as the  birthplace of Chollima left  an indelible mark in the  history of the building of  a prosperous country with  steel production. 

Great trust: Vanguard of  nation building 

The workers of the then  Kangson Steel Works  were in great delight right  after Korea’s liberation on  August 15 1945. However,  they were completely at  a loss what to do with the  steel works completely  destroyed by the Japanese  imperialists. 

At this juncture, General  Kim Il Sung visited the  steel works on October 9  1945, with the conviction  that iron and steel were  essential for defending the  dignity of the country and  successfully building a new  

Korea. 

He shook rough hands  of the workers at the  ruined steel and ferroalloy  workshops and showed  great trust and gave fresh  courage to all the employees  of the steel works saying  that they were the masters of  the factory and the country,  as well as the pillars and  cornerstones who would  shoulder the destiny of the  liberated country. 

They succeeded in turning  out the first molten iron from  an electric furnace, though  the Japanese imperialists  blustered that Koreans could  never do it by their own  efforts even after a decade,  on December 20 1945, only  some 70 days since his visit,  to fully demonstrate the  strength and wisdom of the  Korean working class to the  whole world. 

The steel works increased  the steel output by 1.6 times  and steel billets by more  than 5 times in 1949 over  the period before liberation,  thus rendering a great  service to the building of a  new country. 

Working class of Kangson  holds up first torch of  great Chollima advance 

The country was faced  with a stack of difficulties  in 1956. 

As it had just risen from  the ruins of the war, it lacked  materials and funds and the  people were badly off at that  time. 

At that juncture,  Kim Il Sung visited the  steel works again. 

He met with workers  there and informed them of  the situation in the country.  We believe in the working  class alone, the main force  of our revolution, he said,  adding that the country  would be relieved if they  produced 10 000 tons of  more steel materials than  planned under the present  situation. 

He called on them to  overcome the difficulties  facing the revolution  together, he believing in  them and they believing in  him. True to his call, they  turned out in the increased  

production campaign as  one. 

Posting a slogan “For  the next shift!” at their  workplaces, they helped and  led other shifts and made  collective innovations, thus  producing 120 000 tons of  steel materials with the 60  000 ton-capacity blooming  mill in 1957. 

During his visit to the  steel works on February  17 1959, he stressed that  the working people of  Kangson who always knew  the intentions of the Party  Central Committee before  others and defended the  Party with steel should  be an example for other  metallurgical factories  not only in production  but in implementing the  ideological revolution  and cultural revolution,  before giving a precious  instruction that the Chollima  movement should be further  organized and developed  into the Chollima Workteam  Movement. 

True to his instruction, a  workteam led by Jin Ung  Won of the steel works,  

held up the slogan of  collectivism “One for all  and all for one!” and made  collective innovations  helping and leading each  other, thus winning the title  of Chollima workteam for  the first time in the country  on March 17 1959 and that  of twice Chollima workteam  in April 1960. 

Nine workteams of the  steel works became the  Chollima workteams and  more than 200 employees  the Chollima riders in 1960.  In the great Chollima era, the  workers of Kangson worked  a miracle of fulfilling the  first five-year national  economic plan in a matter of  two years and eight months. 

Baton of Kangson is  handed over through  generations 

The Chollima Steel  Complex is now increasing  iron and steel output, adding  vitality to the sites of great  upsurge towards the Ninth  Congress of the Workers’  Party of Korea. 

It is now bringing  

about innovations in steel  production by introducing  such technical innovation  plans as the reduction of  steelmaking processes  and fulfilling its monthly,  weekly and daily rolled  steel production plans  by completing research  into advanced production  methods in succession  including the those of  boosting heat efficiency  of a medium rolling  heating furnace and a  wire rod rolling heating  furnace. 

In recent years, it has newly  established a continuous  ingot-steelmaking process  with a large capacity and  ensured its normal operation  and nearly completed the  construction of a melting  workplace of the general  steel workshop, opening up  a bright prospect for putting  steel production on a new  high level. 

It is now achieving  good production results  day after day in its efforts  to fulfil its iron and steel  production goals for this  year. 

Marked progress in readjustment and  reinforcement 

Concentrating on  strengthening its  

By Kwon Hyo Song PT own technical force 

The Chollima  

Steel Complex  directs efforts  to readjustment and  reinforcement for increasing  production. 

The complex, which  had already finished the  maintenance and repair  of all electric equipment  and cooling water system,  introduced the method  of continuous charge and  that of high-temperature  oxidation based on oxygen  injection to shorten the tap 

 

to-tap time and increase the  output of molten iron per  charge. 

At the same time, it  newly remodelled the pinch  rolling device and billet  moving roller support axle  of the continuous casting  machine and increased  the number of continuo us castings to ensure high  productivity. 

In the rolling sector, it  increased the actual rolling  output ratio and put the  production on a normal  footing by restoring the  automatic manipulator,  

inventing and introducing  an intermediate roll fixing  device based on screw-down  control and updating the  control of rolling according  to the new design of bottom  roll lifting device. 

In recent years, the  complex has undertaken  projects for various  systems to establish a  new steel production  system. 

It has already carried out  a variety of production plans  including the construction  of transformer and control  rooms and several other  

production buildings and  the making and fixing of  a huge amount of steel  structures such as roof  trusses, columns and  column-connecting beams  and base beams for overhead  cranes. 

It also completed the  continuous casting machine  construction project by  installing various kinds of  equipment as required by  technical specifications. 

After conducting the  trial power transmission  and idle trial run of each  system of the ladle refining  furnace, the complex newly  developed and introduced  a program for ensuring  the interchangeability of  equipment while resolving  problems arising in hydrogen  generator and pinch rolling  and hydraulic equipment,  laying another material and  technical foundation for  increasing the production of  iron and steel. 

In addition, it introduced  into production new  inventions including  a technical innovation  plan which proved to be  economically effective and  profitable in the process  of heating the steel ladle,  opening up a bright prospect  for lowering the production  costs of iron and steel  and further enhancing  

The producer  

masses of our  

steel workshop,  

the eldest-son workshop  of the complex, know  very well the importance  of the metal industry  in the development  of the national  economy. 

The workshop is  creating new records  without knowing  satisfaction while  fulfilling its monthly  and quarterly production  plans. 

Good production results  are determined by the  talents devising technical  innovation plans that can  support the results. 

The workshop has  put in effort to train  young technicians in  a far-sighted manner,  while relying on its own  scientific and technical  force and enhancing their  role. 

It works to train many  of its employees as talents  capable of shouldering  its future through the  operation of the sci 

tech learning space  and by enrolling them  on the tele-education  network of different  

In August the workshop  invented and introduced  

various rational technical  innovation plans, including  those for shortening the tap to-tap time and reducing  the cost of steel production,  thus providing a guarantee  for increasing productivity  1.2 times and finished the  overhaul of equipment in a  few days unlike in the past  when it took them over 20  days to do. 

The reality clearly shows  how important it is to train  talents in a methodological  way. 

We will continue to  reinforce our sci-tech force,  bearing in mind that if we  fail to do so, we will be  unable to get good results in  production and develop our  workshop. 

Ji Jong Ho, manager of  the steel workshop of the  

The Chollima Steel Complex increases molten iron output per charge. Chollima Steel Complex 

productivity. 

universities. 

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Factory registers good production results  

 

Production increases at the  

Ryonggang Building Stone  

Processing Factory. WON TONG CHOL /  

THE PYONGYANG TIMES 

By Kim Il Jin PT 

The Ryonggang  

Building Stone  Processing Factory  has attained the peak year  level unprecedented since its  inauguration this year. 

The secret of such success  lies in having laid a firm  foundation for increasing  production by introducing a  scientific production method  that meets the reality. 

After modernizing  itself two years ago, the  factory focused on raising  

the operation rate of the  facilities which were  installed in mining areas,  whose capacities had been  expanded. 

As the facilities were  the modern ones, their full  operation just meant the  increased production of  rough stone, the preceding  process in building stone  production, and was a factor  guaranteeing the smoothness  of all related processes. 

But after being used for  some time, some elements  of the facilities would  

automatically stop or their  performance would drop. The factory saw to it that  the facilities were remodelled  in the direction of raising  their operation rate while  preserving their original  performance. 

In the course of this,  different technical plans  were introduced to increase  the rough stone production  over 1.3 times more than  previously. 

In particular, the mining  areas increased the daily  rough stone productivity by  

introducing a new loading  method using a 300-ton jack. And the factory effectively  ran the sci-tech learning  space to help all producers  steadily improve their  technical knowledge and  skills so that they could  properly operate machines  in their charge, including  rock drills, compressors and  motor cutters, and inspired  highly skilled workers  to train newcomers, thus  increasing the operating and  utilization rate of production  facilities. 

The factory also channelled  efforts into rational technical  innovation for the precision  processing of building stone  products. 

Technicians of the factory  improved the performance  of the 1 800-type medium  building stone product  processor to further improve  the dimensional accuracy of  the products and increase the  operation rate of equipment  1.1 times, and newly made and  installed a frame processor  and newel processing  machine and boosted their  

operation rate, thus trebling  the productivity of primary  flagstones, grindstones,  stones for embossed carving  and chipped stones. 

And they doubled the  serviceable life of diamond  blade by introducing a  method of lowering the  abrasion rate of the blade and  thus boosted the output of  processed stones 1.2 times. 

Besides, the factory  successfully introduced  various technical innovation  plans for further improving  the stability of equipment. 

Company noted for development of green building materials 

By To Kyong Chol PT Light-burned magnesia  

is widely used as  finishing building  materials in the construction  sector at present.  

First, such building  materials are very good for  the health of people as they  absorb carbon dioxide and  radioactive rays in the air. And  the building materials made  by reinforcing light-burned  magnesia with glass fibre are  effective in the prevention of  

fire and superior in moisture  resistance and solidity to the  wooden ones. 

Moreover, the raw  materials for the production  of light-burned magnesia are  abundantly deposited in the  country. 

The Myongsu resources  production company  under the Foreign Trade  Management Bureau of  the Ministry of Physical  Culture and Sports was  highly appreciated at the  national exhibition of sci 

tech successes in the field  of furniture and finishing  building materials for having  developed new finishing  building materials based  on locally available raw  materials in succession this  year after last year. 

Recently, the company  has newly developed light burned magnesia lightweight  decoration wallboard, an  environment-friendly green  building material. 

The wallboard helps reduce  the production cost to a fifth  

in furniture production as  compared to that of wooden  furniture. 

The technical personnel of  the company satisfactorily  solved important problems  arising in the development  of light-burned magnesia  lightweight decoration  wallboard by making  vegetable complex fillers  with the mixture of various  raw materials and the  improvement of the poor  water-resisting quality, by  means of various additives. 

And they made frames  with various patterns for  the decoration of wallboard,  building the groundwork for  industrializing its production. 

The company improved  the quality of products by  giving beautiful patterns and  through sculpture decorations  to the light-burned magnesia  lightweight decoration  wallboard. 

Its products include  decoration wallboards on  which roses, which seem  as if they would give off  

sweet fragrance at once,  and goldfish, which looks  like swimming freely in the  water, are embossed,  different forms of elegant  pillars, which look as if  they were built with blocks  of elaborately dressed  marble, and decorative  sculptures. 

The company’s products  are now widely used in  the construction projects  including the construction  of houses in the Hwasong  area. 

Technicians discuss how to improve the quality of finishing  

building materials. Rooms decorated with products of the company. RYU KWANG HYOK / THE PYONGYANG TIMES 

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Exhibition showcases development features of industrial design 

By Kim Il Jin PT 

A national industrial  

design exhibition in  

celebration of the  

80th founding anniversary of  the Workers’ Party of Korea  opened at the industrial  design exhibition hall of the  Central Industrial Design  Bureau on October 5. 

Many people are visiting  the exhibition hall every day. On display at the exhibition  on the theme of “Industrial  design shining under great  guidance” are more than  2 000 designs, products,  models and photos of various  kinds. 

Displayed on the first floor  of the hall are designs for  new-type tram and trolley  bus, highly efficient drone  for agricultural use and  tractor, designs for such  farm machines as unmanned  model combine harvester  and the form diagram of  hydraulic excavator. They  are highly commented on  by experts as all of their  elements are arranged in good  

harmony and their practical  and aesthetic aspects are  combined organically.  

The designs for the  emblem of the Mirim  Riding Club, riding suits,  sportswear, padded clothes  and seasonal clothes for  the children of schools for  orphans and school uniforms  are drawing the attention of  visitors as they well reflect  characteristics of occupations  and modern sense of beauty  and conform to the ages and  psychological features of  children. 

Especially, the designs  for smart school uniforms  and sportswear for students  of schools at all levels from  primary school to university,  Sonamu-brand satchels of  various forms, Mindulle  notebooks and other school  things attracted the attention  of parents of students. 

The second floor of  the exhibition hall is  conspicuous as it features  designs for advertisements  and signboards of service  networks on newly-built  

Songhwa and Hwasong  streets, products of regional industry factories and  trademarks and calligraphic  styles characterized by  conciseness, concentration  and symbolism and green  architecture designs. 

The exhibition is  accompanied by the sale  of products made on the  basis of popular industrial  designs. 

The products include  P o m h y a n g g i - b r a n d  cosmetics favoured by  women, Choljjuk-brand  hosiery, Kkotmangul-brand  dairy products, rice powder  and confectionery provided  to all children of the country  free of charge, various tonics  made with raw materials  abundant in relevant regions  and localities, tasty peppered  bean paste and soybean malt  paste that retain national  flavour, and rare jade works.  

Visitors say, “This is  Korean flavour and style”  and “Ours are the best.” 

The exhibition will run till  October 30. 

Visitors admire designs, models and samples at the national industrial design  exhibition. PAK KWANG HUN / THE PYONGYANG TIMES 

Efforts made to increase kinds of children’s foodstuffs

The institute intensified research  

efforts while focusing on finding out a  

rational method of processing nutritive  

Factory turns out efficacious  Koryo medicines 

Researchers hold a discussion on newly developed nutritious foods  at the Pyongyang Children’s Foodstuff Factory. 

Nutritious food products of the Pyongyang Children’s Foodstuff  Factory. WON TONG CHOL / THE PYONGYANG TIMES 

components of natural ingredients. Researchers completed a freezing  and heat-drying method to improve  the chewability of beef with thick  fibrin and rich elastin content and  scientifically confirmed the rational  composition rate of natural additives  that help preserve the original taste,  nutrition, smell and colour of beef, and  thus brought out beef rice powder. The beef rice powder helps  supplement nutrients and boost  immunity of children with high  digestion and absorption rates. Eating  15-20 grams of beef rice powder  two times a day is enough to provide  necessary proteins for infants who are  more than six months old. 

The researchers completed and  introduced a technique of improving  the water-solubility of pumpkin that  contains saccharides, proteins, various  vitamins, carotene and minerals and  established a method of producing  pumpkin rice powder which promotes  the development of digestive organs  of children, helps them grow tall and  strengthens their eyesight. 

They confirmed the additive  amount of probiotic bacteria which  are important in developing carrot  jelly that maintains the balance of  lactic bacteria and prevents enteric  diseases, and also completed a bacteria  preserving method of using gelatin to  prevent the devitalization of probiotic  bacteria by stomach acidity.  

They developed rice gruel powder  

By To Kyong Chol PT 

The Phyongchon Koryo  

Medicine Pharmaceutical  Factory produces hundreds  of articles of highly-effective  Koryo medicines of dozens of  kinds. 

Recently, it has developed more  than ten articles of medicines. In particular, various kinds of  medicines for cold are popular  with users for their high efficacy. The factory confirmed  medicinal substances, which are  more effective in treating the cold,  in collaboration with researchers  of different units and established  a modern production process to  produce new medicines. 

“People usually use Western  medicines for the treatment of  cold but it lowers the immunity  of the human body and has a  negative effect on other organs.  But medicines for cold produced  by the factory, including the  honeysuckle and forsythia leaf  

 

cold granule, have no such  effect on the human body,” said  analyzer Choe Song Ok. 

The medical skullcap and  sweet wormwood cold granule,  honeysuckle and licorice  antipyretic granule and other  cold remedies are Koryo  medicines highly effective in  treating pyrexia in a mild case of  COVID-19, trachelodynia caused  by cold, cough and stuffed nose.  

The factory used such  medicinal herbs as insam  (ginseng) and Ganoderma  lucidum to produce insam and  Ganoderma lucidum fermented  beverage. 

This fermented drink is an  immunomodulator made by  extracting and mixing various  bioactive substances including  essential amino acids and  different kinds of trace elements. 

Drinking the beverage regularly  every day helps preserve beauty  and youth by making skin lustrous  and increasing the capacity.  

By Jo Ryong PT 

The Pyongyang Children’s  

Foodstuff Factory is  increasing the variety of  nutritious foodstuffs for children. Kim Song Jin, director of the  Pyongyang children’s nutritious  food research institute of the factory,  said that the institute directed efforts  

to developing nutritious foods for  children, which are helpful for the  growth of children and popular  around the world, and achieved  successes. 

According to him, it is a worldwide  trend in the production of children’s  foodstuffs to develop supplements  conducive to the growth of children  with natural ingredients. 

with harmonious nutritive contents  by preventing acidification which  was a bottleneck in completing the  techniques of processing oil fruits like  walnut and pine nut with abundant  unsaturated fatty acids. 

It not only enhances the appetite and  restores the vitality of frail children but  also has a good effect in the development  of their intelligence. 

Some products of the Phyongchon Koryo Medicine  Pharmaceutical Factory. RYU KWANG HYOK / THE PYONGYANG TIMES 

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Harvest and threshing in full swing 

By Kim Il Jin PT 

Agricultural officials  

and workers  

t h r o u g h o u t  

the country are now  concentrating efforts on  harvest and threshing. 

With a higher sense of  responsibility, officials of the  agricultural guidance organs  

are striving to make sure that  daily plans are carried out  without fail, while directing  special efforts to increasing  the operating rate of farm  machines. 

They are encouraging  farms to speed up rice harvest  to the maximum while  overcoming the unfavourable  weather conditions, based on  

scientific consideration of the  features of the varieties of  paddy rice, and farms across  the country are pushing the  rice harvest at a fast pace. 

Cities and counties in  South Hwanghae Province,  the biggest agricultural  province of the country, are  harvesting rice on thousands  of hectares of paddies every  

day by correctly fixing work  order according to plots and  maximizing the operation  rate of farm machines such as  rice combine harvesters. 

North Hwanghae Province  is overfulfilling harvest plans  day by day. 

South Phyongan Province  is pushing ahead with the  rice harvest and threshing  

as planned even under  the unfavourable weather  conditions, while taking  appropriate measures in  advance to prevent the decay  and degeneration of the crops. 

Thus, the number of cities,  counties and farms which  finished the rice harvest is  increasing across the country. 

According to data  

available, different cities  and counties in North and  South Hamgyong, Jagang  and Ryanggang provinces  finished the rice harvest by  October 4 and the number  of the farms which finished  the rice harvest continues  to increase in the other  provinces including South  Hwanghae Province. 

Rice harvest is in full swing in Paechon County, South Hwanghae Province. 

Scientific foundation of agriculture gets  more solid 

New wheat  

cultivation method  

By Kwon Hyo Song PT Notable successes  

results by guiding farming  with optimal solutions while  overseeing farming processes  

problems arising in farming  and take relevant measures  with officials of agricultural  

Large databases have been  built up, such as the plot  e-map database, the national  

produces high yield 

have been made  

in improving the  

scientific and informatization  level of agricultural  production. 

An online consultation  system and management  information system of the  agricultural sector have been  established on a nationwide  scale, providing a guarantee  for guiding farming in a more  unified and scientific way. 

Earlier, development teams  were formed to establish a  scientific guidance system  and management system  in order to achieve the best  

at the farms in plain and  mountainous areas. Thanks  to their strenuous efforts,  the online consultation and  management information  systems of the agricultural  sector were set up to prove  effective in agricultural  production. 

Through the online  consultation system,  officials of the Agricultural  Commission, scientists of  the Academy of Agricultural  Science and members of the  scientific farming promotion  teams have consultations on  the opinions about technical  

guidance organs and farms. The establishment of the  management information  system has enabled the  Agricultural Commission to  scientifically and rationally  organize and conduct all  work for the completion  of farming processes and  business management at all  farms across the country. Meanwhile, latest  technologies suited to  the world’s agricultural  development trend is steadily  being introduced into the  agricultural sector across the  country. 

meteorological database and  the soil survey and analysis  database, thereby providing  a guarantee for putting  agricultural production on a  higher informatization level. 

A series of successes are  being made in rationally  distributing crops and varieties  on a nationwide scale by using  different kinds of information  technology and scientifically  assessing and forecasting the  progress of farming processes  and crop growth according to  plot and season, damage from  blight and drought and crop  situation. 

By Ko Kwang Yon PT In Mangyongdae District,  

Pyongyang, agricultural  workers reaped a bumper  crop of wheat this year. 

They positively introduced  a new method of wheat  transplanting and other  advanced farming techniques,  thus harvesting over 6 tons  of wheat on average per  hectare in the wheat fields  that increased by nearly 200  hectares as compared to last  year and overfulfilling the  wheat production plan for the  district by 95 percent. 

Since the area of wheat fields  

area of paddy fields, introduced  the method of raising seedlings  and transplanting them into  dozens of hectares of paddy  fields. 

The Mangyongdae  Vegetable Farm selected the  right soil and introduced wheat  transplanting into a large  area. It grew nutritive wheat  seedlings in the rice-seedling  greenhouse, transplanted  them to fields and raised their  wintering rate by taking proper  draining steps and improving  their growth in the early days.  In the fields where the wheat  seedlings were transplanted,  the consumption of seeds  

Profitable agro-technical  products 

sector is an advanced sci tech product efficient in  accelerating the growth of  crops and preventing damage  

from drought and moisture. The application of it enables  

increased much more than  last year, the Mangyongdae  District Agricultural  Management Committee  took timely scientific and  technological measures to  boost the per-hectare yield  

decreased to one third of  that in direct sowing and the  manpower shortage that had  been suffered during winter  wheat sowing season was  solved satisfactorily. 

The Chilgol Vegetable Farm  

By Kim Hye Jong PT 

A variety of profitable  

a g r o - t e c h n i c a l  

products have  

recently been introduced in the  agricultural sector, winning  considerable popularity  among agricultural workers. 

Some of them are introduced  below: 

Biological compound  

nutrition activator  

A biological compound  nutrition activator has attracted  the attention of agricultural  officials and workers in recent  

years.  

The nutrition activator,  made by combining various  natural bioactive substances  in a nano complex compound 

making method, facilitates the  nutrient transport and energy  metabolism of crops and  boosts their photosynthetic  capacity and immunity. 

Especially, as it contains  more microelements than other  products, it is very effective for  the safe growth of crops. 

The introduction of it  showed that the number of  roots of paddy rice more  than doubled as compared to  previously when it was not  

applied and the crop took  roots deep into the ground. And it is very profitable for  the low cost and convenient  use. 

According to a researcher of  the Academy of Agricultural  Science, when used in a hot  and humid period, this nutrition  activator is greatly helpful to  the safe growth of crops. 

“Hwanggumisak” 

The “Hwanggumisak  (golden ear of grain)” crop ripening stimulant which  has widely been introduced  recently in the agricultural  

crops to withstand prolonged  drought. 

One to two rounds of  intermittent spraying of it  accelerate the growth of crops  and increase their yields. 

Experts say that it can  restore to their original state  the crops that suffered damage  from high temperature and  herbicide. 

It took the first place at  the national presentation  of technical experience  and exhibition of scientific  research achievements in  the agricultural sector and is  winning popularity among  many users. 

and stepped up the effort  to introduce and generalize  new farming techniques in  all farms in the district. In  close contact with relevant  units including the scientific  farming promotion team and  Pyongyang University of  Agriculture, it examined the  actual possibilities of wheat  transplantation in a scientific  way and organized work and  provided technical guidance to  that end. 

Farmers in the district, who  recognized that transplanting  is more effective than direct  sowing in increasing wheat  fields in the farms with a large  

carried out land treatment,  seed processing and sowing  and raising of seedlings in a  scientific and technological  way, thereby gathering a rich  harvest of wheat. The farm  increased the proportion of  farming operations done  by machine, including the  rezoning of fields and making  of ridges using the combination  soil management machines.  It carried out leaf fertilizing  and ensured the number of  leaves before the wintering  season and did manuring and  cultivation after revival in a  scientific and technological  way.  

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Factory’s goal: Making every employee university graduate 

Employees of the Taedonggang Foodstuff Factory attend an online course. WON TONG  CHOL / THE PYONGYANG TIMES 

a device for measuring the  enzyme consumption in real  time. 

In particular, it established  a Koryo soybean paste  liquor production method  with soybean paste and  fermented bean, which have  traditionally been used in diet  by the Korean people. The  method took the first place  at the 37th National Sci-Tech  Festival held last year. 

“Not only officials but also  nearly half of the employees  of our factory are university  graduates who took day  courses and many others  finished or are attending  online college courses,” said  Choe Hyon Sil, PhD and chief  engineer of the factory, as to  the secret of their success. 

The factory gets a lot of  

assignment during their  college days. 

“An old saying goes that a  man who plants a tree looks  forward to the future ten  years hence and a man who  moves a mountain to the  future 100 years. I think a  man who trains talents today  looks forward to the future  100 years or more. Even  though we are busy and find  it difficult to do so at present,  when all the employees  become intelligent workers,  they will do great things for  the factory and country,” said  the chief engineer. 

As jewel glitters when  worn, the factory encourages  every employee to take an  active part in the massive  technical innovation  campaign. 

with huge rewards. 

Employees discuss their  designs and various technical  problems as they walk along  the factory compound, which  reminds viewers of a research  institute. 

The sci-tech learning  space of the factory always  brims with the employees’  enthusiasm for study. 

According to Kim  Kwang Bok, the sci-tech  disseminator of the learning  space, more than 10 000  pieces of latest sci-tech  information are collected  every year and hundreds of  thousands of data pieces have  been stored so far. Therefore,  the employees who have  entered the technical  innovation competition come  to the sci-tech learning space  

By Kim Yong Chan PT The Taedonggang  

Foodstuff Factory is  steadily putting spurs  to technical innovation as  

it develops new products  and technically upgrades  equipment. 

In recent three years  alone, the factory developed  and introduced many  

technical innovation  plans. For example, it  introduced a highly efficient  microorganism bio-activator  into the fermenting process  to raise the actual yield and  

employees to join a relevant  online college course every  year, although it is busy with  production, and encourages  each of them to carry out  a technical innovation  

It annually presents  technical innovation tasks for  the year and nominates the  top 10 technical innovators  in the annual review of  production to provide them  

to refer to them after a day’s  work every day. 

“The goal of the factory  is to make all its employees  university graduates,” said  Choe Hyon Sil. 

Efforts for  

improving quality  of education  

Contests regarded as indispensable  part of education 

By Ri Sung Ik PT 

Teachers strive to  

specialize in over two  subjects 

Kim Kum Sun Senior  Middle School in Sinuiju  City works to train students  into all-round talents in a  methodological way.  

Teachers of the school  specialize in over two  subjects. 

The school inspired  teachers whose specialized  qualifications were  recognized as excellent  through an inspection of  a class at work and ability  assessments to also specialize  in other subjects. 

Priority is given to this  issue in all reviews including  assessment of teachers’  abilities and section-specific  ranking. 

As a result, the teachers  tried hard to improve their  specialized qualifications  and specialize in more than  two other subjects. 

Last year, several of them  were rated as excellent at  another subjects teaching  contest and a symposium  on relevant teaching  methods. 

The school is now pushing  ahead with the work in a  more methodological way  with the firm viewpoint  

round way can they train  students into all-round  talents. 

Under well-organized  research system 

Pyongyang Teachers  Training College has  established a well-organized  research system to spur  the turning of itself into a  research university. 

The college has organized  research groups in a rational  way in order to establish  a spirit of research and  research system. What is  noticeable is that the groups  are not specialized ones  but include teachers and  students specializing in  different subjects including  mathematics and IT.  

After the groups intensified  research respectively,  research results were  presented and opinions were  synthesized every day. 

As group consultative  meetings have regularly  taken place as a routine,  substantial progress has been  made in research. 

The measure provides  promising educators with an  opportunity to demonstrate  their competence, further  heightening the spirit of  research in the campus. 

The results of research  based on excellent ideas are  

By Kim Hak Chol PT 

Kim Chol Ju University of  Education took the top and  first places respectively in  the national programming  contest of university  students in the field of  teacher training-2025 and  the ninth multilingual  listening and conversation  contest of university students  in the field of teacher  training which were held  recently. 

Ju Jong Sil, rector of the  university, said that the secret  of success is the organic  combination of contest and  education. 

To win contests is  important, but what is more  important is to make progress  in education, she said,  adding that they prepared for  the contests while focusing  on improving the quality of  education. 

 

To be more specific,  the university enhanced  the role of lecturers in  charge of guidance of the  contestants and ensured their  preparations for the contests  became a process of creating  and introducing new teaching  methods and generalizing  good experience. 

In the past, the university  achieved considerable  successes in several  contests of universities in  the teacher training field,  but no remarkable progress  was made in improving  the overall academic  performance of students. 

Therefore, it organized and  conducted relevant work in  recognition of the importance  of the combination of contest  and education in addressing  such disproportion. 

According to Kim Yong  Sun, a lecturer who has been  giving guidance to students  

in the study of foreign  languages for contests for  years, the course of preparing  for the contests was just the  process of applying new  teaching methods, which  greatly helped students  improve their foreign  language ability. 

Jong Ok Byol, a lecturer  who was in charge of  the preparations for the  programming contest, said  that the generalization and  positive introduction of  newly created teaching  methods served as a basis  for winning the contest and  a precious foundation for  improving the quality of  education. 

The university also  conducted the work to  improve the students’  abilities methodologically  in close combination with  practice. 

As it pushed ahead with its  

informatization project, the  university actively involved  students in the development  of relevant programs, as well  as lecturers, so that they could  acquire profound knowledge  of their specialities and  adjacent subjects and modern  educational technology as  well. 

It also enlisted the  cooperation of competent  teachers of secondary  education units in Pyongyang  to improve the teaching  abilities of its students. 

As a result, the students  could remarkably improve  their practical skills with the  help of teachers of junior and  senior middle schools with  rich practical experience. 

Such positive efforts  enabled the university  to achieve sustainable  development in education  and great fame as well, said  Ju Jong Sil. 

 

that only when teachers  are prepared in an all 

being introduced as samples  and standards. 

Students listen to foreign language recordings (left) and brainstorm to develop software (right). PAK KWANG HUN / THE  PYONGYANG TIMES 

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Yesterday and today of Pyongyang (5) 

Pothong Riverside Terraced Houses District – Kyongru-dong 2022 

By Choe Song Jun PT On the picturesque  

banks of the Pothong  

River meandering  

through downtown  Pyongyang, there is the  Pothong Riverside Terraced  Houses District in which  multi- and low-storey  houses and welfare and  public catering facilities are  arranged harmoniously. 

The residential district,  called Kyongru-dong, is  located on a hill slope on  the river banks, clearly  

highlighting the formative  influence. 

The natural landscape  enhances the scenic beauty of  the riverside for the attractive  combination of such good  species of trees as fir, pine,  golden-leaf pagoda tree,  golden-leaf elm, red maple,  sweet cherry and apricot tree,  such flowering plants as rose  and stones of ornamental  value. 

Kyongru-dong looks like  a beautiful picture for the  perfect blend of buildings and  pleasant natural environment  

and the organic and scientific  layout of living space and  ecological space. 

The district reminds  viewers of a beautiful gem  terrace in the daytime when  the sun shines brightly. In  the evening the district is  as bright as day as if the  Galaxy has landed on the  ground. 

The construction of the  district was initiated by  the respected Comrade  Kim Jong Un. 

He proposed building  800 flats for such working  

people as labour innovators  and meritorious persons who  made a positive contribution  to the prosperity and  development of the country,  in addition to the construction  of 10 000 flats in Pyongyang  and came to the riverside  near the Pothong Gate in  March 2021. 

That day he said: There is  a residence used by President  Kim Il Sung. Anyone who  sees it will be surprised to  find the house too plain to be  called the official residence  of the president of a country.  

The President would be  pleased to hear that the  residence would be removed  and modern terraced houses  would be built in the area  to provide the people with  them.  

Thus, the people’s houses  were built in the residential  area where the leader of a  country had lived. 

After naming the new  residential area “Pothong  Riverside Terraced Houses  District”, the respected  Comrade Kim Jong Un 

named its administrative  

district “Kyongru-dong”  so that the meaning of  beautiful gem terrace can be  visualized symbolically and  significantly. 

He examined more  than 240 draft designs in  a little over a month and  visited the construction  site on several occasions to  indicate the ways to solve  problems arising in the  project. 

The Pothong Riverside  Terraced Houses District  was completed in April  2022.

 

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Catering facility noted for tasty dishes, kind service

By Pang Un Ju PT 

In the heart of Pyongyang  

there is the Changgwang  food alley frequented by  the people. 

It is called the food alley,  since the restaurants serving  national and foreign dishes  closely line the street. It is  winning popularity among  the people with elaborate  dishes.  

According to Kim Kum  Ok, head of its service  department, Chairman  Kim Jong Il took measures  to turn Changgwang Street,  which was being newly  

restaurants in the completed  Changgwang food alley to  express great satisfaction  and give detailed instructions  on the issues arising in the  business activities, she said. 

Since its opening on  the occasion of the 40th  anniversary of Korea’s  liberation on August 15 1985,  the Changgwang food alley  has been a popular public  catering facility until today. 

The Changgwangsan  Noodle House, which serves  noodles in flat vessels  covered with meat, is one  of the restaurants always  crowded with diners. Noodles  

Diners are served with noodles in flat vessels covered  with meat at the Changgwangsan Noodle House. WON  TONG CHOL / THE PYONGYANG TIMES 

The restaurant serves  different dishes according to  seasons: Korea’s traditional  bean paste soup and water  garlic kimchi in spring, fresh  noodles and cold dishes in  summer, health-promoting  catfish soup and steamed  hock in autumn and whole  bok choy kimchi and hot  dishes in winter. 

The Western Foods  Restaurant serves unique  European dishes such as the  Italian pizza, while the Chow  Mein House serves udong  noodles, chow mein and  others. 

Many other restaurants  

(stewed chicken with  insam) and cold steamed  turkey, the Roast Skewered  Meat House specializes in  skewered mutton roasted  over charcoal fire and several  kinds of grilled meat, the  Yaksan Restaurant attracts  customers with roast ostrich  and spicy ostrich soup, the  Changgwang Restaurant is  famous for buckwheat starch  noodles, and the Unhasu  Restaurant serves various  kinds of dishes including  sinsollo (a dish in cooking  brazier). 

“The cooks of the restaurants  in the Changgwang food  

built in front of Pyongyang  Railway Station in the 1980s,  into a food alley. On August 9  1985, President Kim Il Sung 

and Chairman Kim Jong Il looked round the new  

have become part of Koreans’  diet. Almost all the Koreans  like noodles and they eat  them frequently in families.  Therefore, restaurants are  immensely competitive for  

better taste of noodle strips  and meat stock. 

Customers highly  appreciate noodles in a flat  vessel covered with meat of  the Changgwangsan Noodle  

House, praising that their  flavour is so unique. 

The Sagyejol(four seasons)  Restaurant is frequented by  customers all four seasons, as  its name suggests. 

in the Changgwang food  alley serve tasty dishes.  For example, the Fried  Chicken Restaurant serves  dozens of dishes including  fried chicken, samgyethang  

alley widely introduce  the traditional cuisines  of different regions and  new culinary skills, giving  pleasure to customers,” said  Kim. 

Old couple with five  registration certificates of  

Workteam leader takes a  degree in her fifties 

ICH elements By Hwang Jong Ryol PT It is not easy to present  

valuable research  

findings conducive to the  

development of the country  

and the improvement of the  

people’s living standards. 

However, it does not mean  

At that time she visited  the microbiology institute  of the State Academy of  Sciences in hope of getting  a good bacterial strain for  improving the quality of  yogurt. She paid attention  to the fact that red malt is an  antiseptic and has remarkable  

fermentation and changes  in acidity and pH value  according to fermentation  time. 

“At that time, lecturers  of Ryongsong College of  Foodstuff Industry gave  me much help. During the  research, I keenly realized  

 

By Kim Hak Chol PT There are five  

registration certificates  of intangible cultural  heritage elements in the  family of Kim Won Bom and  Hwang Kyong Suk, an old  couple living in Phyongchon  

District of Pyongyang. The certificates were  awarded to them for  unearthing the distilling  techniques of Korean  traditional liquors with  painstaking efforts. 

More than 20 years ago,  Kim Won Bom happened  to see data on the famous  traditional liquor of a  country. 

At the time he came to  think of the fact that the  Korean ancestors had also  developed excellent and  unique distilling techniques  for a long time. 

He began to study the  old records related to the  traditional liquors and in the  course of it came to know  that the ancestors had made  unique medicinal liquors  by combining various  

Koryo medicinal materials  and used them to promote  health. 

He took a close interest in  it and made up his mind to  glorify the time-honoured  national cultural heritage  by unearthing the distilling  techniques that remain  only in the old records.  He buckled down to the  work after he became a  pensioner. 

His wife Hwang Kyong  Suk was a great help to him. On the basis of their  study of the information  recorded in the old books  for years, the old couple  analyzed the water following  the streams flowing in the  rugged mountain valleys to  find the water needed for  making traditional liquors  and visited every nook and  cranny of the country to find  the old containers suitable  for maturing traditional  liquor. 

They had no knowledge  and experience of the food  industry and were faced with  lots of difficulties. 

But the old couple never  

Kim Won Bom  

and Hwang  

Kyong Suk, a  

couple who  

found out  

how to distil  

traditional  

liquors of Korea. 

wavered in their decision as  they believed that the work  they had started was a good  job to pass on to younger  generations and glorify the  wisdom and talents of the  ancestors. 

Their untiring efforts bore  valuable results. 

Korean traditional liquors  including Tangun liquor,  Kamhongro, Riganggo were  reborn. 

The relevant unit  scientifically confirmed that  the traditional liquors made  by them are unique in taste  and aroma and medicinal  ingredients are harmoniously  combined. 

These traditional liquors  are very popular with not  only local people but also  overseas compatriots and  foreigners. 

Without resting on their  laurels, they continue to  put their heart and soul into  the study of the secrets of  distilling traditional liquors,  full of youthful vigour  and with a single mind to  bring honour to the Korean  culture. 

that only specific persons  can do so. 

Last year, Ju Yon Hui,  a workteam leader of the  Ryongsong Meat Processing  Factory, developed a  functional food good for  health promotion with  endless speculation and  tireless efforts, getting an  academic degree at the age  of 52. 

Her colleagues  congratulated her and asked  her how she could get the  degree at such an advanced  age. “Everyone can  obtain a degree by dint of  determination and sustained  efforts,” Ju answered. 

Her invention was red  malt yogurt. 

It was two years ago when  she came to know better  about red malt. 

effects in lowering blood  pressure and that some  countries are developing  functional foods using red  malt. 

She could hardly sleep  that night at the thought of  adding red malt to yogurt. 

The following day, she  called on a lecturer of  Ryongsong College of  Foodstuff Industry for  consultation. 

The lecturer specializing  in fermentology readily  supported her idea. 

After a day’s work every  day, she was engrossed in  a study for applying red  malt to yogurt production.  She did lots of experiments  and analyses to find out  rational mixing ratio of red  malt, features revealed in  the process of lactic acid  

 

how laborious the scientific  work is and I could broaden  my horizons as well,” she  said. 

Finally, she succeeded  in developing red malt  yogurt with larger contents  of protein, glucide, fat and  reducing sugar than the  previous yogurt and with  excellent colour, flavour and  composition. 

The new product is a  functional food effective  in promoting metabolism,  digestion and secretion,  inhibiting cholesterol  synthesis and preventing  hypertensive diseases. 

Shortly ago, Ju newly  developed sour milk cream  good for health. She is  now exerting herself to  make dairy products more  diverse. 

Workteam leader Ju  Yon Hui (right) examines  a part of machine. 

RYU KWANG HYOK / THE  

PYONGYANG TIMES 

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COMMENT 

Firm root of WPK 

By Ri Sung Ik PT 

The Workers’ Party  

of Korea celebrated  its 80th founding  anniversary on October 10  with splendour. 

The 80-year ruling history  of the Party is unthinkable  apart from October 17 1926. 

The Down-with Imperialism Union formed  on October 17 1926 was the  starting point and glorious  root of the building of the  WPK.  

It is because the programme  of the DIU became the basis  of the Party programme, the  principle of independence  put forward by the DIU  the principle of the Party  building and activities and  the communists of the new  generation trained by the DIU  the backbone of founding the  Party. 

The DIU was a pure,  fresh political organism of  a new type created in the  throes of a historic cause by  young people of the rising  generation who aspired to  socialism and communism,  for the realization of  national liberation and  class emancipation with the  ideals of anti-imperialism,  independence and  sovereignty. 

After the Japanese  

imperialists militarily  occupied Korea, the national  liberation movement of  the Korean people was  conducted vigorously, but all  their efforts were doomed to  failure and frustration. 

The reason was the  limitations in the ideology  and leadership of bourgeois  nationalists and early  communists who were  guiding the movement.  Being steeped in sycophancy  and national nihilism, they  engaged only in factional  and power scramble, touting  various doctrines which  were alien to the people’s  aspiration and urgent demand  of the revolution, and drove  people to reckless struggle  without any proper guiding  ideology or scientific strategy  and tactics. 

Typical examples are  the March First Popular  Uprising and the June 10th  Independence Movement  recorded in the history of  the Korean people’s anti 

Japanese struggle. 

The sycophantic ideas  of bourgeois nationalists  were the main cause of the  failure of the March First  Popular Uprising, while the  factional acts of the early  communists were the root  cause of the failure of the  June 10th Independence  

Movement. 

Under such circumstances,  the DIU, the very first genuine  communist revolutionary  organization of the Koreans,  was formed. 

The DIU set it as its  immediate task to defeat  Japanese imperialism and  achieve the liberation and  independence of Korea and  its final objective was to build  socialism and communism in  Korea and, further, destroy  all imperialism and build  communism throughout the  world. 

Later, the DIU developed  into the Anti-Imperialist  Youth League and the Young  Communist League of Korea.  With young communists  trained in those organizations  as the core, the Korean  People’s Revolutionary  Army was formed, the anti Japanese armed struggle  was launched and, finally,  the historic cause of national  liberation was accomplished. 

The DIU was formed by  President Kim Il Sung. Though he was a teenager  at that time, he deepened  speculation and search  and conducted political  activities to pave a new path  for the Korean revolution,  different from those of the  preceding campaigners and,  finally, formed the genuine  

revolutionary organization of  a new type. 

If the goal set at the time  of founding a party is great  and its succession is great,  the party’s past, present and  future will be led to victory  and glory. 

In his commemorative  lecture “On the Orientation  of the Building of Our Party  in the New Era and the  Tasks of the Central Cadres  Training School of the  Workers’ Party of Korea”,  given to the teaching staff  and students of the school  on October 17 2022, the 96th  anniversary of the formation  of the DIU, WPK General  Secretary Kim Jong Un said that it is a guarantee  for the invincibility of a  revolutionary party and the  law of its ruling to set great  store by its sacred first page  and invariably carry the first  page forward as its history  goes on and its achievements  accumulate. 

The ideal and spirit of the  Party founding defining its  revolutionary nature and  mode of existence should  be inherited in a pure  way and thoroughly applied  to its building and activities.  Herein lies the promise  for the future and eternal  development of the dignified  and powerful WPK. 

By Ri Myong Jun PT The Japanese  

i m p e r i a l i s t s  

occupied Korea by  

force of arms in the last  century and were hell bent on suppression and  massacre of the Korean  people not only in Korea  but also in Northeast  China. 

At that time, many  Koreans were living  in Northeast China,  and their anti-Japanese  consciousness was very  high. 

The Japanese imperialists  hatched a plot to massively  kill Koreans in the area by  mobilizing large armed  forces. 

One day in October  1920, a group of “mounted  bandits” launched a “raid”  on Hunchun where a  Japanese consulate was  located. The Japanese  imperialists spread a  rumour that the incident  was attributable to the  units of the Korean  Independence Army. But,  in truth, the “mounted  bandits” who “raided”  

discrimination: they  pulled eyeballs out of  living persons, skinned  them, tore their limbs  apart and buried dozens  of them alive at once;  they also tied their limbs  and killed them by cutting  the limbs into several  pieces, threw children  into burning houses after  snatching them from their  parents, and slaughtered  other Koreans in such  a cruel way as passing  rings through their noses  and disembowelling  them. 

In a village in Yanji  County alone, they killed  255 out of 300 inhabitants  by throwing them into fire  after removing their face  skins. 

In another county, they  burnt down more than  1 600 houses and killed  everyone there. They even  shot children to death or  buried them alive. 

A foreigner who  witnessed the atrocities of  the Japanese imperialists  on the spot wrote: “They  took everyone out of  the houses, irrespective  

Meeting standards just ensures  quality of products 

October 14 is World  

Hunchun were the riff raff bribed by the Japanese  imperialists. 

Taking advantage of  this incident, the Japanese  imperialists staged a large scale “punitive” operations  

of sex or age, and shot  all of them to death and  threw those who had not  died yet into the fire.…  There were many corpses  among the piles of ashes. I  shoved the ashes and found  

Standards Day. 

Improving the  

quality of products in the  overall economy is an  important matter now when  a period of comprehensive  development for national  prosperity is being ushered  in. 

The issue of improving the  quality of products is directly  related to standardization. 

Our factory is putting  primary efforts into  improving the quality of  products by thoroughly  meeting national standards. 

In recent years, it has  raised the technical level in  the design of the patterns  for shirts of primary and  junior middle schoolchildren  

and sportswear of children  of schools for orphans on  a high level. In particular,  it upgraded the relevant  equipment and ensured  the rational selection of  heat treatment widths of  relevant fabrics in order  to meet national standards  in ensuring the elasticity  of fabrics, which was  previously a problem arising  in the production of the  shirts. 

It has also developed more  than 10 kinds of new products,  including underwear and  shirts, by making various  knitted fabrics with silk  yarn, high-stretch yarn and  others. 

And it has improved  standards in a planned  

manner as part of technical  management. 

After amending and  supplementing the technical  regulations and standard  operating methods of  different facilities and  processes, including thermal  dye-sublimation printer,  steam generator and dyeing  waste water purification  process, it is now controlling  technical processes on a high  level. 

Now it ensures the  qualitative level of the  products as required by  improved national and  sectoral standards by  regularly examining and  amending the shapes and  sizes of the products and  setting and deliberating on  

the standards of different  products. 

Numerous goods in 150- odd kinds presented by  our factory were rated as  excellent at several consumer  goods exhibitions. This  is because we thoroughly  established a quality  control system for each  production process to turn  out all products according  to standards and actively  aroused the enthusiasm of the  employees. 

Standardization is an  important way to put  production on a specialized  basis and thus improve the  quality of products. 

Ju Song Mi, staffer of the  Songyo Knitwear Factory 

in the Jiandao area on the  pretext of “protecting  the lives and property of  the Japanese resident in  Jiandao”. 

A regiment of the  19th Division stationing  in Korea, police forces  in South Hamgyong  Province, expedition troops  to Siberia and Manchurian  railway garrison forces  were rallied in the area  of Jiandao. Their targets  of attack were innocent  Koreans and villages where  they lived, rather than any  military facilities or armed  forces. 

They killed Koreans  everywhere they lived,  be they men or women,  young or old, without  

cut hands and feet, so I  gathered them and took  pictures of them. I was so  frightened that my hands  trembled and I had to take  photographs of them four  times.” 

The group of barbarians  who found pleasure in  human killing for their  purpose of aggression dyed  the whole of Jiandao with  the civilians’ blood and  celebrated the “victory” of  the “punitive operations”  and even held a ceremony  of commendation. 

A century has passed  since then, but the Korean  people never forget the  past crimes of Japan and  will surely make it pay  dearly for them. 

Patriotic farmer

In the DPRK, farmers  devote sincere efforts on the  fields all year round from the  sowing season to the harvest  season to fill the granary of  

the country. 

Every year, high-yielding  farms, workteams and  farmers continue to increase  in number thanks to farmers’  

zeal and hard effort to  overfulfil their national grain  production plans by actively  introducing scientific  and advanced farming  

methods. 

The country identifies  such exemplary high yielding farmers as patriotic  farmers. 

For better foods  and better future 

Population decline arouses  concern 

THE PYONGYANG TIMES Sat, October 18, 2025 WORLD 11 

Briefly 

Russia 

President refers to  

agricultural development 

By Choe Yong Nam PT October 16 is World  

Food Day. 

This year marks  

the 45th anniversary of the  setting of World Food Day  and the 80th anniversary of  the FAO. 

The FAO selected “Hand  and Hand for Better Foods  and Better Future” as the  theme for this year’s WFD to  put emphasis on the ideal and  spirit of cooperation of the  organization at the time of its  founding in order to combat  the world famine and create  a better future of food and  agriculture. 

The organization noted  that only when not only  nations but all sectors and  units including governments,  cities, social and media  organizations and all working  people work together, can  environment-friendly and  healthy dietary conditions be  provided to everyone. 

Many countries are now  working hard to promote  cooperation among the state,  businesses and organizations  in order to establish rational  farming methods and  introduce modern science  and technology into the  agricultural sector. They are  taking measures to prevent  damage by heavy rain to suit  their actual conditions, while  securing water resources,  

planting drought-resistant  crop varieties and applying  water-saving farming  methods. 

In the DPRK great efforts  have also been directed to  minimizing the damage by  extreme weather conditions.  It now pushes ahead with  the construction and repair  of pumping stations,  construction and overhaul  of irrigation structures and  repair of waterways by giving  priority to irrigation projects  across the country. 

It also concentrates on the  timely production and supply  of efficient farm machines  which are needed for the  fulfilment of farm operations  according to processes. 

It steps up the programme  for changing the grain  production structure into that  of rice and wheat production  and positively encourages  the introduction of advanced  farming methods. 

Modern vegetable  greenhouses have been built  throughout the country, fruit  and functional vegetables are  produced and seeds of various  vegetables are secured for  greenhouse farming. 

Positive efforts of many  countries to alleviate the food  crisis and boost agricultural  production and many-sided  exchanges and cooperation  between them will bear good  fruits. 

By Ri Sang Il PT 

The population of a  

country supports  

its sustainable  

development. But the  population continues to  decline in many countries. 

It is because young  people give up marriage  and they want to have a  few or no children even  after they are married. 

The continued decline  in birth rates has resulted  in an abnormal population  structure. 

Countries with a  relatively small number of  young people and a large  number of the elderly in  the whole population,  villages in which no  children were born for  several years and schools  with no new students  increase in number. Rapid  population reduction  turns many villages and  small towns into “desolate  towns of ghosts”.  

Such an expression as  “population annihilation  crisis” has been coined  and is widely used now. 

The population in the  seven large cities in the  United States has been  reduced by more than half  as against 1950. Detroit  has become one of the five  big cities that are likely to  

disappear from the globe  in the future due to the  severe population loss. 

The Italian bureau of  statistics said that the  country’s population is  expected to decrease by  22% in the coming 55  years and particularly the  residents of the southern  region will radically  decrease in number. 

In Poland 252 000  children were born last  year, a decrease by over  20 000 as against the  previous year. The number  of births has reportedly  reached a record low since  World War II. 

Over the past several  decades the birth rates  have been fairly low in  most European countries. 

Reportedly, the  population of Europe  is expected to decline  continuously till 2100  and it is especially serious  in Central and Southern  Europe including Poland  and Italy. 

According to the  Ministry of Health,  Welfare and Labour  of Japan, the number  of children born in the  period from January  to November last year  dropped by 5.1 percent  over the same period of  the year before. It has  

become a tendency to live  single in the country. According to estimates,  the population will be  reduced by nearly 800  000 annually in this  country till 2070, which  means that it will decline  by half in the early next  century. 

The UN Population  Fund expressed deep  concern over the falling  birth rates in many  countries in its report  on the world population  published in June. Quoting  the results of a population  survey conducted in 14  countries, which make  up a third of the world  population, the report  warned that a worldwide  p o p u l a t i o n - r e l a t e d  crisis may arise in the  future. 

The population loss  has a great negative  impact on the economic  development of the  countries concerned and  causes many social  problems. 

Experts recommend  that all countries adopt  and carry out policies to  cope with the population  change actively and  effectively and conduct  various forms of activities  to address the population  reduction crisis. 

In his speech through  videoconferencing on October  12, Russian President Vladimir  Putin said that the government  would continue to create  conditions for boosting the  technical sovereignty of the  agricultural field and promote  the scientific research and  development in the fields of  genetics and the science of  breeding, the training of agro technicians and the production  of food-processing equipment. 

Referring to the need to  improve the living standards of  the inhabitants in the rural areas,  he stressed that it is important  to create convenient working  conditions and educational  conditions for children. 

China 

US’ sanctions and acts of  repression decried  

A spokesman for the  Chinese Ministry of Commerce  censured the US Department of  Commerce for including several  Chinese entities in the list of  export control entities at a press  conference on October 10. 

He urged the US to immediately  rectify its misbehaviour,  accusing it of abusing the export  control measure and imposing  sanctions on several entities  including Chinese enterprises  while broadly interpreting the  “concept of national security”. 

That day, referring to an  incident in which a Chinese  citizen entering the US was  groundlessly interrogated,  

For clean hands 

Hands play a very  

children under five. It is also  

Crimes inevitable  

outcome of misanthropy  

detained and sent back to China,  the spokesman said that China  expresses strong dissatisfaction  with and strongly decries it. 

Venezuela  

crucial role in human  

life. 

They are also a part of  the human body that most  frequently contacts many  things and all kinds of germs. 

According to information  available, a hand usually  carries tens of thousands of  bacteria or viruses and they  harm human health while  living on it for a long time. 

Many people suffer from  various kinds of infectious  diseases across the world  every year and even lose their  lives. The outbreak of these  diseases is mainly attributable  to the germs, which come  into the body through hands.  Reportedly, 60 percent  of various diseases occur  through hands. 

It shows that clean hands  are essential for the protection  of human health. 

For this reason, the UN  set October 15 as Global  Handwashing Day and  organizes a variety of events  including the learning of  handwashing on the day  every year. 

Such a simple act as  handwashing with soap  can reportedly reduce the  outbreak of diarrhoea by  50 percent and respiratory  infection such as pneumonia  by nearly 25 percent among  

good for health as it prevents  skin, eye, infectious and other  diseases. 

Handwashing and hand  disinfection played an  important role in stemming  the spread of COVID-19  which has seriously  threatened the lives of  humankind and imposed  misfortune and pain upon  numerous people in recent  years. The fact highlights the  importance of handwashing. 

So it is important to provide  not only childcare facilities  and educational institutions  but also the public health  sector, families and public  catering establishments with  better hygienic conditions  and environment and  encourage people to be  well aware of how to wash  hands and observe it without  fail. 

Activities were conducted  to inform the public of  general knowledge related  to washing hands with soap  and online lectures given  on handwashing and health,  handwashing facilities and  water sanitation in the DPRK  on the occasion of Global  Handwashing Day. 

Chon Yong Nam, staffer  of the Grand People’s Study  House 

By Jo Ryong PT 

All kinds of crimes  

are now rampant  

in the US. 

In late September  an armed man opened  random fire on the people  in a church in Michigan,  killing two persons and  wounding eight others  and a shooting in a bar  caused 11 casualties in  North Carolina. 

On October 4, two  gangs randomly fired  guns at each other in a  tourist resort in Alabama  after a football match was  over, killing two people  and injuring 12 others. 

Recently, a man  admitted in a TV interview  the fact that he had killed  his parents and buried  them in the backyard of  his house eight years ago.  And then he described his  murder of the parents as a  “comfortable death” for  them who were so old that  they could hardly sit up on  their bed. 

The crime of murder  

occurs in succession in  Japan, too. 

On September 25, a  woman was arrested for  killing his husband at  a house in Kanagawa  Prefecture. During  investigation, the criminal  said without hesitation  that she strangled him as  it was hard to look after  him. 

Recently a man stabbed  a woman in her 30s to  death with a kitchen  knife at a dwelling house  in Osaka and there were  reportedly over a dozen  stab wounds on her body. 

Child abuses also  continue to take place  in the country where the  tendency of regarding  child as a nuisance and  burden is prevalent. On  September 26, the parents  who had maltreated their  two-year-old daughter  to death were arrested in  Wakayama Prefecture.  Reportedly, they gave  the little girl no food  and did not let her get  medical treatment after  

committing an outrage  on her, so she died of  traumatic shock due to  pronephros bruise. 

Such crimes happen  ceaselessly because  misanthropy is rife in  society. 

What is beneficial for  oneself is regarded as  “truth” and it is described  as “freedom” to resort  to every possible means  and method to put it  into reality. Therefore,  it has become a matter  of no importance and a  commonplace to victimize  others.  

The values of seeking  only one’s own interests  and satisfying one’s own  greed and the view of  life that one should reject  and victimize others  for one’s own existence  plunge the people into  crime, degeneration and  despair.  

Such a society, in which  misanthropy and contempt  is rife and all kinds of  crimes are rampant, has  no future. 

US censured for aggravating  military tension  

The Venezuelan permanent  representative to the United  Nations denounced the US for  escalating military tension at an  emergency meeting of the UN  Security Council on October  10. 

Recently the US attacked  four ships in the Caribbean  and killed 21 civilians, but it  did not produce any evidence  that they were implicated in a  crime, he said. The true purpose  of the US leading the situation  to a conflict on the pretext  of a “struggle against drug  trafficking” is to seize control  of natural resources, he noted. 

Belarus

Drill to check combat  

readiness launched 

A general drill for checking the  combat readiness of the armed  forces is under way in Belarus. 

The Belarus defence ministry  announced that the drill is being  staged to practise the method of  putting the armed forces into a  high combat readiness within  the scope of the inspection  conducted upon authorization of  the president on September 11. 

The participating units will  reportedly advance to designated  areas and carry out their assigned  tasks. 

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SPORTS/NATURE 

DPRK weightlifters win 23 medals, set ten new  world records at 2025 IWF World Championships 

 

Song Kuk Hyang Ri Suk  By Ri Sung Ik PT 

Ri Song Gum 

DPRK weightlifter Ri Chong  

D PRK weightlifters proved  

successful at the 2025  International Weightlifting  Federation World Championships. The championships brought  together more than 470 competent  men and women players from over  80 countries and regions, including  the DPRK, China, Bulgaria, Canada  and Egypt. 

In the women’s 48kg category held  on October 2 (local time), Ri Song  Gum lifted 91kg in snatch, 122kg in  clean and jerk (new world record)  and 213kg in total (new world  record) to win first place in snatch,  clean and jerk and total respectively  and bagged three gold medals.  

DPRK player Kang Hyon  Gyong was also successful at the  2025 International Weightlifting  Federation World Championships. 

In the women’s 53kg category  event that took place on October  

Kim Il Gyong 

3 (local time), Kang Hyon Gyong  lifted 93kg in snatch, 121kg in clean  and jerk and 214kg in total and thus  took the first place in clean and jerk  and in total respectively and the  second place in snatch. 

Meanwhile, Pang Un Chol was  placed second in clean and jerk of  the men’s 60kg category and third  in total. 

In the women’s 58kg category,  Kim Il Gyong lifted 104kg in snatch,  

132kg in clean and jerk and 236kg  in total (new world record) and thus  took the first place in snatch, clean  and jerk and total respectively and  bagged three gold medals. 

Meanwhile, Pak Myong Jin lifted  180kg in clean and jerk in the men’s  65kg category and was placed first  in clean and jerk and second in total. 

Ri Suk, who proved successful at  the 2024 International Weightlifting  Federation World Championships  

Ro Kwang Ryol 

and other international games,  fully displayed her ability as  the super star at the current  championships. 

She won three gold medals in the  women’s 63kg category, setting  three new world records with 111kg  in snatch, 142kg in clean and jerk  and 253kg in total. 

Until October 5, DPRK players  bagged 12 gold medals and set six  new world records.  

Song bagged a gold medal in snatch  of the men’s 79kg category of the  2025 International Weightlifting  Federation World Championships  by lifting 163kg and won a silver  medal in total. 

Song Kuk Hyang set three new  world records in the women’s 69kg  category. 

She renewed the existing world  records by lifting 120kg in snatch,  150kg in clean and jerk and 270kg  in total and bagged three gold  medals. 

Meanwhile, Ro Kwang Ryol  lifted 215kg in clean and jerk  (new world record) in the men’s  88kg category to win a gold medal  and took the second place in  total. 

At the championships, DPRK  players bagged 17 gold medals, five  silver medals and a bronze medal,  23 medals in total, and set 10 new  world records.

Global geopark Mt Paektu area (4) 

By Pang Un Ju PT 

Laccolith in Janggun Peak

Laccolith in Janggun Peak is at  the southeast of the crater of Lake  Chon on Mt Paektu. 

Janggun Peak Volcano was  formed as a result of the several  alternations of explosive and  effusive eruptions. The lavas that  flowed at that time mainly consisted  of trachydacite. 

As the volcanic body sank,  Janggun Peak collapsed on the side  

of Lake Chon to form a steep cliff  with a gradient of about 85°.  At this cliff, the laccolith is  distinct. A highly viscous rhyolitic  magma failed to intrude into the  roof rock while ascending through  a nearly perpendicular fracture and  flowed between the strata, which  were formed as the magma pushed  up the roof rock, before solidifying  into the shape of a mushroom at  the 5th stage of Mt Paektu volcanic  eruption. 

When seen from Lake Chon, this  mass of rock looks like a mushroom.  The stem of the “mushroom” is 5-7  metres in diameter, its cap is 50-55  metres wide and the laccolith is 34  metres high at the maximum. 

Laccolith in Janggun Peak is of  great academic value as it is a geosite  vividly showing the phenomenon of  the pouring between strata of the  magma that ascended through a  vent. 

Chongun Rock  

Chongun Rock is located about  6km upstream along the Amnok  River from where the Sobaek  Stream joins the Amnok. In the  southwest of Mt Kom, the rock  forms the eastern wall of the Amnok  River gorge and unfolds wonderful  rocky cliffs extending for some  kilometres. 

It was formed by river water  erosion of ignimbrites, an  

accumulation of pyroclasts  which erupted at the  

last stage of Mt Paektu  formation.  

The cliffs are dozens of metres  high and 20-30 metres wide on  average. 

Chongun Rock shows unique  geological and geomorphological  phenomena of Mt Paektu volcano  and adds natural beauty to the  Amnok River gorge as it forms a  chain of sharp-edged rock peaks  and steep cliffs.  

Ryongma Rock  

Ryongma Rock is located in  Paektusanmilyong-dong in the city  of Samjiyon. 

Situated in the north of  Ryongma Peak, the rock was  formed as a volcanic body made  up of trachytic lavas was cut by  faulting.  

The trachydacite contains 30-40  percent sanidine phenocryst which  

is 4×5mm in size. 

The rock stands beside  Janggom Rock at the entrance  to Chairman Kim Jong Il’s  birthplace in the Paektusan Secret  Camp. 

It is of great academic value  in research into the formation  of fantastic rock geosites that  developed around Jong Il  Peak and the features of  faulting. 

 

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