Voice of Korea:Efforts directed to development of science and technology
Different units in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea are making a big stride of advance with science and technology as the lifeline of their development.
The Phyongsong Artificial Leather Factory has set it as an important task for technical development to remodel the production processes into the power- and labour-saving ones and ensure the home production of raw materials and is actively arousing the creative enthusiasm of technicians and skilled workers.
The Pyongyang Dental Hygiene Products Factory regularly organizes a technical innovation prize contest for developing new products and renewing technical indexes of production processes to bring the creative initiative of the masses into full play.
The Ragwon Jinhung Technical Exchange Company developed plant activation reinforcing agents actively contributing to boosting the agricultural production and a lubricant, a hi-tech product which can increase the serviceable life of machinery and equipment of different kinds and established a process of producing health foods of various kinds, making a clear progress in its development.
Different units in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea are making a big stride of advance with science and technology as the lifeline of their development.
The Phyongsong Artificial Leather Factory has set it as an important task for technical development to remodel the production processes into the power- and labour-saving ones and ensure the home production of raw materials and is actively arousing the creative enthusiasm of technicians and skilled workers.
The Pyongyang Dental Hygiene Products Factory regularly organizes a technical innovation prize contest for developing new products and renewing technical indexes of production processes to bring the creative initiative of the masses into full play.
The Ragwon Jinhung Technical Exchange Company developed plant activation reinforcing agents actively contributing to boosting the agricultural production and a lubricant, a hi-tech product which can increase the serviceable life of machinery and equipment of different kinds and established a process of producing health foods of various kinds, making a clear progress in its development.
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VOK’Kangdong County Hospital
The Kangdong County Hospital is one of the regional hospitals built by the WKP on a trial basis for the overall promotion of the country's public health.
On February 6, 2025, a groundbreaking ceremony of the Kangdong County Hospital was held.
The respected Comrade Kim Jong Un made a speech as a token of the groundbreaking. In the speech he said it is the top-priority task of our Party and government to make our public health sector modern and advanced and expressed the will to do the best to ensure that the regional population can receive advanced treatment at modern hospitals.
He came out to the spot on several occasions in a year to give detailed guidance to the construction of the hospital so as to ensure that the hospital is successfully completed in a short time.
He said it is the most important of the state affairs to protect the lives of all citizens and promote their health (…)
The Kangdong County Hospital was successfully completed in over 280 days.
The Kangdong County Hospital is one of the regional hospitals built by the WKP on a trial basis for the overall promotion of the country's public health.
On February 6, 2025, a groundbreaking ceremony of the Kangdong County Hospital was held.
The respected Comrade Kim Jong Un made a speech as a token of the groundbreaking. In the speech he said it is the top-priority task of our Party and government to make our public health sector modern and advanced and expressed the will to do the best to ensure that the regional population can receive advanced treatment at modern hospitals.
He came out to the spot on several occasions in a year to give detailed guidance to the construction of the hospital so as to ensure that the hospital is successfully completed in a short time.
He said it is the most important of the state affairs to protect the lives of all citizens and promote their health (…)
The Kangdong County Hospital was successfully completed in over 280 days.
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VOK’Kangdong County Hospital The Kangdong County Hospital is one of the regional hospitals built by the WKP on a trial basis for the overall promotion of the country's public health. On February 6, 2025, a groundbreaking ceremony of the Kangdong County Hospital…
Voice of Korea:Kangdong General Greenhouse Farm
It has modern greenhouses of unique style such as a cylindrical greenhouse for vegetable cultivation and a dome-shaped glass hydroponic greenhouse. And the public buildings and terraced houses are in good harmony with the natural scenery, resembling a "greenhouse city" and "farm town".
The respected Comrade Kim Jong Un set it as a top-priority task to solve the problem of supplying plenty of fresh vegetables to the people in all seasons within coming few years. (…)
On February 15, 2023, he built it was inaugurated with due ceremony on March 15 the next year.
That day, he said new sphere and level of greenhouse vegetable production have been pioneered thanks to the completion of the plot- and labour-saving general greenhouse farm and added that the eye-opening change in the Kangdong area is an epitome of the worthwhile struggle of creation of our own style growing intense in the spirit of self-reliance and self-existence.
It has modern greenhouses of unique style such as a cylindrical greenhouse for vegetable cultivation and a dome-shaped glass hydroponic greenhouse. And the public buildings and terraced houses are in good harmony with the natural scenery, resembling a "greenhouse city" and "farm town".
The respected Comrade Kim Jong Un set it as a top-priority task to solve the problem of supplying plenty of fresh vegetables to the people in all seasons within coming few years. (…)
On February 15, 2023, he built it was inaugurated with due ceremony on March 15 the next year.
That day, he said new sphere and level of greenhouse vegetable production have been pioneered thanks to the completion of the plot- and labour-saving general greenhouse farm and added that the eye-opening change in the Kangdong area is an epitome of the worthwhile struggle of creation of our own style growing intense in the spirit of self-reliance and self-existence.
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Voice of Korea:Measures to attain new goals taken in field of education
The educational sector is taking practical measures to attain new goals.
The Ministry of Education induces the officials and educators in the field of education to grasp the new curricula and make preparations for their implementation.
Short courses of subjects for educators are given in cities and counties and preparations for short courses to be given to officials concerned in the provinces, cities and counties are also made.
Universities and colleges across the country are working to consolidate and further develop the successes achieved in the improvement of the educational structure last year and raise the educational contents and methods to a higher level.
The field of general education is pushing ahead with the work to create and introduce educational methods according to the age and psychological characteristics of schoolchildren.
The educational sector is taking practical measures to attain new goals.
The Ministry of Education induces the officials and educators in the field of education to grasp the new curricula and make preparations for their implementation.
Short courses of subjects for educators are given in cities and counties and preparations for short courses to be given to officials concerned in the provinces, cities and counties are also made.
Universities and colleges across the country are working to consolidate and further develop the successes achieved in the improvement of the educational structure last year and raise the educational contents and methods to a higher level.
The field of general education is pushing ahead with the work to create and introduce educational methods according to the age and psychological characteristics of schoolchildren.
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DPRK News
Pyongyang Times : Integrated school newly built Jonjin Senior Middle School, newly built as an integrated school in Rangnang District, Pyongyang, was inaugurated. The school with a total floor space of more than 19 300 square metres has classrooms,…
Pyongyang Times decided to come back at this school and list major facilities of the school and their rooms
AI education room
The AI education room of the school is equipped with all kinds of modern educational facilities and equipment including robot for education to give education in AI technology stage by stage.
Kindergarten children play with robots as extracurricular activities to acquire knowledge which will enable them to receive next-stage education in AI technology and children in the primary school course learn simple algorithms.
Those in the junior middle school course receive education in programming, while those in the senior middle school course learn the ABC of AI technology through the designing, making and operation of robots that suit their levels.
TV broadcast and children’s broadcast rooms
The school has a TV broadcast room and children’s broadcast room.
Equipped with a new service system, the rooms serve as the venue for various meetings, such as a meeting for honour students to tell about their pride and a meeting to present talents, helping improve the efficiency of education and edification.
The rooms encourage students to do good things and develop their talents while studying hard and thereby take the stage to boast of their sources of pride. In particular, they are very influential as they inspire students to try to perform as a child announcer.
Teaching method laboratory
The school also has a teaching method laboratory equipped with modern educational means and various teaching resources, where teachers can have meetings according to school types and departments or joint department meetings.
There, teachers get together to intensify research for creating teaching methods, and the officials of the school, teachers in charge and those for subjects of special study pool their wisdom to discuss efficient teaching methods by taking students’ results into account.
The database established in the laboratory supports teachers in their efforts to invent new teaching methods.
Practical classroom
Every classroom for the primary school course is provided with teaching aids needed for the implementation of the curriculum.
Little schoolchildren personally operate the teaching aids at after-school hours to consolidate the knowledge they have learned and prepare for the next lessons.
It is something new at the school that every student is allowed to handle teaching aids.
AI education room
The AI education room of the school is equipped with all kinds of modern educational facilities and equipment including robot for education to give education in AI technology stage by stage.
Kindergarten children play with robots as extracurricular activities to acquire knowledge which will enable them to receive next-stage education in AI technology and children in the primary school course learn simple algorithms.
Those in the junior middle school course receive education in programming, while those in the senior middle school course learn the ABC of AI technology through the designing, making and operation of robots that suit their levels.
TV broadcast and children’s broadcast rooms
The school has a TV broadcast room and children’s broadcast room.
Equipped with a new service system, the rooms serve as the venue for various meetings, such as a meeting for honour students to tell about their pride and a meeting to present talents, helping improve the efficiency of education and edification.
The rooms encourage students to do good things and develop their talents while studying hard and thereby take the stage to boast of their sources of pride. In particular, they are very influential as they inspire students to try to perform as a child announcer.
Teaching method laboratory
The school also has a teaching method laboratory equipped with modern educational means and various teaching resources, where teachers can have meetings according to school types and departments or joint department meetings.
There, teachers get together to intensify research for creating teaching methods, and the officials of the school, teachers in charge and those for subjects of special study pool their wisdom to discuss efficient teaching methods by taking students’ results into account.
The database established in the laboratory supports teachers in their efforts to invent new teaching methods.
Practical classroom
Every classroom for the primary school course is provided with teaching aids needed for the implementation of the curriculum.
Little schoolchildren personally operate the teaching aids at after-school hours to consolidate the knowledge they have learned and prepare for the next lessons.
It is something new at the school that every student is allowed to handle teaching aids.
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This image, released in 1954, shows a cheerful Korean construction worker a a building a wall labelled 로동생산능률제고" or "Raising Labour Productivity Efficiency" with a figure falling off the wall carrying banners labelled "관류주의" and "형식주의" meaning "Superficialism" and "Formalism".
The additional text can be translated with :
"Today, Party organizations at all levels, state and economic organs, and the entire working people are studying in depth the noble instructions given by the respected Marshal Kim Il Sung at the March Plenary Meeting of the Central Committee of our Party, and the important tasks presented at the plenary meetings of Party, state, and economic organs and their organizations for correctly implementing those instructions.
They are resolutely carrying out the great tasks of postwar national economic recovery that have been set forth before them."
From DPRK Explained, that is an excellent Instagram channel about DPRK.
The additional text can be translated with :
"Today, Party organizations at all levels, state and economic organs, and the entire working people are studying in depth the noble instructions given by the respected Marshal Kim Il Sung at the March Plenary Meeting of the Central Committee of our Party, and the important tasks presented at the plenary meetings of Party, state, and economic organs and their organizations for correctly implementing those instructions.
They are resolutely carrying out the great tasks of postwar national economic recovery that have been set forth before them."
From DPRK Explained, that is an excellent Instagram channel about DPRK.
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KCNA:The Namhung Youth Chemical Complex in the DPRK boosts the production of fertilizer for farms.
Its workers attained the production goal for January ahead of schedule and have successfully fulfilled the daily fertilizer production plan in February.
The ammonia workshop has ensured the normal operation of equipment by strictly keeping the technical rules and standard operation regulations and checking them in a responsible manner.
The molding workshop is enhancing the responsibility and role of skilled workers, and the gas producing shop is making a breakthrough in ramping up production by increasing the number of gas generators in operation and boosting the per-generator gas output.
The compressor workshops Nos. 1 and 2 and the coal dressing and supplying workshop are providing steam and raw materials in a responsible manner while arousing enthusiasm for the socialist emulation among workshops and shifts. And the forwarding workshop is speeding up the packing and forwarding of fertilizer by applying valuable technical innovation proposals.
The urea workshop has overfulfilled its daily fertilizer production plan every day by lowering norms of materials consumption per unit.
Its workers attained the production goal for January ahead of schedule and have successfully fulfilled the daily fertilizer production plan in February.
The ammonia workshop has ensured the normal operation of equipment by strictly keeping the technical rules and standard operation regulations and checking them in a responsible manner.
The molding workshop is enhancing the responsibility and role of skilled workers, and the gas producing shop is making a breakthrough in ramping up production by increasing the number of gas generators in operation and boosting the per-generator gas output.
The compressor workshops Nos. 1 and 2 and the coal dressing and supplying workshop are providing steam and raw materials in a responsible manner while arousing enthusiasm for the socialist emulation among workshops and shifts. And the forwarding workshop is speeding up the packing and forwarding of fertilizer by applying valuable technical innovation proposals.
The urea workshop has overfulfilled its daily fertilizer production plan every day by lowering norms of materials consumption per unit.
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Korean Association of Social Scientists : Distinguished Exploits of Chairman Kim Jong Il
When referring to the single-hearted unity, a harmonious whole, in the DPRK, President Kim Il Sung used to say that it was the distinguished exploits of Chairman Kim Jong Il that he brought about a historic change in which the Party and the popular masses formed a powerful motive force combined into one socio-political organism.
Thanks to the Chairman’s noble benevolent politics, the all-embracing politics, a dignified new history, in which the Party and the people formed a powerful motive force combined into one socio-political organism and brought about the epochal changes by dint of its invincible might, could be created in the DPRK.
When referring to the single-hearted unity, a harmonious whole, in the DPRK, President Kim Il Sung used to say that it was the distinguished exploits of Chairman Kim Jong Il that he brought about a historic change in which the Party and the popular masses formed a powerful motive force combined into one socio-political organism.
Thanks to the Chairman’s noble benevolent politics, the all-embracing politics, a dignified new history, in which the Party and the people formed a powerful motive force combined into one socio-political organism and brought about the epochal changes by dint of its invincible might, could be created in the DPRK.
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Chairman Kim Jong Il's Birth Anniversary Celebrated by Workers in DPRK
Workers and members of the General Federation of Trade Unions of Korea (GFTUK) met at the Central Hall of Workers on February 11 to celebrate the 84th birth anniversary of Chairman Kim Jong Il.
Present there were officials of the GFTUK Central Committee, and trade union officials and members and workers in Pyongyang.
Choe Jong Chol, vice-chairman of the C.C., GFTUK, made a report to be followed by speeches.
The reporter and speakers said that Kim Jong Il's life is the noblest one of a peerless patriot who performed immortal exploits for the country and its people, the times and revolution with his iron will and indefatigable efforts, holding aloft the red flag of the revolution.
Kim Jong Il laid an eternal foundation for the bright future of the socialist country with his ardent love for the country and the people, and his noble patriotic desire to build a powerful country is being translated into brilliant reality on this land thanks to the outstanding leadership of the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un, they said.
They expressed their resolve to glorify the glorious Congress of the Workers' Party of Korea with high political enthusiasm and proud successes in increased production, bearing in mind the unshakable faith that the socialist cause of Juche is sure to win as Kim Jong Un leads our revolution.
Workers and members of the General Federation of Trade Unions of Korea (GFTUK) met at the Central Hall of Workers on February 11 to celebrate the 84th birth anniversary of Chairman Kim Jong Il.
Present there were officials of the GFTUK Central Committee, and trade union officials and members and workers in Pyongyang.
Choe Jong Chol, vice-chairman of the C.C., GFTUK, made a report to be followed by speeches.
The reporter and speakers said that Kim Jong Il's life is the noblest one of a peerless patriot who performed immortal exploits for the country and its people, the times and revolution with his iron will and indefatigable efforts, holding aloft the red flag of the revolution.
Kim Jong Il laid an eternal foundation for the bright future of the socialist country with his ardent love for the country and the people, and his noble patriotic desire to build a powerful country is being translated into brilliant reality on this land thanks to the outstanding leadership of the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un, they said.
They expressed their resolve to glorify the glorious Congress of the Workers' Party of Korea with high political enthusiasm and proud successes in increased production, bearing in mind the unshakable faith that the socialist cause of Juche is sure to win as Kim Jong Un leads our revolution.
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Rodong Sinmun:Successes Made in Comprehensive Mechanization of Agriculture
Since the programme for the rural revolution in the new era was unveiled, many farm machine production units across the country have been remodeled to expand their capacities, and home-made farm machines supplied to the rural areas every year to increase the proportion of mechanized farm work.
The first- and second-stage modernization projects of the Kumsong Tractor Factory were completed to lay a firm foundation for ensuring smooth production and quality of products. At present, the factory sees serial production of high-hp tractors and sends them to farms across the country, thus making a great contribution to realizing the comprehensive mechanization of agriculture.
The Namsi Livestock Machine Factory, the Kangso Sprayer Factory, the Sariwon Tractor Parts Factory and other units in the field of farm machinery were updated one after another and their material and technical foundations strengthened.
In 2023, 11 600 farm machines were produced and supplied to rural areas across the country and in 2024, their kinds increased.
South Hwanghae and North Phyongan provinces secured many farm machines. In Sukchon County of South Phyongan Province the proportion of mechanized farm work reached more than 50 percent. In 2025, the proportion of mechanized farm work increased as against that in the previous year to contribute to boosting the grain production.
Trade union organizations sent tractors dubbed "Jikmaeng" (trade union) to tideland farms in South Hwanghae Province in 2024. And last year they handed over high-performance farm machines to the Sinuiju Combined Greenhouse Farm on the occasion of the 80th anniversary of the Workers' Party of Korea.
Organizations of the Union of Agricultural Workers sent "Nonggunmaeng" tractors and cultivators to the Ogye Farm in Anbyon County of Kangwon Province and "Nonggunmaeng" small tractors to farms in Jangphung County of Kaesong Municipality.
Farm machine stations in each city and county manufactured various kinds of farm machines, convenient to use and simple in structure, as well as parts and accessories to contribute to raising the proportion of mechanized farm work.
Since the programme for the rural revolution in the new era was unveiled, many farm machine production units across the country have been remodeled to expand their capacities, and home-made farm machines supplied to the rural areas every year to increase the proportion of mechanized farm work.
The first- and second-stage modernization projects of the Kumsong Tractor Factory were completed to lay a firm foundation for ensuring smooth production and quality of products. At present, the factory sees serial production of high-hp tractors and sends them to farms across the country, thus making a great contribution to realizing the comprehensive mechanization of agriculture.
The Namsi Livestock Machine Factory, the Kangso Sprayer Factory, the Sariwon Tractor Parts Factory and other units in the field of farm machinery were updated one after another and their material and technical foundations strengthened.
In 2023, 11 600 farm machines were produced and supplied to rural areas across the country and in 2024, their kinds increased.
South Hwanghae and North Phyongan provinces secured many farm machines. In Sukchon County of South Phyongan Province the proportion of mechanized farm work reached more than 50 percent. In 2025, the proportion of mechanized farm work increased as against that in the previous year to contribute to boosting the grain production.
Trade union organizations sent tractors dubbed "Jikmaeng" (trade union) to tideland farms in South Hwanghae Province in 2024. And last year they handed over high-performance farm machines to the Sinuiju Combined Greenhouse Farm on the occasion of the 80th anniversary of the Workers' Party of Korea.
Organizations of the Union of Agricultural Workers sent "Nonggunmaeng" tractors and cultivators to the Ogye Farm in Anbyon County of Kangwon Province and "Nonggunmaeng" small tractors to farms in Jangphung County of Kaesong Municipality.
Farm machine stations in each city and county manufactured various kinds of farm machines, convenient to use and simple in structure, as well as parts and accessories to contribute to raising the proportion of mechanized farm work.
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KCNA:Nonggunmaeng" Small Tractors Conveyed to Manjin Farm
Small tractors, provided by organizations of the Union of Agricultural Workers of Korea on the occasion of the Ninth Congress of the Workers' Party of Korea, were conveyed to the Manjin Farm in Ongjin County, South Hwanghae Province of the DPRK.
A meeting to convey the tractors took place on February 11, with the attendance of Min Sung Chol, vice department director of the WPK Central Committee, officials of the UAWK Central Committee and officials and agricultural workers of the farm.
At the meeting, speakers noted that the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un ensured that those "Nonggunmaeng" small tractors were sent to the Manjin Farm.
At the end of the meeting the participants looked round the tractors.
Small tractors, provided by organizations of the Union of Agricultural Workers of Korea on the occasion of the Ninth Congress of the Workers' Party of Korea, were conveyed to the Manjin Farm in Ongjin County, South Hwanghae Province of the DPRK.
A meeting to convey the tractors took place on February 11, with the attendance of Min Sung Chol, vice department director of the WPK Central Committee, officials of the UAWK Central Committee and officials and agricultural workers of the farm.
At the meeting, speakers noted that the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un ensured that those "Nonggunmaeng" small tractors were sent to the Manjin Farm.
At the end of the meeting the participants looked round the tractors.
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KCNA:Koryo Paper Production Increases in DPRK
According to Minju Joson, the Sunan Koryo Paper Mill is boosting the production of Koryo paper by dint of traditional papermaking technology associated with wisdom and talents of the Korean people.
Koryo paper, called "Korean paper" from olden times and spread to neighboring countries, is unique and excellent for being white, tough, smooth, soft and resistant to worms.
The Koryo paper produced at the mill is various in its kinds, including paper bearing natural landscapes and paper of various colors.
The mill is directing efforts to producing Koryo paper in an industrial way.
The mill, which already established a paper production process in contact with relevant units, has laid a foundation for mass-producing high-quality Koryo paper by intensifying research to gloss the both sides of paper with remodeled machines.
It also introduced Koryo paper into various sectors, including the cosmetics industry sector, and opened up a prospect for producing various kinds of sanitary goods.
According to Minju Joson, the Sunan Koryo Paper Mill is boosting the production of Koryo paper by dint of traditional papermaking technology associated with wisdom and talents of the Korean people.
Koryo paper, called "Korean paper" from olden times and spread to neighboring countries, is unique and excellent for being white, tough, smooth, soft and resistant to worms.
The Koryo paper produced at the mill is various in its kinds, including paper bearing natural landscapes and paper of various colors.
The mill is directing efforts to producing Koryo paper in an industrial way.
The mill, which already established a paper production process in contact with relevant units, has laid a foundation for mass-producing high-quality Koryo paper by intensifying research to gloss the both sides of paper with remodeled machines.
It also introduced Koryo paper into various sectors, including the cosmetics industry sector, and opened up a prospect for producing various kinds of sanitary goods.
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