Admin’s note: Japanese medias are talking about Korean missiles flying near the Japanese airspace, I will wait for DPRK announcement before confirming anything.

Rodong Sinmun : Beautiful Stories under Socialist System (1/4)

As One Family

On the morning of the New Year’s Day, some persons visited the house of Chon Po Ok, a female war veteran living in Hwasong District of Pyongyang.

With materials for tonics and souvenirs prepared for the war veteran, they visited her before anyone else although they were busy to call at many others on the holiday morning.

They told her that it is the due duty of younger generation to visit the war veteran first and please her. They have called at Chon Po Ok on holidays, anniversaries and her birthday.

So, Chon regards them as her real grandsons and granddaughters.
Like this, young people in our country respect the predecessors of the revolution as genuine teachers and benefactors who provided precious mental heritage for all of us. It is a tendency of our society and a beautiful picture which can be seen only in our country.

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Although They Are Far Away from Home

Officials of Songchon County, South Phyongan Province called at a house in Sangha-ri on the occasion of the New Year. Two sons of the family, who volunteered for the construction site of the Sinuiju Combined Greenhouse Farm, are innovators of the Paektusan Hero Youth Shock Brigade.

After they left for the construction site, the officials of Songchon County have always paid deep attention to their family lest it should feel any inconvenience.

Other officials of the county visited many families of volunteers who went to the construction site in the Wihwa Island area.

The families expressed thanks to the officials who have taken deep care of them, but the officials told them that the members of the Paektusan Hero Youth Shock Brigade are prides of Songchon County and it is their duty to take care of them.

Hearing the news of the hometown on the holiday, the shock brigade members renewed their determination to work harder, keeping in mind the benevolent people’s expectation and affections, although they are far away from hometown.

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Affection Reflected in New Year’s Greeting Card

On the morning of the New Year’s Day Ri Kum Sun, residing in the １１th People’s Neighbourhood Unit in Tongsan-dong No. ２ of Rangnang District, received the New Year’s Greeting Cards from the orphans of Huichon Orphan’s Secondary School.

Reading the cards, she was deeply impressed and recollected the past days in which she and her family were acquainted with the orphans far away.

Several years ago, her father, who was working at a mushroom farm, came across an official of Huichon Orphan’s Secondary School who was on a business trip to Pyongyang.

Her father learnt from the official about the fact that the secondary school was going to cultivate the mushroom to improve the diet life of the orphans and actively helped him prepare the materials needed for the mushroom production.

Since then her family has formed a kindred relation with the orphans and devoted their sincerity to them. During those days Ri Kum Sun keenly felt the benevolence of the motherly Party who spares nothing for the parentless children.

Therefore Ri has covered the road of devotion for the orphans after the marriage.

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Song Resounded at Workers’ Hostel

On the morning of January ２ some people visited the workers’ hostel of the Wonsan School Uniform Factory.

They are none other than the officials of the factory.

Lodgers of the hostel, welcoming the officials, were deeply impressed.
Because the officials had visited the hostel on the early morning of the New Year’s Day to take warm care of the lodgers’ living condition and they visited the hostel again on the morning of the following day.

Looking at the officials, the lodgers felt the kindred affection.

Indeed, for the lodgers, the hostel was like their dear home and the officials were like their flesh and blood.

Therefore the workers’ hostel resounded with songs of happiness which were sung together by the lodgers and officials.

They were songs in praise of the benevolent socialist system which values the working class the most.

KCNA:DPRK Foreign Ministry Spokesperson on Venezuelan Situation

A spokesperson for the Foreign Ministry of the DPRK gave the following answer to a question raised by KCNA on January 4 as regards the fact that the U.S. wildly violated the sovereignty of Venezuela:

We are paying attention to the gravity of the present Venezuelan situation caused by the U.S. high-handedness act, in connection with the increase of instability to be added to the already weakened regional situation.

The incident is another example that clearly confirms once again the rogue and brutal nature of the U.S. which the international community has so frequently witnessed for a long time.

The Foreign Ministry of the DPRK strongly denounces the U.S. hegemony-seeking act committed in Venezuela as the most serious form of encroachment of sovereignty and as a wanton violation of the UN Charter and international laws with respect for sovereignty, non-interference and territorial integrity as their main purpose.

The international community should recognize the seriousness of the present Venezuelan situation, which caused a catastrophic consequence to fixing the structure of regional and international relations, and raise voices of due protest and denunciation against the U.S habituated violation of sovereignty of other countries

KCNA:Innovative successes are being made in various units and sectors of the national economy.

Officials and workers of the Pyongyang Thermal Power Plant have registered high results in electricity production since the beginning of the new year.

The workers of the Musan Mining Complex are making uninterrupted innovations after successfully fulfilling their first-day production plan in the new year.

The railway transport sector is increasing transport.

The engine drivers of the West Pyongyang Service Brigade of Engine under the Pyongyang Railway Bureau, and Pukchang and Sinsongchon service brigades of engine are achieving good results in transporting materials every day.

The workers of the Hamhung Railway Bureau, who successfully ensured freight transport on the first day of the year, continue to expand their transportation successes.

Kaechon and Chongjin railway bureaus have also worked out rational transport plans and kept the trains running without accidents

Admin’s note : in DPRK, housing is provided by the government free of cost.

Article 25 of the constitution : The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea regards the steady improvement of the material and cultural standards of the people as the supreme principle of its activities. The increasing material wealth of society in our country, where taxes have been abolished, is used entirely to promote the well-being of the working people. The State shall provide all the working people with every condition for obtaining food, clothing and housing.

DPRK anti US poster from 2017