Crime of Japan, Sworn Enemy of Korean Nation
Pyongyang, April 20 (KCNA) -- After occupying Korea illegally in the last century, the Japanese imperialists replaced the residency-general in Korea with the government-general in Korea, a colonial fascist ruling body, and enforced the government-general administration from October 1910.

In the first period of the government-general administration, the Japanese imperialists enforced a military rule based on the gendarme and police system and set up a lot of repressive machinery including police everywhere in Korea to harshly suppress and massacre the Korean people.

It is well proved by the fact that the number of Koreans arrested by the Japanese imperialists in 1918 increased more than ten times as compared with 1912.

The Japanese imperialists kept in force the "Security Law" and "Press Law", which was enforced with the aim of depriving the Korean people of all their rights and suppressing the anti-Japanese struggle, while cooking up and promulgating new evil laws such as "rally control ordinance". As a result, the fierce atmosphere of terror politics pervaded the whole of Korea.

Frightened by the towering anti-Japanese sentiment of the Korean people in 1919, the Japanese imperialists replaced the military rule with "cultural rule" and increased the secret police instead of gendarme and police.

They made desperate efforts to force the Korean people to change their names to Japanese ones and obliterate the spoken and written Korean language. Owing to their cruel government-general rule, Korea turned into a veritable hell and a dark land where massacres were rampant.

A website in Latin America carried an article on Japan's past crimes, noting that although the colonial era existed in human history, only Japan enforced such a heinous predatory policy of depriving the Koreans of their language and names and robbing even bowls and spoons at each home. It revealed that human, material and mental damage the Japanese imperialists inflicted to the Korean people during their colonial rule is countless. -0-

www.kcna.kp (2026.04.20.)

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Childcare and State Benefits
The DPRK gives top priority to providing the best conditions for upbringing of children.
The people-oriented policy of bringing up the children at state and public expense dates back to the period of building a new Korea after its liberation on August 15, 1945, when nurseries and kindergartens were set up in towns, industrial establishments and state-run farms at state expense. During the Fatherland Liberation War (June 25, 1950-July 27, 1953), the state ensured that baby homes and orphanages were established to take care of the war orphans.
With the adoption of the Law of the DPRK on the Nursing and Upbringing of Children in April 1976, the system of bringing up the children at state and public expense was further consolidated on a legal basis.
In the new century, baby homes and orphanages have been built in Pyongyang and other parts of the country while nurseries and kindergartens have been renovated across the country.
In February 2022, the Law of the DPRK on Childcare was adopted as a subsidiary of the law on the nursing and upbringing of children.
The childcare law stipulates that the state shall establish a well-knit system of producing and supplying children’s nutritious foods, supply all of them with nutritious foods like dairy products for free and in a regular way and provide them with the best conditions for their upbringing.
With the implementation of the new childcare law, a large number of cow and goat farms were newly built, renovated and expanded up and down the country, steady efforts were made in provinces, cities and counties to increase milk production and provide relevant production facilities, and the system and order of supplying dairy goods was put in place.
On the other hand, the daily nutritious foods supply norms at nurseries and kindergartens, which were set decades ago, have been more scientifically detailed by age, with the variety of nutritious foods increasing to dozens.
The First Session of the 15th Supreme People’s Assembly of the DPRK held in March stressed the need to continue to increase the state benefits for childcare and education of the rising generations.
Jong Hwa Sun

Young people in the DPRK have their own daily newspaper "Chongnyon Jonwi" (Youth Vanguard ) which celebrated its 80th anniverary

DPRK's Best Inventors for 2025
Pyongyang, April 21 (KCNA) -- Doctor Jong Ryong Su, manager of the Pyongyang Jonghyang Building Materials Factory, was registered as one of the DPRK's best inventors for 2025.

He developed more than 30 kinds of quality paints, waterproofs and concrete additives, thus contributing to diversifying building materials and implementing the construction policy of the Workers' Party of Korea.

Lots of building materials including functional paint were awarded the December 15 Quality Medal and certificate and registered as February 2 goods as their technical specifications conform to or surpass the international standards, and the factory was granted patents on over 10 kinds of building materials.

Modern testing and measuring instruments, production equipment and scientific quality inspection system scientifically ensuring the quality indexes of building materials are associated with the thought, research and devotion of Jong Ryong Su. -0-

www.kcna.kp (2026.04.21.)