In April the 18th International Festival of Detective Films was

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Made in Juche 104 (2015) by production company No. 3 of the TV Series Studio, the film was adapted from the long accounts written by a revolutionary veteran who took part in the struggle against the Japanese aggressors’ military occupation of Korea in the first half of the last century.

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It is set in the first half of the 1940s, when the Korean People’s Revolutionary Army under the command of Kim Il Sung conducted positive activities in the homeland to actively meet the great event of national liberation, and in the period of building a new Korea following national liberation on August 15, Juche 34 (1945).

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Jong Kil Chan, the hero, who languished as a member of a ruined nation, has been trained as a special operative of the KPRA and struggles to frustrate the Japanese imperialists’ Arrows Operation targeted at the headquarters of the revolution. His daughter Jong Ok Gum follows in her father’s footsteps and defies death to defend the leader with firm conviction.

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A dramatic conflict occurs between Jong Ok Gum and her father because of her misunderstanding. After learning that her father is a special member of the Association for the Restoration of the Fatherland, she decides to follow her father’s way. She joins the operatives’ group Pangphae (Shield) and distinguishes herself in foiling the Arrows Operation. The film is noted for its well-organized elements and unique features. It highlights its philosophical idea that defending the leader even at the risk of one’s life is the only way to protect oneself and the well-being and destiny of one’s own family.

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At the festival there was an exceptional showing of the TV series, which won great applause among the delegates.

Calling it the most impressive of all, they said that the Korean film drew the audiences into the world of cinema by sustaining its peculiar characteristics. They added that they were fascinated by the director’s delicate and peculiar dramatic arrangement, the attractive acting, excellent camerawork and image processing. In particular, they praised it for its national identity and clear theme.

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The scriptwriter is Jong Yong Bom, the director Om Chang Gol and the main characters Ri Su Ryong and Ri Su Gyong.

They have set an ambitious goal and are making painstaking efforts to produce more films.

Chairman please tell me where I can purchase this film.

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>>14659147
maybe Naenara?
I dunno lol. I've never really looked into buying DPRK media. I think Naenara offers ebooks and music at least.
I just poke around youtube and other free type places for my DPRK media hookups.

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A research group of the Silicate Engineering Institute under the State Academy of Sciences developed new fireproof cement and succeeded in local production.
It is stronger than imports in heat resistance and 1.5 times longer in serviceable life.

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The group established a method of producing the cement with locally available raw materials and solved sci-tech problems in putting its production on an industrial basis.
The success has been introduced at different major industrial establishments of the country like the Pyongyang Thermal Power Complex and Sunchon Cement Complex, proving very effective.
KCNA

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Alexander Matsegora, Russian ambassador to the DPRK, and staff members of his embassy did on August 23 a friendship labour at the construction site of Ryomyong Street to mark the 15th anniversary of Chairman Kim Jong Il's visit to the Russian Federation, the 5th anniversary of his visit to the Siberian and Far Eastern Regions and the Day of Songun.

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After being briefed on the building of Ryomyong Street in front of a map showing the bird's-eye view of the street, they helped builders carry building materials.
They handed aid materials to the construction site.

>>14657961
And all of this is...?

>>14661752
A glorious movie

>>14661891
OK, gonna check it out.

Also gonna look for the manga that OP used for the thread image. What I've got it's called High Mobility Unemployed Nitenberugu (or something like that). But cannot find it anywhere.

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>>14662008
looks to be "Neetenberg"
apparently some robot parody based around NEETs

>>14662095
Heh. Sounds interesting, but literally can't find the scans.

Will look for it the day after tomorrow for I'm hitting the beach now.

Also will gonna look for that movie OP presented.

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ニーテンベルグ

Enter that into google. Lotsa Neetenberg images.

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Ryanggang Province in the northern highland of the DPRK, is a leading potato producer of the country.
The provinceIt has pushed forward the cultivation of high-yielding varieties of potato.
In this regard, Ri Kum Il, a section chief of the provincial branch of the Academy of Agricultural Science, said: Our branch succeeded in breeding new varieties of potato, strong in resistance to diseases and high in starch content and productivity, and has planted them on a large scale in several farms. Now, their sown area reaches several hundreds of hectares and a rich harvest is expected.

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The branch also pays efforts to establishing the system of producing virus-free seed potatoes and increasing the potato production.
As a result of the efforts, new high-yielding potato varieties have been officially registered by the state in recent years.
Meanwhile, the branch contributed itself to improving several thousand hectares of arable land in Paekam and Samjiyon counties on the basis of soil analysis favourable for potato farming.

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The people of the DPRK are recalling with deep emotion the brilliant path covered by its young people under the loving care of the peerlessly great men with the 9th Congress of the Kim Il Sung Socialist Youth League as an occasion.
The sacred patriotic tradition of the Korean youth was created by young vanguards and guerilla fighters who carved out the Korean revolution and waged the bloody anti-Japanese armed struggle under the leadership of President Kim Il sung.

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So according to the file's info I downloaded this a little over twelve years ago, back in early August 2004

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The President aroused all the patriotic young people to building a new country by rallying them under the banner of democracy after the country's liberation from Japan's colonial rule and inspired them to immortal feats during the Fatherland Liberation War.

>>14662008
>>14661891
it's a tv series
just google "DPRK Bulletproof Wall"

>>14657961
What is this from?

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>>14669283
see
>>14662095
>>14662425
Neetenberg / ニーテンベルグ

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Leader Kim Jong Il set forth the slogan "Love the young people!" and had shown boundless loving care for them, calling them the reserve combat unit and detached force of the Supreme Commander and the eternal companions of the Workers' Party of Korea.

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In the period of the Arduous March, the forced march, he personally named a highway "Youth Hero Motorway" to convey the feats performed by its young builders to posterity and put forward those, who dedicated their all for society, the collective and comrades, as the paragons of the Songun era.

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He also set the foundation day of the Young Communist League of Korea as the Youth Day (August 28) and saw to it that the youth league is shined with the august name of the President.

>>14668066
How time flies.

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Supreme leader Kim Jong Un has encouraged young people to perform great feats in all fields of building a socialist power and prepare themselves for the vanguard fighters of the revolution.

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Whenever he meets soldiers of the Korean People's Army, he has had photo sessions with them.

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And he highly praised the patriotic devotion made by members of the youth shock brigade in building the Paektusan Hero Youth Power Station as a symbol of youth power.

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Songun serves as the terms of the era symbolizing and praising the personality of leader Kim Jong Il as the peerlessly great man and his immortal revolutionary career and feats, and as the terms symbolic of the era of independence.
There are the invincible might of the Korean People's Army and the might of the DPRK dignified for being the world's political and military power and full-fledged nuclear weapons state thanks to the Songun revolutionary leadership he had provided all his life.

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After making his appearance in the era with the spirit of reigning over the world and the sun, the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un, another great brilliant commander of Songun, has steered the political trend of the world and the new century of history and enabled the DPRK to emerge a matchless nuclear weapons state and prosperous country of the people.

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As Kim Jong Un is steering the world's political trend to the orientation of independence with a wealth of experience, the Songun revolutionary feats performed by Kim Jong Il are immortal and the future of mankind is bright.
The 21st century will shed its rays as the century of Korea as the world will move centering around it.

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Only when every country and nation aspiring after independence pays attention to the issue of youth and directs effort to it, can they grow to be dependable pillars which will take the future of the country on their shoulders and the future of mankind will become brighter.

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From ancient times the Korean people used soya beans to make various condiments, like soy sauce and soybean paste, for their diet. The soybean paste contains essential amino acids, sugar, vitamins B1 and B2 and other substances. Linoleic acid and lecithin contained in the paste help prevent arteriosclerosis and heart diseases. It is well known to the world that condiments like the bean paste make foods tasty and increase their nutritive value.

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In Korea lots of condiments factories have gone up across the country, rendering positive service to the people’s eating habit. One of them is the Pyongyang Condiments Factory. Though it is not so large, it provides the Pyongyang citizens with soybean paste, soy sauce and monosodium glutamate. The products of the factory are popular with the consumers. With all production processes modernized, it turns out various kinds of products at will on the basis of the integrated production system.

>>14677057
I want that lunch box.

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While pushing ahead with the research work to make production processes automatic, unmanned and germ-free and improve the quality of products, it developed industrial methods of producing vitamin E and lecithin.

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All these achievements are attributable to the factory’s effort to implement the policy of giving priority to science and technology. It has a sci-tech diffusion room, an e-reading room, a distance learning room and a library, so scientists, technicians and all other employees learn latest science and technology.

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In particular, a large number of workers attend distance-learning lectures given by relevant colleges of the Kim Chaek University of Technology, the Pyongyang Han Tok Su University of Light Industry and other central universities. Such a study-while-working system was evidently useful. An example is the laying of the vitamin E production process.

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A few years ago the managers and researchers of the factory launched the project to obtain vitamin E from waste beans after extraction of oil. Vitamin E has several functions such as retarding the ageing, controlling blood sugar and re-energizing metabolism, so it is indispensable to health improvement, particularly for children, women and the elderly. However, it was not an easy job as the process involved very sensitive sci-tech problems.

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The research team led by Kim Hye Suk, head of the factory’s industrial laboratory, and Hwang Kum Chol, head of the oil workshop, pooled their wisdom and conducted experiments and tests time and again to extract vitamin E. Finally they found out a proper production process. Hwang, graduate from a distance learning college, found a decisive solution conducive to raising the vitamin content, the bottleneck in the research.

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Thanks to the devoted effort of the researchers and workers the vitamin E production process was established in a short period of time. Hwang says, “The success we achieved with our own effort and technology without difficulty is attributable to our solid scientific and technological foundation. And the close combination of sci-tech research and production has brought us much more profit.”

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Building on the success the factory is now waging a dynamic campaign to mass-produce lecithin and lysine. Now all the employees of the factory are striving day and night to bring earlier the future when they will have a better life.

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As products of the Sinuiju Cosmetics Factory the Pomhyanggi-brand Kaesong Koryo insam cosmetics, main ingredient of which is the world-famous Kaesong Koryo insam, are winning top popularity in the DPRK.
Kaesong Koryo insam protects five viscera, has a good influence on cerebrovascular and cardiovascular systems and plays the role of activating skin metabolism and retarding skin aging.

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The factory uses spring water in Mt Soksu, which has clearly been filtered through natural layers for making cosmetics.
Various Pomhyanggi-brand cosmetics are functional cosmetics which make skin healthy and sleek. As a result they are enjoying a good reputation among customers and exported to foreign countries.

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-Third-series Cosmetics
These cosmetics are suitable for oily skin. They maintain balance between oil and moisture and, through astriction and disinfection, make skin look fresh and healthy.

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- Fourth-series Cosmetics
They improve effectively the physiological character of parched skin.
- Fifth-series Cosmetics
They are aimed at protecting normal skin, which is not too oily or dry. They have no side effects.

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- Seventh-series Cosmetics
Thanks to the deliberate cooperation between anti-aging materials including precisely separated grape stone polyphenol, apricot stone oil, plant clarification elements, these cosmetics retard skin aging.

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- Ninth-series Cosmetics
As multifunctional cosmetics which improve theoretically the permeating effect of the functional materials and nutritive elements for skin, they improve metabolism of the skin cells, increase immunocompetence, restrain melanin formation, accelerate antioxidation and provide good nutrients, so as to retard skin aging and moisturize and whiten the skin.

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Alongside the production of cosmetics, the Pomhyanggi-brand nutrient pills are made for resistance and to increase the work of the labourers in DPRK. By ingesting considerable amounts of the pills the people can assure the cleaning of bodly fuilds and stop cell division while seeking nutritional unification to achieve heights as high as our leader Kim Jong-Un.

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>>14695840
Nutrition is one!

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The Sariwon Youth Stadium in North Hwanghae Province of the DPRK has been successfully renovated on a modern basis.
The 22 000-seat stadium has a football field with synthetic grass, volleyball and basketball courts and a running track with rubber carpet.

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Sustained efforts are being directed to laying conditions for different thematic tourist activities. On the beautiful Rungna Islet in Pyongyang the May Day Stadium has been renovated and new buildings have gone up, including the Rungna People’s Pleasure Ground, the Rungna People’s Sports Park, the Rungna Dolphinarium and the Pyongyang International Football School. The Mirae Scientists Street, the Sci-Tech Complex and other monumental edifices have come into existence in central Pyongyang, while the Mirim Riding Club was established in the suburbs.

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In North Phyongan Province the Tongnim Hotel was built in the vicinity of the Tongnim Falls, renowned as one of the eight scenic spots in the northwestern part of Korea. In Kangwon Province the Masikryong Ski Resort and the Masikryong Hotel rose up and the Songdowon International Children’s Camp got a complete facelift. Provinces have laid parks and pleasure grounds of their own styles, forms and contents to suit their local features.

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A number of undertakings have been pushed forward to protect the natural environment, thus making remarkable improvements in management of towns, forests, rivers and coasts. Different measures have been taken to protect the land, water and biological resources. These efforts have gone a long way to the work of satisfying the needs of the tourists for virgin natural environment.

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The tourists’ interest is further aroused by the development of therapeutic sources like natural scenery, climate, water and biological environment. For instance, the mineral water is generally of high value in terms of the content of methane silicic acid, hence very helpful in protection and improvement of health.

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Korea abounds in useful hot springs and mineral water. There are as many as 170 mineral water springs and hot springs in the country, typically at Kyongsong, Sinchon, Ryonggang, Yangdok, Ongjin, Sambang and Okhodong.
These conditions offer a good opportunity to the tourists to Korea to enjoy their holiday.

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In order to meet the needs for tourism, the DPRK government arranges different kinds of unique tourist programmes, such as architectural tourism, football tourism and flying tourism, so that the tourists can have an enjoyable time. The country arranges tourist activities all the year round.

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Some typical attractions are the lunar New Year’s Day, the Kimilsungia festival in April, the Kimjongilia festival in February, colourful festivities, international trade fairs in spring and autumn, the Mangyongdae Prize international marathon race, and activities in the Masikryong Ski Resort in winter.

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Thanks to the government policy of positive development of tourist resources, a dynamic campaign is going on in Kangwon Province, including the Wonsan area, to develop the scenic spots into world-famous tourist attractions.

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An international workshop took place in May 2015 on the programme of developing the Wonsan-Mt. Kumgang international tourist zone. The area is already known to the world, as it has harmonious landscape of mountains, fields, sea and lakes in combination, and there are a lot of tourist resources for development.

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The Wonsan area, for example, has hundreds of scenic spots, more than 100 sites of historical importance, bathing resorts, several natural lakes, and mineral water springs, all of which arouse considerable interest among the tourists.

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In the vicinity of Wonsan City there are famous tourist attractions like Ullim Falls, the Masikryong Ski Resort and Sogwang Temple, which are 68, 25 and 47 km away from central Wonsan respectively. In particular Kosong County, Kangwon Province, is proud of Mt. Kumgang which is referred to as a complex of all the natural beauties on the earth.

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>>14699731
http://tamashii.jp/special/toystory/index_en.html

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A European tourist who had been to Mt. Kumgang several times said, “The magnificent view of Mt. Kumgang, courageous formations of the mountain, hanging cliffs, unperturbed virgin forests, crystal-clear waterfalls, cascading streams, the rays and colours of the deep pools—what on earth could challenge this charm?”

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Now preparations for the tour to the Wonsan International Friendship Flight Festival 2016 slated to happen in Wonsan in the coming September are making brisk headway.

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Diplomatic envoys and representatives of international bodies in Pyongyang visited on September 6 the Kumkhop General Foodstuff Factory for Sportspersons on the 68th founding anniversary of the DPRK.
The guests looked round various production processes of the factory.

They also visited the Pyongyang Sports Equipment and Materials Factory that day.

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The 12th Pyongyang Autumn International Trade Fair goes on in the DPRK, starting on September 5.
Taking part in it are more than 280 companies from 15 countries and regions, including the DPRK.
Lim Chun Horng, manager of Malaysia's Mamee-Double Decker SDN. BHD, noted that streets of Pyongyang are very clean and its citizens are very kind.

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Water shortage is a global concern as its resources are dwindling in many parts of the world for global warming, severe natural degradation, growing population and industrial facilities on the rise. Worldwide water scarcity also influences the DPRK.

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A project has been launched to turn the flow of the Chongchon River into the Phyongnam irrigation system and Lake Yonphung.

Construction forces were enlisted from across the country. Technical personnel designed the waterway to flow gravitationally.

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Several months have passed since the groundbreaking in February.

With ardent patriotism, the builders have done a lot of work.

They already dug over 90 percent of earthen waterway and completed bases and piers for bridges. Some sections are near to completion.

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Despite lingering span of heat and sporadic heavy rain in July and August, the builders carried on excavation, ground filling, tunnelling and concrete tamping as scheduled. Scrupulous measures were taken to ensure a good supply of materials.

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The overfulfilment of the planned workload in a little over half a year is attributable to the full operation of equipment and scientific technical guidance. Shortening the length of the waterway seven kilometres while ensuring the gravity-fed head is credited to the technical personnel. “The project will turn Lake Yonphung into an inexhaustible one and the Phyongnam Plain into fertile soil,” said Kwon Yong Thae, a field manager.

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One day in November 1947, instructed officials to design a national flag of a state to be founded soon.

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Kim Il SungHe said that the national flag should be made in a Korean fashion to pulsate with the Korean soul and the idea and spirit of Juche. He added it should embody the noble patriotic spirit of the Korean revolutionaries, who fought a protracted armed struggle against the Japanese imperialists to liberate the country, and reflect the patriotic and revolutionary enthusiasm and invincible might of the Korean people who were working hard to build a new Korea.

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Months later, in January 1948, he checked the design and said that it is a good idea to use red, white and blue colours. But the three colours were not proportionately distributed, he said, adding it’s better to use red colour as a background in the middle part of the flag and white and blue colours in the upper and lower parts symmetrically, and that the parts of white and blue colours should be narrower but longer to be seen more clearly.

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After a while, he showed several designs he had drawn by himself and asked for opinions of the officials.

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When he went to the great Paektu Mountain, in the summer of 1949, the great leader had visions of the glorious outcome of the revolution, when his great grandchild would found and take heed of the glorious nation in the far reachers of space. With that the great leader painted the flag using nectar from the red communist flowers of the sacred mountaing.

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>>14712074
it would be cool if they made up more things about outer space

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He said the length and width of the design should be well fitted, it is better not to put the white circle in the centre but a little closer to the flagpole, and that it is good to draw Mt Paektu and the sun in the white circle, but it is better to replace them with a five-point star.

Under his careful and meticulous guidance the three-colour flag of the DPRK came into being.

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A performance of primary organizations of the trade unions across the country was given at the Cultural Hall of the Ministry of Railways on September 7 on the occasion of the 68th anniversary of the founding of the DPRK.

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Among the audience were Ju Yong Gil, chairman of the Central Committee of the General Federation of Trade Unions of Korea, officials concerned, officials and members of the trade unions and workers.

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Primary organizations of the trade unions selected at the contest of the performance staged a performance.
Put on the stage were such numbers as chorus of revolutionary hymn "Ode to General Kim Jong Un" and "Song of the Proclamation of the People's Republic".

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The performers sang high praises of the feats President Kim Il Sung and Chairman Kim Jong Il performed by demonstrating the DPRK to the world as the socialist state independent in politics, self-supporting in economy and self-reliant in national defence and providing an eternal foundation of prosperous Kim Il Sung's Korea.

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Such numbers as story and song "Voice of My Heart" truthfully represented the personality of supreme leader Kim Jong Un as a peerlessly great man.
Put on the stage were also such numbers as chorus poem "Let us dynamically launch 200-day campaign of loyalty".

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Nestling on the top of Mt Paektu, Lake Chon is suggestive of a beautiful picture.
The lake was named so for the impression of its sublimity. It was also called Ryongdam or Ryongwangthaek, meaning “a lake where the Dragon King lives.”

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Presentation of music, dance and poem "Story told by 'Arirang'" was given at the Ponghwa Art Theatre on September 9, the 68th founding anniversary of the DPRK.
Among the audience were Kim Yong Nam, Hwang Pyong So, Choe Ryong Hae and other senior Party, state and army officials, officials of Party and armed forces organs, working people's organizations, ministries and national agencies and those in Pyongyang and persons of merit.

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Present there on invitation were overseas Koreans, the chief of the Pyongyang Mission of the Anti-Imperialist National Democratic Front, diplomatic envoys and representative of international bodies in Pyongyang and their spouses, military attaches and their spouses and other foreign guests.

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Folk songs, national instrumental music pieces, dance pieces and song and dance works comprehensively and impressively dealt with the time-honoured history of the Korean nation created along with Arirang.

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In such numbers as female solo and grand kayagum ensemble "Arirang" the performers gave artistic presentation to the past and present of the DPRK when a definite end was put to the history of twists and turns and the dignity of the country and nation were put on the highest level thanks to President Kim Il Sung and Chairman Kim Jong Il.

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The performance was highly acclaimed by the audience for reflecting the iron-will of all service persons and people to glorify the DPRK as the eternal state of the great leaders and dynamically advance along the path of building a powerful socialist country indicated at the Seventh Congress of the Workers' Party of Korea.

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A natural broad-spectrum antiviral liquor was developed in the DPRK. Its main ingredients are burdock and foxglove.
The liquor is, in particular, efficacious for respiratory diseases like measles and influenza with no side effect.

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Students of Kim Il Sung University in the DPRK are now intent on the preparations for another international college programming contest.
They won a trophy, two gold prizes and two speed prizes in the Asian regional preliminaries of the 40th ICPC (International College Programming Contest) last year and placed the second at the 40th ICPC in May this year.

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According to Jong Kwang Byol, an instructor of the university's group of information science, the university is to host the Asian regional preliminaries for the 41st ICPC in November.
He said that their immediate goal is to win a gold medal at the forthcoming regional preliminaries and the ultimate goal is to hold supremacy in IT field, adding that most of students and instructors of the group are youths in their twenties.

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When the great leader visited a group of growing youths from the University, he felt the uneasy of a teenager and using great perception the great leader went to the boy and told him of his great perils he faced during the revolution. That calmed the boy and tears of joy were seen in his serene face.

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>>14725796
>When the great leader visited a group of growing youths
they should just start claiming the KIS is running around as the Eternal President giving on the spot guidance and ignore that he's been dead for a couple of decades

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Salt works are found in large numbers on the western coast of Korea with physiographical and climatic conditions favourable for salt production.

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Mainly engaged in salt production from seawater in the past, they are now producing salt from underground brines that are found in the area.
The Kwisong Salt Works in Onchon County, Nampho, is among them.

Why is this sorry spam thread still up?

>>14725906
Because dorkly has always posted good /m/ images alongside North Korean News.

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Salt manufacture from brines proves very profitable, because it reduces preliminary evaporation ponds that occupy 40 – 50 percent of total area of salt fields and cuts production cycle. As brines occur at shallow depth, they are easy to extract and cost-effective.

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It is known that brines containing 1°Be′ higher salinity turn out salt 30 – 40 tons more per hectare every year.
And the brines found in the area have several times higher salinity, increasing the productivity of salt compared with the previous salt production from seawater.

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>>14725921
So did google image search whenever i typed in "mecha" and variations of it. This just shits up the board, doesn't it?

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The respected Marshal Kim Jong Un instructed that the production method of salt from natural brines, resources of great economic value, should be introduced so as to effect a new turn in the salt production industry that takes an important share in the country’s economic development and the improvement of the people’s living standards.

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Technicians involved in the April 15 technical innovation shock brigade newly manufactured a hydraulic drilling machine that is suited to geological features and environmental conditions of salt manufacture and of great economic profitability.

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デカければいいものでもないと思う

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The salt works is now able to treble the salt production compared to the previous production from seawater while cutting the area of the salt fields to less than 30 percent. Many ponds and pans previously used for storing and evaporating seawater for salt production are now used for sea culture. New production method has also saved much manpower and energy, lowering the production cost a great deal.

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Salt produced from brines tastes good as it contains less bittern, rich potassium and iodine, and little heavy metals, so it is widely used for producing health foods and other daily necessities.
Mounting heaps of salt in the Kwisong Salt Works are a valuable outcome of the patriotic devotion made by its employees who have turned out to materialize the gigantic programme of building a socialist power put forward at the Seventh Congress of the Workers’ Party of Korea.

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All the army and people of the DPRK have turned out as one in a drive to reconstruct the flood-hit areas in the northern part of North Hamgyong Province.
Medical workers are also taking active part in hygienic and anti-epidemic campaign in those areas.

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fficials of the Ministry of Public Health have taken immediate measures to send prophylactic medicines, injectors and other medicines to the areas.
And due attention has been paid to solving the issue of drinking water in step with the supply of water disinfectant.

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Kim Jong Un, Chairman of the Workers' Party of Korea and Chairman of the State Affairs Commission of the DPRK and Supreme Commander of the Korean People's Army, toured Farm 1116 under KPA Unit 810.
He looked round high-yielding varieties of crops harvested on the farm this year, saying that he was very pleased to receive a report on the newly-bred seeds of maize and dry-field rice.
Seeing corns as big as forearm, well ripe rice ears and other crops with a bright smile on his face, he expressed great satisfaction over the results, noting that every achievement made by the farm would make him feel refreshed and pleasant.

>>14657961
>the DPRK’s TV series Bulletproof Wall won the special diploma
"Special" special?

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>>14728827
it's no Zaido.

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President Kim Il Sung and Chairman Kim Jong Il, who had walked along lanes across farm fields in their lifetime in all weathers to solve the food problem for the people, would have been very glad to see those new high-yielding varieties of crops, he said.
He went round trial and cultivation plots, greenhouse and other parts of the farm to learn in detail about its seed production.
He was very satisfied over the fact that the farm bred a high-yielding strain of maize suitable to the country's climatic and soil conditions.

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The army and people of the DPRK faced difficulties all of a sudden at a time when they were nearing the unprecedented great victory in the significant year 2016.
Strong storm and downpour unprecedented in meteorological observation since the liberation of Korea hit the areas along the Tuman River in the northern tip of Korea, causing huge damages.
Tens of thousands of dwelling houses and public buildings collapsed, traffic network and power supply system and cultivated land were submerged or destroyed, inflicting great pain and hardships on the inhabitants.

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Under the emergency situation the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea made a crucial decision to turn the main thrust of the 200 day-campaign into the drive of recovering from flood damage to tide over the difficulties.
It called on all the Party members, service personnel and other people to direct all human, material and technical potentials of the country to the campaign in order to recover from the damage at an early date and win an eye-opening victory in the struggle for turning misfortune into a blessing.

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In hearty response to the call of the Party, the army and people of the DPRK are full of high enthusiasm and confidence to create new amazing legendary tales of heroic Korea in the campaign and demonstrate once again the might of Juche Korea.
Turning adverse situation into blessing--this is a proud tradition of Juche Korea.

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Kim Jong Il visited the Sakju Foodstuff Factory on July 19, 2002.
After making the rounds of the production lines, he headed for the exhibition hall. An official of the factory boasted that the soy sauce and bean paste on display were delicious.
“Is that so?” said the visitor, urging the officials in his company to have a taste of them. >>14732476

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They all agreed that the soy sauce and bean paste had a good taste. But one of them said that the bean paste on display had a better taste than that in the line of fermentation.
A senior official of the local province was baffled, wondering if the product was brought from another factory.
Other officials shook their heads in bewilderment.

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“You are wrong,” snorted Kim Jong Il.
Pointing at a bowl of bean paste, he said, “The bean paste you tasted in the line of fermentation has yet to mature and the one on display has already matured, so they have different tastes. It is natural that the latter has a more pleasant taste.”

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Looking round at the officials of the province, he said with a smile that he would be obliged if they sent him a jar of this bean paste later so that he would make a tasty soup by mixing it with young bok choy.

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When we visited a restaurant of the Mangyongdae Tourist Souvenir Exhibition House famous for its beef-rib broth and steamed beef-ribs, we met the head cook Choe Myong Sun. In the restaurant full of the unique aroma of original Korean dishes we could know the cooks’ great talent of making national dishes, while we had a talk with Choe over a drink of cool Makkolli (unrefined rice wine).

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The Workers' Party of Korea (WPK) recently decided to halt major national projects such as the construction of Ryomyong Street and direct the spearhead of the ongoing 200-day campaign to the recovery efforts in the flood-hit northern part of the country.