Pyongyang is being turned into an ideal city of the people, thanks to the Workers' Party of Korea's grandiose plan on the capital city construction.

In the new century of Juche, Unha Scientists Street, Wisong Scientists Residential District, Mirae Scientists Street, Ryomyong Street, Songhwa Street, the Pothong Riverside Terraced Residential District and Hwasong Street were built as ideal streets of the people and a flourishing socialist living space.

This year, too, Rimhung Street appeared in the Hwasong area of Pyongyang as a monumental entity symbolizing the era of comprehensive national rejuvenation. The new houses there are now filled with joy and jubilation of people.

Those socialist assets reflecting the people-first idea of architecture are a fruition of the love and devotion shown by the respected General Secretary Kim Jong Un for the people and the gigantic creation brought about by him for the people. The layouts of streets, which were completed under his guidance, are associated with his noble intention and will to build the houses for the people without any slightest inferiority.

The General Secretary made sure that the 8th WPK Congress adopted the work for successfully solving the housing problem in the capital city as one of its decisions, and delivered a historic speech at the ground-breaking ceremony for building 10 000 flats in Pyongyang, thus making another significant landmark in the history of capital city construction.

Under his energetic guidance, many new streets have been built and Pyongyang turned into a paradise for the people.

The proud reality, in which new streets for the people demonstrating the national power and civilization of socialism are being built one after another, shows the immutable truth that Kim Jong Un is the benevolent father of the people and the dignity, glory, eternal development and rosy future of the DPRK are ensured by his guidance.

Im Chon Il, vice foreign minister of the DPRK in charge of Russian affairs, released the following press statement on Wednesday.

The U.S. House of Representatives reportedly passed a bill on offering additional military aids to Ukraine recently.

So it can be said that the U.S. large-scale additional military aid package to Ukraine debated long in the U.S. political camp has actually become a matter of time.

Media of the U.S. and other Western countries are widely advertising that Washington's such decision will add fresh strength to Ukraine's fight against Russia's "invasion."

The recent bipartisan support for the passage of the military aid bill for Ukraine through the U.S. House of Representatives clearly proved once again that the U.S. remains unchanged in its ulterior purpose to inflict a strategic defeat upon Russia at any cost by continuously egging Ukraine on despite the latter's serious defeats on battlefield.

Great Irony is the fact that more than one third of the U.S. aid fund amounting to over 60 billion US dollars will be spent in the U.S. mainland for supplying new weapons and ammunitions to the U.S. forces.

Thus it has been fully revealed once again that lurking behind the "rescuing hands" given by the U.S. touting military assistance to Ukraine is the sly and sinister intention of the U.S. to use the Ukrainian crisis as an opportunity for fattening up its munitions monopolies and for further tightening the shackle it put on Ukraine to make the puppet Zelenskiy clique henchmen for paving the path for carrying out its strategy for deterring Russia.

It is by no mean fortuitous that experts comment that the U.S. benefits most from the Ukraine crisis and the Biden administration is making enormous profits while feasting on "blood-mixed wine."

Russian political figures, being fully confident of victory, ridicule the passage of the new military aid bill as the one for making the U.S. richer but reducing Ukraine to greater piles of ashes, saying although the U.S. lavishes tens of billions of dollars on security assistance to Kiev, satisfying the wild greed of munitions tycoons, Russia will surely emerge victorious.

The U.S. transfuses blood to the Zelenskiy regime to prolong its existence at stake but this can never change the dreadful fate awaiting the puppets on deathbed.

The Ukrainian battlefields have long been a "graveyard" of various weaponry bragged about by the U.S. and the NATO.

But Zelenskiy has gone so mad as to express his will to continue the "death-defying resistance" against Russia to the end, making deep bows to his American masters for the decision of new military aid. This cannot but be viewed as sheer hysteria of a "Don Quixote in the 21st century" utterly ignorant of his opponent.

Zelenskiy must be a "star" acting his part well according to the film script written by the U.S., rather than president of a country.

I affirm that the U.S. legislative military aid package is just a mind-bending drug for buoying up for a moment the Zelenskiy clique gripped with fear resulting from its ever-worsening position on battlefield and making it tilt at windmills.

The pro-U.S. lackeys are bound to meet death and ruin for having completely sold off people and all valuables of the country to become cannon fodder of their master, unable to judge what is right and what is wrong.

Any U.S. military aids can never block the advance of the heroic Russian army and people all out for a sacred war of justice for safeguarding the sovereign rights and security of their country.

Moscow Zoo Delegation of Russia Arrives

A Moscow zoo delegation of Russia led by Director Svetlana Akulova arrived here by plane on April 22.

** Women's Union Officials and Members Volunteer to Do Difficult Jobs **

The noble spiritual world of the DPRK women is being further highlighted in the on-going revolutionary advance toward the comprehensive development of socialism.

This year alone, thousands of officials and members of the women's union in North Hamgyong Province volunteered to work at major sites for socialist construction.

A primary women's union official and dozens of women's union members in Kyongwon County volunteered to work at the county raw materials production base station and women's union members in the cities of Chongjin and Kim Chaek found their jobs at the Chongjin School Uniform Factory.

Members of the women's union in Onsong County volunteered to do their bit in the struggle for epochal development of socialist rural areas.

Among the patriotic ranks are women in Orang County dedicating themselves to farming in the socialist countryside.

Respected Comrade Kim Jong Un Guides Combined Tactical Drill Simulating Nuclear Counterattack

Report on Participation of 600 mm Super-large Multiple Rocket Sub-units in First Combined Tactical Drill Simulating Nuclear Counterattack

Respected Comrade Kim Jong Un Guides Combined Tactical Drill Simulating Nuclear Counterattack

Pyongyang, April 23 (KCNA) -- There took place a drill on April 22 to operate super-large multiple rocket units that are to play an important role in substantially strengthening the prompt counterattack capacity of the state nuclear force and raising a war deterrent under the state's nuclear weapon combined management system "Haekbangashoe" for the first time.

The drill of which the main purpose is to demonstrate the reliability, superiority, might and diverse means of the DPRK's nuclear force and to strengthen the nuclear force both in quality and quantity is a clear warning signal to the enemies as it was conducted at a time when the enemies' military confrontation racket against the DPRK is being committed with extremely provocative and aggressive nature.

The U.S. and the ROK puppet military warmongers have staged a "combined joint formation drill" with more than one hundred warplanes of various kinds in the Kunsan Air Force Base of the ROK from April 12. They have incited extreme war fever through one hundred sorties on a daily average, openly talking about an "advance" towards the DPRK after completely taking off their mask of "defence" and "deterrence" said in the previous drills.

Not content with frequently introducing nuclear strategic assets into the surrounding area of the DPRK and staging war drills with its vassal forces, the U.S. is giving publicity that those drills are aiming right at the DPRK. Such military provocations of the U.S. are scheduled to last till April 26.

On April 18, the U.S. and the ROK special units staged a "joint airborne infiltration drill" for the purpose of rapidly infiltrating any region to "remove a target".

The security environment of the DPRK is seriously threatened by the hostile forces' ceaseless military provocations to stifle the DPRK by "force". This reality which can not be overlooked urgently requires the DPRK to more overwhelmingly and more rapidly bolster up the strongest military muscle capable of actively controlling the situation to ensure the security of the country and the regional peace.

Kim Jong Un, general secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK) and president of the State Affairs of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), guided a combined tactical drill simulating a nuclear counterattack involving super-large multiple rocket artillerymen.

He was accompanied by Kim Jong Sik, vice department director of the Central Committee of the WPK, and Jang Chang Ha, general director of the DPRK Missile Administration, commanded the drill.

The drill was conducted, divided into an actual drill for making units be versed in the procedure and process of switching over to a nuclear counterattack posture at a time when the "Hwasanpalryong" system, the state's greatest nuclear crisis alarm, is issued and a drill for operating the nuclear counterattack commanding system. It was also conducted according to the order of making the sub-units assigned to the nuclear counterattack task be practiced in the process and order and of carrying out their tasks and firing shells of super-large multiple rocket launchers tipped with simulated nuclear warheads.

Through the drill, the reliability of the system of command, management, control and operation of the whole nuclear force was reexamined in a many-sided way and the action order and combat methods for making the super-large multiple rocket units rapidly switch over to nuclear counterattack were mastered.

A firepower assault company selected from a relevant combined unit participated in the drill and commanding officers and soldiers of relevant units and sub-units watched the drill conducted under the "Haekbangashoe" system for the first time and the salvo drill.

The artillerymen of super-large multiple rocket launchers fired in salvo, with firm hostility toward the enemy and transparent viewpoint on the principal enemy. The super-large multiple rocket launchers accurately hit the island target within 352 km range, fully demonstrating their matchless might and perfect actual war posture.

Expressing great satisfaction over the result of the drill, the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un appreciated the high hit and accuracy of the super-large multiple rocket launchers, saying that he seemed to see the firing of a sniper's rifle and that the Korean-style tactical nuclear strike means boasting of the formidable might, the most powerful in the world, have strictly prepared themselves to faithfully mobilize in carrying out their important strategic task in contingency in a rapid and thorough counterattack posture.

He appreciated with satisfaction that the combined tactical drill simulating a nuclear counterattack involving even artillerymen of super-large multiple rocket launchers was successfully conducted and, thereby, the plan of the Party Central Committee for building the nuclear force on expanding the operation space of tactical nuclear attack and diversifying it has been translated into reality.

Stressing the need to continuously complete tactics and operation in the orientation of steadily enhancing a pivotal role of the nuclear force in all aspects of strategy to deter and fight a war and to perfect the regular combat readiness of the nuclear force, he clarified the principled matters to be taken as a guideline in the struggle for strengthening the strategic nuclear force of the DPRK.

He said that through the combined tactical drill, the might and effect of our nuclear combat force involving even super-large multiple rocket launchers have remarkably increased and all sub-units are full of great confidence and the drill served as an important occasion in thoroughly preparing our nuclear force to be able to rapidly and correctly carry out their important mission of deterring a war and taking the initiative in a war even in any time and any sudden situation.

The nuclear force of the DPRK will keep the war posture with their more developed capacity, thoroughly deter the moves and provocation of the enemies and carefully watch them and carry out their important mission without hesitation if the enemies attempt to use armed forces.

Officials and workers of the Chonnaeri Cement Factory of the DPRK established a new floating calcination roasting system through creative cooperation with scientists concerned.

As a result, the factory has put the cement production capacity on a higher level and provided a guarantee for contributing to the development of the Juche-based cement industry of the country.

The technical group of the factory and scientists of the Heat Engineering Institute of the State Academy of Sciences confirmed the technical indices on the basis of the study of the structural characteristics of the calcining furnace.

The factory established a rational production system for floating calcination roasting in three months and successfully ensured its trial operation.

Officials and workers of the factory are putting spurs to further increasing the production of cement while consolidating the successes made in establishing efficient production processes.

A fairyland-like village has been built at the Pobu Farm in the city of Kaechon, South Phyongan Province of the DPRK.

The pleasing scene of the farm village adds to the delight of spring. The wonderful village has been built under the energetic guidance and care of the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un, who is working heart and soul to turn the countryside into ideal socialist places and ideal villages for the people.

Fruit trees are in bloom in the yards of terraced, low- and single-storeyed dwelling houses, and thousands of trees like zelkova and Pyongyang maple trees grow in different parts of the villages, adding beauty to the surrounding scenery.

A meeting for moving into new dwelling houses took place on the spot on April 19.

Present there were Ri Kyong Chol, chief secretary of the South Phyongan Provincial Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea, officials in the city, builders and agricultural workers who will move into the new houses.

Ri Song Bom, chairman of the South Phyongan Provincial People's Committee, made a congratulatory speech.

Then the licenses for the use of the houses were conveyed and speeches made there.

The officials congratulated the agricultural workers moving into the modern houses, sharing joy with them.

The food industrial sector of the DPRK is concentrating efforts on developing new products and improving the quality of foodstuff.

The Paekunsan General Foodstuff Factory has ramped up the forces for developing new products and conducted sci-tech activities in various forms and ways to produce more foodstuffs and a richer variety of products than before.

The Songdowon General Foodstuff Factory has conducted a new product exhibition, passing-on technique meeting and technical innovation prize contest to encourage the masses to improve the quality indices of functional products conducive to retaining regional characteristics and promoting the people's health.

The Jangjasan General Foodstuff Factory registered Saengdang wormwood tea, parsley tea and other products as "February 2 goods," while turning the work for bettering the quality of foodstuffs into one for the employees themselves.

The Kimhwa County Foodstuff Factory mass-produces delicious confectionery and quality condiments by making effective use of locally available raw materials.

The same is true of the Kanggye Foodstuff Factory, the Yua General Foodstuff Factory and other foodstuff factories and condiments factories across the country.

A joint friendship meeting with Juche idea followers took place here on April 17.

Present there were Secretary General Kenichi Ogami and Vice Director-General Matteo Carbonelli of the International Institute of the Juche Idea (IIJI), and delegations and delegates of organizations for the study of the Juche idea from different countries and regions.

Attending it were Vice-Chairman Pak Chol Jun and other officials of the Korean Association of Social Scientists.

The participants had colorful sports and amusement games, divided into Friendship and Solidarity teams. The players displayed high team spirit.

The participants deepened the feelings of friendship, looking back upon the days of the international meeting of the Juche idea followers held on the occasion of the significant April holiday common to mankind.

People's Ideal Street Symbolizing Comprehensive Development of Prosperous Powerful Nation

Inauguration Ceremony of 10,000 Flats at Second Stage in Hwasong Area Takes Place with Splendor

Respected Comrade Kim Jong Un Cut Inauguration Tape and Blesses Owners of New House

Pyongyang, April 17 (KCNA) -- Epoch-making changes have been made one after another in the promotion of the people's well-being under the wise leadership of the great Party Central Committee. The construction of 50,000 flats in Pyongyang is a project for building flourishing socialist living spaces in the capital of our dignified state every year. The whole country has greeted the birth of a new ideal street with joy with the completion of the task of the third year for the housing construction.

In accordance with the decisions of the Eighth Congress of the Workers' Party of Korea and the Sixth Plenary Meeting of the Eighth Central Committee of the WPK, another monumental entity symbolizing the era of comprehensive national rejuvenation came into being. An inauguration ceremony of the 10 000 flats at the second stage in the Hwasong area was held with splendor on April 16.

The new large architectural group in the Hwasong area, which fully embodies the Party's idea on architectural aesthetics and successfully combines the Juche, national, modern and artistic characters, is a fruition of the noble loving care and a model edifice of socialist civilization, which has been created under the energetic guidance of the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un who planed to build a world-class ideal city full of people's happiness and leads it to be completed at the highest level. The architectural group is demonstrating the inexhaustible potentiality of the development of our state and its bright future.

The venue of the ceremony nearing the great auspicious event of the country, which will add joy to significant April, was filled with the boundless pride of the builders who are steadily realizing the long-cherished desire of the Party Central Committee for the people with their ardent loyalty and devoted patriotic struggle and with the great emotion of the blessed people including the owners of new wonderful dwelling houses.

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, attended the ceremony.

When Kim Jong Un arrived at the venue of the ceremony amid the playing of welcome music, enthusiastic cheers rocking heaven and earth broke out.

All the participants paid the highest tribute to Kim Jong Un who is ushering in a comprehensive development of a prosperous socialist country where all the people's wishes are realized by ceaselessly creating great epochal changes and unprecedentedly great events with his rare wisdom and outstanding leadership.

Present at the ceremony were Kim Tok Hun, member of the Presidium of the Political Bureau of the WPK Central Committee and premier of the Cabinet, secretaries of the Central Committee of the WPK, officials of the Cabinet, armed forces organs, ministries and national agencies, builders and working people in Pyongyang.

The national anthem of the DPRK was solemnly played.

Ri Il Hwan, member of the Political Bureau and secretary of the Central Committee of the WPK, made an inaugural address.

Upon authorization of Kim Jong Un, he warmly congratulated the citizens of Pyongyang who are to enjoy a happy life in modern dwelling houses in Rimhung Street to be specially recorded in a page of the history of construction of the capital city, and extended heartfelt thanks and militant greetings in the name of the Party Central Committee to all the builders, officials and working people in the relevant fields who contributed to the completion of the new houses in significant April again.

He said that at the plenary meeting of the Party Central Committee which clarified the orientation of the struggle for 2023, the General Secretary unfolded a grand construction operation to build the second-stage district of the Hwasong area into a peculiar street of modern beauty and, on the day of ground-breaking, he broke ground first. He visited the construction site again before the completion and meticulously led the builders to carry out the finishing process, impeccable even in the distant future, the speaker said.

Indeed, the newly-built Rimhung Street is a fruition of Kim Jong Un's ardent sincerity to make the whole process of creation and construction consistent with the absolute service for the people and provide the people with only the best things in the world, he said, adding that it is the monumental architecture to convey the world of the nobleness and warmth of the people-first idea to posterity.

The construction unit of 50,000 flats in Pyongyang has grown into a militant and elite force taking the lead in the era of a new construction revolution along with structures built in every new street, he said, adding that the blasting of ground-breaking signaled by the respected General Secretary was followed by fireworks of completion thanks to the brave builders of the capital city who waged a courageous onward and three-dimensional campaign, united with the intention of the Party Central Committee.

Stressing that all the builders in the Hwasong area should turn out in attaining the third- and fourth-stage goals set forth by the Party Central Committee, build excellent new streets and thus continue to lead the development of socialist civilization in the van, he ardently called upon them to more dynamically advance toward the bright future of the capital and state to be turned into the most beautiful socialist paradise under the leadership of Kim Jong Un.

Kim Jong Un cut the inauguration tape.

A scene to be eternally recorded in the sacred journey of the WPK in its efforts for the promotion of the wellbeing of the beloved people was displayed at the venue of the ceremony. Stormy cheers of "Hurrah!" were raised, fireworks displayed and balloons rose up into the sky, beautifully decorating the Hwasong area.

An art performance was given to mark the inauguration of 10,000 flats at the second stage in the Hwasong area.

The area was rocked by the songs sung by the people in praise of the great Workers' Party of Korea which is building a flower garden of all blessings on the basis of the idea of believing in the people as in Heaven while taking good care of them with the sacred red flag.

The participants were excited at the songs representing the era of change, the great era of Kim Jong Un in which an ideal society of the people and thriving nation, where the most beautiful socialist civilization is in full bloom, are built.

The venue of the ceremony was filled with patriotic passion as the national anthem of a powerful Korea led by the great father, a grateful socialist country where every desire of the people is translated into a reality, was solemnly played.

A flying corps flew in the nocturnal sky over Rimhung Street, displaying fascinating fireworks, blessing the people who are enjoying happiness with nothing to envy under the care of the Party.

Fireworks were displayed again decorating the nocturnal view of the new street amid the playing of the song "Don't Advance, Night of Pyongyang" in the beautiful night of the capital, rare splendid street full of noble emotion peculiar to our state and people.

When the performance was over, the venue of the ceremony turned into a sea of enthusiastic cheers again.

Kim Jong Un expressed great expectations and belief that the reliable builders of the capital who built more than 30,000 modern flats in a matter of three years would as ever successfully attain the next-stage goals of the five-year plan for the capital construction advanced at the Eighth Party Congress with pure patriotism and loyalty and revolutionary mettle so as to turn the capital Pyongyang into a world-famous civilized city fit for the might of a powerful Korea in name and reality.

He warmly wished happiness to all the families who received the new flats in Rimhung Street in auspicious April.

The owners of the new street and all other participants, who are deeply moved by the loving care of the motherly Party, extended deep gratitude to Kim Jong Un, who is working heart and soul day and night to provide the people with the highest civilization and the greatest wellbeing in the world.

Kim Jong Un warmly acknowledged the enthusiastic cheers for a long time.

The inauguration of 10,000 flats at the second stage in the Hwasong area served as a significant occasion in instilling full confidence in a bright future into the all-people general onward march for attaining the goals of struggle set forth by the Eighth Congress of the Party while fully demonstrating the strength of patriotism and unity under the leadership of the great Party Central Committee and in demonstrating once again the invincibility of the cause of building a socialist power of Juche to the whole world.

A meeting of Koreans in Japan took place at the Central Hall of the General Association of Korean Residents in Japan (Chongryon) in Tokyo on April 13 to celebrate the 112th birth anniversary of President Kim Il Sung.

Present there were Ho Jong Man, chairman of the Chongryon Central Standing Committee, Pak Ku Ho, first vice-chairman of the Chongryon Central Standing Committee and director of its Organization Department, Nam Sung U, vice-chairman of the Chongryon Central Standing Committee, Pae Jin Gu, vice-chairman and concurrently director general of the General Affairs Department of the Chongryon Central Standing Committee, department directors of the Chongryon Central Standing Committee, school inspectors, advisers, the director of the Research Institute on History of Korean Residents in Japan and chairpersons of Chongryon headquarters in Kanto area.

Pak Ku Ho in a report said that the whole life of the great Generalissimo Kim Il Sung who advanced the socialist cause along the ever-victorious road, enjoying the absolute support and trust of the masses of the people, was the noble life of the people's leader.

He praised Kim Il Sung as the outstanding leader of the Juche-oriented movement of Koreans in Japan who led Chongryon to victory and glory and the benefactor of life and benevolent father who showed all sorts of solicitudes to Koreans in Japan, embracing them in his broad bosom.

He said that the respected Marshal Kim Jong Un has sent a large amount of educational aid fund and stipends on the occasion of the significant April holiday every year so as to glorify the history of the loving care of the great Generalissimos.

Chongryon will glorify the great Generalissimos Kim Il Sung's and Kim Jong Il's idea of building Chongryon and their leadership exploits, holding them in high esteem forever, and make substantial changes in the struggle to open up a new heyday of the movement of Koreans in Japan, and thus live up to the great love and trust shown by the respected Marshal Kim Jong Un, he stressed.

A congratulatory letter to Kim Jong Un was read out at the meeting.

The Wonthang Sanatorium was successfully remodeled in the DPRK under the loving care of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK).

The sanatorium in Tongsin County of Jagang Province has a hot spring bath room, sand treatment room, physical therapy room, a sickroom and cultural and welfare facilities.

It, furnished with all treatment conditions and environment, has a wonderful outdoor resting place in its compound, decorated with good species of trees and flower shrubs.

Han Chil Song, secretary of the Jagang Provincial Committee of the WPK, and officials concerned looked round the remodeled sanatorium.

Talks were held here on Thursday between Choe Ryong Hae, member of the Presidium of the Political Bureau of the C.C., the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK), first vice-president of the State Affairs Commission of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) and chairman of the Standing Committee of the Supreme People's Assembly, and Zhao Leji, member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the C.C., Communist Party of China (CPC) and chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress of the People's Republic of China (PRC).

Present there were Kim Song Nam, director of the International Department of the Central Committee of the WPK, officials concerned, Liu Jianchao, head of the International Liaison Department of the Central Committee of the CPC, members of the party and government delegation of the PRC and Wang Yajun, Chinese ambassador to the DPRK.

The talks discussed the issues of positively promoting exchange and cooperation in all fields, including politics, economy and culture, true to the noble intentions of the top leaders of two parties and two countries who declared this significant year marking the 75th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic ties between the DPRK and the PRC as the "year of DPRK-China friendship" and thus further developing the traditional DPRK-China friendly relations.

The talks exchanged views on the regional and international issues of mutual concern.

The talks were followed by a ceremony of signing the documents of agreement between the governments and agencies of the DPRK and the PRC.

The art squad of the Central Committee of the Union of Agricultural Workers of Korea (UAWK) gave a performance at the Jangchon House of Culture in Sadong District of Pyongyang on April 10 to celebrate the 12th anniversary of the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un's assumption of the top posts of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK) and the state.

Among the audience were Han Jong Hyok, chairman of the UAWK Central Committee, Hong Chol Jin, secretary of the Pyongyang Municipal Committee of the WPK, officials concerned, officials of the UAWK and agricultural workers in Sadong District.

The performance began with chorus "Glory to General Kim Jong Un", and put on the stage were colorful numbers.

The performers sang of boundless gratitude and reverence for Kim Jong Un who is leading our Party and state to victory and glory.

The performance included numbers dealing with the pride and joy of agricultural workers enjoying happiness in the ideal socialist villages wonderfully built under the benevolence of the Party.

There were also numbers reflecting the strong will of the agricultural workers to contribute to implementing the new regional development policy.

The performance ended with chorus "We Will Defend General Kim Jong Un with Our Lives".

A Chinese art troupe led by Director of the Art Department Ming Wenjun and Vice-Director of the Department of the International Cooperation for Exchange Shi Zeyi of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism of China arrived here on April 6 and 9 to take part in a joint performance for the opening ceremony of "year of DPRK-China friendship".

The art troupe visiting Pyongyang to deepen the feelings of friendship and solidarity between the peoples of the DPRK and China is made up of more than 300 persons, and comprises prestigious art organizations and famous actors and actresses of China.

It was warmly greeted at Pyongyang International Airport by officials of the DPRK Ministry of Culture and the Art Exchange Association of Korea and the minister and staff members of the Chinese embassy here.

The DPRK Ministry of Culture hosted a reception at Yanggakdo International Hotel on Tuesday evening in welcome of the Chinese artistic missions.

Officials and working people across the DPRK are making successes in building reservoirs and expanding their capacity.

Officials of the Ministry of Urban Management and relevant units are conducting meticulous operation and guidance for building reservoirs and expanding their capacity.

Pyongyang Municipality has established an integrated management system for comprehensively measuring the production and supply of domestic water at reservoirs, drainage reservoirs and pumping stations in close relation with various units, while providing flow meters and water gauges.

After completing the technical assignments for establishing flocculant grouting process and updating disinfection process in reservoirs, it is pushing ahead with the projects for overhauling drainage reservoirs and purification plants.

Officials and workers of the Pyongyang Municipal Water Supply and Sewerage Management Bureau are hastening the project for expanding reservoirs by keeping heavy machines and vehicles at full-capacity operation.

Provinces are also making achievements in building reservoirs and expanding their capacity.

South Phyongan Province newly built a filter basin and settling pond with a capacity of 15,000 cubic meters to supply domestic water to inhabitants in a gravity-fed way and dug a 900-meter-long waterway tunnel to improve the capacity for domestic water.

South Hwanghae Province has pushed ahead with the project in a planned way by securing cement and blocks needed for the construction of purification plant.

North and South Hamgyong and other provinces have completed the excavation of several thousand-meter-long pipe network for the construction of water supply pipes and stepped up the construction of drainage reservoirs and pumping stations, while solving problems arising in creating the capacity of reservoirs in a far-sighted way.

Farm villages in Ryanggang Province of the DPRK are making preparations for farming by relying on advanced farming techniques.

The province is pushing ahead with the implementation of the stepwise plan with the main emphasis on increasing per-hectare yield.

Farms in Taehongdan County are securing high-yielding strains according to soil conditions and taking agricultural and technical measures for storing potato seeds.

Agricultural workers in the City of Samjiyon are well versed in the issues of classifying seeds and preventing decay and degeneration of seeds through effective scientific and technological study and treat the stored whole potato seeds in accordance with technical regulations.

Kim Hyong Gwon County has passed on the farming technique for potato seed storing and germination to farmers in various forms and farms of Paekam and Unhung counties have actively introduced advanced methods of seed management.

The agricultural workers in Pochon and Phungso counties are directing efforts in ensuring thegrowth conditions suitable for germination.

Farms in Kapsan County are making successes in preparations for immediate farming.

The Taean Heavy Machine Complex in the DPRK is putting spurs to the production of custom-built equipment for various sectors of the national economy.

Its officials intensify the policy-oriented guidance and technical guidance to ensure the production of quality equipment.

The workers of its various workshops have pushed ahead with the production of custom-built equipment for the chemical industrial sector on a schedule.

Those of a generating equipment processing workshop and the large machine workshop have successfully carried out their daily production plans by introducing rational jigs and equipment.

Workers and technicians in the field of assembling devote their wisdom and enthusiasm to shortening the time of assembling motors to the maximum.

Talks were held in Vientiane on March 29 between Kim Song Nam, alternate member of the Political Bureau and director of the International Department of the C.C., Workers' Party of Korea (WPK) who is on a visit to Laos as head of a WPK delegation, and Thongsavanh Phomvihane, chairman of the Committee for External Affairs of the C.C., Lao People's Revolutionary Party (LPRP).

Kim Song Nam briefed on the fact that a heyday of strengthening the whole Party, a new era of comprehensive development of socialism, is being ushered in under the wise guidance of the respected General Secretary Kim Jong Un, and stressed the validity of the WPK's policy of bolstering up the military capability for self-defence and line of struggle against the enemy.

Expressing belief that the Korean people would achieve rapid progress in the struggle to boost the economy, improve the people's living standards and bolster up the defence capability under the guidance of the WPK headed by General Secretary Kim Jong Un, Thongsavanh Phomvihane declared that the LPRP and the Lao government fully support the policy of the WPK and the DPRK government for defending peace and security on the Korean peninsula.

The talks discussed the issues for steadily consolidating and developing the friendly and cooperative relations between the two parties and the two countries in keeping with the requirements of the new era and the common desire of the two peoples and for ramping up the mutual support and solidarity in the international arena.

Present there, from the DPRK side, were members of the WPK delegation and the DPRK ambassador to Laos and, from the Lao side, a vice-chairperson and other officials of the Committee for External Affairs of the LPRP Central Committee.

That evening the WPK delegation was invited to a reception hosted by Thongsavanh Phomvihane.

The Taean Friendship Glass Factory in the DPRK boosts the production of sheet glass to be sent to major construction sites.

The sheet glass shop has introduced valuable technical innovation proposals and various working methods.

The workers of the raw material shop are fully meeting technical indices in grinding and mixing of raw materials and operating equipment in a responsible manner.

The packaging shop has meticulously conducted inter-process coupling and increased the operation rate of equipment, thus shortening the time of packaging and loading of products.

The hydro-nitrogen shop recycles the bearings needed for apparatus for expansion and the electrolytic solution for hydrogen production, thus providing high-purity hydrogen.

Workers in the supplying field are ensuring the production of goods by boosting the output of dolomite, marble and silica and carrying raw materials in good time.

A flame of ideological campaign is now raging at the construction sites of regional-industry factories in South Phyongan Province of the DPRK in order to put spurs to implementing the regional development policy advanced by the Central Committee of the great Workers' Party of Korea.

The central committee of the youth league has worked out a motivation plan to encourage the soldier-builders who turned out in the implementation of the tasks for the first year of the fulfillment of the 10-year goals of the Workers' Party of Korea, and intensified organizational and political work to make the youth league organizations at all levels conduct frontline-style agit-prop activities for increased production.

The members of the art squad of the central committee of the youth league repeated collective discussions and worked hard to truthfully describe in writings the spiritual world of the soldiers.

They staged a performance at the construction sites of regional-industry factories in Songchon County to call upon the soldier-builders to dynamically advance under the uplifted banner, which is associated with the greatest trust of the Party Central Committee.

Youth league organizations of universities in South Phyongan Province are conducting motivation activities for increased production at the construction sites of regional-industry factories in Songchon and Sukchon counties.

Officials and working people in Kaesong Municipality of the DPRK briskly conduct the spring hygienic campaign through a mass movement.

Residents in Sonjuk-dong, Koryo-dong, Pukan-dong and other areas of the municipality have paid big efforts to repairing and painting the buildings and fences damaged in winter and to sprucing up parks and pleasure grounds.

The Kaesong Koryo Insam Processing Factory and the Kaesong Children's Foodstuff Factory have made sure that their employees feel high pride in the course of improving the production environment and surroundings by their own efforts.

Officials and agricultural workers in Kaephung and Panmun districts carried out the work for painting the interior and exterior of houses and public stalls.

Officials and employees in the field of road administration and water supply and sewerage are meticulously managing equipment and machinery and putting the readjustment of rainwater and sewage network and the management of pumping stations in the surroundings of roads and the residential areas on a hygienic and cultured basis, while taking measures to check the sources of epidemics.

Youth league organizations at universities of the DPRK conducting in an offensive way the work to arm the students with the anti-imperialist, anti-U.S. class consciousness.

They are intensifying the education to make the students harden their steadfast outlook on the arch enemy and anti-imperialist, anti-U.S. class consciousness, always aware of the aggressive nature of the U.S. imperialists and the puppet ROK clans more persistently clinging to the reckless moves for a nuclear war to stifle the socialist system of the DPRK.

Kim Hyong Jik University of Education and Pyongyang University of Architecture have organized visits to the Sinchon Museum and the Central Class Education House.

Youth league officials of Pyongyang University of Medicine are intensifying education with the main emphasis on disclosing the sinister intention and nature of the enemies who are resorting to every possible means and method to spread unsound and alien ideological poison in the country.

O Jung Hup Chongjin University of Education and Kim Jong Thae Haeju University of Education instill into the younger generation the truth that illusion about the enemy precisely means death and that the class enemies should be wiped out all mercilessly, through the visit to the provincial houses of class education.

The same is true of other universities across the country.

A meeting between DPRK and Russian youth delegates took place in Moscow on March 11 to comprehensively implement the agreements reached at the historic DPRK-Russia summit.

Present there were members of the DPRK youth delegation led by Chairman of the C.C., Socialist Patriotic Youth League Mun Chol, a councilor of the DPRK embassy in Moscow, and representatives of the National Council of the Russian Association of Youth and Children, the Young Communist League of Russia, the Russian Youth Union and other youth organizations of Russia, and officials responsible for the youth affairs from political parties and social organizations including the Communist Party "Russian Communists".

A video of the proud reality of Juche Korea achieving the comprehensive development of socialism under the leadership of the great Party was shown at the meeting to be followed by speeches.

Speakers expressed their will to invariably ensure the continuity of the tradition of good-neighborly friendship in the course of comprehensively implementing the agreements reached at the historic DPRK-Russia summit, boost friendship and solidarity between youth organizations of the two countries and promote mutual exchange and cooperation in an all-round way.

The participants enjoyed an art performance given by Russian students.

Meanwhile, a DPRK-Russia youth friendship gathering was held on March 12 under the co-sponsorship of the Diplomatic Academy under the Russian Foreign Ministry and the United Russia Youth Guards.

The 2024 Pyongyang Municipal Tourism Souvenir Exhibition ended on Thursday.

The exhibition opened at the Pyongyang Underground Shop. On display were tourist souvenirs developed and produced by many units, true to the intention of the Workers' Party of Korea to revitalize tourism in a peculiar way and produce and sell various tourist goods as required by regional geopolitical features to contribute to improving the people's standard of living.

The exhibition was highlighted by introduction and sale of various goods and special tour guidance service.

Prizes were given to the distinguished units.

Chairman Kim Jong Il guided a performance given by the first-term graduates of the then Pyongyang Circus School on March 12, Juche 65 (1976).

After watching the performance by the graduates, the Chairman repeatedly praised the new acrobats for their excellent performance and had a photo session with them.

In a talk with senior officials in the field of art and literature and the Pyongyang Acrobatic Troupe on the same day, he clearly indicated the tasks and ways for training reserve acrobats.

Thanks to his wise guidance, many acrobats graduated from the Pyongyang Acrobatic School (now) which has all conditions as a pedigree establishment for training young stars of Juche-oriented acrobatics made a series of achievements at international games and festivals.

The first-term graduates, who had the honor of showing their performance to Kim Jong Il, won the World Acrobatic Championship and international acrobatic festivals several times by creating the new Korean-style "Aerial Swing Flight".

The school graduates make up most of those who were awarded three top gold prizes at the world circus art festival "Idol-2018" held in Russia, first of its kind in the history of the festival, and those winners of top prizes at the Monte Carlo International Circus Festival, the first international circus art festival, the Gold Elephant Prize International Circus Festival, etc. and of "new stars of acrobatic circle" who win in the world.

Many graduates who demonstrated to the world the might of the circus art of the DPRK have become the recipients of high state commendations and honorary titles.

The school is now giving steady continuity to the lifeline of the Juche-oriented circus art, adding luster to the achievements of Kim Jong Il, who devoted himself to training reserve acrobats of the country.

In the stirring period when the great revolution of the 10-year goal of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK) was launched to bring about the comprehensive development of local areas, an impressive picture showing the warm love of the mother Party was displayed in Ryanggang Province, the northern part of the country.

The respected Comrade Kim Jong Un has always paid deep attention to turning the rural areas of Ryanggang Province where Mt Paektu, the sacred mountain of revolution, is located, into ideal places where socialist civilization is in full bloom. He sent efficient tractors to cities and counties of the province.

Present at a meeting for conveying the tractors held in Hyesan City on March 4 were Ri Thae Il, chief secretary of the Ryanggang Provincial Committee of the WPK, Kim Chol Nam, chairman of the provincial people's committee, Kim Yong Nam, chairman of the provincial rural economy committee, and other officials and working people in the province.

A conveying address was read out by the chief secretary of the provincial Party committee.

He said that Kim Jong Un always keeps the people of Ryanggang Province in the closest place in his mind and gives them all loving care and benevolence.

He noted that herein lies the special trust and expectation of the Party Central Committee hoping Ryanggang Province would take the lead in the worthwhile struggle for realizing the comprehensive prosperity and development of the country true to the revolutionary programme for the rural areas in the new era.

He called upon the officials and working people in the province including Samjiyon City, Taehongdan and Paekam cities to fully devote their loyalty and patriotic strength and enthusiasm to the all-people general advance for implementing the Party's resolutions, always remembering the present glory and benevolence.

The tractors sent by Kim Jong Un were conveyed with enthusiastic applause by the participants.

Then followed speeches.

Speakers respectfully extended the warmest thanks to the respected General Secretary who opened a new chapter for bringing about a revolution in potato farming in the Paektu area and energetically leads the work for mechanization, reflecting the ardent loyalty of all the officials and working people in the province.

They said that they would take good care of the equipment provided under the loving care of the Party so as to decisively raise the per-hectare yield by dynamically raising the hot wind of scientific farming, while making a big stride at mechanization on all fields.

They expressed their determination to turn out in the drive to attain the goal of grain production this year without fail by firmly uniting in patriotism and steadily boosting the spirit of redoubled advance and thus uphold the resolutions of the Ninth Plenary Meeting of the Eighth Central Committee of the Party with bold practice and proud fruition.

All the officials, Party members and other working people in the province are filled with the enthusiasm to make Ryanggang Province a leading potato production base, regarding the great trust and loving care of the great Party Central Committee as a part of their life, and bring about rich autumn in the blessed land year after year by devoting their patriotic sweat.

Major universities in the DPRK are putting spurs to making disciplines into the first-class ones.

Kim Il Sung University has pushed ahead with the work to strengthen the teachers' forces and improve the contents of education, educational conditions and environment of the courses.

The courses set it as a link in strengthening the forces of teachers to improve the research ability and teaching ability of teachers and increase the ranks of holders of academic degrees and titles.

Meanwhile, it is carrying on the project for combining research successes with education to write world-level textbooks and on the work to improve the postgraduate education and enlist students in the research.

Relevant courses of Kim Chaek University of Technology carried out the work to analyze the curriculum of world-class universities and introduce them into the educational contents by comprising prestigious and competent professors, thus updating hundreds of major subjects.

The university has pushed ahead with the goals for achieving world-level successes in scientific research while making sure that all the students take part in the scientific research.

The same is true of University of Sciences.

Worthwhile Visit

The respected General Secretary Kim Jong Un visited a fishery station one November day several years ago. The weather was very changeable and cold.

Making the rounds of the fishery station, he learnt in detail about the situation of fishing and management of the station.

The officials of the fishery station felt uneasy to receive the General Secretary when fishing ships took shelters because of high waves with wet snow.

However, the General Secretary told the officials that he made a worthwhile visit that day, expressing his will to continue his journey for the country and people despite distant and perilous ways.

The officials deeply felt that our happiness and rosy future are in store thanks to the great efforts of the General Secretary who regards his toilsome works for the country and people as pleasure.

He Repeatedly Climbs Top of Skiing Ground

The respected General Secretary Kim Jong Un unhesitatingly makes long and dangerous journeys for happiness of the people.

One May day in Juche 102(2013) the General Secretary visited the construction site of Masikryong Ski Resort.

Acquainting himself with the construction situation, he went up to the top of the skiing ground in defiance of the officials’ detention saying that the road was very rough and dangerous. The officials were in great fear whenever his car turned dangerous mountain bends one by one.

That was not only case.

The respected General Secretary visited the completed ski resort on December 30 that year.

He went up to the top of the skiing ground again by an unprotected cable car to learn about its security and convenience saying that he should first make a trial of the cable car which would be used by our people.

Looking up to the General Secretary, the officials were moved to tears.

The world does not know such people’s father as the General Secretary.

The officials said to themselves that the Masikryong Ski Resort is the precious fruition of the painstaking efforts of the respected General Secretary who devotes himself to our people.

Rodong Sinmun

All the people of the DPRK are recollecting the peerlessly great men's undying feats for socialist rural construction on the occasion of the day when the agrarian reform law was promulgated to realize the long-cherished desire of the Korean peasants for the first time in the 5,000-year-long history of the nation.

After the liberation of Korea from the Japanese colonial rule, President Kim Il Sung, in consideration of the earnest desire of the peasants to farm on their own lands, set the agrarian reform as the primary task in carrying out the democratic reforms.

He sat knee to knee with peasants and acquainted himself with the actual conditions in the countryside and the demands of the peasants, confirming each item of the agrarian reform law.

On the basis of such preparations, he promulgated the agrarian reform law on March 5, Juche 35 (1946).

Under his leadership, the agrarian reform was carried out in a little more than 20 days and more than one million hectares of land distributed to over 720 000 households of poor and hired peasants free of charge.

Chairman Kim Jong Il published "On Thoroughly Implementing Our Party's Policy on Agricultural Revolution" and other works to indicate the theoretical and practical issues arising in socialist rural construction.

With the noble idea that improving the layout of fields is a patriotic work of lasting significance for the prosperity and development of the country, he victoriously guided the grand nature-remaking project to completely eliminate the remnants of feudal land ownership.

As a result, hundreds of thousands of hectares of land were improved as befitting the land of socialist Korea.

The Chairman advanced the original policy of bringing about a revolution in agriculture and aroused the whole Party, the entire army and all the people to the implementation of the policy, thus making progress in the development of the country's agriculture.

The respected General Secretary Kim Jong Un opened a grand new era of rural revolution and rural development for the progress and change of the socialist countryside.

In his report at the Fourth Plenary Meeting of the Eighth Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea "Let Us Open up a New Great Era of Our Style Socialist Rural Development", he provided the guidelines to be adhered to in socialist rural construction.

The present reality, in which modern rural dwelling houses are being built every year, is a precious fruition of devoted service to the people and energetic guidance of the great father, who set forth the programme for the rural revolution in the new era to rapidly develop the socialist countryside and has wisely led the struggle for its realization.

A meeting was held at the People's Palace of Culture on March 2 to review last year's forest restoration work and general mobilization for land management.

Present there were Kim Tok Hun, member of the Presidium of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK), vice-president of the State Affairs Commission of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea and premier of the Cabinet, Jon Hyon Chol, secretary of the WPK Central Committee, and other officials of the Party and the government, and officials from the Cabinet, commissions, ministries, national agencies, armed forces organs, Party and power organs in provinces, cities and counties and related units.

The participants in the meeting watched a video on last year's work.

There took place a meeting to review last year's work done by provinces, cities, counties and the field of railway transport to shore up railway stations and the areas adjacent to railways and to reinforce the railway lines.

The meetings pointed out deviations revealed in last year's work.

At the meetings all the officials were urged to fulfill their responsibility as commanding officials of the revolution in the struggle to remodel mountains and rivers of the country in a more beautiful and wonderful way.

Meanwhile, the Central Committee of the General Federation of Trade Unions of Korea sponsored a meeting on the same day for reviewing the 2023 socialist emulation among provinces to train scientists and technicians in the field of tree sapling production.

A seminar on increasing of electricity production and saving of electricity took place at the Sci-Tech Complex of the DPRK on Feb. 27 and 28, under the joint auspices of the Korean Power Industry Association and the Korean Natural Energy Association affiliated to the Central Committee of the General Federation of Science and Technology of Korea.

Present there were officials, scientists, technicians, etc. from Kim Il Sung University, Kim Chaek University of Technology, the Electric Power Industry Research Institute under the Ministry of Electric Power Industry, the Electric Power Information Institute, the Natural Energy Institute under State Academy of Sciences and other units.

The seminar discussed the issues arising in introducing into practice valuable proposals for normalizing the power production, minimizing the loss of electricity in transmission and enhancing the generating capacity based on diverse natural energy, and set the future orientation of research.

Highly appreciated were such inventions as a way of exciting a dynamo with a rotary rectifier.