The Kosong Army-People Power Station, a large hydroelectric power plant, has been completed in Kangwon Province.

This laid a new foundation for the economic development of the province and the improvement of its people's living standards.

An inauguration ceremony took place on the spot on December 18.

A hydrometallurgical copper smeltery has been built at the Sangnong Mine.

The completion of the smeltery with a modern production line has opened up a prospect of revitalizing the production of various rare metals and sulfuric acid.

An inauguration ceremony of the smeltery took place on the spot on December 18.

The modernized Thongchon Fishery Station has been inaugurated with due ceremony on December 18.

Production buildings with fish processing equipment, a refrigeration processing building, office building, hall of culture, rest home and others were renovated to bring about great progress in developing the country's fishing industry and improving the people's standards of living.

Present at the inauguration ceremony were Jon Hyon Chol, secretary of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea, Kim Myong Guk, secretary of the Kangwon Provincial Committee of the WPK, officials of the Ministry of Fisheries and the Kangwon Provincial Fishery Management Bureau, working people and employees of the station.

The Jagang Provincial Medical Oxygen Factory has wonderfully been built.

The construction of the factory, furnished with a modern process of producing oxygen for medical use, provided another material and technical foundation conducive to improving the treatment conditions in the field of public health.

An inauguration ceremony of the factory took place on December 18.

The Sariwon Duck Farm has been remodelled in North Hwanghae Province.

The province pulled down the old buildings of the duck farm and built more than 10 production buildings, a fodder processing ground, sci-tech learning space, office building, cultural and welfare facilities and others.

The completion of the duck farm running under an integrated production system and veterinary and anti-epizootic system has provided a foundation for producing a lot of meat and eggs to better the people's dietary life.

More than 1 500 fairyland villages have been built across the DPRK, which is vibrant with activities to implement the programme for effecting drastic development of the rural areas in the new era, over the past three years to meet the modern aesthetic tastes and requirements of Korean-style socialism and highlight the specific features of relevant regions.

With the joyful scenes of agricultural workers moving into new houses provided by the Party and the state free of charge unfolding all the year round every year, the countryside has undergone tremendous changes.

The Fourth Plenary Meeting of the Eighth Central Committee of the Workers’ Party of Korea held in December 2021 was recorded in history as a historic meeting which announced the programme for a rural revolution to provide a new turning point in Korean-style socialist rural development.

The year 2024 has witnessed a lot of instances of moving into new houses.

This year the news about house moving has been reported by TV programmes and newspapers one after another throughout the year since the one in the Komdok area, which is turning into a mountain-gorge town unprecedented in history as modern mining villages rose.

People moved into new modern houses at the Kangdong Combined Greenhouse Farm and such happy scenes peculiar to the DPRK unfolded on Rimhung Street in April and Jonwi Street in May.

The behaviour of the United States styling itself a “human rights champion” is drawing strong condemnation from the international community.

The US has opposed again the UNSC resolution calling for an unconditional ceasefire in the Gaza Strip of Palestine and immediate provision of essential services and humanitarian aid for civilians. It is its sixth sole exercise of veto since the occurrence of the Gaza crisis in October last year.

Then why does the US reject every resolution of the UNSC for achieving a ceasefire in Gaza?

Russian President Vladimir Putin referred to the need to bolster up defence capabilities to cope with the moves of the US and the West to escalate tension as he addressed an enlarged meeting of the council of the Defence Ministry on December 16.

Saying that the political and military situation in the world still remains unstable, he noted the present US administration and the West keep attempting to force their domination.

The US and Western countries, in actuality, egg the illegitimate Ukrainian authorities on to expand the dispute as they continue to supply weapons and money and dispatch mercenaries and military advisers there, while scaring their citizens with the argument of “threat from Russia”.