The matches of several events in the general field (category of ministries and national agencies) for the 14th National People's Games came to a close.

The State Planning Commission, the Ministry of Finance, the Taehung Trading Guidance Bureau and the Radio-Television Broadcasting Committee of the DPRK took the first place in the men's basketball event in their groups and the Ministry of Information Industry, the Bureau for Affairs with Diplomatic Corps, the Ponghwa Trade Bureau and the Foreign Languages Publishing House in the badminton event.

The Ministry of Information Industry, the Ministry of Public Health, the Daesong Bank and the Foreign Languages Publishing House respectively topped the total rankings in Taekwon-Do.

The respected Comrade Kim Jong Un sent a birthday spread to Mun Ul Sun, a woman centenarian living in neighbourhood unit No. 16, Tongjung-ri, Yonggwang County, South Hamgyong Province, on her 100th birthday.

The centenarian's family and village as a whole were wrapped in a festive mood.

Mun made efforts to do good things for the country even after becoming a pensioner. She always asks her descendants to uphold the country best in the world with pure conscience and obligation.

Last year witnessed the appearance of wonders of socialist civilization in the northwestern part of the DPRK.

In a little over four months, modern multi- and single-storey dwelling houses for more than 15 000 families, nurseries, kindergartens, schools, hospitals, clinics, etc. were newly built and dwelling houses for more than 6 000 families repaired and the Amnok River embankment project, river improvement projects and railway, road and bridge repair projects were pushed forward to change the northwestern region without any trace of its old appearance. This is a miracle in the history of construction.

It was a miraculous change brought about by the Korean people’s own tremendous strength and their spirit of self-development and self-determination and patriotic devotion.

The teams for promoting scientific farming play a big part in the growth of agricultural production in the DPRK.

These well-organized teams set up from the capital to farms were formed on the initiative of the Central Committee of the Workers’ Party of Korea.

General Secretary Kim Jong Un, with a deep insight into the importance of the role of scientific farming in boosting agricultural production, took a measure to organize the teams for promoting scientific farming which intensify guidance over scientific farming and command the work for the production and supply of advanced agricultural sci-tech products for farms in a unified way at the Seventh Plenary Meeting of the Eighth Party Central Committee.

The Jehyon Farm of the South Phyongan Provincial Rural Economy Committee has actively introduced the method of cultivating seedlings in greenhouses.

"The method of cultivating seedlings in greenhouses was introduced last year, with a result that the farm increased grain output by over 1.3 tons per hectare more than when conventional seedlings were transplanted in 40 hectares of fields,” said Kim Song Hwa, manageress of the farm.

The farm has put the seeding process on a streamlined basis in the growing of young rice plants in greenhouses and is planning to introduce a cylindrical cultivation device this year.

The criticism against AUKUS (the US, the UK and Australia) is growing among Australian politicians.

Decrying the agreement on nuclear submarine of AUKUS in a recent interview with the ABC broadcasting service, a political party leader of the country called on Australia to withdraw from the agreement.

The former prime minister branded it as an unfavourable deal, asserting that this will jeopardize the sovereignty and security of Australia and state finance.

The more difficult the country’s situation gets, the more sincere efforts the DPRK puts in for children and the more vigorously it advances towards the future on the strength of love.

Since the birth of a new Korea, the DPRK has always given top priority to work related to children.

One of the major agenda items discussed at the first meeting of its power organ was the issue of pencils for children, and it was the textbooks for children that were transported before munitions even in the flames of the Fatherland Liberation War.

The production of school uniforms, footwear and bags for new pupils and students at the primary schools, junior middle schools, colleges and universities across the DPRK was successfully finished and they have been supplied with the approach of the new school year, giving pleasure to their parents and other people.

Officials of the Ministry of Commerce and relevant units including every provincial people's committee displayed their high sense of responsibility to ensure that the products associated with the sincere efforts of makers are supplied to all pupils and students.  

A poster for the Ninth April Spring People's Art Festival has been produced in the DPRK.

The poster carries letters reading "The Ninth April Spring People's Art Festival" and the emblem of the festival and its period.

 It shows the names of categories of the festival against the background of President Kim Il Sung's birthplace at Mangyongdae and the azaleas in full bloom. It reflects the noble loyalty of all the people to significantly celebrate as a grand auspicious event of the whole country the day of great national fortune when the Korean people greeted for the first time in the nation's history of thousands of years.