The message said:
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I extend warm congratulations on behalf of our state and all the people to you,
And I extend warm greetings to your wife Yun Yong Ja, who has so far supported and encouraged you with her pure mind and taken pains more than anyone else.
The chemical industry sector overfulfilled its fertilizer production plan for January.
The success is attributable to the painstaking efforts of the officials and working people of the Namhung Youth Chemical Complex and the Hungnam Fertilizer Complex to implement the strategy for readjustment and reinforcement set forth at the Eighth Congress of the Workers’ Party of Korea.
The Namhung Youth Chemical Complex produced thousands of tons of more fertilizer while saving large quantities of coal in the first 10-odd days of this year alone.
It is not easy to present valuable research findings conducive to the development of the country and the improvement of the people’s living standards.
However, it does not mean that only specific persons can do so.
Last year, Ju Yon Hui, a workteam leader of the Ryongsong Meat Processing Factory, developed a functional food good for health promotion with endless speculation and tireless efforts, getting an academic degree at the age of 52.
Marked improvement has been brought about every day in the production of textbooks for new school year at the Educational Books Printing Plant.
“In our country the universal 12-year compulsory free education is in force. In the period a student receives more than 140 textbooks. The employees of our factory work hard to carry out the production plan of textbooks to be supplied to all students across the country ahead of schedule,” said chief engineer Mun Kwang Su.
The factory is performing the production tasks ahead of schedule while gradually increasing the production capacity.
A spokesman for the Chinese Foreign Ministry at a press conference on February 17 accused Japan of its attitude towards the Taiwan issue.
He said that Taiwan is an inseparable part of the Chinese territory and the Taiwan issue is purely an internal affair of China and that outside forces have no right to interfere.
Since Japan invaded Taiwan and enforced colonial rule over it and also has historical responsibility for the serious crimes committed against the Chinese people, it should be careful with its words and deeds, he noted.
The chief of the Information Office of the DPRK Ministry of National Defence on February 21 issued the following press statement entitled "We will counter the enemies' strategic threat with our strategic means":
Since the emergence of the Trump administration, the US and its vassal forces are getting evermore pronounced in their military provocations threatening the security environment of the DPRK.
On February 20, the US staged a provocative joint air drill with the ROK by dispatching B-1B strategic bomber into the sky over the Korean peninsula. Earlier, on February 19, it test-fired ICBM Minuteman-3 at the Vandenberg Space Force Base towards a target in the Pacific.
The credentials of the Swiss ambassador to the DPRK, sent by the president of the Swiss Confederation to
Upon authorization of the President of the State Affairs of the DPRK, Choe Ryong Hae, first vice-president of the State Affairs Commission and chairman of the Standing Committee of the Supreme People's Assembly, received the credentials from Swiss Ambassador JÜrg Stephan Burry at the Mansudae Assembly Hall in Pyongyang on February 20.
Choe Ryong Hae had a talk with the ambassador in a friendly atmosphere.
Ambassador Alexandr Matsegora and the military attaché of the Russian embassy in Pyongyang hosted a reception at the Taedonggang Diplomatic Club on February 20 to mark the Day of Defenders of the Motherland.
Present there at invitation were Minister No Kwang Chol and Vice-Minister Kim Kang Il of National Defence of the DPRK, Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs Kim Jong Gyu, generals and other officers of the Korean People's Army and officials concerned, and members of the diplomatic and the military attaches corps in Pyongyang.
Staff members of the Russian embassy were on hand.
Native language is a means of communication and a symbol of the culture of a relevant country and nation.
The diversity of language shows that of the history, cultures and customs of countries and nations, and therefore protecting their mother tongue means protecting their history, cultures and customs.
On February 21 1952, the inhabitants of East Pakistan (now Bangladesh) held a demonstration to call for including Bengali in official languages of state and government organs.
A meeting for reviewing the 2024 socialist emulation drive in the fruit farming sector of the DPRK took place on February 20.
Present there were Ri Chol Man, vice-premier of the Cabinet and chairman of the Agricultural Commission, Kim Jong Sun, department director of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea, officials of the Agricultural Commission, the Union of Agricultural Workers of Korea and units participating in the emulation drive and exemplary agricultural workers.
Han Jong Hyok, chairman of the Central Committee of the UAWK, made a reviewing report.
