Ho Mun Gil is famous as a writer of novels on the theme of war.

Though he is in an advanced age of over 70, he is still very energetic in his work of writing novels.

His novels, which advance the plots in depth with vivid description and strong dramatic effect on the basis of true facts, always win popularity with readers as soon as they are published.

Paek Kun Sil and U Yun Song are the best cooks among those at the Okryu Restaurant, a public catering service base on the banks of the picturesque Taedong River.

Proficient cook 

At the Central Zoo, more than 150 species of animals brought forth over 1 000 babies, including eight cubs of Korean tiger, this year, adding pleasure to the visitors.

The Central Zoo strives to raise the breeding rate while providing animals with favourable living environments, taking nutritional care of them and doing veterinary and anti-epizootic work in a scientific way. 

This year, thousands of women's union officials and members in the city of Nampho have volunteered to work at industrial establishments seething with enthusiasm for implementing the decisions of the plenary meetings of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea.

More than one hundred women's union officials and members in Kangso District and Onchon County volunteered for regional-industry factories and raw materials base stations to translate the Party's plan into reality.

Women's union members in Hanggu and Waudo districts went to work at the school uniform factory and the schoolchildren's footwear factory.

Different units in the mining industrial sector are boosting their production while putting spurs to strengthening their material and technical foundations.

After completing the replacement of electrolyzer by relying on its own technical force, the Manpho Smeltery is now pushing ahead with the project to expand the capacity of the dust collection system.

It also steps up the work to supply necessary raw materials without interruption.

There are so many hot springs in the DPRK that people have widely used them for their daily life and promotion of health from olden times.

The respected Comrade Kim Jong Un visited the hot spring area of Yangdok County in August 2018 and said that though the country has many famous wells, the hot spring culture had not yet developed and that all the hot spring areas should be spruced up gradually.

In December 2019, the Yangdok Hot Spring Resort furnished with indoor and outdoor spas, ski slopes, a horse riding park and others was wonderfully built as a comprehensive hot spring treatment service base and a multifunctional complex for sporting and leisure activities.

There was a conference of the council of heads of government of the member states of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization in Islamabad, Pakistan, in mid-October.

The meeting released a statement on improving cooperation among the member states in different fields including information security.

The statement specified such problems as to support the member states in introducing digital technology into economic and social fields, arrange various events involving the member states, observer states and dialogue partners and pointed to the matter of examining the initiative on setting up a sports association in the organization and holding sports games of the member states.

Shortly ago, the leader of Japan’s Social Democratic Party criticized the authorities’ moves for increasing the defence expenses.

On October 15 in Okinawa Prefecture where the US Futenma air base is stationed, he censured the government for pushing the boost in “defence spending” and the removal of the Self-Defense Forces to the Nansei Islands, asserting that the military budget is skyrocketing and urging the government to allocate the budget for free childcare and education and the like.

Japan’s buildup of “defence capability” has aroused concern of the international community in recent years.

Zelensky’s puppet authorities, who have messed up the country by pursuing a pro-US and pro-West policy, are in a serious ruling crisis at home and abroad.

Artyom Dmitruk, a Ukrainian MP, said through his e-mail that only when Zelensky resigns, can the bloodshed be prevented, adding that his resignation would be an “excellent gift” to the Ukrainians and the whole country.

Anna Skorokhod, another MP, said in a press conference that the West does not actually recognize the Zelensky authorities at present.