Regional-industry factories in Sukchon County were inaugurated in the wake of the inauguration ceremonies of those in Songchon and Jaeryong counties amid the simultaneous appearance of precious entities of regional-industry revolution across the country under the wise leadership of the Central Committee of the great Workers’ Party of Korea.

The smart factories built in a granary in the western area of the DPRK, showing off the new looks of development of regional industry, are the precious assets which will signally improve the living conditions of the residents of Sukchon County and firmly support the regional economic development and a proud creation which inspires their confidence that they can bring forward the rosier future by their own efforts in their region.

An inauguration ceremony of the regional-industry factories in Sukchon County for the Regional Development 20×10 Policy took place on January 8.

The key industry sectors of the DPRK intensify the operation to successfully complete the five-year plan.

The metal and chemical industries are discussing the ways to carry out the national economic plans without fail by perfecting the Juche-based iron production system and giving precedence to the supply of raw materials and fuel.

Constructive proposals are put together to boost the production of various kinds of chemical goods by accelerating the establishment of the chemical industrial base relying on domestic raw materials and by pushing ahead with the capacity expansion projects of industrial establishments.

In hearty response to the decisions of the Eleventh Plenary Meeting of the Eighth Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea, agricultural officials in the DPRK work hard to draw up a scientific and innovative plan to increase grain production.

Officials of the Agricultural Commission and agricultural guidance organs at all levels are seriously discussing the ways for implementing the tasks facing the agricultural sector.

On the basis of the successes and experience gained in last year's farming, they are taking foresighted economic and practical measures to put all farming processes on a scientific basis and carry out the grain production plan for this year without fail.

A new world of blooming socialist civilization, which people imagined as an ideal, is now unfolding in the DPRK on the road of onward march for the overall rejuvenation and development of Korean-style socialism.

According to the noble intention of the Workers' Party of Korea to develop regional areas as much as the capital and enable their people to enjoy a new civilization, state measures have been taken one after another to rapidly diffuse and transfer the excellent and advanced culture of the capital to the provinces.

The national sci-tech diffusion network centred on the Sci-Tech Complex, a grand temple of all-people learning, has been expanded constantly to spur the development of civilization.

The Taedonggang Foodstuff Factory, which is widely known for the production of Pyongyang soju, the national liquor of the DPRK, turns out another distinctive liquor.

The technical team of the factory developed and produced “Koryo bean paste liquor” after making painstaking efforts to reflect the tradition, culture and history of the Korean nation who created the method of making soybean malt for the first time in the world.

As a health food recognized worldwide, bean paste cannot be separated from the dietary life of the Korean people. It contains various enzymes that promote the secretion of digestive fluid, linoleic acid that lowers cholesterol content and many bioactive substances that are specially efficacious for the treatment of heart diseases.

Heads of state of different countries made New Year addresses to mark the New Year 2025.

Saying that they will celebrate the 80th anniversary of the victory in the Great Patriotic War this year, Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko stated that it is an honourable task for the descendants of victors to defend peace handed down by forerunners as heritage.

Belarus will develop in a more cultured way and advance confidently toward its goal and ideal, he stressed.

A spokesman for the Iranian Foreign Ministry criticized the US for threatening his country militarily at a press conference on January 6.

Referring to the fact that the national security advisor of the White House recently suggested the possibility of US attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities, he said it is a threat to his country’s nuclear activities for peaceful purposes and also to global peace and security.

Iran and its people will defend the sovereignty, territorial integrity and dignity of their country by employing every means, he stressed. 

Kim Jong Un, general secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea, president of the State Affairs of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea and supreme commander of the armed forces of the DPRK, received a reply message from Thongloun Sisoulith, general secretary of the Central Committee of the Lao People's Revolutionary Party and president of the Lao People's Democratic Republic, on December 30.

In the message Thongloun Sisoulith expressed sincere thanks to the DPRK leader on behalf of the Central Committee of the Lao People's Revolutionary Party, the government and people of the Lao People's Democratic Republic and on his own behalf for sending warm and hearty congratulations and best wishes to the Laotian party, government and people and to him on the occasion of the 49th founding anniversary of the Lao People's Democratic Republic.

He was very pleased that the traditional friendship and good cooperative relations between the LPDR and the DPRK have steadily been expanded and strengthened in recent years, he said, expressing belief that the good relations between the two parties, two states and two peoples would continue to improve and bear greater fruits, bringing substantial benefits to the peoples of the two countries and promoting the cooperative relations for peace, stability and development of the region and the rest of the world.

True to the decisions of the Eleventh Plenary Meeting of the Eighth Central Committee of the Workers’ Party of Korea, the Cabinet and economic guidance organs are making economic arrangement in detail to successfully complete the five-year plan and achieve the growth and development of the overall national economy.

Officials are taking organizational steps as they study and discuss the methods of decisively improving economic guidance and management and setting up a well-knit nationwide crisis control system.

The Cabinet maps out detailed plans and lays down struggle schemes, focusing on establishing a well-knit work system and order for the overall economic affairs of the state and further improving economic guidance and management.