Women who give birth to many children and bring them up excellently are given prominence and great benefits in the DPRK.

Policies have long been in place in the country to provide prolific mothers with good living conditions.

According to an official of the Hwasong District People’s Committee in Pyongyang, dwelling houses are preferentially allocated to families with many children according to a state measure, and hundreds of such families moved into new flats on Rimhung Street which was completed last year.

Everyone knows it takes much effort to raise a child. But in the DPRK, it is on everyone’s lips that families with many children are full of blessings.

Recently, The Pyongyang Times reporter Hwang Jong Ryol visited the home of Kim Yong Ok living in neighbourhood unit No. 14 of Hwawon-dong No. 1, Hwasong District, Pyongyang.

Kim Yong Ok said: “All kinds of blessings have come to my family since I gave birth to three children. The country provided us with a modern new flat free of charge and preferential treatment. Daily necessities are supplied for us on a regular basis and special subsidies are granted under the meticulous care of officials of our neighbourhood unit, dong and district people’s committee. Therefore, we lead a comfortable life free from the slightest inconvenience.”

Now that science and technology are regarded as an engine driving socialist construction, it becomes more important for universities which train the “engine drivers” to fulfil their mission.

Especially, the position and role of Wonsan Jong Jun Thaek University of Economics is truly important in view of the Workers’ Party of Korea’s intention to radically improve the national economy in keeping with the ever-rising dignity of the DPRK.

It is a policy of the Party on the development of universities to build research universities that achieved the integration of education, scientific research and production on a high level.

The Songdowon General Foodstuff Factory keeps increasing the variety of products.

The secret of its success lies in the management of talents. 

“As the saying goes, ‘A book that remains shut is but a block’. The management of talents is the key issue in making talents fully display their abilities,” said Jon Song Dae, technical staffer of the factory. 

Jong Sun Yong lives in neighbourhood unit No. 66 in Mirae-dong, Phyongchon District, Pyongyang.

Sun Yong became well known to the whole country along with the national flag hoisted by the DPRK women footballers after winning the 2024 FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup last year. 

It is said that the flag was the one she had sent to the footballers leaving to participate in the world cup.

At present, the ever-worsening abnormal climatic conditions pose big obstacles in the way of agriculture around the world.

In recent years, many obstacles and difficulties have been created in agricultural production also in our country due to heavy rain, drought, typhoon and hail.

Since disastrous meteorological phenomena constitute a major obstacle to agricultural production today, it is important to make them a fait accompli and organize work scrupulously to overcome or minimize their impacts.

The Ninety-Nine Curves of Chonsang Stream is a natural monument situated in Sampho-ri, Yonsa County, North Hamgyong Province.

It is located in the valley through which the Chonsang Stream, a tributary of the Yonmyon River rising from Kwanmo Peak, flows.

There are high mountains like Kwanmo Peak and Mt Tojong near the stream.

“The people’s rising living standards require that we produce more tasteful and nutritious condiments. We have made painstaking efforts to produce nutritious products by relying on locally-available raw material resources,” said Hong Song Nam, manager of the Sariwon Condiments Factory.

According to him, the factory developed 30-odd kinds of new products last year and has presented many new products this year since talents have performed a vanguard role in the scientific and technological work and all employees vigorously pushed the development of the units as masters of technical innovation.

The factory organically combined research and production to preserve the taste of soy sauce, a processed foodstuff peculiar to the Korean nation, and ensured that all employees turn out in the technical innovation drive like one.

School-opening ceremonies took place at educational institutions across the DPRK on April 1 to mark the new school year for 2025.

On the morning of the school-opening day, schoolchildren full of happiness put on new uniforms and shoes and carried Sonamu-brand school bags to go to school.

Ceremonies were held at universities and colleges and all other schools across the country to start the new school year.