Honorary Director Qiu Shuibo of the Board of Directors of the Kim Il Sung-Kim Jong Il Foundation and members of the foundation Lin Gennan, Guo Deli, Cui Tongjun and Wang Shuli sent baskets of flowers to the statues of President Kim Il Sung and Chairman Kim Jong Il on Mansu Hill in Pyongyang on the occasion of the lunar New Year’s Day in 2025.

The baskets of flowers were laid at their statues on January 28.

The regional-industry factories in Songchon County, the first entity of the implementation of the Regional Development 20×10 Policy, were inaugurated in December last year and went into production on a normal basis. Their products are giving joy to locals in the county.

Popular goods, famous commodities peculiar to region

Sweet chestnut is a typical speciality of Songchon County for its delicate flavour.

IT products developed by the Pyongyang Kwangmyong IT Corporation are winning popularity.

The e-commerce service system enables commercial service units to ensure precision and promptness in service activities and overcome the limitations of commodity service in time and location by grasping and managing their commercial service activities in real time.

The noncontact automatic charge payment system and VPN system developed by the corporation have provided convenience to the users.

In 2024, unprecedented successes were achieved in education, science, public health, art and literature, sports and other fields of culture in the DPRK.

Last year, Kim Jong Un, general secretary of the Workers’ Party of Korea, led the work to make attaching importance to education a national trait peculiar to the country.

Practical measures were taken to modify the educational structure of the country to give advanced education and improve the teaching contents and methods more rationally. Reserve educators were trained in a far-sighted way and the socialist policies for students were consistently implemented.

Pang Song Hui’s family, living in apartment 2 on the fourth floor of neighbourhood unit No. 14, Hwasong-dong No. 1 in Hwasong District, Pyongyang, always resounds with happy laughter.

“Many obliging people visit our house as we are a family of triplets,” said Pang presenting a small book.

Inscribed on the book, entitled “Obliging people”, were addresses, names and occupations of those who visited the family.

The news about the birth of triplets gave delight to all the people of the DPRK in 2024, too.

The mother of the 543rd triplets of the Pyongyang Maternity Hospital was Yun Kyong Ok living in Kimhwa County, Kangwon Province. They were the first to leave the hospital last year.

After she gave birth to the babies at the hospital in 2023, they got medical benefits until the babies grew more than 4 kilograms. On TV was broadcast the happy scene of the triplets leaving the hospital in good health together with their parents, warmly seen off by doctors and nurses, after receiving gold rings and other gifts from the state. The other two sets of triplets left the hospital in February and March of the year respectively.

The DPRK changes in appearance every day and every morning and evening.

All cities, counties and farms across the country have turned into rich and developed ones encapsulating modern civilization since the city of Samjiyon became a standard and model of modern mountainous city.

The completion of regional-industry factories in Songchon County as the first fruit of the Regional Development 20×10 Policy has been followed by that of similar factories in many other parts of the country.

The Wonsan School Uniform Factory in Kangwon Province is speeding up production.

The technical preparation room develops designs through the intensive consultations for ensuring the quality of school uniforms according to their specifications, before sending them to production sites.

The cutters and machinists of the factory are registering good production results by introducing various methods of increasing the cutting yield and are processing materials according to the manual.

The Ministry of Education directs efforts to the work to enforce a new educational administration system.

Officials of the ministry and relevant units worked out a plan for introducing an excellent educational administration system from the new school year and are carrying it out.

Teacher training universities and colleges have made educational programmes in such a way as to raise the effectiveness of teaching and train more talents in a qualitative way in line with the enforcement of the new educational administration system.