The 28th National Cooking Festival took place at the Pyongyang Noodle House from March 31 to April 3 on the occasion of the greatest auspicious April holiday of the nation.

Taking part in the festival were cooks, waitresses and housewives selected from the fields of the Guidance Bureau of Public Catering Service, public catering establishments of Pyongyang and provinces (municipalities), external service, ministries and national agencies. Presented to it were more than 800 distinctive dishes and drinks and over 270 scientific and technological achievements.

The exhibition of compulsory dishes was highly appreciated by visitors for the good taste of national dishes such as Pyongyang cold noodles of the Okryu Restaurant and noodles in flat vessel with meat of the Chongnyu Restaurant and dishes presented by the Ansan Noodle House under the Phyongchon District Restaurants Management Office, the Okryu Restaurant under the Taedonggang District Restaurants Management Office, the Ragwon Noodle House under the Pothonggang District Restaurants Management Office and others.

The 2025 Spring National Footwear Exhibition opened with due ceremony at Pyongyang Department Store No. 1 on April 3.

Presented to it were more than 190 000 products of over 800 kinds produced by 40-odd units including the Wonsan Leather Shoes Factory and the Ryuwon Footwear Factory and more than 60 research achievements.

In this period, there will be a multi-faceted exchange of technology and experience among production units and scientific research institutions through sci-tech presentation.

Salt is the most important mineral nutrient for the living of people.

It has several medicinal effects.

When you feel very cold and have a stomachache, you will feel better if you apply hot salt wrapped in poultice to the sore part.

Books are a silent teacher that imparts knowledge to people and teaches them truth.

It is a unanimous desire of parents to bring up their children as pillars of the country who are kind and honest from their childhood, and rich in emotion and possessed of high intellectual faculties.

Children’s books play a very important role in satisfying the desire. Therefore, people who advocated the importance of children’s books set the international day of children’s books six years ago. The day is April 2.

The US State Department recently issued the “2025 report on the law on Hong Kong policy” and decided to impose sanctions on six Chinese officials, which invited strong criticism from China. 

A spokesman for the Chinese Foreign Ministry in a press conference said that the US “report” is full of absurd lies and arguments geared to slandering the political system of China and the human rights situation in Hong Kong.

This despicable act showed their sinister intention to wreck prosperity and stability of Hong Kong and check China’s development by seriously interfering in the internal affairs of China, he stressed.

An enlarged plenary meeting of the Cabinet took place on April 3.

Premier Pak Thae Song, who is also member of the Presidium of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Workers’ Party of Korea, directed the meeting.

It was attended by vice-premiers Kim Jong Gwan and Yang Sung Ho and other Cabinet members.

A central photo exhibition opened to show the immortal exploits the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un, general secretary of the Workers’ Party of Korea, performed to glorify 2024 as a year of proud victory.

On display at the exhibition venue were photos showing the personality traits of the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un as a great man.

The photos tell about the greatness of the respected General Secretary who illuminated the action programmes for achieving the fighting goals for 2024 and ensured that a highest institution of education was built to carry forward the lifeline of the Workers’ Party of Korea and its ever-victorious leadership ability. 

DPRK players returned home on April 1 after taking part in the 20th Asian Marathon Championships.

Han Il Ryong won the winner’s trophy and a gold medal in the men's marathon and Ri Kwang Ok came second in the women's marathon.

They were greeted at Pyongyang International Airport by Kim Il Guk, minister of Physical Culture and Sports, officials concerned, officials in the field of sports and sportspersons. 

Pak In Chol, chairman of the Supreme People’s Assembly of the DPRK, met and had a friendly talk with Kazbek Taysaev, head of the Russia-DPRK friendship parliamentary group of the Russian State Duma who is leading the visiting delegation of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, at the Mansudae Assembly Hall in Pyongyang on April 2.

Present there were Ri Chol, president of the Academy of Medical Science of the Ministry of Public Health who is chairman of the DPRK-Russia friendship parliamentary group, officials concerned and members of the delegation of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation and Alexandr Matsegora, Russian ambassador to the DPRK.