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People throughout the DPRK are now busy preparing kimchi for the winter.   Housewives meet to try each other's spices for kimchi and comment on them. They also compete with each other to make more delicious kimchi. In this season, the friendly sentiments between neighbors are deepened and the laughter of people reverberates at every house and village. The whole cabbage kimchi is made by pickling cabbages, washing them, putting spice consisting of red pepper, onions, garlic, ginger, etc. and fish, pickles, etc. between the leaves of cabbages, and fermenting them. This is our people's traditional side dish indispensable to their diet. There are some regional differences in ingredients and recipes for making kimchi. The inhabitants in the northwestern part of the country would make watery flat whole cabbage kimchi. Those in the northern part use less red pepper, onions, garlic and salt and those in the southern part make hot and salted kimchi with more pickle and spice.

Ri Jong Su, an international affairs analyst, released the following article under the title "Southeast Asia should not be a proxy war theatre for the U.S." on May 24: A raging wind of the new Cold War raised by the U.S. is displacing the warm air in the Southeast Asia region. In January, the U.S. Navy's amphibious assault ship Makin Island appeared in Singapore to resume the joint military exercises two years after. In late February to early March, the Cobra Gold joint military exercises, largest-ever in 10 years, were staged in Thailand. And in April, the Balikatan joint military exercises were launched in the Philippines with involvement of huge armed forces, including over 12 000 U.S. troops. Involved in the exercises was a live-shell firing drill staged in the South Sea of China for the first time. In 2022 alone, military exercises staged by the U.S. armed forces in the South Sea of China were more than 100 times and their reconnaissance activities were more than 1 0...

On the night of February 8 this year, a military parade was held with splendour at Kim Il Sung Square in the capital city of Pyongyang to celebrate the 75th founding anniversary of the Korean People’s Army, demonstrating to the whole world the proud history and invincible might of the KPA. The colours of the KPA were fluttered in the front of the columns of paraders marching past the square in a fine array. They are etched with its history of great victory and glory. One day over 70 years ago when President Kim Il Sung was stepping up the founding of the regular revolutionary armed forces, he saw the sample colours. He said: The colours represent profound ideology and meanings. Soldiers make a firm resolve to fight at the cost of their lives for the independence of the country and the wellbeing of people before the colours, and charge at the enemy position. Therefore, the colours are the banner of victory and glory. If the KPA units enter the venue of the military parade on the upcomin...

조선민주주의인민공화국창건 75돐경축 대공연 우 리 의  국 기 400명이 출연하는 음악문용종합공연

It is the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea which is more devoted to children at times of difficulties and which makes persevering advance towards the future of communism by dint of such love. This can be seen from the fact that policies for children were taken uninterruptedly on this land last year when the country experienced the worst ever disaster. 2022 was a year of unprecedented trials for the country as hostile forces went to extremes in their moves to stifle it, an unexpected emergency of the influx of COVID-19 occurred and it suffered heavy damage by severe drought and downpour. Nevertheless, it continued to show love for the rising generations. A legal guarantee was provided to create the best conditions for the upbringing of children, the material and technical foundations for producing and supplying dairy products were further consolidated and nutritious foods like dairy products were supplied to children regularly. Orphans were supplied with early apricots, chewing gum...

Choe Son Hui, foreign minister of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, on March 12 sent a congratulatory message to Qin Gang upon his appointment as state councilor and foreign minister of the People's Republic of China. The message said that the traditional DPRK-China friendship with socialism as its core is powerfully demonstrating its peculiar vitality and invincibility even under the unprecedentedly complicated international political situation. Expressing the will to strive to develop the DPRK-China friendly relations onto a new high stage in keeping with the noble intention of the leaders of the two countries and further strengthen the strategic and tactical cooperation between the diplomatic fields of the two countries, the message wished him good health and success in his work.

On February 3 this year, a woman left the Okryu Children’s Hospital with her little daughter who fell into sound sleep. The name of the baby is Jon San Jong, the youngest of the 531st triplets born at the Pyongyang Maternity Hospital. In September last year, medical workers of the maternity hospital and the Okryu Children’s Hospital got strained to see the two-month-old baby’s health conditions. The baby, who weighed 1.2kg at the time of birth, was in the most serious state with her compound heart deformity and her left lung unidentifiable in the test. From then on, medical workers at the two hospitals, sharing a road, spent busy days to save the baby from the jaws of death. Doctors at the maternity hospital made sincere efforts to put the baby’s weight on a normal state as early as possible so that it could get all necessary medical treatments, while those at the children’s hospital held consultations to confirm a reasonable cardiac operation plan by tapping all the possibilities, con...

South Hwanghae Province of the DPRK has dynamically conducted the Three-Revolution Red Flag Movement, an all-people movement, to make successes in the struggle for implementing the decisions of the Workers' Party of Korea. The number of units honored with the Thrice Three-Revolution Red Flag, the Twice Three-Revolution Red Flag and the Three-Revolution Red Flag is on the steady increase amid the growing enthusiasm of loyalty of officials, Party members and other working people in the province who have turned out in response to the Party's idea of dynamically propelling the simultaneous and balanced development in all realms of state and social life and all regions of the country with the three revolutions as the motive force. The provincial Party committee is conducting information and motivation work to actively arouse the Party members and other working people to the implementation of the three revolutions--ideological, technological and cultural--in various forms and methods...

The history of Japan’s aggression against Korea records the Korea-Japan Protocol signed on February 23, 1904. At a meeting held in December 1903, the Japanese Cabinet passed a decision that reads in part, “It would be most convenient to conclude a treaty on protectorate as we cannot but put it (the feudal Joson dynasty) under our control by force in any case, as well as it would be a best method to choose a plausible reason.” This shows that Japan regarded it as a fait accompli to put Korea under its military occupation, and schemed to disguise it with a “diplomatic document” for form’s sake. Japan persistently forced the feudal Joson government to sign the Korea-Japan Protocol by resorting to all sorts of threats and blackmail for months. However, its shameless attempt met with a strong opposition of the Joson government. Japan’s hastening of the signing of the “protocol” was related to a violent competition between big powers to control Korea at that time. In order not to lose the co...