'The revolutionary enthusiasm of workers in the forestry sector of #NorthKorea, who have turned out in implementing the tasks set forth at the 2nd Plenary Meeting of the 8th Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea, is bringing forth high production...'
'...Some forestry stations and mine pillar production stations finished the timber production quotas for the year or for the first quarter of the year...'
'...The forestry and mine pillar production stations under Ryanggang, South Phyongan and Jagang provincial forestry management bureaus scrupulously mapped out their economic operations and direction to register good results in the winter timber production...'
'...The workers of the Paekja Forestry Station and other units successfully fulfilled this year's plans. And lots of mine pillar production stations have finished their plans for the first quarter of the year ahead of schedules...'
'...Officials and workers in the forestry sector continuously accelerate the timber production while directing efforts to strengthening their own material and technical foundations' #NorthKorearodong.rep.kp/en/index.php?s…
'More than 1,300 young people countrywide have actively petitioned for difficult jobs in the national economy, including the metal, coal and extractive industries and agriculture, since the 8th Congress of the Workers’ Party of Korea...'
'...Although he was on North Phyongan Provincial Committee of the Kimilsungist-Kimjongilist Youth League after his military service and university graduation Kim Yong Min petitioned for employment at a youth subworkteam of the Taean Cooperative Farm in Taegwan County...'
'...Pak Song Rim gave up being on the Onsong County Committee of the Kimilsungist-Kimjongilist Youth League and petitioned for work at a branch of the most backward cooperative farm of the county...'
my fingers ache at the thought of the next 96 hours of furious proofing to get to 2nd proofs for this issue of @EJKoreanStudies but it is a 434 page colossus of an issue #KoreanStudies 1/2
'workers and management of the railway sector continue to concentrate their efforts on transporting materials to metal and chemical plants, coal mines and thermal power stations...' #NorthKorearodong.rep.kp/en/index.php?s…
'...officials of the Ministry of Railways adopt detailed measures to arrange for its locomotives and freight cars to be used preferentially for transporting important materials...'
'...They also ensure that the Rahung Railway Factory and other factories and enterprises produce plenty of the accessories needed to repair locomotives and freight cars...'
'Ryanggang Province tries its hardest to increase the capacity for the production of its cement. A mountain stands cheek by jowl with the Hyesan Cement Factory. It is rich in limestone. Several days ago it was blown up to get 100,000 tons of limestone for the HCF...' #NorthKorea
'...Efforts are also made to augment the calorific power of both the inferior coal and soft coal which are produced at the Hyesan and Paegam Coal Mines and the Unhung area...'
'...The factories and enterprises of the province help each other and cooperate with each other in working with might and main to turn out various kinds of the machines and spare parts needed to increase the producing capacity for cement' #NorthKorearodong.rep.kp/en/index.php?s…
'Ri Hyok Il and Ri Yong Yon live in Neighborhood Unit 49, Phyongchon-dong 1, Phyongchon District, Pyongyang. They are 15 and 13 respectively. They, too, are cheerful, optimistic and ambitious like other children...' #NorthKorearodong.rep.kp/en/index.php?s…
'...They are orphans. They lost their father more than ten years ago and their mother two years ago. But they are carefree...'
'...Many women volunteer to call on the orphans at home and undertake them of their own accord. One of them washes their clothes, quilts and so on. The other examines their homework and gives them advices on their school lessons and activities in liaison with their teacher...'
'On the occasion of the 73rd anniversary of the founding of the heroic Korean People's Army (KPA), all the Korean people are extending their warm congratulations and inspiring greetings to the service personnel who are defending the security of the country...'
'...young people in the capital city extended their sincere thanks to the service personnel for fully discharging their sacred mission and duty of defending the country, people and revolution, remaining true to the leadership of the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un...'
'...young people in all other parts of the country, in their letters, pledged to demonstrate their might as the vanguard and shock brigade in the building of a powerful socialist country with the mind that they are standing in the same trench with the service personnel...'