'Mangyongdae District Wholesale Agency for Vegetables and Fruits raises lots of pigeons. It started to do so more than ten years ago. That time the pigeons did not eat feed well. Worse still, some of them did not return home after leaving it....'
'...Although they had their hands full with work the labor and management of the agency found time to read books on pigeons and visited keepers of many of them at home to learn relevant experiences...'
'...As a result, the pigeons of the agency multiplied rapidly into the scores in a few years. Thanks to them, the employees of the agency have been attached to their work place, having a happy time in their lives' #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...'
'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...'
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...'