'In all the provinces officials do their utmost to provide their light industrial factories with raw and other materials...'
'...Now that a process for the reclamation of wastes has been set up at the Sinuiju Footwear Factory and the Sinuiju Textile Factory apiece, North Phyongan Province tries its hardest purposefully to supply them with plenty of the scrap rubber and plastic...'
'...South Phyongan Province makes efforts to normalize the production of the Sunchon Shoemaking Factory and the Anju Footwear Factory on a high level regarding it as one of its concerns...'
'...officials of Jagang and Kangwon Provinces and many other provinces pay profound attention not only to procuring raw materials for products and feeding them to factories...' #NorthKorearodong.rep.kp/en/index.php?s…
'Ryanggang Province tries hard to raise medicinal plants and trees in an endeavor to open a wide avenue for its development...' #NorthKorearodong.rep.kp/en/index.php?s…
'...It is rich in Astragalus membranaceus and other medicinal plants. It has put forward the Paegam Astragalus Membranaceus Farm as a model and planned to introduce advanced methods of cultivation into its farms and increase their per-hectare astragalus yield...'
'...It also works hard to revitalize the Hyesan Herb Culture Experiment Station and thus secure the medicinal plants’ seeds and seminal roots which are acclimatized in its northern area. Meanwhile, it pays close attention to raising medicinal trees...'
'...[KJU] explained the plan to form the area of modern terraced houses along the picturesque bank of the Pothong River flowing through the central part of the capital city and to turn the area in a peculiar way by putting up multi-story and low-story dwelling houses...'
'...[KJU noted] our officials lack knowledge and common sense of urban greening and designing of cityscape and are also indifferent to them...'
'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