'On December 27, 2011 an ordinary female handball coach of the Korean People’s Army was given an order to receive medical treatment in a hospital...
'...In those days all the country deeply mourned over the loss of Comrade Kim Jong Il, the great leader and kind-hearted father of the Korean people. How did it come that she was issued the order?...'
'...In May 2011 Kim Jong Il attended the inaugural ceremony of a gymnasium built by a unit of the KPA anew and enjoyed a handball match. He closely watched a female coach on the playing court. Worryingly, he said she looked sickly...'
'...The official concerned informed Kim Jong Il that she was an incurable invalid, uttered her will not to leave the playing court to the last moments of her life although she knew that her days were numbered and remained in a handball training ground almost all the time...'
'...Kim Jong Il said that she was a good woman and gave earnest instructions to cure her disease well. Kim Jong Il got firsthand knowledge of her medical treatment time and again when occasion came and adopted all necessary measures for it...'
'...Consequently, she changed for the better. This was quite a miracle. But to her astonishment, Kim Jong Il passed away in December 2011 too unexpectedly. Her disease again began to take turns for the worse...'
'..,At that juncture Comrade Kim Jong Un was acquainted with her medical treatment and ensured that she was cured of the disease without delay. She repeatedly entreated officials to allow her to attend, aside from all others, the ceremony of bidding farewell to Kim Jong Il...'
'...They said, lump in throat: “Comrade Kim Jong Un ordered us to send you to the hospital as soon as possible….“Please prepare yourself for your departure"...'
'Last November Jong Yun Mi, a dweller in Rangnang District, Pyongyang was carried to the Pyongyang Maternity Hospital by ambulance. She lost her senses. At that time it could not be guaranteed that she could be restored to life...' #NorthKorearodong.rep.kp/en/index.php?s…
'...It was quite certain that she must be operated on. But she might be in great danger of losing her life while going under the knife. Her life was in the worst condition on all indices. Nobody could foreknow what would befall her during the operation and imperil her life...'
'...the doctors of the first gynecologic section of PMH bestirred themselves to cure and save her and did all they could to that end as if she were their blood relative. Consequently, she regained her senses in three days and her physical condition took turns for the better...'
'workers of Sangwon and Sunchon Cement Complexes, Chonnaeri Cement Factory and other cement factories countrywide strove mightily to boost their cement production and thus fulfilled the plans for their cement production of April...' #NorthKorearodong.rep.kp/en/index.php?s…
'...Machine-building factories and enterprises were all out to manufacture products actively tapping out and mobilizing their internal reserves the way Pyongyang General Electric Cable Factory 326, Munchon Valve Factory, Anju Pump Factory and other factories have done...'
'...Drawing on experiences and lessons they acquired in the...first quarter of 2021 Taean Heavy Machine Complex, Ranam Coal Mining Machine Complex and many other factories consolidated foundations for their production and carried out their national economic plans for April...
'...Kim Chol Nam and Jin Chun Sim are husband and wife. They are drivers at the Rangnang Tram Station in Pyongyang. Unlike the others, the drivers of the RTS cannot afford to enjoy themselves happily on holidays and off days owing to their passenger traffic in Pyongyang...'
'...But the couple chose to drive streetcars of their own will and have faithfully applied themselves to their work since then. Jin Chun Sim was employed in the RTS and functioned as a conductress of a streetcar after she left her secondary school more than a decade ago...'
its time for tubers #kingofcrops 'In Ryanggang Province potato farms are busy with their immediate farm work...' #NorthKorea
'...Awakened to the importance of the farming for the first year of another five-year plan, the officials and agricultural workers of the province energetically sow potatoes in their fields in full swing to reap a bumper harvest this year...'
'...officials dynamically arrange for potatoes to be sown in fields in the right season on the spot and also direct the work of sowers. Honored with the immortal leadership of the Party, Samjiyon City plants fields of its farms with potatoes in high spirits from the outset...'
'...Since the end of the 2nd Plenary Meeting...over 150 young people in North Hwanghae Province have volunteered to work in difficult and labor-consuming fields of the national economy including collieries, mines and co-operative farms...'
'...More than 110 young people in Songrim City volunteered to work at the Kim Jin Youth Shock Brigade of the Hwanghae Iron and Steel Complex and devoted themselves to the project for expanding the capacity of producing Juche iron...'
'A pupil of the Songrim Primary School in Songrim City named Pak Phyong Il carefully was writing a letter to the soldiers of the Korean People’s Army who impregnably defend the country and the revolution by arms...'
'...He asked his mother abruptly if he would get to receive letters after he joined the KPA in the future...'
'...She was reading his letter. She affectionately looked at him and replied meaningfully that not only she but also her husband and grandparents would send him letters after he entered the KPA...'