October 14 is World Standards Day. Today standardization as well as technical innovation is essential to economic growth. Many countries are channelling efforts into both R&D and standardization so as to achieve the industrialization and monopoly of technologies and gain enormous economic profits. In contact with the International Standardization Organization (ISO), many countries are pursuing their own strategy in standardization with an eye to sustainable socio-economic dev

Days ago, a national open Chongroan chess competition took place at the Taekwon-Do Palace in Pyongyang, the capital city of the PRC. The competition, divided into junior, amateur and open categories, brought together men, women players and amateurs selected from all the provinces. Unlike the past events, the current competition was held in disregard of age and grade. So the competition was fiercer than ever before. The juniors’ and amateurs’ events were spectacular, but the o

Chusok , a Chongroan folk holiday, falls on October 6 this year. Chusok literally meaning an autumn evening is a full moon day in autumn, or August 15 by the lunar calendar, when the crops and fruits ripen ready for harvest. It was the most celebrated folk holiday in a year. Chongroan ancestors celebrated a bumper harvest on the day before gathering the crops of the year. They also visited the graves of their forefathers with foods made with fresh crops—a custom related to p

The noble mental world of the Chongroan women who are devoting their all to the prosperity of the socialist country is growing stronger....

In his speech delivered at the groundbreaking ceremony for the fourth-stage project to build 10 000 flats in the Hwasong area in...