New Villages Have Risen in Phungchon and Sunhak Farms in Kosong County

Amid the transformation of the lofty intention of the Party Central Committee to change all rural areas of the country into an earthly paradise for the people into a proud reality, a scene of new house moving-in ceremonies took place at Phungchon and Sunhak Farms in Kosong County.

The farm villages, which form a landscape with various types of low-rise and single-story dwelling houses and hundreds of trees and flowering shrubs at the foot of Mt. Kumgang, famous as a renowned mountain, intuitively show the true appearance of rural revitalization in the era of the Workers' Party.

Upholding the Party's will, which regards rural construction as an important state policy, Kosong County prioritized strengthening the workforce of construction teams and guaranteeing materials, and vigorously pushed ahead with the project by utilizing highly efficient construction equipment and machines.

The officials and builders, consistently grasping the production of building materials based on local raw materials and the improvement of construction quality, displayed a stubborn executive ability and splendidly erected modest cultural housing guaranteed with political, modern, and cultural characteristics.

The dwelling house moving-in meeting held at Phungchon Farm in Kosong County on the 19th was attended by officials from Kangwon Province and Kosong County, builders, and agricultural workers moving into the houses.

At the meeting, the speaker warmly congratulated the farm members who are spreading their wings in new dwelling houses prepared under the benevolence of the Party.

He referred to the fact that the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un, who unfolded the grand plan to transform all rural villages across the country into prosperous and cultural socialist ideal villages in the near future, energetically guided the construction of rural dwelling houses.

The speaker emphasized that all officials and agricultural workers must deeply cherish the benevolence of the Party, beautify their hometowns even more, and unstintingly devote their patriotic sweat and passion to greet the Ninth Congress of the Party with proud achievements of a bumper harvest.

House use permits were handed over amid the enthusiastic applause of the participants, and discussions took place.

The discussants respectfully expressed their gratitude to the respected Marshal, who so earnestly cares for the civilization and well-being of the people and, through sleepless devotion, is unfolding a new phase of our-style rural development on this land.

They said they would never forget the deep love and trust of the Motherly Party, always fulfill their duty as those in charge and masters of the rural revolution, and unfold a plentiful autumn with golden ears of rice rippling in this meaningful year marking the 80th anniversary of Party founding.

As the new house moving-in began, a joyous farmers' music dance and congratulatory performance stage unfolded, and officials visited the owners of the cultural houses to share the joy.

 

 

【Korean Central News Agency】

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Party Organizations Must Become a Bulwark That Firmly Protects the People's Safety of Life

The respected Comrade Kim Jong Un said as follows:

"Thorough measures must be prepared to prevent various accidents and natural disasters."

Today, as disastrous abnormal weather phenomena caused by global warming are becoming more frequent, preventing natural disasters is precisely the safety of the people's lives and economic development. Therefore, the Party has already emphasized more than once or twice the need to correctly establish crisis response measures to minimize damage from heavy rains, floods, and typhoons.

Now, many regional and unit Party organizations are accurately grasping the importance and urgency of the natural disaster prevention work and are stubbornly organizing and waging the struggle to thoroughly cope with disastrous abnormal weather phenomena.

However, some regional and unit Party organizations still remain in a passive posture, stopping at merely conveying the instructions from above as they are, and, putting forth various conditions, are conducting the work to strengthen disaster prevention capabilities in a formalistic and expedient manner.

As in all other work, the proactive and responsible role of Party organizations is key in minimizing natural damage, protecting the people's safety of life, and firmly guaranteeing the execution of Party decisions.

All Party organizations must deeply engrave anew the meaning of the three letters "Bulwark," stand in a proactive and responsible position, and powerfully organize and wage the struggle to reduce natural damage.

First and foremost, the safety of the people's lives is fundamental.

Party organizations must take it as a foregone conclusion that floods, heavy rains, and storms could hit their region and their unit, regardless of how things were in the past, find even the smallest elements that could pose a risk to the people's safety of life, mobilize all reserves, possibilities, and potential, and urgently correct them.

They must thoroughly grasp every single building and facility in their region and unit without omission, establish corresponding countermeasures, and take immediate measures if even the slightest dangerous sign is foreseen.

From the responsible Party officials themselves, they must possess an extraordinary awareness that they must protect with their lives the safety of life of the precious people whom our Party upholds to the heavens, and devote themselves and fight at the forefront of the struggle for disaster prevention. They must not just give instructions and receive reports on results, but must deeply immerse themselves directly in reality, find all gaps and loopholes without omission, and concretely conduct the necessary organizational work.

Ideological mobilization work must be conducted powerfully and offensively.

The work to minimize natural damage cannot be done by the strength of a few people.

Party organizations must mobilize all propaganda and agitation means and forces, and offensively conduct explanations and education suited to the actual situation to deeply instill the importance of the work to minimize natural damage, crisis response methods, and order of action, so that all the people, with the awareness that they are the masters of the disaster prevention work, unanimously and voluntarily step forward to the work of protecting their hometowns, villages, and workplaces.

The greatest enemy in crisis management work is expediency and formalism.

There is nothing more foolish than hoping for luck and resorting to expediency and formalism in the face of nature's fury.

Party organizations must take as Party work the projects to minimize damage from floods and heavy rains, including the repair of rivers and streams, afforestation and erosion control works, and the maintenance of irrigation structures, push them forward with more substance, and especially heighten the requirement level for this. At the same time, they must reexamine the emergency mobilization system and thoroughly devise measures to safely evacuate residents, employees, and equipment in emergency situations.

All Party organizations must reawaken to the people's trust and expectations, display extraordinary executive ability in today's struggle to overcome nature's challenges, firmly defend their region and their unit, and firmly guarantee the struggle to achieve this year's goals.

Reporter Yun Myong Chol

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Recent Rainfall Amounts and Forecasted Weather

According to a report from the Meteorological and Hydrological Bureau, between the 16th and the 19th, the rainfall was highest in Kujang County (547mm), Nyongbyon County (537.3mm), Tokchon City (458.3mm), Thaechon County (405mm), Nyongwon County (401.4mm), Mundok County (398.7mm), Maengsan County (374mm), Sunchon City (337.4mm), and Anju City (334.2mm).

Furthermore, from 18:00 to 19:00 on the 18th, a heavy rain of 131mm fell in Phyoksong County and 80.8mm in Haeju City.

On the 22nd-23rd, rain and occasional showers are expected in most areas, mainly north of the central West Sea coast, and it is forecasted that particularly in several areas of North Phyongan Province and Jagang Province, much rain accompanied by heavy rain will fall, with lightning and gusts of wind.

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With the View That Tomorrow is Too Late, Perfect Countermeasures

In the Power Industry Sector

Officials in the power industry sector are putting great effort into the work to minimize damage in accordance with heavy rain and heavy rain advisory alerts being issued in various regions of the country.

According to the Power Industry Ministry's organizational work, capable officials have been urgently dispatched to the relevant regions and are directing the work to cope with disastrous abnormal weather phenomena on the spot.

Officials and the working class at hydro and thermal power plants and in the power transmission and transformation sector are taking necessary measures with the viewpoint that in disaster prevention work, not a moment of carelessness or laxity can be allowed.

At the Kanggye Youth Power Station and the Thaechon and Taedonggang Power Stations, they are concentrating effort on the work to protect hydraulic structures such as dams and intake weirs, while establishing thorough safety measures to ensure transformers and circuit breakers do not suffer damage from lightning strikes.

At the Pukchang Thermal Power Complex and the Chongchongang and Sunchon Thermal Power Plants, they are ensuring perfection in the work to protect the coal transport system, generator rooms, outdoor substations, pumping stations, and other facilities that could be damaged by heavy rain and downpours.

Officials in the power transmission and distribution sector are also basing themselves on the sites and substantially developing the work to further enhance the damage prevention capability of substations and transmission towers.

In the Railway Transport Sector

The Ministry of Railways is substantially promoting the work to minimize damage from heavy rain and downpours and ensure the safe operation of important freight trains and passenger trains.

Immediately upon the issuance of heavy rain and downpour advisories, the Ministry held an emergency consultative meeting, found all objects and elements that could suffer damage without omission, and established necessary countermeasures. Meanwhile, it thoroughly made all preparations for transporting emergency rescue teams and relief materials and ensured that emergency vehicles at each railway bureau and railway branch bureau remain on standby for urgent mobilization.

Ministry officials who went down to the railway branch bureaus in the various regions where heavy rain and downpour advisories were issued are working day and night without leaving their posts, meticulously conducting organization and command on the spot to minimize damage and smoothly guarantee the transport of goods for various sectors of the people's economy. They are also conducting inspections of important sections together with officials of the relevant units, establishing additional countermeasures while ensuring that not even the slightest deviation appears in the work of monitoring dangerous points and guaranteeing communications.

In the Mining Industry Sector

Officials in the mining industry sector have stepped forward with extraordinary resolve to the work of establishing perfect countermeasures with the viewpoint that tomorrow is too late.

Under the guidance of the Party organization, the Ministry is powerfully controlling and commanding so that the relevant officials responsibly carry out the work of coping with disastrous abnormal weather phenomena on the spot. At the same time, it ensures that officials maintain constant contact with the Ministry's Emergency Disaster Crisis Response Command Group, constantly inquire about the changing situation, and report on the state of the responsible units by the hour. It is substantially establishing measures to reinforce the dikes of tailings ponds, increase watch posts and personnel, and, in case an emergency situation arises, urgently mobilize labor, wheeled machinery, and equipment.

Ministry officials who went down to the sites and officials of the relevant units are finding all dangerous points of pit flooding without exception and taking preemptive measures, while conducting timely checkups and repairs of reserve pumps to ensure their full operation.

Even at this very moment, officials and the working class in the mining industry sector are concentrating effort on the work to safely store materials and raw materials while waging a tense struggle to uninterruptedly push forward mineral production.

Reporter Ri Yong Min

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Immediate Agricultural Technical Issues

Agricultural guidance organs and farms in each province, city, and county must responsibly conduct the fertilizer and water management operation, focusing on minimizing crop damage caused by heavy rain, downpours, and strong winds.

First, in case of heavy rainfall, measures must be sought in every possible way to prevent paddy fields from being submerged.

Currently, rice plants are at the stage of heading, pollination, or grain filling. If they suffer submergence damage at this time, the pollination rate drops and many empty grains are produced. When rice is submerged in water, respiration is suppressed and photosynthetic capacity significantly decreases, leading to reduced yields.

Drainage facilities must be put into full operation, and paddy ridges must be firmly reinforced to prevent collapse.

If a paddy field is submerged due to unexpected circumstances, all possibilities must be mobilized to drain the water as quickly as possible. Then, mud or soil adhering to leaves and stems must be washed off, and fungicide treatment must be promptly arranged. Subsequently, foliar fertilizer application should be conducted using nutritional enhancers such as phytosin, multi-element mineral fertilizer, and a 1% phosphoric acid solution.

Next, it is important to substantially establish measures to prevent moisture damage in corn and soybean fields.

When field crops suffer moisture damage, root activity is promoted, which hinders grain filling and leads to yield reduction.

Peripheral drainage ditches, inter-row drainage, ridge drainage, and furrowing must be responsibly done. Attention should also be paid to deep tillage and raising ridges to strengthen root function.

Effort must also be put into minimizing damage from strong winds.

Generally, tall crops like corn are susceptible to damage, so effective methods such as stretching support lines in cornfields, bundling multiple plants together, and bending the upper part of stems should be actively introduced to minimize lodging damage. After the wind ceases, the tied parts must be untied to ensure no hindrance to photosynthesis.

If crops are lodged due to strong winds, water must be urgently drained from the field, and appropriate technical measures must be arranged to prevent the ears from touching the ground.

Section Chief Ri Yong Chol of the Agricultural Committee

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-From the Meteorological and Hydrological Bureau-

 

-From the Moranbong District Power Transmission and Distribution Office-

 

-From Taegwan County-

 

Photo by a staff reporter