Achievements in the Education Sector of Hwanghae-namdo Province

Haeju City Teacher Re-education Training Center Splendidly Renovated

The Haeju City Teacher Re-education Training Center has been splendidly renovated.

The City Party Committee set a high goal to renovate the training center in accordance with the demands of the developing era and meticulously carried out organizational and political work.

Although the construction volume was vast, the city vigorously pushed forward the renovation of the training center under close cooperation with the province.

While prioritizing design, thorough measures were taken to ensure labor.

Responsible officials frequently visited the site to identify and resolve emerging issues.

The builders mobilized for the renovation project reaffirmed the importance and significance of the education project, adopted various rational work methods, and expedited the construction.

Accordingly, the city established material supply measures to ensure the project proceeded on schedule. Construction officials strengthened technical guidance to ensure that builders thoroughly adhered to design and construction method requirements in their assigned tasks. As a result, the building renovation was completed in a short period of less than three months.

In line with the building's renovation, the city actively established measures to equip the training center with information facilities and teaching equipment, befitting its role as a base for improving teachers' qualifications, through repeated and sincere consultations with officials from relevant sectors.

Conducting Training to Improve Teachers' Qualifications

Training to improve teachers' qualifications was conducted in Hwanghae-namdo Province.

The Provincial Professor Training Center specifically planned the training based on an analysis of the experiences and lessons learned from past training courses.

To ensure the successful guarantee of the training, the city and county teacher re-education training centers were instructed to create good outlines and ensure that the guiding teachers thoroughly prepared for instruction. Simultaneously, efforts were made to visit and assist relevant units.

Amidst the deepening of provincial organizational work, the training to improve teachers' qualifications proceeded in an unusually elevated atmosphere.

The guiding teachers at the Pyoksong County Teacher Re-education Training Center focused on enabling new teachers to actively utilize teaching methods, ensuring the effectiveness of lectures to enhance their major qualifications and teaching methodology qualifications.

The Kwail County Teacher Re-education Training Center devoted efforts to ensuring that teachers internalized practical and superior teaching methods and experiences that could enhance students' intellectual abilities and creative application skills.

The Unchon County and Ongjin County Teacher Re-education Training Centers ensured that guiding teachers appearing in the training fully imparted lecture content and methods to teachers by utilizing multimedia materials and teaching aids.

Teacher re-education training centers in other regions also specifically selected subjects and assigned tasks, raising the requirements for guiding teachers' instructional preparation to ensure that all training content actively contributed to improving teachers' qualifications.

Focusing on Improving the Teaching Level of Rural Schools

Hwanghae-namdo Province dispatched university faculty to rural schools to effectively assist in improving the qualifications of teachers there.

University faculty were instructed to meticulously prepare lectures to substantially contribute to improving the skills of rural school teachers. Faculty from Kim Jong Tae Haeju Teachers College and Jo Ok Hee Haeju Teachers College diligently prepared lecture plans based on extensive and in-depth research of Party policies, textbooks, and reference materials related to the lecture content. Deep attention was also paid to preparing various teaching aids and visual materials. They visited rural schools, gave demonstration lessons, and organized teaching evaluation meetings, leading to significant progress in improving the qualifications of teachers there. University faculty not only taught practical and superior teaching methods to rural school teachers but also provided substantial assistance in raising the quality of basic education by specifically understanding the circumstances of the relevant units.

The province also actively promoted efforts to have universities send experimental equipment, reference books, multimedia materials, and teaching materials to rural schools.

University officials and faculty visited rural schools to understand the situation in advance and established measures to prepare more teaching aids and visual materials necessary for the teaching project.

Article and Photos by Special Correspondent Yun Yong Ho

> -From Jo Ok Hee Haeju Teachers College-

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The Number of Farmworker-University Students Increases Daily

The respected Comrade Kim Jong Un said as follows:

"In line with the demands of turning all people into scientific and technological talents, agricultural workers should be included in the educational system of learning while working, so that they are prepared as new-era intellectual workers possessing agricultural knowledge and science and technology."

Numerous agricultural workers in various regions are actively participating in the remote education system of learning while working, under the enthusiasm to uphold the Party's wise leadership and vision in opening up a great new era of our style socialist rural development and to fulfill their roles as those responsible for and masters of the rural revolution.

According to an official from the Remote Education Department of Pyongyang Agricultural University, the university currently has over a thousand farmworkers receiving remote education, and the number of applicants is increasing daily. As a result, the number of farmworker entrants this year is 1.5 times that of last year.

In particular, at the Bonghwa Farm in Kangdong County, over 40 people have been included in the remote education system of learning while working this year, with about 30 of them being ordinary farmworkers. Among them are young people who will carry the future of the farm, high-yield farmers with long farming experience, and housewives.

Currently, at this farm, officials are competing to be included in the remote education system, and actively encouraging farmworkers to participate in the remote education system has become a prevailing trend.

One farmworker studying in the remote education system stated that many farmworkers are eagerly hoping to study at university, realizing that without possessing high scientific and technological knowledge in today's knowledge-based economy, they cannot properly fulfill their roles as masters in farming.

This is not just the case at this farm.

Farmworkers from numerous farms, including the Hyongsan Vegetable Farm in Hyongjesan District, are also eagerly participating in the education system of learning while working, with the determination to become high-yield farmers by doing scientific farming in a proper manner.

The number of farmworkers participating in the remote education systems of various local agricultural universities, including Kye Ung Sang Sariwon Agricultural University and Kim Je Won Haeju Agricultural University, is increasing daily.

Having become farmworker-university students with the determination to become intellectual workers possessing modern science and technology and to uphold the Party's new era rural revolution program at the forefront, they strive to acquire advanced scientific farming methods by visiting the agricultural science and technology dissemination room before anyone else after finishing their day's work.

The relevant farms are actively promoting efforts to ensure that farmworkers included in the remote education system achieve success in their studies.

At the Mirim Rice Farm in Sariwon City, where dozens of farmworkers are studying in the remote education system, efforts are being made to ensure learning conditions, and comprehensive evaluation projects are being effectively implemented on various occasions to further encourage their enthusiasm for learning.

The reliable 모습 of farmworker-university students, who are diligently learning and preparing to become intellectual workers regardless of age or experience, allows us to envision a more beautiful and prosperous future for our countryside.

By Staff Reporter Om Su Ryun

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Shanghai Cooperation Organization Summit Held, President Xi Jinping Proposes "Global Governance Initiative"

The Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit was held on the 1st in Tianjin, China.

Heads of state and government from over 20 countries, including SCO member states, and representatives from international organizations participated in the meeting.

Chinese President Xi Jinping delivered a speech.

He mentioned that the SCO has followed an extraordinary path of development and emphasized that the organization has already grown into the world's largest regional organization, with its international influence and impact growing daily.

He asserted that in the 80 years since the victory of the World Anti-Fascist War, the shadows of Cold War-style thinking and hegemonism have not disappeared, new threats and challenges are increasing, and the world has once again become unstable.

He then proposed a "Global Governance Initiative" that reflects the realization of sovereign equality and multilateralism, adherence to international law, and other content to establish a more just and rational global governance system.

He appealed to everyone to continue opposing hegemonism and power politics and to realize the multipolarization of the world and the democratization of international relations.

At the meeting, the "Tianjin Declaration of the Council of Heads of State of the SCO Member States" was adopted, and the "SCO Development Strategy for the Next 10 Years (2026-2035)" was approved.

In addition, a statement supporting the multilateral trade system was issued, and over 20 documents related to cooperation in areas such as security and economy were signed.

[Korean Central News Agency]

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70th Anniversary of the Founding of the League of Korean Youth in Japan Commemorated

The 70th anniversary of the founding of the League of Korean Youth in Japan (Chongchong) was commemorated on August 27 at the Korean Hall in Tokyo, Japan.

Park Gu Ho, First Vice-Chairman and Director of the Organization Department of the Central Standing Committee of Chongryon, Ri Kwang Il, Chairman of the Central Standing Committee of the League of Korean Youth in Japan, vice-chairmen, and representatives participated in the event.

The national anthem of the DPRK was played.

A congratulatory message sent to the conference by the Central Committee of the Socialist Patriotic Youth League was delivered.

Following the congratulatory remarks by Park Gu Ho, First Vice-Chairman and Director of the Organization Department of the Central Standing Committee of Chongryon, Ri Kwang Il, Chairman of the Central Standing Committee of the League of Korean Youth in Japan, gave a report.

The reporter, with the unwavering heart of loyalty of all Chongchong members, respectfully extended the greatest glory and most ardent gratitude to the respected Marshal Kim Jong Un, who has shown special love and consideration to meaningfully celebrate the 70th anniversary of Chongchong's founding.

He mentioned that the 70-year journey of Chongchong is a proud history of faithfully upholding the leadership of the peerless great men even amidst the harsh storms of a foreign land, thoroughly embodying the great ideology of the Korean movement in Japan, firmly uniting a wide range of compatriot youth, and steadfastly carrying on the legacy of Chongryon.

He emphasized that Chongchong, holding the programmatic letter sent by the respected Marshal to Chongryon officials and Koreans in Japan on the occasion of the 70th anniversary of Chongryon's founding as an invincible sword, will carry on the excellent legacy left by the founding generation without missing a single one, take the lead in carrying out the three major tasks of defending rights and interests, nurturing the new generation, and adhering to national identity, and continue the glorious history of struggle of Chongryon for a hundred years, a thousand years with courage and fighting spirit increased a hundredfold.

There were resolution discussions.

A letter respectfully addressed to the respected Marshal Kim Jong Un was adopted at the conference.

[Korean Central News Agency]

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Denouncing the Aggressive Crimes of the Old Japanese Army

A spokesperson for the Chinese Ministry of National Defense denounced the aggressive crimes of the old Japanese army at a press conference on August 28.

Regarding the recent release of new historical materials proving the crimes of the old Japanese army, including thousands of pages of documents, videos, and photographic materials related to the bacteriological warfare atrocities of Unit 731, the spokesperson stated that the brutal acts of aggression by Japanese militarism brought unspeakable disasters to the Chinese people and the people of a wide range of Asian countries.

In particular, he mentioned that Unit 731 not only openly violated international law and conducted horrifying bacteriological warfare against the Chinese people but also committed heinous crimes against humanity.

He emphasized that the history of this period is clear in evidence, undeniable, and cannot be erased forever, adding that while the evil spirits have been extinguished, their aftereffects have not yet been removed, and Japan must seriously reflect on its history.

[Korean Central News Agency]

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Earthquake

The Kamchatka branch of the Geophysical Service of the Russian Academy of Sciences announced on August 27 that an earthquake of magnitude 6.2 on the Richter scale was observed in Kamchatka.

The epicenter was located 276 km from Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky.

On the same day, an earthquake of magnitude 5 on the Richter scale occurred in the sea east of Hachijojima Island, Japan.

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For the Safety of the Country and Social Progress

Efforts to Strengthen Naval Power

Russia is focusing on strengthening its naval power.

Recently, three modern warships were newly built in Russia and handed over to the navy.

On August 28, ceremonies were held to hand over the new ships to the Russian Navy.

The ships are said to have been assigned to the Black Sea Fleet and the Baltic Fleet.

Conducting Joint Patrols

Security agencies from China, Laos, Myanmar, and Thailand conducted joint patrols on the Mekong River to prevent cross-border crime and ensure the safety and stability of the region.

The Yunnan Provincial Security Agency of China announced that the joint patrol was completed on August 29. This joint patrol involved over 100 law enforcement members and 7 patrol boats from the four countries and carried out cooperative investigations into various cross-border crimes, including drug trafficking, and training to prevent them.

Inspections were conducted on a total of over 100 ships and 2,300 tons of goods, and many crimes were cracked down on and suppressed in the process.

School Renovation Project

A nationwide school renovation project has recently begun in Namibia.

The purpose of this project is to equip all schools in the country with essential educational and sanitary facilities such as laboratories and washrooms.

The government stated that this project is part of a plan to promote the development of education in the country and provide students with a better educational environment.

[Korean Central News Agency]

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Israel's Massacre Continues in the Gaza Strip

Israel's massacre continues in the Gaza Strip.

On August 30, the Israeli army carried out airstrikes on residential areas and medical service facilities throughout the Gaza Strip, including Gaza City, killing 57 Palestinians, including women and children.

The Gaza Civil Defense Agency condemned that the Israeli army is indiscriminately carrying out airstrikes, shelling, and firing on places where Palestinians gather, such as refugee camps, humanitarian aid supply centers, and homes, killing people.

[Korean Central News Agency]

> Severe Famine Crisis for Children in the Gaza Strip

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Increasingly Severe Climate Change, Typhoons Causing Severe Damage

Due to the increasingly severe effects of abnormal climate in recent years, natural disasters such as droughts, high temperatures, and floods are occurring in succession all over the world. Unusually concentrated heavy rains in one place and unseasonal heavy snowfalls have become common weather phenomena that anyone living on this planet commonly experiences.

Climate change is literally inflicting disasters all over the world. There is no country or region that is not affected by the damage. Since the beginning of this year, disastrous abnormal climate phenomena have frequently occurred in various parts of the world.

While high temperatures continued in the north, the south suffered from frequent heavy rains.

Storms swept across the American continent, and deadly heat waves scorched the continent's cities.

Many people have died and become climate refugees.

On August 29, the Pakistani Disaster Management Agency announced that over 1.5 million people had been affected by the recent floods.

Since the monsoon season began at the end of June in this country, approximately 1,960 people have been killed or injured.

In particular, the highest number of casualties was recorded in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province.

The number of casualties continues to increase due to the ongoing heavy rains in Niger. As of August 20 this year, 47 people have died and 70 have been injured. Most of the deaths were caused by people being crushed to death in collapsing houses or drowning.

A total of 7,754 households have been affected, and hundreds of livestock have died. Last year, the number of deaths due to heavy rains reached 396, and 158,767 homes were destroyed.

A report published by an international organization warned that the largest-scale risk to occur on a global scale in the next 10 years will be abnormal climate, not armed conflict. It also stated that typhoons, in particular, are causing greater concern as they are exhibiting different patterns from the past in terms of occurrence time and frequency, bringing more severe damage.

In reality, typhoons are occurring more frequently and becoming stronger due to accelerated global warming.

According to data, as sea surface temperatures continue to rise and the amount of water vapor increases rapidly, the formation and development of low-pressure troughs in the ocean are accelerating, ultimately increasing the possibility of typhoons occurring. As a result, experts predict that the size and intensity of typhoons will become even greater.

There is also the view that the power of typhoons has increased by more than 50% compared to 40 years ago, and the maximum wind speed has increased by an average of 7.5%.

Some experts say that the increasing difficulty in accurately predicting the path of typhoons is also one of the reasons why the damage is becoming more severe.

In reality, many countries are suffering great losses every year due to the continuous onslaught of strong typhoons. Recently, there were casualties in the Philippines due to the effects of a typhoon. The National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council of this country reported that floods and landslides caused by the typhoon have increased the number of deaths, and some residents have been swept away by floods or buried in landslides and are missing.

The number of victims nationwide reached approximately 5.3 million, and a great deal of material damage was caused. A state of disaster was declared in 88 cities and municipalities.

Destructive typhoons frequently occur in the waters around the Philippines, causing disasters not only in the Philippines but also in neighboring countries.

The Philippines suffers an average of 20 typhoon damages each year. In November 2013, a super typhoon, recorded as the most destructive in 100 years, swept through the Philippines, completely devastating some areas of the country, leaving approximately 600,000 people homeless and affecting 9.8 million people.

Last year, an unseasonal typhoon struck, causing casualties and destroying numerous homes.

Japan, Taiwan, and other countries and regions have also suffered typhoon damage.

Because typhoons bring great disasters, many countries are nervously watching their movement paths when typhoons occur. Measures such as evacuating people or closing certain areas are being taken before typhoons make landfall.

Experts say that the damage will increase as the intensity of typhoons becomes stronger in the future due to global warming. Therefore, they argue that it is important to be aware of the severity of the aftermath caused by typhoons and to make efforts to minimize the damage.

By Staff Reporter

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World Knowledge

The Hundred Years' War

The Hundred Years' War, known in history, refers to the war that took place several times between England and France from 1337 to 1453.

This war was a struggle for dominance between France and England over French territories seized by England, including Normandy and Anjou, and Flanders, the center of wool production.

After the Capetian dynasty in France ended, Philip VI became king. King Edward III of England (grandson of King Philip IV of France) was dissatisfied and demanded that he should ascend the French throne, which became the direct motive for the war.

When France rejected this demand, England used it as an excuse to ally with the cities of Flanders and start the war in 1337. The war was interrupted from time to time and then resumed.

Having occupied Paris, England besieged the city of Orléans in 1428 to seize southern France.

A fierce battle ensued between the two armies.

The broad masses of oppressed people in France voluntarily organized armed groups and rose up in resistance against the invaders.

The courageous struggle of Jeanne d'Arc, a simple rural girl from France, boosted the morale of French soldiers and broke the siege of Orléans by the English army.

Jeanne d'Arc was captured by an allied army of England due to the betrayal of French feudal aristocrats, and was later handed over to the English invading army and massacred.

However, the anti-invasion struggle of the French oppressed masses became even fiercer.

In 1436, the English invading army was driven out of Paris.

In 1453, England surrendered in Bordeaux. France won the Hundred Years' War, and only Calais remained in English hands.

In France, this war promoted feudal centralization.

By Staff Reporter