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Scientific and Technological Achievements in DPRK

KCNA

    Pyongyang, November 5 (KCNA) -- A rapid development has been made in the scientific and technological field of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. Since artificial satellite "Kwangmyongsong No. 1" was launched more than five years ago, scientists and technicians have carried out a lot of tasks to which the government had attached importance for the normalization of production and technical modernization.
    They have introduced tens of thousands of inventions and new technologies into production, thus making a great contribution to the country's scientific and technological development.
    They have succeeded in making up-to-date electronic materials, cloning rabbit and developing high-tech measuring apparatuses and many others of world standard in a unique way with local raw materials.
    Such valuable programs as a diagnostic system of machine vibration, a system for monitoring and controlling the production processes of ammonia gas and a program for prospecting underground resources have been accepted by some 1,000 units of major factories and enterprises, with the result that their production and management activities have been put on a scientific and modern basis.
    They have also registered scientific and technical achievements in mass-producing virus-free potatoes and using small potatoes as seeds to open a bright prospect for raising the potato production per hectare.
    Achievements made in researches into many basic chemicals have been applied to production. Among them are various kinds of synthetic fibre, resin and rubber, catalyst for fertilizer production and its analyzer, effective herbicide and vermicide.
    Innovative ideas have been raised in the theory of elementary particles and researches into multi-function robots, quick coagulant of cement, etc. have been completed.
    Scientists made marvelous successes in 100-odd researches into electronics, bioengineering, heat engineering and other fields in the latter half of the 1990s when the country was in the "Arduous March".
    Many scientific and technological issues have been solved in the biological field, too. A scientific and technological foundation has been laid to gain high-yielding crops on the basis of successes in gene engineering and a basic technology invented to obtain expensive physiological active materials from domestic animals.