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Scientific and Technological Achievements in DPRK

KCNA

    Pyongyang, November 25 (KCNA) -- The 5-year plan for the scientific and technological development has been successfully carried out in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. In the period the nation's major targets for technical modernization of the economy have been hit, many inventions registered and tens of thousands of technical innovations introduced into production.
    Achievements have been gained in the fields of up-to-the-minute science and technology, too.
    Modern IT research institutes and databases have newly been established, with the result that the foundations of the IT industry have been consolidated.
    In the biological circles, researches into animal cloning have reached the world level and several dozen kinds of materials necessary for gene engineering have been developed.
    Technologies of gene and cell engineering have been applied to seed breeding in the agricultural sector and the manufacture of medicines.
    Meanwhile, air coal pulverizer for thermal power station, coal-prospecting radar, eccentric electrical drill, hydraulic coal-cutting method, method of increasing electricity production by raising the efficiency of hydraulic turbine, method of processing goat milk with microorganism, etc. have been developed on the basis of the existing economic foundations.