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Symposium on Medical Science Held

Korean Central News Agency of DPRK

    Pyongyang, May 4 (KCNA) -- The 6th Pyongyang symposium of Koreans at home and abroad on medical science was held at the People's Palace of Culture Monday. Present there were Choe Chang Sik, chairman of the Central Committee of the Korean Medical Association, officials concerned and scientists and technicians in the field of public health and medical workers.
    Among those present were a delegation of the Korean doctors in Japan headed by Pyon Su Jun, vice-chairman of the Korean Medical Workers Association in Japan, a delegation of Korean doctors in the U.S. headed by Kim Yun Bom, professor at Chicago University of Medicine in the U.S., and a delegation of south Korean doctors led by Ri Thae Hun, permanent director of Kachon University of Medicine.
    Choe Chang Sik made an opening address at the symposium to be followed by congratulatory speeches by Ri Thae Hun, Pyon Su Jun and Kim Yun Bom.
    They said that the symposium would mark another occasion of demonstrating the advantages of the Korean nation, which has brought its wisdom, talents and intelligence into bloom, creating the time-honored history and culture as a homogenous nation throughout its history spanning 5000 years, and bringing earlier the day of national reunification with the development of medical science.
    At the symposium medical scientists in the north and the south and overseas will exchange precious experience and successes gained in scientific researches aimed to contribute to the promotion of Korean people's health and put the medical science of the Korean nation on a world level and have an in-depth discussion on how to have effective exchange and cooperation in medical science and technology in the future, they noted.
    The symposium involved presentations of papers and scientific discussions in the fields of internal medicine, surgery and basic science.
    Introduced there were valuable successes and experience gained by medical scientists at home and abroad in scientific researches aimed to solve urgent scientific and technological problems to suit the constitutional characteristics of Koreans and meet the need of the public health in the country and introduce latest scientific and technological achievements to the prevention and treatment of diseases in keeping with the world trend of the rapidly developing medical science and technology.
    The symposium offered a meaningful occasion of boosting the contact and exchange among the medical scientists in the north and the south and overseas and promoting the Juche-oriented medical development by the concerted efforts of the Korean nation.