The news agency noted that the Institute of Ferrous Metals, attached to the State Academy of Sciences, completed a rational method of producing alloy iron in close cooperation with workers at the Chollima Steel Complex.

North Korea also achieved high levels of energy saving with a system that manages power transmission and distribution networks introduced by the Information Institute at the Ministry of Electric Industry, the source added.

Increased egg production is one of the results achieved in Democratic Korea this year, thanks to innovative projects by the Jongju Poultry Research Center, KCNA pointed out, adding that an exhibition of successful results on innovation in forestry opened here on Thursday.

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