77 Years for Saving Lives and Promoting Welfare of the People During the past 77 years, the Red Cross Society of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK RCS) has continuously given efforts to fulfill its mission of saving lives and promoting welfare of the people. Taking account of the post liberation healthcare situation of the country which was extremely degraded due to t ...
Special Effort at Handwashing Activity The Red Cross Society of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK RCS) is highlighting the importance of handwashing to the Red Cross Branches in provinces and counties in consideration of their own specific regional contexts greeting the Global Handwashing Day. As the recent world health crisis has illustrated, handwashing plays a key ...
The Hottest Month It is said that the average temperature this July surpassed all the records of the past months since 1880. In many areas of the world it ran up to above 50℃ renewing the previous records. The twice renewal of the earth average temperature on July 3rd and 5th is a good proof of this. Researchers clear up that the causes are owing to El Niño and massive discharg ...
Planet at a Seething Point Many places of the world are suffering from the damages caused by high temperature. In a village in northwestern China the temperature rose up to 52.2℃. In Kyoto, Japan dozens of people were carried to hospital from heatstroke and in many areas of Europe the highest record of temperature is said renewed. Some parts of Mexico had a record of 50℃ for two weeks of J ...
Keen on Seriousness of Global Warming Recently the UN Inter-Governmental Committee on Climate Change published a report summing up the latest reports on the global warming. According to the report, if the brake is not put on the global warming the upward curve of temperature would exceed 1.5℃ in the first-half of the 2030s and reach 3.2℃ at the end of the 21st century. The public w ...