The state set up every August and September as months of the people's physical strength examination and created a physical culture and sports atmosphere among the people through the check-up so that they can train their physical strength and firmly prepare themselves for labor and national defense.

Ministries and national institutions including the State Planning Commission, the Ministry of Metal Industry, the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications have grasped those fit for the examination and informed them of the examination events and standards.

Industrial establishments give sports-related general knowledge to working people through sports billboards and are securing various sports facilities.

And they popularize physical culture and sports activities and make it a rule to do them every day and regularly organize group running, health-promoting Taekwon-Do and mass rhythmic gymnastics as well as various sports games with defense sports as the main while conducting activities for the months of people's physical strength examination under a scrupulous plan.

The industrial establishments including Pyongyang Thermal Power Complex, Chollima Steel Complex, Anju Area Coal Complex and Kaechon Railway Bureau have fixed sports time in accordance with their specific conditions and are conducting in a regular way cross-country running, hurdle-overcoming, horizontal bar, parallel bars and other exercises so as to make the employees train their body and mind.

Universities, colleges and secondary schools including Kim Il Sung University, Kim Chaek University of Technology, Hamhung College of Statistics and Subok Secondary School in Sunchon City are strengthening group forced march, swimming training, etc. while explaining the importance of the physical culture and sports to the students.

Also the physical culture and sports activities are being conducted briskly in the field of the agriculture.

Rihyon Co-op Farm, Sadong District of Pyongyang, Migok Co-op Farm, Sariwon City and other farms often organize sports games to help all the farmers possess strong physical strength.