The center will teach the disabled how to make clothes, repair electronic goods and prosthetic appliances in conformity with their psychological features and physical readiness.

A ceremony for opening the center took place here Wednesday with attendance of Kim Mun Chol, vice-chairman of the C.C., the Korean Federation for the Protection of the Disabled, officials concerned and a member of the European Union Program Support mission in Pyongyang and trainees and their parents.

Speeches were made at the ceremony.

Its participants looked round a lecture room and handiworks made by the disabled.

Then there was a basketball match of trainees.

Under the DPRK government's policy on protection of the disabled, those disabled persons are leading a worthwhile life as full-fledged members of society by participating in public activities to suit their talents and qualities.