It can be strikingly illustrated by the on-going 18th Sports Contest of Officials of National Institutions for Paektusan Prize, which was opened on Jan. 24.

These days, there are taking place such events as basketball and volleyball.

The Pyongyang Automation Instrument Factory, Pyongyang 326 Electric Wire Factory, Pyongyang Passenger and Freight Car Corps and other industrial establishments here are making sports an inseparable part of the daily life. Such sports activities make the people full of confidence and optimism.

Institutions, factories, enterprises and farms across the country worked out the plans for operating the sports day every month in an effective manner, conducting mass rhythmic exercise, Taekwon-Do exercise for health and jogging in a regular way.

Among the sports events are basketball, volleyball, Korean chess and a yut-game.