North Korea Claims Development of High-Purity Manganese Production Technology

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[Asia Economy Reporter Lee Ji-eun] North Korea claims to have independently developed technology to produce high-purity manganese, an essential material in steel production processes, most of which is produced in China.

The Workers' Party organ, Rodong Sinmun, reported on the 9th, "The newly researched domestic metal manganese production method by the Central Mining Research Institute of the National Academy of Sciences is attracting attention," adding, "It is a technology that produces high-purity metal manganese using low-grade manganese ore deposits in our country."

The newspaper attributed the previous sluggish development of manganese to a "lack of resolute determination and indomitable will," and reported that through competition between two research teams, a technique was developed that can improve manganese production quality by more than 30%. In this process, they also achieved the localization of the core production equipment, the pressure filter.

The newspaper reported that Kim Jong-un, General Secretary of the Workers' Party, personally received a report on the status of the manganese research project in June and highly praised it, ordering that scientists be awarded party and state honors.

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