The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) has established a new iron production system, the official news agency KCNA reported Thursday. The KCNA reported that the Juche iron production system was established by the Kim Chaek Iron and Steel Complex on the basis of a no-coke, high-speed deoxidization process after successfully completing an iron production method using a Juche iron blast furnace. Iron production at the complex now has been normalized. Rolled steel now can be made from molten iron without being cooled because the Kim Chaek complex integrated the Juche iron production process with an oxygen furnace and updated its curved type strand-casting machines. The establishment of the Juche iron production process is required by the IT age, the report said. The Kim Chaek complex has developed scores of computer programs, including a feeding system control program, and a furnace observation and control program suited to the specific conditions of locally available raw materials and fuel. Command and control rooms for automatically monitoring temperature, pressure and flux of the furnace have been successfully built, the report added. The report said the completion of the Korean-style no-coke steel production method 'laid a solid foundation for increasing iron production by completely relying on brown coal abundant in the country.' 