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Kim Jong Il Inspects Rakwon Machine Complex

Korean Central News Agency of DPRK

    Pyongyang, May 17 (KCNA) -- Kim Jong Il, general secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea and chairman of the National Defence Commission of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, gave field-guidance to the Rakwon Machine Complex. He was accompanied by First Vice Department Director Ju Kyu Chang and Vice Department Director Mun Myong On of the Central Committee of the WPK.
    He looked round the large mosaic depicting President Kim Il Sung among workers of Rakwon newly erected in the compound of the complex and the room devoted to the revolutionary history.
    After seeing historic materials and relics on display in the room, he said that the complex has a fine tradition of struggle. He underscored the need to intensify the education through the room so as to let all its employees to always cherish the President's unbounded love and trust deep in their hearts and devote themselves to the implementation of his behests.
    Kim Jong Il watched various types of new machines manufactured at the complex.
    He learned in detail about the mechanism and efficiency of the new machines and the principle of their operation. Watching them at operation, he expressed great satisfaction over the modern efficient machines the officials, workers and technicians of the complex have contrived and manufactured in a short span of time by devoting all their wisdom and enthusiasm.
    He familiarized himself in detail with the technical equipment and production, going round various production processes including the heat treating shop, the youth shop and the Sin Pho Hyang cast iron shop.
    He was greatly pleased to learn that the complex has steadily increased its production capacity and brought about a new change in the cultured practice in production by effectively carrying out the technical modernization of all production processes including the successful realization of automation of the heat treating shop true to the WPK's idea of attaching importance to science.
    He looked round entertainment and welfare facilities of the complex including the bath house, sauna and beauty salon.
    He set forth important tasks facing the complex, noting that it occupies an important place in the drive to accomplish the WPK's cause of building a great prosperous powerful nation.
    He highly praised the workers of Rakwon for their feats, saying that it has done a lot of work in a recent few years including the laying of a solid material and technical foundation for bringing about an epochal turn in production through the successful technical modernization of the production processes and the manufacture of highly efficient good quality machines through wide application of new technology.
    He underscored the need for the complex to keep concentrating its efforts on the technical modernization based on the latest technology in order to increase the manufacture of modern machines to meet the requirements of the new century and thus put the production processes including the casting process on a modern and precision basis.
    He also called for steadily raising the level of guidance to the production to improve the management and operation of the complex in line with the principle of profitability, while paying deep attention to the supply service for the workers.
    He once again set the goals to be hit by the complex in the near future and indicated concrete tasks and ways to do so.