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20th Anniv. of Movement for Production of August 3 Consumer Goods Observed

Korean Central News Agency of DPRK

    Pyongyang, August 3 (KCNA) -- A national meeting was held in Pyongyang Monday to mark the 20th anniversary of the movement for the production of August 3 consumer goods, a Korean-style mass drive of consumer goods production initiated by leader Kim Jong Il. Kim Jong Il visited a Pyongyang exhibition of light industrial goods on August 3, Juche 73 (1984). He saw consumer goods of wide variety which national light industrial factories and districts and counties of the city had produced by tapping and using inner reserves and potentials and highly praised them. And he set forth important tasks to be fulfilled to make substantial contributions to the improvement of the people's living through an all-people movement for the production of consumer goods.
    Vice-Premier of the Cabinet Kwak Pom Gi in his report said the start of the movement opened a broad avenue for raising the production of consumer goods both in quantity and quality in a short time with the participation of all the people by putting to effective use all the reserves and potentials in all regions and fields of the country.
    He recalled that Kim Jong Il energetically guided the movement so that it could be waged vigorously on a massive and nation-wide scale.
    Noting that the movement has displayed great vitality in the light industrial revolution and the improvement of the people's living in the past two decades for its originality and validity, he referred to concrete tasks arising in lifting the production of consumer goods to a new, higher stage.
    Present at the meeting were Premier of the Cabinet Pak Pong Ju, Secretary of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea Han Song Ryong, Chairman of the State Planning Commission Kim Kwang Rin, Minister of Light Industry Ri Ju O and others.