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First Model Factory Commissioned in Kaesong Industrial Zone

Korean Central News Agency of DPRK

    Kaesong, December 15 (KCNA) -- The first model factory in the one million phyong (one phyong equals to about 36 square feet) development district at the first phase of the Kaesong Industrial Zone (KIZ) has been completed and commissioned Wednesday. The factory with a floor space of more than 1,000 phyong will produce more than 20 kinds of kitchen utensils thanks to the creative labor of Koreans in the north and the south.
    Present at the commissioning ceremony from the north side were Ju Tong Chan, director of the General Bureau for Central Guidance to the Development of the Special Zone, and other officials concerned and from the south side Chairman Hyon Jong Un and President Kim Yun Gyu of Hyundai Asan, Kim Jae Hyon, president of the Land Company, businessmen and other persons concerned.
    At the ceremony Hyon Jong Un and Chairman of the model factory Kim Sok Chol made speeches for the occasion and representatives from the north side and the south side made congratulatory speeches.
    Hyon Jong Un in her speech said that this auspicious event in which the first product was turned out in the KIZ would record a page in history as it demonstrated to the world the appearance of the united Korean nation and its strength guided by the spirit of the June 15 joint declaration. Hyon hoped for positive assistance and cooperation so that the construction of the zone, which is underway as a national and state undertaking, might make faster and successful progress.
    Ju Tong Chan said that the separatists at home and abroad, displeased with the movement for the reunification of the country and the north-south economic cooperation, have worked hard to sap the great vitality of the joint declaration and hamstring economic cooperation but they can never stem the trend of the times when the Koreans are advancing in the idea of "By our nation itself". He stressed the need to boost the inter-Korean economic cooperation and accelerate the construction of the zone under the uplifted banner of the joint declaration with the idea of "By our nation itself" being its core and thus realize the desire and expectation of all the fellow countrymen.
    Then representatives from the north and the south cut off the tape for the commissioning of the factory.
    At the end of the ceremony the participants went round the production processes of the factory and its trial products.