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Kim Jong Il Gives Field Guidance to Rakwon Machine Complex

Korean Central News Agency of DPRK

    Pyongyang, January 14 (KCNA) -- Kim Jong Il, general secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea and chairman of the DPRK National Defence Commission, gave field guidance to the Rakwon Machine Complex. He first went round the new room for the education in the revolutionary history built by the complex.
    He said that the complex has a lot of important historic relics specially recorded in the revolutionary history of President Kim Il Sung and boasts a precious tradition of struggle.
    The workers of Rakwon are, indeed, the heroic workers who have taken the lead in defending the Party and the leader for a long period from the days of the war when they contributed to the victory in the war by producing hand grenades in the spirit of self-reliance up to this date when they are successfully producing various types of large modern machines, he noted, underscoring the need to continue upholding, preserving and burnishing this tradition of praiseworthy struggle in the future, too.
    He watched new various types of machines manufactured at the complex.
    After learning about the mechanism, performance and principles of operation of the new machines including excavators and oxygen plant, he expressed great satisfaction over the fact that the officials, workers and technicians of the complex have successfully invented and manufactured efficient machines in a short span of time through their creative ingenuity and cooperation and, in this course, put the technology at the complex on a higher level.
    Looking round production processes including the hydraulic apparatus shop, he was greatly pleased to learn that the complex has conducted an effective technical updating of all production processes, true to the WPK's idea of attaching importance to science and thus steadily raised the production capacity and brought about a new turn in the cultured practice in production.
    He set forth tasks to be fulfilled by the complex, noting that it has an important role to play in the socialist economic construction.
    Underlining the need to pay primary attention to the technological updating in order to completely change the appearance of the complex as required by the new century, he called for successfully winding up in a brief span of time the projects now underway including the modernization of the casting shop and putting overall technology including hydraulic technology on a higher level as early as possible.
    He was accompanied by Kim Phyong Hae, chief secretary of the North Phyongan Provincial Committee of the WPK, Jon Pyong Ho, secretary of its Central Committee, and Ri Yong Chol and Ju Kyu Chang, first vice department directors of its Central Committee.