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Kim Jong Il Gives On-the-Spot Guidance to Hungnam Fertilizer Complex

Korean Central News Agency of DPRK via Korea News Service (KNS)

    Pyongyang, September 17 (KCNA) -- Kim Jong Il, general secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea and chairman of the DPRK National Defence Commission, gave on-the-spot guidance to the Hungnam Fertilizer Complex. He was greeted on the spot by Hong Song Nam, chief secretary of the South Hamgyong Provincial Committee of the WPK, Kim Phung Gi, chairman of the South Hamgyong Provincial People's Committee, and other leading officials of the province and the complex.
    He first looked round the room devoted to the history of the complex. Looking back with deep emotion on the glorious course of development covered by the complex, he said that under the leadership and meticulous care of President Kim Il Sung the complex turned into the nation's reliable and giant fertilizer production base. The undying revolutionary exploits performed by the President will shine long in the history of the country, he stressed.
    He went round the production processes including the compounding shop and soap shop to acquaint himself with the technological reconstruction and production at the complex.
    He highly praised the workers of Hungnam for their feats, pointing out that they have massproduced fertilizers and supplied them to the agricultural front by fully displaying the revolutionary spirit of self-reliance and fortitude to overcome all sorts of hardships and trials and thus made a big contribution to developing the nation's agriculture and consolidating the independent national economy.
    The officials, workers and technicians of the complex have made great progress in the modernization of the complex by satisfactorily solving knotty technological problems on their own by pooling wisdom and energies, he said, adding that their experience proves that there is nothing impossible for them when they wage in a bold and dynamic manner the drive for applying advanced science and technology with the faith and conviction that they can develop whatever ultra-modern science and technology and introduce them into their practice.
    He set forth highly important tasks facing the complex, noting that the position and role of the complex are very important in bringing the nation's agriculture to a new higher plane.
    Saying that in order to solve the problem of food it is necessary to actively develop agriculture and an increased supply of fertilizers is essential for making farming successful, he stressed that this heavy yet honorable task is devolved upon the workers of Hungnam.
    In order to boost the production and supply of various kinds of fertilizers to the countryside it is necessary to energetically push forward the technological reconstruction aimed at equipping all the production processes with the latest facilities and intensify the work to introduce new technology, he noted, underscoring the need for the guiding officials of the complex to energetically undertake the organizational and political work to give play to the creative initiative of the producers and, at the same time, give precedence to the economic calculation and intensify the drive for economization so as to fully ensure profitability in production.; He was accompanied by Premier of the Cabinet Pak Pong Ju, Secretaries Kim Kuk Thae and Kim Ki Nam, Department Director Pak Nam Gi and First Vice Department Directors Ju Kyu Chang and Ri Jae Il of the Central Committee of the WPK.