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Kim Jong Il Gives On-the-spot Guidance to Completed Taean Friendship Glass Factory

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

    Pyongyang, October 4 (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 completed Taean Friendship Glass Factory. He was greeted on the spot by Ryang Jang Gyun, vice-minister of Construction and Building Materials Industries, and leading officials of the factory. The factory built with grant-in-aid provided by the Chinese party and government is a symbol of the DPRK-China friendship growing stronger day by day. The factory covering a large area of hundreds of thousands of square meters is a modern glass production base with a big production capacity as all its main production processes and auxiliary facilities are equipped with the latest equipment. The factory was successfully built in a matter of a little over a year since its ground-breaking ceremony to win the admiration of even posterity. This is the result of a high sense of responsibility, devotion and enthusiasm jointly displayed by the Korean and Chinese technicians, specialists, workers and servicepersons in the construction under the particular care of the top leaders of the DPRK and China. Cadres, technicians and builders of the Yaohua Glass Group Corporation of China, in particular, have made every sincere effort to complete the project as required by its design without fail true to the wishes of the Chinese party and government to see the factory built at the highest level. They worked hard day and night, not caring about their rest and eating and sleeping at their worksites.
    The factory standing magnificently on the bank of the Taedong River will greatly contribute to socialist economic construction and the betterment of the standard of people's living in Korea.
    Kim Jong Il was briefed on the factory before a large painting showing the panoramic view of the factory. Going round the interior and exterior of the factory including the melting shop, the moulding shop, the slow cooling shop and the products yard for a long while, he learned in detail about the construction and production there. Noting that the Taean Friendship Glass Factory has been built on the highest level from its design to technical equipment and construction, he expressed great satisfaction with the fact that the modern glass factory has been successfully completed in a short span of time thanks to the high-pitched drive waged by the builders of the two countries. The Chinese party and government with Comrade Hu Jintao as General Secretary provided a modern glass factory to us free in the period when we were undergoing a trial and rendered sincere help in its construction, he said, adding that the Korean people feel grateful for their disinterested fraternal friendship and cooperation and will always remember and set store by this great friendship.
    He highly appreciated and praised the merits and efforts of the cadres, technicians and workers of the Yaohua Glass Group Corporation who worked heart and soul for completing the factory on a high level with deep feelings of friendship. He called on the Korean officials and technicians to keep in close touch and cooperate with the Chinese comrades and successfully solve the economic and technical problems facing the factory so as to produce results in production.
    He was accompanied by Pak Pong Ju, premier of the DPRK Cabinet, Pak Nam Gi, department director of the WPK Central Committee, Ri Jae Il, first vice department director of the C.C.,WPK, and Generals of the Korean People's Army Ri Myong Su, Hyon Chol Hae and Pak Jae Gyong.