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Initiation of Munitions Industry in DPRK

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

   Pyongyang, October 4 (KCNA) -- Today the DPRK has a powerful munitions industry to produce any weapons and combat material and technical equipment. President Kim Il Sung visited the Phyongchon plain in early October Juche 34 (1945) right after the liberation of the country to initiate the munitions industry.
    In order to build a new Korea before the foundation of the Party, state and regular army, he went out to the plain to found the national defence industry prior to his visit to the workers of the Kangson Steel Works. He said that the fight against the imperialists was not over and the victor should be armed with more and more weapons.
    There was in the Phyongchon plain a munitions factory built by the Japanese imperialists for the invasion of the continent before the liberation.
    After their defeat in the Second World War, the Japanese imperialists made havoc of the factory. After looking round it, the President picked up the lot of a new munitions factory in the plain.
    That day, he said that the Korean workers could do anything if they did work in the spirit with which the anti-Japanese guerrillas made the "Yanji bomb" in arsenals in mountains with bare hands and we should manufacture needed weapons by themselves without fail.
    Meanwhile, he took measures to train arms technical personnel in a systematic way for the foundation of an independent national defence industry and to give preference to the supply of production equipment, raw materials and other things to the field. He also bestowed great love and trust on the working class and officials of the munitions factory.
    Two years later, the Phyongchon Munitions Factory was erected in the place as the mother factory of the national defence industry in Korea. Within 20 days after its operation, the workers of the factory succeeded in making the automatic rifles with their own efforts.
    Thanks to the energetic leadership of the President, the founder of the great Songun idea, the DPRK is demonstrating its invincible might of the nation which is armed with modern offensive and defence means.