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Kim Jong Il Gives Field Guidance to Newly Built Thaechon Youth Power Station No. 4

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

   Pyongyang, January 21 (KCNA) -- General Secretary Kim Jong Il gave field guidance to the newly built Thaechon Youth Power Station No. 4. After being briefed on the construction of the power station before a huge painting showing its panoramic view, he went round its exterior and interior to acquaint himself in detail with its construction and electricity production.
    Making the rounds of the gigantic dam that has appeared across the wide River Taeryong, a large man-made lake, a generator room and a power distribution room, he was greatly satisfied to learn that the builders have successfully built a great structure to be handed to posterity.
    He said that this astonishing miracle is a striking demonstration of the might of the unbreakable unity and cohesion of the army and the people of the DPRK who formed a harmonious whole with the Party and the leader and the tremendous potential of the independent national economy and one more great victory won by the Korean people in their struggle to valiantly shatter the moves of the imperialists to isolate and stifle the DPRK and add brilliance to Korean-style socialism centred on the popular masses.
    He heard a lot of beautiful stories told about young people in the course of the construction, while looking at a collection of works created by members of the youth shock brigade titled "The River Taeryong Tells."
    The monumental edifices of eternal value in the country are associated with the precious blood and sweat of the young people in the era of the Workers' Party, he noted, adding that the cause of the Korean revolution pioneered by the forerunners is given steady continuity as the large contingent of the youngsters, the most viable combat unit, is playing a leading role in the defence of the country and socialist construction.
    He put forward the tasks to be tackled to boost the nation's electricity production, saying that it is one of the most important issues in making a leaping advance in the national economy to give definite precedence to the electricity production.
    Building hydro-power stations on a large scale is the short cut to satisfactorily meeting the growing need for electricity in the country which has many rivers and streams rich in water resources, he said, stressing the need to continue focusing efforts on this in the future, too.
    In order to keep the electricity production going at a high rate now that many power stations have sprung up in different parts of the country in recent years, it is necessary to steadily improve the management of the equipment and technological control and, at the same time, widely introduce advanced technology, he noted.
    Saying that it is important to put an end to the waste of electricity while increasing the electricity production, he underlined the need to raise the efficiency of the power transmission system and do away with the loss of electricity in transmission.
    He called upon the officials in the field of power industry to minutely organize economic work, bearing deep in mind the heavy responsibility they should fulfil to build an economic power, and thus decisively settle the acute problem of electricity.
    He was accompanied by Kim Phyong Hae, chief secretary of the North Phyongan Provincial Committee of the WPK, and Pak Nam Gi, department director of the C.C., WPK.