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Kim Jong Il Gives On-the-Spot Guidance to Hungnam Smeltery

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

   Pyongyang, May 31 (KCNA) -- General Secretary Kim Jong Il gave on-the-spot guidance to the Hungnam Smeltery.
    He went round the room devoted to the education in the revolutionary history, conducted by senior officials of the smeltery.
    He looked back with deep emotion on the glorious history of the smeltery in which it advanced along the road of prosperity under the care of President Kim Il Sung. Noting that the smeltery turned into the nation's reliable nonferrous metal production centre under his wise leadership and meticulous care, Kim Jong Il stressed that the undying revolutionary exploits of the President would always remain shining in the history of the country.
    Walking round the production processes including the hard alloy shop and the melting furnace, he learned in detail about the technological updating and production at the smeltery.
    He highly appreciated the feats performed by the officials, workers and technicians of the smeltery, expressing great satisfaction over the fact that they successfully completed the difficult and vast reconstruction project by their own efforts and with their technology in a brief span of time.
    Pleased to learn that the technicians and workers of the smeltery solved many scientific and technological problems by themselves, he said that only when they fully display such revolutionary spirit of self-reliance and work style as searching for and creating something new with their own efforts and wisdom can they advance original ideas and make innovative inventions and explore peculiar fields of science and technology.
    He advanced tasks to be fulfilled by the smeltery.
    The most important task before the smeltery is to keep the production going at a high rate and, at the same time, put all the production processes on a higher scientific and technological basis by steadily focusing efforts on the technological updating, he noted.
    He stressed the need for the smeltery to increase varieties of nonferrous and rare metals by energetically waging the mass movement for technological innovations and ceaselessly introducing new technology and, at the same time, collect all the valuable metals by raising the actual extraction rate of smelting.
    If the Hungnam Smeltery is to operate in full capacity it is necessary for the mines related to it to send a sufficient quantity of quality concentrated ores to it, he said, adding that to this end it is imperative for the mines to boost production and, at the same time, take a thorough-going measure for transporting the produced concentrated ores in time.
    He made the rounds of supply service facilities to learn about the supply service for the workers.
    He appreciated the efforts made by the officials of the smeltery, expressing great satisfaction over the fact that they have worked hard to provide its workers with good conditions for diet, prompted by their correct view on the supply service.
    He underlined the need for all factories and enterprises to pay primary attention to the supply service and thus provide the workers with better living conditions.
    He expressed belief that the officials, workers and technicians of the Hungnam Smeltery would creditably carry out the revolutionary tasks before the smeltery and thus live up to the deep trust and high expectation of the WPK.
    He was accompanied by Kim Ki Nam, secretary of the Central Committee of the WPK, and Pak Nam Gi, its department director.