KIM JONG UN VISITS PYONGYANG INT'L FOOTBALL SCHOOL, RUNGNA PEOPLE'S SPORTS PARK

    Pyongyang, June 10 (KCNA) -- Marshal Kim Jong Un, first secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea, first chairman of the National Defence Commission of the DPRK and supreme commander of the Korean People's Army, went round Pyongyang International Football School and the Rungna People's Sports Park.
    He first went to the newly built Pyongyang International Football School.
    Making the round of classroom, bedroom, bathhouse, dining hall and other places of the school, he learned in detail about its construction, management and operation.
    There is nothing to spare for reserve footballers who will be trained at this school to display the honor of the country at international games in the future, he said, underlining the need to do supply service well.
    After acquainting himself with the cooling and heating of the school building, he noted that effective use of geothermal energy will help decrease electricity consumption and provide students with better living conditions.
    He instructed the school officials to steadily improve the education contents and methods and properly manage and operate the school as required by the changing situation and thus bring up more promising reserve footballers.
    He then toured the newly built Rungna People's Sports Park.
    Making the round of different places of the park, he learned about its construction and plan for its management and operation.
    He underscored the need to take good care of sports facilities and equipment that were set up in the park and properly organize public services.
    A restaurant should be built well so that it may be used by the people as the park is a place where they have a rest, he said.
    At the place for borrowing sports apparatuses he examined roller skates to be used by schoolchildren and people. He said that in order to develop mass sports and sports technique, it is necessary to meticulously approach the work of fully providing necessary apparatuses.
    Learning about greenery in the park, he told officials to arrange surrounding environment well by planting trees of good species.
    He also went round the office, conference room and other places of the remodeled building of the Secretariat of the State Physical Culture and Sports Guidance Committee, giving precious teachings on developing the country's sports.
    He said that the committee should establish public atmosphere for sports, put sports science and technology on a world level and ensure better material supply for the training of reserve players and development of the sports field.
    He was accompanied by Choe Ryong Hae, Jang Song Thaek, Ri Yong Su and Pak Chun Hong.

KIM JONG UN PROVIDES FIELD GUIDANCE TO PYONGYANG ESSENTIAL FOODSTUFF FACTORY

    Pyongyang, June 7 (KCNA) -- Marshal Kim Jong Un, first secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea, first chairman of the National Defence Commission of the DPRK and supreme commander of the Korean People's Army, provided field guidance to the Pyongyang Essential Foodstuff Factory.
    After looking round the monument to the field guidance provided by President Kim Il Sung, he enjoyed a bird's-eye view of the factory.
    He went round the room dedicated to the history of the factory.
    After watching a video on the technological updating of the factory, he said this factory helps compare the present with the past and picture what would be in the future to oneself, adding it is the factory where the line of the three revolutions, ideological, technical and cultural, has been implemented.
    The first leg of his guidance was the nursery of the factory.
    Going round playing apparatuses, turf in the compound of the nursery and its sun room, kitchen, dining room, intelligence games room, breastfeeding room, education room and other places, he said that they have been arranged well to suit the upbringing of children and their minds.
    After learning about how the house of culture of the factory is operated, he went round different production processes to acquaint himself in detail with their technological updating.
    At the general control room he was greatly satisfied to see the production processes and business activities computerized at a high level.
    Making the rounds of the newly installed production processes of refined table oil, seasoning, refined salt and vitamin E and their packing process, he learned about specifications and capacities of the equipment.
    Seeing varieties of goods produced at the production processes based on latest technology, he said overall production processes have been highly automated.
    He praised the factory for having realized the modernization of production and packing processes in cooperation with universities including Kim Il Sung University and Kim Chaek University of Technology.
    What is important in technological updating is to step up modernization with our own efforts and technology, he said, calling for giving full play to the creative ingenuity of scientists, technicians and workers and raising the rate of the locally produced equipment.
    He examined soy, soybean paste, seasoning, table oil, vitamin E, lecithin and other goods produced at the factory.
    He dropped in at the e-library and scientific and technological library to learn about how the factory is applying latest technology to production.
    Going round a public bath, swimming pool, beauty parlor, barber's, music room, etc. newly built by the factory, he praised it for having built welfare and service facilities well.
    This factory is like a nice palace for the workers, the one meeting requirements of the era of the Workers' Party and the one pervaded with patriotism, he underscored the need for all the units to follow the example of the factory.
    Expressing expectation and belief that the employees of the factory would successfully carry out their honorable duty, he had a photo session with them.
    He was accompanied by Choe Ryong Hae, Mun Kyong Dok, Paek Kye Ryong, Choe Hwi, Pak Thae Song and Jon Chang Bok.

CPRK SPOKESMAN SLAMS S. KOREAN AUTHORITIES FOR MAKING NORTH-SOUTH TALKS ABORTIVE

    Pyongyang, June 13 (KCNA) -- A spokesman for the Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of Korea (CPRK) issued a statement Thursday as the talks between the authorities of the north and the south proved abortive due to the south Korean puppet authorities' arrogant obstructions and deliberate disturbance even though they were scheduled to be held amid expectation and concern of the public at home and abroad.
    The delegation of the north side was about to leave Pyongyang when it was informed by the south side that its vice-minister of Unification, not the minister of Unification, would be the chief delegate of the south side to the talks, the statement said, and went on:
    The south side insisted on the ministerial-level talks from the beginning and confirmed more than once its intention to send the minister of Unification. But right before the start of the talks, it downgraded the level of the chief delegate. This is the height of discourtesy and disrespect unprecedented in the history of the north-south dialogue.
    It, referring to the head of the delegation of the north side, made such coarse words as "figure hardly recognizable", "abnormal practice" and "incongruity of common sense and international standard".
    This provocation barred the talks from being opened and our delegation was compelled to cancel its trip to Seoul.
    The south side demanded the director of the United Front Department head the delegation as he is counterpart of the minister of Unification of the south side, a revelation of its ignorance of the social system in the DPRK.
    Never has there been such a precedent in which a secretary of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea officially took part in the talks between the authorities in the decades-long history of the north-south dialogue.
    As for the agenda of the talks, the south side tried hard not to specify the joint commemoration of the anniversaries of the June 15 joint declaration and the July 4 joint statement and NGOs' visits and contacts and cooperation even though it said that it affirmatively accepted the special statement issued by the CPRK spokesman on June 6. It even tried to make the draft agreement ambiguous by deleting such expressions as "normalization" and "resumption" regarding the Kaesong Industrial Zone and tour of Mt. Kumgang resort.
    It was due to such vicious obstructions and deliberate disruption of the south side that the working contact lasted 16 hours and barely came to an end after three o'clock in the following morning even though an agreement could be reached in just one or two hours. So, the agreed document failed to take the form of full agreement but the form of incomplete press release.
    This fully proves that the south side had no intent to hold dialogue from the beginning and that it only sought to create an obstacle to the talks, delay and torpedo them after reluctantly taking part in the talks, far from solving issues at the negotiating table.
    In the past we sent the first vice director of the Secretariat of the CPRK in the capacity of the Cabinet chief councilor as the head of the north-south ministerial talks and the vice director of the CPRK Secretariat always dealt with the vice-minister of Unification of south Korea.
    This time we let the director of the CPRK Secretariat head our delegation instead of the first vice director in consideration of the face of the authorities of the south side.
    Nevertheless, the south side claimed that the head of our delegation is not on a par with the head of its delegation. This is a revelation of its ignorance. This cannot be construed otherwise than a deliberate act to make the talks abortive.
    The problem raised this time is not a simple issue related to the level of the head of the delegation to the talks but a manifestation of its sinister intention to make the talks between authorities abortive as it found it hard to realize its scenario for abusing the talks for the purpose of confrontation as intended by it
    The recent impolite and immoral provocative behavior of the puppet group made us think once again whether it will be possible either to properly discuss matters or improve the inter-Korean relations even if the talks between authorities are opened in the future.
    The puppet conservative group would be seriously mistaken if it calculates it can gain something by advocating "confrontation accompanied by dialogue" dating back to the outdated "yusin" era or sticking to "the theory of adhering to principle" touted by traitor Lee Myung Bak and it is, therefore, fated to meet the same miserable end as that of its predecessors.
    We have nothing to expect from the talks between authorities of the north and the south. -0-

KIM JONG UN PROVIDES FIELD GUIDANCE TO WORK IN CHANGSONG COUNTY

    Pyongyang, June 13 (KCNA) -- Marshal Kim Jong Un, first secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea, first chairman of the National Defence Commission of the DPRK and supreme commander of the Korean People's Army, Thursday provided field guidance to the work in various fields of Changsong County, North Phyongan Province.
    The first leg of his guidance was the technologically updated Changsong Foodstuff Factory.
    He looked round the monument to the field guidance provided by President Kim Il Sung and the room dedicated to the history of the factory.
    He went round the milling work-team, liquor production work-team, confectionary production work-team, wild fruit processing work-team and the products show room and other various places of the factory to learn about in detail how the instructions given by leader Kim Jong Il are being implemented.
    He praised the employees of the factory and officials in the field concerned not only for building it well as befitting a base specializing in processing wild fruits but achieving a lot of successes in carrying out the instructions given by Kim Jong Il to take the lead in wild fruit processing.
    He underscored the need for the factory to more energetically push forward technological updating, not resting content with the successes already achieved, and steadily raise the level of technical skills of the employees and meticulously organize the factory and business management.
    He expressed expectation and belief that the employees of the factory would intensify the drive for increased production, bearing deep in mind the profound loving care shown by the great Generalissimos Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il for the people, before having a photo session with them.
    At Changsong Restaurant and Changsong Noodle House he asked about their accommodation capacity and measures to keep them provided with adequate quantities of foodstuff.
    He underlined the need to promote culinary festival in order to further develop cooking culture as required by the new century.
    He expressed expectation and belief that the employees of the restaurant and the noodle house would improve their service in the spirit of dedication to the people, before having a photo taken with them.
    The next leg of his guidance was the Undok Health Complex. He called for more splendidly remodeling it, noting there can be no satisfaction in doing anything for the people,
    He commanded a bird's-eye view of the county seat spruced up on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the Changsong Joint Meeting of Local Party and Economic Officials and praised the builders for successfully constructing the town to suit the characteristics of the mountainous county.
    Noting that the county is playing the role of a base for carrying out the three revolutions, ideological, technical and cultural, and vanguard in the struggle for defending the socialist system, he called on it to increase its role as required by the Songun era.
    He also underlined the need to develop local economy so as to uphold the idea and exploits of Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il and settle the issue of people's living.
    He went round the Changsong Revolutionary Museum.
    Before entering the museum, he was briefed on it before the monument to the immortal revolutionary activities conducted by the great Generalissimos and Kim Hyong Jik, an outstanding leader of the anti-Japanese national liberation movement in Korea, in the land of Changsong.
    He called for sprucing up Changsong County as a people's paradise and making hurrah for socialism ring out louder from the county.
    He had a photo session with the employees of the museum.
    He toured the Changgol Revolutionary Site.
    The revolutionary site is of great importance along with the history of the Workers' Party of Korea, he said, calling for preserving it on a permanent basis to educate party members and other people, soldiers and school youth and children in the immortal revolutionary exploits performed by Kim Il Sung in leading the Fatherland Liberation War to victory and his noble personality.
    He proposed a task for creating art pieces depicting Kim Il Sung working at the revolutionary site.
    He went round the Changsong County Cultural Hall and enjoyed a performance given by the art group of the county.
    He highly praised the members of the art group for giving a successful performance with great cognitional and instructive value by truthfully representing their life.
    He had a picture taken with them.
    He was accompanied by Choe Ryong Hae, Choe Hwi, Pak Thae Song and Ri Man Gon, chief secretary of the North Phyongan Provincial Committee of the WPK.

KIM JONG UN PROVIDES FIELD GUIDANCE TO TAEGWAN GLASS FACTORY

    Pyongyang, June 14 (KCNA) -- Marshal Kim Jong Un, first secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea, first chairman of the National Defence Commission of the DPRK and supreme commander of the Korean People's Army, provided field guidance to the Taegwan Glass Factory.
    He learned in detail about the performance of the optical measuring instruments being produced by the factory.
    It further improved the performance of the instruments than last year and ensured their safety, he said, adding that in order to make the instruments produced at the factory prove effective in reality, it is necessary to further raise their precision.
    The inquiry into the performance of the instruments today proved that it is quite possible to succeed if endeavors are made, based on scientific researches and technological updating, he noted.
    He looked round the assembling shop to acquaint himself with production there and quality of products.
    He said that the optical measuring instruments being produced at the factory require high technology, stressing that in order to keep the production going at a high rate and improve their quality it is necessary to give full play to the mental power of the producers, intensify scientific researches and steadily raise the level of technical skills of the workers.
    He underlined the need to focus efforts on the independent technological development capable of surpassing the world level, put the production processes on a modern and automatic basis and wage a more dynamic drive to raise the rate of locally available equipment and materials.
    He also underscored the need to raise high demands to the units producing items of cooperative production and successfully conduct cooperative operations.
    He watched CNC-based machines at work in the assembling shop to learn about the operation of the equipment.
    He set forth tasks which would serve as guidelines for the management and operation of the factory and production.
    He had a photo session with the workers of the factory, expressing expectation and belief that they would boost the production of quality and modern glass products and optical instruments by conducting a widespread mass technological innovation movement, true to the WPK's idea of pushing back the frontiers of the latest science and technology.
    He was accompanied by Choe Ryong Hae, Choe Hwi, Pak Thae Song, Hong Yong Chil and Ri Man Gon, chief secretary of the North Phyongan Provincial Committee of the WPK. -0-

KIM JONG UN TOURS YUPHYONG REVOLUTIONARY SITE

    Pyongyang, June 15 (KCNA) -- Marshal Kim Jong Un, first secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea, first chairman of the National Defence Commission of the DPRK and supreme commander of the Korean People's Army, looked round the Yuphyong Revolutionary Site.
    It was in this historic place that President Kim Il Sung instilled the faith of sure victory into commanding officers and soldiers of the KPA and learned in detail about the war-time farming of the peasants of the village.
    Kim Jong Un stopped before the monument to the revolutionary activities of the President and read the words written on it one by one. Then he paid attention to the house of a peasant where the President stayed.
    He said that the President visited the house in the grimmest period of the Fatherland Liberation War, adding that the day the President spent there was an unforgettable day to go down in the history of the WPK.
    After meeting commanding officers of the KPA that day, the President sent the soldiers guarding the Supreme Command to the front, thinking of the victory in the war more than his own safety, he noted.
    He underscored the need to tell the visitors at length what instructions the President gave as regards the war and what duty the unit stationed there was assigned by him while staying there.
    Recalling that leader Kim Jong Il told the story about the revolutionary site, Kim Jong Un underlined the need for the field for preserving revolutionary relics to unearth and ascertain the materials on the President's revolutionary activities in the period of the Fatherland Liberation War in a deep-going manner.
    He entered the house of the peasant and watched with deep emotion the desk, telephone, dinner-table, etc. preserved with good care.
    He said that Kim Il Sung set forth the outstanding idea and war method to bring a fundamental change in the war at the simple rural house without an operation table, not a good office, and a house with low roof in the northern mountainous area.
    He underlined the need for the new generation to deeply grasp how Kim Il Sung created a historic miracle by leading the war to victory at any place.
    There are many historic sites and relics such as the Yuphyong Revolutionary Site in very part of the country, he said, adding these historic sites and relics are eternal assets and precious heritages of the Korean revolution which cannot barter with anything.
    To significantly celebrate the 60th anniversary of the Korean people's victory in the Fatherland Liberation War is aimed to demonstrate before the world how the army and people of the DPRK won victory in the fight against the imperialist allied forces and honorably defended the freedom and independence of the country in any spirit, holding anyone as their leader, not merely greet the day of victory in the war, he said, adding so he visited the Yuphyong Revolutionary Site.
    He said that videos would be made well and shown following the course of the Supreme Command and fine art works portraying Kim Il Sung working there would be created to instill the feats he performed in winning victory in the war and the spirit of the 1950s in the hearts of the service personnel, people and school youth and children and give them the conviction of certain victory and courage.
    Praising again the employees of the Yuphyong Revolutionary Site for clearly managing the revolutionary site and conducting the educational work well through it though they are in a mountainous area, he took a picture taken with them.
    He called for always remembering and glorifying forever the shining victory in the Fatherland Liberation War won by Kim Il Sung while pulling through the thorny road of rigorous tests and the spirit of the 1950s displayed by the army and people of the DPRK under his leadership.
    He was accompanied by Choe Ryong Hae, Choe Hwi, Pak Thae Song and Hong Yong Chil.

KIM JONG UN GIVES FIELD GUIDANCE TO MACHINE PLANT MANAGED BY HO CHOL YONG

    Pyongyang, June 16 (KCNA) -- Kim Jong Un, first secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea, first chairman of the DPRK National Defence Commission and supreme commander of the Korean People's Army, gave field guidance to the Machine Plant managed by Ho Chol Yong.
    Going round the processing and assembling shops, he learned in detail about the production and modernization of the plant.
    At the processing shop he was greatly satisfied to see CNC-based lathes producing varieties of machine parts.
    After going round the monument to the revolutionary activities of the great Generalissimos Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il, he said the plant is of weighty importance in the nation's machine-building industry and the WPK attaches great importance to it.
    At the assembling shop he learned in detail about the mechanism and technical specifications of the finished machines.
    He, at the same time, learned about the performance of the machines built at the plant.
    The machines are high in their performance and look nice, he said, appreciating feats performed by officials, workers, scientists and technicians of the plant in building modern machines of Korean style.
    He set forth tasks to be fulfilled by the plant.
    He underscored the need to produce more updated machines which are suited to the actual conditions of the country, favored by the users and prove highly effective in practice.
    He called on the relevant units to wage a dynamic drive to provide updated machine parts of Korean style in good time.
    He went round the hostel of workers of the plant.
    He dropped in at the rooms visited by Kim Il Sung in the past. He said that the rooms are kept clean and neat to be liked by hostellers.
    Going round the dining room and non-staple foodstuff store, he learnt about the supply service to the hostellers.
    Then he visited the newly built kindergarten of the plant.
    He expressed satisfaction over the fact that the plant has successfully built a playground and play-yard so that children may fully enjoy playing. Then he moved to the room devoted to the history of the plant.
    He heard with deep attention stories about the warm loving care shown by Kim Il Sung for the kindergarten before going round various rooms.
    He also looked at children's handwriting with brush.
    After watching an art performance given by kindergarteners at an amusement room, he took them to his arms and had a photo taken with them.
    He repeatedly asked the teachers of the kindergarten to feed the children well and bring them up in such a way that they may always feel happy.
    The last leg of his guidance was the Kangsong Health Complex.
    Going round the amusement room, gymnasium, swimming and wading pools and dining rooms of the health complex, he was told that workers' life was envied by even people in urban areas. He said that he was also pleased to hear that they fully enjoy a highly civilized life in society for workers.
    He provided the plant with vehicles needed for its production, saying that he would personally take charge of supplies, if it proves successful in production.
    He had a photo session with workers of the plant.
    He was accompanied by Choe Ryong Hae, Choe Hwi, Pak Thae Song, Hong Yong Chil, Son Chol Ju and Yun Tong Hyon. -0-

DPRK PROPOSES OFFICIAL TALKS WITH U.S.

    Pyongyang, June 16 (KCNA) -- The spokesman for the National Defence Commission (NDC) of the DPRK issued the following crucial statement on Sunday:
    The present U.S. administration is now asserting that the development of the situation depends on the DPRK, urging the DPRK to show the will for denuclearization first and stop "provocation" and "threats" in order to defuse tensions on the Korean Peninsula.
    The U.S. is misleading the public opinion and deceiving the world, trying to give impression that the DPRK is to blame for the tensions that have so far mounted on the peninsula.
    The present south Korean authorities that have been accustomed to sycophancy and submission and the forces following the U.S. are dancing to its tune.
    In this regard the NDC of the DPRK clarifies the following crucial stand upon authorization:
    We state to the world once again that it is none other than the U.S. which has steadily strained the situation on the Korean Peninsula century after century and decade after decade.
    It was the U.S. which provoked the war of aggression on the Korean Peninsula in the 1950s and it is again the U.S. which has systematically scrapped the Korean Armistice Agreement for the past six decades after the end of the war.
    Entering into the first decade of the new century, the U.S. has persistently tried to ignite a war against the DPRK again.
    From December last year, the U.S. has pulled up the DPRK, describing its legitimate and just satellite launch as a long-range missile launch and its military measures for self-defence to cope with the U.S. open aggression moves as sort of "provocation". This fully discloses its nature as the worst provoker and aggressor.
    The gangster-like resolution on "sanctions" which the U.S. masterminded and all the hostile acts that have been intensified following the adoption of the resolution were an intolerable and serious provocation against the army and people of the DPRK.
    There is a limit to patience. The U.S. should no longer cling to acts of misleading the public opinion and deceiving the world while vociferating about the non-existent "provocation" and "threats".
    It will be a foolish calculation for the U.S. to think that its arbitrary practices reminding one of a thief crying "stop the thief" will work on the bright world today.
    We state to the world once again that the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula is an invariable will and resolve of the army and people of the DPRK.
    The denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula was behests of President Kim Il Sung and leader Kim Jong Il and a policy task which the party, state, army and people of the DPRK have to carry out without fail.
    The denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula does not only mean "dismantling the nuclear weapons of the north". It is the complete one that calls for denuclearizing the whole peninsula including south Korea and aims at totally ending the U.S. nuclear threats to the DPRK.
    As for the possession of nuclear weapons by the DPRK, it is the strategic option taken by the DPRK for self-defence to denuclearize the Korean Peninsula.
    The legitimate status of the DPRK as a nuclear weapons state will go on and on without vacillation whether others recognize it or not until the whole Korean Peninsula is denuclearized and the nuclear threats from outside are put to a final end.
    Therefore, the U.S. should stop nuclear threats and blackmail and all forms of provocations including "sanctions" against the DPRK, before urging it to show first its sincerity regarding the will for denuclearization to open the phase for dialogue.
    We propose senior-level talks between the authorities of the DPRK and the U.S. to defuse tensions on the Korean Peninsula and ensure peace and security in the region.
    If the U.S. has true intent on defusing tensions on the Korean Peninsula and ensuring peace and security in the U.S. mainland and the region, it should not raise precondition for dialogue and contact.
    The talks can have broad and in-depth discussions on defusing military tensions, replacing the armistice system with peace mechanism and other issues of mutual concern including the building of a "world without nuclear weapons" proposed by the U.S.
    The U.S. can set the venue and date of the talks to its convenience.
    Consistent is the stand of the DPRK to defuse tensions on the Korean Peninsula and ensure peace and security of the region.
    If the U.S. truly wants to realize a "world without nuclear weapons" and bring detente, it should positively respond to the DPRK's bold decision and good intention, not missing the opportunity.
    All the future developments entirely depend on the responsible option of the U.S., which has strained the situation on the Korean Peninsula.

Kim Jong Il’s Achievements in Party Building

Kim Jong Il (1942-2011) started work at the Central Committee of the Workers’ Party of

Korea on June 19, 1964. For about half a century of leading the WPK, he performed outstanding

feats in Party building.

What is the greatest is that he developed the WPK into a solid integral whole in ideology and

achieved the unity and cohesion in it.

He made sure that the WPK was strengthened and developed, only guided by the Juche idea

created by President Kim Il Sung, founding father of socialist Korea.

The modelling of the whole Party on the Juche idea he put forward in the 1970s marked a

historic event of important significance in strengthening and developing the WPK into the

Juche-type revolutionary party. He made public in March 1982 the classic work On the Juche

Idea, thus comprehensively systematizing the Juche idea and enriching it into the great guiding

ideology for the cause of independence. This also served as another momentum in carrying out

the building and activities of the WPK as required by the Juche idea.

Kim Jong Il developed and enriched the Juche idea without interruption in keeping with the

demand of the times and the developing revolution.

After the demise of Kim Il Sung in July 1994, he held fast to the Juche idea as the guiding

ideology of the Party and thoroughly implemented it. And he developed the Songun idea and line

that rooted in the Juche idea as required by the times, thus formulating a powerful political mode

of socialism, Songun politics, unprecedented in the world.

He constantly put it forward as an important demand of Party building to achieve the unity

and cohesion of the Party.

He ensured that all the Party members were fully armed with the Juche idea and the Party

policies, its embodiment, and never tolerated the heterogeneous ideological trends that were

detrimental to the unity and cohesion of the Party. That’s how the WPK came to achieve the

unity in ideology and purpose and in moral obligation, based on one idea and around one centre,

and display to the fullest its ever-victorious might as the guiding force of the Korean society.

He also saw to it that the WPK stipulated in its rules that the WPK is the eternal party of

Comrade Kim Il Sung and would carry forward the tradition of the unity and cohesion through

generations. It was wholly attributable to the unity and cohesion, the strongest weapon, that the

WPK emerged victorious in the struggle to defend socialism and brought about a radical phase of

building a thriving country in spite of the grim situation created toward the end of the last

century.

That the WPK has developed as a genuine motherly party that serves the people constitutes

another outstanding exploit Kim Jong Il performed in Party building.

He regarded it as the WPK’s aim and mission that it works and exists for realizing the

independence of the masses of the people and it should not only unite them around itself but take

responsible care of them in order to realize their demand for independence and interests. He set it

as an important principle in the Party work method that the Party work is precisely the work with

man and all Party officials should go among the people to lend their ears to them and solve the

problems in their life in time.

He ensured that even a line and a policy were formulated to mirror the people’s will and

intention and never to infringe upon their interests.

Under his leadership the WPK continued to put into effect the universal free medical care and

free compulsory education systems at the end of the last century, too, when Korea was

undergoing the worst hardship and difficulties amid the concentrated anti-socialist offensives of

the imperialists.

The line of building a thriving nation is, in the final analysis, aimed at making people lead a

happy life with nothing to envy in the world by radically improving the people’s standard of

living. To solve the people’s food problem, the coal gasification is introduced into large fertilizer

complexes. Modern fruit farms such as the Taedonggang Combined Fruit Farm with an area of

over 1 000 hectares are built throughout the country, and the fruit processing and foodstuff

factories constructed on a high standard are paying off handsomely. The pig, poultry and fish

farms and solar-heat energy greenhouses are being mushroomed, enriching the people’s dietary

life. Introduction of the cutting-edge technology into the vinalon production lines based on the

domestic raw materials is bringing about changes in fibre and other chemical goods production.

Kim Jong Il paid a special attention to the WPK’s efforts to make the people lead a plentiful

and civilized life to their heart’s content. He continued to give field guidance at the Kaeson

Youth Park, Hana Music Information Centre, Kwangbok Area Supermarket and other places

even in the last days of his life.

Apartment houses in the Masudae area, a dolphinarium, an outdoor ice rink and a health

complex of the latest style are now under construction in Pyongyang. They are the gifts the WPK

presents to the people on the occasion of the centenary of the birth of President Kim Il Sung, as

wished by Kim Jong Il.

Though Kim Jong Il passed away, the WPK venerated him as its eternal General Secretary.

His exploits made in Party building will shine forever along with the ever-victorious WPK.

Kim Jong Un Has Photo Session with Delegates to 7th KCU Congress

    Pyongyang, June 6 (KCNA) -- Marshal Kim Jong Un, first secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea, first chairman of the National Defence Commission of the DPRK and supreme commander of the Korean People's Army, Thursday had a photo session with the delegates to the 7th Congress of the Korean Children's Union (KCU).
    Present there together with him were KPA Vice Marshal Choe Ryong Hae, member of the Presidium of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the WPK and director of the General Political Bureau of the KPA, and Ri Yong Su, department director of the Central Committee of the WPK.
    Chairman Jon Yong Nam and vice-chairmen of the Central Committee of the Kim Il Sung Socialist Youth League were also present.
    KCU members presented bouquets to Kim Jong Un.
    He said the congress marked an important occasion in eternally glorifying the undying feats of the great Generalissimos Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il who dedicated their all to developing the Juche-oriented movement of the Korean children. He warmly congratulated the participants in the congress who demonstrated before the world through the congress the spirit of the KCU members firmly preparing themselves to be dependable builders of the thriving nation.
    Kim Jong Un expressed expectation and belief that the delegates to the 7th Congress of the KCU would always take the lead in consolidating the KCU organizations to be stronger ranks of the pillars responsible for the future of the great Paektusan nation. -0-

7th Congress of KCU Held

    Pyongyang, June 6 (KCNA) -- The 7th Congress of the Korean Children's Union was held with splendor at the April 25 House of Culture on Thursday.
    The congress is of great significance in strengthening the KCU developed under the care of the great Generalissimos Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il into the Songun children's revolutionary organization of the Workers' Party of Korea.
    Kim Il Sung formed the Saenal Children's Union, the first children's revolutionary organization in Korea, provided the origin of the Juche-oriented children's movement and closely rallied children around the flag of the anti-Japanese children's corps in order to bring them up to be the iron-willed young revolutionaries.
    Kim Il Sung founded the KCU after the liberation of Korea. He brightly indicated the way for the Korean children's movement to advance in each period and at each stage of the revolution and energetically led the KCU members to give steady continuity to the revolutionary cause of Juche started on Mt. Paektu.
    In the last period of his life, he sent a congratulatory message to the participants in the 5th Congress of the KCU and had a picture taken with them.
    Kim Jong Il, taking the work of bringing up the successors to the revolution as the most important work of the party and the state, wisely led the work with main emphasis on firmly preparing the KCU members to be the genuine child vanguard of the Workers' Party of Korea.
    The dear respected Kim Jong Un made sure that the event of celebrating the 66th anniversary of the KCU was held with splendor last year and had pictures taken with children. He also took part in the joint national meeting of the KCU organizations and made a congratulatory speech.
    He also provided field guidance to Pyongyang Myohyangsan Children's Camp and the Songdowon International Children's Camp, giving teachings to provide new generation with happy life the whole world will be envious of.
    Present at the congress were delegates selected from KCU organizations across the country, officials in charge of children's life and other officials concerned.
    Also present at the congress as observers were children of servicepersons on Jangjae, Mu and Wolnae islets and other frontline posts and schoolchildren in Pyongyang.
    Marshal Kim Jong Un, the benevolent father of the Korean schoolchildren, appeared on the tribune of honor of the congress hall.
    A member of the KCU put a red tie around his neck.
    He congratulated the enthusiastically cheering delegates and warmly acknowledged all the participants in the congress.
    Taking the tribune of honor were Korean People's Army Vice Marshal Choe Ryong Hae, member of the Presidium of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the WPK and director of the General Political Bureau of the KPA, Ri Yong Su, department director of the C.C., the WPK, Kim Sung Du, chairman of the Education Commission, officials of the youth league and officials concerned and KCU members who set an example in study and organizational life.
    A clarion sounded the start of the congress and the flag of the KCU was hoisted.
    Two agenda items were put up for discussion: 1. On the tasks of the KCU to bring up its members to be young revolutionaries and vanguard of Songun era always following the dear respected Marshal Kim Jong Un in firm conviction; 2. On revision of the rules of the KCU.
    Jon Yong Nam, chairman of the Central Committee of the Kim Il Sung Socialist Youth League, made a report on the first agenda.
    He said the glorious course of the KCU has been associated with the deep loving care of the Generalissimos who provided deep and firm roots for the Juche-oriented children's movement and led the KCU step by step in line with the requirements of the developing revolution.
    He referred to the great successes of the KCU after the 6th congress under the sagacious leadership and meticulous care of Generalissimo Kim Jong Il and Marshal Kim Jong Un.
    He called upon the KCU members to cherish honor and pride of being members of glorious Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il's KCU and firmly prepare themselves to be reliable successors of the Songun revolution faithful to Kim Jong Un, true to their pledges before the KCU flags.
    Speeches followed the report.
    The speakers talked about their honor of taking part in the congress in the presence of Marshal Kim Jong Un and their pride of acquiring ample knowledge, good moral character and good health under the deep care of the peerlessly great persons. They also vowed to carry forward the traditions of Mt. Paektu under the leadership of the Workers' Party of Korea.
    Kim Jong Un heard with keen interest the speeches of delegates, applauding them.
    A decision on the first agenda was adopted.
    They discussed and decided upon the second agenda. -0-

CPRK Special Statement Proposes Talks between Authorities of North, South

    Pyongyang, June 6 (KCNA) -- The spokesman for the Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of Korea (CPRK) released the following special statement Thursday:
    It is 13 years since the publication of the historic June 15 joint declaration.
    All the Koreans still remember the June 15 era when the spirit for national reunification ran high all over the country and are ardently wishing for the earlier improvement of the north-south relations and opening of a new phase for reunification.
    The publication of the joint declaration was a special event for the Korean nation in making steps toward ending the history of division and confrontation forced by outsiders and opening up a new era for independent reunification.
    Signal events that were presented on this land after the advent of the June 15 era proved that there is nothing impossible for the Koreans to do and that they can achieve the common prosperity of the nation and reunify the country for sure if they pool their efforts.
    But the advance of the June 15 era has been held back and the last legacy of the era has been placed at the peril of destruction due to the serious challenge by anti-reunification forces at home and abroad. This is truly deplorable.
    South Korean businessmen are now strongly calling for the normalization of the operation in the Kaesong Industrial Zone (KIZ) and the resumption of tour of Mt. Kumgang. Families and their relatives separated in the north and the south are also craving reunion with their kinsfolk in their lifetime.
    Whoever are Koreans can never shun this tragic situation of today.
    We have so far made every possible effort to improve the north-south ties now at a deadlock, resume tour of Mt. Kumgang, normalize the operation in the KIZ and settle humanitarian issues.
    But all the sincerity and magnanimity shown by the DPRK have been denied and defiled with such sophism as "sincerity", "contradiction among southerners" and "evasion of talks between authorities".
    We have never sought to create "contradiction among southerners".
    We have neither treated the south side's authorities lightly nor approached it the way of making a fun of it as claimed by the south Korean authorities.
    It is none other than the south Korean authorities who are abusing north-south dialogue for the purpose of escalating confrontation in a bid to meet their strategic aims
    However, we have no idea of idling away time with useless word-playing and exchange of rhetoric.
    If the north and the south insist on their own assertions, it will never be possible to find a way of solving pending issues between the two sides. This will further increase despair of south Korean businessmen and other people and disappointment of all fellow countrymen.
    In view of the prevailing situation, the desire of all fellow countrymen and the ardent request of south Korean businessmen and other people, the CPRK clarifies the following crucial stand upon the authorization:
    We propose holding talks between authorities of the north and the south for the normalization of the operation in the KIZ and the resumption of tour of Mt. Kumgang on the occasion of the anniversary of the June 15 joint declaration.
    Such humanitarian issues as the reunion of separated families and their relatives can be discussed at the talks, if necessary.
    The venue of the talks and the date for their opening can be set to the convenience of the south side.
    We propose promptly realizing visits to the KIZ and the Special Zone for International Tour of Mt. Kumgang by south Korean businessmen and working contacts and promoting visits, contacts and cooperation among NGOs of the north and the south.
    We have already approved the visits to the KIZ by businessmen and will allow the visits to the areas of the north side by south Korean businessmen concerned with the tour of Mt. Kumgang.
    We also flung open the door to visits, contacts and cooperation among NGOs of south Korea.
    We propose realizing joint national events to mark the 13th anniversary of the June 15 joint declaration and jointly commemorating the 41st anniversary of the July 4 joint statement in the presence of the authorities of both sides.
    The commemoration of the June 15 joint declaration and the July 4 joint statement in the presence of the authorities together with NGOs of both sides will be significant and contribute to improving the north-south ties.
    As soon as the south Korean authorities respond to our proposal with a view to ensuring talks between the authorities of the north and the south, visits to the KIZ and Mt. Kumgang by south Korean businessmen and joint national events and smoothly settling pending issues between the north and the south, all the relevant measures concerning communications and liaison will be taken including the issue of reopening the Panmunjom Red Cross liaison channel.
    Consistent is our stand to promote national reconciliation and unity and achieve reunification, peace and prosperity.
    If the south Korean authorities truly stand for building confidence and improving the north-south relations, they should not miss this opportunity but positively respond to our bold decision and sincere proposal, away from misguided speculation and suspicion. -0-

Kim Jong Un Provides Field Guidance to Posong Mushroom Farm

    Pyongyang, June 5 (KCNA) -- Marshal Kim Jong Un, first secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea, first chairman of the National Defence Commission of the DPRK and supreme commander of the Korean People's Army, provided field guidance to the newly built Posong Mushroom Farm.
    Going round various places of the farm, he acquainted himself in detail with fungus production, substrate preparation, cultivation process, etc.
    Fungus production is important for cultivating mushrooms, he said, learning about how mushroom fungi are cultivated at the farm.
    He went round the substrate production process of preparing and processing raw materials needed for production to suit the characteristic features of species of mushrooms.
    Seeing equipment crushing trees and corncobs, materials producing substrates, and machine sterilizing various germs contained in raw materials, he said it is of particular importance to sterilize germs for producing substrates.
    Making the round of the process of cultivating spores and inoculating substrates with fungi, he said it is possible to cultivate mushrooms anywhere if spores and substrates are prepared.
    He looked round various cultivation grounds to learn about the mushroom cultivation methods.
    At an air-tight cultivation ground he underlined the need to select a high-yielding mushroom species which meets the climatic and other specific conditions of the country, saying mushrooms differ from each other at temperature and humidity required by their species.
    He underscored the need to cultivate high-yielding mushrooms including agarics which grow well at temperature below 20 degrees C with the output of more than 100 tons per hectare.
    Going round the mushroom cultivation ground by use of vinyl sheet, he said it would be good to cultivate vegetables in summer.
    He underlined the need to contribute to the diet of soldiers and people by building in various places such bases mass-producing mushrooms in an industrial method.
    He called on the farm to mass-produce fungi to send them to mushroom farms to be built in the future and compile good technical guides for cultivating mushrooms in an industrial method for various units.
    He expressed expectation and belief that all employees of the Posong Mushroom Farm would discharge their duty in a responsible manner true to the intention of the WPK and thus produce a large quantity of tasty and nutritive mushrooms for soldiers and people.
    He was accompanied by Kim Kyong Ok and Choe Hwi, first vice department directors of the WPK Central Committee, and Pak Thae Song and Hwang Pyong So, vice department directors of the WPK Central Committee.

Kim Jong Un Sends Appeal to All Service Personnel, People

    Pyongyang, June 5 (KCNA) -- Supreme Commander of the Korean People's Army Kim Jong Un, first secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea and first chairman of the National Defence Commission of the DPRK, Tuesday sent an appeal "Let Us Create the 'Masikryong Speed' and Usher in New Heyday on All Fronts for Socialist Construction" to all service personnel and people of the DPRK.
    Kim Jong Un said the construction of the Masik Pass Skiing Ground is a gigantic patriotic work initiated by the Workers' Party of Korea to provide the people with better cultural conditions by translating into reality President Kim Il Sung and leader Kim Jong Il's noble idea of loving the people.
    The soldier-builders have achieved remarkable successes by cutting off natural rocks and steep mountain ranges and building skiing courses covering hundreds of thousands of square meters with more than a hundred thousand meters in a total length in a matter of less than one year since they had a ground-breaking ceremony, he said, and continued:
    The construction of the skiing ground is such a huge project that it is hard for others to complete the project even in ten years. But the WPK remains unchanged in its resolution to build a world-class skiing ground within this year and provide the people and school youth and children with a highly civilized and happy living conditions to enable them enjoy all blessings.
    He expressed belief that the soldier-builders would wind up the construction of the skiing ground within this year by creating the "Masikryong Speed" by dint of indomitable mental power and persevering charge and that all the service personnel and people across the country would bring about a great leap forward and signal innovations on all fronts for socialist construction in that spirit.
    The secret to completing the construction of the Masik Pass Skiing Ground ahead of schedule lies in giving fullest play to the mental power of the service personnel, he noted, adding Kim Jong Il's patriotism is the core of the mental power to be cherished by the soldier-builders.
    He underscored the need to dynamically push ahead with the construction of the skiing ground by dint of great army-people unity, the mainstay of the Songun revolution and groundwork of society.
    It is the intention and resolution of the WPK to raise a hot-wind of great innovations and upswing throughout the country by letting all people learn from the indomitable fighting spirit and work style being displayed by the soldiers in the construction of the skiing ground, he stressed.
    He also underlined the need for the People's Army to make thorough-going preparations for combat and bring about uninterrupted innovations in all major construction projects and in the work for sprucing up the provinces, cities and counties.
    He called on all the people including workers, farmers and intellectuals to further reenergize all the economic sectors of the country and positively contribute to implementing national economy plan by fully implementing the WPK's line on simultaneously pushing forward economic construction and the building of nuclear force. -0-

Kim Jong Un Provides Field Guidance to Kosan Fruit Farm

    Pyongyang, June 3 (KCNA) -- Marshal Kim Jong Un, first secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea, first chairman of the National Defence Commission of the DPRK and supreme commander of the Korean People's Army, provided field guidance to the Kosan Fruit Farm.
    A large fruit-producing base covering a vast area of nearly 10 ris, including Puphyong, Songpuk, Ryongjiwon and Cholryong, in Kosan region is now under construction as required by the new century.
    After being briefed on the farm in front of a large map showing its prospect, Kim Jong Un said the farm visited by leader Kim Jong Il on June 2, 2011 is an important one to which the leader paid special attention as it is directly linked with the people's living.
    He learnt in detail about how the Construction Shock Brigade 618 has carried out the last instructions of Kim Jong Il after undertaking the project for building the farm on an expansion basis.
    Recalling that Kim Jong Il instructed the farm to build a factory evaporating fruit juice and producing dried apple slices, a fruit storehouse and a factory producing wire net fence, he learnt about how this instruction is being implemented.
    Then he acquainted himself with the conditions of growth of dwarf apple trees planted by the farm.
    Looking at the fruits on branches of 5-year-old dwarf apple trees, he said he felt as if he were watching trees heavily laden with apples in autumn and expressed satisfaction at the fact that the farm has turned into a young orchard.
    In order to radically increase the production of fruits, it is important for the farm to expand the area under fruit cultivation as planned, produce fruit saplings by itself and put the manuring and cultivation of fruit trees, including application of agricultural herbicide, on a sci-tech basis, he noted.
    He stressed the need to mass-produce organic compound fertilizer and thus decisively raise the fertility of soil by applying a ring-shaped rotation production system to the combination of fruit farming and stock-breeding.
    He also underscored the need for the farm to make full preparations from now on to solve the issues arising in picking and carrying apples and processing fruits, in particular, in keeping with the increase of fruit production.
    A combined fruit processing factory should be built on the Kosan Fruit Farm, too, he added.
    He dropped in at a water pumping station for dripping irrigation built on the farm. There he acquainted himself with the dripping irrigation as well as technical specifications and performance of the pumping equipment.
    He praised the builders and employees of the farm for having introduced a modern irrigation system to put the manuring and cultivation of fruit trees on a highly intensive basis and thus provided a scientific and technological guarantee for boosting the fruit production while safely cultivating the trees.
    He was pleased to see the road built by the members of the Construction Shock Brigade 618.
    It is meaningful, indeed, that a large orchard has made its appearance at the foot of Chol Pass symbolic of the Songun revolutionary leadership, he said, adding a fresh fairyland called "the sea of apples at foot of Chol Pass" will spring up when the project for expanding the capacity of the farm comes to a finish and a sea of apples is unfolded there.
    He went round a factory producing concrete props, roof tiles and bar steel the shock brigade is now running after it built with its own efforts.
    The expansion project should be completed unconditionally at the date fixed by Kim Jong Il, he said, adding that to this end, the related units should sincerely help the shock brigade in pushing ahead with the project.
    He expressed expectation and belief that the members of the shock brigade and the employees of the farm would make sustained efforts to step up the project and increase the fruit production.
    He was accompanied by Kim Kyok Sik, Choe Hwi, Pak Thae Song, Pak Jong Chon and An Ji Yong. 

Kim Jong Un Visits Majon Bathing Resort

    Pyongyang, May 31 (KCNA) -- Marshal Kim Jong Un, first secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea, first chairman of the National Defence Commission of the DPRK and supreme commander of the Korean People's Army, provided field guidance to the Majon Bathing Resort.
    Going round the resort, he looked back with deep emotion on the leadership exploits performed by the great Generalissimos Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il there.
    He said that they were tender-hearted fathers of the people who visited every place for the happiness of the people and provided cultural recreation grounds for people in every scenic spot.
    After being told by officials of the field concerned that a shower site, sea observation tower, rest home, restaurant for bathers and others were built and now being used, he asked if the accommodating capacity of the buildings of the rest home can meet the demands of visitors to the resort.
    He asked whether the bathing resort is not hit by typhoon and tsunami and learned in detail about how many people visit that place in summer season.
    Hearing officials say that people not only from Hamhung City but Pyongyang City visit the resort and citizens of Hamhung, in particular, make it part of their life to visit there more than three times in a year, he said it is nice to hear that. This suffices to know well how strongly our people wish to lead a cultural and emotional life, he added.
    He stressed that it is important for glorifying the leadership exploits of the Generalissimos and providing our people with a happier life to spruce up the bathing resort at a world level as required by the new century.
    Our officials should have a standpoint and style to take upon themselves tasks for the good of people and go down to spots to help find solutions to issues, he said.
    He told the officials to build modern public service facilities such as bathing booths and shower rooms when rebuilding the resort.
    He also instructed them to build facilities that make the pine forest clearly distinct from the beach.
    He underscored the need for the officials of the relevant unit and the South Hamgyong Provincial Committee of the WPK to bear deep in mind the importance of the reconstruction of the bathing resort and make good preparations for it from now, start it in real earnest from coming autumn and wind it up by next summer so that our people may fully enjoy bathing in the newly built world class resort.
    He was accompanied by Choe Ryong Hae, Jang Jong Nam, Son Chol Ju, Choe Hwi, Pak Thae Song and Ma Won Chun. -0-

Kim Jong Un Visits Songchongang Net-weaving Factory and Plastic Tube Shop

    Pyongyang, May 31 (KCNA) -- Marshal Kim Jong Un, first secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea, first chairman of the National Defence Commission of the DPRK and supreme commander of the Korean People's Army, provided field guidance to the Songchongang Net-weaving Factory and the Plastic Tube Shop newly built by the 1521 Enterprise of the Korean People's Army.
    He looked round the monument to the field guidance of leader Kim Jong Il to the factory dated August 23, 1982 erected to convey his immortal leadership exploits down through generations and the room dedicated to its history.
    The first leg of his visit was the Songchongang Net-weaving Factory.
    He initiated the building of a modern net-weaving factory and assigned the task to the 1521 Enterprise under KPA Unit 600.
    He went round the exterior of the factory after being briefed on it before a map showing the net and rope production processes.
    Feasting his eyes on the building of the factory with a broad smile, he was very pleased to note that it was built in a peculiar style and designed to meet the requirements of contemporary architectural beauty. It is such a fashionable factory that no one can say it is a production establishment, he added.
    He made the rounds of various production processes of the factory to learn in detail about its construction and technical equipment and production.
    He highly appreciated the feats performed by the builders, noting that the factory capable of mass-producing varieties of nets with less manpower is a precious treasure of the country as it was constructed well and cultural practice in production is at a high level.
    He said he was pleased to know that nets are great in their tensile strength, high in extension rate and very durable.
    Learning about the toughness and use of ropes produced at the factory, he underscored the need to mass-produce ropes whose demand is great everywhere.
    If the factory reenergizes production by minutely conducting business management and activities, it can bring it to a higher level in a brief span of time, he noted, stressing the need to exchange technology with the Taedonggang Net-weaving Factory and earnestly learn from its good experience.
    Saying he was very pleased to visit the Songchongang Net-weaving Factory, he added that it is now possible to mass-produce varieties of nets as it pleases.
    The next leg of his visit was the Plastic Tube Shop newly built at the 1521 Enterprise of the KPA.
    After being briefed on the shop before a map showing the plastic tube production process, he saw various sizes of plastic tubes produced at the shop.
    Going round the large and small size plastic tube production process, he learned in detail about the specifications of the equipment and quality of products.
    Looking round its cultural hall, he asked how many employees the shop has and if it can accommodate all of them. It is as good as an art theatre as it is well furnished with seats and other facilities, he noted.
    Watching with keen attention various forms of visual boards on the walls of its corridor, he said it is important to conduct well the education of the employees in the revolution, class and socialist patriotism. He underscored the need to make such education places prove effective.
    He had a photo session with the employees of the enterprise.
    Making a bird's-eye view of the net-weaving factory again and again with a broad smile, he said the longer one watches it, the nicer it looks. He proposed taking another picture with workers with the factory for a background.
    He was accompanied by Choe Ryong Hae, Jang Jong Nam, Son Chol Ju, Choe Hwi, Pak Thae Song and Ma Won Chun. -0-

Kim Jong Un Inspects Posts on Mt. Osong and KPA Unit 507

    Pyongyang, June 2 (KCNA) -- Supreme Commander of the Korean People's Army Marshal Kim Jong Un, first secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea and first chairman of the National Defence Commission of the DPRK, inspected KPA posts defending Mt. Osong and KPA Unit 507 on Sunday.
    He was accompanied by KPA General Kim Kyok Sik, chief of the KPA General Staff, KPA Col. Gen. Pak Jong Chon, Lieut. Gen. An Ji Yong, Choe Hwi, first vice department director of the WPK Central Committee and Pak Thae Song, vice department director of the WPK Central Committee.
    After receiving a salute from the commander of KPA Large Combined Unit 549, he looked round the monument to the field guidance erected to hand down to posterity the Songun leadership exploits performed by leader Kim Jong Il before dropping in at its forward command post.
    He was briefed in detail on the positions and movements of the enemy troops with which the unit is standing in confrontation and learned in detail about topography there.
    Receiving a report on the duty of the unit and the situation, he expressed great satisfaction over the fact that it assigned operational and combat duties in line with the intention of the Supreme Command and is always keeping itself fully combat ready.
    Stressing the need for the commanding officers and men of the unit to firmly prepare themselves politically and ideologically and in military technique to beat back any enemy's invasion at a single strike, he gave them precious instructions to do so.
    He looked round the watch post of KPA unit 785.
    He learned about the performance of duty by a serviceman on guard duty.
    He dropped in at the bedroom of the platoon defending the watch post and met with its service personnel.
    He said he was pleased to meet service personnel on Mt. Osong, adding he wished to see them.
    He gave the platoon a pair of binoculars and an automatic rifle as gifts and had a picture taken with them.
    He went round the bedroom, education room and mess hall of the Third Company of the First Battalion under KPA Unit 565 to pay deep attention to the living of service personnel.
    He gave the company a pair of binoculars, au automatic rifle and a machine gun as gifts and had a photo session with service personnel.
    Kim Jong Il lived, always thinking of the service personnel of Mt. Osong, Kim Jong Un said, adding he visited there, carrying with him this feeling. He told them to stand by his side one by one before having a photo taken with them.
    He reposed the deepest trust in them, saying that the people sleep in peace and the Supreme Commander feels reassured as the sentinels on the forefront are defending the gate to the country as firm as an iron wall.
    Then he visited the post on Kkachil Peak.
    He told the soldiers there as follows:
    "There is a road to your hometown behind you where your beloved parents, brothers and sisters live. Always remember this. This is not a far-flung post at all. Your Supreme Commander is always with you. I'll frequently visit Mt. Osong."
    He had a photo session with the soldiers, having them in his arms.
    He visited the Command of KPA Unit 507.
    After receiving a salute, he dropped in at the operation study room where he received a report on the unit's performance of duty and trainings.
    Noting the mission of the unit is very important, he indicated important tasks which would serve as guidelines for the unit in rounding off its combat preparations.
    Mt. Osong and Chol Pass are witnesses and symbols of Songun revolutionary leadership, he said.
    Expressing expectation and belief that the service personnel of the unit would reliably defend the forefront post of the socialist homeland, he had a photo session with them. -0-

Kim Jong Un Visits Pig Farm under KPA Unit 549

    Pyongyang, June 2 (KCNA) -- Supreme Commander of the Korean People's Army Marshal Kim Jong Un, first secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea and first chairman of the National Defence Commission of the DPRK, visited a pig farm under KPA Unit 549.
    The pig farm was built according to the instruction given by leader Kim Jong Il on May 8, 2006, prompted by his strong desire to provide more meat to the service persons.
    Kim Jong Un acquainted himself with the management and operation of the farm.
    He learnt in detail about the production capacity of the farm, the quantity of pork produced last year and the measures taken by the farm to ensure the supply of electricity and feed. He asked about how the farm has carried out the instruction given by Kim Jong Il to produce electricity by use of methane gas generated from excrement of pigs.
    Kim Jong Il, who personally initiated the building of the farm and clearly indicated the road to be followed by it, said he would visit the farm once in his lifetime but he failed to do so, Kim Jong Un noted.
    He went round fattening house No.1, a piglet house, a breeding house, a feed processing factory, a meat processing factory and a combined control room to learn about the raising and tending of pigs and the pork processing at the farm.
    At the fattening house he was pleased to see a herd of fat pigs and asked how many pigs are bred in a house, what is the feed supply norm and what is the per hectare grain yield at the farms supplying feed to the pig farm.
    At the piglet house, he asked about the death rate of pigs. At the breeding house, he was satisfied with good strains, underscoring the importance of taking good measures for ensuring proper temperature in breeding pigs and establishing a good ventilation system.
    Underlining the need to put pig breeding on a scientific basis, he said it is necessary for the farm to build well a research institute for settling scientific and technological issues arising in breeding and veterinary and anti-epizootic work and enhance its function and role.
    He dropped in at the feed processing factory to examine organic compound fertilizer, additives, preventive medicines, etc. produced by the farm and learn about the feed processing.
    In order to settle the feed issue, it is necessary to simultaneously develop stock-breeding and agriculture, he noted, stressing the need for the farm to keep the production of organic compound fertilizer going at a high rate and send more fertilizers to relevant farms.
    As Kim Jong Il stressed on every occasion, it is possible to simultaneously increase pork production and grain yield only when a cyclic production system is fully introduced to stock-breeding and agriculture, he said.
    Making a round of the meat processing factory, he underscored the need to put it on a high level of automation and mass-produce varieties of quality processed pork including sausages and send them to service personnel.
    At the combined control room he underlined the need to arrange overall production processes to more rationally suit breeding and energetically push ahead with the work for placing pork production on a scientific and intensive basis as required by the new century.
    He expressed expectation and belief that the officials and employees of the pig farm would work harder true to the WPK's policy for stock-breeding, produce greater quantities of pork and processed meat and send them to service personnel before having a photo session with them.
    He was accompanied by KPA Col. Gen. Pak Jong Chon, KPA Lieut. Gen. An Ji Yong, First Vice Department Director of the C.C., WPK Choe Hwi and Vice Department Director of the C.C., WPK Pak Thae Song.