Respected Comrade Kim Jong Un Gives Field
Guidance to Regional-industry Factories in Kimhwa

County

Pyongyang, February 8 (KCNA) -- Kim Jong Un, general secretary of the Workers'
Party of Korea (WPK) and president of the State Affairs of the Democratic People's
Republic of Korea, gave field guidance to the regional-industry factories in Kimhwa
County on February 7.
Accompanying him were Jo Yong Won, Ri Il Hwan, Pak Jong Chon, Kim Yong Su, Kim
Yo Jong and Kim Hwa Song, senior officials of the WPK Central Committee.
Kim Jong Un was greeted on the spot by Kim Myong Chol, chief secretary of the
Kimhwa County Committee of Kangwon Province of the Workers' Party of Korea, and
leading officials of the relevant factories.
He said that he came out to the spot to learn once again about the modernization and
management of the regional-industry factories in Kimhwa County and their architectural
styles which were built on a trial basis to confirm the detailed orientation of the
construction of regional-industry factories to be newly built on a full scale in different
parts of the country from this year, the first year of the promotion of the Regional
Development 20×10 Policy.
He went round the foodstuff and daily necessities factories and paper mill to learn in
detail about the situation.
Looking round the factories, he said that it is good that the regional-industry factories in
Kimhwa County which were built on a modern basis are well managed and they are
making a tangible contribution to leveling up the standard of material living of the people
in the county by improving the quality of products. But there are some problems to be
settled, he added.
He noted that each factory has shortcomings in the design and layout of the production
process but officials in charge of economic guidance have neither found them properly
nor taken any measures as they have not a clear and established view of the
shortcomings. He said that to mechanically copy the regional-industry factories in
Kimhwa County in executing the Regional Development 20×10 Policy under this
situation shows their wrong attitude and preliminary arrangements in accepting the
Party's policy.
Noting that considerable mistakes are revealed in the architectural designs of regional-
industry factories including the foodstuff factory as they are not rational from a practical
point of view in conformity with the characteristics and use of the factories, he gave
detailed instructions on the design of industrial buildings.
As was emphasized at the meeting of the Political Bureau of the Party Central
Committee, it is important to take into full account the building of raw material bases,
their conditions and possibility of supply before starting the construction of regional-
industry factories and make a proper economic calculation, he stressed once again. And
he clarified in detail the issues to be reconsidered, reexamined and decided by relevant
sectors in implementing the Regional Development 20×10 Policy.
Saying that it is an urgent task and a political issue, which defines the character of the
revolution, arising in ensuring the material life of the regional people at present to build

regional-industry factories in a modern way and revitalize production, he set forth the
principled requirements and important tasks to be observed in building regional-industry
factories.
Reminding the officials of the resolutions of the Party Central Committee to set the
architectural style and the level of modernization of the regional-industry factories to be
built from this year higher than those in Kimhwa County, he stressed the need to steadily
introduce new things with an innovative and creative attitude and display a sense of
responsibility while overcoming shortcomings in implementing the new regional
development policy, not mechanically following and imitating the experience gained in
modernizing the regional-industry factories in Kimhwa County.
He said that the specific conditions of the relevant cities and counties including the
detailed characteristics, economic potential, prospect for development and population
should be fully taken into consideration and the size, production capacity and
construction site of regional-industry factories should be set up under scientific
calculation and, on this basis, the design of industrial buildings should be improved from
a practical viewpoint and the construction should be carried on under a thought-out plan.
After going round the regional-industry factories in Kimhwa County, he clarified important
tasks including the issue of putting sustained efforts into improving quality by building
product analysis rooms as required by regulations and establishing a proper product
inspection system, the issue of raising the level of technicians and skilled workers, the
issue of building up solid raw material bases and supplying raw materials needed for
production in a responsible manner and the principled issue in using funds allotted for
the construction of city and county regional-industry factories.
He also indicated the tasks to be fulfilled in the management of regional-industry
factories in Kimhwa County.
He said that we should surely open up a new era in which local areas change as a
reality with correct execution of the Regional Development 20×10 Policy this year
without fail so as to make a breakthrough in the long-term goal of ten years and fully
demonstrate the advantages of the Korean-style socialist system, the validity of the
Party's policies and the inexhaustible potentiality of the development of the state.
He ardently called on all the leading officials, commanding officers and soldier-builders
to turn out in the struggle to realize the long-cherished desire of the Party and bring
about a great change in the regional development without fail. -0-