Respected Comrade Kim Jong Un Inspects
Regional-Industry Factories under Construction

in Songchon County

Pyongyang, November 20 (KCNA) -- Kim Jong Un, general secretary of the
Workers' Party of Korea and president of the State Affairs of the Democratic
People's Republic of Korea, gave field guidance at the regional-industry factories

under construction in Songchon County of South Phyongan Province on November
19.
He was accompanied by leading officials of the Central Committee of the WPK.
He was greeted by senior officials of the Party, administrative and economic organs
in the region and commanding officers of the unit of the Korean People's Army
involved in the construction.
Going round the construction site, he expressed great satisfaction over the fact that
tangible successes in carrying out the Party's decisions have already been made in
twenty cities and counties this year when a new policy of the WPK to open up a new
era of regional development was adopted and the first year's campaign for
implementing it started and the validity and prospect of the Party's line and policy to

achieve simultaneous, balanced and rapid development across the country have
been proved in practice.
He acquainted himself with the level of machinery and equipment produced at home,
their assembling, building construction, preparation of raw and other materials,
training of skilled workers, etc. and gave important instructions on operation and
management of regional-industry factories and the orientation of their long-term
development.
He stressed that the plenary meeting of the WPK Central Committee to be held in
December 2024 should accurately review the first year's work for implementing the
Regional Development 20×10 Policy of special significance in the history of
comprehensive development of Korean-style socialism and conduct in a responsible
manner the work for expanding the experience and successes at an accelerating
pace.
Referring to the requirements of the era in which the continuous construction
revolution aspiring to and creating a new civilization of socialism goes on and to the
priority tasks for dynamically launching and pushing forward any huge construction

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projects, he set forth an important task for studying measures for implementing them
and discussing and deciding the steps to be taken by the state at the plenary
meeting of the WPK Central Committee.
Saying that we have not much time left until the end of this year, he gave important
instructions on the issues to be solved without fail in perfectly concluding the
construction of regional-industry factories in twenty cities and counties which has
been pushed forward this year and on drawing up the plan for regional construction
in 2025. -0-