Politics

Pak Thae Song, member of the Presidium of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea and premier of the Cabinet of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, made a field survey of various sectors of the national economy.

He visited the Ryongdae Youth Coal Mine of the Sunchon Area Youth Coal-mining Complex, the Songnam Youth Coal Mine of the Pukchang Area Youth Coal-mining Complex and the Kaechon Coal Mine of the Kaechon Area Coal-mining Complex to encourage the coal miners to wage a dynamic drive for increased production and creation for attaining this year's goal for coal production.

He called upon the officials to be fully aware of the importance of the increased coal production at present, organize and direct production scrupulously, give definite precedence to prospecting and tunnelling, secure enough reserve coal cutting faces, and further increase the transport capacity and the proportion of the pit work done by machines.

At the Chongchongang Thermal Power Station, he underscored the need to successfully solve the problems arising in revitalizing production including the reduction of the costs of electricity production and improvement of the efficiency of generating equipment in close cooperation with a scientific research institution and thus unconditionally carry out the assigned electricity production plan.

He learned in detail about the production at the Namhung Youth Chemical Complex and pointed out that it should ensure in a responsible manner the assembling of compressors which is being conducted at the final stage and their trial runs and actively develop and apply rational operating methods to radically increase the fertilizer production.

Inspecting the Hard Alloy Production Station of the Academy of Coal Mining Science under the Ministry of Coal Industry and the Ryonggang Stone Processing Factory, he noted that the modernization should be pushed ahead in a planned manner and stone products needed for major construction projects produced in a qualitative way.

The field consultative meetings discussed the issue of fully supplying coal mines with materials, equipment and accessories, the issue of scrupulously managing equipment and improving technical control to steadily boost the production of electricity, the issue of increasing fertilizer production by making effective use of the existing production capacity and others and took appropriate measures.