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 the construction of the Samjiyon Tourist Resort and major enterprises in the city of Hamhung, South Hamgyong Province.

Going round the tourist road, Ikkal Hotel, Potnamu Hotel and other projects in the Samjiyon Tourist Resort, the premier stressed the need to take measures for warming up the construction projects as the temperature falls, push ahead with the projects as scheduled and enhance the responsibility and role of the construction officials and supervisors so as to thoroughly ensure the quality of constructions.

He pointed out that the construction projects planned for this year should be unconditionally finished by taking measures for the supply of manpower, equipment and materials and preparations be made for next year's construction in a far-sighted way.

At the Ryongsong Machine Complex, he said that the complex should successfully attain the goal of the first-stage modernization project, true to the intention of the Party to turn it into a model of the machine-building industry, and put spurs to the current production in order to timely produce the major custom-built equipment in a qualitative way.

He underscored the need for the Hungnam Fertilizer Complex to steadily increase the productivity by making effective use of the existing production capacity and step up the construction of the production line of slow effective granule urea fertilizer and thus make positive contributions to increasing the overall agricultural production of the country and improving the people's living standards.

The field consultative meetings discussed the issue of giving top priority to the supply of materials for the construction of the Samjiyon Tourist Resort, the issue of successfully finishing the first-stage modernization project at the Ryongsong Machine Complex and making good preparations for its inauguration and the issue of stably and steadily increasing the production of fertilizer and took relevant measures.

Earlier, the premier acquainted himself with the production at the Jangsan Electric Appliances Factory and stressed the need to produce more electric motors and transformers urgently needed for various sectors of the national economy.