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, inspected various fields.

He visited the construction site of the 10 000 flats at the fourth stage in the Hwasong area and learned about the progress made in the construction according to projects and units. And he stressed the need to ensure the quality and speed of projects by further enhancing the responsibility and role of officials of construction units and supervisory organs and hasten the construction of public buildings and service amenities networks on the ground floors to successfully carry out the project tasks.

Learning about farming at the Rimok Farm in Sinchon County, the township farm in Thaethan County, the Jangsong Farm in Ongjin County, the Pumin Farm in Kangnyong County, the Hakchon Farm in Unchon County and other farms in South Hwanghae Province, the premier called for rationally organizing manpower to cope with climate change and increasing the operation rate of farm machines to finish the harvest, transport and threshing of wheat and barley in a short span of time and for pushing ahead with the sowing as scheduled by selecting as after-crops the high-yielding varieties that suit the characteristics of fields and areas.

He underlined the importance for the farms in lowland areas to properly judge the natural disaster-prone places and take thorough measures for drainage and readjust paddy ridges in a qualitative way in order to prevent damage to crops.

Earlier, at the Songyong Paint Factory and the Unsan Prospecting Machine Factory, the premier referred to the practical issues and ways for further pushing ahead with the improvement of product quality and modernization of production lines by dint of science and technology.

The field consultative meetings discussed the issue for the construction units to intensify the drive for saving materials and for the agricultural sector to widely generalize the experience gained by the advanced units in farming, the issue of further perfecting the production lines as the energy- and cost-saving ones and the issue for the leading economic officials to put the planning work on a scientific basis at a higher level and thoroughly establish discipline in implementing plans, and took relevant measures.