One winter day in 1998 Chairman Kim Jong Il visited a factory while making field guidance to Jagang Province.

Looking round production site of the factory, Kim Jong Il stopped walking in front of a machine.

Pleased to hear that the machine was manufactured by applying self-reliance, Kim Jong Il expressed his satisfaction by saying that the workers manufactured the excellent machine by their own efforts. He praised that they did a really laudable job, adding that self-reliance is best.

Highly appreciating that they have the tradition of doing everything without reservation when the Party wants them to do it and that they are good workers who produced ones that others thought it was impossible for the DPRK to do, Kim Jong Il had a souvenir photo taken with them.