Pyongyang, March 21 (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 Nampho Dockyard on March 20.
He was accompanied by major senior officials of the WPK Central Committee.
The respected Comrade Kim Jong Un went round various production lines of the dockyard.
True to his on-site instructions, the workers, technicians and officials of the dockyard are pushing ahead with the work for modernizing production lines and expanding their production capacity in an all-out effort to implement the policy of the WPK on developing the shipbuilding industry in the new era.
While learning in detail about the rebuilding of the dockyard and expansion of its production capacity, he said it is a primary and important task for developing the national economy and bolstering the Juche-oriented naval forces for our state to accelerate the modernization of the shipbuilding industry and radically increase the overall shipbuilding capacity. He noted that we should open up a new era, when the shipbuilding industry undergoes a rapid change, and guarantee its change without fail.
He stressed again that, to this end, it is necessary to give top priority to the work of rapidly raising the level of modernization of the shipbuilding industry as a whole, while efficiently perfecting the structure of the industry and intensifying policy-oriented and technical guidance, and ensure a nationwide and full support to it in a sustainable way.
He set forth major targets to be attained in the technical updating and modernization of dockyards.
He repeatedly stressed that this dockyard, which is a reliable, large-scale shipbuilding base of the country and boasts a wonderful history and tradition of self-reliance, ought to become a core and engine also in the ongoing struggle to usher in a new era of development of the shipbuilding industry, and made relevant conclusions on the important issues arising in carrying out the huge plan for strengthening the material and technical foundations of the dockyard.
