KCNA:Finishing Building Materials Factory Inaugurated in Kaesong Municipality

Working people in Kaesong Municipality of the DPRK have remodeled the finishing building materials factory.

The completion of the factory, furnished with the processes of assembling various kinds of aluminium- and plastic-framed windows and producing roofing tiles and paving blocks with locally available raw materials, makes it possible to supply enough building materials necessary for regional construction and urban management.

Present at its inauguration ceremony held on the spot on January 21 were officials concerned, builders, employees of the factory and working people in the municipality.

Choe Kyong Nam, chairman of the Kaesong Municipal People's Committee, addressed the ceremony to be followed by a speech.

The speakers called upon the employees of the factory to take good care of equipment and steadily raise the level of technical skills by dint of science and technology so as to improve the quality of products and radically increase their output.

At the end of the ceremony the participants looked round various places of the factory.

Rodong Sinmun:Catalyst Production Base Built in DPRK

A new catalyst production base has been built at the Namhung Youth Chemical Complex in the DPRK.

The catalyst production base is another valuable asset and creation of self-reliance which is of great significance in laying the foundation for the long-term development of the chemical industry by producing the necessary catalysts with our own efforts and technology.

An inauguration ceremony took place on the spot on Jan. 20.

Present there were Ri Kyong Chol, chief secretary of the South Phyongan Provincial Committee of the WKP, Ri Song Bom, chairman of the provincial people’s committee, officials concerned and officials and employees of the complex.

Minister of Chemical Industry Kim Son Myong addressed the ceremony.

He called upon the employees of the complex to amplify the might of science and technology on the basis of the successes made in establishing a new catalyst production process and thus increase fertilizer production.

KCNA:WPK Central Committee sends congratulations to 14th Congress of CPV

The Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea sent a congratulatory message to the 14th Congress of the Communist Party of Vietnam on January 19.

The message said:

The WPK Central Committee warmly congratulates the 14th Congress of the CPV and sends cordial greetings to all its members and other Vietnamese people.
The CPV has made great progress in building a prosperous socialist state by leading the Vietnamese people over the past years.
Believing that the 14th Congress of the CPV will serve as an important occasion in strengthening the Party and consolidating and developing the state and social system as required by the new era, we wish the Congress success. 

The victory of the Islamic revolution in Iran is another good example, which demonstrates that nothing can destroy the strength of the masses. In 1979, under the slogan of the Islamic revolution, a popular uprising took place in Iran which overthrew the empire and declared the establishment of an Islamic republic. In those days, in Iran, there were numerous soldiers of the Emperor’s army, as well as the US army, which was several thousand strong. But when the masses rose up, the Emperor could do nothing and simply fled to a foreign country. A few days ago I met the Iranian Minister of Post, Telecommunications and Telephone, who was visiting our country. He explained the telecommunications facilities he had brought as a gift for me and said that he had respected President Kim Il Sung while studying the Juche idea since his university days.

― Kim Il Sung, in his Works vol. 43, Foreign Languages Publishing House, Pyongyang 1998, pp. 89-90.