SEOUL, Oct. 25 (Yonhap) -- North Korean leader Kim Jong-il has ordered greater production of silk so that all his countrymen can have quality clothing, state media reported Sunday.They can always eat the silkworms ...
Kim made the remarks during a tour to the Huichon Silk Mill and several other industrial and educational facilities in the town of Huichon, Jagang Province, the North's official Korean Central News Agency said.
"The mill should provide silk fabrics works with larger quantity of quality silk to meet the lifelong desire of President Kim Il-sung, who took much pain to ensure that all the people wear silks and live on rice and meat soup in tile-roofed houses," Kim was quoted by the report as saying, referring to one of the foremost campaigns his father initiated while alive.
Kim also visited the Youth Electric Complex, which produces various electric goods, and a newly-built library. He watched a performance by the art squad at the complex and held a photo session with its workers, the report said.
Kim then visited the Huichon University of Technology and stressed the school should "turn out more technical personnel" to consolidate the nation's economy, it said.
"The striking changes taking place in Jagang Province are a vivid manifestation of our people's steadfast will to build a great, prosperous and powerful nation with our efforts and resources in this land at any cost," Kim said.
Kim was accompanied by Workers' Party Secretary Kim Ki-nam, party department directors Pak Nam-gi and Jang Song-thaek, first vice department directors of the party, Ju Kyu-chang, Ri Je-gang and Ri Jae-il as well as provincial officials, the report said.