Onpho Working People's Holiday Camp Inaugurated in DPRK

 Onpho Working People's Holiday Camp Inaugurated in DPRK

Pyongyang, January 21 (KCNA) -- Thanks to the noble aspiration and energetic guidance of the great Workers' Party of Korea Central Committee to build in famous mountains and noted places of the country modern holiday resorts and sanatoriums in good harmony with the natural scenery and make them serve as the bases for cultural progress of our style and contribute to the cultural life of the working people, the Onpho Working People's Holiday Camp, famous from long time ago, has been remodeled into a monumental edifice representing the spa culture of the state, boasting of its unique attraction.

The holiday camp, built in an excellent place with beautiful landscape as a unique architectural group comprising hot-spring therapy and recuperation facilities and comprehensive service bases with the best conditions, is a gift of love provided by the motherly Party for our people and a precious asset to promote the well-being of the people generation after generation.

An inauguration ceremony of the Onpho Working People's Holiday Camp took place with splendor on Jan. 20.

The venue of the ceremony was full of excitement and joy of the participants facing the entity of cultural efflorescence brought by the benevolent love of the Workers' Party of Korea, which is making devoted efforts to hasten the future of prosperity when the people enjoy an affluent and happy life improved in quality under the benefits of the socialist policy to the full.

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, attended the ceremony.

When the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un arrived at the venue of the ceremony, all the participants raised stormy cheers with boundless reverence for the dear father of the great family of the country who is dynamically ushering in a new era of socialist civilization.

Present at the ceremony were senior Party and government officials and other members of the central leadership body of the WPK, officials concerned, officials in North Hamgyong Province and Kyongsong County, working people, builders and employees of the holiday camp.

Ri Il Hwan, secretary of the WPK Central Committee, addressed the ceremony.

He said that the Onpho Working People's Holiday Camp with a history of nearly 80 years has been completely transformed into a comprehensive cultural recreation and medical service base for the people, another proud edifice demonstrating the development of the region, adding that visitors to it will come to recruit their health and vigor and feel greater pride and joy of the socialist life, enjoying charm peculiar to the excellent attraction.

Saying that the fresh transformation of the Onpho area, a well-known scenic spot, started on the day of July, 2018 when Kim Jong Un visited it, the speaker referred to the great painstaking efforts of Kim Jong Un who devoted himself to newly building the holiday camp with refined architectural beauty of our style and diverse service functions in a picturesque place.

Noting that Kim Jong Un gave officials a stern warning against their ideological viewpoint and work attitude evidenced by the old and gloomy facilities and service conditions of the holiday camp and formulated a grand plan to newly construct in a comprehensive way the camp capable of serving the convenience of the people and fully meeting their growing cultural and emotional demands and make the precious wealth of the country render a sincere service to the people, he said that Kim Jong Un repeatedly visited the camp under construction and carefully guided the work to complete all its elements as required by the new era making steady progress.

Kim Jong Un set it as an important principle in the construction of the holiday camp in Onpho area to well preserve the natural environment and paid deep attention to making its landscape contribute to the promotion of the people's health and their emotional life, the speaker said, adding: Thanks to his earnest sincerity, a walkway leading to the thick forest and a stream meandering through the area of the holiday camp for all seasons came to present a unique natural beauty and the flawless edifice with enough functional conditions according to the mission and purpose of the hot-spring therapy could be provided for the people.

He said that the days of newly building the holiday camp served as another textbook clearly teaching our officials once again what to do in order to be faithful to the mission they have assumed to exist for the people and serve the people for their interests and convert the natural and topographical features and potentials of a region into a firm foundation for the economic development and the improvement of the people's living standards.

As its name indicates, the holiday camp is a product of the people-first policy of our Party that thinks of the working people before any others and puts forward them as the enjoyers of all the welfare benefits, he said, adding it is the real value of this edifice which cannot be evaluated by any natural beauty or architecture and measured in terms of huge amount of funds.

The speaker ardently called on all to work harder with towering spirit and optimism to attain the higher goal of promoting the people's welfare and bring the future of more civilized and beautiful motherland.

Kim Jong Un cut the inauguration tape.

Confetti was thrown and balloons rose up into the sky over the venue of the inauguration ceremony which presented a magnificent scene of transformation thanks to our Party's noble policy of loving the people.

Kim Jong Un looked round the holiday camp.

He appreciated that all the sections of the camp were practically arranged in a balanced way and all the elements of architecture were formed in good harmony with the surroundings.

He referred to our Party's stand of giving utmost priority to steadily expanding cultural life sphere for the improvement of the people's well-being.

Saying that another cultural recreation ground, the base for civilization has been provided in the Onpho hot spring area with a long history to suit our era which pursues steady development, he recollected that he had severely criticized the situation of the holiday camp where every section and element remained uncultured and whose operation was also unsanitary although it had the signboard showing that it is the historic building associated with the leadership exploits of the Party, when he visited the camp some years ago. He said that taking a look at the holiday camp, which has been remodeled as a wonderful holiday service base for the people, made him feel proud that he has done another worthwhile thing.

The leadership exploits of the Party should be defended and glorified with the result of struggle favored by the people and the substantial benefits enjoyed by the people in their life, not with the signboard, words or letters, he said.

It is an important component of the people-oriented policy of our Party and government to actively develop the natural resources of the country to contribute to the improvement of the people's well-being, he said, adding that we should move ahead of the times even in the creation of socialist civilization with persevering and innovative pioneering and progress.

He said it is irrational that the Recreation Management Bureau of the Ministry of Labour is managing and guiding the Onpho Working People's Holiday Camp. He noted that new tourist resorts, holiday camps and sanatoriums are being built across the country on a large scale for the improvement of the people's well-being. However, different ministries are in charge of cultural life service bases respectively at present, he said, adding that it means that they can't conduct management of facilities and talents and technical control efficiently in a future-oriented manner to say nothing of the supply of equipment and materials needed for the normal operation of the excellent cultural service bases provided by the Party with much care.

He gave instructions to study the issue of taking rational structural measure for exercising unified control over treatment, recreation and holiday bases across the country and improving the level of specialization in service as required by the new era of socialist cultural efflorescence.

Our Party's people-oriented policies should be intensified without letup, which will make our struggle more proud and worthwhile, he said, indicating the new orientation and ways for continuously expanding various cultural life spheres and spaces to contribute to the promotion of the people's health and the improvement of their well-being on a nation-wide scale.

He gave instructions to the officials and employees of the Onpho Working People's Holiday Camp and relevant units to make full preparations for operation and service such as conducting test run of equipment and open the camp in February.

All the participants in the inauguration ceremony looked round the comprehensive cultural recreation and medical treatment base, which preserves the charm and character peculiar to the mountainous area and thoroughly meets all the requirements of modern architecture, and felt very grateful to our socialist system.

The Onpho Working People's Holiday Camp remodeled under the great love of the Party will be filled with people's happy laughter year after year along with our times prospering day after day. -0-

www.kcna.kp (2026.01.21.)

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KFA UK Statement on the deletion of its Facebook page(second time )

London 20th of January 

The Korean Friendship Association of the UK issued the following statement concerning the sudden deletion of its Facebook page ;

 The sudden deletion of the old Facebook page of the Korean Friendship Association of the UK was an aggressive and sudden act of censorship.

Facebook gave no prior warning that they planned to do this and also no right of appeal whatsoever. We found that the page had been wiped out as if it never existed in the first place! 

At the same time Facebook page of KFA International was unpublished although it was restored later.The account of the KFA UK Chairman and the KFA International communications were both blocked for a period but restored after an appeal.

The KFA UK Facebook page which had been started in March 2023 had reached 1.1k likes and had over 2,000 followers. Clearly someone didn't like this and ordered Facebook to delete the page.This is not just the arbitrary actions of the monopoly tech giants but the action of the hostile forces of the US and south Korea.

The deletion of the KFA UK Facebook page was another example of liberal fascism .

The KFA UK Facebook page was deleted at a time when the US is stepping up propaganda against People's Korea for example Radio Free Asia has resumed broadcasts to the DPRK.

However we will not be intimidated and will not give up .We have created a new page.

Respected Comrade Kim Jong Un Makes Speech at Inauguration Ceremony for First-Stage Modernization Project of Ryongsong Machine Complex

 

Pyongyang, January 20 (KCNA) -- The respected Comrade Kim Jong Un made a speech at the inauguration ceremony for the first-stage modernization project of the Ryongsong Machine Complex.

The full text of his speech is as follows:

Comrades,

I express gratitude to the workers of Ryongsong, teachers and researchers from Kim Chaek University of Technology and Pyongyang University of Mechanical Engineering, officials and builders in South Hamgyong Province and officials of the relevant sectors, who have attained in the lead-up to the Ninth Congress of the Workers’ Party of Korea this success of great significance in making our national economy self-supporting.

Through the first-stage modernization, the Ryongsong Machine Complex, the parent enterprise of the country’s machine-building industry, has raised its technical capability to a considerable height.

This means offering us a possibility of further consolidating the self-sufficiency of the national economy, promoting the development of the overall economic sectors and further developing their potentials.

Today the qualitative transformation of the machine-building industry, a basis for the development of the economy and progress of technology, has posed as a more urgent task. The remarkable trend of development and change, which the Ryongsong Machine Complex with the longest history and tradition started for its technological transformation aspiring after the modernization of the machine-building sector, can be called a stride ahead that instils confidence and encouragement in all of us including the relevant sectors.

But what I regard as a greater success is the following fact.

It is not merely that an enterprise has been modernized, but in the course of this, we have become better aware of our officials’ approach to the Party’s decisions and their present preparedness, and dealt a telling blow to the deeply-ingrained sense of irresponsibility and self-protectionism that hinder our advance and development.

This has reaffirmed which we should focus on and how we should solve them for our present and future work, and as such it is a success more meaningful than any economic achievements.

The first-stage technological transformation of the Ryongsong Machine Complex was a core policy-oriented project for the eighth term of the Party Central Committee, whose plan was deliberated and approved at the Ninth Plenary Meeting of the Eighth Central Committee of the Party and which was pushed ahead through expenditure of a relevant budget.

Our Party recognized technologically transforming first the complex in a standard way as a key link in the whole chain of efforts for the immediate rehabilitation of the machine-building industry, for the feasible reinforcement of its infrastructure and for its prospective development, and viewed it as a very important issue that would have a great impact on the overall national economy.

Accordingly, an in-depth study and preparations were made for several years, and a team that would command the project was formed by involving the Cabinet and the officials and experts authoritative in the relevant sectors.

However, the project made a wrong start.

Completely owing to the irresponsible, rude and incompetent leading officials, the project encountered difficulties and incurred not a little amount of economic loss, experiencing unnecessary man-made confusions.

Contrary to the true intention of the Party’s decision to turn this enterprise into a model of modernization in the new era, the technical assignments were prepared without a detailed study; and their examination and deliberation by the state was not conducted properly, resulting in the formulation of an absurd plan for modernization of the overall production lines.

Worse still, the production equipment were distributed in an unreasonable way during the project in disregard of the technical assignments, a legal document, but it was neglected.

The consequence was that the project completely got off its original track.

As the modernization project, which it regarded as a most important part of its policy, was being conducted haphazardly as an eyewash, the Party Central Committee enlisted a team of experts in modernization in the munitions industry, and saw to it that it made a comprehensive examination of the state of affairs.

The result was just as it had felt uneasy.

A plan for setting up an integrated production system essential to modernizing the production lines could not be found, some production lines could not be put on an automated footing, and over 60 other problems to be resolved were found in the technical assignments.

From these few facts, we can easily guess what the plan was like for the modernization project supervised by the relevant cadres of the Cabinet, who had lost their orientation.

I think this is a concentrated expression of the Cabinet’s inveterate way of work and a flagrant example of the actual conditions of the economic guidance officials, unfaithful to their own duties and incompetent.

What they did was clearly not an act that can be done by those who implement the Party’s policies.

The senior officials of the Cabinet had been criticized for failing to formulating a proper plan for the project, but they never felt repentant: there is under them a non-permanent group specializing in examining the technical assignments for national-level modernization project; nevertheless, they committed a contemptible act aimed at shirking their responsibility - handing over again to the munitions industry sector the modernization plan reformulated after receiving the opinions of the leading officials in that sector, and asking for examination and approval.

In other words, it was a typical cunning act of sparing themselves to make it clear beforehand that, if anything had gone wrong again during the project, they had done it according to the approved plan and so they were not responsible for it.

Because of these, the project went through an abnormal course of covering a prolonged precious period that had to be as short as possible while wasting large amounts of labour and funds, and this made the munitions industry sector, which was carrying out important assignments, bear a heavier burden.

Even before the modernization project of the Ryongsong Machine Complex got started, we stressed the need to adopt not a short-sighted approach but a scientific, prospective one in drawing up its plan, while calling attention to the irresponsible and slovenly manner of work which is an inveterate malice with the economic guidance officials.

We showed them modern munitions factories and even advanced foreign production facilities to help them adopt a clear idea and a broad view about modernization, and took Party and state measures as well to give solid support to the project.

Nevertheless, the then premier of the Cabinet and the current vice-premier in charge of the machine-building industry worked in a slipshod way.

The vice-premier, speaking at the 13th Party Plenary Meeting in December last year, began his speech by feigning to be criticizing himself for his staff’s mistake in pushing ahead with the project, and then, by way of an excuse, asked to set up a deliberation system good enough to enlist organs under his authority, which was a job he could identify if he was willing to, something he ought to have done. This was obviously an ill-advised remark, intended to trifle with the Party Central Committee.

At the time I criticized him severely for his mocking approach towards the Party plenary meeting, and later watched him.

To my surprise, watching how he was behaving himself later, I found him unaware of his responsibility at all.

What would such persons be left with, who are bereft of the qualifications and abilities which are due for them and have forsaken even their conscience and a basic sense of responsibility?

Could we still expect anything from them, who are almost good for nothing even if they are around us, those whose places would hardly be found vacant even if they are not in their places?

Such officials cannot deal with such a simple mission as can be accomplished without difficulty once they are willing to properly exercise the authority entrusted to them, as it is far from anything that needs braving a shower of bullets or starting from scratch. There is no reason why we should leave them in the important office of guiding the national economy.

This is the conclusion we have reached.

Some people are skeptical of the Party’s policies as they shrink from the prevailing obstacles; they are unable to notice the changing ethos around them as they are steeped in self-protectionism; they can hardly keep in step with us as they are moving as slowly as to hamper our advance. I am sure it will be very disadvantageous for us to keep them in their position for the sake of their honour.

The modernization project of this single enterprise has starkly revealed the work system of the former Cabinet and the qualifications, abilities and approach of the leading officials.

Additionally, as we have already made a review, we can easily identify the lack of responsibility of the then premier and his Cabinet from the cases that occurred at the Namhung Youth Chemical Complex and the Hungnam Fertilizer Complex.

The vice-premier of the Cabinet, in charge of the machine-building industry, does not fit for his position, in particular.

We do not think he has stood against the Party, though.

He is ineligible for an important duty as he is originally of such a character and of such a type.

To speak figuratively in simpler words, he was like a goat yoked to pull an ox cart. We should see this as an incidental mistake in our practice of personnel appointment.

Could we expect a goat to pull a cart for an ox?

There is a serious problem also with the present system of appointing cadres.

Now, there occur many problems in the ranks of administrative cadres as the system of screening the qualifications for their eligibility and ratifying them is not correctly applied, and instead they are recommended by a mere perusal of their careers.

I will not refer to the matter of personnel administration any longer here.

I advise you, Comrade Premier, to appoint another person in place of this vice-premier when organizing a new government.

Please, Comrade Vice-Premier, resign by yourself when you can do it on your own before it is too late.

Here today, you are dismissed, Comrade Vice-Premier, I declare.

As I have already criticized, not only the former premier but also the senior officials in charge of policy-oriented guidance, who have neglected their duty in modernizing the Ryongsong Machine Complex, merely playing the role of an onlooker, must feel a guilty conscience.

Of course, today’s achievement of having turned the complex into a large-scale machine-building base shows that the project has achieved an advance and modernization greater than the previous ones, so it is good enough to give wide publicity to the complex at home and abroad.

However, the substantial success we gained in the course of the first-stage modernization project of the complex is that our Party has made a clear conclusion that the present economic guidance forces including the former premier and the current vice-premier can hardly guide the work of readjusting the country’s industry as a whole and upgrading it technologically; the Party has come to make a clear-cut determination.

Comrades,

Today we have analyzed from an anatomical point of view the deviations revealed in the course of upgrading and newly building the infrastructure of the machine-building industry in the new era. This is indispensable and beneficial for us, and its significance is by no means minor.

Now we are faced with a responsible period when our officials should bring about the transformation of our country with a more matured way of thinking and practising and realize our far-reaching ideals with transformation getting greater year after year.

Do keep it in mind, all of you.

Breaking with old practices of pinning hope on those who have too long been accustomed to defeatism, irresponsibility and passiveness, means a new start for the future pioneering and development.

We should decisively ferret out the extreme practices of irresponsibility, self-protectionism and indolence deeply-rooted among the officials and, to this end, give precedence to their ideological transformation.

Giving an impression that they are safeguarding the Party’s policies and devoting themselves to implementing its decisions but actually caring for only their comfort and self-protection and failing to get rid of escapism and short-sighted view – these should be defined as the targets of ideological education and ideological offensive.

In addition, we should take substantial measures to ensure that members of the Party central leadership and senior officials of the relevant sectors and units steadily study the global trend of development and proactively acquire scientific and technological knowledge.

Even the officials who should lead reconstruction of the economy neglect principles and digits and have neither aspirations for nor a concept of modernization. Only when we put an end to this heartbreaking reality, can we fully implement the challenging and huge economic tasks facing us and thus achieve due innovation and progress.

Recently we have established a sci-tech study system, as well as a new system of studying latest science and technology while working, for the officials; what is important is to make these systems become a course for them to improve their qualifications and abilities to keep abreast of the trend of the times towards modernization and development and to apply them in their sectors and units.

We should adopt the experience and lessons from the transformation of the Ryongsong Machine Complex for a precious springboard for making fresh changes and dramatic leaps forward in the national economy as a whole.

Modernization of the complex is a primary process in creating a model and standard for the machine-building industry in the new era, promoting the development of our state’s overall industry, and thus dynamically pushing ahead with socialist construction.

Only when the complex rises up, can other machine-building factories rise up; and only when the machine-building industry of the country makes progress, can the whole of our state’s economy make progress.

The Party has already advanced a clear roadmap indicating the order of gigantic modernization projects for machine-building factories, and taken important practical measures for the second-stage modernization project of the Ryongsong Machine Complex.

At this inauguration ceremony, a clear warning has been given again.

All the officials of the Cabinet and economic sectors, as well as those in the economic policy-oriented guidance sector, should, with a fresh determination and willingness, substantially accelerate the modernization of the machine-building industry aimed at promoting the development of different sectors of the national economy.

We should draw up one scientific plan after another to put not only the machine-building industry but metallurgical, power, coal-mining and other key industries on an advanced footing and carry them out with persevering efforts, thus renovating the overall economy of the country.

Here I clearly stress once again. What is most important in the overall development of socialism we aspire after is to prepare persons, and what is first and foremost here is to build up the ranks of our leading officials with faithful and qualified revolutionary talents.

There is nothing impossible for the officials, who, always mindful of their heavy duty to the Party and the country, learn, think and make efforts to be unconditionally faithful to the duty.

Based on purposeful designs and scientific methodology, we, in our generation, must fully eliminate the centuries-old backwardness of the economy and build a modernized and advanced one capable of firmly guaranteeing the future of our state.

Trustworthy workers of Ryongsong and officials in the field of the machine-building industry,

Comrades,

The present reality of our country advancing forward towards prosperity urgently demands powerful pioneers, genuine fighters, who can be accountable to today and bring the future earlier.

Let us rise up more vigorously in the gigantic revolutionary work to inject vitality in the self-sufficiency and development of our economy with renewed determination, vision and enthusiasm.

I hope that our leading cadres and all the producer masses will avail themselves of this opportunity to keep in mind again the essence and demands of the Party’s policy on modernization.

In conclusion, I extend my thanks and encouragement once again to all of you and other workers of the Ryongsong Machine Complex and scientists and technicians, who have made devoted efforts for this first-stage modernization project. -0-

www.kcna.kp (2026.01.20.)

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First-Stage Modernization Project Completed at Ryongsong Machine Complex

Pyongyang, January 20 (KCNA) -- The Ryongsong Machine Complex, where a dynamic campaign created the Chollima spirit in the new era, has turned into a modern large-scale machine-building base capable of taking the lead in promoting the independent development and technological progress of the national economy.

At the historic Eighth Congress of the Workers' Party of Korea, the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un indicated the clear orientation and ways for putting the country's machine-building industry on an advanced basis. He put forward the workers of the Ryongsong Machine Complex as the vanguard of the important political struggle for proving the might of self-reliance, a proud tradition of the Korean revolution, set forth the step-wise goals and tasks for turning the complex into a standard and model of modernization in the machine-building industry and took important measures for their implementation. And he energetically led the whole course of the project.

With his deep trust and expectation cherished deep in their hearts, the workers, scientists and technicians at the complex successfully completed the huge first-stage modernization project by waging a vigorous patriotic struggle, a creation struggle, under the uplifted banner of self-sustenance and self-reliance. Thus, they gained valuable experience and laid solid material and technical foundations for the development of the country's economy and fresh progress of the overall machine-building industry, and made a report of loyalty and completion to the Central Committee of the WPK.

An inauguration ceremony of the first-stage modernization project at the Ryongsong Machine Complex was held on Monday.

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, attended the inauguration ceremony.

The respected Comrade Kim Jong Un was greeted respectfully by Ri Jong Nam, chief secretary of the South Hamgyong Provincial Committee of the WPK, and leading officials of the complex.

When Kim Jong Un appeared at the venue of the ceremony, all the participants paid the highest respect to him who ushered in a new era of comprehensive prosperity to be specially recorded in the history of the country by leading to a great victory the historic struggle for the brilliant accomplishment of the revolutionary programme set forth at the Eighth Congress of the WPK with his outstanding ideology and energetic guidance.

Present at the ceremony were senior Party and government officials and other members of the central leadership body of the Party, officials in South Hamgyong Province, builders, scientists and technicians, officials of relevant fields, and officials and employees of the Ryongsong Machine Complex.

Premier of the DPRK Cabinet Pak Thae Song addressed the ceremony.

The premier said that thanks to the devoted efforts of the workers of the complex, builders, scientists and technicians, a precious fruition clearly showing the development and bright future of the country's machine-building industry came into being, adding that the completion of the first-stage modernization project at the complex ahead of the Ninth Congress of the WPK is a proud success demonstrating the inexhaustible potential of our state which is achieving the comprehensive development of socialism under the blueprint of prosperity based on self-reliance unfolded by the great Party Central Committee.

He noted that Kim Jong Un named the fighting spirit of the working class of the complex, who delivered a telling blow to flunkeyism, defeatism and mysticism about technology by producing a large compressor by their own efforts, a new spirit of the times and the Chollima spirit in the new era and guided many designs and layouts related to the remodeling of the complex one by one, energetically leading it to complete the project at a higher level while remedying the shortcomings and passivity manifested in the production line modernization plan.

Today's inauguration is precious fruition of the wise leadership and meticulous care of Kim Jong Un who worked out a grand plan to make the Ryongsong Machine Complex a standard and model for modernization and put the overall machine-building industry on an advanced world-class level on that basis so as to guarantee the comprehensive national rejuvenation with the solid foundation of the Juche-based industry, and guided the work step by step, the premier said, and went on:

The struggle tasks facing us are difficult and huge but there is nothing impossible to do and the set goals will be attained without fail if we continue to dynamically advance in the spirit and stamina we displayed in successfully carrying out the first-stage modernization project, true to the leadership of the Party Central Committee.

Kim Jong Un made a speech.

In his speech, he expressed gratitude to the workers of Ryongsong, teachers and researchers from Kim Chaek University of Technology and Pyongyang University of Mechanical Engineering, officials and builders in South Hamgyong Province and officials of relevant sectors who have attained in the lead-up to the Ninth Congress of the WPK this success of great significance in making our national economy self-supporting. Then he referred to the significance and lessons of the first-stage technological transformation of the complex which had been pushed forward as a core policy-oriented task for the eighth term of the WPK Central Committee.

The greater success is not merely that an enterprise has been modernized, but in the course of this, we have become better aware of our officials' approach to the Party's decisions and their present preparedness and dealt a telling blow to the deeply-ingrained sense of irresponsibility and self-protectionism that hinder our advance and development, he said, pointing out that completely owing to the irresponsible, rude and incompetent economic guidance officials, the first-stage modernization project of the Ryongsong Machine Complex encountered difficulties and incurred not a little amount of economic loss, experiencing unnecessary man-made confusions.

He stressed that the Party has come to a clear-cut determination that the present economic guidance forces can hardly guide the work of readjusting the country's industry as a whole and upgrading it technologically and that breaking with old practices of pinning hope on those who have too long been accustomed to defeatism, irresponsibility and passiveness will be a new starting point for future pioneering and development.

Kim Jong Un dismissed Yang Sung Ho, vice-premier of the Cabinet, on the spot.

Noting that the reality of the country advancing toward prosperity demands the powerful pioneers and genuine fighters, who are bringing earlier the future while shouldering today's burden, he ardently called upon all the leading cadres and producers to build a modern and advanced economy firmly guaranteeing the country's future without fail within our generation on the basis of purposeful design and scientific methodology, bearing deep in their minds once again on this occasion the essence and requirements of the Party's modernization policy.

All the participants in the inauguration ceremony expressed their full support to the speech of Kim Jong Un, full of noble sense of mission and responsibility for the prosperity of the country and the promotion of the people's wellbeing, and their unshakable will to devotedly defend the Party Central Committee and carry out the Party policies.

Upon authorization of Kim Jong Un, Premier Pak Thae Song cut the inauguration tape.

Kim Jong Un looked round the complex.

Noting that the complex has made a big stride in putting the machine-building industry on a modern and advanced basis, he said another valuable asset has been produced to creditably consolidate the foundation of the self-supporting economy.

Today's era, when the overall national economy has been put on a track of stable growth and the great cause of regional development is increasingly accelerating, demands quality machines and equipment more than ever before, he said, urging the machine-building industry sector to direct proactive efforts to producing efficient machine products and push ahead with sci-tech research and talented manpower reinforcement without letup for updating machines and equipment and enhancing their quality level.

He set the next-stage modernization goal to be attained by the complex and advanced detailed tasks to be fulfilled to strongly propel the undertaking for putting the overall machine-building industry on a fresh advanced basis.

Saying that he is very attached to the complex pulsating with the spirit of creation and rapid progress, he expressed expectation and belief that the workers of the complex would redouble their revolutionary enthusiasm and confidence as befitting the creators of the Chollima spirit in the new era and thus go all out for attaining the second-stage goal with the successes made in the first-stage modernization as a powerful springboard.

Encouraged by his great love and trust, the workers of the complex hardened their resolve to firmly preserve and glorify the proud tradition of upholding our Party, state and socialist system with a great revolutionary upsurge in each period of the revolution and continue to display the honor of the complex as a powerful enterprise and a prototype factory in self-reliance.

The successful completion of the first-stage modernization project at the Ryongsong Machine Complex is a significant occasion as it clearly demonstrated the vigorous spirit of our state advancing with confidence to attain the grand goal and ideal of socialist construction by dint of great power of self-reliance. -0-

www.kcna.kp (2026.01.20.)