Pak Pong Ju touring an industrial plant Photo: KCNA
DPRK state media reported on December 10, 2016 (Saturday) that State Affairs Commission vice chairman and DPRK Premier Pak Pong Ju toured the Pukch’ang Thermal Power Complex, the To’kch’o’n Area Coal-Mining Complex, the To’kch’o’n Coal Mine and the Su’ngri Automobile Complex.
Pukch’ang Thermal Power Complex Photo: NK Econ Watch/Google Image
During his tours, he learned “about the progress made in production and projects for expanding their capacities.” In the consultative meetings, Pak and the officials involved “discussed measures to keep equipment in full operation and capacity by dint of science and technology and increase the production of electricity and coal” and ways “to give fullest play to the mental power of technicians and skilled workers to step up the technological updating of production processes and sufficiently supply raw and other materials needed for the serial production of new-type trucks.”
To’kch’o’n Coal Mining Area Photo: Google Image
Pak also toured the Pyongyang Cosmetics Factory and “acquainted himself with the progress made in updating the factory and called for stepping up the construction.”
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