Pak Pong Ju [a] is briefed about production at the Ragwo’n Oxygen Separator Factory at the Ragwo’n Machine Complex in Sinu’iju, North P’yo’ngan Province. Also photographed is Ri Jong Guk [b] (Photo: Rodong Sinmun).
DPRK state media reported on November 14, 2016 (Monday) that vice chairman of the State Affairs Commission (SAC) and DPRK Premier Pak Pong Ju [Pak Pong-chu] visited the Rakwon Oxygen Separator Factory of the Rakwon [Nakwo’n] Machine Complex. Also in attendance was Minister of Machine-Building Industry Ri Jong Guk [Ri Cho’ng-kuk]. While visiting, he “encouraged them to register more signal achievements.” During a consultative meeting, Pak and other workers discussed taking “measures for producing more oxygen separators required by the healthcare field in a brief span of time.” He also learned “about the work at the Sericulture Institute of the Academy of Agricultural Science” and he “stressed the need to hasten science study and took measures to provide necessary facilities and materials.” Before this trip, Pak Pong Ju stopped at the venue of the 27th National Exhibition of Consumer Goods and he “discussed the issues of improving the quality of goods and producing as many as possible the consumer goods favored by the people.”
Filed under: critical infrastructure, DPRK Cabinet, DPRK Premier, local people's committees, Ministry of Agriculture, Ministry of Food and Consumer Goods, Ministry of Light Industry, Ministry of Machine-Building Industry, Ministry of Public Health, North Pyongan KWP Provincial Committee, North Pyongan Provincial People's Committee, Pak Pong Ju, Ri Jong Guk, State Affairs Commission, State Planning Commission (SPC)