Visit to Bag Factory

Kim Jong Un, Chairman of the Workers' Party of Korea, Chairman of the State Affairs Commission of the DPRK and Supreme Commander of the Korean People's Army, visited the newly-built Pyongyang Bag Factory.

The Pyongyang Bag Factory which was built in Thongil Street of Pyongyang is a huge modern bag producer with a total floor space of more than 10 590 square metres. It is capable of producing over 242 000 school bags and 60 000 ordinary bags a year.

Noting that it is the intention of the WPK to provide children and other people with locally-made, good-quality and attractive bags, he personally initiated the building of the factory, guided its layout and solved problems arising in its construction one by one.

The respected supreme leader Kim Jong Un went round the sample room, cutting shop, sewing shop, packing shop, sci-tech learning space, general control room, technical preparation room, designing room and various other parts of the factory to learn in detail about its construction and production.

Seeing varieties of school bags for boys and girls of primary schools, junior and senior middle schools and universities on display in the sample room, he was pleased that the factory has produced nice bags of different shapes and colours meeting the tastes of children and students with locally available cloth and subsidiary materials.

Noting that the factory has all necessary modern equipment made with indigenous efforts and technology including laser cutter at every production process including cutting, sewing, printing, dyeing and finishing, he stressed it is a great success that more than 95 percent of the machines operating at the factory are home-made.

The factory has a very important duty to perform, he said, setting forth such tasks facing the factory as making trademark peculiar, channelling great efforts into improving the quality of its products to make them popular, improving their designing to increase the variety of bags, make its products diverse and multi-colour, deepening researches into realizing the standardization of bags suited to the physical features of users at different ages, effectively operating the sci-tech knowledge dissemination room and taking good care of equipment.

Recalling that it was his intention to make sure modern bag factories were successfully built in every province and Pyongyang took the lead in implementing the Party's policy, he highly praised the Pyongyang Municipal Committee of the WPK for correctly identifying the problems to which it attaches importance and dynamically arousing the masses to the drive for implementing its idea and policies.

Very high is the enthusiasm of the officials and employees of the factory who have launched their campaign in the new year, he noted.

He had a photo session with them, expressing belief that they would creditably perform their duties by devoting themselves to the bag production in the spirit of making bags for their children.

Accompanying him were An Jong Su, department director of the WPK Central Committee, and Jo Yong Won and Rim Jun Gil, deputy department directors of the WPK Central Committee.

KCNA