Kindling the Flames of Enthusiasm

One day in July 2015, Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un visited the Kim Jong Thae Electric Locomotive Complex.

During his inspection of the complex the Supreme Leader said that its workers should lead all others of the country as a hard-core group of the Juche revolution and that they should demonstrate the mettle of the heroic working class in railway modernization. The workers of the complex had previously made electric locomotives and carriages, and rail butt welding machines and SR motors, he said and added that so they could possibly make underground electric trains, assigning them to the honorable task of making the trains.

Afterwards the administrators and workers of the complex turned out as one to develop and produce a new kind of underground electric trains.

Campaigns were under way to break the existing formulas relating to time in all processes including casting, forging and processing. They thus finished the process of the bogie pedestal braces in four days which had been considered to take more than two months, and successfully manufactured the driver’s cab and carriages of the underground train in over 20 days. The scientists and technicians of the complex completed over 5 000 relevant designs in a short span of time, surpassing the ready-made theory and developed a high-speed compressor and a high-speed circuit-breaker by their own efforts and technology.

On October 22 that year Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un visited the complex again. He examined the underground electric train the workers, scientists and technicians of the complex had made with their own efforts and technology, and affectionately praised them for what they had done. Then he said to officials that he had had the complex manufacture the underground electric train of Korean style without fail because he had wanted to prove practically, instead of hundreds and thousands of words, to those infected with the importation fever the truth that anything made by their own efforts and technology is more precious and laudable.

That day the Supreme Leader stressed that the country should leap forward to the world standard, and that it should do in a year what others had done in a decade, kindling the flames of enthusiasm in the heart of the officials.