True Sense of Success

Chairman Kim Jong Il inspected the Hamhung Branch of the State Academy of Sciences in June 2009. After looking into several places there he stepped into the exhibition hall of research achievements. There he saw a sample coated with a water-soluble organic paint, when his face turned seriously worried. He knew the paint had already been developed.

Turning to accompanying officials, he said that every scientific research project could be evaluated as successful only when it is widely applied in reality. Explanation within the range of laboratory could hardly be called successful, he said, and added that scientific research should be done well both in the laboratory and in the practice of application. As far as evaluation of the research of scientists is concerned, it is necessary to judge it by considering how much it has been in use in practice. If there is any problem in the introduction of any completed research project, then the project cannot be evaluated as perfect, he stressed.

The Chairman said in real earnest that the scientists should conduct researches that are helpful for the building of a thriving country, that they should avoid doing researches simply for the sake of research, and that science and technology should be closely combined with production.