"Let's Make It Unmanned!"

Chairman Kim Jong Il visited a machine factory, which had attained a high level of CNC technology, on July 30, 2010. It was an exciting, smart workplace in which robots were working from process to process. One of the officials told the Chairman that manpower was almost needless as the robots were doing most of the jobs, and that making production processes unmanned could be done without difficulty.

Seeing the officials glowing with self-confidence, Kim Jong Il said, “That’s fine. Now our goal is to make it unmanned.”

He went on to say that the unmanned processes would make it possible to increase the production capacity nearly two times without any manpower and that once they began to find the unmanned process useful, there would come a greater enthusiasm for pushing back the frontier of science and technology.

He told the officials emphatically, “To introduce unmanned processes—which is the highest stage of the CNC campaign—is what we have long thought. For a dozen years we have made strenuous efforts and now reached the high stage in which we are going to establish the integrated system of production. If only we succeed in making the production processes unmanned, we will be able to lead the world admirably.”

To make production processes unmanned was the highest ideal and target of the Chairman who was leading the people in the campaign to surpass the cutting edge in science and technology.

When the officials said confidently that they could accomplish the project of establishing unmanned processes if only they were provided with the relevant blueprint, the Chairman declared in a convincing voice with a hand raised high, “Let’s make it unmanned!”