Respected Comrade Kim Jong Un Inspects
Major Shipyards to Learn about Warship-building
and Advance Strategic Policy for Epochal
Development in Shipbuilding Industry

Pyongyang, March 8 (KCNA) -- At a time when the important goals for realizing the
grandiose plan of the Workers' Party of Korea on building an advanced maritime
power are being pushed ahead with under the schedule set by the Eighth Congress
of the Workers' Party of Korea, there took place the guidance work of the Party
Central Committee, which is of a remarkable significance in defending the maritime
sovereignty of the DPRK and in developing its shipbuilding industry.
Kim Jong Un, general secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea and president of
the State Affairs of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, toured major
shipyards to give field guidance at their shipbuilding.
The respected Comrade Kim Jong Un was greeted by leading officials of those
shipyards.
Accompanying him were Jo Chun Ryong, secretary of the WPK Central Committee,
Admiral Kim Myong Sik, commander of the Navy of the Korean People's Army, and
major leading officials of the WPK Central Committee.
He acquainted himself with the ongoing work for attaining the goal of building
warships set forth by the Party Congress and the technical equipment level and
modernization of shipyards.
He expressed great satisfaction over the high spirit and labor feats of the workers
who are registering signal successes in the implementation of the militant task for
radically improving the modernity of our navy in the shortest span of time in line with
the primary requirement for the state security and the world trend of naval force
development.
He was reported on the progress made in attaining with confidence the goals for
putting the shipbuilding industry on a Juche, modern and scientific basis, set forth by
the Party Central Committee, by pushing ahead with the work for technical updating
and enhancement of the production capacity to ensure the rapid development of our
naval force.
He gave a high appreciation of the fact that a firm prospect has been opened for
introducing into the operation the strongest warships capable of establishing the core

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of the Juche naval force and meeting all the requirements of the national defence

strategy in the shortest possible time, true to the strategic line of our Party on
building the national defence.
He said that the maritime sovereignty is the core of the sovereign rights of our
country, whose both eastern and western sides are washed by seas, and the
development of the naval force into an elite and nuclear-armed force constitutes an
important content in the strategy for the development of the national defence which
intensively reflects our Party's will to defend the sovereignty at present.
Only when there is a powerful naval force that no one can provoke, is it possible to
defend the security of the country and the people and ensure normal development of
the fishing industry and the overall national economy, he said, adding that the sea is
an inviolable territory where the dignity and prestige of our state and the people's life
are ensured, before it is an indefinite site for prosperity.
Saying that the eternal history of our socialist Korea depends on how we defend the
sea, a major front decisive of the life and death of the state and people and a main
route of aggression by the enemy countries, he stressed the need to make the
incomparably overwhelming warships fulfill their mission as powerful deterrent of a
nuclear power capable of containing the inveterate "gunboat diplomacy" of the
hostile forces.
It is really significant progress that the rejuvenation of the DPRK's ideal warship-
building industry has entered the full-scale stage of laying a sure foundation and
kindling the flame of modernization while enduring hardships, he said, stressing the

need to decisively enhance the warship-building capacity on the basis of the existing
precious experience and technology and put spurs to the improvement of overall
technical processes, and thus build a large number of modern warships of different
missions desired by our naval force.
The key to radically strengthening the warship-building industry, which can be called
an aggregate of ultra-modern defence science and technology, is the science and
technology and training of talents, he said, calling for regarding them as the two
elements for development and leap forward so as to vigorously lead the rejuvenation
of warship-building industry, whose new appearance will be recorded in the history of
the DPRK.
He said that the modernization of the shipyards, which should play an important role
in the revolution in the new era for bolstering up the naval force, should not be
conducted in the passive method of bridging the gaps in the processes of the

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existing foundation, but in the way of boldly and perfectly creating new and high-tech
bases suited to the prestige and status of a powerful nation. And he clarified the
strategic plan of the WPK for doing so.
He said that the DPRK would never remain an idle onlooker to the naval and
underwater military activities of the enemies seriously threatening the sovereignty
and interests of the DPRK by constantly deploying large numbers of strategic assets
but reliably defend the maritime sovereignty and firmly ensure a security guarantee
on the Korean peninsula and the region through the important innovations and
changes of its naval force and the upper hand in the ever-evolving strength.
Noting that the justness to put the DPRK naval force's war posture and capability to
fight a war on the most powerful and perfect level is increasing the DPRK's will and
desire for the rejuvenation of the warship-building industry, he affirmed that the sea
defence capability of the DPRK, which is in a responsible and key position for
defending peace in the Korean peninsula and the region, will be fully displayed in
any necessary waters without limitation.
He expressed expectation and belief that all the officials and workers in the warship-
building industry would further consolidate the arsenal for defending the maritime
sovereignty with a courageous struggle, well aware of their sacred honor and
important mission as revolutionary industrial soldiers of the WPK who is responsible
for the fatal state affair holding sway over the future of the DPRK's navy and the
territorial integrity and peace keeping of the country.
The basic orientation for radically bolstering up the navy's combat power valued by
the Party is to simultaneously push forward with the modernization of water-surface
and underwater warships and the further improvement of their operational
capabilities, he said, and advanced the long-term essential plan for the possession
of the warships and its stepwise goals to substantially guarantee the mission of the
DPRK's armed forces to defend the maritime sovereignty and the future direction of
the defence economic work and all the tasks for doing so.
He also learned about the building of a nuclear-powered strategic guided missile
submarine pushed forward with under the decision of the 8th Congress of the WPK.
His field guidance at the major shipyards is a significant event heralding a new
phase of bolstering up the Juche-based naval force. -0-

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Respected Comrade Kim Jong Un Gives Field
Guidance at Onpho Kulloja Holiday Camp under

Construction

Pyongyang, March 8 (KCNA) -- Kim Jong Un, general secretary of the Workers'
Party of Korea and president of the State Affairs of the Democratic People's Republic
of Korea, gave field guidance at the project for newly building the Onpho Kulloja
(working people) Holiday Camp under the Resort Management Bureau of the
Ministry of Labour.
Accompanying him were Ri Hi Yong and Kim Jae Ryong, leading officials of the
C.C., WPK.
He was greeted on the spot by the chief secretary of the North Hamgyong Provincial
Committee of the WPK, the chairman of the provincial people's committee and
officials of the construction field guidance team.
The project is for building a resort and recuperation center, which is under way in
accordance with the important on-site instruction given by the respected
Comrade Kim Jong Un during his field guidance at various sectors of North
Hamgyong Province in July 2018. At that time, he stressed the need to newly build
the Onpho Holiday Camp in Kyongsong County, a famous spa in the country, into a
comprehensive cultural recreation and medical service centre for our people to get
hot-spring cure while enjoying a highly-civilized cultural and emotional life.
Kim Jong Un met senior officials and working personnel at the construction site
and learned in detail about progress in the construction project.
Saying that the construction of the holiday camp and the preparations for its
operation should be done without any slightest defect in order to complete it as
another peculiar recreation base, an advanced rest and treatment establishment for
the people to enjoy spa culture to their heart's content, he referred to a series of
deviations being revealed in the ongoing construction project and to the measures
for overcoming them.
It is important to fully embody the functional requirements in conformity with the
mission and use of the construction object mainly aimed at recreation and
recuperation, maximize the utilization rate of the building area and ensure
convenience, he said, stressing the need to pay attention to the detailed issues so as

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to prevent the visitors from feeling even the slightest inconvenience, since the overall
construction project has reached the final stage, and to finish it in a qualitative way.
He set forth the important tasks for the construction of the holiday camp and its
future management and operation, including an issue for further improving the
service conditions and the treatment environment level so that the hot-spring cure, a
peculiarity of the camp and a type of its main service business, can be conducive to
the promotion of the people's health and to their enjoyment of civilization, an issue of
expanding and creating the sphere and space of diverse cultural life by actively
applying the geographical features of the picturesque mountain area, and an issue of
making full preparations for operation to start service at the same time with the
completion of the project.
He said that it is an important component and a responsible undertaking for the
popular policies of our Party and government to provide the working people with
good treatment and recuperation facilities and more advanced service conditions for
their maximum convenience. We should be more faithful to our true mission, that is
to exist for the people and struggle for their interests, and serve them always with an
innovative and positive attitude, he added.
He stressed that it is the intention of our Party to build on a modern basis resorts and
sanatoriums for the people in good harmony with beautiful natural scenery in famous
mountains and scenic spots of the country and provide more comprehensive service
facilities so that they can fully enjoy the entities of civilization and promote their
health under the benefits of the advantageous socialist policy, and thus make them
serve as a base for cultural progress and be led to a steady improvement in the life
of the working masses.
When the Onpho Kulloja Holiday Camp is built as a comprehensive cultural rest and
health service centre in mountain area which fully embodies all the requirements of
modern architecture while well preserving regional unique charms and features, it
will be another worthwhile achievement of ours in carving out really diverse fields
and diverse living sphere, he said, adding that the camp should be successfully built
this significant year marking the 80th birthday of the WPK and presented to the
people.
Kim Jong Un also indicated important tasks related to the construction of the
Yombunjin Haeyang (maritime) Hostel in North Hamgyong Province.
On the sport, he approved a detailed work plan and proposals for the completion of
construction projects for the Onpho Kulloja Holiday Camp and the Yombunjin

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Haeyang Hostel, including the expenditure of additional budget for the final project
and the organization of labor force and assigned the work on their implementation. -
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