Reaching the site, he said that it was still chilly in the area although spring had come and that he was afraid of the soldier-builders' working conditions. An official told him that the leader was the first to visit the construction site, noting that even officials of the Cabinet had not yet come.

Listening to him, Kim Jong Il said that he had fallen into a habit of making long and rugged journeys to visit construction sites ahead of others. And he noted that it was revolutionaries' spirit and work attitude to unhesitatingly advance through thorny path formidable for others.