Pyongyang, December 5 (KCNA) -- The head of the DPRK delegation, addressing the 14th meeting of the General Conference of the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) on Nov. 30, said that the efforts and achievements made in the DPRK will make significant contributions to the efforts of the international community to make regional development, attain the UN millennium development goal and ensure sustainable development.

The drive to build an economic power is being pushed forward in the DPRK, he noted, and went on:

The DPRK government has put main emphasis on drastically improving the standard of people's living and maintaining Juche-orientation and independence in economic construction.

It, therefore, has channeled efforts into increasing investment in the light industry and agriculture, building the industry relying on its own raw materials, fuel and technologies and speeding up the modernization of the national economy.

The DPRK government is working hard to raise the quality of education and introduce latest technologies in the production in all fields of the national economy as required by the knowledge-based economic era.

Thanks to the government's policy on attaching importance to science and technology, the DPRK has completed the production systems of Juche iron, Juche fiber and Juche fertilizer based on its own technologies and natural resources, practically contributing to developing economy and improving the standard of people's living.

The DPRK government will further strengthen the friendly and cooperative relations with the UNIDO and all its member nations and make positive contributions to the international efforts for the development and prosperity common to mankind in the idea of the consistent foreign policy of independence, peace and friendship.