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National Meeting of Light Industrial Workers Held
Pyongyang, March 18 (KCNA) -- A national meeting of light industrial workers took place with splendour in Pyongyang on Monday.

Kim Jong Un, first secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea, first chairman of the DPRK National Defence Commission and supreme commander of the Korean People's Army, was present at the meeting.

Present at the meeting were Choe Yong Rim, Kim Kyong Hui, Kim Ki Nam, Mun Kyong Dok, Ro Tu Chol, Thae Jong Su, officials of the units taking the lead in carrying out the Party's policy of light industry and labor innovators, leading officials here and in local areas, officials of economic guidance organs, affiliated fields and working people.

Choe Yong Rim, member of the Presidium of the Political Bureau of the C.C., the WPK and premier of the DPRK Cabinet, made a report at the meeting.

He said that the history of the development of light industry in the DPRK is a history associated with President Kim Il Sung and leader Kim Jong Il's Juche-oriented idea on building light industry, their outstanding leadership and tireless devotion and efforts. Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il regarded it as the supreme principle of the party and state activities to improve the standard of people's living, regarding it as their maxim to believe in people as in Heaven.

The great Generalissimos' idea of building the Juche-based light industry and their undying leadership feats are being successfully carried forward by Marshal Kim Jong Un, the reporter added.

He referred to the successes achieved in the light industrial field under the leadership of the WPK in the past.

He called for making great innovations and leap forward in producing consumer goods, steadily pushing forward the modernization of equipment and production processes and producing consumer goods as an all-people movement.

Then speeches were made.

Kim Jong Un made an important speech.

He in his speech clearly indicated tasks and ways for making a new turn in the development of light industry in the same spirit as was displayed in conquering space and successfully conducting the nuclear test.

The speakers vowed to dynamically wage a drive for producing consumer goods true to the Party's plan to make a decisive turn in improving the people's living standard.

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