calendar>>December 16. 2015 Juche 104
Kim Jong Un Inspects Samchon Catfish Farm
Pyongyang, December 16 (KCNA) -- Kim Jong Un, first secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea, first chairman of the National Defence Commission of the DPRK and supreme commander of the Korean People's Army, gave field guidance to the Samchon Catfish Farm and set forth the task to turn it into a world-level farm which put fish breeding on a Juche, scientific, intensive and industrial basis at the highest level.

He went round the room for the education in the revolutionary history.

He said that the Samchon Catfish Farm was built in the period of the Arduous March, forced march on the personal initiative of leader Kim Jong Il and under his meticulous care and one of his legacies left by him out of his patriotism.

Recollecting with deep emotion the day when he was visiting the farm accompanying the leader, Kim Jong Un said still fresh in his memory was the tender-hearted leader who had a broad smile on his face, greatly pleased to see the farm capable of supplying tasty and nutritious catfish to service personnel and people.

He called on its officials and employees to boost the production of catfish, always remembering the noble desire of Kim Jong Il, and thus glorify his leadership exploits forever.

He went round different places of the farm to learn in detail about the production and management there and advanced tasks to be fulfilled to turn it into the one of the world level.

Noting that the area where the farm is located is the ideal one for breeding warm water catfish as it is the area famous for hot spring in the country, he underscored the need to turn it into a world famous catfish production base.

It is necessary to carry out an ambitious and bold project for consolidating the material and technical foundation of the farm by building more hatcheries and indoor and outdoor ponds as well as a modern food production base so as to remarkably increase the production capacity of the farm on the basis of a scientific and economic calculation, he stressed.

He underscored the need to build a new reservoir with large capacity near the farm rich in hot water resource and thoroughly establish a water re-circulating system.

It is necessary to turn the Samchon Catfish Farm into the one biggest in production capacity and the best one which has attained the highest level in putting the fish breeding on a Juche, scientific, intensive and industrial basis among the nation's catfish farms, he noted, giving an instruction to place its production and management on intellectual, IT, digital, automated and mechanized basis at the highest level by widely introducing the successes and experience gained in the course of modernizing the Pyongyang Catfish Farm and the May 9 Catfish Farm so as to fulfill the above-said task.

He underlined the need to build an impeccable sci-tech dissemination center and cultural and welfare facilities.

He expressed hope that the officials and employees of the farm would modernize it on the world level as early as possible and drastically increase its production in a few years to come, as required by the party, by joining efforts with scientists, technicians, designers and builders of the relevant field and thus glorify the undying leadership exploits performed by Kim Jong Il out of his patriotism with signal success in production.

He was accompanied by Hwang Pyong So, Pak Yong Sik, So Hong Chan, O Su Yong and Jo Yong Won.

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