Kim Jong Un Visits Schools, Department Store and Apartments in Pyongyang

Kim Jong Un (R) talks with officials during an inspection of the Children’s Department Store in Pyongyang (Photo: KCNA)

DPRK state media reported on 30 May (Wednesday) that Kim Jong Un (Kim Cho’ng-u’n) inspected three school, the Pyongyang Children’s Department Store and apartment construction, all in the central district of Pyongyang.  KJU’s last reported public appearance was his visit to the Pyongyang Central Zoo.  KJU visited the Children’s Department Store and made a return visit to ongoing construction work of the apartment complex on Ch’angcho’n Street in central Pyongyang.

Kim Jong Un (L) inspects a kitchen in the Ch’angcho’n Street apartment complex. Also in attendance is his uncle Jang Song Taek, Vice Chairman of the National Defense Commission (R) (Photo: KCNA)

KCNA reports:

He went round the Children’s Department Store nearing completion.

He looked round various places of the department store from the ground floor to the second floor to learn about its construction.

He was satisfied to learn that builders successfully completed the huge construction project in a short span of time, bearing deep in mind the noble intention of President Kim Il Sung and leader Kim Jong Il who always projected children as kings of the country and showed loving care for them so that they could grow up with no more to desire in the world.

He gave precious instructions for managing and operating the department store, saying it is located in the best place facing Mansu Hill where stand the statues of Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il who loved the children more than anyone else.

Asking officials what measures they took to provide goods for children, he called for minutely organizing the work to steadily improve the service to children as the modern department store has been built as required by the new century.

It is of particular importance to mass-produce and supply toys for intellectual development to the department store in order to help children develop their intellectual ability and learn scientific principles, he said.

Noting that the department store has a large area, he told the officials to arrange not only selling stands but amusement facilities inside the store. When workers of the department store expressed profound thanks for not only making sure that the modern store was built but sparing time to visit their work site, he said with emotion that their gratitude helped him renew his determination to devotedly work for the children, the future of the country.

Then he moved to the new apartment houses in Changjon Street.

He made the rounds of several flats in block 6 and block 1 in the street for a good chunk of time to learn about their construction.

Going round the interior of several flats built in diverse styles, he acquainted himself with details ranging from sizes of living rooms to kitchen sinks and ventilation of stores.

He highly praised the builders for having successfully completed the construction of those modern apartment houses, saying that the new apartment houses including those in block 1 in Changjon Street were designed well and construction was carried out on a high level.

He set forth important tasks which would serve as guidelines for building Pyongyang as required by the Songun era.

He was accompanied by Jang Song Thaek, member of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the WPK and vice-chairman of the NDC, Ri Jae Il, first vice department director of the C.C., the WPK, and Ryang Chong Song, vice department director of the C.C., the WPK.

Kim Jong Un appreciates a view of the Taedong River and East Pyongyang, from one of the apartment towers on Ch’angcho’n Street in central Pyongyang (Photo: Rodong Sinmun)

Kim Jong Un (L) talks with Jang Song Taek (R) and other officials during an inspection around central Pyongyang (Photo: KCNA)

Kim Jong Un (3rd R) walks around the campus of Ch’angcho’n Primary School in Pyongyang. (Photo: KCNA)

Kim Jong Un (R) examines a classroom at Ch’angcho’n Primary School in Pyongyang (Photo: Rodong Sinmun)

Kim Jong Un (3rd L) visits a lecture hall in Ch’angcho’n Primary School in Pyongyang (Photo: KCNA)

Kim Jong Un was also reported to have inspected the Ch’angcho’n Primary (elementary) School, Kyo’ngsang Nursery and Kyo’ngsang Kindergarten.  KCNA reports:

The first leg of his guidance was Changjon Primary School.

He saw the place where the statue of President Kim Il Sung will be erected and dropped in at the room devoted to the history of the school.

Seeing historic data one by one, he received a report that twice labor hero Kim Su Bok, principal of the school, had the honor of giving a lesson on the Korean language in the presence of the President when he was visiting the school and has worked as teacher and principal of the school for 58 years. He highly praised her for having worked for bringing up children all her life.

Looking round classrooms from the ground floor to the third floor, he asked officials where desks and chairs were made. He said they were made to suit pupils’ ages and heights.

Passing through a corridor, he stressed the need to place benches with dress hangers so that pupils may hang wet winter clothes or raincoats in winter and rainy season.

At the foreign language study room and the computer study room he was pleased that they are well equipped. Entering a spacious lecture hall, he was very satisfied with it, saying that teachers and pupils would like it.

He said he wanted to see the school’s playground and moved to it. He specified tasks for building it better.

When he asked officials where pupils are now studying as the school is under construction, he was told that the school would open soon and begin lessons. Hearing this, he promised to revisit it and see pupils in class without fail.

The second leg of his guidance was the Kyongsang Nursery.

At the Nursing Baby Room No. 2 he learned about how the room can be kept warm to bring up babies well even in winter. He checked if wind would not come from veranda windows.

At the room for meals, he personally felt its floor and stressed the need to let children eat meals in the warm room.

Making the rounds of various education rooms and rooms for intellectual development, he said furniture and facilities have been distributed and arranged well to suit lovely children’s mind.

Underscoring the need to always pay deep attention to bringing up children, the future of the country, he said that the nurses of the Kyongsang Nursery should take warm care of children as their real mothers would do.

The last leg of his guidance was the Kyongsang Kindergarten.

After entering its playground, he proposed to provide a circular lawn to children, saying that if the playground is totally paved, children may get hurt while being engrossed in playing.

He went round the room devoted to the history of the kindergarten.

He was pleased to hear a report that under the loving care of leader Kim Jong Il the kindergarten successfully did the work to raise the educational level for children’s intellectual development and cultural attainments, training a lot of little music talents and pleasing him several times.

At the playing room on the first floor he said it has been arranged well to suit children’s mind and praised the Pyongyang City Designing Institute for designing it well.

Making the rounds of various rooms on each floor, he said the more he saw, the more he liked. He repeatedly said he was most pleased with this visit and he liked everything.

When he dropped in at the hall on the ground floor, he was told that children were waiting for him to see a performance. He would like to watch it despite the pressure of time, he said. He spared time to enjoy it.

As the performance was over, he asked the child who presented a vocal solo to come to him and kindly held the child in his arms. He learned the age of the child and the jobs of the child’s parents and praised the child for singing well, fondling the child’s cheek. He sat on the stage unreservedly and had a photo taken with children, holding them in his arms.

Kindly bidding farewell to the children saying goodbye to him, he told officials that he would visit the kindergarten again and meet with all kindergarteners without fail.

He was accompanied by Jang Song Thaek, member of the Political Bureau of the WPK Central Committee and vice-chairman of the National Defence Commission, Ri Jae Il, first vice department director of the WPK Central Committee, and Ryang Chong Song and Pak Chun Hong, vice department directors of the WPK Central Committee.

Kim Jong Un greets a worker of the Kyo’ngsang Nursery in Pyongyang (Photo: Rodong Sinmun)

Kim Jong Un (2nd R) inspects a classroom at Kyo’ngsang Nursery (Photo: KCNA)

Kim Jong Un greets a child performer during his visit to Kyo’ngsang Kindergarten in central Pyongyang (Photo: KCNA)

Kim Jong Un poses for a commemorative photograph with child performers at Kyo’ngsang Kindergarten in central Pyongyang (Photo: KCNA)

Nuclear Invocations Contained in Revised DPRK Constitution

These images reportedly depict the DPRK’s May 2009 nuclear test. They appeared in an episode of the Korea Film Studios’ feature The Country I Saw, broadcast in September 2010, which included a depiction of the 2009 experimental detonation. (Photo: KCTV)

During the 5th session (plenum) of the 12th Supreme People’s Assembly [SPA] on 13 April 2012 DPRK state media reported that “Ordinance of the SPA of the DPRK ‘On approving the proposal for revising and supplementing the Socialist Constitution of the DPRK’ was adopted.”  Yonhap reports that those revisions include references to “a nuclear armed state”:

Following December’s death of leader Kim Jong Il, the North has revised its constitution to add three new sentences and one of them contains the term of a nuclear-armed state.

“National Defense Commission Chairman Kim Jong Il has turned our fatherland into an invincible state of political ideology, a nuclear-armed state and an indomitable military power, paving the ground for the construction of a strong and prosperous nation,” part of the revised constitution says.

The North’s previous constitution last revised on April 9, 2010, didn’t contain such a term as nuclear-armed state.

The revised constitution also idolized Kim Jong Il and elevated his standing equal to his father and the North’s founder Kim Il Sung. Indeed, it refers to both Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il as the “sun of Korean people” and “elder of world politics.”

Established on September 8, 1948, the North Korean constitution had been revised in 1972, 1992, 1998, 2009 and 2010.

Choe Ryong Hae Visits Construction of Health Complex

VMar Choe Ryong Hae (2nd L), director of the KPA General Political Department, looks at exercises equipment during a tour of the construction of the Sporting Center in east Pyongyang on 30 May 2012 (Photo: KCNA)

DPRK state media reported that VMar Choe Ryong Hae, director of the Korean People’s Army [KPA] General Political Department (bureau), visited the construction of a health complex and food shop in east Pyongyang on 30 May (Wednesday).

KCNA reports:

The construction of the modern center for the promotion of the people’s health started at the initiative of the dear respected Kim Jong Un and under his plan. It is now nearing its completion.

There are in the center with a huge plottage hundreds of sports apparatuses of various kinds, recuperation rooms, table tennis halls, a supersonic wave wading pool, etc.

Choe Ryong Hae went round various places of the center associated with footsteps left by Supreme Commander Kim Jong Un with loving care for the people.

Choe underscored the need for builders to fully display the serve-the-people spirit in building, bearing deep in mind the intention of the supreme commander to make the people fully enjoy wealth and prosperity under socialism.

Each sports apparatus is associated with the warm loving care of the supreme commander, Choe said, calling for managing apparatuses and equipment well to provide convenience to visitors on a priority basis.

Going round the meat and fish shop conducive to improving the diet of people, he underscored the need for the officials and servants of the center to fufil their responsibility and role, deeply cherishing their mission as the servants of the people in hearty response to the party’s slogan “We Serve the People!”

He stressed the need for the soldier-builders to thoroughly implement the order of the supreme commander and successfully complete the center as early as possible.

Choe Ryong Hae (2nd L) inspects a food shop under construction at the Sports Center in east Pyongyang on 30 May 2012 (Photo: KCNA)

Choe looks at a treadmill during his tour of a health complex built on Tongil Street in east Pyongyang on 30 May 2012 (Photo: KCNA)

Choe Yong Rim Visits Chemical Factory

DPRK Premier Choe Yong Rim (2nd R) visits Sunchon Chemical Complex on 30 May 2012. Also seen in attenance is President of the State Academy Sciences Jang Chol (R) (Photo: KCNA)

DPRK state media reported that Cabinet Premier Choe Yong Rim visited the Sunchon Chemical Complex in South P’yo’ngan Province on 30 May (Wednesday).  Also known as the Sunchon Vinalon Complex, it produces fertilizers, poly vinyl and was once was the country’s largest producer of vinalon.  KCNA reports:

The complex associated with the leadership provided by the great persons of Mt. Paektu updated the methanol-producing process and other major processes and established a general production command system true to the behest of leader Kim Jong Il.

As a result, it laid a material and technological foundation for keeping the vinalon production going at a high rate.

The premier made the rounds of the carbide shop, spinning shop and other places of the complex. He appreciated the signal successes made by its workers in the project for updating the production processes true to the intention of the party.

He underlined the need to conduct the technical control over the carbide production process and manage equipment in a responsible manner and push forward the work to increase the production of basic chemical goods and their variety.

He, at the same time, underscored the need to energetically speed up the updating of equipment by making an effective use of the existing production foundation.

He called on the officials and workers to wind up the updating of vinalon production process as early as possible in hearty response to the slogan “Push back the frontiers of latest science and technology!” put up by the party and took measures for relevant units to substantially provide necessary raw and other materials.

He stressed the need for the complex to pay deep attention to the life of its workers and fulfil its duty in developing the country’s economy and improving the standard of people’s living true to the dear respected Kim Jong Un’s noble outlook on the people.

Kim Jong Un Visits Pyongyang Central Zoo

Kim Jong Un looks at bear cubs during a tour of Pyongyang Central Zoo. Among those attendance, standing behind him are: Han Kwang Sang (L), Kim Yang Gon (2nd L) and Jon Il Chun (5th L) (Photo: Rodong Sinmun)

DPRK state media reported on 27 May (Sunday) that Kim Jong Un (Kim Cho’ng-u’n) visited the Pyongyang Central Zoo.  He was accompanied by National Defense Commission Vice Chairman and KWP Party Administration Department Director, Jang Song Taek, and KWP Secretary and Director of the United Front Department Kim Yang Gon, as well KWP Deputy (vice) Department Directors Han Kwang Sang, Ri Jae Il, Hwang Pyong So, Pak Chun Hong, Ma Wo’n-ch’un and Cho’n Il-ch’un.  KCNA reports:

Kim Jong Un first went round the monument erected to convey the undying leadership exploits of the three commanders of Mt. Paektu down through generations.

He recollected with deep emotion the glorious course covered by the zoo, noting that it had the honor of receiving on-the-spot guidance of President Kim Il Sung and leader Kim Jong Il dozens of times and has creditably fulfilled its mission as a place for joyful rest making visitors laugh and pleasing them and a center for education imbuing them with wide knowledge about animals over the last more than five decades since it was established.

Going round different places of the zoo, he learned in detail about the management and operation of it.

He dropped in at the aquarium to learn about its operation. He asked workers there if there is any problem arising in breeding fish, what measures are taken to provide food and water to it and what species of sea fish are raised.

He was satisfied to hear officials of the zoo say that thorough measures are taken to provide food and the completion of the Nampho-Pyongyang seawater pipe helped settle the issue of seawater, a difficulty in breeding sea water fishes.

He visited the pool for seals and the reptile house. What is important for sprucing up animal houses is to create friendly natural environment to help visitors see animals clearly and learn about their true habitation and provide them with sufficient living conditions, he said.

He went to the gift animal house to watch with keen attention rare animals including Indian constrictor, lemur and flying fox which Jonas Whalstram, director of Skansen Aquarium in Sweden, presented to leader Kim Jong Il.

He dropped in at a shed of wild animals. He met Kim Sun Ok, head of the wild animal work team who has worked at the zoo for 45 years, and Myong Su Il who has tended bears for nearly 30 years and appreciated their efforts.

He also moved to a veterinary hospital built on the initiative of Kim Jong Il. Kim Jong Un underlined the need to take efficient veterinary, anti-epizootic and treatment measures for animals.

He highly praised the officials and other employees of the zoo for having taken good care of animals and devoted their wisdom and efforts to pleasing visitors by successfully organizing their tour.

He put forth the tasks to be carried out to manage and operate the zoo.

It is necessary to spruce up the zoo and steadily improve its operation.

The zoo should increase the species of animals and bring more giraffes, zebras and other animals from foreign countries and more rare animals.

It is necessary to build a main building symbolic of the zoo at its entrance and modernize all animal sheds in line with the characteristic features of animals, while providing convenience to visitors.

The zoo should have peculiar outdoor and indoor resting places.

A work should be done to improve the greening of the zoo area as required by the new century.

It is necessary to take proper measures for supplying water needed for managing the zoo and tending the animals.

The zoo should set up a new guidepost to meet the need of the zoo.

Kim Jong Un expressed expectation and belief that the officials and other employees of the zoo would creditably fulfill their responsibility and mission as a servant of the people.

Choe Yong Rim Visits South Hwanghae Province

Choe Yong Rim visits Samjigang Cooperative Farm on 24 May 2012 (Photo: KCNA)

DPRK state media reported that DPRK Premier Choe Yong Rim visited agricultural and food production facilities in South Hwanghae Province.  Choe’s public appearances occurred amid reports of a drought in the western part of the country and starvation deaths in South Hwanghae.  On 24 May (Thursday) Choe visited Samjigang Cooperative Farm in Chaeryo’ng County.  KCNA reports:

It is associated with the leadership provided by the President and leader Kim Jong Il. It has completed rice transplanting in the right time while giving priority to harrowing according to the features of soil and thoroughly ensuring the number of rice plants for phyong and the number for rice plants. The agricultural workers of the farm are turning out as one in weeding and preventing drought, not content with their proud achievements.

The premier stressed the need to set a model of the country in farming this year, too, true to the behests of Kim Jong Il and thus remain loyal to the Songun revolutionary leadership of Kim Jong Un with rice.

Choe Yong Rim visits Suwon Cooperative Farm in Paech’o'n County, South Hwanghae Province on 25 May 2012 (Photo: KCNA)

On 25 May (Friday) Choe visited cooperative farms and water infrastructure in Yo’nan and Paech’o'n counties:

All the agricultural workers of the counties are gaining achievements in the ongoing rice transplanting with ardent patriotism to bring about a decisive turn in settling the food issue as befitting the masters of the country’s granary true to the high intention of the dear respected Kim Jong Un.

The premier went round the Ohyon and Suwon cooperative farms and other places.

He underlined the need for the farms to carry through the behests of President Kim Il Sung and thereby continue glorifying the honor of the units of his on-the-spot guidance. He underscored the need to positively study and introduce high yields of seeds as intended by the WPK so as to set a model in grain production. He stressed the need to readjust tractors and rice transplanting machines well to keep them in full-capacity and for relevant units to provide substantial fertilizers according to periods.

Learning about water storage and provision of Lake Kuam and the Ryeui Reservoir, he underscored the need to provide substantial water to paddy and non-paddy fields as it does not rain at present and thus take concrete measures for preventing drought.

Choe Yong Rim visits Ohyon Cooperative Farm in Yo’nan County, South Hwanghae Province on 25 May 2012 (Photo: KCNA)

Choe visits Ryeui Reservoir (Photo: KCNA)

DPRK Premier Choe Yong Rim visits Lake Kuam on 25 May 2012 (Photo: KCNA)

Choe visits Oguk Cooperative Farm in Anhak County, South Hwanghae Province on 26 May 2012 (Photo: KCNA)

On 26 May (Saturday) Choe visited farms in Anhak and Sinch’o'n counties, as well as a salt production site:

The farms associated with the leadership exploits of the great persons of Mt. Paektu have made successes in their immediate farming by making full arrangements for finishing the on-going rice-transplantation and other farm work qualitatively in the right time with ardent desire to reap a rich harvest.

The farms have taken measures for speeding up the rice-transplantation and overcoming the drought despite unfavorable weather as required by the Juche-oriented farming methods.

The premier highlighted the importance of settling the food shortage in building a thriving nation and called on all officials and other agricultural workers to play their role as those responsible for the nation’s agricultural production.

He also stressed the need to meet technological requirements for harrowing and winding up the rice-transplanting in right season.

He underlined the need for all officials to take good care of the farmers’ living as their mothers would do by earnestly learning from the dear respected Kim Jong Un’s noble outlook on people.

He called on the relevant units to take steps for supplying farm materials needed for rice-transplantation in good time.

Then the premier visited the construction site of Hwangnam Youth Saltern in the province nearing its completion.

The construction of the saltern, covering hundreds of hectares, made it possible to produce a large quantity of salt for the economic development and improvement of people’s living standard in the province.

Looking round the saltern ensuring economic profitability, the premier called for upholding the party with increased output of salt by conducting an effective work for raising the workers’ technical skill.

DPRK Premier Choe Yong Rim visits Saenal County in Sinch’o'n County on 26 May 2012 (Photo: KCNA)

DPRK Premier Choe Yong Rim visits the construction of Hwangnam Youth Saltern on 26 May 2012 (Photo: KCNA)

Kim Jong Un Visits Pyongyang Construction Sites and Amusement Park

Kim Jong Un (3rd L) is briefed while touring Kaeso’n Amusement Park in central Pyongyang. Also seen in attendance are his uncle and Vice Chairman of the National Defense Commission, Jang Song Taek (L), and Director of the KPA General Political Department (bureau) and Vice Chairman of the Party Central Military Commission, Choe Ryong Hae (Photo: Rodong Sinmun)

DPRK state media reported on 25 May (Friday) that Kim Jong Un (Kim Cho’ng-u’n) visited three ongoing construction projects and an amusement park in Pyongyang.  Kim Jong Un’s last reported public appearance was his inspection of Korean People’s Army [KPA] Unit #1501.  At all of his visits, KJU was accompanied by Jang Song Taek.

Kim Jong Un (L) tours the Ryugyong Health Complex in Pyongyang (Photo: Rodong Sinmun)

KCNA reports on his visit to the Ryugyong Health Complex and the People’s Outdoor Ice Rink:

After being briefed on the health complex before a large map showing its panoramic view, he went round it.

Making the rounds of the exterior and interior of the complex, he learned in detail about its construction.

Entering a pine tree sauna emitting strong smell of resin, he was pleased with the successful construction of its floor and walls.

Rest halls of bathhouses look spacious and nice, he said, adding visitors will like if TV sets are available there so that they may enjoy an emotional life, having good rest there.

Going up to the last fourth story, he stressed the need to use space effectively and efficiently.

The complex is an object to which leader Kim Jong Il paid special attention, he said, adding that if it is completed, this will amount to implementing another behest of Kim Jong Il.

Noting that the complex is not only fresh and peculiar in its architectural style and contents but also on a high level from designing to building, he underlined the need for soldier-builders to finish its project till the war victory day and provide it to the people.

The next leg of his field guidance was the People’s Outdoor Ice Rink.

Noting that sporting and service facilities such as the ice rink could be built thanks to the heroic struggle of soldier-builders, he highly praised their merits.

There should be good places for providing skates and sharpening skate edges as it is a mass skating ground, he said.

He called for successfully completing the ice rink as a sports center for the country’s ice sports development and physical training of working people, youth and students.

It is also a gift the WPK will present to the people, he noted, adding it should be finished till the war victory day along with the above-said health complex.

He was accompanied by Jang Song Thaek, member of the Political Bureau of the WPK Central Committee and vice-chairman of the National Defence Commission, and Ryang Chong Song and Ma Won Chun, vice department directors of the WPK Central Committee.

Kim Jong Un tours an ongoing apartment complex construction project in central Pyongyang. Also seen in attendance are Jang Song Taek (2nd L), Ryang Chong Song (L) and Ma Wo’n-ch’un (3rd R, behind KJU) (Photo: Rodong Sinmun)

KJU was also reported to have visited the construction of apartment buildings, restaurants and other facilities near Mansudae Assembly Hall in central Pyongyang:

There are in Changjon Street 5 to 45-storeyed apartment houses for thousands of families, each of which having several living rooms and tens of buildings for nurseries and kindergartens, secondary school, pharmacies, educational and healthcare institutions, commercial and catering networks and various welfare and service facilities standing in good harmony.

After being briefed on the street in front of a huge map showing the panoramic view of the Mansudae Area, Kim Jong Un went round various restaurants, shops and stalls and parking lot in the basement, etc. to acquaint himself in detail with the construction of the street.

He looked round various parts of Haemaji Restaurant built in a peculiar style and was satisfied with it.

He made the rounds of various other restaurants including the combined restaurant of the Jung District and Unjong Teahouse built in diverse styles to learn in detail about their size, furnishings, decorations, ventilation, etc.

He personally sat on a chair of the restaurant and underscored the need to thoroughly abide by the principle of guaranteeing convenience first and architectural beauty next when designing and manufacturing any furniture so that it may be convenient for use and look nice.

Learning in detail about the quality and colors of the paving blocks on the passages linking the ground and the underground and the greenery outside, he indicated detailed orientation and ways to build the street into a more magnificent and fashionable one.

He also viewed the signboard designs of various catering networks in the street and indicated ways of rounding them off better.

He enjoyed a bird’s-eye view of the street and said the scenery of the street is really fantastic and its appearance has changed beyond recognition.

He said with pride that the successful construction of the modern street by the efforts of Koreans as required by the new century is a demonstration of the validity of the WPK’s idea of architectural aesthetics and the potential of the Juche-based self-supporting economy.

Changjon Street is excellent in designing and high in the level of construction, he appreciated again, stressing the need to enable residents to move to new houses in mid-June.

He indicated important tasks to serve as guidelines for building Pyongyang into a more magnificent city as required by the Songun era.

Pyongyang should be built into a city for people where the revolutionary outlook on the leader is thoroughly embodied both in name and reality, he said, and went on:

As required by the developing reality it is necessary to lay out streets, build roads, distribute various buildings and ensure their styles, interior decorations, etc. in a peculiar manner under a long-term plan.

It is also necessary to distribute well educational, healthcare, sports, cultural and welfare facilities and welfare service bases on the principle of ensuring popular character, national identity and modernity.

The field of construction should steadily and thoroughly implement the WPK’s policy of applying formative art in architecture and pay deep attention to creating cultural environment including the greening of the city, in particular.

He was accompanied by Jang Song Thaek, member of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the WPK and vice-chairman of the NDC of the DPRK, and Ryang Chong Song, Pak Chun Hong and Ma Won Chun, vice department directors of the C.C., WPK.

Kim Jong Un (R) talks with KPA construction officials during a tour of an apartment complex in central Pyongyang (Photo: KCNA)

Kim Jong Un and other members of the DPRK central leadership watch an amusement park ride during a tour of the Kaeso’n Amusement Park (Photo: KCNA)

Kim Jong Un (2nd row, 6th L) and Jang Song Taek (2nd row, 5th R) poses for a commemorative photograph with restaurant employees during a tour of Kaeso’n Amusement Park (Photo: KCNA)

Kim Jong Un also visited the Kaeso’n Fun Fair.  The amusement park was one of the locales Kim Jong Il visited during the week that he died.

Learning in detail about the operation of the amusement equipment personally watched by leader Kim Jong Il, he noted with appreciation that the funfair is kept neat and tidy and managed regularly.

Before the merry-go-round swing, he said it is most popular, adding when he accompanied Kim Jong Il visiting the funfair last year, he had a chance to ride it.

At the electronic amusement hall he kindly asked which apparatus do visitors like more, underlining the need to set up a merry-go-round swing and electronic amusement hall at the Rungna People’s Recreation Ground now under construction.

Standing before a kiosk where wheat cake stuffed with roast chicken is served, he learned about the quality of mineral water bottle inside it.

Visiting the Kaeson Bread Restaurant in the compound of the funfair, he said he was also told that visitors liked food there and it is serving good food.

He recollected with deep emotion that Kim Jong Il promised to visit it without fail in his lifetime but he could not keep his promise.

He was greatly satisfied with the fact that the workers of the funfair are operating amusement facilities regularly and successfully operating several catering networks.

He set forth the tasks to be fulfilled to manage and operate the funfair.

He underlined the need to improve the management of equipment and technical control of them and operate the funfair in such a way as not to give even the slightest inconvenience to the visitors.

He underscored the need to provide a sufficient quantity of foodstuff to the catering networks in the compound of the funfair so that they may operate more effectively.

He stressed the need to pay deep attention to dresses of operators and service persons of the funfair and make service garments fit for seasons so that they may match the scenic beauty of the funfair.

He asked them to manage and operate the funfair well so as to bring into bloom Kim Jong Il’s love for the people for all ages and always please them.

He had a photo session with the workers of the funfair and the relevant field, expressing expectation and conviction that they would fulfill their honorable mission and duty as the true servants of the people.

He was accompanied by Choe Ryong Hae, member of the Presidium of the Political Bureau of the WPK Central Committee and director of the General Political Bureau of the KPA, Jang Song Thaek, member of the Political Bureau of the WPK Central Committee and vice-chairman of the National Defence Commission, and Hwang Pyong So and Pak Chun Hong, vice department directors of the WPK Central Committee.