Kim Yong Nam Visits Pyongyang Essential Foodstuff Factory

DPRK head of state Kim Yong Nam and other senior officials tour the Pyongyang Essential Foodstuffs Factory (Photo: KCNA-Yonhap).

DPRK state media reported on 14 June (Friday) that DPRK official head of state Supreme People’s Assembly [SPA] Presidium President Kim Yong Nam and “officials of the working people’s organizations, ministries and national institutions” visited the Pyongyang Essential Foodstuff Factory in east Pyongyang.  The food factory was recently visited by DPRK leader Kim Jong Un (Kim Cho’ng-u’n), reported on 7 June, and DPRK Cabinet Premier Pak Pong Ju, reported on 13 June.  KCNA reported that the factory “has turned into a modern essential foodstuff production base all the production processes of which have been automatized ranging from feeding of raw material to packing, a factory which has established a high level of cultured practice in production and life.”

SPA Presidium President Kim Yong Nam (1), the DPRK’s head of state, is briefed about food production touring a visit by senior DPRK officials. Also seen in attendance is SPA Presidium Vice President Yang Hyong Sop (2) and DPRK Vice Premier Kang Sok Ju (3) (Photo: KCNA-Yonhap).

Kim Yong Nam and the other senior officials began their visit by delivering flowers and bowing to a mosaic of late DPRK President and founder Kim Il Sung and late DPRK leader Kim Jong Il visiting the factory.  They toured the factory and watched a video “being briefed on the founding of the factory and its development, leadership feats performed by the great Generalissimos Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il and Marshal Kim Jong Un and the history of the development of the factory at the room dedicated to its history,” according to KCNA.  The group toured the factory’s amenities and service centers for employees such as its childcare facility, cultural center, public baths, swimming pool and resource libraries.  Whilst “seeing the production processes whose automation and robotization have been placed on a high level including the general control room, refined table oil, seasoning, refined salt and vitamin E and their packing processes,” Kim Yong Nam and the other senior officials “deeply grasped the patriotic intention of Kim Jong Un on accelerating the modernization of the factory by the DPRK’s efforts and technology,” according to KCNA.

SPA Presidium President Kim Yong Nam and other senior DPRK government officials tour a childcare classroom at Pyongyang Essential Foodstuffs Factory (Photo: KCNA-Yonhap).

DPRK nominal head of state Kim Yong Nam and other senior DPRK officials view an employees’ swimming pool at Pyongyang Essential Foodstuffs Factory (Photo: KCNA-Yonhap).

 

SPA Presidium President Kim Yong Nam and other senior DPRK officials tour Pyongyang Essential Foodstuffs Factory (Photo: KCNA-Yonhap).