He was accompanied by Kim Ki Nam, secretary of the C.C., the WPK, and Pak Nam Gi, department director of the C.C., the WPK.

He went round the newly reconstructed various production processes to acquaint himself in detail with the technological updating and production there.

Watching the workers of the complex engaged in their production drive, he expressed great satisfaction over the devoted efforts being made by all its party members and other working people to accomplish the cause of building a great prosperous and powerful nation.

He highly appreciated the feats performed by the workers of Hungnam, noting that they have played a vanguard role in putting the production processes on a modern and scientific basis as required by the age of IT, true to the WPK's idea of attaching importance to science.

He set forth important tasks to be fulfilled by the complex, saying that its position and role are very important for boosting the agricultural production to a high level.

In order to solve the food scarcity it is necessary to send a lot of fertilizers to the countryside, he noted, adding that this heavy yet honorable task is devolved to the workers of Hungnam.

The construction of a new gasification and ammonia production process proposed by the complex is a bold and creative initiative reflecting the urgent requirement of the developing agriculture in the country, he said, settling knotty problems after having an exhaustive consultation with its officials about ways of constructing it.

After making the round of Hamhung City, he guided the work for building the city, examining a model board for its construction.

He stressed that in order to build Hamhung City where a large number of workers live into a modern city under a long-term plan to cater to the aesthetic taste in the era of the WPK it is necessary to design it in such manner as to strictly abide by the principles of socialism and popular character, construct all objects in a unique manner including the formation of roads, styles of buildings and their layout, creation of pleasure grounds and formation of cultural and sporting areas and especially pay deep attention to the construction of network under the city and its heating system.

He praised South Hamgyong Province for making thoroughgoing preparations for constructing on its own a power station with large capacity at the estuary of the River Kumjin with a view to solving the problem of electricity in Hamhung and indicated the orientation and ways of completing the project in a brief span of time.

He got familiar with researches at the Hamhung Branch of the Academy of Sciences, examining newly developed products.

He appreciated the efforts made by the scientists and technicians of the branch, greatly pleased to learn that they have developed building materials of Korean style by devoting all their wisdom and enthusiasm.

During his field guidance to South Hamgyong Province, he acquainted himself with the overall work in the province and once again indicated the way for it to follow.

South Hamgyong Province occupies an important place in the development of the nation's economy as it has many key industrial enterprises, big factories which play an important role in solving the problems of clothing, food and housing in particular, he noted, underscoring the need for the province to perform a vanguard role in the drive for opening the gate to a thriving nation.