He visited the statue of Kim Jong Suk, anti-Japanese heroine, on Osan Hill to pay high tribute to her.

After being briefed on her by a lecturer, he looked round Kim Jong Suk's old home in which she was born on Dec. 24, 1917 when the dark clouds of national ruin hung heavily over the country and nurtured a noble patriotic will in her childhood, leading a bitter life in sorrow over being a member of the stateless nation, and the "Museum of Comrade Kim Jong Suk's Revolutionary Activities".

He noted that short as Kim Jong Suk's life was, her life was a brilliant life of an ardent revolutionary who devoted her all to the liberation of the country and the victory of the Korean revolution and a lifeguard who was intensely loyal to President Kim Il Sung.

He stressed the need for the party organizations and working people's organizations at all levels to further intensify the education in the revolutionary traditions, noting that it presents itself as a more important task to conduct the education in the revolutionary traditions as the time flies, one generation is replaced by another and the revolution gains in depth.

He provided field guidance to the Hoeryong Essential Foodstuff Factory.

Going round a laboratory and a soy and bean paste workteam and other production processes, he learned in detail about the technological equipment and the production at the factory.

He highly appreciated the spirit of devoted service to the people displayed by the workers of the factory, greatly satisfied to learn that they have successfully renovated it as a modern essential foodstuff factory by their own efforts and ensured a high level of cultured practice in production.

Looking at the store full of bean, he noted that this is the reality that can be seen everywhere in the society and this signal change is the brilliant fruition of the thorough implementation of the Party's policy on bean farming.

Underlining the need to operate the big factory in full capacity to steadily increase the production and supply the produced essential foodstuff to people in time, he indicated tasks and ways to do so.

He also gave on-the-spot guidance to the Hoeryong Taesong Cigarette Factory.

After looking round the room for the education in the revolutionary history, he visited different production processes to acquaint himself in detail with the technological updating and production.

Seeing varieties of cigarettes being churned out from each machine and workshops kept neat and tidy, he expressed great satisfaction over the fact that the interior and exterior of the factory are spruced up in a hygienic and cultured manner and quality cigarettes are mass-produced thanks to the successful maintenance of its equipment and technical control.

He advanced the tasks to be carried out by the factory, calling on it to keep the cigarette production going at a high rate and further improve its quality.

Then he gave field guidance to the Hoeryong Branch of the Central Bank.

He went round the computerized different sections of the branch and was pleased to see its staffers working with modern technical means in an efficient and easy way.

Underlining the need for all domains and units to continue pushing ahead with the modernization based on the up-to-date science and technology, he stressed: If our most revolutionary idea is combined with the cutting-edge science and technology, a great change will take place in the revolution and construction and the gate to the thriving nation will be opened earlier than scheduled.

Then he moved on to Honored Thrice Red Flag Kim Ki Song Hoeryong Middle School No. 1.

He went round a statue of Kim Ki Song, a juvenile revolutionary, standing in the compound of the school. He acquainted himself in detail with the education and upbringing at the school, making the rounds of its various places including a board introducing heroes, the board conveying news from posts of soldiers and other peculiar visual aids in the corridor, a room devoted to the history of the school, a room for the class education, a room for the education in the defence of the country and a room for the computer education.

He highly praised the merits performed by the teachers of the school, greatly satisfied to learn that they have produced many heroes and registered shining successes in educating the rising generation in the past through a tenacious drive to train the students into the reliable pillars of the country who are knowledgeable, virtuous and healthy.

It is very gratifying that the school has created a good educational environment and prepared students fully ready to defend the country from their childhood as required by the era of Songun, in particular, he said, calling upon all schools to follow its example.

He advanced important tasks to be carried out to strengthen the education and upbringing.

The primary duty of the students is to study hard, he said, stressing the need for the schools to pay a primary attention to thoroughly implementing the study-first policy of the Party to train the younger generation to be competent talents capable of contributing to the cause of building a great prosperous and powerful nation with high caliber.

Noting that the teachers are professional revolutionaries, he said, underlining the need for educationists to devote their all wisdom and enthusiasm to the training of the rising generation, deeply aware of this noble mission.

He gave lots of modern educational means to the school as gifts, expressing expectation that it would make greater success in the education of the rising generation by steadily improving the contents of education in keeping with the ever-rising cultural and technological level of the society.

He highly praised the officials and working people in the city for having done a lot of work in the past with extraordinary patriotic enthusiasm, noting that all the factories and enterprises, educational and cultural institutions of the city are kept neat and tidy and leaping progress has been made in production, too.

He was accompanied by Hong Sok Hyong, chief secretary of the North Hamgyong Provincial Committee of the WPK, Kim Ki Nam, secretary of the WPK Central Committee, Jang Song Thaek and Pak Nam Gi, department directors of the WPK Central Committee, and Ri Jae Il, first vice department director of the WPK Central Committee.