Kim Jong Il looked round different places including the general control room for fertilizer production and fertilizer forwarding shop for hours to learn in detail about the construction and production there.

It is a miracle that the workers of Namhung successfully completed the construction of the second system of gasification process in a short span of time by their own efforts and with their own technology, he noted, highly praising them for building a giant structure by displaying popular heroism and patriotic devotion.

The completion of the first and second systems of gasification process in Namhung is a shining victory of President Kim Il Sung's idea of building Juche-oriented chemical industry and a precious fruition of the tremendous mental power of the Korean workers intensely loyal to the party and the leader, he said, and continued:

"Our party is strong and our socialist country is winning one victory after another thanks to the huge unit of the revolutionary and militant workers who performed shining feats in the gasification project under the slogan 'Korea does what it is determined to do!'"

Then he went round the stable, the essential foodstuff shop and Chongchun Health Complex to learn in detail about the supply service at the complex and cultural and emotional life of the workers there.

Everything is going well at the complex thanks to the good supply service, he said, praising the party and administrative officials of the complex for retaining a firm hold on the supply service and making tenacious efforts to improve it with a correct view on the workers, the master of production.

Watching a volleyball match and swimming in the newly built modern Chongchun Health Complex, he was pleased that the workers were having an ample cultural rest.

He watched various consumer goods produced by the complex before stressing the need to produce many more quality goods very necessary for improving the standard of people's living.

The most important task before the complex is to focus efforts on keeping the production of fertilizers going at a high rate and send greater quantity of fertilizers to the socialist cooperative fields, he said.

Another important task before the complex is to wage a dynamic drive to increase the varieties of chemical products needed for people's living, he added.

Underscoring the need to intensify the drive for building modern process for the production of plastic propylene fabric as an immediate task, he set forth the task and ways to do so.

He called on the officials, workers and technicians of the complex to make strenuous efforts to keep the production going at a high rate and develop the complex under a long-term plan.

He was accompanied by Jang Song Thaek, alternate member of the Political Bureau of the C.C., the WPK and vice-chairman of the NDC, Thae Jong Su, alternate member of the Political Bureau and secretary of the C.C., the WPK, Ju Kyu Chang, alternate member of the Political Bureau and department director of the C.C., the WPK, and Hong In Bom, chief secretary of the South Phyongan Provincial Committee of the WPK.