Going round the lemur and chimpanzee sheds, animal and fur seal playing grounds and other places of the zoo, he acquainted himself in detail with its management and operation.

He highly praised the officials and employees of the zoo for arranging the animal sheds to suite the ecological characteristics of wild animals and actively contributing to providing working people and school youth and students with cultural and emotional life.

He was greatly satisfied to hear a report that people are spending pleasant rest while seeing varieties of skills of animals.

He underlined the need to spruce up the zoo well as befitting an education center to help visitors widen knowledge about animals and nurture the spirit of socialist patriotism, not mere a sightseeing place, and thus actively contribute to the rest and education of visitors including school youth and students.

He stressed the need to do in a bold way the work to build up the zoo into a huge natural one as instructed by President Kim Il Sung in his lifetime so that visitors might see animals inhabiting in nature.

In order to let more working people, school youth and children visit the zoo to enjoy a cultural and emotional life in the future, it is necessary to further perfect the interior and exterior of the animal sheds to the convenience of the visitors and, at the same time, set up sufficient facilities for resting, he noted.

What is important for managing the zoo is to protect the natural environment, he said, underlining the need to preserve even a single tree and a blade of grass to their original state and take thorough measures to prevent the pollution of mountains and streams.

He was accompanied by senior officials of party and armed forces organs Kim Jong Un, Ri Yong Ho, Kim Ki Nam, Choe Thae Bok, Jang Song Thaek, Kim Jong Gak, Kim Yang Gon, Pak To Chun, Choe Ryong Hae, Thae Jong Su, Kim Phyong Hae, Mun Kyong Dok, Ju Kyu Chang, U Tong Chuk, Kim Chang Sop and Ri Myong Su, Members of the Central Military Commission of the WPK Kim Kyong Ok, Kim Won Hong, Kim Yong Chol and Yun Jong Rin and Department Director of the NDC Hyon Chol Hae.