With a grand plan to develop the country into a higher stage of knowledge-based economic power, he called for putting the machine-building industry on a CNC basis, a shortcut to reactivating the national economy.

Recalling the days when he was breaking a path to introducing the CNC system, he said that he made up his mind to update the machine-building industry though the country was in difficulties.

Thanks to his correct decision and wise guidance, the Huichon Ryonha General Machine Factory was successfully built into a model factory, heralding the start of industrial revolution in the new century.

The Juche-based systems of making iron, fertilizer and vinalon have been developed and introduced in the industrial establishments and fish farms and foodstuff factories built on a modern basis, thus laying a solid economic foundation for improving the standard of people's living.

Recollecting the undying exploits Kim Jong Il performed on behalf of the prosperity of the country and the people's wellbeing, the Korean people are now fully determined to unfailingly carry out his behests.