He looked round the room for education in the revolutionary history.

Saying that the plant is a factory established under the care of leader Kim Jong Il in the 21st century, he stressed the need to meticulously organize the education through the room so as to help the workers of the plant live and struggle with the pride of working at the place associated with the leadership exploits of Kim Jong Il.

He went round the pressing shop, processing shop and other places of the plant to learn in detail about the machine production.

Noting that the plant is the one of great significance in developing the country's machine-building industry, he said that he visited it to turn it into another model plant and standard plant of the country.

He underlined the need to modernize its production process at the best level in order to economize manpower as much as possible, keep its machine production going at a high rate and thoroughly guarantee the quality of its products.

Stressing the importance to properly set the goals to be attained in the modernization drive, he urged the plant to attain its first-stage goal by updating and putting on a CNC basis its old equipment and putting its production process on a semi-automatic basis and the second by placing its overall production processes on a complete automatic and streamlined basis.

He underscored the need to provide the workers of the plant with the best civilization by giving a complete face-lift to the plant through various projects including the one for newly sprucing up its cultural hall for workers.

Noting that the Party will take charge of the work for modernizing the plant and settle all matters, he called on its officials and workers to determinedly rise up in the efforts for turning it into the country's core machine plant.

The modernization of the plant is vast but there is nothing insurmountable if its workers make efforts out of the high awareness to firmly defend their revolutionary and class position as befitting the members of the heroic Juche-type working class struggling the way the great leaders did, he noted.

Accompanying him were Jo Yong Won, Hong Yong Chil and Yun Tong Hyon.