calendar>>May 25. 2016 Juche 105

Hwanghae Iron and Steel Complex Put on Juche and Modern Basis

Songrim, May 24 (KCNA) -- The workers, technicians and officials of the Hwanghae Iron and Steel Complex set up a huge oxygen separator by their own efforts and with indigenous technology, updated the furnace using oxygen heat and completed at least ten projects including the building of gas producer operating by domestic anthracite and the project of heating furnace for rolling by use of high temperature air combustion technology in a brief span of time.

A ceremony for the completion of the projects took place on Tuesday.

Present there were Pak Pong Ju, premier of the Cabinet, O Su Yong, vice-chairman of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK), Kim Yong Gwang, minister of Metallurgical Industry, Pak Thae Dok, chairman of the North Hwanghae Provincial Committee of the WPK, Im Hun, chairman of the North Hwanghae Provincial People's Committee, officials and working people of the complex and those of relevant units.

Pak Pong Ju in an inaugural speech said that the completion of the projects is the precious fruition of the efforts made by President Kim Il Sung and leader Kim Jong Il to put the metallurgical industry on a Juche basis and the wise guidance of Marshal Kim Jong Un who put forward the Korean working class as the heroic Kim Il Sung-Kim Jong Il working class and has led them to create the Mallima speed.

He called upon the workers of the complex to fully display the heroic spirit of the Kim Il Sung-Kim Jong Il working class in hearty response to the basic spirit of the Seventh Congress of the WPK and bring about uninterrupted innovations, advance and offensive and thus make a positive contribution to bringing earlier the final victory of the building of a thriving socialist nation.

At the end of the ceremony the participants went round the new production facilities.