He was accompanied by major senior officials of the WPK Central Committee.

The respected Comrade Kim Jong Un went round various production lines of the dockyard.

True to his on-site instructions, the workers, technicians and officials of the dockyard are pushing ahead with the work for modernizing production lines and expanding their capacity, all out in the drive to implement the policy of the WPK on developing the shipbuilding industry in the new era.

Learning in detail about the rebuilding and expansion of production capacity of the dockyard, he said it is a primary and important issue for developing the national economy and bolstering the Juche-oriented naval forces for our state to accelerate the modernization of the shipbuilding industry and radically increase the overall shipbuilding capacity. He noted that we should open up a new era when the shipbuilding industry undergoes a rapid change and we should guarantee that it changes without fail.

To this end, it is necessary to perfect the machinery of the shipbuilding industry on an effective basis, intensify the policy and technical guidance, give top priority to the work of rapidly raising the level of modernization in the shipbuilding industry as a whole and ensure a national and widespread support to it in a sustainable way, he stressed again.

He set forth major targets to be attained in technical updating and modernization of dockyards.

He made a relevant conclusion on the important issues arising in carrying out the huge plan for strengthening the material and technical foundation of the dockyard, repeatedly stressing that the dockyard, which is the reliable large-scale shipbuilding base of the country and boasts of its wonderful history and tradition of self-reliance, should become a core and engine in the ongoing struggle to usher in a new era of the development of the shipbuilding industry.