Inaugural Ceremony of Sci-Tech Complex Held in Presence of Kim Jong Un

Pyongyang, January 2 (KCNA) -- There took place an inaugural ceremony of the Sci-Tech Complex with splendor in the presence of supreme leader Kim Jong Un on Friday, New Year's Day. Amid the playing of the welcome music Kim Jong Un cut the inaugural tape. At the end of the ceremony he went round the complex together with senior officials of the party, state and army. Going round the interior of the complex, he said this is a great center for all-people study and one for disseminating latest science and technology in which the party's plan has been materialized. He said meaningful words that the first gate to the New Year to greet the 7th Congress of the Workers' Party of Korea has been opened with science. He called for operating well the complex, a precious wealth of the country, and greatly contributing to making all the people well versed in science and technology, turning the DPRK into a power of science and technology and developing it into a talented nation. He underscored the need for the scientific field to firmly build up forces for developing science and technology, boost creative cooperation among scientists and researchers and widely generalize the successes and experience gained and thus steadily develop the nation's science and technology. He underlined the need for the field of education to steadily push forward the work for improving conditions and environment for education in the age of knowledge-based economy and thus train huge ranks of talents who will play important roles in bringing earlier the building of a socialist economic power. -0-