Kim Jong Un Inspects Pyongyang Pharmaceutical Factory

Pyongyang, January 25 (KCNA) -- Kim Jong Un, respected Supreme Leader of the DPRK, together with Ri Sol Ju, gave field guidance to the Pyongyang Pharmaceutical Factory. Stressing the need for the factory to put on a normal basis the production of various medicines for the promotion of the people's health and the medical treatment and prevention of diseases, he urged the relevant sectors to supply in time the raw and other materials and technical means needed for the medicine production. The respected Supreme Leader set forth the tasks to remodel the Pyongyang Pharmaceutical Factory on a more modern basis. He said it is his plan to turn the factory into a standard one in the country's pharmaceutical industry and renovate on a modern basis all other pharmaceutical factories throughout the country with it as a model. The upgrading of the Pyongyang Pharmaceutical Factory and the Hungnam Pharmaceutical Factory should be pushed forward in a bold way to make this an important occasion in laying a springboard for rapid progress in the pharmaceutical industrial sector, he added, taking measures of warm affection to do so. He had a picture taken with the factory's officials and employees. -0-