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N. Korean leader visits remote northern province
SEOUL, Sept. 3 (Yonhap) -- North Korean leader Kim Jong-il has traveled to the country's northernmost province to give "field guidance" to workers in a sanatorium and other industrial facilities there, state media said.
Kim's visit to North Hamgyong Province was his 100th public tour this year. After
allegedly suffering a stroke in August last year, the 67-year-old leader has
restored his health through "mental power," one of his closest aides said during
a recent visit to Seoul.
In a dispatch dated Wednesday and published Thursday, the Korean Central News
Agency (KCNA) said Kim toured the Kim Jong Suk Sanatorium, named after his
mother, a museum, an insulator factory and several more industrial sites in the
province.
"The world-startling miracles and signal achievements are now being reported from
every place of the country," Kim was quoted as saying by the report. Those signs
are "the precious fruition of the inexhaustible mental power and noble patriotism
which inspired the Korean people to display the 'do-or-die' spirit to build a
great prosperous and powerful nation," he said.
The date of the trip was not given, customarily. But Kim's activities are usually
believed to be reported on the day they are made or the following day.
Kim has considerably increased economy-related visits this year, while reducing
military inspections, Seoul's Unification Ministry said. Of his 100 destinations
so far, 36 were to industrial sites, compared to 19 during the same period last
year. Military inspections declined to 32 from 42.
Overall, he made 74 public visits last year and 53 visits in 2007.
In a sign of his restored health, Kim held hours of separate talks with former
U.S. President Bill Clinton and Hyun Jeong-eun, chairwoman of Hyundai Group, a
South Korean major investor in the North, during their visits to Pyongyang last
month.
Kim Ki-nam, a Workers' Party secretary who visited Seoul last month to pay
condolences to late former South Korean President Kim Dae-jung, said the North
Korean leader "has overcome (the illness) through mental power" and "now works
with the passion of youth," according to former Seoul administration officials
who met him.
Kim Ki-nam accompanied the North Korean leader in the latest visit, the KCNA said.
hkim@yna.co.kr
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Kim's visit to North Hamgyong Province was his 100th public tour this year. After
allegedly suffering a stroke in August last year, the 67-year-old leader has
restored his health through "mental power," one of his closest aides said during
a recent visit to Seoul.
In a dispatch dated Wednesday and published Thursday, the Korean Central News
Agency (KCNA) said Kim toured the Kim Jong Suk Sanatorium, named after his
mother, a museum, an insulator factory and several more industrial sites in the
province.
"The world-startling miracles and signal achievements are now being reported from
every place of the country," Kim was quoted as saying by the report. Those signs
are "the precious fruition of the inexhaustible mental power and noble patriotism
which inspired the Korean people to display the 'do-or-die' spirit to build a
great prosperous and powerful nation," he said.
The date of the trip was not given, customarily. But Kim's activities are usually
believed to be reported on the day they are made or the following day.
Kim has considerably increased economy-related visits this year, while reducing
military inspections, Seoul's Unification Ministry said. Of his 100 destinations
so far, 36 were to industrial sites, compared to 19 during the same period last
year. Military inspections declined to 32 from 42.
Overall, he made 74 public visits last year and 53 visits in 2007.
In a sign of his restored health, Kim held hours of separate talks with former
U.S. President Bill Clinton and Hyun Jeong-eun, chairwoman of Hyundai Group, a
South Korean major investor in the North, during their visits to Pyongyang last
month.
Kim Ki-nam, a Workers' Party secretary who visited Seoul last month to pay
condolences to late former South Korean President Kim Dae-jung, said the North
Korean leader "has overcome (the illness) through mental power" and "now works
with the passion of youth," according to former Seoul administration officials
who met him.
Kim Ki-nam accompanied the North Korean leader in the latest visit, the KCNA said.
hkim@yna.co.kr
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