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N. Korean leader honors farming as `patriotic work`
SEOUL, Oct. 9 (Yonhap) -- North Korean leader Kim Jong-il lauded agriculture as
"patriotic work" that is essential to improving the quality of life in the
country, state media said Friday, reporting on his latest field trips.
The Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) and other media said Kim has visited the
Migok Co-op Farm and the newly-built North Hwanghae Provincial Art Theater in
North Hwanghae Province, south of Pyongyang. The date of the visits was not
given, as usual.
"Rural construction is an honorable and praiseworthy patriotic work to turn the
nation's rural areas into modern socialist ones (in which it is) better to live,"
Kim was quoted by the KCNA as telling farmers.
Solving food shortages is one of the top goals of the North's campaign to build a
"prosperous" nation by 2012, the birth centennial of the leader's father and the
country's founder, Kim Il-sung. For the 2012 campaign, Kim has significantly
increased his public visits so far this year to 119, compared to 75 made during
the same period of last year and 60 in 2007, according to Seoul's Unification
Ministry data.
The South Korean government expects the North's harvests this year will fall
about one million tons short of the amount it needs to feed its 24 million
people.
Kim said the farmers' tenacious drive "reaped the richest-ever harvest" this
year. He looked around the construction of new houses and the living of farmers
there, visited a farm supply store, the Migok Shop, and mounted a platform to
gain a bird's eye view of the farm, the KCNA said.
"The rich autumn scenery in the fields of this co-operative farm, which has
gained bumper crops, is something spectacular which can be seen in our socialist
countryside under the collective economy system only," Kim said.
"What is most important for solving the problem of clothing, food and housing is
to increase agricultural production," Kim pointed out.
Kim separately visited the provincial art theater and watched a performance, the
reports said.
In both visits, Kim was accompanied by Kim Ki-nam, secretary of the Workers'
Party central committee, and the party's department directors Pak Nam-gi and Jang
Song-thaek as well as provincial officials, they said.
hkim@yna.co.kr
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"patriotic work" that is essential to improving the quality of life in the
country, state media said Friday, reporting on his latest field trips.
The Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) and other media said Kim has visited the
Migok Co-op Farm and the newly-built North Hwanghae Provincial Art Theater in
North Hwanghae Province, south of Pyongyang. The date of the visits was not
given, as usual.
"Rural construction is an honorable and praiseworthy patriotic work to turn the
nation's rural areas into modern socialist ones (in which it is) better to live,"
Kim was quoted by the KCNA as telling farmers.
Solving food shortages is one of the top goals of the North's campaign to build a
"prosperous" nation by 2012, the birth centennial of the leader's father and the
country's founder, Kim Il-sung. For the 2012 campaign, Kim has significantly
increased his public visits so far this year to 119, compared to 75 made during
the same period of last year and 60 in 2007, according to Seoul's Unification
Ministry data.
The South Korean government expects the North's harvests this year will fall
about one million tons short of the amount it needs to feed its 24 million
people.
Kim said the farmers' tenacious drive "reaped the richest-ever harvest" this
year. He looked around the construction of new houses and the living of farmers
there, visited a farm supply store, the Migok Shop, and mounted a platform to
gain a bird's eye view of the farm, the KCNA said.
"The rich autumn scenery in the fields of this co-operative farm, which has
gained bumper crops, is something spectacular which can be seen in our socialist
countryside under the collective economy system only," Kim said.
"What is most important for solving the problem of clothing, food and housing is
to increase agricultural production," Kim pointed out.
Kim separately visited the provincial art theater and watched a performance, the
reports said.
In both visits, Kim was accompanied by Kim Ki-nam, secretary of the Workers'
Party central committee, and the party's department directors Pak Nam-gi and Jang
Song-thaek as well as provincial officials, they said.
hkim@yna.co.kr
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