Kim Jong-Il urges N Korea people to join struggle for harvest.

PYONGYANG, October 9 (Itar-Tass) - North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il has
urged the republic's population to join the struggle for harvest. He said
the whole country and people should as before exert every effort in the
agricultural work in order to make substantial progress in the
agricultural produce output, the North's official Korean Central News
Agency (KCNA) reported on Friday.
According to the agency, General Secretary Kim Jong Il gave field
guidance to the Migok Co-op Farm in Sariwon. He first looked round several
places of the farm including a mechanized workteam to learn in detail
about this year's farming.
He expressed great satisfaction over the fact that all the party
members and other working people of the farm made thorough preparations
for this year's farming from its beginning and waged a tenacious drive,
highly conscious of being responsible for the supply of rice to the
nation, and thus reaped the richest-ever harvest, KCNA reported.
He then visited ex-officer Ri Yong Jun's family in the "apricot
village," which moved to a new house, to learn in detail about the
construction of new modern dwelling houses and the living of farmers
there. He then moved on to the Migok Shop in the centre of the village to
acquaint himself with the supply of goods to the farmers. He indicated the
orientation and ways to improve the supply of goods in the rural areas,
the agency said.
He then mounted a platform to enjoy a bird's-eye view of the farm.
The rich autumn scenery in the fields of the co-operative farm visited
by bumper crops is something spectacular which can be seen in our
socialist countryside under the collective economy system only, he noted,
adding that this stirring reality clearly proves the great vitality of the
most advantageous socialist rural economic system in our country.
What is most important for solving the problem of clothing, food and
housing is to increase agricultural production, he pointed out, indicating
important tasks to be fulfilled by the farm.
According to KCNA, he specified tasks and ways for sprucing up farm
villages to meet the need of socialism, saying that rural construction is
an honourable and praiseworthy patriotic work to turn the nation's rural
areas into modern socialist ones better to live.
He underscored the need for the whole country and all the people to
keep directing all efforts to farming and thus make steady leaping
progress in agricultural production as agriculture is the most important
field for solving the people's problem of clothing, food and housing, KCNA
reported.
He was accompanied by Chief Secretary of the North Hwanghae Provincial
Committee of the WPK Choe Ryong Hae, Secretary of the WPK Central
Committee Kim Ki Nam, and Department Directors of the WPK Central
Committee Pak Nam Gi and Jang Song Thaek.
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