Economy 2024.12.21.
A spectacular sight of Juche-orientation was witnessed at the Hwanghae Iron and Steel Complex, the grand metallurgical base of the DPRK, at a time of emotion when all the people of the country are proudly concluding this year for securing a clear practical guarantee for carrying out the five-year plan through their indomitable patriotic struggle, true to the idea of the great Workers’ Party of Korea on self-respect and self-support.
The Korean-style energy-saving oxygen heat blast furnace has been successfully built at the Hwanghae Iron and Steel Complex taking an important share in the country’s iron production, which made another progress in putting the metal industry on a Juche basis and laid a firm foundation for dynamically opening up a broad avenue for the self-supporting economy.
The proud edifice, which was built in the new era of comprehensive national rejuvenation while demonstrating once again the might of the self-supporting metallurgical industry, is a clear proof of the dignity and greatness of our state and people who have grown strong with firm trust and confidence in their own strength. It is also a gift of the loyal labour presented to the 11th Plenary Meeting of the Eighth Party Central Committee by the heroic Korean working class who are firmly supporting the eternal history of a powerful country with their own efforts.
An inauguration ceremony of the energy-saving oxygen heat blast furnace of the Hwanghae Iron and Steel Complex took place on the spot on Thursday.
Present there were Kim Tok Hun, member of the Presidium of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the WPK, vice-president of the State Affairs Commission of the DPRK and premier of the Cabinet, Jon Hyon Chol, secretary of the Central Committee of the WPK, Pak Chang Ho, chief secretary of the North Hwanghae Provincial Committee of the WPK, Kim Son Il, chairman of the North Hwanghae Provincial People’s Committee, officials and employees of the Hwanghae Iron and Steel Complex, officials concerned and working people.
An Kum Chol, minister of Metallurgical Industry, made an inaugural address.
Upon authorization of the WPK Central Committee and the DPRK government, the speaker extended warm congratulations to the working class of the complex, all the builders, scientists and technicians who made great contributions to the development of the country’s metallurgical industry by dint of the immense revolutionary enthusiasm, fighting spirit and extraordinary creative efforts as befitting the vanguard of the all-people grand advance of self-reliance.
He said that the gigantic entity built at the complex this significant year shining with eye-opening events and victories is a proud creation provided by the workers by devotedly implementing the decisions adopted at the plenary meetings of the Party Central Committee in the spirit of absoluteness and unconditionality.
He said that the Eighth Congress of the WPK set it as an important affair vital to the self-supporting economy to perfect the Juche-oriented iron production technology and unfolded a grand blueprint for vigorously promoting the development of the metallurgical industry.
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He said with deep emotion that the success at the complex, which is of weighty significance in increasing the might of self-supporting economy, is associated with the meticulous guidance of
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He said that the workers of the complex, who know nothing but absoluteness and unconditionality to the call of the Party Central Committee, have made valuable and precious success with a single mind of loyalty and patriotism.
It was a daunting task to push ahead with the construction of a new-type oxygen heat blast furnace while carrying out the high-set iron and steel production plan at a time when the people had to overcome the ordeals and difficulties unprecedented in history, but the workers of the complex fully demonstrated the spirit and mettle of the Korean working class through their indomitable struggle, he noted.
He said that the workers, scientists and technicians have upheld the decisions adopted at the plenary meetings of the Party Central Committee with strenuous efforts and remarkable achievements and built a creation of self-supporting economy with the immutable faith that the only way for the development of the metallurgical industry is to complete the Korean-style iron making method without use of cokes.
He went on:
The iron blast furnace of our style, which was built, demonstrating the spirit of dynamic advance of Juche Korea, is associated with the devotion and sincerity of officials and working people of ministries, national agencies, relevant units and North Hwanghae Province who have provided necessary equipment and materials in a responsible manner and rendered material and moral assistance to it with the viewpoint that they are participants of the honorable struggle to firmly lay the foundations for independent iron production.
He called upon the officials and workers of the complex to keep in mind the highest honor and pride of being steel producers living and struggling with the great trust of the Party and put the operation of the energy-saving oxygen blast furnace on a normal basis and thus unconditionally attain the target of iron and steel production.
He called on the metallurgical industry sector to further strengthen the country’s foundation of Juche-based iron production and definitely raise the metallurgical industry to the stage of sustainable development by dynamically conducting the work to expand the successes and experience.
He ardently called upon all the people to turn out in the sacred patriotic struggle for the overall development of socialism full of confidence in sure victory and optimism in the spirit of winning victory in implementing the Party’s decisions and thus fully display the heroic spirit of our generation, the greatest and most powerful in the history of the DPRK.
Then, Ri Song Ho, deputy manager of the Hwanghae Iron and Steel Complex, and Yun Hyok Chol, deputy workshop head, made speeches.
Speakers said with excitement that the Korean-style energy-saving oxygen heat blast furnace, unprecedented in the metallurgical industry of the world, has been built again thanks to the grand plan, strong will, bold decision and wise leadership of
They expressed their determination to fully demonstrate the revolutionary spirit and mettle of the heroic working class of
At the end of the ceremony the participants went round the newly-built Juche-based iron production process.
Rodong Sinmun