Pyongyang, October 20 (KCNA) — Respected Comrade Kim Jong Un, General Secretary of the Workers’ Party of Korea and President of the State Affairs of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, went round the venue of a garment and footwear exhibition in light industry on October 19.
He was accompanied by leading officials of the Party and the government.
Comrade Kim Jong Un was greeted on the spot by senior officials of the Light Industry Department of the Central Committee of the Workers’ Party of Korea.
On display at the National Garment and Footwear Exhibition-2026 to be held under the theme of “Enthusiasm for developing new products and improving their quality” are more than 70 700 garments of over 30 kinds and over 170 000 pairs of shoes of over 60 kinds which were manufactured by more than 270 garment, footwear and bag production units, including major light industry factories and the newly-built city and county garment factories to suit the tastes of the Korean people and the world trend of development.
Comrade Kim Jong Un went round with satisfaction the venue of the exhibition which comprehensively shows the features of the development of the light industry sector which is promoting the improvement of the material and cultural welfare of the people and making rapid progress.
Saying that the national light industry goods exhibition which has been held in every October is intimately settled in the cultural and emotional life of our people, he appreciated that the current exhibition has been prepared, making another progress in scale, content and form, which are different from last year’s.
He said that all aspects including the brand and display, to say nothing of the shape, colour and quality of the products on display clearly show the rapid and substantial development of the light industry sector which is waging a hot emulation while concentrating efforts on improving the quality and developing new products, adding that the current exhibition eloquently signifies the daily-increasing cultural level of our people and the development of our light industry.
He said that dozens of kinds of smart and quality garment and footwear products presented by the city and county garment factories and other regional light industry factories newly built under the Party’s policy of regional development are squarely competing with the products of the central-level factories, adding that this is a clear demonstration of the validity and vitality of the Party’s policy aimed at eliminating the differences between the central and local areas and between urban and rural areas and achieving simultaneous and balanced development of the whole country.
Comrade Kim Jong Un said that progress in light industry should lead the noble and beautiful trend, civilization and development of our society by further accelerating the vigorous development trend of light industry so that the foundations of light industry, which have already been established in the central and local areas and are being expanded every year, can meet the people’s growing cultural and emotional requirement and ensure their colorful life.
Saying that it is most important for the light industry sector to give precedence to designing of the products and develop it, Comrade Kim Jong Un stressed the need to organize design festivals and exhibitions in various forms and methods, learn about the cultural tastes of the working people through them and introduce them into production, thus increasing the economic effectiveness and scientific accuracy of the production of goods.
He set forth the orientation and tasks for the development of light industry including the issue of encouraging the development of peculiar national costumes of Korean style, the issue of producing more diverse light industrial goods with elements symbolic of the national flag of the DPRK to inspire the people with patriotism and make patriotism permeate the daily life of society, the issue of widely publishing and disseminating various kinds of picture albums and magazines introducing new garment and footwear products on an annual basis, the issue of raising the hot wind of emulation among the production units at all levels with their monopoly indices and the issue of consistently ensuring the quality in the production of schoolchildren’s uniforms, bags and shoes. -0-
