DPRK media reported that Kim Jong Un, President of the State Affairs of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, visited on October 19 the venue of a garment and footwear exhibition in the light industry sector and expressed satisfaction with the blossoming and developing light industry.
The most impressive of the photos of his tour of the venue are those of him touching the garments and shoes on display to examine their styles and quality.
Usually, the maker of a product is held responsible for its type and quality.
But the photos suggest that he regards it as his important mission to improve the people’s cultural standard of living. They also remind the viewers that he is always concerned about how to provide the local people with consumer goods of better quality.
It is by no means fortuitous that while looking round the exhibits, he pointed to the need to ensure that progress in light industry leads the noble and beautiful trend of society and the development of civilization. This means that he takes the quality of garment and footwear products more as one of the important criteria for intuitively showcasing the people’s sound and beautiful civilized life than merely as the quality of consumer goods.
What deserves special attention is that he looked enormously energetic when he went round the exhibition hall. He gave the accompanying officials instructions with lively gestures—a strong suggestion of his self-confidence and conviction.
In recent years the DPRK has been pursuing the “Regional Development 20×10 Policy” initiated by Kim Jong Un with the result that modern light industry factories have been built in 20 cities and counties every year, contributing to steady expansion and consolidation of foundation of light industry. Reportedly competition is getting intense between light industry factories in the capital and newly built ones in regional areas over the development of new products and improvement of their quality. This trend is sure to grow further in the future as more light industry factories are continuously to be built in regions.
The recent show is a typical example.
His passionate image full of self-confidence and conviction was mirrored in the photos apparently because in the exhibition hall he saw the validity and vitality of the policy of the Workers’ Party of Korea aimed at the simultaneous and balanced development of the whole country by eliminating the differences between the capital city and regional areas and between urban and rural areas.
