North Korean Leader Visits Automated Factory

Kim Jong Il has visited the newly built Pyongyang Taesong Tyre Factory, in Pyongyang, North Korea. The factory has a total floor space of more than 2,000 square metres and all its production processes are automated.

Earlier reports speak of a 2,260 square metre Taesong Factory, being commissioned to produced “good recapped tyres of different sizes.” The exact output of the factory is therefore not clear.

A rapid increase in the number of vehicles requires the increased production of different kinds of tyres underscoring the need to boost the production of tyres of diverse sizes, the Korea News Service (KNS) quoted the North Korean leaders as saying.

It is a great achievement that constructors have built the factory meeting the need of the new century in a short span of time, he added, calling on workers to: “Wage a vigorous drive to operate in full capacity so as to keep the production going at a high rate and, at the same time, raise the quality of products, while paying attention to the maintenance of equipment and technical management.”