Respected Comrade Kim Jong Un's Speech at Inauguration Ceremony of Samgwang Livestock Farm

 Pyongyang, February 3 (KCNA) -- The respected Comrade Kim Jong Un made a speech at the inauguration ceremony of the Samgwang Livestock Farm.
The full text of his speech is as follows:
Leading cadres of the Party and government and members of the Party central leadership, who are present here,
Comrades, 
At this Samgwang Livestock Farm to be inaugurated today, we are seeing another peculiar development of the socialist countryside aspiring to advancement and modernity.
As all of you would feel while looking round it, the landscape that has completely changed the long-standing understanding of mountain village and rural life would be really impressive. 
I think it is important on this occasion that we must renew our will and re-set on site the height of transformation, the level of change, we want to reach. 
Whatever we do, we should do as we have done with this one. 
This is the standard and epitome of a new change. 
Have a look. 
This far-flung village in Unjon County, which had nothing from of old to present other than a beautiful landscape and centuries-old rural backwardness, has been transformed into a standard entity, a blueprint, that enables us to visualize the future of modern countryside and modern stockbreeding. This is what we are seeing now. 
We can say this is just a real transformation. 
This Samgwang Livestock Farm, showcasing the developmental change in the countryside, constitutes another proud record and asset and wonderful creation, which highlights an aspect of the work of the Eighth Party Central Committee as much as a new large-scale greenhouse farm or leading electricity-generation base in terms of importance and significance.
First of all, I offer thanks to the builders of North Phyongan Province and scientists, technicians and officials of several sectors, who contributed to developing this unknown Samgwang-ri into an excellent model of socialist rural construction in faithful support of the rural revolution programme in the new era, which aims at the correct development of our state's agriculture and countryside. 
And I extend warm greetings to all the agricultural workers of the Samgwang Livestock Farm and their families, who have settled down for a happy life earlier than others in the ideal village of civilization and rejuvenation that all other rural communities will surely greet before long. 
Comrades, 
This scenery of Samgwang-ri that has undergone transformation without giving much publicity is not something that has suddenly been created in a few years. 
As is the case with the birth of everything new, painstaking efforts were made for this project, which was not all plain sailing. 
To provide our people with the happiest life is the long-cherished desire of our Party. As a priority target to this end, the Party planned and gave assignments some years ago for the construction of a modern and standard livestock farm specializing in the production of dairy produce.
This project encompassed introduction of much advanced livestock farming technology and methods suited to our reality and presenting a completely new appearance of the modern countryside, even from its concept and implementation methods, going beyond the bounds of landscaping and building houses and public facilities as farms in various parts of the country are doing now. It demanded that we should not rely on the conventional ideas and precedents even from the designing stage. 
Because of the deep-rooted habit of clinging to what are conventional and multiple challenges that faced us when we began to transform this farm, we had to renew the detailed targets and designs and repeat the building work accordingly on several occasions even when the project was underway full steam ahead. 
We made such great efforts to transform this one farm never to build in a place of the country an object for publicity or tour, but to create a new starting point, innovative criterion, conducive to defining a future development orientation of our countryside and our livestock farming. 
Of course, there are still some parts which require more efforts and something which should be done in order to perfectly modernize the Samgwang Livestock Farm. 
However, the present reality will be enough to show the real purpose of the construction of this farm and its result, I think. 
As I have mentioned above, it is important to create a proper standard, and whatever we plan and implement, we must get out of the habit of doing everything in an unscientific and slipshod way and without a clear standard. 
For the successful attainment of the goal of this trial project, I assigned it to a major department of the Party Central Committee and got it to oversee the project; the department carried out the assignment correctly.
The Samgwang Livestock Farm is a model of modern farm village and modern livestock farming, immaculate in all aspects.
It can be said that this farm has smashed the traditional concept of animal husbandry, crop farming and rural village that had long been regarded as a matter of course.
As it is put on a highly IT, intelligent, intensive and industrial footing, the farm is incomparably superior to other livestock farming bases that rank top in the country now. 
Gone forever are the days when it was regarded as normal for the keepers to climb mountains and graze animals, rain or shine.
This farm has introduced the method of raising goats and milch cows indoors to produce milk regardless of the seasonal change while economizing on labour and area. The keepers correctly conduct tending of each animal, like feeding and anti-epizootic work, in a scientific, technological and industrial way while operating the control system in modern animal sheds. And all the milch cows and goats are of superior breeds.
In addition, milking, conveying and processing lines are fully automated; feed processing and production and most of the other lines are done as they are at an industrial factory; and this farm has also a modern stockbreeding research branch. I think all these are most ideal for increased production and the development of stockbreeding technology. 
This is the first farm in the sector of raising grass-eating domestic animals to achieve the definite integration of science and technology with production and realization of a food production cycle based on animal husbandry and crop farming and the establishment of an intelligent integrated production system capable of real-time monitoring, analyzing and controlling the state of production and management activities to suit its characteristics as a livestock farm. 
These advantages constitute a factor favourable for promoting transformation of the agricultural workers on a working class pattern and improvement of their advanced and cultured level, which we always regard as an important task in resolving the rural and farmer problems.
As all the elements of modernization of livestock farming have been realized on an unprecedentedly high level, this will soon become a profitable farm, whose increase in revenue and improvement of employees' living standards based on high productivity are harmoniously combined with national interests.
At present, we can say that we built the Kwangchon Chicken Farm as a model of our country's poultry farming a few years ago, and that we have built this Samgwang Livestock Farm as a model of raising of grass-eating domestic animals. 
I am really happy that this farm will uninterruptedly produce cheese, butter and other dairy produce, which were inconceivable at the farm, to contribute to the dietary life of our people, the children in particular.
Samgwang-ri, a modernized livestock farming base, is an exemplary and ideal rural community furnished with all the functions and criteria as a regional unit equal to one-4 000th of the country in area. 
To say nothing of the seat of Samgwang-ri, where sections for education and leisure activities and residential quarters are distributed in an orderly way, the buildings of all branch farms and workteams and processing places have been built to be perfect in architectural aesthetics and suitable for their functions and purposes. All these features serve as a wonderful textbook for the urbanization of the countryside and the civilization of mountain villages.  
Flawless are such public facilities as school, kindergarten, hospital, pharmacy, shop, hall of culture and neighbourhood-serving amenities.
The farm has also set an example in creating an ecological environment and in landscaping. 
It is the correct implementation of the Party's policy that the bare land in all sections except the land under cultivation has been carpeted with cover plants in harmony with good species of trees.
Afforestation and water conservation have been carried out to cover the mountains with thick forests and turn the shores of the reservoir and river into places, into distinctive parks, for recreational activities and power-generating facilities relying on renewable energy have been set up.
Such is a view of Samgwang-ri, which even a painter with outstanding imagination can hardly portray in his work.
Embodied in every element and every corner of this farm are the policy-oriented requirements to transplant the advanced and modern qualities into the countryside. Indeed, as a comprehensive model of rural transformation, the farm clearly indicates the ideals and goal of socialist rural construction at the present stage. 
Comrades,
The eye-opening appearance of this transformed farm teaches us something very great.
The significance is not confined to the transformation of a mountainous farm; what is more significant is that it has opened the way to transformation and development suited to the specific features of the regions and farms and boosts their self-confidence, ambition and courage. 
The transformation in Samgwang, which has completely changed the concepts of production mode, working life and rural civilization, clearly indicates what we should do in the future and on which level we should do them. 
What I make clear here is that we do not intend to confine ourselves to putting forward and giving publicity to this rural area as we did in the past with some exemplary units, but to fundamentally transform all the rural communities across the country with this area as the origin and starting point. 
To this end, we have to duly realize once again why our rural areas are yet to be freed from impoverishment even though, from a historical point of view, many Party's policies on rural problems have been advanced and the struggle to carry out the socialist rural theses has been conducted for over half a century.
Frankly speaking, it is no exaggeration to say that we paid lip service to rural construction in the past. 
To take a typical example in this regard, each province has done nothing other than face-lifting a few rural villages in a symbolic way. 
A policy that is hardly possible to be executed is nothing other than an empty theory; is it a viable policy?
The state investment in, and assistance to, the countryside has been conducted in a sporadic, temporary and showy way; this is another mistake made in rural construction.
Officials have pushed forward with rural construction without any correct goal, standard and methodology. 
In particular, they have failed to take effective measures for raising in a sustainable way agricultural productivity, a key and basic task in rural construction, and consolidating stage by stage the material and technical foundations of the countryside. 
To speak about livestock farming, the slogan for obtaining meat from grass was raised already in the postwar period and a fuss has been made about solving without delay the problem of meat and eggs by building large-scale livestock farming bases in different parts of the country, but none has paid off. 
Ten years have passed since a livestock farming base was built in the Sepho area, but it is the same case with it. 
The livestock farming sector, virtually devoid of the technology for developing superior breeds, has not established a proper system of breeding nor has it done as it should the work of preserving and supplementing the superiority of these breeds.
Complaining about the lack of grain fodder and protein fodder, the sector has not buckled down to solving the fodder problem; the result is that every province fails to meet the elementary demand owing to the lack of fodder though they have several livestock farming bases with a large production capacity. 
Our struggle goal for rural construction cannot be attained simply by means of any rhetoric or high-sounding slogans. It can be attained through our uninterrupted efforts for substantial and sustainable development and transformation in agricultural productivity, rural environment and the agricultural workers' living. 
We have no time to be engaged in empty talk any longer. We must struggle steadily and bring about transformation continuously so as to create without fail changed environment and improved entities. 
To make the members of the central leadership of the Party accept this idea by seeing the actual object and reality--this is why I have come here with them.
Comrades, 
Since the rural revolution programme in the new era was advanced, a new history of transformation has been opened and a number of conspicuous successes have been achieved in our countryside.
Rural housing construction has been conducted for three successive years, with the result that modern villages have sprung up in all cities and counties and changes have begun to be made in all realms including grain production structure, mechanization, irrigation, farming methods and the level of ideological consciousness and civilization of the agricultural workers.
As the implementation of the regional development policy is underway full steam and in a simultaneous way, the socio-economic conditions for promoting and backing up the development and rejuvenation of the countryside are becoming more matured and enriched.
But, we should not think that we can carry out as we planned the historic tasks of our rural revolution by continuing to do as we are doing now.
Just this Samgwang-ri clearly indicates the prospect of the socialist rural development we are going to attain.
What we have to do from now on is to expand and develop the experience and successes we have gained in the course of building the Samgwang Livestock Farm, and thus put rural development onto a new qualitative transformation stage. 
Only when the agricultural workers enjoy all the benefits of modern science and technology and civilization in all realms, can we say that the goal of the rural revolution programme in the new era has been attained and the socialist rural development policy has succeeded in the true sense of the word.
Therefore at the present stage, we should launch a vigorous struggle to transform all the rural communities across the country in all realms of construction of houses and education, public health and leisure facilities, land administration and eco-environmental protection, to say nothing of agricultural production, as we have done in Samgwang-ri. 
A major hallmark of the modern countryside can be said to be the modernization, informatization and industrialization of agriculture.
It is necessary to readjust and fully improve the land, roads, irrigation facilities and the electric supply system, which are directly linked to agricultural production, in a neat and efficient way, step up the comprehensive mechanization of farm operations in keeping with the topographical features, and actively introduce into them the automation and AI technology. 
Now that the enthusiasm for scientific farming prevails in the whole country and it has become an actual task to apply IT to farm work, farms should follow the road of establishing a network infrastructure and scientific management system for agricultural production.
They should also build workteam buildings, greenhouses and other bases for production activities, production facilities, in a neat way and make them multifunctional.
Another major hallmark of the modern countryside is its urbanized, civilized and advanced characters. 
At present, dwelling houses and public buildings are being built in rural communities in cities and counties across the country every year, but it can be said to be just the beginning, if they are to be built genuinely as nicely as those in urban areas.
We should properly form farm village sections in keeping with the relevant regional features, construct all the buildings and other elements to suit the modern aesthetic sense, and actively transplant the essential elements of cultured living, which have so far been regarded as part of civilization only in urban areas, into rural areas, so as to reduce the gap between towns and the countryside.
We are going to modernize rural areas with an eye to promoting the convenience of the agricultural workers as much as possible and enabling them to substantially enjoy modern civilization; therefore, we should ensure perfect quality of all buildings and other creations. 
To this end, provinces, cities and counties should direct efforts into building up design and construction forces that are indispensable to rural construction, increasing the proportion of construction work done by machines, and expanding the capacity for producing building materials.
Even if the working conditions and living environment improve, it does not mean that the level of ideological awareness, technical qualifications and civilization of the people will go up of their own accord. 
As our Party consistently stresses, we should keep stepping up the three revolutions--ideological, technological and cultural--to make agricultural workers full-fledged masters of the modern countryside and the driving force of the rural revolution, who are prepared ideologically, spiritually, culturally and technologically.
In other words, we should transform them on a revolutionary and working-class pattern and make them well versed in science and technology.
The departments of the Party Central Committee, ministries, national agencies and design and other relevant sectors should intensify guidance and assistance for rural development from the standpoint of building up all farms in a modern style like the Samgwang Livestock Farm.
By doing so, we should accomplish the historic cause of turning all the rural communities into rich and civilized socialist paradise, ideal land good to work and live in, in our generation without fail.
We should definitely transform the country's animal husbandry into a modern one of the world level.
Our Party and state have so far built a large number of livestock farming bases and put much effort to them in order to amply supply our people with meat, eggs and milk, but with the present low level and weak foundations it is impossible to meet the people's qualitative and quantitative needs, and yet it is all the more difficult to bring animal husbandry up to the world standard. 
Today, however, we have gained confidence, and the future is promising. 
There is no need for us to have a faint hope or heave a sigh, comparing ours to the developed animal husbandry of other countries. 
We have already built by ourselves a model of modern animal husbandry attaining the world level, and in the course of this we have accumulated precious experience and drawn valuable lessons. 
Our Party already set superior breeds, sufficient feed, a scientific approach to rearing and comprehensive veterinary services as four key factors in developing livestock farming, and has worked to this end. We should add to these factors the making of production and management informatized and intelligent.
The reality of the Samgwang Livestock Farm shows that no one can discuss about the world level unless production and management of such farms are made informatized and intelligent, even if they are equipped with the elements essential for the development of animal husbandry. 
That is why all the units in the animal husbandry sector should go in the direction of establishing an intelligent production system by combining modern information means and equipment with overall processes and elements of livestock farming like the Samgwang Livestock Farm.
In a word, the livestock farming sector should set the new five key factors as the basic direction for putting animal husbandry on a modern and advanced footing.
It is a prerequisite for the development of animal husbandry to steadily secure animals of superior breeds. 
The breeding sector and production units should introduce advanced techniques and methods to develop and propagate good breeds of domestic animals, whose milk and meat are of high quality and which are highly productive, and establish a strict system for preserving pedigree breeds for preventing them from being degenerated. 
Fodder supply is as important as the issue of breeds in developing animal husbandry. 
Now is the time for us to take the road of solving the issue of fodder by intensive and industrial methods. 
We should improve grass fields effectively, cultivate grasses of high nutritive value, and raise the proportion of mechanization in the management of grass fields so as to boost their productivity.
We should also adopt intensive and industrial methods in the cultivation of grasses and fodder processing, including the introduction of continuous production of grasses in their cultivation grounds and various fodder production techniques according to the breeds of domestic animals, seasons and the individual animals.
In the past it was regarded as a traditional concept that there must be pastures and roads in order to raise grass-eating domestic animals on a large scale. Now is the time for us to boldly get rid of this convention. 
In view of the situation of our country with a limited area of grass fields and the global development trend of animal husbandry, it is profitable to encourage and expand the raising of animals indoors.
I have already mentioned this at the Fourth Plenary Meeting of the Eighth Central Committee of the Party.
In doing so, we can drastically increase the number of domestic animals per keeper and raise them in a scientific, intensive and specialized way.
In keeping with the introduction of indoor raising methods and the developing level of intensive production, the livestock farming units should pay close attention to developing the technologies of treating and reusing the excrement, so as to prevent environmental pollution and perfect the food production cycle of animal husbandry and crop farming. 
The reality, in which livestock farming is being put on an intensive and industrial footing, makes a higher demand on the anti-epizootic work. 
These days, not a few epidemic diseases are spreading worldwide, threatening livestock farming. Our country, too, has suffered a considerable damage from them. By drawing a lesson from this and with a view that anti-epizootic work equates to production, we should decisively raise the level of modernization and scientification of disinfecting imported domestic animals and take scientific and strict anti-epizootic measures in livestock farming units. 
In addition, we should integrate the livestock production and processing, increase the range of dairy produce and processed meat, and thoroughly guarantee their quality.
From this angle, the basic orientation of our livestock farming is to develop specialized livestock farming on an IT, intelligent, intensive and industrial basis.
The livestock production at farms and individual households play a considerable part as much as specialized livestock farming units do in fully satisfying the demand for livestock products. Therefore, we should proactively encourage these kinds of livestock farming and apply scientific raising and tending methods to them to the maximum.  
We should take economic and practical measures nationwide to improve the role of stockbreeding science and education sectors and research units, develop and produce a large number of modern machines for livestock farming, and provide a sustainable driving force to the efforts for reenergizing livestock farming.
It is important to direct much effort to building up the ranks of technical personnel, the most essential and strategic resource for the development of livestock farming, while further reinforcing the systems for the guidance over and sci-tech dissemination for the country's livestock farming and adjusting irrational spaces and elements with regard to this.  
It is necessary to effectively organize the work of introducing and propagating across the country the experience and successes gained in modernizing the Samgwang Livestock Farm. 
There are livestock farms in provinces which were built scores of years ago and livestock farming bases which have been newly built. It will be a good idea for all of them to come here to learn from this farm and make a fresh start in keeping with their specific situations.
If we build profitable livestock farming bases in succession in all provinces by drawing on the experience of building this farm wonderfully and thus give a spur to modernizing the country's livestock farming, it will develop by leaps and bounds.
In this way we can set the goal of supplying all the time milk, butter, cheese and other dairy produce of various kinds and processed meat to all the population, to say nothing of not only children but also primary and middle school students.
Comrades,
We are now confident in and fully optimistic about the development of the countryside and livestock farming, but it will not be easy at all to achieve it.
However, we should regard this as something we must do by all means.
As you see firsthand the changes in the countryside in the run-up to the Party Congress, all of you attending this ceremony should boost your confidence and harden your common will to open a new chapter of socialist rural construction. 
Officials should fully discharge their duty and role in the efforts for developing livestock farming and the countryside. By doing so, they can make this ceremony an important occasion and a new, powerful starting point in expanding and stepping up the rural revolution in the new era. 
Workers of the Samgwang Livestock Farm,
You will be the first in our country to enjoy the benefits of modernized countryside.
I am convinced that the workers and officials of the farm will continue to elevate their pride in having written a new chapter of transformation in the chronicles of their region into an unexcelled patriotic zeal and work hard for a greater development and prosperity of their native place and for a rosier future of their posterity.
I wish all the families in Samgwang-ri only pleasure and happiness in their dear place which will prosper forever and become more beautiful. -0-