NKorea leader visits provincial exhibit of consumer goods.

PYONGYANG, August 4 (Itar-Tass) - Leader Kim Jong-il of the Democratic
People's Republic of Korea has visited an exhibition of consumer goods
during an inspection tour of Hamgyon-Namdo Province.
The Korean Central News Agency reported on Wednesday that the General
Secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK) and the Chairman of the
State Committee of Defence had surveyed the products displayed by
factories and industrial plants, including clothes, footwear, foodstuffs,
household articles, and school implements. Kim Jong-il pointed out the
importance of giving greater scope to boosting the production and raising
the quality of consumer goods in Pyongyang and other cities and provinces.
The supreme leader of the DPRK emphasized the determination and will
of the WPK to bring about a radical change in the wellbeing of people this
year when the 65th jubilee of the WPK is marked.
While in Hamgyon-Namdo Province, Kim Jong-il exercised direction on
the spot at several industrial enterprises, including the Vinalon Complex
named after February 8 in the city of Hamhung. The Complex specializes in
the production of synthetic fiber. He praised the factory personnel who
have managed to create new production facilities within a short period of
time and on the strength of their own technology in the interests of the
country's prosperity and people's happiness.
Kim Jong-il has been accompanied by a large group of party
functionaries.

.Large-tonnage ships for fishing fleet to be built in Primorye.

VLADIVOSTOK, August 4 (Itar-Tass) - Large-tonnage ships for the
fishing fleet will be built in the Primorsky (maritime) Territory (PT), or
Primorye, for short. Agreement in principle has been already reached with
big credit-lending organizations about the financing of the construction.
Types of fishing ships, their cost, and the necessary process equipment
are in the stage of fixing, PT Governor Sergei Darkin said Tuesday at a
meeting in the city of Bolshoi Kamen on the development of shipbuilding.
"We must launch these projects next year. In order to do this, we must
fully renew our fishing fleet in the subsequent five years," the Governor
pointed out.
A new shipbuilding yard is being established at the Zvezda plant in
Bolshoi Kamen. Parties to the project -- the "Far Eastern Shipbuilding and
Shiprepairing Center" public joint-stock company and the South Korean
Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering Company -- have already
registered a joint-venture enterprise. Project design work is currently
under way. The formation of the coastal line and the dredging of the bed
of the future shipyard are to begin in October. The new shipyard is to
come into operation by 2012.

.Chosun Ilbo: DPRK deploys msls near ROK border.

SEOUL, August 4 (Itar-Tass) - The Democratic People's Republic of
Korea (DPRK) has deployed long-range anti-aircraft missiles near the
border with the Republic of Korea (ROK), the newspaper Chosum Ilbo
reported on Wednesday referring to military sources. The emergence of
those missiles with a range of up to 250 km coincided with the sinking of
the South Korean corvette Cheonan on March 26, the paper said. Seoul
blames the sinking on the DPRK.
SA-5 missiles were redeployed to the Demilitarized Zone from Hwanghae
Province. That move, in the opinion of military sources, brings about a
serious threat to South Korean fighter planes that patrol the border
areas. The missiles are capable of shooting down aircraft even in South
Korea's hinterland, not to mention the Greater Seoul area.
The use of SA-5 can prevent ROK Air Force, in the event of an
emergency, from delivering accurate strikes at strategic targets on the
territory of the North, the paper quotes one of the sources. In the event
of the activation of the radars of those missiles, South Korean air pilots
would have to fly at altitudes below 3,000 metres to avoid detection.
At the end of the1980s, the DPRK purchased 350 SA-5 and 20 missile
launchers from the then Soviet Union. These systems that are designed to
destroy American strategic bombers were deployed around Pyongyang and
Wonsan and in some areas of Hwanghae Province. They shot down targets at 4
Mach speed but were not notable for high accuracy, Chosun Ilbo wrote.
The North Korean army also has available medium- and short-range
anti-aircraft missiles of SA-2 and SA-3 types with a range of 45 and 35 km
respectively, as well as SA-7 and SA-16 anti-aircraft missile systems, the
paper pointed out.
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