Kim Jong Il Provides Field Guidance to Central Zoo

Pyongyang, July 11 (KCNA) -- Kim Jong Il, general secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea and chairman of the National Defence Commission of the DPRK, provided field guidance to the Central Zoo.
Going round the lemur and chimpanzee sheds, animal and fur seal playing grounds and other places of the zoo, he acquainted himself with its management and operation.
He highly praised the officials and employees of the zoo for arranging the animal sheds to suite the ecological characteristics of wild animals and actively contributing to providing people with cultural and emotional life.
He underlined the need to spruce up the zoo well as befitting an education center to help visitors widen knowledge about animals and nurture the spirit of socialist patriotism, not mere a sightseeing place, and thus actively contribute to the rest and education of visitors.
In order to let more people visit the zoo to enjoy a cultural and emotional life in the future, it is necessary to improve the interior and exterior of the animal sheds to the convenience of the visitors and, at the same time, set up sufficient facilities for resting, he noted.