Kim Jong Il Provides Field Guidance to Work in Field of Light Industry

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 work in the field of light industry, going round the second commodity exhibition of Pyongyang Department Store No. 1.
Making the rounds of garments, shoes, foodstuffs, domestic utensils, kitchen utensils, school things, goods for cultural use and daily use and other varieties of goods displayed in the exhibition, he acquainted himself with quality and production of goods.
After going round the exhibition, he set forth on the spot the important tasks to serve as guidelines for further developing the light industry.
As the validity and vitality of the Workers' Party of Korea's policy for improving the standard of people's living are being displayed through commercial service networks, the light industrial factories and other relevant units should produce and send goods to Pyongyang Department Store No. 1 and other department stores and shops on a regular basis, he said.
He underlined the need to further improve the commercial service to meet the intrinsic demand of socialist commerce.