Kim Jong Il Visits Amur Region of Russian Federation

Pyongyang, August 22 (KCNA) -- Kim Jong Il, general secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea and chairman of the DPRK National Defence Commission, visited Amur Region in the Far East Region of the Russian Federation on August 21.
He arrived in Amur Region in the morning.
He exchanged greetings with Oleg Kozhemyako, governor of Amur Region; Aleksandr Bashun, chairman of the Amur Region Legislative Assembly; Pavel Shtein, governor of the Bureya District Administration; and other leading officials of the region, city and district who came to greet him and Viktor Ishayev, presidential envoy to the Far East Region of the Russian Federation; and Valery E. Sukhinin, Russian ambassador to the DPRK; who were conducting him on a visit to the Far East Region.
He visited the Bureya Hydro-electric Plant.
Highly praising the Russian people for having built the modern large-scale hydro-electric plant by harnessing nature for dozens of years, he expressed expectation that the workers of the plant would keep the electricity production going at a high rate and contribute to the economic development in the Far East Region and its people's wellbeing.
The governor of the region gave a luncheon in honor of Kim Jong Il.
An art performance prepared by the artistes of the region was given in welcome of him.
He left for his next destination amid the warm send-off by senior officials of the region.