Pyongyang, February 19 (KCNA) -- Day of the machine industry falls on February 20 in Korea.
Working people in the sector of the machine industry are enjoying their holiday while on the forced march for the Final victory.
The Korea machinery group recently produced over 77,500 machines and equipment, electric appliances and accessories for the pace-setting domains of the national economy.
The farm machine industrial management bureau produced some 1,000 rice-transplanting machines, many small track chain rice harvesters and other farming machines for cooperative farms.
Production was boosted by the Taean Heavy Machine Complex, the Ranam Coal Mining Machine Complex, the August 28 Factory and other units.
The state has directed great efforts to developing the machine industry.
Machine factories have been reinforced and the Taean Heavy Machine Complex and the Ryongsong Associated Machinery Bureau have been expanded and strengthened into ordered equipment production bases. And large modern machine factories including the Rakwon Oxygen Plant Works under the Rakwon Machine Complex were newly built.
Local products include a 10,000-ton press, a 18,000 cubic meter oxygen plant, a 125,000 kva hydroelectric generator, 50,000 kva thermal turbines, 210-ton boilers, 5,450 hp compressors, large ships, large trucks, numerical control machine tools and eight-axle electric locomotives.
President Kim Il Sung, considering the development of the machine industry the core of heavy industry and the foundations of technological progress, indicated long ago the orientation and way for building machine industry in each period and stage of the developing revolution.
He unfolded a grand design for the development of the machine industry even in the grim period of the Fatherland Liberation War (June 1950-july 1953) and recalled technicians from the front to lay the foundations of the machine industry.
After the war he put forward the slogan "iron and the machine are the king of industry" and gave energetic guidance to the founding of modern machine industry and development.
He visited the Huichon General Machine Tool Plant (the then Huichon Machine Tool Factory) in February, Juche 60 (1971) and kindled the torch of new technical innovation.
He also initiated the machine-tool-begets-machine-tool movement twice and opened a turning point in improving the technique and equipment of the national economy.
The machine industry of Korea started from scratch after its liberation (August 1945) and underwent a complete change under his wise guidance.