The Ministry of Unification has today released a report covering North Korea’s recent efforts to elevate the results of Kim Jong Il’s trip to China.
In the report on current issues produced for the Diplomacy, Commerce and Unification Committee of the National Assembly, the Ministry states, “North Korea has been continuously releasing propaganda about Kim Jong Il’s China, targeting the domestic audience.”
”North Korea broadcast a documentary film recording Kim’s visit on the 1st, and then there was an extended Politburo of the Party Central Committee meeting on the 6th which released a resolution, ‘Connecting the generations, we will strengthen and develop the Chosun-China relationship’,” the report then explains.
It also points out that North Korea “has been extensively propagandizing that, following National Defense Commission Chairman Kim Jong Il’s visit to China, follow-up political and economic measures between China and North Korea were moved forward, and the strengthening of China-North Korea friendly cooperative relations.”
“There has been a tendency since 2009 for Kim Jong Il’s public appearances to be concentrated in the economic field,” it adds by way of background, “In particular, North Korea has been encouraging improved light industrial and agricultural production; the repairing of light industrial factory equipment and the mobilization of the whole populace for rice-planting (May-June).”
“North Korea, with improving the people’s lives as the top priority, is encouraging the construction of an economically strong state, and is proceeding with large-scale construction projects on a 2012 deadline,” it adds, citing Heechon Power Plant and the project to construct 100,000 homes in Pyongyang as evidence of this ongoing effort.
