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DPRK Premier makes field survey of different sectors
  Pak Thae Song, Member of the Presidium of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea and Premier of the Cabinet of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, made a field survey of different sectors of the national economy.
  Acquainting himself with the technical specifications and economic effectiveness of the products presented to the face equipment and hand tools exhibition under way at the Inpho Youth Coal Mine of the Pukchang Area Youth Coal-Mining Complex, he stressed the need to keep strengthening the material and technical foundations of the coal mines by vigorously conducting the work to invent and manufacture rational equipment and hand tools.
  At the Sochang Youth Coal Mine under the Tokchon Area Coal-Mining Complex he underscored the need to update the face equipment technically and check and maintain it in a planned way so as to steadily increase the efficiency of coal production.
  At the Pukchang Thermal Power Complex, he underlined the need to boost the electric power production in a stable way by studying and applying the ways to increase the number of workdays of boilers, increase the output of every generator and reduce the coal consumption to the maximum.
  Looking round the Sunchon Limestone Mine in charge of the preceding process of cement production at the Sunchon Cement Complex, he called for actively introducing advanced sci-tech successes to expand the cement production capacity.
  Learning about the operation of the Pyongyang General Hospital, he said it is necessary to steadily improve the professional qualifications of the medical workers and keep complementing the information system.
  Consultative meetings were held on the spot.