Pyongyang, June 7 (KCNA) -- Marshal Kim Jong Un, first secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea, first chairman of the National Defence Commission of the DPRK and supreme commander of the Korean People's Army, provided field guidance to the Pyongyang Essential Foodstuff Factory.

After looking round the monument to the field guidance provided by President Kim Il Sung, he enjoyed a bird's-eye view of the factory.

He went round the room dedicated to the history of the factory.

After watching a video on the technological updating of the factory, he said this factory helps compare the present with the past and picture what would be in the future to oneself, adding it is the factory where the line of the three revolutions, ideological, technical and cultural, has been implemented.

The first leg of his guidance was the nursery of the factory.

Going round playing apparatuses, turf in the compound of the nursery and its sun room, kitchen, dining room, intelligence games room, breastfeeding room, education room and other places, he said that they have been arranged well to suit the upbringing of children and their minds.

After learning about how the house of culture of the factory is operated, he went round different production processes to acquaint himself in detail with their technological updating.

At the general control room he was greatly satisfied to see the production processes and business activities computerized at a high level.

Making the rounds of the newly installed production processes of refined table oil, seasoning, refined salt and vitamin E and their packing process, he learned about specifications and capacities of the equipment.

Seeing varieties of goods produced at the production processes based on latest technology, he said overall production processes have been highly automated.

He praised the factory for having realized the modernization of production and packing processes in cooperation with universities including Kim Il Sung University and Kim Chaek University of Technology.

What is important in technological updating is to step up modernization with our own efforts and technology, he said, calling for giving full play to the creative ingenuity of scientists, technicians and workers and raising the rate of the locally produced equipment.

He examined soy, soybean paste, seasoning, table oil, vitamin E, lecithin and other goods produced at the factory.

He dropped in at the e-library and scientific and technological library to learn about how the factory is applying latest technology to production.

Going round a public bath, swimming pool, beauty parlor, barber's, music room, etc. newly built by the factory, he praised it for having built welfare and service facilities well.

This factory is like a nice palace for the workers, the one meeting requirements of the era of the Workers' Party and the one pervaded with patriotism, he underscored the need for all the units to follow the example of the factory.

Expressing expectation and belief that the employees of the factory would successfully carry out their honorable duty, he had a photo session with them.

He was accompanied by Choe Ryong Hae, Mun Kyong Dok, Paek Kye Ryong, Choe Hwi, Pak Thae Song and Jon Chang Bok.