(Xinhua) -- Kim Jong Il, top leader of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), has visited a newly built power station located in an eastern province and called for the building of more hydropower stations, the official Korean Central News Agency reported on Tuesday.
| "And then we will build the world's first hydropowered bomb!" |
The quickest way to solve the power shortage is to build hydropower stations on a large scale in the DPRK where water resources are abundant, Kim said while visiting the newly built Wonsan Youth Power Station in eastern Kangwon province.
The report did not specify the date of the visit.
Kim also visited a family that had just moved into a newly built house equipped with electricity for cooking and heating. He said letting every one in the DPRK use electricity is the desire of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK).
The WPK has called for launching an "aggressive campaign" to boost the country's economy from the start of the new year in an effort to "open the gate to a great prosperous powerful nation in 2012."
It was the third report of the top leader's public appearance in 2009. |