Touching Story Heard from Mountainy Village

It was one March day when we were covering in Popdong County.

Then, we were walking past a shop in the downtown, and a sound of laughter reached our ears.

A curiosity led us to call on the shop and there, we found that many residents were pleased with various processed marine products.

It was an unusual attraction in a mountainy village.

A salesclerk explained to us, who were wondering, that at the fish processing factory of the Chonapho Fishery Institute, those processed marine products were produced to provide for the county people.

She continued that the shop did the marine products for the county people several times this year, adding that the residents liked them.

Then, we could hear a touching story there.

The respected General Secretary Kim Jong Un inspected the Chonapho Fishery Institute in the east coastal area in July eleven years ago.

That day, he said that, entering the institute, he missed very much Chairman Kim Jong Il who visited it two times, the last one in the year ２０１１, the last period of his life, adding that the institute was one of the precious legacies he left for the people.

He, saying that it is our Party’s determination to modernize the Chonapho Fishery Institute into a science research and dissemination base as well as a core and leading base for fish farming and processing which the people would have benefit from it, reiterated that the institute, holding supremacy in the world, should achieve successes in researches into fish breeding as demanded by the times and keep production going at a high rate.

The story impressed us with the painstaking efforts of the General Secretary who, regardless of the sultry weather, visited the institute in ardent eagerness to provide the people with all happiness as the Chairman wished, and personally named the institute.

A housewife boasted that the fish processing factory of the Chonapho Fishery Institute won the best prize for the processed marine products at ２０２４ National Processed Marine Products Exhibition which was held last year.

It turned out that the fish processing factory of the Chonapho Fishery Institute was sending the processed marine products to not only Popdong County but also other cities and counties in Kangwon Province.

Indeed, the story tells the devoted service of the respected General Secretary who concerns himself with providing all happiness for the people.

Rodong Sinmun