Anniversary of Start of February 17 Shock Brigade Movement of Scientists and Technicians Marked

A meeting took place at the People’s Palace of Culture in the DPRK on Tuesday to mark the ５０th anniversary of the start of the February １７ Shock Brigade Movement of Scientists and Technicians.

Present there were Choe Tong Myong, secretary of the Central Committee of the Workers’ Party of Korea, Kim Song Bin, chairman of the State Commission of Science and Technology, Kim Sung Jin, president of the State Academy of Sciences, leading officials of ministries and national agencies and members of the February １７ Shock Brigade of Scientists and Technicians.

Vice-Premier of the Cabinet Jon Sung Guk made a report.

He said that Chairman Kim Jong Il, with a plan to bring about a great upsurge in socialist economic construction in July １９７５, gave field guidance at the Komdok Mining Complex and took measures to dispatch scientists and technicians to mines and related enterprises, thus kindling the torch of the shock brigade movement of scientists and technicians.

He said that the February １７ Shock Brigade Movement of Scientists and Technicians is greeting the heyday of its development under the seasoned guidance of the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un, the genius of creation and construction.

Thanks to the loving care and trust of Kim Jong Un, the shock brigade movement is further demonstrating its great potentiality and vitality, many winners of the February １６ Science and Technology Prize, merited scientists and technicians have been produced among the shock brigade members and a large contingent of true patriotic scientists and technicians for scientific research has grown up, he noted.

He called upon all the scientists, technicians and officials to further demonstrate the might of the shock brigade movement of scientists and technicians in the great era of Kim Jong Un, true to the Party’s idea of attaching importance to science and technology.

Rodong Sinmun