Another military parade in Pyongyang (video here), while the World Food Programme estimates that six million North Koreans are suffering from food shortages, and TB ravages the population.
So, what's new? The Pyongyang Times, as ever, is the place to go. Kim Jong Il Provides Field Guidance at Meat & Fish Shop in Pothongmun Street:
Kim Jong Il, general secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea and chairman of the DPRK National Defence Commission, gave field guidance at the newly built Meat & Fish Shop in Pothongmun Street.
He was accompanied by Kim Jong Un, vice-chairman of the Central Military Commission of the WPK, Kim Ki Nam, member of the Political Bureau and secretary of the WPK Central Committee, Kim Kyong Hui, member of the Political Bureau and department director of the WPK Central Committee, Jang Song Thaek, alternate member of the Political Bureau of the WPK Central Committee and vice-chairman of the NDC, Thae Jong Su, alternate member of the Political Bureau and secretary of the WPK Central Committee, Mun Kyong Dok, alternate member of the Political Bureau and secretary of the WPK Central Committee and chief secretary of the Pyongyang Municipal Committee of the WPK, and Pak Pong Ju and Han Kwang Sang, first vice department directors of the WPK Central Committee.
That's more people than they've seen all year.
Noting that it is the Party’s spirit of serving the people to provide the best things to them, he underlined the need for the employees of the shop to have a good understanding of people’s demands and conduct service activities to meet them...
He specified important tasks which would serve as guidelines for improving service to meet the intrinsic requirements of socialist commerce.
The intrinsic requirements of socialist commerce? No, me neither.
Still, more great material for Kim Jong-il looking at things.
From the same source: Kim provides field guidance at the Pyongyang Stevia Processing Factory, and "the workshop producing pancakes stuffed with meat at the Kumsong Foodstuff Factory". With pics!
And, with bonus Kim Jong-un, Field Guidance at the Construction Site of Huichon Power Station.
The field guidance never ends.
"Could you make the labels a bit clearer so that people who wear sunglasses indoors would find them easier to read?"
Posted by: Martin Adamson | September 12, 2011 at 04:13 PM