DPRK top leader calls for updating technology in factories

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PYONGYANG, July 1 (Xinhua) -- Kim Jong Il, top leader of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), called for technical updating in factories to increase the nation's power, the official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA)said on Wednesday.

Technology, ideology and army were the "three pillars" for the DPRK to build a "great prosperous powerful nation," said Kim who inspected Hamhung Semiconductor Materials Factory and the Hamhung Branch of the State Academy of Sciences in Hamhung city, South Hamgyong province, the KCNA reported, ithout giving the date of the inspections.

He encouraged scientists and technicians to do more research and study the trend of modern technology.