PYONGYANG, North Korea (Reuters) — North Korea held an opening ceremony for a newly built bag factory on Tuesday (January 10) in Pyongyang.
Video provided by North Korea’s official news agency KCNA, which Reuters cannot independently verify, showed state officials and workers celebrating the opening of the new plant.
“The Pyongyang Bag Factory is the culmination of love and was constructed with the respected supreme leader’s direct suggestions and his noble love of the future and the future generations,” said the Chairman of Pyongyang’s City Committee of the Workers’ Party of Korea (WPK), Kim Su Gil.
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un recently visited the factory, according to KCNA.
“This bag is the girls’ bag for second grade students in elementary school that our respected leader examined when he visited our factory, it went into production in the New Year. He looked at the bag and highly praised how well it was made,” said Kim Yun Ok, a worker at the factory.
The factory is located in Pyongyang’s Thongil Street and has the capacity to produce over 242,000 school bags and 60,000 ordinary bags a year, KCNA said.
