North Korea's General Secretary Kim attends factory groundbreaking ceremony and appeals to rectify regional disparities. North Korea has been promoting the "20x10 Rural Development Policy" since this year, which aims to build new factories in 20 regions every year and dramatically improve local living standards within the next 10 years.
This will be our first factory. In his speech, Kim said, ''For a long time, rural areas have been left behind compared to the central government. Improving the lives of the people in rural areas, who make up the majority of the population, is an urgent and important issue''