North Korea's President Kim Jong-un, second from left, visits a corn factory in Pyongyang on unspecified date, according to the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA). / Yonhap



North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has inspected a machinery factory in a northwestern border city, the North's official media said Friday.

Kim visited the factory that produces measuring instruments in Sinuiju, where he expressed his appreciation for machinery developers' efforts to produce the goods with indigenous technology, according to the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA).

It did not specify the date of Kim's inspection, but given the pattern of KCNA's reports on Kim's public activity, he is presumed to have visited the factory on Thursday, when China held a military parade to mark the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II.

KCNA said that Kim expressed satisfaction with the factory that manufactures new modern measuring instruments to be used in various fields of the national economy and defense industry.

Kim added that the factory served as a "big steppingstone" for developing the North's industry of measuring instrument production "at a leaping pace," KNCA said. (Yonhap)