Priority Given to Heavy Industry in DPRK

The DPRK lays great stress on developing heavy industry, taking into account its position and role and the country’s specific conditions.

According to the basic line of socialist economic construction it has maintained the principle of giving priority to the development of heavy industry, concentrating funds, materials, equipment and labour on it.

It adheres to the line of building a self-supporting, modern heavy industry, the policy of properly combining rehabilitation, renovation and new construction, and the policy of developing heavy industry not for its own sake but in such a way as to render substantial services to developing light industry and the rural economy.

It has built up the material and technological foundations of a self-supporting heavy industry centred on machine-building industry.