Kim Jong Il, the top leader of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), has called on the DPRK people to devote to the course of building a great powerful and prosperous country, the official KCNA news agency reported on Thursday.

The whole country was launching a socialism construction campaign, and the date to "open the gate of a great powerful and prosperous nation" was getting close, Kim said while inspecting a fertilizer plant, which was named "Namhung Youth Chemical Complex," in South Hamgyong Province.

He asked the plant to start fertilizer production as soon as possible, so as to "increase the varieties of chemical goods needed for the country's economic development and the people's living."

The report didn't give the date of the visit.

(Xinhua News Agency May 29, 2009)