Kim Jong Un recently made his second visit to the Thaesong Machine Factory, presumed to be one of North Korea’s missile production facilities.

Unlike his previous visit in 2011, during his father’s era, Kim Jong Un gave clear guidelines for the factory to aim for modernization.

“The Thaesong Machine Factory is carrying the weight of the heavy duty to enrich our country and it must be modernized in tune with the world’s trend of knowledge economy,” said Kim Jong Un on Tuesday edition of Rodong Sinmun. 

Kim also emphasized a total change from the current “sample imitating” machine-building process to the