Pyongyang, June 1 (KCNA) -- Taesongsan-branded products turned out by the Pyongyang Sports Goods Factory in the DPRK are popular among sportspersons, amateurs and school youth and children.

The factory is associated with the leadership of the respected General Secretary Kim Jong Un always paying deep attention to the development of physical culture and sports of the country.

One day in June Juche 105 (2016), he visited the newly-built factory and set forth tasks facing the factory, including the issue of directing efforts to increasing the variety of athletic equipment and sports goods and the issue of dynamically waging a drive to raise the quality of its Taesongsan-branded products to the world level.

That day, he said that the construction of the modern Pyongyang Sports Goods Factory has made it possible to provide the sportspersons and other people with home-made quality sports goods, stressing the need to make sports goods, badly needed for developing the professional sports field and making sports mass-based and part of everyday life, by our own efforts, technology and materials at any cost.

True to his on-site instructions, the factory has made achievements in the work to diversify sports goods and improve their quality.

The number of new sports goods with the Taesongsan brand is on the increase thanks to the efforts of officials, technicians and workers of the factory. -0-