North Korean leader Kim Jong-un inspected a catfish farm, calling it a "model and standard farm" for the country's pisciculture, the North's state media said Saturday.

It was his first visit to the May 9 Catfish Farm since December last year, when he named it after the day his father and late leader Kim Jong-il visited the farm for the first time.
 

"Kim Jong-un, first secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea, first chairman of the DPRK National Defense Commission and supreme commander of the Korean People's Army, visited the May 9 Catfish Farm which has turned into another model and standard farm for the country's pisciculture by putting its fish breeding on a scientific, intensive and industrial basis of high level," the Korean Central News Agency said in an English dispatch, monitored in Seoul.

DPRK is the acronym of North Korea's official name, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.

Kim toured the farm's facilities and praised officials and employees there for successfully renovating it while fulfilling their production duties.

"He said that the farm has made a lot of achievements in the work to drastically raise the production of catfish without increasing manpower and production area, as instructed by him during his last year's visit," KCNA said. (Yonhap)