Shoe factory labourers work hard for the "70 day campaign of loyalty".

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RESENDING WITH FULL SCRIPT North Korean shoe factory in Pyongyang revs up its production to affirm party loyalty ahead of a rare ruling party conference. SHOWS: PYONGYANG, NORTH KOREA (MARCH 18, 2016) (KCNA FOR REUTERS - Broadcasters: NO ACCESS NORTH KOREA Digital: NO ACCESS NORTH KOREA) 1. WONSAN SHOE FACTORY 2. WONSAN SHOE FACTORY SIGN 3. 70 DAY CAMPAIGN OF LOYALTY SIGN 4. SHOES PRODUCED AT THE FACTORY 5. VARIOUS OF SHOE PRODUCTION PROCESS 6. WORKER SEWING 7. (SOUNDBITE) (Korean) 42-YEAR-OLD NORTH KOREAN WORKER, RO YONG HUI, SAYING: "In the past, we used to finish the everyday schedule by starting work in the morning and going home in the evening. But now in the run-up to the 7th WPK congress, we don't leave the workplace to fulfil our work plan. Nobody forces us stay over here, but with the patriotic and loyal will, we eat and sleep here in order to work following the purpose and plan of our Marshal." 8. VARIOUS OF WORKERS SEWING SHOE PARTS 9. (SOUNDBITE) (Korean) NORTH KOREAN GUIDE OF WONSOK REVOLUTIONARY SITE, KIM UN SIM, SAYING: "Guides of Wonsok Revolutionary site came to this site to make travelling lectures. We are here to give strength and courage to the employees of the Wonsan Shoes Factory who are working day and night with the will to fulfil the year plan during the 70-day campaign." 10. VARIOUS OF KIM UN SIM PLAYING THE ACCORDION AND SINGING SONGS ON FACTORY FLOOR 11. VARIOUS OF LABOURERS WORKING ON THE ASSEMBLY LINE 12. (SOUNDBITE) (Korean) 44-YEAR-OLD NORTH KOREAN MANAGER OF SHOEMAKING WORKSHOP, JIN SONG HO, SAYING: "Now we have turned into an all-out working status to accomplish the year's plan before the 7th WPK congress. With our pride to work at the factory, which our Marshal has visited three times, we will work very hard and exceed our daily targets at 200%." 13. LABOURER WORKING ON SHOE 14. VARIOUS OF SHOES AFTER PRODUCTION STORY: North Korean shoe factory has revved up its production to affirm party loyalty ahead of a rare ruling party conference. Video provided by North Korea's official news agency KCNA, which Reuters cannot independently verify, showed factory workers producing shoes on Friday (March 18) at the Wonsan shoes factory in Pyongyang. North Korea is planning to hold the seventh Congress of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK) in early May, according to KCNA. KCNA said the workers fully supported the campaign called '70-day Campaign' which aims to work hard until the party congress. "In the past, we used to finish the everyday schedule by starting work in the morning and going home in the evening. But now in the run-up to the 7th WPK congress, we don't leave the workplace to fulfil our work plan. Nobody forces us stay over here, but with the patriotic and loyal will, we eat and sleep here in order to work following the purpose and plan of our Marshal," said 42-year-old North Korean worker, Ro Yong Hui. "Guides of Wonsok Revolutionary site came to this site to make travelling lectures. We are here to give strength and courage to the employees of the Wonsan Shoes Factory who are working day and night with the will to fulfil the year plan during the 70-day campaign," North Korean guide of Wonsok revolutionary site, Kim Un Sim, said. "Now we have turned into an all-out working status to accomplish the year's plan before the 7th WPK congress. With our pride to work at the factory, which our Marshal has visited three times, we will work very hard and exceed our daily targets at 200%," 44-year-old North Korean shoemaking workshop manager, Jin Song Ho, said. North Korean leader Kim Jong Un visited the factory in November, 2015, according to the North's state-run television KRT. The Workers' Party Congress, once a regular event, was last held in 1980. When the last party congress took place over four days in 1980 at Pyongyang's February 8th House of Culture, a monolithic concrete pillar-fronted building since renamed the April 25th House of Culture, it was open to foreign delegations from countries friendly to North Korea. It was then that Kim Jong Il was controversially anointed successor to his father, Kim Il Sung, creating the communist world's first hereditary dynasty when its founder died in 1994.