Posted on 10/10/2012 9:22:07 PM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
Machine tool gets hero treatment in N. Korea
A lathe was awarded one of North Korea's highest civilian honors for operating at full capacity over half a century.
By TechNewsDaily
Who says that a country's heroes have to be human? North Korea has bucked the trend by recently awarding a lowly machine tool with some of the highest honors and titles it can bestow.
The authoritarian Communist country's official news service announced that "Lathe No. 26" had received the title "labor hero of the DPRK" (Democratic People's Republic of Korea) and the "First Class of the Order of National Flag." That odd news item published on Oct. 4 was discovered and publicized in a Gawker post.
But the machine at the Pyongyang Textile Machine Factory achieved much to earn its top honors. It operated at full capacity over half a century, transformed into a computer numerical control (CNC) machine as part of a modernization drive, and was personally operated by former North Korean leader Kim Jong Il.
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I used to work in factory that had a tube knit machine that had run continously since 1911. It simply never stopped.
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Who says that NK's heroes can't be Kenyan?
personally operated by former North Korean leader Kim Jong Il.
Master golfer, statesman, lathe operator,
is there nothing the helmsman couldn’t do?
Where was it made?
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