Ground-breaking Ceremony for Building 10 000 Flats at Third
Stage in Hwasong Area HeldRespected Comrade Kim Jong

Un Attends Ground-breaking Ceremony

Respected Comrade Kim Jong Un Attends Ground-breaking

Ceremony

Pyongyang, February 24 (KCNA) -- A grandiose construction project has been
launched once again, demonstrating the correct implementation of the
construction of 50 000 flats in Pyongyang Municipality being powerfully
accelerated by the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK) as the most important task to
turn Pyongyang, the capital city of the great DPRK, into an ideal city where the
people's well-being and civilization of socialism are in full bloom and into the
most beautiful city in the world where the might of a powerful country and its
signal development are reflected.
A ground-breaking ceremony for 2024 project to build 10 000 flats in Pyongyang,
the third-stage construction project, took place on February 23 in the Hwasong
area, where new streets successfully applied with the Juche-oriented and
people-oriented character peculiar to our Party and state, the unique charms and
features of the Korean style and the development-oriented trend of modern
architecture are built every year and a sea change brought about.
The venue of the ground-breaking ceremony, in which a grand construction
project for determining the victory in carrying out the five-year plan for the capital
city construction set forth at the Eighth Congress of the WPK will be declared,
was filled with the soaring spirit of the military and civilian builders to more
splendidly build monumental streets representing the era of Kim Jong Un in
which changes are made through a dynamic and continuous struggle.
Kim Jong Un, general secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea and president
of the State Affairs of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK),
attended the ground-breaking ceremony.
When the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un arrived at the venue of the
ceremony, all the participants broke into cheers of "hurrah!", looking up to Kim
Jong Un, the great artist of creation and benevolent father of the people who is
ushering in a new era of stirring change and prosperity of the whole country with
his rare wisdom and outstanding leadership.
Present there were Kim Tok Hun and Jo Yong Won, members of the Presidium of
the Political Bureau of the WPK Central Committee, secretaries of the WPK
Central Committee, officials of the Cabinet, armed forces organs, ministries and
national institutions, officials of Pyongyang Municipality and military and civilian
builders.
The national anthem of the DPRK was solemnly played.

Kim Tok Hun, member of the Presidium of the Political Bureau of the Central
Committee of the WPK, vice-president of the State Affairs Commission of the
DPRK and premier of the Cabinet, made a speech at the ceremony.
He extended warm and militant greetings to the service personnel of the People's
Army and civilian builders of the capital city who would start the third-stage
project for providing a decisive guarantee for the completion of 50 000 flats in the
spirit of attaining the huge construction goals every year, holding aloft the torch of
the construction revolution kindled by the great Party Central Committee.
Noting that every February witnesses the ceremony for the start of grand
construction in the year and that the whole country is busy moving into new
houses in every April, he added that it has become the life and emotion peculiar
to our state. Our capital city has been modernized on the proud road of creation
as befits the might of a powerful country and the people's happiness is growing,
he said, adding that this is a clear proof of the advance spirit of socialist Korea
which is bringing earlier the highly civilized and prosperous future with
confidence in the face of all difficulties.
The dynamic promotion of the epochal causes unprecedented in the history of
the DPRK and the nonstop large-scale housing construction are the
manifestation of the steadfast will of the WPK and the government of the DPRK
to orient and subordinate everything to realizing the people's requirement and

desire and a great demonstration of the tremendous national power of Juche
Korea which is developing through self-respect and self-sustenance, he noted.
He referred to the fact that preparations for the grand construction of a new stage
have been dynamically made thanks to the earnest instructions and meticulous
guidance of Kim Jong Un who said that the true nature and duty of our Party
and government is to unconditionally keep a promise made to the people, despite
stern trials, and that it is essential to live up to the expectations of the people
without fail through ceaseless vigorous offensive.
A group of peculiar dwelling houses and public establishments including
educational, public health, commercial and neighborhood-serving amenities,
which will be built at the third stage after the successful construction of the new
streets at the first and second stages in the Hwasong area, will make the capital
city of Pyongyang more beautiful along with the area which will be a modern
administrative district, he said.
Today when the gigantic projects for comprehensive rejuvenation of our state are
being dynamically conducted in different parts of the country, the construction of
50 000 flats in the capital city is being highlighted as a victorious signpost
vigorously leading all the revolutionary projects and as an important political
struggle to defend the prestige of the Party Central Committee and further
deepen the people's trust in the state policy, he said, adding that the scale of the
third-stage construction in the Hwasong area is gigantic but the overall
construction projects this year will be pushed ahead vigorously as there are the
well-organized work system established under the Party's leadership and the

great zeal of the builders who have gained great building capacity and much
experience during the capital city construction.
He called upon all the builders to successfully build all the structures as symbols
of our times in which the people-first idea is thoroughly embodied by making
successive offensive in the same fighting spirit as they steadily worked new
miracles and created new legendary tales, regarding the trust of the Party
Central Committee that made them become the vanguard of the construction of
the capital city as the first honor and greatest pride.
Saying that the stirring era when the capital city, provinces and other parts of the
country are vibrant with extraordinary determination, patriotic enthusiasm, new
spirit of development and prosperity is inspiring the builders of the capital city
with greater courage and strenuous efforts, he ardently called upon them to
struggle more dynamically for the happy laughter and bright future of the beloved
parents and siblings, for the defence of the decisions of the Eighth Congress of
our Party and for the comprehensive rejuvenation and development of our state.
All the military and civilian builders have raised stormy cheers with the iron will to
carry out the noble plan of the Party Central Committee with perfect practice by
giving fuller play to the offensive spirit of the whole capital city construction area,
a banner to be held aloft in the grand construction front covering the whole
country.
Kim Jong Un pressed the detonator to declare the start of construction of 10
000 flats at the third stage in the Hwasong area.
Fireworks were set off to celebrate the start of the project, together with great
explosion and cheers of excitement.
Kim Jong Un warmly encouraged the builders who were full of enthusiasm to
firmly guarantee with signal revolutionary fruition the construction struggle being
steadily and dynamically carried out by our Party as a far-sighted patriotic
undertaking for bringing earlier the prosperous and bright future of the Republic.
All the military and civilian builders vowed to successfully build a flourishing
socialist living space, symbolic of the comprehensive development era of a
thriving nation, with practice while more dynamically flying the flag of the
construction headquarters of 50 000 flats in Pyongyang Municipality given by the
great Party Central Committee as the banner of successive offensive and
uninterrupted innovation. -0-