Opened in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea Onfo Workers’ Holiday Camp

Onpho Working People's Holiday Camp

Inaugurated in DPRK

Pyongyang, January 21 (KCNA) — Thanks to the noble aspiration and
energetic guidance of the great Workers' Party of Korea Central Committee to
build in famous mountains and noted places of the country modern holiday
resorts and sanatoriums in good harmony with the natural scenery and make
them serve as the bases for cultural progress of our style and contribute to the
cultural life of the working people, the Onpho Working People's Holiday
Camp, famous from long time ago, has been remodeled into a monumental
edifice representing the spa culture of the state, boasting of its unique
attraction.
The holiday camp, built in an excellent place with beautiful landscape as a
unique architectural group comprising hot-spring therapy and recuperation
facilities and comprehensive service bases with the best conditions, is a gift of
love provided by the motherly Party for our people and a precious asset to
promote the well-being of the people generation after generation.
An inauguration ceremony of the Onpho Working People's Holiday Camp took
place with splendor on Jan. 20.
The venue of the ceremony was full of excitement and joy of the participants
facing the entity of cultural efflorescence brought by the benevolent love of the
Workers' Party of Korea, which is making devoted efforts to hasten the future
of prosperity when the people enjoy an affluent and happy life improved in
quality under the benefits of the socialist policy to the full.
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,
attended the ceremony.
When the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un arrived at the venue of the
ceremony, all the participants raised stormy cheers with boundless reverence
for the dear father of the great family of the country who is dynamically
ushering in a new era of socialist civilization.
Present at the ceremony were senior Party and government officials and other
members of the central leadership body of the WPK, officials concerned,
officials in North Hamgyong Province and Kyongsong County, working people,
builders and employees of the holiday camp.

Ri Il Hwan, secretary of the WPK Central Committee, addressed the
ceremony.
He said that the Onpho Working People's Holiday Camp with a history of
nearly 80 years has been completely transformed into a comprehensive
cultural recreation and medical service base for the people, another proud
edifice demonstrating the development of the region, adding that visitors to it
will come to recruit their health and vigor and feel greater pride and joy of the
socialist life, enjoying charm peculiar to the excellent attraction.
Saying that the fresh transformation of the Onpho area, a well-known scenic
spot, started on the day of July, 2018 when Kim Jong Un visited it, the
speaker referred to the great painstaking efforts of Kim Jong Un who
devoted himself to newly building the holiday camp with refined architectural
beauty of our style and diverse service functions in a picturesque place.
Noting that Kim Jong Un gave officials a stern warning against their
ideological viewpoint and work attitude evidenced by the old and gloomy
facilities and service conditions of the holiday camp and formulated a grand
plan to newly construct in a comprehensive way the camp capable of serving
the convenience of the people and fully meeting their growing cultural and
emotional demands and make the precious wealth of the country render a
sincere service to the people, he said that Kim Jong Un repeatedly visited
the camp under construction and carefully guided the work to complete all its
elements as required by the new era making steady progress.
Kim Jong Un set it as an important principle in the construction of the
holiday camp in Onpho area to well preserve the natural environment and
paid deep attention to making its landscape contribute to the promotion of the
people's health and their emotional life, the speaker said, adding: Thanks to
his earnest sincerity, a walkway leading to the thick forest and a stream
meandering through the area of the holiday camp for all seasons came to
present a unique natural beauty and the flawless edifice with enough
functional conditions according to the mission and purpose of the hot-spring
therapy could be provided for the people.
He said that the days of newly building the holiday camp served as another
textbook clearly teaching our officials once again what to do in order to be
faithful to the mission they have assumed to exist for the people and serve the
people for their interests and convert the natural and topographical features

and potentials of a region into a firm foundation for the economic development
and the improvement of the people's living standards.
As its name indicates, the holiday camp is a product of the people-first policy
of our Party that thinks of the working people before any others and puts
forward them as the enjoyers of all the welfare benefits, he said, adding it is
the real value of this edifice which cannot be evaluated by any natural beauty
or architecture and measured in terms of huge amount of funds.
The speaker ardently called on all to work harder with towering spirit and
optimism to attain the higher goal of promoting the people's welfare and bring
the future of more civilized and beautiful motherland.
Kim Jong Un cut the inauguration tape.
Confetti was thrown and balloons rose up into the sky over the venue of the
inauguration ceremony which presented a magnificent scene of
transformation thanks to our Party's noble policy of loving the people.
Kim Jong Un looked round the holiday camp.
He appreciated that all the sections of the camp were practically arranged in a
balanced way and all the elements of architecture were formed in good
harmony with the surroundings.
He referred to our Party's stand of giving utmost priority to steadily expanding
cultural life sphere for the improvement of the people's well-being.
Saying that another cultural recreation ground, the base for civilization has
been provided in the Onpho hot spring area with a long history to suit our era
which pursues steady development, he recollected that he had severely
criticized the situation of the holiday camp where every section and element
remained uncultured and whose operation was also unsanitary although it had
the signboard showing that it is the historic building associated with the
leadership exploits of the Party, when he visited the camp some years ago.
He said that taking a look at the holiday camp, which has been remodeled as
a wonderful holiday service base for the people, made him feel proud that he
has done another worthwhile thing.
The leadership exploits of the Party should be defended and glorified with the
result of struggle favored by the people and the substantial benefits enjoyed
by the people in their life, not with the signboard, words or letters, he said.

It is an important component of the people-oriented policy of our Party and
government to actively develop the natural resources of the country to
contribute to the improvement of the people's well-being, he said, adding that
we should move ahead of the times even in the creation of socialist civilization
with persevering and innovative pioneering and progress.
He said it is irrational that the Recreation Management Bureau of the Ministry
of Labour is managing and guiding the Onpho Working People's Holiday
Camp. He noted that new tourist resorts, holiday camps and sanatoriums are
being built across the country on a large scale for the improvement of the
people's well-being. However, different ministries are in charge of cultural life
service bases respectively at present, he said, adding that it means that they
can't conduct management of facilities and talents and technical control
efficiently in a future-oriented manner to say nothing of the supply of
equipment and materials needed for the normal operation of the excellent
cultural service bases provided by the Party with much care.
He gave instructions to study the issue of taking rational structural measure
for exercising unified control over treatment, recreation and holiday bases
across the country and improving the level of specialization in service as
required by the new era of socialist cultural efflorescence.
Our Party's people-oriented policies should be intensified without letup, which
will make our struggle more proud and worthwhile, he said, indicating the new
orientation and ways for continuously expanding various cultural life spheres
and spaces to contribute to the promotion of the people's health and the
improvement of their well-being on a nation-wide scale.
He gave instructions to the officials and employees of the Onpho Working
People's Holiday Camp and relevant units to make full preparations for
operation and service such as conducting test run of equipment and open the
camp in February.
All the participants in the inauguration ceremony looked round the
comprehensive cultural recreation and medical treatment base, which
preserves the charm and character peculiar to the mountainous area and
thoroughly meets all the requirements of modern architecture, and felt very
grateful to our socialist system.

The Onpho Working People's Holiday Camp remodeled under the great love
of the Party will be filled with people's happy laughter year after year along
with our times prospering day after day.