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A dynamic construction campaign for the people was conducted last year, as a great advance was made in the efforts to achieve the great cause for the prosperity of the country and the well-being of all generations to come.

The housing construction for providing the people with a new nice cradle of happiness was carried out in a big way in not only the capital city of Pyongyang, but all other parts of the country despite the difficult situation in which everything was in short supply, with the result that the whole year became the “season of moving into new houses”. And the flood-hit areas underwent a sea change with the construction of wonderful modern villages, not mere rehabilitation.

In February last year, the ground-breaking ceremony for the construction of 10 000 flats in the third stage of the Hwasong area took place in Pyongyang.

Kim Jong Un, general secretary of the Workers’ Party of Korea, pressed the button for blasting to declare the start of the construction of 10 000 flats. He provided meticulous guidance over every detail of construction projects ranging from design to building and finishing of dwelling houses for the people’s convenient living and ensured another magnificent street of the people rose up as a distinct entity. Under his leadership, Rimhung and Jonwi streets were built as perfect masterpieces of architectural art preserving the charm and features of a Korean style in terms of width and depth. Rimhung Street, a luxury street constituting another leap forward to modern civilization, was built by adopting a site-saving city-forming method. Modern high-rise buildings, skyscrapers and other apartment buildings for 10 000 families are arranged in a compact way in a small area and they are free from repetition and clearly distinct from previous ones in style. And to heighten the contrast in colour for each building, such dark hues of brown colour were combined with such light tints as white and grey colours, thereby ensuring the dignity and grace of buildings.

Jonwi Street, distinctively built as a symbol of future at the northern gateway to Pyongyang, can be claimed to be a model in the development of Juche-oriented architecture, especially in the construction of the capital city.

Last year, large numbers of modern rural houses epitomizing the ideal of rural development in the new era were built across the country.

At the Fourth Plenary Meeting of the Eighth Central Committee of the WPK, the General Secretary put forward the gigantic and important task of making all rural villages of the country on a par with those of the city of Samjiyon and well-off and civilized ideal socialist villages. He guided over 2 000 designs for rural houses and, for supplying cities and counties with cement for building rural areas in advance, gave instructions as to the means and ways of transporting it and the storage of it. Witnessing distinctive modern houses built in different parts of the country, the people were very pleased to say that the countryside was turning into a paradise for the people good to work and live in, thanks to the benevolence of the Workers' Party.

The flood-hit areas in the northern border of the country also underwent a tremendous change.

Beautiful socialist villages mushroomed in a little over four months demonstrating the eye-opening leap forward in the great new era of regional rejuvenation. This stirring reality is the precious fruition of the great love for the people and tireless efforts of Kim Jong Un who holds them in high esteem as Heaven and devotes his all to the good of them.

He energetically guided the whole construction process of them, saying that the dwelling houses of the flood victims are the precious assets of the country and people which should be built as everlasting structures like other creations rising up in other parts of the country, attended their inaugural ceremony and ensured that the inhabitants were provided with all kinds of household articles and condiments necessary for their living.

As the WPK and the DPRK government set the people's smile as a symbol of socialism and do their best to bring them brighter smiles, the great campaign for creation and construction for the people's happiness will continue this year, too.