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Kim Jong Un, general secretary of the Workers’ Party of Korea who ushered in a great golden age of construction to provide the people with happy living conditions, gave detailed guidance for building even a single structure on the highest level.

Newly-built feeder roads

One day in March 2022, the General Secretary visited the construction site of 10 000 flats nearing completion in the Songsin and Songhwa area.

Officials satisfactorily looked at the avenue stretching widely and skyscrapers and high-rise apartment houses standing in rows, but the General Secretary said that among the newly-built roads in the Songsin and Songhwa area, there were no feeder roads from the main road to the backs of the high-rise apartment houses and that it would make it difficult for people to go to the houses of their relatives and friends by car. 

The officials looked again at the main road.

Now they found that people might certainly feel inconvenience as there were no feeder roads from the road to the high-rise apartment buildings.

That was how there appeared branch roads on Songhwa Street.

Without ignoring green section 

One day a few years ago, the General Secretary visited the Samjiyon City Hospital whose construction entered the final stage.

Looking round the hospital, he paid close attention to proper landscaping around it to meet its characteristics.

At that time there was a small green section in the wide front yard of the hospital.

Seeing that only low trees were planted in the green section, he said that they did not match the surrounding environment well, and stressed the need to transplant tall trees there even if it would be difficult. And he said that it was unnecessary to widen the pavement like that because people would not come to the hospital to get treatment by bus at a time.

He then pointed to the need to build spherical or oval green sections, plant them with turf and white birches and install benches for patients to sit  and rest on, saying that it would make the hospital more attractive.

There should be no minor fault 

In August last year, while inspecting regional-industry factories under construction in Hamju County, the General Secretary appreciated the fact that the quality of the construction was being ensured on a high level and referred to the industrial facilities to be built in 20 cities and counties across the country from the first year of the regional industrial revolution as entities directly showing the Korean-style civilization and development and as the epitome of our conscience and ideal and our strenuous efforts and fighting spirit, adding that there should be no minor fault in such creations which would be the eternal assets of the people.

He went on to say that as he always emphasized, the most important thing in construction is to ensure quality and stressed the need to make the fixed understanding that any trifling sign of neglecting quality, while leaning on speed alone, is a harmful act hindering the implementation of the Party’s policy on regional construction prevail in the whole construction site.