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The inauguration ceremony of 10 000 flats at the third stage in the Hwasong area of Pyongyang took place with splendour on April 15, the birth anniversary of President Kim Il Sung, the greatest auspicious holiday of the Korean people. 

According to the capital city construction strategy adopted and set forth by the Eighth Congress of the Workers’ Party of Korea and the scientific and energetic guidance of the Central Committee of the great Workers’ Party of Korea, modern skyscrapers and high-rise apartment houses embodying an ideal harmony of architectural formative and artistic beauty and advanced civilization, and distinctive commercial and public catering facilities with a strong symbolic character have been built majestically as another new large architectural group in the Hwasong area, to greet the third auspicious event of inauguration.

Another modern urban quarter has been created to demonstrate the radical development of Juche-oriented architecture and the transformation of civilization and efflorescence after the emergence of Songhwa, Hwasong, Rimhung and Jonwi streets in just four years since the first blasting for the construction of 50 000 flats in Pyongyang resounded. This amazing reality is a brilliant fruition of the transparent outlook on the people and outstanding leadership of the great Comrade Kim Jong Un, who regards the people as his God and devotes his all to their well-being.

The respected General Secretary, who has always been mindful of providing the Pyongyang citizens with a civilized and happy life, clearly indicated the orientation and ways for implementing the grand plan to bring about a substantial and fundamental change in the people’s living and gave instructions on the issues arising in the project, saying that the construction of dwelling houses in the capital city is a long-desired work being pushed by the Party and the state as a top priority and a promise made by the Party and the government to the people.

Thanks to his noble intention and genuine sincerity that the works for promoting the people’s well-being should be fruitful at any cost, a ground-breaking ceremony for building 10 000 flats was held every February and common working people moved into their new homes of happiness every April for the past four years.

The groundbreaking ceremony for the fourth-stage project to build 10 000 flats in the Hwasong area, the final-stage task of the five-year plan for the construction of the capital city decided by the Eighth Congress of the WPK, was held with splendour in Pyongyang on February 16, the birth anniversary of Chairman Kim Jong Il. 

In his speech that day, he said that the yearly construction of 10 000 flats in Pyongyang has been promoted most steadily during the eighth term of the Party Central Committee, adding that the housing construction has become a sector which achieved the stablest and rapid growth as the ambitious plans to which not only the goals decided on by the Party congress but the long-term requirements have been added have been carried out without fail every year.  

This year the construction of 10 000 flats in the fourth stage of the Hwasong area will be pushed forward vigorously and, by April next year, the Party will keep the most important promise with the citizens of the capital city and the housing problem of the city will be thoroughly settled.

It is the unshakable will of the Party that there should not be any consideration of interests, conditions or possibilities in the work for the people. 

It was by no means easy to build 10 000 flats every year, but the Party, which regards it as its mode of existence and revolutionary trait to make selfless, devoted efforts for the good of the people and the people’s laughter as the criterion for judging the national power, has pressed on with the housing construction projects, overcoming all trials and difficulties to provide the people with a happy life with nothing to envy in the world.

This is a clear demonstration of the steadfast will and courageous practical ability of the WPK which thoroughly orients and subordinates all affairs of state administration to protecting the rights and interests of the people and realizing their long-cherished desires and carries out what it has decided to do for them unconditionally.