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The DPRK annually witnesses happy events of moving into new houses as modern farmhouses are built across the country every year.

The construction of rural houses for building a modern ideal village on every farm is an unprecedentedly huge, medium- and long-term undertaking to be carried out in such circumstances where the severest difficulties in the 70-odd-year history of the DPRK stand in the way of its advance and the country simultaneously pushes ahead with projects to bring about great changes for the comprehensive development of socialism.

Keeping it as his cherished desire to turn all rural villages across the country into a rich and modern socialist paradise and regarding it as an important undertaking for the prosperity and development of the country and for the rising generations, the respected General Secretary Kim Jong Un unfolded a grand plan for rural house construction and indicated the orientation and ways to that end at the Eighth Congress of the Workers’ Party of Korea and at the Fourth Plenary Meeting of the Eighth Central Committee of the WPK.

Under his leadership, strong commanding forces for the construction of farmhouses were organized ranging from the capital to provinces, cities and counties, it was formulated as a policy and law for the state to provide all cities and counties with cement for rural house construction on a regular basis every year so as to firmly guarantee their implementation and a powerful construction force was formed in each region.

Under the state concern, the formation plans for modern and diversified rural houses preserving regional characteristics were completed and introduced according to coastal, lowland and mountainous areas, and thus such houses are under construction all across the country.

A large number of fairyland villages have been built across the country, which is vibrant with activities to implement the programme for the rural revolution in the new era, in the past some years to meet the modern aesthetic tastes and requirements of Korean-style socialism and highlight the specific features of relevant regions.

With the joyful scenes of agricultural workers moving into new houses provided by the Party and the state free of charge unfolding all the year round every year, the countryside has undergone tremendous changes.

“I am really glad to have a sunny, white-tiled smart kitchen. And the stairs are designed so comfortably that even my aged parents never feel any difficulty in using them. I really feel like I am dreaming,” said Ri Won Sok, a farmer of the Jangsuwon Farm of the Pyongyang Municipal Rural Economy Committee who is living in a terraced house.

Ri Sun Sil, a woman who is living in a low-storeyed house, said she lives in good health, though she is over 80 years old, in the era of the Workers’ Party of Korea, adding, “I feel refreshed on the balcony of our new house as I take the air, do exercise and have a bird’s-eye view of the village. Under the care of the Workers’ Party, we farmers now live happily in the wonderland of civilization to the envy of others.”

Kye Chun Il, a farmer whose family moved into a new single-storey house, said with joy that the new house is warm and cosy and also convenient to their life and that particularly, the communal domestic animal shed is really convenient to use as they can breed pigs, goats, rabbits and other domestic animals there.

A picturesque village of modern houses that suit the local terrain conditions appeared at the Kangdong Combined Greenhouse Farm built last year in the suburbs of Pyongyang.

Spectacular is the greenhouse town, a farm town, with modern greenhouses in unique styles surrounded by multi- and low-storey and terraced apartment houses for over 1 200 families, a nursery, kindergarten, school and polyclinic going well with natural scenery. People admire the farm, referring to it as “Kyongru-dong” of Kangdong.

This year, too, rural houses have been completed in different parts of the country, and thus farmers have moved into the new houses.