Pyongyang, February 17 (KCNA) -- Construction of 50 000 flats in Pyongyang, decided by the Eighth Congress of the Workers’ Party of Korea to turn Pyongyang into a wonderful world-class city, in which the people-first principle is thoroughly applied, in the new era of comprehensive development towards the supreme ideal of civilization and prosperity, has entered its final stage.

The respected Comrade Kim Jong Un personally planned to have 50 000 flats built in the capital city, a project to be specially recorded in the sacred history of development of the Party and the state, and set it as the most important task and cherished desire to be realized without fail. And since he declared the first meaningful groundbreaking for implementing the project, he has ceaselessly given brilliant guidance at the grand construction sites to usher in a new heyday of Pyongyang, in which ideal streets of the people to be proud of in the eyes of the world are built every year.

The final-stage struggle of the five-year plan for the monumental construction of the capital city is the most important undertaking of creation in this year for perfectly fulfilling the pledge, which our Party made before the people and has discharged without an inch of deflection. It is also an honourable revolutionary undertaking to inject greater vitality into the all-people general advance towards the 80th founding anniversary of the Party and the Ninth Congress of the Party.

A groundbreaking ceremony for the fourth-stage project to build 10 000 flats in the Hwasong area took place with splendour on the afternoon of February 16.

The venue of the ceremony was filled with the great pride and enthusiasm for working new miracles of all the builders of the capital city, who had built modern large architectural groups in the suburbs of the city over the past four years and glorified the great Kim Jong Un’s era with brilliant legendary tales of construction for tremendous change, holding high the flag of the construction headquarters of 50 000 flats in Pyongyang given by the Party Central Committee.

The respected Comrade Kim Jong Un attended the groundbreaking ceremony.

Present there were Pak Thae Song, premier of the Cabinet of the DPRK, and other senior Party, government and military officials, officials of the Cabinet, armed forces organs, ministries, national agencies and Pyongyang and military and civilian builders.

When Kim Jong Un arrived at the venue of the groundbreaking ceremony, all the participants raised enthusiastic cheers, looking up to the outstanding statesman and benevolent leader of the people, who is steadily ushering in a golden age of rejuvenation and an era of comprehensive prosperity on this land where all the people’s well-being and socialist civilization are coming into full bloom, by bringing about epochal victories and grand transformations unprecedented in history with his great state building idea of believing in the people as in Heaven and extraordinary leadership.

Kim Jong Un made a speech on the occasion of the groundbreaking.

Explaining the significance of holding another groundbreaking ceremony for the new year’s project to build 10 000 flats, just as we did without fail over the past four years, he extended warm thanks and militant greetings to all the builders who are taking a vigorous step forward to attain more ambitious goals with the dignity and pride in having performed brilliant exploits in the worthwhile construction work.

After clarifying the great role of construction in the course of our struggle to move from a revolution to a more gigantic one and from a stage of development to a higher level of transformation, he declared his intention to have the capital city construction continued until all conditions are provided for its citizens to lead a civilized and happy life without any inconvenience, and introduced an immediate construction plan for expanding the capital city.

Expressing belief that the fourth-stage construction project in the Hwasong area will surely bear good fruit and thus make the area more famous not only as a cradle of the happy and civilized life of the people but as a land of history, which tells new miraculous tales of indomitable socialist Korea, he ardently called for turning out more courageously in the great struggle for the great appearance and eternal prosperity of our capital city, for the civilization of our state and for the happy life of our people.

All the builders broke into enthusiastic cheers with boundless reverence for Kim Jong Un, who is warmly inspiring them with great trust so that they can perform eye-opening feats once again in this year’s struggle for successfully concluding the tasks decided by the Party congress.

The venue of the groundbreaking ceremony was filled with the ardent enthusiasm of the builders of the capital city to uphold the cherished desire of our Party with miracles of creation, bearing deep in mind Kim Jong Un’s instructions that the Hwasong area is the epitome that intensively shows the spirit peculiar to the Workers’ Party of Korea that wages the revolution uninterruptedly and the onward march of our state that advances towards the future with a great ambition.

Kim Jong Un pressed the button for blasting to herald the start of the project for building 10 000 flats at the fourth stage in the Hwasong area.

Fireworks were set off one after another to declare the start of a new advance as the loud sound of blasting shook the sky and the land.

Expressing expectation that all the military and civilian builders will as ever demonstrate the honour of our times and our generation and steadily carry forward the glorious history of the people-first architecture, he warmly acknowledged their cheers for a long time.

All the participants made a firm pledge to successfully build a new flourishing living space of socialist civilization in the Hwasong area where a greater happiness of the people will be in full bloom and to turn our great Pyongyang into an ideal city to be envied by the world and into the capital city of the most dignified and prosperous power by implementing Kim Jong Un’s far-reaching plan for the capital city construction with devoted practice. -0-