Let Us Usher In a Great Golden Age of Construction by Thoroughly Applying the Party’s Juche-Oriented Idea of Architecture
Letter to the Participants in the Grand Short Course
of Officials in the Construction Sector
December 8, Juche 102 (2013)
It
is of great significance that a grand short course of officials in the
construction sector is convened for the first time in the construction
history of our country when a heyday is being unfolded in construction
and a general charge is being waged for the victory of this year under
the leadership of the Workers’ Party of Korea.
The current short course, held under the theme Yesterday and Today of the Juche-oriented Architecture and Its Today and Tomorrow,
is convened by our Party’s plan and initiative to review the successes
and experiences in the work of the construction sector and usher in a
great golden age in this sector in line with the demands of the
developing revolution and times.
Today,
when our Party and revolution have come to a new, historic turning
point under the great banner of Songun, they are faced with an important
task to scale at an early date the high peak of building a thriving
country by leaping from one decade to another.
In
opening decades of fresh leap forward of Songun Korea, our Party
attaches great importance to the work of the construction sector.
Construction
is a patriotic cause of lasting significance for building a thriving
socialist country, a people’s paradise, and an important work for
raising the economic might of the country and the level of its
civilization.
When
we build many monumental structures by bringing about innovations in
construction, the foundations of a thriving country will be laid all the
firmer and the base of people’s happiness will be created all the more
excellently. Seeing the daily-changing appearance of their prosperous
and cultured country, our people will feel great dignity and
revolutionary self-respect and cherish warmer affection for their
country. New speeds of construction and the spirit of the times created
in the grand construction sites inspire all the people and service
personnel to wage a heroic struggle and perform feats in the building of
a thriving country.
It
is our Party’s steadfast determination to usher in a new age of
prosperity of the country by developing the current heyday in
construction to a great golden age to create a new history of
construction for Songun Korea and by making the torchlight of innovation
in this sector flare up as flames of a great leap forward on all other
fronts of socialist construction.
Bearing
in mind our Party’s purpose of having organized the grand short course,
all the participants should get through the short course a clear
understanding of the blueprint of our Party’s plan for building a
socialist economic giant, a cultured country, and the ways for
implementing the plan and thus make the short course an epochal occasion
in making another great leap forward in the construction sector.
The
history of construction in our country is a proud history of having
brought about miracles and changes by racing against time at the pace of
Chollima spurred up by the speed campaign, guided by the outstanding
idea of architecture of the great Generalissimos and under their wise
leadership.
The brilliant leadership exploits of Generalissimo Kim Il Sung,
who created a new history of Juche-oriented and people-oriented
architecture after the liberation of the country and built on the debris
a powerful country with a self-supporting economy, a people’s paradise,
and of Generalissimo Kim Jong Il,
who put forward a comprehensive Juche-oriented theory of architecture
and ushered in a heyday of grand socialist construction, will shine
forever as everlasting assets in the building of a prosperous country.
Today
a heyday of construction has been unfolded in our country under the
leadership of the Party, with the result that the great Generalissimos’
plan of building a thriving country is being translated into reality.
Thanks
to the loyalty and heroic struggle of the service personnel of the
Korean People’s Army and construction workers, the Kumsusan Palace of
the Sun, the supreme sanctuary of Juche, has been laid out in a more
solemn way as a great monument to the immortality of the leaders and the
proud structures of the age of the WPK, like the Victorious Fatherland
Liberation War Museum, Unha Scientists Street, Munsu Water Park and
Masikryong Ski Resort, which will go well with the appearance of a
socialist cultured country in their characters, contents and
architectural styles, have been built in the short period of less than
one year, instilling in our people great national dignity and pleasure
of a happy life.
The
service personnel of the KPA and construction workers devoted their
blood and sweat unstintingly to carrying through the Party’s
construction plan, thus proving in practice that Korea unfailingly does
what it is determined to do and demonstrating to the whole world the
wisdom and spirit of our people who are charging at full speed; they are
indeed heroes of the Songun era and treasures of our Party.
I
extend warm thanks to the participants in the grand short course of
officials in the construction sector, the soldier-builders and
construction workers across the country who have displayed burning
patriotic enthusiasm and unswerving devotion to usher in a heyday of
construction in hearty response to the Party’s long-term construction
plan.
Today
the officials and working people in the construction sector are faced
with a heavy yet honourable task to lay solid foundations of a socialist
economic giant in near future and take the lead in opening up a new era
of cultural efflorescence in the 21st century by carrying forward and
developing the great Generalissimos’ leadership exploits associated with
their sector.
We
should speed up production-related construction on all fronts of the
socialist economy including its vanguard sectors, the sectors of basic
industries, and light industry and agriculture so as to revitalize the
national economy as early as possible and provide a stable springboard
for the building of an economic giant.
We
should lay out the capital city of Pyongyang, the heart of Juche Korea
and the hub of Songun-based culture, into a city of global standards in
all aspects and raise a hot wind of construction in local provinces,
cities and counties to refurbish them in a beautiful fashion as suited
to their characteristic features. By so doing, we should turn the
country into a socialist fairyland.
We
should bring a new, higher phase in building a socialist cultured
nation by pushing forward the projects for updating the conditions and
environment for learning at educational institutions and ensuring best
quality in setting up healthcare, sports and cultural facilities as
demanded by the times.
The
goals for the construction sector are so gigantic and ambitious.
However, as there is the wise leadership of the Party and there are
construction officials and workers who are boundlessly loyal to it, the
ideals and dream of our Party and people for building a socialist
paradise, powerful and cultured, at the earliest date possible are sure
to come true.
The
officials and working people in the construction sector should not rest
on their laurels but redouble their efforts in the van of the grand
campaign for building a thriving country to lead today’s success to a
more brilliant victory for tomorrow.
The
guidelines to be followed in carrying out our ambitious construction
plan and goals are the Party’s Juche-oriented idea and theory on
architecture and its construction policy.
The
Juche-oriented socialist architecture is, in essence, based on the
principle of giving first and foremost importance to the masses of the
people, who are responsible for architecture in our country. It is none
other than the people who create it and benefit from it. So it is a
natural requirement in construction to give top priority to the
aspirations and demands of the people and their convenience and to
ensure perfect ideological and artistic value and usability in
conformity with their emotions and aesthetic sense. In construction we
should preserve the Juche character definitely by applying the principle
of giving first and foremost importance to the masses of the people,
bring the national identity in proper combination with modernity, and
build at an extraordinary speed monumental structures that would surpass
global standards and be immaculate even in the distant future. This is
the basic principle which we must keep to in construction and the core
of the Juche-oriented idea of architecture.
Let us usher in a great golden age of construction by thoroughly applying the Party’s Juche-oriented idea of architecture!–this is the militant slogan that the officials and working people in the construction sector should hold up at present.
They
should bring about a revolutionary change in designing, execution of
construction and production of building materials to make the work of
the country’s construction sector as a whole catch up with global
standards.
Designing,
execution and building materials are three elements of construction.
The important key to building excellent structures in this sector is to
bring these elements into proper combination.
The
requirements of our Party’s policy in developing designing, execution
of construction and production of building materials are to hold fast to
the principle of prioritizing convenience over aesthetic beauty, and
construction of infrastructure over that of superstructure, to make
construction specialized, industrialized and modern on a high level and
to complete projects at a go by adopting finish-one-at-a-time tactics
and pressing ahead with them in a three-dimensional way.
First of all, it is necessary to develop the sector of architectural designing rapidly.
Architectural
designing is the initial process of construction and presents an
operations map for it. Keeping in mind that the future of a cultured
country is visualized first on their drawing boards, designers should
ensure highest level of excellence in their work as intended by the
Party and desired by the people.
They
should fully embody the requirements of our Party’s Juche-oriented
theory on architecture and construction policy in architectural designs.
In
drawing designs for an architectural structure, primary attention
should be given to providing the people, its users, with convenience for
comfort and then with the highest level of environment and conditions,
safe, hygienic and sanitary, cultured and emotional. It is also
important to constantly update the formative and artistic features of
architecture. It should be regarded as an iron rule in architectural
designing to give precedence to the designs of infrastructure, with due
concern paid to modernizing the infrastructural network in keeping with
the world trend.
It is important in architectural designing to sustain the utility and characteristics of structures. General Kim Jong Il instructed that architecture is a composite art, so similarity and repetition are taboo practices in architectural designing.
Designers
should always rack their brains to make distinctive designs for
architectural structures in various forms in conformity with their
characteristic features, utility and capacities. As the characteristics
and utility of the structures are manifested intensively in the
formation of the exterior and the interior space, their exterior should
be so configured and their interior plane arrangement so designed to
conform with the missions and functions of the structures. In drawing
architectural designs for local areas it is important to avoid the
tendency of blindly copying the models in Pyongyang or of drawing them
only for style’s sake; they should assume varied and unique forms to
bring out the character of each locality. In keeping with the world
trend of architectural development towards green architecture the
structures to be built should be designed on the principle of promoting
ecological environment and making them friendly with the surroundings.
On the other hand, precautions should be taken against adopting
architectural forms and trends that are incongruous with the Korean
style on the pretext of presenting distinctive designs.
It is urgent to radically raise the level of scientification in architectural designing as required by the new century.
Scientific
methods should be introduced in designing and its means modernized.
Designers cannot present satisfactory designs for world-class structures
only with their sense of responsibility and duty. The days are gone
when designs were drawn on paper. The most urgent issue in putting
methods of architectural designing on a scientific basis is to develop
and use the advanced CAD applications and system of Korean style.
National institutions for architectural designing and similar units in
provinces should equip themselves fully with modern devices such as
latest versions of computers and multidimensional designing programs so
as to ensure scientific accuracy and promptness in their work.
Special
attention should be paid to ensuring scientific accuracy of calculation
of cost-effectiveness in designing. A misplaced dot or line on a design
will result in the country’s materials, funds and manpower being wasted
in large amounts. From a standpoint that they are answerable to the
country and people for the structures of their designs, designers should
map out plans for them carefully in the light of economic profitability
and draw designs of every structure after repeated deliberation.
The
sector of architectural designing should develop all its branches
rapidly with a great ambition to beat the world. In recent years a great
number of monumental structures have been built, in the course of which
our designers have widened their horizon and improved the level of
their skills; however, they lag behind in still many aspects in view of
the requirements of the Party and people and the world trend of
architectural development. For the present, it is important to develop
designs for interior decoration, furniture and landscape gardening.
Proactive efforts should be made to create green architecture and
intelligent architecture, in conformity with the aspirations of mankind
by introducing world trends and excellent styles of other countries in
architectural designing.
Fresh innovations should be brought about in execution of construction.
Execution
is the major process of construction. However excellent a design may
be, if execution of construction is not done properly, an architectural
structure will not be in keeping with the requirements of the Party and
people.
Execution of construction should be put on a specialized basis.
To make execution of construction specialized constitutes an important guarantee for higher speed and quality.
Radical
measures should be taken to consolidate the material and technical
foundations of central construction enterprises, improve their
employees’ level of technical knowledge and skills, and fill up the
shortage of manpower. Provinces, too, should build up their own
construction forces. Specialized construction enterprises should be
effective in reinforcing their technical personnel and training skilled
construction workers. Given the experience in construction for this
year, it is advisable to second construction forces in provinces to
major projects in Pyongyang so that they can learn advanced construction
methods and gain experience for themselves.
It is important to decisively raise the level of industrialization and modernization in execution of construction.
Only
then will it be possible to make work easier in the construction sector
and carry out construction projects more quickly and more excellently
with less expenditure of manpower and materials.
What
is fundamental to putting execution of construction on an
industrialized and modern footing is to upgrade equipment, machines and
tools. As we are to undertake many projects in the upcoming years in
answer to the Party’s call for a construction campaign, we should
replace old building equipment, machines and tools with modern ones. As
we have the experience of manufacturing various building equipment and
as we are supported by firm industrial foundations, we are surely
capable of producing and supplying modern building equipment, machines
and tools if we buckle down to it. Factories and enterprises in the
sector of machine-building industry and construction units should make
positive efforts to produce building equipment, machines and tools on
their own. It is also important to make scrupulous arrangements for
importing from foreign countries up-to-date building equipment, machines
and tools in complete sets.
Advanced
construction methods should be introduced proactively. People’s
aesthetic standards rise and construction methods develop in step with
the times. A struggle should be waged to invent and apply various
construction methods suited to the requirements of the times and the
characteristics of construction projects, and positive efforts be made
to adopt up-to-date construction methods. In order to develop
construction onto a higher phase, we should switch from wet to dry
process.
Technical
regulations and requirements of construction methods should be strictly
observed in execution. The slogan “Let us take responsibility for the
safety of the project and guarantee its quality for all eternity” is put
up at every construction site; this slogan should not be regarded as
being simply for the sake of publicity. We should make it a slogan of
loyalty and patriotism under which the officials and working people in
the construction sector support their Party and love their country, a
slogan of clear conscience and practice under which they devote
themselves to the well-being of the people and rising generations.
We
should be effective in creating an example in executing construction of
structures and generalizing it. It is our Party’s traditional method of
work to create a model in a unit and generalize it across other units.
We should raise the overall level of execution by setting up exemplary,
model units in the capital and provinces and making all other
construction units follow suit.
When
carrying out a construction project, close attention should be paid to
laying out the area surrounding the construction site. Construction of a
structure should be finished in parallel with cleaning out the
surrounding area and landscaping it with trees and lawns so that the
traces of construction are removed entirely along with the completion of
the project.
An epochal turn should be made in production of building materials.
Production
of building materials is decisive of success or failure of
construction. Building materials are to construction what shells and
bullets are to the army.
Building-materials
factories should normalize their production to supply materials for
construction sufficiently. Cement factories and the units producing
steel for construction should upgrade and perfect the existing
production lines and operate their equipment at full capacity, thus
producing and supplying quality cement and steel according to the set
items and specifications. Production of standard aggregate and prefabs
should be industrialized to boost their output rapidly. Modern bases for
producing building materials should be set up in larger numbers to meet
the growing demand for them in the construction sector.
The
proportion of home-made finishing materials should be raised. To
produce building materials by relying on domestic resources is a
requisite for the development of construction work and, at the same
time, it is an important aspect of political work to inspire the people
with trust and pride in their own things and enhance their confidence.
We should speed up the work of putting the production lines on a modern
and scientific basis at building-materials factories, including the
Taedonggang Tile Factory and the Pyongyang Building-materials Factory,
which have been built with so much effort under the care of
Generalissimo Kim Jong Il, and each
factory should specialize in the production of a certain range of
building materials on a higher level and make it a tradition.
Finishing-materials factories should strive for higher quality and make
their product range varied. In future, we should produce all sorts of
finishing materials necessary for construction in our country.
We
should channel strenuous efforts into developing materials of fittings
and furniture so as to produce them in large quantities which are light,
durable, convenient and attractive. Positive measures should be taken
to turn out varieties of quality coating materials by relying on locally
available raw materials.
The
responsibility and role of the officials and working people in the
construction sector should be enhanced to usher in a great golden age of
construction.
They
are point men and pioneers who are to perform the honourable duty of
taking the lead in paving the way for prosperity of Songun Korea and the
people’s happy morrow. By relying on their ardent loyalty and patriotic
zeal, our Party intends to open up a great golden age of construction
with a view to translating the people’s ideals and dream into reality.
Officials
in the construction sector should work to the best of their abilities
and make persevering efforts to realize the construction plan of the
Party and its intentions.
They
should set the order of priority for construction reasonably in keeping
with the requirements for the building of a thriving nation and the
actual conditions of the country, and carry through the tasks assigned
to their units by projects and stages in a sweeping manner by displaying
their organizational abilities to the full and through bold, daring
operations. They should lend an attentive ear to the creative
suggestions of the masses and hold serious discussions on site as to the
problems arising in construction from designing and execution to
preparation for operating the buildings so as to take proper measures in
time. They should all become locomotives that arouse and lead the
masses to the grand construction campaign through personal examples by
overcoming difficulties and hardships in the revolutionary spirit of
self-reliance and with indefatigable courage.
They
should make exact demands in construction work. In construction the
criteria are what are required by the Party and people. In carrying on
any project, officials should not feel satisfied with what they have
done, but make greater demands to construct all structures as monumental
creations which reach the standards required by the Party and the
people and catch up with global ones.
They
should show special concern for the safety of workers and take
scrupulous measures to this end to prevent any slight labour accident.
They
should endeavour to raise the level of their political and practical
qualifications. To them, it is not merely a matter of qualification; it
is a matter of eligibility, i.e., whether or not they can keep pace with
the Party in the struggle to create a new history of construction for
Songun Korea. They should firmly arm themselves with our Party’s
Juche-oriented idea of architecture and its construction policy and
become competent, talented personnel who are well versed in their field
and the work at their own units, as well as the world trend of
architectural development.
Construction
projects should be carried out on the strength of army-people joint
operations. As they have brought about sea changes in all parts of the
country by displaying the spirit of moving mountains and filling up seas
at the cost of their lives if it is the Supreme Commander’s order, the
soldier-builders should keep performing heroic feats in the van of the
sacred struggle to open up a great golden age of construction, and thus
demonstrate to the full the proud features of the Party’s army and its
might as an artist of people’s happiness. By learning from the fighting
spirit of the soldier-builders, the working people in the construction
sector should ensure fastest speed and best quality in carrying on
construction projects, thus leaving a remarkable trace of life in the
ongoing vigorous construction campaign with an ardent patriotic view of
life.
Construction science and technology should be developed onto a higher stage.
Science
and technology are a propellant which drives constant advances for
construction, and the shortcut to the great golden age of construction
is to rapidly develop science and technology in this sector.
The
scientists and technicians in the construction sector should have the
national dignity and scientific faith that they will beat the world and
make most use of the knowledge and talents, which they have acquired
under the care of the Party, to provide a scientific and technological
guarantee for and push ahead with the grand construction campaign for
the country’s prosperity and people’s well-being. They should further
develop architectural designing and execution of construction on the
basis of an intensive research into structural diagrams, scientific
methods of calculation and advanced ways of execution which are
applicable to the actual conditions of our country and may lead the
world. They should strive to ensure domestic production of building
materials, and increase their variety and better their quality so that
they can compete with world-class ones. They should also make proactive
efforts to develop and introduce modern and efficient equipment,
machines and tools.
Stress
should be put on training scientific and technical personnel in the
construction sector. Today, when the heyday of construction is being led
to a great golden age for the new century of the Juche era, talented
designers and architects are in growing demand. Pyongyang University of
Architecture is the base of training personnel talented in
Juche-oriented architecture and an outpost for the building of a
socialist cultured country. The university and other educational
institutions in the construction sector should put education on an
informatized, modern and advanced basis as demanded by the era of
knowledge economy, combine theories with practice, and teaching with
labour for production, and ensure best conditions and environment for
teaching, so as to increase the number of competent designers and
architects who are fully equipped with the Juche-oriented idea of
architecture. In order to produce competent personnel talented in
construction science and technology who can render a contribution to the
building of a thriving nation, it is important to select promising
people and send them to other countries for study and internship and
effectively organize refresher courses for in-service officials.
A
dissemination centre for construction science and technology should be
built and put into wide use. A wide range of worldwide architectural
data should be put into the central database to enable the relevant
organs to gain access to them through computer network.
Supervision and control over construction should be improved and strengthened.
They
should be conducted in a responsible manner in the interests of the
Party and the state. With a high sense of being supervisors in defence
of the demands and interests of the Party, the country and the people,
officials in this sector should exercise strict control over
construction and make increasing demands on designing and execution of
construction.
We
should establish a nationwide, unified system of supervision and
control over construction. Only then will it be possible to conduct the
overall construction of the country in line with the Party’s
construction policy, the development orientation of construction set by
the state and the law and regulations on construction. Now a unified
control system of the state has not been established properly in the
construction sector. The construction control sector should establish
such an order that its officials deliberate the designs of structures
and inspect them upon their completion on their construction sites and
exercise control so as to prevent deviations in construction. The
construction control organs should establish the system of examining
even the preparation for operation of structures when inspecting them
upon completion.
Party guidance to the construction sector should be strengthened.
Party
organizations should make it its major line to establish a
thoroughgoing system of Party leadership in the construction sector and
concentrate all types of Party work on this work. Without establishing
the system of Party leadership, it is impossible to properly apply the
Party’s Juche-oriented idea of architecture and its construction policy
and usher in a great golden age of construction in line with the Party’s
intention.
All
the units in the construction sector should establish strict discipline
of accepting the Party’s policy and instructions on construction as
being absolute and resolving the problems arising in construction work
according to the Party’s decision, and carry out self-sacrificingly and
unconditionally the tasks the Party has given them.
Party
organizations should conduct political work in a proactive way to give
full rein to the mental strength of the officials and working people in
the construction sector. The driving force of the construction campaign
is the mental strength of the masses of the people. Party organizations
should positively encourage and lead the officials and working people in
the construction sector so that they would cherish Kim Jong Il’s
patriotism and devote their patriotic zeal and sincerity to fulfilling
in time the tasks assigned to them. They should encourage all of them to
become performers of feats in the ongoing grand construction campaign
by learning from the heroic fighting spirit and revolutionary traits
possessed by their elder generations who brought about great innovations
and changes by dint of the Chollima spirit and high-speed work in every
decade of our revolution. By enlisting all the means for information
and motivational work, Party organizations should actively motivate them
ideologically and widely organize socialist emulation drives; in this
way, they can ensure that the spirit of making a leap forward and
carrying out tasks self-sacrificingly, militant mettle and revolutionary
optimism brim over in all construction sites.
Party
organizations should intensify education among officials so as to
encourage them to strive to develop ours with a high sense of national
self-respect and be proactive in the work of rooting out among them the
tendency of depending on other countries.
As
builders are engaged in the challenging and labour-consuming
construction work away from home for a long time, Party organizations
should regard them as their revolutionary comrades-in-arms, comrades,
and take warm care of their life with maternal affection, to ensure that
they devote their creative wisdom and zeal at construction sites with
the feeling of attachment to their job.
Great
are the Party’s trust in and expectations of the officials and working
people in the construction sector in the gigantic struggle to usher in a
great golden age of construction by thoroughly applying the
Juche-oriented idea of architecture.
With
a firm determination to translate the Party’s far-reaching plan of
construction into brilliant reality, they should demonstrate to the
whole world the dignity of the powerful Paektusan nation and the spirit
of Songun Korea by bringing about a great advance and innovations at
construction sites
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