For the Good of the People

For the Good of the People Top and Absolute Priority On September 23, 2013 Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un, together with officials, visited the construction site of a dental hospital nearing completion. Entering the vestibule, he stopped. After looking at the place for a while, he said it was also designed to serve as a carriage porch.   The officials did not understand what he meant. Looking at them, he admonishingly said: Carriage porch is for cadres riding in cars. The dental hospital will be visited by lots of people. How many of them do you think will come by car? The officials had nothing to reply seized with remorse for their failing to follow the intention of the leader who always thinks of the people’s convenience first. He went on to say: Stairs are enough for access to the vestibule, and people will walk up them. Now carriage porches can be seen at building everywhere. The porches of shops and factories are all built in one and the same form. This just means fixed formality. The vestibule of a shop does not need to be high so that people can freely go in and out pulling shopping trolleys. Porch should be built in various forms in accordance with purposes of buildings and in such a way as to meet the convenience of the people. His words meant that officials should regard the convenience of the people as the starting point and yardstick in all their thought and work. Like this the dental hospital was built under his warm care. Pass Develops into Ski Resort Masik Pass was filled with only the chirping of wild birds and the sound of running water for thousands of years. But now it has changed into a modern ski resort. The pass is so high and rough that it is difficult for even a horse to cross it without a rest. Hence the name Masik Pass. It is the Supreme Leader who proposed building the Masikryong Ski Resort on the pass. On May 26, 2013, some time after the beginning of the project, he visited the construction site. After hearing a detailed report about the state of progress in the project on an observation platform, he expressed great satisfaction at the fact that soldier builders had built, in an area of hundreds of thousands of square meters, skiing slopes divided into those for beginners, intermediates and advanced skiers, which are nearly 110 000 meters in total length and 40 to 120 meters in width. He went on to say with satisfaction that skiing can be done there for a long period as it snows there from November to March in the following year, that the place is favorable for traffic and that the ski resort is in an excellent location. If the resort was completed the entire country would be filled with enthusiasm for skiing like that for roller-skating, he said, full of joy as if he were seeing people enjoying themselves there while building up their physical strength and relishing the natural scenery. After acquainting himself with the state of progress in the construction of the gatepost of the resort, a hotel, a storehouse of skiing materials, a helipad and so on, he climbed up to the top of the resort over 1 360 meters above sea level. Looking down happily at thick forest whose ecological environment remains intact and the skiing slopes, he said that this good scenery of the resort would turn into better one in winter. When officials told him that top of the resort overlooked the Kalma Peninsula in the east and Soljae Pass in the west, Kim Jong Un, saying that the sunrise in the East Sea seen from there would be spectacular, observed the mountain ranges for a long while. Then he stressed the need to build even a single thing in a big way and so neatly as to be absolutely perfect, and said emphatically that it was the Party’s firm resolution to build a world-famous ski resort. That day he taught in detail how to solve problems arising in the project. On June 4 that year he made public a historic appeal Let Us Usher in a Fresh Heyday on All the Fronts of Socialist Construction by Creating the Speed on Masik Pass. It was an expression of his strong desire to realize the people’s dreams into ideals as soon as possible.