KCNA Commentary on Anti-DPRK Remarks of NATO and EU

Pyongyang, February 8 (KCNA) -- Shortly ago, NATO and the European Union let loose sophism without common sense ignoring the reality, make the world laugh at them.

Spokespersons for these groups which has developed into anti-DPRK confrontation ones remaining faithful to the U.S. grumbled that the DPRK "can not be recognized as a nuclear weapons state", making anachronistic remarks that "it should dismantle its nuclear weapons and existing nuclear programs and all other WMDs and ballistic missile programs in a complete, verifiable and irreversible way."

No one has ever called for "recognition" but the "noble gentlemen" are talking nonsense from old broken-down gramophone, evoking sympathy as they became poor creatures with their eyes and ears closed to the newly changed reality.

It can not be but an occasion of making the people look back once again upon what this force, which is advocating global "peace" and "security" more vehemently than anyone else, has brought to mankind and what its purpose is in making a string of incoherent remarks.

The world is now spending days and months of bitter pains from which it has never suffered in any times owing to the acts of destroying peace by the U.S.-led Western forces.

It has already been known well that the Ukrainian crisis has been steadily expanded and the evil cycle of war has been repeated in the Middle East owing to the U.S. and the West's shameless pursuit of geopolitical interests.

Moreover, the old gangster-like groups are making desperate efforts to wreck peace even in the Korean peninsula which is geographically far away from them.

Last year alone, huge forces of the West including NATO and EU member states were dispatched to the vicinity of the DPRK at the U.S. order and conducted provocative military drills premised on the outbreak of a nuclear war.

Before anything else this year, NATO set up a so-called full-time mission to intensify aggression moves by alluring the most bellicose forces in the region around the Korean peninsula under the pretext of "strengthening security cooperation".

All facts go to prove that such remarks as the "irretrievable verification" made by NATO and the European Union pretending to be an "apostle of peace" have nothing to do with the global "security" and that if there is any, they only revealed the wild ambition of the confrontational maniacs to disarm the DPRK and thus achieve their sinister political and military purpose smoothly.

Herein lies the reason why the justness of the DPRK's policy on bolstering up its nuclear forces without any limitation is highlighted.

The DPRK makes it clear once again that its nuclear weapons are neither an "advertisement" for winning somebody's "recognition" nor a "bargaining chip" for a few pennies.

The nuclear forces of the DPRK are the immutable ones for real war to promptly smash the origin of any attempt of the hostile forces to infringe the sovereignty of the country and the security of its people and threaten regional peace.

At this opportunity, we advice UN, which chimed in with the grumbles of the anti-peace forces, to cool-headedly recognize what forces are causing vortex of war in different parts of the world and to remain faithful to its purpose and mission, before commenting on the just measures of a sovereign state for self-defence.

What is more obvious at the present time is that the hostile forces seeking sinister intention are feeling great fear and uneasiness before the nuclear forces of the DPRK.

The hysteric symptoms of the anti-DPRK groups which are making a fuss with no particular view will promptly disappear when they are accustomed to the important events being made by the DPRK in response to the hostile forces' frenzy.

Is it distressed to admit the reality? -0-

www.kcna.kp (2025.02.08.)

Glory to the Korean People's Army on the 77th anniversary of its foundation as a regular revolutionary armed force !

                                            

 77 years ago on the 8th of February 1948 President KIM IL SUNG founded the Korean People's Army (KPA)as a regular revolutionary armed force based on the guerrilla Korean People's Revolutionary Army ,

The KPA is the Juche-based invincible revolutionary armed force that defends the Korean revolution and advances socialism . It has won many victories over US imperialism .

Today the KPA stands guard over the achievements of Juche Korea !

Glory to the Korean People's Army , steel strong force of Juche !

BGSJI and KFA UK support statement of section chief of Korea-Europe Association

 BRITISH GROUP FOR THE STUDY OF THE JUCHE IDEA 

 email juche007@yahoo.co.uk 
                       

                                                       
 London  7th of February 2025
The British Group for the Study of the Juche Idea (BGSJI)and the Korean Friendship Association of the UK( KFA UK) issued a statement supporting the press statement of  section chief of the Korea-Europe Association that was issued on the 6th of February ;

Recently , the International Crisis Group which is headquartered in Brussels claimed the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK ) is a country to be watched by the European Union (EU ) and is one of the 10 areas of conflict . The International Crisis Group , a shadowy NGO , calls for the EU to impose more sanctions on the DPRK.

The cause of tensions on the Korean peninsula is not the DPRK but the US and south Korea . The false assertions of the International Crisis Group merely prove that it is " is no more than a mouthpiece dancing to the tune of the U.S. and the West." as the section chief of the Korea-Europe Association correctly states .

We believe that it is high time for the EU to stop acting as a puppet of the US and to face up to the changed reality, therefore we support the statement of the section chief of the Korea-Europe Association .

EU , HANDS OFF PEOPLE'S KOREA
BGSJI
KFA UK 

   

Respected Comrade Kim Jong Un Makes Speech at Groundbreaking Ceremony of Hospital and Leisure Complex in Kangdong County for Regional Development 20×10 Policy

 

Pyongyang, February 7 (KCNA) -- The respected Comrade Kim Jong Un made a speech at the groundbreaking ceremony of a hospital and leisure complex in Kangdong County for the Regional Development 20×10 Policy.

The full text of the speech is as follows:

Comrades,

Dear residents of Kangdong County, who have turned out as one in the first stage of struggle of the new year with soaring confidence and patriotic enthusiasm,

Officers and men of the Guards hero construction unit and the 124th Regiment and members of the non-permanent promotion committee, who will open the prelude to the heroic struggle of 2025 that should be etched as another year of great victory in history,

The construction work for 2025, a meaningful year that will further enrich the successes of the first-stage pioneering struggle for the comprehensive development of socialism, is now beginning with the construction of a hospital and leisure complex here in Kangdong County.

This can be called a starting point of our efforts to achieve the ideals and ambition of the Party and government to guarantee the people their rights and interests, promote their health and build a brighter and rosier future for them. But as I have greeted the moment when the construction of the projects, which we have long aspired to implement for the precious people of this country and their vibrant beautiful life, has finally been put on the stage of execution, my heart beats with delight at the thought that we have decided on and made preparations for a truly worthwhile and proud task.

I feel happiest that the sincerity of our Party and government will bring another wealth to the regional people. It is also gratifying that the eye-opening changes in the new era will take place in another part of our country.

Through this historic groundbreaking ceremony, we are making a meaningful start to accelerate the building of a civilized and prosperous country by instilling hope and optimism in the people across the country that they will receive advanced medical services and enjoy a civilized material and cultural life in their own regions, as well as by bringing about substantial and new qualitative changes in the regions.

At this moment, when we are taking another giant step towards great changes, I extend great encouragement and warm militant greetings to the officers and men of the Guards unit and the 124th Regiment of the Capital City Defence Corps, who have advanced to the new construction sites by carrying forward their tradition of standing faithfully in the vanguard of the struggle for bringing about the prosperity of the country and wellbeing of the people.

I also extend militant greetings to the members of the design sector at all levels and the non-permanent promotion committee for regional development, who have contributed to making us launch into these projects in a short span of time through a strenuous struggle, as well as to the officials and working people in the building-materials industry and other relevant sectors, who are firmly supporting the vast construction projects with unprecedented increased production, true to the decisions of the plenary meeting of the Party Central Committee for more expansive and substantial rejuvenation of the regions.

Comrades,

The first process of all our work has always been like this, but I want to make clear first what an important and great meaning we attach to the projects to be launched soon.

This is because herein lies the answer to why we must build them at a time when vast construction projects are underway and it is hard to enlist spare manpower and why we must complete them in a wonderful way in time and without fail at that.

Our Party’s plan for regional development is to ensure that the regional people not only enjoy a material life that is enjoyed by the citizens of the capital city but also lead a life in good health and without any worry in an environment that is as cultured and hygienic as in the capital city.

In other words, it can be said that the ideal result of the regional development policy is that the whole country should be put on an even cultural level, too, by building up the regions to be as wonderful as the capital city is and transforming the environment of the regional people for a cultured life.

Now it has almost become a fait accompli that with modern light-industry factories to be built in every city and county in ten years to come, the regional people will surely be able to attain the level of urbanites in material and economic life. Yet it is more than obvious that this is not all that can eliminate the ingrained cultural lag and backwardness of the regions.

At present, cities and counties are not equipped with adequate facilities for providing proper medical services to the inhabitants, nor do they have any decent welfare service facilities; so they hardly befit the cultural centres in the respective regions and the cultural standards of the regional people are far lower than those of the citizens of the capital city.

The signs of backward and underdeveloped character of the regions can be found more largely in the sphere of cultural life than in that of material life, and the most serious of the gaps between the urban communities and the rural ones is to be seen in the sectors of public health, hygienic arrangement, science and education.

As it is impossible ever to eliminate this cultural backwardness of the regions if we put off the necessary endeavour for this or that reason while refusing to accept this stark reality and simply discussing the feasibilities, the Party Central Committee made an unusual, revolutionary determination to carry out a decisive action of injecting advanced science, technology and civilization into all cities, counties and even mountain regions across the country and thus advancing forward without letup towards the already-defined goals of regional development.

There is another important point worth mentioning in our proposal for setting it as one of our immediate tasks to build modern public health facilities and multifunctional cultural amenities in cities and counties.

The principal method we should employ in developing the regions in a comprehensive way is to help them build up their own self-sustaining capability in every way while providing state guidance and assistance to them.

In other words, the state should provide sufficient material and technical foundations and conditions to the regions so that they can stand on their own feet and, on this basis, let them build up their own forces and potentials strong enough to achieve steady and sustainable development.

In view of both the lessons we have drawn from the annals of regional development which has been stagnant over the past decades, and the prospective requirements that regional development should be a powerful motive force for the development of our state, the issue of each region building their own self-supporting development capability is the key to success.

The most important factor of regional transformation is to be identified in the forces of their own, which can lead their economic and cultural rejuvenation, that is, the spiritual and cultural preparedness of the regional people.

It is necessary to have well-qualified economic and technical forces in order to ensure good operation of the modern regional-industry factories which are now under construction in full swing; it is also necessary to train talented personnel systematically in order for each city or county to make effective use of their own characteristics to pave varied and unique roads for their development.

The faster the regional development gets nationwide, the higher such a demand will be; what is essential and inevitable to this end is the leisure complex whose construction we are just going to launch.

We can say that the multifunctional leisure complex will, by providing the regional people with latest science and nourishment of civilization without interruption, serve as a fertile land and a cradle for training them to be proud masters capable of running modern industry on their own and for identifying and training talented people.

I am sure that when the sci-tech learning base is furnished with high-performance IT means and databases of various up-to-date sci-tech achievements, it will be of great help to the regional population, young people and children in particular, in approaching closer to modern science and civilization and acquiring the insight and qualifications needed to lead their regional economic and cultural development.

The new leisure complex will be furnished with facilities for the people to see films and enjoy sports and cultural activities, commercial outlets with a clean sanitary environment, as well as various other welfare service facilities. Needless to say, such a cultural base will be very efficient in further enlightening the people, developing richer emotional feelings in them and training them to be pioneers and creators of a new culture.

If cities and counties are to function effectively not merely as a comprehensive unit of regional development but also as a regional base leading the cultural revolution in the countryside and maintaining economic and cultural ties between urban and rural communities, they must have the means and conditions necessary for expediting the process of assimilating the peasantry to the working class and the rural areas to the urban ones by promptly absorbing modern science and technology and actively disseminating advanced urban culture.

Should they not have such means and conditions, our rural communities will lag far behind modern civilization, and they will not be able to come closer to the threshold of the new era of the socialist countryside.

The conclusion we can draw from this is obvious.

Only when we eliminate the differences in the cultural and intellectual levels between the citizens of the capital city and regional people and between the urban and rural dwellers, can our new regional development policy fully display its validity and vitality as a policy designed for ensuring the eternal prosperity of our regions both in name and in reality and removing the urban-rural gaps fundamentally and permanently.

Building modern public health facilities and multifunctional bases for cultural activities in cities and counties is a crucial and most pressing task that is of great strategic significance in accelerating the simultaneous and balanced development of all fields and all regions and bringing forward the complete victory of socialism.

This is a task that brooks no further delay.

We are facing a decisive period when we should develop cities and counties strategically, proactively and consciously.

What we should bear in mind is that our generation has shouldered the responsibility for this great cause of historic significance, which is what we must undertake now.

The eternal prosperity of our regions precisely means the permanent future of our state and our style of socialism.

Comrades,

The leisure complexes we are planning to set up in cities and counties are something that has never been conceived of in regional construction, and we should almost blaze a trail in building modern hospitals.

In particular, a hospital is a functional building that requires technical compatibility from the lowest units of infrastructure to every one of its medical equipment and devices. Building it is dozens of times as costly as erecting an apartment block or an industrial facility. Setting up an adequately-equipped hospital is not so easy, because it requires advanced building techniques, expensive materials and large funds.

Despite this difficulty, we should build excellent hospitals in cities and counties as symbols of socialist public health in our era, which embody the Party’s plan for modernizing public health and its Juche-based idea of architectural aesthetic beauty.

The fact is that hospital construction in cities and counties is an important project we conceived of and worked out much earlier than when we planned the construction of industrial factories in the regions.

As a project for guaranteeing our people’s life and safety and promoting their health, this naturally takes the first priority among all other projects which our Party has planned and is pushing forward to transform our regions and build a cultured, prosperous state.

It is nonsensical to talk about the strength and development of a state and argue over the advantages of its system, if that state is unwilling and unable to take responsibility for its people’s life and health.

To take as an example, the public health situation in a country affords a glimpse into its political climate and level of civilization and the quality of life for its citizens. In this sense, public health can be said to represent the absolute values of a nation.

In the present era, laying solid foundations for the public health sector has presented itself as a matter that has a direct bearing on the security of a country and its future, and the demand for life protection and health promotion has grown rapidly. This being the case, our view and stand is that public health should naturally develop well ahead of the sectors related to the material and economic life.

Making our public health sector modern and advanced is the top priority of our Party and government.

Setting up modern hospitals in all cities and counties to bring advanced medical service facilities closer to the regional people and enable all of them freely to enjoy the benefits of modern medicine, at the same time as building a first-class general hospital in the capital city as befits the pivot and hub of our country’s public health sector so that its techniques, experiences and exemplary practices can spread across the country–this is the Party’s plan for the modernization of public health.

To put the reconstruction of hospitals in cities and counties in parallel with the construction of the general hospital in the capital city is in keeping with the mission of the socialist public health to take responsibility for the life and health of the entire population; it is also in full accord with the new regional development policy, and this is just the road to the fastest development based on the advantages of our system.

Today’s groundbreaking ceremony marks the starting point of this great road, a decisive step forward and a major watershed for the future.

So, this time I entrusted the country’s best group of designers with drawing up designs for city and county hospitals; I pointed to the necessity of meeting the specialized technical requirements in designing all the elements, ranging from the selection of sites, structural layout, distribution of buildings to arrangement of the line of flow, in ways that will be convenient for such medical services as diagnosis and treatment of patients and will preclude the occurrence of abnormalities including in-hospital infection.

I would like to add that the new hospitals to be built in cities and counties will be divided into four categories according to the population of each region. This year hospitals will be built here in Kangdong County and in Ryonggang County and the city of Kusong, one in each region and all these three of different sizes, on a trial basis.

This year we should build these hospitals as model facilities and accumulate experience in doing so. Then, starting next year, we are planning to set up hospitals in 20 cities and counties, one in each region, on an annual basis.

By the close of this year a modern hospital will go up here, and in the coming ten years, excellent medical service facilities will appear in all cities and counties. To think of this, I feel infinitely proud of our really worthwhile and valuable struggle.

The Party Central Committee will do its best to ensure that the regional population can receive advanced treatment at modern hospitals.

Kangdong County, ministries, national agencies and other relevant units should work in a responsible manner under a detailed plan to build up the ranks of medical workers and service staffs and enable new facilities to render a substantial contribution to promoting the residents’ health and well-being and developing the regional culture.

Responsibly making preparations for operation to ensure advanced services for the regional people should be done in parallel with the building work.

The most serious problem is that our public health workers have a limited understanding of a comprehensive modern medical facility and lack experience in operating its equipment, and that their academic qualifications and medical skills are not adequate enough.

It is important to organize technical sessions for medical workers so effectively that they can work properly after the inauguration of hospitals and ensure that technicians and skilled workers are well versed in their specialist fields.

In particular, it is necessary to make a strong demand on medical workers so that they stay up to date on diagnostic and therapeutic methods that are in keeping with the modern trends in medical development, improve their technical skills and qualifications, and increase their knowledge of foreign languages.

All officials, including leading cadres of the Party and government, should take a creative stand and attitude befitting masters in the effort to cement the foundations of the country’s public health sector, clearly find what they are obliged to do and play their due role in this regard.

Comrades,

We are faced with an important task of breathing a fresh life into our socialist public health.

The rapids of a new revolution in public health have risen to join the waves of the regional industry revolution which will soon sweep the whole of the country.

I affirm that our public health sector will newly develop as the soil for cultivating the strength of life of this country and as the strong roots of regional rejuvenation.

This year 2025 should be recorded in our country’s history as the first year of the public health revolution.

Let us remember this moment of today when our socialist public health has set sail for the new horizon of development.

Dear soldier-builders, who are courageously advancing in the vanguard of the construction revolution in our era,

The Party has always placed unshakable trust in the People’s Army’s outstanding revolutionary character and creative spirit.

Officers and men of the Guards hero construction unit have built wonderful monumental edifices representative of the era, supporting our Party’s sincerity for the people through their heroic and resourceful labour. In the same spirit as they displayed in doing so, they should fully demonstrate the mode of creation and versatile skills unique to them also in building the Kangdong County Hospital.

The commanding officers of the 124th Regiment should work in a sweeping way and with scrupulous care in the course of planning and directing the construction processes, so that the soaring morale of the soldier-masses can bring about great successes in construction. Then they can dynamically push ahead with the whole construction work according to the schedule.

Your unyielding offensive spirit and militant work style will encourage all the people to display patriotism and strive for increased production to glorify the 80th anniversary of the Party and its Ninth Congress.

I hope that all the soldier-builders, highly conscious that they are responsible for the frontline posts of the regional revolution, will work with utmost sincerity to ensure perfect quality of building work, and thus complete all the structures as excellent creations whose levels of specialization and functional qualities are fully guaranteed.

Let us never forget that the heavier burden our army bears, the earlier the new era of regional transformation will come and the greater benefits our beloved parents, brothers and sisters will enjoy.

My beloved comrades-in-arms,

Generals, officers and men of the People’s Army,

Let us all fight more courageously and more vigorously to achieve the great ideals of our people and the victory of our cause! -0-

www.kcna.kp (2025.02.07.)

Two Different Systems, Two Different Future

 

2025.2.6.
http://www.mfa.gov.kp/view/article/21807
One of UK media lately reported that several thousands of school children in London were suspended from schools for racial discrimination. The news brought to light the depravity of the UK society where the extreme racial discrimination is rampant even among small children.

The media reported that in the last autumn term, 4900-plus cases of suspension punishment for racial discrimination were recorded in England alone and more than 35,000 school children in London were suspended from schools for the same reason.

A UK newspaper disclosed in last September that this is not the first instance of racial discrimination at schools extremely rampant in the UK and that 60-plus children were punished every day for racial discrimination in 2023.

With regard to this issue, one of UK’s policy research institutes raised the alarm against increased number of suspension punishment for racial discrimination and called for an adoption of positive policy to uproot its cause.

Then what is the root cause of racial discrimination so rampant in the UK society?

Racial discrimination mentality and behavior of looking down on and insulting other races and treating them only as the objects of exploitation are widespread even among children. And this is attributable to the UK’s murky history of colonialism and imperialism as well as its unchangeable nature.

In the past, the UK invaded many countries in the world and exploited and slaughtered the people of other nations like animals. It is only a few months ago that the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination expressed concern over such explicit colonialist attitude of UK’s statesmen and politicians.

Moreover, the UK patronized Israeli neo-Nazis in collusion with the U.S. and conducted proxy war and massacre while supporting the genocide against Palestinians, much to the criticism of the world people. Such facts evidently prove that the so-called “democracy” and “human rights” advocated by the UK in the international arena are nothing more than trickery and deception.

The racial discrimination being brazenly perpetrated in the UK is not attributable to the underdeveloped capability of its social system but exclusively originates from the UK government’s policy based on colonialism and dominationism.

An ideal society dreamed and longed by all is a society where all its members are treated equal and helps one another, a place where the children can study at schools to the best of their abilities without any inconvenience or worries.

Our country’s socialist system provides all the people with equal rights and lets them enjoy happy life while receiving same socialist benefits. Our country’s national custom of taking other’s troubles as one’s own and helping each other is earning great admiration and envy of the whole world.

In our schools where the posterity of the fatherland is brought up, teachers cherish the school children as their own sons and daughters and devotes their all to them. The children possess commendable and civilized virtues of respecting the teachers and valuing friendship with each other. That is why foreigners who visit our country are unanimously expressing their frank views that they wish to be born in the DPRK if they can spend their childhood again.

These two entirely different realities at schools clearly exemplify the superiority of socialism over capitalism and undoubtedly explain the difference in the future of the two societies to come.

Press Statement by Section Chief of Korea-Europe Association

 

Pyongyang, February 6 (KCNA) -- The section chief of the Korea-Europe Association issued the following press statement on Feb. 6:

The International Crisis Group, headquartered in Brussels, reportedly announced a report on the 10 conflicts to watch in 2025 by the European Union, some days ago.

Out of its mission alleged to shape policies that will prevent a war and build a more peaceful world, the group took issue with the exercise of the DPRK's sovereign rights and made an unreasonable "policy recommendation" to the EU, arguing that it should put "targeted pressure" on the DPRK and redouble its efforts to prevent the latter from "evading sanctions".

Such wrong behavior of the group inciting confrontation rather than the settlement of dispute while totally distorting the essence and root cause of the aggravated situation on the Korean peninsula makes one more skeptical about the legality of this body and about the necessity of its existence.

It has been recognized by everyone that the root cause of the constant instability in the Korean peninsula and its vicinity lies in the reckless military confrontation maneuvers including the nuclear threat by the U.S. and its allies hostile to the DPRK.

The ICG, which is said to expert on the global disputes and conflict crises, turned away its face from large-scale war drills staged by the U.S. and its vassal forces in the Korean peninsula every day and their moves for expanding the alliance for aggression, but parroted such confrontation notions as "targeted pressure" and "escalated sanctions" made by those hostile forces. This goes to prove that the group is no more than a mouthpiece dancing to the tune of the U.S. and the West.

I take this opportunity to advise the EU. If the EU wants to display its "strategic autonomy" in the international arena, it should not blindly take advantage of the U.S. in international issues, including the Korean peninsula issue, but maintain impartiality and objectivity.

In the present era characterized by uncertainty and unpredictability, what is needed by the EU is to recognize the changed reality after waking from old-fashioned thinking and obsession. -0-

www.kcna.kp (2025.02.06.)

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Grand Construction Struggle for 2025 Launched to Implement Regional Development Policy in New Era

Grand Construction Struggle for 2025 Launched to Implement Regional Development Policy in New Era

Ground-breaking Ceremony of Kangdong County Hospital and General Service Center for Regional Development 20×10 Policy Held with Splendor

Pyongyang, February 7 (KCNA) -- The grand construction struggle for 2025 to implement the regional development policy in the new era started thanks to the grand intention of the Central Committee of the great Workers' Party of Korea to steadily carry forward the era of great rejuvenation in which 20 cities and counties of different parts of the country are changing every year while making bigger and more correct and responsible strides of advance for epochal changes dynamically revitalizing the whole country to be the ideal of the people suited to the dignity and prestige of a powerful country.

The WPK, which made a breakthrough in accomplishing the historic cause of restoring the local economy on a completely new foundation across the country, confirmed the policy orientation and practical plan in depth to ensure the wider and practical development of regional areas and accelerate the construction of a highly civilized and powerful country. On the basis of this, it unfolded a bright blueprint for building public health facilities, general service center and grain management facilities in parallel with the construction of regional-industry factories.

The WPK is trying to establish not only the modern light industry foundation, but also a development environment in all parts of the local areas under which the progress of science, education and public health are used as a dynamic force to effloresce into advanced civilization, and thus promote faster and more dynamically the development and prosperity of the country and the well-being of the people. Such great ambition of the WPK is magnificently making proud annals of the revolutionary turn to be specially recorded in the history of the DPRK.

A ground-breaking ceremony to build the Kangdong County Hospital and General Service Center for the Regional Development 20×10 Policy whose construction will be powerfully propelled hewing out the new sphere and ground of overall rejuvenation was held with splendor on February 6.

The venue of the ceremony was filled with the militant enthusiasm of soldier-builders to steadily carry forward this year with continuous leaping successes with the same spirit and mettle they displayed in glorifying with precious entities of great change the first year struggle for implementing the great strategic programme for the regional development of the WPK and with the stirring excitement of the working people in Kangdong County who are optimistic about the hopeful future, which will be highly civilized and rich day by day along with the assets of prosperity to be built soon.

The respected Comrade Kim Jong Un attended the ground-breaking ceremony.

When Kim Jong Un arrived at the venue of the ceremony, all the participants raised stormy cheers.

All the participants paid the highest tribute and glory to Kim Jong Un, the great pioneer of socialist civilization and great master of creation who set the realization of the people's ideals as the supreme principle of activities of our Party and state and is ushering in a new era of transformation unprecedented in the history of the country when the whole country changes and prospers, with his ardent service spirit and steadfast revolutionary will.

Present at the ceremony were Pak Thae Song, premier of the Cabinet of the DPRK, and other senior Party, government and military officials, members of the non-permanent committees at all levels for promoting the Regional Development 20×10 Policy, service personnel of the People's Army involved in the construction, and officials and working people in Pyongyang Municipality and Kangdong County.

Kim Jong Un made a significant speech in commemoration of the ceremony.

Noting that the construction work for the significant year 2025 starts with the ground-breaking of the construction of Kangdong County Hospital and general service center, he expressed his pleasure and deep emotion over the fact that another sincerity of our Party and government will reach the regional people and a remarkable change in the new era will settle in a part of the country.

Referring to the urgency of the improvement of regional people's cultural living environment in fundamentally and ultimately eradicating the distinctions between towns and the countryside, he said it is an ideal result of the regional development policy to make the whole country enjoy the same cultural level.

He said that it is the top priority of the Party and the government to put the public health service on a modern and advanced basis, clarifying the WPK's plan and absolute will to newly develop the public health into a soil that cultivates the might of the country’s life and into strong roots for regional rejuvenation and thus get the year 2025 recorded in the history as the first year of revolution in the public health.

To build modern public health facilities and multi-functional bases for cultural life in cities and counties is a crucial undertaking of high strategic value and an urgent task which brooks no further delay in accelerating the simultaneous and balanced development of all fields and regions and hastening the complete victory of socialism, he said, affirming that the everlasting prosperity of regions precisely means the everlasting prosperity of our state and the prospect of Korean-style socialism.

Today's ground-breaking ceremony is the start of a great course and a decisive stride forward and an important watershed towards the future, he said, ardently calling for more courageously and vigorously advancing for the great ideal of our people and for the victory of our cause.

All the participants broke into cheers of great excitement, looking up to the great father who is bringing a new world of cultural efflorescence under socialism where all the desires and ideals of the people are translated into life and reality and the future appearance of changes that will surely be made through the Korean-style creative struggle.

The commander of the construction regiment made a speech of pledge on behalf of the builders.

Referring to the excitement of soldier-builders to be involved in the construction of essential objects, a meaningful start of substantial and qualitative change in realizing the grand cause of regional transformation, the speaker said that they are filled with confidence as they have consolidated their genuine outlook on the people, indomitable pioneering spirit and powerful strength of creation under the care of the respected Supreme Commander.

He solemnly pledged to successfully build monumental edifices symbolic of the new era of regional development in Kangdong County, where a large-scale sea of greenhouses was opened thanks to the great loving care of the Workers' Party of Korea, as a model for the whole country and thus glorify this year marking the 80th birthday of the WPK with great victory and glory.

Kim Jong Un took up the first spade to signal the start of the construction project.

The venue for ground-breaking ceremony was seething with joy as a historic scene was shown to be specially recorded in the history of victorious development of the dignified DPRK.

When Kim Jong Un pressed the detonator, the ground-breaking sound was heard.

Fireworks were displayed amid the lively manifestation of boundless reverence and trust in the great Party Central Committee, which is cultivating a flower garden of all blessings for all ages in the land based on the idea "The People Are God", regarding it as its absolute mission to achieve the prosperity of the country and improve the people's well-being.

Kim Jong Un extended warm encouragement to the soldier-builders replete with the militant morale to more courageously display the spirit of unconditional implementation and strong executive faculty, peculiar to our army, in the great revolutionary work to promote the overall prosperity of the country.

He expressed expectation and belief that the soldier-builders would remain intensely loyal to their honorable duty as pioneers of transformation and defenders of happiness for the country and the people in the outpost of the struggle for realizing the cherished desire of the Party.

The grand ground-breaking of the construction of the Kangdong County Hospital and general service center is a clear proof of the firm will and matchless power of execution of the WPK to most thoroughly and perfectly achieve the epochal regional changes, the most sacred and just cause demanded by the times and expected by the people, as well as of the validity and bright prospect of our cause and the firm confidence in it. -0-

www.kcna.kp (2025.02.07.)