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No 43/23 May 22, 2023
1. Mt. Myohyang Tells a New Legend
2. New Flourishing Socialist Living Space in Pyongyang
3. Political Ideals of the Workers’ Party of Korea
Mt. Myohyang Tells a New Legend
Along with spring, which makes everything come to life, children’s long-awaited camping season has come.
Under the warm love of respected Comrade Kim Jong Un, who regards children as kings and queens of the country and spares nothing for posterity, our children are enjoying camping at children’s camps built in many scenic spots of the country. At the camps, they learn and experience many things that cannot be acquired at school.
10 years ago, on May 19, 2013, respected Comrade Kim Jong Un took a picture of love with children at Myohyangsan Children’s Mountaineering Camp to be handed down from generation after generation.
Even though it was Sunday, respected Comrade Kim Jong Un visited the camp to see the beloved children. Looking back on the immortal exploits of President Kim Il Sung who saw that a children’s camp was built in Mt. Myohyang area for the children in Pyongyang who do not know well about mountains and personally chose the site for the camp, he recalled with deep emotion the history of love written by the President who built children’s camps in many beautiful places of the country for the children.
On that day, respected Comrade Kim Jong Un learnt about the camping life of the members of the Children’s Union, looking around many places of the camp including bedroom, dissemination room for mountaineering, Children’s Union meeting room, dining room and hall. He spent a lot of time putting forward the tasks and methods for improving the administration and management of the camp as required by the new era and mapping out a grand plan to wonderfully transform the camp.
While looking around the dining room, however, he suddenly asked where the children at the camp are as he could not see even one of them.
Having heard that the children were climbing the mountain, respected Comrade Kim Jong Un warmly said that if the children got to know that we went back without seeing them, they might be very disappointed, and that we should wait until the children return and have photographs taken with them. Then he spared his valuable time to wait for the children and had a photo session with them.
Respected Comrade Kim Jong Un embraced in his bosom the children jumping up and down in tears out of dreamlike happiness, and had a photo session with them after cheering them to stop crying, saying that they should not cry if they want to look better in the photos. Our people and children still remember the benevolent image of respected Comrade Kim Jong Un on that day.
Like this, Mt. Myohyang which is famous for many scenic places and legends came to have another legend.
Indeed, under such a great and warm fatherly love, camps situated in the scenic spots across the country including Mt. Ryongak, Mt. Myohyang and Songdowon underwent great changes in their appearances, and there highly reverberates the song by our children - We are the Happiest in the World.
New Flourishing Socialist Living Space in Pyongyang
The picture below is a new flourishing living space that has formed a characteristic architectural group in Pyongyang, the capital city of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. On April 16, 2023, the inauguration ceremony of the 10 000 flats as the first stage in the Hwasong area, was held. Present at the ceremony were also the working people and their families who will live in this area.
The street decorated by dazzling illuminations with the firework display as the background in the nocturnal sky eloquently proves what kind of socialist ideals the country is now aspiring after.
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Political Ideals of the Workers’ Party of Korea
How come the Workers’ Party of Korea, the ruling party in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, has received absolute support and trust of the masses of the people for over 70 years?
The answer can be found in its political ideals.
Its political ideals are, in a word, the people-first principle.
This principle demands that one should regard the masses of the people as masters of the revolution and construction, rely on them and make selfless, devoted efforts for their good.
Throughout its history, the WPK has always formulated its lines and policies in conformity with the requirements and opinions of the people, and directed primary concern to solving urgent problems for them.
In formulating and executing all its policies, the Party gives top and absolute priority to the thoughts, requirements, interests and benefits of the people and goes to them closer the harder the times are.
A member of a foreign delegation, who visited the DPRK for the first time, expressed his thoughts as follows.
“Streets in Pyongyang were clean and in good order, and the people were full of vitality and energy. What was more surprising was the reality that the people are masters of society and everything in society serves them. People’s laughter was ringing out in the bases for cultural and leisure activities, which were magnificently built in various places, and workers were living in super-high-rise apartment houses. It was unbelievable that the state gives houses to people free of charge.”
Another one, who looked round several places in the DPRK with him, said that it was owing to false propaganda by the Western media that many people are not well aware of the DPRK. He then added: I keenly realized the superiority of the socialist system of the DPRK during my visit to the country; whoever visits the DPRK would be quite surprised.
The state and economic organs of this country serve entirely for satisfying the requirements and interests of the people.
The slogan “We serve the people!” is seen in power organs at all levels; this shows that officials of those organs are servants of the people, not bureaucrats lording it over them.
The country has enforced free education since long, and provides the houses, built at its expense, to the people free of charge.
By further developing the socialist educational system, it is enforcing universal 12-year compulsory education.
The Third Plenary Meeting of the Eighth Central Committee of the WPK, held in June 2021, adopted it as an important policy to supply the children across the country with nutritive foods including dairy produce at state expense.
In recent years modern streets such as Mirae Scientists and Ryomyong have been built one after another in the capital city of Pyongyang, and the houses were provided to the working people free of charge.
In particular, the Eighth Congress of the WPK, held in 2021, put forward the task of solving the housing problem for the citizens of Pyongyang by building 10 000 flats every year in Pyongyang during the period of a new five-year plan for national economic development. Accordingly, in April last year the construction of 10 000 flats in the Songsin and Songhwa area was completed, and 800 flats in the modern Pothong Riverside Terraced Houses District were built in addition in the centre of the capital city.
This year, construction of 10 000 flats in the Hwasong area was completed, and the second-stage construction of 10 000 flats in this area is now in full swing. In addition, construction of a new street of over 4 000 flats is being pushed forward in the Sopho area.
The WPK regards it as an unbreakable principle to give top and absolute priority to people’s interests and convenience.
Whenever the country suffered flooding, the WPK immediately enlisted national potential and built houses and public buildings including schools and kindergartens for the victims.
It is by no means accidental that the Korean people follow the WPK, calling it their mother.
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