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No 08/25 February 10, 2025
1. Respected Comrade Kim Jong Un Pays Congratulatory Visit to Ministry of National Defence on Day of KPA Founding 2. Respected Comrade Kim Jong Un Makes Speech at Groundbreaking Ceremony of Hospital and Leisure Complex in Kangdong County for Regional Development 20×10 Policy 3. Respected Comrade Kim Jong Un's Efforts for Development of Regional Industry
Respected Comrade Kim Jong Un Pays Congratulatory Visit to Ministry of National Defence on Day of KPA Founding Pyongyang, February 9 (KCNA) -- The heroic Korean People’s Army, which has remained faithful to its sacred mission of firmly defending the sovereignty and security of the state and safeguarding the well-being and happiness of the beloved people with the image of the dignified Workers’ Party of Korea embroidered on its glorious colours, is now greeting its proud 77th founding anniversary along with its undying honour, while recording another year of victory and miracles in the history of army building. The KPA, the ever-victorious elite ranks, is a source of the most powerful strength and great pride of our Party and people as, mindful of the creed and faith “for our great Party, for our great state and for our great people,” it has won a brilliant victory after another for the country and revolution with the characteristic outlook on the revolution, thoroughgoing patriotic spirit, matchless heroism and devoted service of pursuing the greatest honour and glory only on the road of remaining faithful to the creed and faith. Kim Jong Un, general secretary of the Workers’ Party of Korea and president of the State Affairs of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, paid a congratulatory visit to the Ministry of National Defence of the DPRK on February 8, the 77th founding anniversary of the Korean People’s Army, to encourage the service personnel. The participants were filled with great emotion and joy of meeting the great illustrious commander, who has trained the KPA into a large contingent of brave warriors invariably shining in the vanguard of the era and is steadily leading them to victory and glory with his firmest trust and affection, at the highest command organ of the armed forces of the DPRK on the significant army founding day. Colours of victory, symbolic of honour of all services and corps, combined units and units at all levels of the KPA, were lined up for the glorious moment. When the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un arrived at the Ministry of National Defence, the service personnel of the KPA broke into stormy cheers of “Hurrah!” looking up to the invincible and iron-willed commander who has ushered in a golden age of bolstering up the revolutionary armed forces with his outstanding ideas of army building and matchless commanding art and is glorifying the noble name of the KPA with victory and glory. A solemn ceremony of greeting the head of state took place. After receiving a salute from the head of the guard of honour of the KPA, Kim Jong Un reviewed the guard of honour and the glorious colours of the three services. He was greeted by No Kwang Chol, Jong Kyong Thaek, Ri Yong Gil and other leading commanding officers of the ministry and military and political cadres of the KPA large combined units. There took place a march-past of the guard of honour of the KPA. Kim Jong Un met military and political commanding officers at all levels of the Ministry of National Defence and the KPA and made a speech in celebration of the army founding day. Paying deep respects to the heroic mettle and noble revolutionary spirit of the KPA, which is proudly recording the history of fierce struggle with every eye-opening event and miracle in all parts of the country, flying the ever-victorious and glorious colours, he extended warm congratulations and militant greetings to the generals, officers and soldiers of the KPA who are unsparingly devoting their precious blood and sweat to carrying out the huge important tasks of the revolution. He highly appreciated the great reputation and glory of the KPA, which has recorded the decades of legendary victories and miracles with its unique spirit and noble soul always remaining true to its sacred appellation of the army of the Party and the leader, and praised the distinguished services and feats of the service personnel of the KPA, who are striving to firmly defend the happiness and peace of the country and build a greater future. Outlining the features of the world-wide changes in the political, military and geopolitical structure including the surrounding environment of the state, he stressed the need to more highly develop the war response posture of the DPRK’s armed forces to proactively cope with any variable security situation. He continued: The US nuclear strategic means constantly deployed on the Korean peninsula, the US-led bilateral and multilateral nuclear war simulation exercises staged on the level of actual war, the US-Japan-ROK tripartite military alliance system established according to the US’s regional military bloc scenario and the formation of the Asian version of NATO as its axis constitute a basic factor that causes military imbalance and a new conflicting structure on the Korean peninsula and in Northeast Asia, and they are raising a grave challenge to the security environment of our state. It is a correct answer to tell those who worship supremacy of power with the language only they can understand. The DPRK does not want unnecessary tension in the regional situation but will take sustained countermeasures to ensure the regional military balance out of the aspiration for preventing the outbreak of a new war and ensuring peace and security on the Korean peninsula. The Middle East crises including those in the Gaza Strip and Syria and the issue of Ukraine, which were scenes of global geopolitical conflicts and confrontation last year, are expected to flow as the main current of the tense international situation trend this year, too. The geopolitical crises caused by the US in different parts of the world are further increasing the danger of the outbreak of a new world war and having a serious impact not only on international peace and security but also on all other spheres of human activities. Standing in the centre behind the war machine, which is stirring up the tragic situation in Ukraine that has lasted for three years amid a serious concern of the world people, is the US, an entity that is carrying the fixed name of the wrecker of global peace and stability, hallucinated by a wild ambition for establishing unipolar hegemony. The reckless behaviours of the US and the Western group of intentionally fostering the prolonged war from the unrealizable dream of dealing strategic setbacks to Russia are arousing a serious concern. It is the invariable stand of the DPRK government to oppose and reject any acts of denying the international justice and disturbing global peace and security, and our army and people will invariably support and encourage the just cause of the Russian army and people to defend their sovereignty, security and territorial integrity, in keeping with the spirit of the treaty on the comprehensive strategic partnership between the DPRK and Russia. The dark shadows of the US, which appear without fail behind the world’s big and small disputes and tragedies of bloodshed at present, prove that the line of our Party and government aspiring to the building of an unlimited defence capability is most just. Our revolutionary armed forces should always and practically be faithful to their supreme duty to defend the Constitution of the DPRK and the state and people. Referring to a series of new plans for rapidly bolstering all deterrents including the nuclear forces, Kim Jong Un clarified once again the unshakable policy of more highly developing the nuclear forces. The future of the KPA, the pride of our great people and symbol of the honour and strength of our state, depends mainly on its commanding officers. The KPA should consistently hold fast to and more thoroughly carry out the task of making itself politically, ideologically and morally strong, before anything else, and in this regard it is particularly important to train our service personnel into the fighters strong in ideology and faith, filled with a correct understanding of the enemy and indomitable will to fight with the enemy. Kim Jong Un set forth important tasks which will serve as the guidelines for further strengthening the KPA into a matchless revolutionary army, including those of making this year a year of training by further kindling the flames of the training revolution on the principle of increasing the combat capability of the KPA to the highest level, making war preparations more thoroughly as required by modern warfare and waging a fierce struggle to establish steel-like order and sound military discipline. Expressing belief that the glorious history of struggle and feats of the heroic KPA boundlessly loyal to the Party, the country and the people will record more exciting and noble events in the course of the development of our eternally powerful state, he ardently called for continuing to fight courageously for the dignity and great might of the DPRK and for the peace and happiness of our beloved people. The speech by the great brilliant commander, which clarified ambitious measures for army building that will lead the brilliant history of the revolutionary armed forces to eternal victory and glory, made the military and political commanding officers’ heart beat with boundless emotion. When Kim Jong Un finished his speech, the participants raised the enthusiastic cheers of “Hurrah!” All the commanding officers were filled with the firm faith and militant enthusiasm to remain faithful to the mission and duty as the army of the Party, the army of the leader and the genuine army of the people to the last for the great Comrade Kim Jong Un, for the prosperity of our great state and for the happiness and peace of our great people. Kim Jong Un had a photo session with the commanding officers of the Ministry of National Defence, soldiers of sub-units under it and military and political commanding officers of units of the services and large combined units at all levels of the KPA and combined units and units under them as a token of his visit to the ministry. When he appeared at the venue of the photo session, all the participants paid the highest glory and tribute to the great brilliant commander who is training the KPA into the most powerful entity in the world overwhelmingly winning any formidable enemy ideologically and mentally, militarily and technically and into a patriotic vanguard advancing bravely, shoulder any missions for the prosperity and development of the country, through his continued, immortal guidance over the army. He said that although the days of army founding and war victory to be specially recorded in the history of the struggle of the revolutionary armed forces are becoming far distant with the passage of time, we should always remember the spirit and soul of the revolutionary forerunners, who provided the origin of the tradition of eternal victory of heroic Korea, an independent power, and laid the cornerstone of building a rich country with a strong army through an ever-victorious tradition, adding that we should proudly write an honourable new chapter of history of our generation by performing miraculous feats and creating wonderful legendary tales beyond precedents and limits, staking the honour of our times and our army. He expressed expectation and belief that the commanding officers of the KPA, mindful of their important task for glorifying the great pioneering with greater succession, will always demonstrate its undying fame in the sacred war for defending the Party and the revolution and safeguarding the territory and people with their unique sense of pride, a strong sense of self-respect and indomitable fighting spirit of guaranteeing the most just cause in the world with arms. The shouts “Kim Jong Un” and “Death-defying defence” raised by all the participants resounded far and wide in the sky of February reflecting their firm pledge to steadily glorify with distinguished services of their generation the heroic history and tradition of the KPA which has performed brilliant feats in the history of the country following the great Party. Kim Jong Un’s visit to the Ministry of National Defence will be recorded in history as a sacred one which further highlighted the ennobling mission of the revolutionary armed forces of the DPRK to firmly guarantee the sure victory of the DPRK with arms and vigorously propel the grand all-people advance for comprehensive national rejuvenation with the ardent pioneering spirit and indomitable mettle.
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!
Respected Comrade Kim Jong Un's Efforts for Development of Regional Industry Pyongyang, February 10 (KCNA) -- The first inauguration ceremony of the regional-industry factories took place in Songchon County, South Phyongan Province in December last year. Following it, inauguration ceremonies of regional-industry factories took place one after another in different parts of the country this year, including Jaeryong County of South Hwanghae Province, Unpha County of North Hwanghae Province and Kyongsong County of North Hamgyong Province to give great pleasure to the people. Seeing the proud reality welcomed by the whole country, the DPRK people are recollecting the devoted efforts of the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un who has led the work to create practical experience of the development of regional industry. One day in October 2020, Kim Jong Un visited the township of Kimhwa County, Kangwon Province under recovery from flood damage and indicated the detailed orientation and ways of turning the county into the people's ideal land and gaining practical experience for the development of regional industry. Later, he set forth the task for building well-equipped regional-industry factories in Kimhwa County at the Second Plenary Meeting of the Eighth Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea, which confirms the tasks for the first year of the five-year plan. It took 370-odd days to proclaim the inauguration since the first blasting of groundbreaking was conducted. In those days, Kim Jong Un always paid attention to improving the people's living standard in the county. Thanks to his wise leadership, practical experience of the development of regional industry was created in Kimhwa County, where living conditions were difficult and economic foundations were poor. In the county, various kinds of quality consumer goods have been produced in a little more than two years since the modernization of regional-industry factories, and they are supplied to the inhabitants of the county. Many foodstuffs are produced by using local raw materials. Kumsongchon-trademark soap is popular among housewives. Building materials made with locally available materials are used for housing construction. All the cities and counties of the country are now changing their appearances, following Kimhwa County.
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