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No 28/25 April 17, 2025
1. Another Spectacular Appearance Symbolic of New Heyday of Pyongyang Construction and Efflorescence of Pyongyang Culture 2. Press Statement of Spokesperson for Ministry of National Defence of DPRK
Another Spectacular Appearance Symbolic of New Heyday of Pyongyang Construction and Efflorescence of Pyongyang Culture Inauguration Ceremony of 10 000 Flats at Third Stage in Hwasong Area Takes Place with Splendour Pyongyang, April 16 (KCNA) -- Pyongyang, the capital of the DPRK, is turning into a world-class ideal city and a paradise of happiness for the people where they enjoy a new life and civilization of socialism, fully demonstrating its unique majesty and reputation with the spirit of the country racing against time and the pulse of the times vibrant with great changes. Thanks to the capital city construction strategy adopted and set forth by the Eighth Congress of the Workers' Party of Korea and the scientific and energetic guidance of the great Party Central Committee, modern skyscrapers and high-rise apartment houses embodying an ideal harmony of architectural formative and artistic beauty and advanced civilization and distinctive commercial and public catering facilities with a strong symbolic character have been built majestically as another new large architectural group in the Hwasong area, to greet the third auspicious event of inauguration on the occasion of the greatest April holiday of the nation. Another modern urban quarter has been created to demonstrate the radical development of Juche-oriented architecture and the transformation of civilization and efflorescence after the emergence of Songhwa, Hwasong, Rimhung and Jonwi streets in just four years since the first blasting for the construction of 50 000 flats in Pyongyang resounded. This eye-opening reality is a brilliant fruition of the transparent outlook on the people and outstanding leadership of the great Comrade Kim Jong Un, who regards the people as his God and devotes his all to their well-being, and a monumental picture portraying the spirit of uninterrupted revolution peculiar to the WPK knowing no satisfaction and end in the work for the people and the dynamic advance of our powerful state. The inauguration ceremony of 10 000 flats at the third stage in the Hwasong area took place with splendour on April 15. The venue of the ceremony was full of excitement and joy of the military and civilian builders, who had recorded a history of great change in the Hwasong area year after year through a stubborn struggle upholding the cherished desire of our Party with miracles of creation, and citizens who would happily move into the new modern apartment houses. The respected Comrade Kim Jong Un attended the ceremony. When Kim Jong Un appeared at the venue of the ceremony, fireworks were set off and thunderous cheers of "Hurrah!" resounded far and wide. All the participants raised enthusiastic cheers, looking up to the outstanding revolutionary, great artist of creation and construction and benevolent father who has opened up a new history of eye-opening changes in the capital city of Pyongyang through a great drive for creation, the first of its kind after the founding of the state, and ushered in a golden age of rejuvenation and prosperity, when the people will enjoy an affluent and civilized life full of happiness. Also present at the ceremony were Pak Thae Song, premier of the Cabinet of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, and other senior Party and government officials, officials of the Cabinet, armed forces organs, ministries and national agencies, builders and working people in Pyongyang. Kim Tok Hun, secretary of the WPK Central Committee, made an inaugural address. Saying that the capital city construction plan decided by the Eighth Party Congress has proved fruitful in the fourth year, too, to greet in the Hwasong area the moment of a grand ceremony of presenting another 10 000 flats to the Pyongyang citizens, he warmly congratulated the citizens of all social strata on becoming masters of the new modern street and new houses, upon the authorization of the Party and the government, and extended thanks to all the builders and workers and officials in the relevant sectors and supporters who have splendidly translated the high level of urban culture intended by the Party into reality, not leaving it as a future project on a blueprint. And he continued: The third-stage construction in the Hwasong area has given full appearance to the Hwasong area as a centre and model capable of leading the existing areas of the capital city to civilization and efflorescence by providing it with the political, economic and cultural functions befitting a fully-fledged administrative district in conformity with the plan and principle consistently maintained by the Party during the eighth term of the Party Central Committee. And this is a development truly meaningful enough to be called the birth of a new urban district making modernized Pyongyang of today present a striking contrast with itself of the past which had undergone changes for several decades since the founding of the state. Thanks to the great thinking and efforts of the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un who personally plans the changes in all fields of the economy, culture, national defence and all realms covering the capital and regions and clearly indicates the guidelines for firmly preserving and developing the people-oriented and revolutionary characters of Juche architecture as he cares more than anybody else for the well-being of the people and the prosperity of our socialist system, everything changes and a new era of prosperity and rejuvenation hastening the future is being ushered in on this land. The socialist paradise wonderfully built in the Hwasong area is a historic monument which makes our people keenly feel their blessed life and the rosy future of their country as they are guided by the great leader. Saying that our Party and government, in the future, too, will continue to push forward with construction work which gives fuller play to the advantages of our style of socialist system and accelerates the transformation and development of the whole country, thus actively and steadily bringing the people deeper and greater satisfaction with a new, cultured and wealthy life, he called for striving more courageously for the future of the capital city of Pyongyang which will thrive and be more cultured year after year and for the eternal prosperity of the country which is the best in the world, according to the roadmap of epoch-making changes in the new era indicated by the Party Central Committee. The respected Comrade Kim Jong Un cut the inauguration tape. Beautifully decorating the Hwasong area, fireworks were set off and balloons flew at the venue of the inauguration ceremony, which witnessed another historic scene to be etched in the history of struggle of the great WPK continuously and vigorously making a sacred journey for the promotion of well-being of the beloved people by erecting monumental edifices symbolic of the era of great change one after another. Songs in praise of the times filled with strong stamina and ardent desire of all the Korean people to devote their all to the building of an ideal society where socialist civilization is in full bloom, exalting the dignity and mightiness of their state with their steadfast pioneering spirit and patriotic will, resounded throughout the venue of the ceremony filling the participants with deep emotion and joy. The songs praising the great Kim Jong Un's era, in which the capital city of the revolution, a heroic city that newly emerged on the debris of the war and glorified the annals of creation and miracles with the eye-opening Pyongyang speed, has reached a new stage of civilization and efflorescence while undergoing more majestic and splendid changes beyond recognition every year, added to the joy of the inauguration. The national anthem of the great DPRK, our socialist country where the people's dreams and ideals are being translated into reality and which upholds the greatest man as its leader and father, was solemnly played and fireworks were set off decorating the nocturnal sky over Pyongyang, the city of boundless happiness and glory. The venue of the ceremony was filled with excitement as cheers of "Hurrah!" burst out for Kim Jong Un again. Kim Jong Un met the working people and the elderly who would move into new flats. Families of a teacher and a worker presented bouquets of flowers to him, who put forward the ordinary working people as masters of the wonderful, ideal socialist street, in reflection of the unanimous feeling of gratitude of the citizens of the capital city and other people across the country. Kim Jong Un said that he was sorry to provide the modern apartment houses only now and that he was firmly determined to take upon himself more tasks for the people while seeing the citizens full of emotion and joy today. And he wished them happy life in good health in the new houses. He met and encouraged military and civilian labour innovators who are making a great contribution to the construction of 50 000 flats in Pyongyang, true to the Party's policy on the capital city construction. He said with affection and trust that thanks to the patriotic and elite ranks of builders like them who carry out the Party's plan unconditionally, the gun report of victory in the implementation of the decisions of the Eighth Congress of the WPK will resound first in the Hwasong area and a new era of prosperity of Pyongyang will continue steadily. Warmly waving his hand for a long time to the citizens of the capital city expressing boundless gratitude in tears of emotion, he wished all blessings to all families that would settle in the new splendid street. All the participants broke into enthusiastic cheers with their firm pledge to invariably go along the road of loyalty and patriotism for the great Comrade Kim Jong Un, for the eternal prosperity of their great state and for the rosy future of its great capital city. The completion of the 10 000 flats at the third stage in the Hwasong area is a great demonstration of the true picture unique to our prosperous and powerful state, which has been created by the outstanding leadership of the great Party Central Committee guiding socialist Korea to the peak of prosperity and the patriotic strength of its people closely rallied around the Party with a single mind, and a great encouraging event that has further enlivened the spirit of all-people advance towards the 80th founding anniversary of the WPK and the Ninth Party Congress with redoubled fighting spirit and confidence.
Press Statement of Spokesperson for Ministry of National Defence of DPRK Pyongyang, April 17 (KCNA) -- A spokesperson for the Ministry of National Defense of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea released the following press statement titled "The U.S. reckless bluffing military demonstration is a futile act of increasing the security threat to its mainland only" on Wednesday: On April 15, the U.S. and the ROK staged a provocative joint air drill with B-1B strategic bomber involved under the pretext of the enhanced regular visibility of "extended deterrence". The U.S. fully showed its confrontational attitude and will against the DPRK through its repeated demonstrative military actions. The recent military move of the U.S. and the ROK is an open threat to the security of our state and a grave provocation that raises the military tension in the region to an extreme dangerous level. The continuous appearance of B-1B serves as an occasion of highlighting once again the fact that the U.S. and its vassal forces are the only ones that unilaterally escalates the military tension nowadays while inciting the hostile atmosphere of confrontation in the Korean peninsula. Recently, the U.S. has renewed its record in openly deploying nuclear submarine, strategic bomber, aircraft carrier and other strategic assets to the Korean peninsula. This fully shows that the deployment of the U.S. strategic means on the Korean peninsula has been fixed as a routine military practice, not as part of emergency measures, and is a constant, not a variable, threatening the regional security environment. The gravity of the deployment of such strategic assets is not simply limited to the increase in the number of times, but it is the process of increasing the skillfulness in tactics and procedures for attacking the DPRK, and completing preparations for going into real action at any time. The DPRK Ministry of National Defence strongly warns that the U.S. bluffing military action that poses a serious danger to the sovereignty of our state and the regional situation will inevitably bring serious negative consequences to the security situation of the U.S. The DPRK will exercise the overwhelming deterrence and continue to make the U.S. recognize that its unannounced deployment of strategic means is a reckless and unnecessary abuse of strength, and get the U.S. realize by itself that the higher the level of provocation against the DPRK is, the greater the level of danger returning to the U.S. will be. The armed forces of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea will never tolerate the slightest sign of threat of the hostile forces against the security sovereignty of the state and will deter by dint of powerful force the U.S. aggressive attempt to permanently fix the malignant instability element in the security environment of the region.
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