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Five-year plan for construction of capital city decided by Eighth Congress of WPK enters its final stage
Groundbreaking ceremony for the fourth-stage project to build 10 000 flats in the Hwasong Area takes place with splendour

Construction of 50 000 flats in Pyongyang, decided by the Eighth Congress of the Workers’ Party of Korea to turn Pyongyang into a wonderful world-class city, in which the people-first principle is thoroughly applied, in the new era of comprehensive development towards the supreme ideal of civilization and prosperity, has entered its final stage.

The respected Comrade Kim Jong Un personally planned to have 50 000 flats built in the capital city, a project to be specially recorded in the sacred history of development of the Party and the state, and set it as the most important task and cherished desire to be realized without fail. And since he declared the first meaningful groundbreaking for implementing the project, he has ceaselessly given brilliant guidance at the grand construction sites to usher in a new heyday of Pyongyang, in which ideal streets of the people to be proud of in the eyes of the world are built every year.

The final-stage struggle of the five-year plan for the monumental construction of the capital city is the most important undertaking of creation in this year for perfectly fulfilling the pledge, which our Party made before the people and has discharged without an inch of deflection. It is also an honourable revolutionary undertaking to inject greater vitality into the all-people general advance towards the 80th founding anniversary of the Party and the Ninth Congress of the Party.

A groundbreaking ceremony for the fourth-stage project to build 10 000 flats in the Hwasong area took place with splendour on the afternoon of February 16.

The venue of the ceremony was filled with the great pride and enthusiasm for working new miracles of all the builders of the capital city, who had built modern large architectural groups in the suburbs of the city over the past four years and glorified the great Kim Jong Un’s era with brilliant legendary tales of construction for tremendous change, holding high the flag of the construction headquarters of 50 000 flats in Pyongyang given by the Party Central Committee.

Senior Party and government officials visit Kumsusan Palace of Sun

February 18, 2025

Senior Party and government officials of the DPRK visited the Kumsusan Palace of the Sun on February 16, the 83rd birth anniversary of Chairman Kim Jong Il.

They included Pak Thae Song, Jo Yong Won and Choe Ryong Hae, members of the Presidium of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea, and other senior Party and government officials, officials of the Party Central Committee, leading officials of ministries and national agencies and officials of armed forces organs.

The Kumsusan Palace of the Sun, where President Kim Il Sung and Chairman Kim Jong Il, eternal leaders of the WPK and the Korean people, are preserved in their lifetime appearance, was wrapped in a solemn atmosphere.

Performance given in celebration of birth anniversary of Chairman Kim Jong Il

February 18, 2025

An art performance was given at the Mansudae Art Theatre in Pyongyang on February 16 to celebrate the 83rd birth anniversary of Chairman Kim Jong Il.

Among the audience were Choe Ryong Hae, member of the Presidium of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea, first vice-president of the State Affairs Commission of the DPRK and chairman of the Standing Committee of the Supreme People's Assembly, officials of the WPK Central Committee, meritorious persons of socialist patriotism in Pyongyang, officials and creators in the field of the arts and members of the congratulatory group of Koreans in Japan on a visit to the socialist homeland.

Floral tribute paid to President Kim Il Sung and Chairman Kim Jong Il

February 18, 2025

All the officials, working people, service personnel and schoolchildren of the DPRK visited the statues of President Kim Il Sung and Chairman Kim Jong Il to pay floral tribute to them on the occasion of the 83rd birth anniversary of the Chairman.

Laid at the statues of the great leaders on Mansu Hill in Pyongyang were flower baskets in the name of the organs of the Workers’ Party of Korea, the government and the armed forces, social organizations, ministries and national agencies, units of the Korean People's Army and the Public Security Forces and institutions, enterprises and factories at all levels and universities in Pyongyang.

The visitors paid homage to the President and the Chairman, recollecting their sacred revolutionary careers.

Nicaraguan ambassador and Chinese businessman pay floral tribute to the DPRK great leaders

February 18, 2025

Nicaraguan Ambassador to the DPRK Manuel Modesto Munguia Martinez laid a flower basket at the statues of President Kim Il Sung and Chairman Kim Jong Il on Mansu Hill in Pyongyang and paid tribute to them on February 16, the 83rd birth anniversary of the Chairman.

On the same day, a flower basket in the name of Wang Dongsheng, general manager of the Dandong Zhidao Commerce Co. Ltd., was placed at the statues of the great leaders.  

Press statement of spokesman for DPRK Foreign Ministry

February 18, 2025

A spokesman for the Foreign Ministry of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea on February 18 released a press statement "The anachronistic and futile attempt to challenge the inviolable sovereignty and the prestige of the DPRK will entail self-destructive results".

The full text of the press statement is as follows:

Recently, the US revealed once again its sinister intention to put extreme political and military pressure on the DPRK in collusion with its vassal states, while viciously taking issue with the DPRK's just exercise of independent right with the international security conference held in Munich of Germany as an occasion.

DPRK embassy in Moscow hosts reception

February 18, 2025

The DPRK embassy in Moscow hosted a reception on February 14 to celebrate the 83rd birth anniversary of Chairman Kim Jong Il.

Present at the reception at invitation were Minister of Natural Resources and Ecology Alexandr Kozlov, Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs Andrei Rudenko, Vice-Minister of Defence Alexandr Fomin and other personages of the government and the parliament, organizations and institutions, including the Foreign Ministry, the Ministry of Defence, the Ministry of Interior, the Federation Council and the State Duma of Russia.

Ambassador Sin Hong Chol and staff members of the DPRK embassy were on hand.

February holiday celebrations climax with gala evening of youth and students, fireworks display

February 18, 2025

Youth and students in Pyongyang had an evening gala at Kim Il Sung Square on the evening of February 16.

The evening gala began with the song "Let's Sing of General Dear to People".

With the event getting livelier with the passage of time, beautiful fireworks exploded in the nocturnal sky over the venue, adding to the festive mood.

Women’s union officials and members hold dance party

February 18, 2025

A dance party of women's union officials and members took place at the plaza of the Arch of Triumph on February 16 to celebrate the 83rd birth anniversary of Chairman Kim Jong Il.

The dance party began with "A Dear Name", a famous song ardently sung by the Korean people with their great honour and happiness of holding the peerlessly great man in high esteem.

The participants paid the highest tribute to Kim Jong Il who performed immortal exploits before the times and history with his outstanding ideas and energetic leadership, gave eternal vitality to the glorious history of building a powerful country and provided the country and the people with eternal guarantee for rosy future.

Joint national meeting of KCU organizations held

February 18, 2025

A joint national meeting of the Korean Children's Union organizations took place in Pyongyang on February 16, the 83rd birth anniversary of the great leader Generalissimo Kim Jong Il.

Attending it were students of Mangyongdae Revolutionary School and Kang Pan Sok Revolutionary School, representatives of the KCU organizations in all provinces, schoolchildren in Pyongyang and pupils to be admitted into the KCU.

Present at invitation were Choe Tong Myong, secretary of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea, Kim Jong Sun, department director of the WPK Central Committee, officials of the youth league, persons of merit and labour innovators in Pyongyang.

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