On the direct initiative and under the energetic leadership of the great Workers' Party of Korea Central Committee, modern hotels have been newly built and inaugurated in the city of Samjiyon, whose attractive appearance undergoes a change for the better as a typical mountainous city in the northern part of the DPRK and a distinctive all-season mountainous tourist resort.

The hotels, which have special architectural beauty and distinctive service functions and which were built in good harmony with the magnificence of nature in the Paektu area, along with the symbolic names peculiar to the Samjiyon area such as Sobaeksu, Ikal, Potnamu and Chongbong, are the proud creations in the present era which have opened up a new phase of public service centres in all aspects of content and form.

Inauguration ceremonies of five hotels newly built in the Samjiyon Tourist Resort took place on December 20 and 21.

The respected Comrade Kim Jong Un attended the inauguration ceremony of the Ikal and Milyong hotels on December 20.

When he arrived, all the participants raised stormy cheers looking up to him who is bringing earlier the rosy future of Korean-style socialism with his untiring thinking and devotion out of a fervent desire to make the Koreans the most dignified and happiest people in the world.

Present at the ceremonies were officials of ministries, national agencies and armed forces organs, officials in Samjiyon City and employees of the hotels.

Speeches were made at the ceremonies.

Referring to the painstaking efforts made by Kim Jong Un to bring about a great transformation in the Paektu area, where beautiful scenes which it is impossible to create only with the mystery of nature, are unfolding, the speakers said that the hotels are the meaningful creations heralding the emergence of a large tourist zone covering Mt Paektu, Mt Pukphothae and Mt Namphothae.

Expressing their belief that Samjiyon City will soon be renowned as an attractive mountainous tourist area and a recreational resort for the people, they declared the completion of the hotels.

Then ceremonies were held to commemorate the inauguration of the hotels.