Kangwon Province greeted the significant and auspicious event of inauguration which signals the completion of the hydropower stations it pledged before the Party when the whole country is full of the spirit of the vigorous advance of all the people to celebrate the Ninth Congress of the Workers' Party of Korea as the meeting of great victory and glory.

The Hoeyang Army-People Power Station, which has been completed following the army-people power stations in Ichon, Munchon, Sepho, Phyonggang and Kosong, is the last project of the six hydropower stations on which Kangwon Province has concentrated all its efforts after setting it as a priority task to be carried out without fail for the regional economic development and the improvement of the people's material and cultural life, true to the important assignment of continuing to push ahead with the construction of small- and medium-sized hydropower stations, which was given by the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un.

The completion of another power base which the province had envisaged during the five-year plan for national economic development has made it possible for the province to further strengthen its solid foundation for proudly writing a new history of prosperity along with the era of regional development and increase its development potentials for creating a more affluent life by its own efforts.

An inauguration ceremony of the Hoeyang Army-People Power Station was held with splendour on November 20.

The venue of the ceremony was filled with great pride and self-confidence of the people in Kangwon Province who have created valuable assets of prosperity with their own efforts with confidence in their own strength.

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, attended the inauguration ceremony.

When he arrived at the venue of the ceremony, stormy cheers of "Hurrah!" shook the earth and sky.

All the participants enthusiastically cheered, looking up to Kim Jong Un, who personally visited the power station in the mountainous area to bestow great love and honour on them.

Present there were members of the Presidium of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the WPK and other leading officials of the Party and the government, chief secretaries of the provincial committees of the WPK, chairpersons of the provincial people's committees, officials and workers in Kangwon Province and Hoeyang County, military and civilian builders and employees of the power station.

The national anthem of the DPRK was played.