A regional construction campaign for 2026 started in the DPRK, demonstrating the steadfast pioneering spirit and executive faculty of the Workers' Party of Korea. The Party has made sure that the precious successes, experience and admirable results, gained in the regional revolution for surely guaranteeing the comprehensive national prosperity and development, serve as the starting point of a new bolder campaign and an engine for acceleration every year.

The remarkable changes, in which the loud explosions heard at the groundbreaking ceremonies of a year lead to the rousing cheers at the inauguration ceremonies in that year, have become a new custom of Korean-style socialism to excite the whole country. Against this backdrop, from this year large-scale construction projects will be carried out in a simultaneous and expanded way in 20 cities and counties. The projects involve the construction of not only modern light industry factories but also advanced public health facilities and leisure complexes which successfully went through their experimental stages.

The start with towering confidence of such a great construction campaign, which will bring about without fail the great auspicious events of regional transformation hailed by the people this year too, along with the bright prospect of a new upward stage of the Korean revolution to be opened up by the Ninth Congress of the WPK, constitutes a dynamic stride in the ongoing successive offensive and continuous advance of the Party which intends to bring earlier the epoch-making transformation by bringing about steady innovations and endless upsurge with each passing year.

A grand groundbreaking ceremony took place in Unnyul County on January 29 to signal the start of regional development policy-oriented construction in the new year, greatly boosting all the people's optimism about and confidence in the truthfulness and dazzling prospects of the policy.

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 ceremony.

Present there were leading officials of the Party, government and armed forces organs, commanders of the large combined units of the Korean People's Army, commanding officers and exemplary soldiers of the 124th regiments at all levels and officials and working people in South Hwanghae Province and Unnyul County.

The respected Comrade Kim Jong Un made a meaningful speech.

We are now standing on the starting line of our gigantic struggle for another year, aimed at transforming the regions, he said, and continued:

This is the third year for implementing the regional development policy, and public health facilities and leisure complexes, together with regional-industry factories, will be built in 20 regions of the country including this Unnyul County. This means that nearly one-third of the cities and counties across the country will have been transformed.