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, gave field guidance over the fourth-stage construction project in the Hwasong area nearing completion on January 10.

He was accompanied by Pak Thae Song, premier of the Cabinet of the DPRK, Ri Il Hwan, secretary of the Central Committee of the WPK, and other senior Party and government officials.

He was greeted on the spot by Vice-Premier Kim Jong Gwan and officials of the headquarters for building 50 000 flats in Pyongyang and design organs.

Thanks to his grand plan for the capital city construction and energetic guidance to turn the capital city of the DPRK into a world-class civilized city, a large architectural group of another style different from the past and embodying a good harmony of architectural formative and artistic beauty and advanced nature has sprung up in the Hwasong area to demonstrate its majestic and unique appearance.

The construction of 10 000 flats at the fourth stage in the Hwasong area, which is being pushed under the 2025 capital city construction plan decided at the Eleventh Plenary Meeting of the Eighth Central Committee of the WPK, is now under way at a 99 percent level of the total project.

Kim Jong Un first looked at the layout of buildings and a general bird's-eye view of housing construction area in Hwasong to learn in detail about the construction project.

Through the struggle for building 50 000 flats in Pyongyang, which has been pushed ahead with in the period of the Eighth Central Committee of the WPK, our architectural field is making remarkable progress and the potential of our state is being redoubled, he said, adding this is great progress signifying vivid rejuvenation and development of the country along with the success of remarkable enhancement of the strategic functions and position of the capital city.

He referred to the important feature of the fact that the construction of the Hwasong area, planned and started for the solution of the housing problem in the capital city, has been converted into the one of getting ready all components and functions as a full-fledged urban administrative district.

He said that in the last two years we have put main stress on improving the rational arrangement and functions of urban components in the capital city construction and focused great attention and guidance on it, adding that the functions and appearance of the capital city are undergoing a signal change accordingly and that we have formulated a theory, set a model example and achieved good results in the combination of urban formation and architectural elements.