Kim Jong Un Inspects Pyongyang City Home for Aged under Construction

Pyongyang, March 6 (KCNA) -- Kim Jong Un, first secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea, first chairman of the DPRK National Defence Commission and supreme commander of the Korean People's Army, gave field guidance to the Pyongyang City Home for the Aged under construction.

    Accompanying him were Hwang Pyong So, Choe Thae Bok, O Su Yong, Ri Jae Il, Jo Yong Won and Kim Yo Jong.

    The construction of the Pyongyang City Home for the Aged was proposed by Kim Jong Un, who said it should be a social trait, a habit of the whole country forming a big family, to look after those persons who are to be put under public care. And he solved all matters arising in the construction, from designing to supply of materials.

    He recalled with deep emotion that President Kim Il Sung, together with leader Kim Jong Il, visited an old people's home in Mandal-ri, Sungho County in May 1948 when he was busy paving an untrodden path for nation-building and showed deep care for the inmates' living conditions, including quilts and bowls, saying that the state would take warm care of the aged.

    Under the paternal love of Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il the "DPRK Law on the Protection for the Aged" was adopted in the country and the Central Committee of the Federation for the Care of the Elderly of Korea organized and the Party and the state have wholly taken charge of aged people's health and life, he noted.

    He said that to build the home for the aged well is a very important work in correctly implementing the Workers' Party of Korea's policy for the care of the elderly and fully displaying its validity and vitality.

    Going round different parts of the home under construction, he learned in detail about its building operation and gave important instructions for the construction.

    It is the constant demand of our Party to firmly preserve the Juche character and national identity in construction, he said, stressing that the exterior and interior of the home should be laid out to sustain the national character and emit the strong national flavor.

    He added that a work should be organized meticulously to provide furniture and utensils needed for operation of the home and produce good uniforms for its employees.

    The home is in an excellent location the Party valued, he said, stressing the need to build it into another model edifice in the era of the Workers' Party, an embodiment of the Party's love for the people.

    The Pyongyang City Home for the Aged should be built as a prototype equipped with all conditions for its inmates to lead a happy life free from any cares and worries so that such homes can be constructed in localities with it as a model, he said.

    He expressed belief that the soldier-builders would successfully complete the construction of the home by late June, true to the intention of the Party Central Committee, and thus honorably enter the venue of significant grand festival celebrating the 70th anniversaries of founding of the WPK and national liberation. -0-

Korean Women of Today

Women in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea are granted high social status.

Following are typical examples of their social standings.

Woman Deputy

Kim Hwa Suk, chairwoman of Sadong District Cooperative Farm Management Committee in Pyongyang, started her social life as a farmer of the Rihyon Cooperative Farm, Sadong District in the suburbs of Pyongyang. She is a deputy to the Supreme People’s Assembly of the DPRK, that is a member of parliament.

One September day in 1977 when she was working as a youth workteam leader at the farm President Kim Il Sung visited it. He was satisfied with the young girl’s laudable deed and gave detailed instructions on how to increase the grain output.

As instructed by the President she did a good farming every year to make a rich harvest. Later she was promoted to chairwomanship of the management board of the farm and elected a deputy to the Supreme People’s Assembly.

For over 20 years she was reelected the deputy to the Supreme People’s Assembly for five sessions and has been working at the current post since 1993.

She was elected a representative for the Third Conference of the Workers’ Party of Korea in 2010. She participated in the national meetings including the national agricultural congress and took the floor, and also in other international meetings as a women representative.

Hero Manageress

Jang Ok Son is a manageress of the Fruit Processing Factory in Hoechang County, South Phyongan Province. Her factory is an ordinary one in the DPRK.

Originally, her factory was staffed with some 20 employees, and most of them were women. They were producing only a few items with several outdated machines in a small, one-storey building.

Jang Ok Son initiated a project of expanding the capacity of the factory and made positive endeavour for its realization, thus increasing the production capacity six folds in a short period and newly setting up a line of producing children’s foodstuff. Entering the new century, she pushed forward with the projects to further boost the production and put management activities on an informatic and scientific footing. Now a small local factory has been completely facelifted.

Jang Ok Son was awarded high state decorations and citations including the Labour Hero for having long discharged her duty with credit.

People’s Athlete

Kim Kum Ok was born into an ordinary worker’s family.

Since her childhood, she was very fond of running. The state found out her little talent and brought her up into a marathon runner. Feeling grateful to the country, Kum Ok determined to glorify the motherland by winning gold medals.

She made strenuous efforts with this determination and became winners in the Asian Marathon Championships held in 2006 and 2008 respectively and other international games.

She won another gold medal in the 14^th Asian Marathon Championships.

Kim Jong Un, leader of the DPRK, spoke highly of her for becoming Asian marathon champion three times.

The state conferred on her the title of People’s Athlete for having won gold medals in several games of marathon that is an iconic sport.

Mother Hero

Ri Pyong Hui, who lives in Wonsan, Kangwon Province which is situated on the east coast of the DPRK, is a mother of ten children.

She is a plain-looking but tough-minded woman. Whenever she is asked how she had as many children as ten and if she had planned to do so from the beginning, she answers: to be honest, I had no thought of having ten. But I realized that it is an important matter relating to the future of the country to have and rear children as many as I can. So I made up my mind to perform my duty as a woman by giving birth to many children and bringing them up into able personnel of the country.

Now three of her children are doing military service in the Korean People’s Army.

She took part as a delegate in the Fourth National Meeting of Mothers held in Pyongyang in November 2012. She said in the meeting that she would do good things more for the motherland that highly appreciates mothers and bestows on them love and trust.

She was conferred the title of Labour Hero for having reared many children.

Masikryong Ski Resort

The Masik Pass which links the eastern part to the western part of central Korea was little known to the world in the past, but is now on many people’s lips as a world-class ski resort appeared there.

Covering an area of 1 412 hectares, the ski resort has ten ski slopes with an average length of 1 700 metres, 5 000 metres at the longest. Masikryong Hotel, a ski rental, other lodging houses and large-scale facilities for skiing and management have been established in a characteristic way to blend well with mountainous environment and utility of structures. A heliport, skate rental, patrol stations for ski slopes, ropeway lines running from 600 to 2 000 metres, and snow cannons are found there.

Visitors who want to ski on low slopes can use travelators, and those who hope to ski from the top of Taehwa Peak 1 360m above sea level ride ropeway lines and snowmobiles.

Cameras and communication facilities are organically combined to monitor ropeway lines, ski slopes, power supply and weather for the safety of the visitors; a central control room offers real-time monitoring of the whole ski resort through the CCTV images; there are also first-aid stations for emergency cases.

Decorative braziers with a design of flaring fire and rubber pads on which people stand in ski boots are installed at nature-friendly Masikryong Hotel, blending harmoniously with the idyllic scenery of the mountainous area, and other pavilions uniquely built in various places.

When it snows on the summit of Taehwa Peak, it rains at its foot. Four reservoirs are built for snow cannons in this case.

The ski resort is also an unparalleled tourist attraction for its beautiful mountain scenery and the spectacular sight of a rising sun from the East Sea of Korea enjoyed on the summit of Taehwa Peak. It is so thickly wooded with oak and pine trees and other broad- and needle-leaf trees that fresh air lingers around the pass all the year round. There grow innumerable species of edible herbs and wild fruits including bracken, royal fern, wild vine and tara vine. A convenient road network leads the visitors from the Masikryong Ski Resort to other tourist destinations of Myongsasimni and Songdowon Beach, scenic spots along the east coast, and Mt. Kumgang, the world-famous beauty spot.

The credit goes to the wise leadership of Kim Jong Un.

He proposed building a ski resort so that the Korean people could enjoy a happy life with nothing to envy in the world and made public an appeal, Let Us Usher In a Fresh Heyday on All the Fronts of Socialist Construction by Creating the Masikryong Speed. In hearty response to his appeal, the soldier-builders performed a miracle of building a ski resort and thus carried out his order to complete its project without fail within 2013.

In those days he visited the construction sites on steep slopes several times to encourage the soldier-builders with great affection and trust and take necessary steps to finish the project at an earliest possible date. Whenever visiting the Masikryong area, he instructed in detail that all the structures there should sustain its local features while attaining perfection on the principle of ensuring convenience first and aesthetics next. He visited again the ski resort nearing completion and rode a chairlift in running trials to the summit of Taehwa Peak, saying that he should go round all the courses to be used by the people. Looking at the Korean leader sitting on a chairlift the world people were greatly moved, because it has so far been little known that a head of state rode a chairlift on trial for the safety of the people.

The Korean leader, endowed with ennobling affection for people, looked round the completed ski resort and took new measures to build more lodgings and service facilities so that youth and schoolchildren across the country can go camping there in winter for skiing, skating and sleighing.

The Masikryong Ski Resort which has newly thrust into the international limelight will attract more and more people.