Special Residential District in Pyongyang

 

A residential district of terraced apartment houses for 800 households is under construction on a bank of the Pothong River in Pyongyang, the capital of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea.

Observers and analysts are paying attention to the meaning of the construction of this residential district.

This project is not included in the construction of 10 000 flats in Pyongyang now under in full swing as well.

It looks like a special colony of villas.

It should be an eye-opener for those who are looking for special news about the changes in the DPRK.

The site of the apartment houses is a hillock, an ideal place in Pyongyang.

The natural scenery and surrounding environment would attract anyone who is engaged in real estate development.

Completion of this project would record another chapter of change in the history of the development of urban construction in Pyongyang.

Modern terraced apartment houses resembling those in the well-known cities of Switzerland and Italy will be set up in Pyongyang, too.

Pyongyang, recognized to have achieved a very high standard of architectural development by building modern streets including Mirae Scientists Street and Ryomyong Street, is planning to create another prototype of an environment-friendly and practical residential district by implementing this project.

It is interesting to note that Pyongyang is paying special attention to the detailed elements of urban and environment management in the course of this project.

An artist’s impression of the colony shows that the apartment houses and nature will be combined and the living and ecological spaces distributed in a scientific way so as to ensure an organic combination of work, relaxation, traffic and others.

It also shows that the multi- and low storey buildings on the hillock are going to be built to preserve the original ecological environment and sustain the specific features of different styles and profile elements.

Blue glass like that of the apartment houses in Mirae Scientists Street will be plastered on the exterior walls for the prevention and absorbing of sunshine in summer and in winter, respectively.

Also noteworthy is the fact that quality finishing materials are going to be used to decorate the exterior walls under the difficult conditions caused by the sanctions by the hostile forces and world health crisis.

The point is for whom this residential district resembling a colony of villas is being built.

It is indeed a special district, and who are going to live there?

Pyongyang has already made it clear that labour innovators and persons of meritorious service in all sectors, scientists, educators and writers would live in the terraced houses.

This fact would be something admirable for the international community.

What would be unbelievable is the fact the houses would be provided to them free of charge.

It has become institutionalized in the DPRK to supply houses to the people free of charge even though these houses were built at large state expense.

Leader Who Takes Loving Care of Children

 From olden times it has been said that a man who loves children is honest-minded and righteous, and the country that enforces the policy of loving children is the most beautiful one.

The realities in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea give a clear understanding of the true meaning of this saying.

Kim Jong Un, President of the State Affairs of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, loves children very much.

When the new Pyongyang Orphanage and Baby Home were under construction, people except relevant officials and residents living nearby did not know where their previous buildings were.

One February day in 2014 he visited the old Pyongyang Orphanage and Baby Home without a prior notice. Embracing the children who were approaching, saying “Father!” he asked “How old are you?” “Are you fine?” He stressed that the children with no parents were also the successors to our revolution and pillars of our future. That year, greeting the International Children’s Day, he visited the Pyongyang Orphanage again, and said: When the laughter of children rings aloud, the whole country becomes bright; now the Workers’ Party of Korea is having a modern orphanage and baby home built on the Taedong riverside; these children will celebrate the following June 1, the International Children’s Day, at the newly-built orphanage.

On the morning of New Year’s Day in 2015, he visited the orphanage again to wish the children a happy new year. That day he said that while looking round the newly-built orphanage and baby home in October the previous year he had made a promise to come there on the coming New Year’s Day, and that to keep his promise, he came there soon after he delivered the new year address.

One year, while visiting the Wonsan Orphanage and Baby Home that were to be

inaugurated, he said with great satisfaction: Such marvellous and handsome structures would be difficult to be found elsewhere in the world; the parentless children will grow up brightly and cheerfully, calling the Party and motherland their father and mother, to become trustworthy pillars of the country; a mere thought of it makes me to harden the determination to sweat more and spare nothing for the sake of the coming generations.

Kim Jong Un is working with devotion to build a beautiful country where all the children will grow stoutly and beautifully without any worry.

Leader Who Takes Loving Care of Children

 

 

From olden times it has been said that a man who loves children is honest-minded and righteous, and the country that enforces the policy of loving children is the most beautiful one.

The realities in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea give a clear understanding of the true meaning of this saying.

Kim Jong Un, President of the State Affairs of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, loves children very much.

When the new Pyongyang Orphanage and Baby Home were under construction, people except relevant officials and residents living nearby did not know where their previous buildings were.

One February day in 2014 he visited the old Pyongyang Orphanage and Baby Home without a prior notice. Embracing the children who were approaching, saying “Father!” he asked “How old are you?” “Are you fine?” He stressed that the children with no parents were also the successors to our revolution and pillars of our future. That year, greeting the International Children’s Day, he visited the Pyongyang Orphanage again, and said: When the laughter of children rings aloud, the whole country becomes bright; now the Workers’ Party of Korea is having a modern orphanage and baby home built on the Taedong riverside; these children will celebrate the following June 1, the International Children’s Day, at the newly-built orphanage.

On the morning of New Year’s Day in 2015, he visited the orphanage again to wish the children a happy new year. That day he said that while looking round the newly-built orphanage and baby home in October the previous year he had made a promise to come there on the coming New Year’s Day, and that to keep his promise, he came there soon after he delivered the new year address.

One year, while visiting the Wonsan Orphanage and Baby Home that were to be

inaugurated, he said with great satisfaction: Such marvellous and handsome structures would be difficult to be found elsewhere in the world; the parentless children will grow up brightly and cheerfully, calling the Party and motherland their father and mother, to become trustworthy pillars of the country; a mere thought of it makes me to harden the determination to sweat more and spare nothing for the sake of the coming generations.

Kim Jong Un is working with devotion to build a beautiful country where all the children will grow stoutly and beautifully without any worry.

Kim Jong Un’s Mode of Politics Is Analyzed

 

Nearly ten years have elapsed since President Kim Jong Un of the State Affairs of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea began to lead his country by inheriting the cause of Chairman Kim Jong Il of the National Defence Commission.

One saying has it that ten years change the looks of mountains and rivers. During the last decade the DPRK has achieved world-startling changes one after another.

It can be said that these achievements are the fruition of Kim Jong Un’s politics.

People-loving Leader

 

Kim Jong Un has reflected the people-friendly and people-loving character in the politics of the ruling Workers’ Party of Korea.

“Everything for the people and everything by relying on them!”—this is a slogan he put forward, and the political philosophy of the ruling party and the state is the people-first principle.

His people-loving politics is not something like seeking fame or achieving successes habitually pursued by the Western politicians in general.

Last year when typhoons and flooding hit different areas of the country, Kim Jong Un personally drove his car to the spots. In this country, where a well-regulated working system has been established, the leader could learn the actual situations and take appropriate measures without giving personal field guidance. But he refused to do so.

He did not hesitate to drive his car on the roads that became slippery and muddy by heavy rainfalls or to dangerous areas where the swell of typhoons was yet to be removed. He met and consoled the victims and raised fallen rice plants with his hands. The appearance of the leader, who goes closer to the people suffering from trials, moved the world.

This is how the country, though it was in a difficult situation owing to the persistent harsh sanctions imposed by the hostile forces and to the world health crisis, could build

 tens of thousands of new houses more splendid than their original ones in a matter of a few months, thus stabilizing the victims’ living as soon as possible.

Over the last decade streets and bases for cultural and leisure activities have been built in various parts of the country, dramatically changing its appearance. All these are born by his politics of loving the people.

This year, too, the situation surrounding the country is still arduous, but an unprecedented, grand construction projects are under way. Kim Jong Un is determined to have many houses built in different parts of the country in the period of new five-year plan for national economic development, particularly 10 000 flats in the capital city every year in this period, so as to improve the people’s living standards more satisfactorily.

It is quite natural that the single-hearted unity, in which the leader and the people share the same ideology and destiny, is being cemented rock-solid across the country, and so is the fact that the country is recognized as a political power unperturbed by any storms.

High Level of Political Diplomacy

 

The recent political diplomacy of the DPRK mirrors the charisma of Kim Jong Un who is strong and yet flexible in diplomacy.

When it is regarded as the superior tactics in politics and diplomacy to attain a desired goal by properly combining strong and flexible and leading the counterpart to make compromise, it can be said that Kim Jong Un is a statesman who raises his country’s international prestige to the highest stage through unpredictable, free and brisk political diplomacy.

The DPRK government’s hard-line approaches and measures for defending the country’s dignity and interests are all indicative of his strong temperament.

Kim Jong Un, who is known to the world as a leader unyielding and strong in principle, is not a politician who only follows a one-sided, hard-line policy. He is an adroit and seasoned politician who makes the most of the rhythm of the strong and the weak in politics.

By pursuing such outstanding political diplomacy, Kim Jong Un made sure that summits were held with the US, which had long been in an acute confrontation with his country, thus unfolding epochal scenes of political diplomacy. He also developed his country’s friendly relations with China, Cuba, Russia and Viet Nam to higher plane through energetic and strategic diplomacy, thus making a breakthrough in the ring of encirclement formed by the hostile forces to isolate it in the international arena.

In this way, his political diplomacy can be characterized by such important features that are strong and yet flexible, fair and square and yet courteous, and justifiable and yet profit-gaining.

Emerging Superpower

 

What is noteworthy in the remarkable successes the DPRK achieved in the last decade is that it definitely secured the position of a strategic state which can defend peace in northeast Asia and the rest of the world.

To remove the potential crisis lingering on the Korean peninsula, in which an accidental spark may escalate into a world nuclear war, the DPRK demanded several times that the US and the country should replace the Korean Armistice Agreement with a peace pact and that the US should withdraw its hostile policy toward it. However, it all fell on deaf ears. The US rather raised the intensity of the economic sanctions and military pressure upon it on the strength of its own enormous economic and military capabilities.

There is a saying, “An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.” 

He made a resolute determination to remove the source of the danger of war on the Korean peninsula and guarantee the safety of the state and the people in the most convincing way. Thanks to his persevering and strenuous efforts, the country possessed nuclear weapons with which to counter the nuclear weapons of the US.

The country has become a strategic state, both in name and reality, which can not only control the situation around it but also take the lead in defending regional and global peace with its perfect and powerful war deterrent

As he placed the status of his country definitely on that of a military power that no one can belittle, he is now devoting his all to provide his people with a more cultured and happier life by making his country a powerful socialist one at the earliest possible date.

Seeing the country getting more prosperous and united more firmly internally and getting more conspicuous in the international arena externally, the international community is now anticipating the emergence of a new superpower.

A Mere Coincidence?

On March 23 and 24, the last session of the 46th General Meeting of the UN Human Rights Council, situated in Geneva, was held. The main agenda item was to adopt a “resolution” against the Democratic People’s Republic Korea. The draft “resolution” was jointly proposed by 43 countries including the US, EU, UK, Japan and Australia.

When the West was pitching high their voice of denouncing the DPRK’s “human rights situation,” a groundbreaking ceremony took place on March 23 for the construction of 10 000 flats in Pyongyang, the capital city of the DPRK. These flats, which will be built within this year as part of the project for building 50 000 flats in the capital city during the new five-year plan period, will be provided to its citizens free of charge. And a measure was taken to build 800 characteristic terraced houses on the Pothong riverside independently from the project and make labour innovators and persons of meritorious service in various sectors, scientists, educationalists, writers and other working people presents of these houses.

Is this a mere coincidence of time? Isn’t this an immediate answer to the assertion on the “deteriorating human rights situation in the DPRK” clamoured about by the 43 co-sponsors of the proposal?

In fact, this country builds excellent houses every year at huge state expense and provides them to working people free of charge. Last year, when disastrous typhoons and heavy rainfalls hit various parts of the country, the government had 20 000 modern houses built in a matter of few months by enlisting all its potential, and the flood victims moved to new houses before the approaching winter season, free of charge at that.

In contrast, Japan, one of the co-sponsors, was yet to free 50 000 earthquake victims from nine-year life as refugees as of last year. Worse still, there can be found many homeless people in most of the 43 co-sponsors.

Through the housing issue alone, an important item in ensuring human rights, it is evident  that  the  DPRK  is  incomparably  more  advanced  than  the  above-mentioned countries. Then, what is the purport of the West’s boisterous smear campaign that the human rights situation of the DPRK is “poor”?

The answer is clear. Their real intention is to tarnish its image and isolate it in the international community and justify their schemes to crush it under the mask of “champions of human rights.” Can the schemes be realized? The mere coincidence of the events that occurred nearly at the same time in the western and eastern hemispheres on the earth in late March this year awakened the international community once again.

 

 

 

“Humanitarian Aid” Should Not Be Abused For Sinister Political Purpose

 

The world is now facing severe economic difficulties because of the COVID-19 pandemic caused by malignant virus.

The International Monetary Fund has predicted that the economic conditions of the countries in general are deteriorating at the quickest pace in decades and the global economic growth rate will further decrease by 4.4%.

The point in question is that there appear the attempts to abuse these sufferings and pains for their sinister political purposes, thus prompting great concerns of the international society.

A newspaper of one country has recently exposed the reactionary nature of the American “aid” and “humanitarian assistance” by commenting that the United States is backing long-term assumption of power and providing support to those rulers obedient to it, but not hesitating to overthrow the government if the reverse is the case.

These comments can be fully elucidated by the U.S. domestic laws of its own making.

The U.S. “Foreign Assistance Act” enacted in 1961 and revised or supplemented thereafter stipulates that any form of assistance to other countries should fully serve the foreign policy of the U.S. Article 498 of this Act points out that any form of assistance should be banned to those countries that fall behind “human rights standard” established by the United States, and article 620 of the said Act states that any assistance should not be permitted to the communist states with different idea from the United States.

The “Mutual Security Act” cooked up in 1950 also incorporates a clause which states that the U.S. should not provide any assistance to other countries if that assistance doesn’t help realize the U.S. foreign policy.

This vividly reveals the purpose behind the American much-touted “assistance.” In actual practice, many countries have undergone bitter tastes as a result of pinning much hope on the American “aid” and “humanitarian assistance.”

In 2011, the U.S. suspended military and economic aid to Pakistan for one year when the Pakistani government expressed its protest to the conduct of unauthorized military operation by the U.S. Special Forces in Pakistan. And in 2014, the U.S. threatened to trim the financial aid by US$ 33 million, while talking about “human rights”, on the pretext that the Pakistani government had arrested anti-government figure.

The U.S. cut off US$ 1 billion aid for Afghanistan under the pretext that the Afghanistan authorities were not obedient to its instruction to abide by the peace agreement with Taliban.

In 2011, the U.S. imposed “improvement of human rights” on a country in the Middle East over its “human rights issue”, and in the following year, the U.S. openly incited an internal conflict in Syria, saying that the U.S. is prepared to provide “humanitarian assistance” to the Syrian citizens if antigovernment forces attain their goal.

In 2018, on the ground that the Palestinian government rejected peace talks with Israel, the U.S. froze US$ 125 million out of the humanitarian assistance fund of US$ 346 million which they annually used to donate to the United Nations for the protection of Palestinian refugees.

In this regard, an official from the Arab League of States expressed great concern, saying that this constitutes a menace to the refugee problem, a core issue in the Middle East.

The U.S. also resorted to despicable attempt to drag Cambodia into an anti-China move, threatening that it could not provide the promised aid of US$ 82 million unless the Cambodian government takes effective pro-U.S. steps with regard to the regional security issues such as the one of South China Sea.

The above-cited factual information is only a tiny piece of abundant evidences which reveal the true nature of the “humanitarian assistance” touted so much by the United States.

The world press is now denouncing the U.S. “humanitarian assistance”, commenting that it is no less than a political tool for subordinating other countries politically and economically, and the U.S. is raking in money a dozen times high in return for its trivial “aid.”

Analysts of global issues comment that the “human rights issue”, a catchphrase used by the U.S. whenever they bring up the issue of “humanitarian assistance” is, in essence, a smokescreen for pursuing the interference in the internal affairs of the countries concerned. This vividly reveals that the American ulterior intention of linking “humanitarian assistance” with “human rights issue” is to legitimize their pressure on the sovereign states and achieve their sinister political scheme.

Currently in the U.S., the number of infected cases caused by the COVID19 crisis amounts to over 34.7 million with the death toll as many as 620,000 and this is putting their people into great despair and agony.

And all hues of social evils peculiar to U.S., such as gun-related crime, hate crime, racial discrimination are widespread, thus plunging the U.S. society as a whole into greater chaos and disorder.

So much so that the international society is deriding the United States, saying that, before making “humanitarian assistance” a subject of discussion, the U.S. would be well-advised to seek an international aid to clear the consequences of the humanitarian disaster that has taken hundreds of thousands of lives due to their poor response to the malignant pandemic and to stamp out all hues of social evils, such as gun-related crime and racial discrimination.

Humanitarian assistance should, under no circumstances, be abused for sinister political purpose. Kang Hyon Chol,Senior Researcher, Association for the Promotion of Inter- national Economic and Technological Exchange

Respected Comrade Kim Jong Un Meets and Congratulates Creators and Artistes of Major Art Troupes

 

Pyongyang, July 12 (KCNA) –

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, Sunday met and congratulated the creators and artistes of the major art troupes on receiving state commendations.

The creators and artistes were overwhelmed by the feelings of profound reverence and gratitude to the great mentor and kind-hearted father who met them in person following the conferment of high honor and state commendations to them though they just did their part as persons of art and literature of the Party on the road of advance for implementing the decisions made at the historic Party Congress.

The respected General Secretary gave a pep-talk to them, warmly holding their hands one by one, in recognition of their distinguished services for the development of Juche music in the revolutionary traits of creation, keeping in mind the trust of the Party Central Committee and the expectation of the people.

He said with appreciation that they created and portrayed masterpieces of the times loved by the people including song "Our National Flag" true to our Party's revolutionary line and idea, and thus glorified our state-first era and instilled confidence and optimism about sure victory into the people.

He repeatedly expressed satisfaction, saying that it is something that has been craved for and which is worth welcoming before any other achievements that the Band of the State Affairs Commission has evoked positive responses and repercussions from the people with its art creation and performing activities marked by masterpieces and famous performances reflective of the intention of the Party Central Committee at a time when the field of art and literature is still in the dormancy and doldrums.

The new era of advance and dynamism demands the creation of lots of more influential and appealing masterpieces pulsating with the spirit of the times than ever before in the field of art and literature entrusted with important mission and innovative role to play in the revolution and construction, he emphasized.

Our art and literature are obliged to be responsive to the requirements of the Party's policies and the spirit of the times to make the Party's idea and will pervade the whole process of the creation and performing activities that conform to the people's mentality, he said, calling on the major art troupes to keep their honor and consolidate the achievements of creation and based on it give exceptionally high momentum to the creation in the overall art and literature field.

The respected General Secretary expressed the trust and expectation that they would continue to glorify their honor as the trumpeters of the revolution on the sacred road of singing of our great era, our great Party, our great state and our great social system, and had a meaningful photo taken with all the artistes of the Band as well as the decorated creators and artistes.

All the creators and artistes renewed their firm pledge to always share their intention and breath with the Party Central Committee, cherishing their honor and happiness all their lives, and to take the lead in opening the new era of efflorescence of socialist art and literature by waging more dynamic creation activities to imbue the whole society with our state-first spirit.