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Pyongyang, April 11 (KCNA) -- The 9th April Spring People's Art Festival opened with splendor in Pyongyang, the capital ...
13/04/2025

Pyongyang, April 11 (KCNA) -- The 9th April Spring People's Art Festival opened with splendor in Pyongyang, the capital city of the DPRK, on the occasion of the 113th birth anniversary of President Kim Il Sung.

The festival, which brought together art group members of institutions, industrial establishments, farms, etc., will be held, divided into city and county (complex) art groups, art groups of institutions, art groups of industrial establishments and art groups of farms.

An opening ceremony took place at the Pyongyang Circus Theatre on April 10.

Artistes of national-level art troupes, members of the women's union and school youth and children in the city greeted the participants in the festival with splendid dancing.

The participants were full of passion to add to the festive atmosphere of the significant Day of the Sun celebration and fully demonstrate the ever-developing mass culture and art by singing aloud the songs praising their great leaders.

Present at the opening ceremony were Ju Chang Il, department director of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea, officials concerned, participants in the festival and Pyongyang citizens.

Minister of Culture Sung Jong Gyu, chairman of the festival organizing committee, made an opening address.

He said that the 9th April Spring People's Art Festival, which is to be held with splendor on the occasion of the 113th birth anniversary of President Kim Il Sung, is a grand political art festival peculiar to Juche Korea, which will represent with beautiful melodies and cheerful dances the unshakable faith and will of all the people to hold the President in high esteem forever and add glory to the new era of national prosperity under the leadership of the great WPK.

He declared the start of the festival, expressing belief that the festival would fully show the ideological and moral traits of the Korean people to faithfully uphold the ideas and leadership of the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un and add vigor to their general advance for accelerating the overall development of Korean-style socialism.

The festival flag was hoisted amid the playing of the song "The Glorious Country".

Then a curtain raiser was given by artistes of the Phibada Opera Troupe, the National Folk Art Troupe and the National Acrobatic Troupe.

Pyongyang, April 13 (KCNA) -- Foreign organizations and personages and Koreans in China sent flower baskets to the statu...
13/04/2025

Pyongyang, April 13 (KCNA) -- Foreign organizations and personages and Koreans in China sent flower baskets to the statues of President Kim Il Sung and Chairman Kim Jong Il on Mansu Hill here on the occasion of the Day of the Sun.

Laid at the statues of the great leaders on April 12 were flower baskets in the name of Zhang Baoqing, general manager of the China Dandong Lianghao Science and Technology Development Co. Ltd, the family of Hwang Paek Ha, a Korean in China related to the anti-Japanese revolutionary struggle, Ju Kye Suk, chairperson of the Liaoning Regional Association of the General Association of Koreans in China, An Mi Ja, a member of the General Association of Koreans in China, Ho Sang Suk, vice-chairperson of the Federation of Korean Economic Workers in China, Vice-Chairperson Pang Yong Son and Secretary General Ri Sol Hui of the Association of Young Korean Nationals in China, Kim Il Nam, Ryang K*m Hae, Yang Myong Sil, Yang Won and Kim K*m Hui, members of the Federation of Korean Economic Workers in China, the family of Choe Su Jin, a Korean resident in China, Jin Xianghe, general manager of the Tumen City Sanchuan External Economic Trade Co. Ltd. of China, Piao Shanhu, general manager of Dandong Huixing Economic Trading Co. Ltd. of China, Manager Ri Hwang and Deputy Manager Ri Kil of the Jiangshan Co. Ltd., Phyo Song Ryong, chairman of the Association of Korean Businessmen in China, Kil Kyong Gap, chairman of the Association of Korean Nationals in Shenyang City of China, the couple of Cui Kuizhe, general manager of the Yingkou Shengfeng Commodity Exchange Co. Ltd., Ma Meihua, general manger of the Yanbian Quanlai Commercial Trade Co. Ltd., Li Xiangdan, general manager of the Dandong Baolin Trade Co. Ltd., Jin Nanzhe, general manager of the Beijing Jinmeng Future Cultural Media Co. Ltd., Kim Chol, general manager of the Shenyang Qingping Trade Corporation, Choe Kol, general manager of the Sobaeksu Culture Proliferation Co. Ltd. in Liaoning Province of China, Song Haojie, director of the Hunchun City Ouya Hospital, Quan Haoxie, corporate representative of the Qingdao Haozhiaieu Industrial Trade Co. Ltd., Cui Aishun, general manager of the Dandong Shuncheng Trade Co. Ltd., Kang Yongguo, general manager of the Liaoning Shenghan Trade Co. Ltd., Li Chengxue, general manager of the Dandong Chengbao Commerce Trade Co. Ltd., Li Honglin, general manager of the Shenzhen City Zhongchuan Automatic Equipment Co. Ltd., Lu Yongzhe, general manager of the Juncheng Shijia Management and Consultation (Beijing) Co. Ltd. of China, An Pingnan, representative of the Tianjin Jiujiang Trade Co. Ltd, Kim Tong Ryon, general manager of the Hunchun Yongdong Export and Import Co. Ltd. in Jilin Province of China, Kim Thae Song and Kim Kyong Suk, Korean residents in China, and the Hongxing Trade Co. Ltd. of China.

On the same day, Choe Ryong Ho, vice-rector of Pyongyang University of Science and Technology, placed a flower basket at the statues of the great leaders.

Pyongyang, April 5 (KCNA) -- Kim Jong Un, general secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea and president of the State Af...
13/04/2025

Pyongyang, April 5 (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, visited the training base of the special operations units of the Korean People's Army and guided the general training on April 4.

Accompanying him were Pak Jong Chon, secretary of the Central Committee of the WPK and vice-chairman of the Central Military Commission of the WPK, and other leading officials of the WPK Central Committee.

The respected Comrade Kim Jong Un was greeted on the spot by No Kwang Chol, minister of National Defence of the DPRK, Ri Yong Gil, chief of the General Staff of the KPA, and the first vice-minister of National Defence, the director of the combat training department of the KPA General Staff and commanding officers of the special operations units.

After receiving a salute from commanding officers of the KPA, he mounted the observation post to watch the general tactical training and small-arms shooting contest conducted and held by combatants of various special operations units according to the training programme.

The training was aimed at steadily exploring and applying new military tactics and methodologies of Korean style for bolstering up the special operations forces in keeping with the developing aspects and changing trend of modern warfare and mastering them through practical training for real war so as to prepare all combatants more thoroughly to reliably and skilfully carry out their special operations tasks under any combat situation.

The brave combatants, who have grown up to be the strongest combat group and the core vanguard of the armed forces of the DPRK while cultivating matchless strength and courage under the outstanding guidance of the great brilliant commander, fully demonstrated the strong independent operations capability and the fighting spirit and crack-shot marksmanship of our invincible army in all drills.

Kim Jong Un highly appreciated the lofty ideological and spiritual world of the combatants who are devoting themselves to their noble mission and duty for defending the security of the state and the safety of the people always with battlefield in their mind, true to the Party's idea of building the special operations forces.

The actual war capability for guaranteeing victory in the battlefield is bolstered up through intensive training and it is the most vivid expression of patriotism and loyalty to the country and the people and the first revolutionary duty for the soldiers with arms to complete the combat preparations, he said, calling for taking it as the core goal of army building to turn the army into a strong one in which all the officers and men fight shoulder to shoulder, in one body and with one idea and one intention.

The strengthening of the special operations forces constitutes a major component of our army building strategy at present, he said, indicating important tasks to take a series of crucial measures for putting the special operations capability on a highly-developed basis.

He guided an automatic rifle firing drill and a sniper rifle firing drill of the combatants.

He personally conducted the test-fire of a sniper rifle to be newly supplied to special operations units and learned about its results, expressing great satisfaction over the performance and power of the sniper rifle developed in our own way.

Then he watched general special physical exercises of special operations unit combatants.

The combatants, who have prepared themselves to be a-match-for-a-hundred soldiers with iron fists as sturdy as bullets and brave fighters, fully demonstrated their physical and technical abilities.

Watching the exercises pulsating with the fighting spirit to annihilate the enemy and the heroic mettle, Kim Jong Un warmly encouraged the officers and men of the special operations forces filled with patriotic enthusiasm and militant courage.

He had a photo session with the reliable officers and men who are further improving the strongest capability for an actual war in the training with courage, pluck and towering self-confidence to counter any war and crisis without hesitation.

When the photo session was over, the KPA's reliable guards and passionate warriors broke into thunderous cheers reflecting their pledge of loyalty, looking up to the great iron-willed commander with deep emotion.

Kim Jong Un expressed expectations and belief that all the units of the special operations forces would remain absolutely faithful to their mission of defending the country, the revolution and the people and firmly safeguard the victorious advance of the most just and sacred cause of the DPRK with matchless arms.

All the servicepersons, who took part in the training, hardened their firm determination to more reliably prepare themselves as the spearhead of the elite revolutionary armed forces that always wins victory in every battle and conquers any fortress when it is determined, for the great Comrade Kim Jong Un, the eternal prosperity of our dignified state and happiness of the people.

Pyongyang, March 8 (KCNA) -- At a time when the struggle for attaining the important goals for realizing the grandiose p...
11/03/2025

Pyongyang, March 8 (KCNA) -- At a time when the struggle for attaining the important goals for realizing the grandiose plan of the Workers’ Party of Korea for building the country into an advanced maritime power is powerfully being pushed ahead with under the schedule set by the Eighth Congress of the Workers’ Party of Korea, there took place the guidance work of the Party Central Committee, which is of remarkable significance in defending the maritime sovereignty of the DPRK and in developing its shipbuilding industry.

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, visited major shipyards to give field guidance to warship building.

The respected Comrade Kim Jong Un was greeted by leading officials of those shipyards.

Accompanying him were Jo Chun Ryong, secretary of the WPK Central Committee, Senior Admiral Kim Myong S*k, commander of the Navy of the Korean People’s Army, and major leading officials of the WPK Central Committee.

He acquainted himself with the ongoing work for attaining the goal of building warships, set forth by the Party Congress, and the technical equipment level of the shipyards and the progress of their modernization projects.

He expressed great satisfaction over the soaring spirit and labour feats of the workers who are registering signal successes in the implementation of the militant task for radically improving the modernity of our navy in the shortest span of time in line with the prerequisite requirement for the security of the state and the world development trend of naval forces.

He was reported on the progress made in attaining with confidence the goals for putting the shipbuilding industry on a Juche-oriented, modern and scientific basis, set forth by the Party Central Committee, by actively pushing ahead with the work for technical updating and expansion of production capacity to ensure the rapid development of our naval forces.

He gave a high appreciation of the fact that a bright prospect has been opened for introducing into the operations the most powerful warships capable of establishing the core of our Juche-oriented naval forces and meeting all the requirements of the national defence strategy in the shortest possible time, true to the strategic line of our Party on building up the national defences, and said:

The maritime sovereignty is the core of the sovereign rights of our country, which borders the sea both on the east and the west, and developing its naval forces into an elite, nuclear-armed force constitutes an important content of the strategy for the development of the national defence, which intensively reflects our Party’s present will to defend the sovereignty.

Only when there are powerful naval forces that no one can provoke, is it possible to defend the security of the country and the people and guarantee normal development of the fishing industry and the overall national economy. For us, the sea, before being a limitless base for prosperity, is an inviolable territory where the dignity and prestige of our state and the people’s life are defended.

The everlasting prosperity of our socialist Korea depends on how we defend the sea, a major front decisive of the life and death of the state and the people and a main route of aggression by the enemy countries. We should ensure that incomparably threatening warships fulfil their mission as powerful deterrent of a nuclear power, capable of containing the inveterate “gunboat diplomacy” of the hostile forces.

It is really significant progress that the rejuvenation of the country’s warship-building industry, which we aspire to, has laid its solid foundations and entered the full-scale stage of kindling the flame of modernization while enduring hardships. On the basis of the precious experience and technology we have gained so far, we should put spurs to decisively enhancing the warship-building capacity and upgrading the overall technological processes, so as to build a large number of modern warships of different missions desired by our naval forces.

The key to radically developing the warship-building industry, which can be called an ensemble of cutting-edge defence science and technology, is science and technology and training of talents. Regarding them as two elements for development and leap forward, we should vigorously lead the rejuvenation of warship-building industry, whose new appearance will be recorded in the history of the DPRK.

He said that the modernization of the shipyards, which should play an important role in the revolution in the new era for bolstering up the naval forces, should not be conducted in a passive way of filling up the missing processes of the existing foundations, but in the way of boldly and perfectly creating new and hi-tech bases suited to the prestige and status of a powerful nation. And he clarified the strategic plan of the WPK to this end.

He stated that the DPRK will never remain an onlooker to the naval and underwater military manoeuvrings of the enemies, who are seriously threatening its sovereignty and interests by constantly deploying large numbers of strategic assets, but reliably defend its maritime sovereignty and ensure a sure security guarantee on the Korean peninsula and the region through important innovations and changes of its naval forces and supremacy of its ever-developing strength.

Noting that the justness to put the country’s naval forces’ war posture and capability to fight a war on the most powerful and perfect level is increasing our will and desire for the rejuvenation of the warship-building industry, he affirmed that the sea defence capability of the DPRK, which is in a responsible and key position for defending peace on the Korean peninsula and the region, will be fully displayed in any necessary waters without limitation.

He expressed expectation and belief that all the officials and workers in the warship-building industry would further consolidate the arsenal for defending the country’s maritime sovereignty through a courageous struggle, mindful of their sacred honour and important mission as revolutionary industrial soldiers of the WPK, who have shouldered the state affair decisive of the future of the country’s navy and the defence of the territorial integrity and peace of the country.

The basic orientation for radically bolstering up the navy’s combat power considered important by the Party is to simultaneously push forward with modernization of surface and underwater warships and further improvement of their operations capabilities, he said. And he advanced the essential long-term plan and stage-by-stage goals for the possession of the warships to substantially guarantee the mission of our armed forces to defend the maritime sovereignty, as well as the future direction of the defence economic work and all the tasks to this end.

He also learned about the building of a nuclear-powered strategic guided missile submarine, which is being pushed forward according to the decisions of the Eighth Congress of the WPK.

His field guidance at the major shipyards is a significant event heralding a new phase of bolstering up the Juche-based naval forces.

Pyongyang, March 8 (KCNA) -- Kim Jong Un, general secretary of the Workers’ Party of Korea and president of the State Af...
11/03/2025

Pyongyang, March 8 (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, gave field guidance over the project for newly building the Onpho Working People’s Holiday Camp under the Recreation Management Bureau of the Ministry of Labour.

He was accompanied by Ri Hi Yong and Kim Jae Ryong, leading officials of the Central Committee of the WPK.

He was greeted on the spot by the chief secretary of the North Hamgyong Provincial Committee of the WPK, the chairman of the provincial people’s committee and officials of the construction field command team.

The project is for building a recreation and recuperation centre, which is under way in accordance with the on-site instructions given by the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un during his field guidance over various sectors of North Hamgyong Province in July 2018. At that time, he stressed the need to newly build the Onpho Holiday Camp in Kyongsong County, a famous hot-spring area of the country, into a comprehensive cultural recreation and medical service base so that the people can receive hot-spring therapy while enjoying highly-civilized cultural and leisure activities.

Kim Jong Un met senior cadres and working-level officials at the construction site and learned in detail about the progress in the construction project.

He said that the construction of the holiday camp and the preparations for its operation should be done without any slightest defect in order to complete it as another distinctive base for cultural life and an advanced recreation and recuperation facility for the people to enjoy spa culture to their heart’s content, and referred to a series of deviations being revealed in the ongoing project and to the measures for overcoming them.

It is important to fully embody the functional requirements in conformity with the mission and use of the construction object aimed mainly at recreation and recuperation, maximize the utilization rate of the building area and ensure convenience, he said, stressing the need to pay attention to the detailed issues lest the visitors should experience even the slightest inconvenience, since the overall project has reached the final stage, and to finish it in a qualitative way.

He set forth important tasks to be tackled in the construction of the holiday camp and its future management and operation, including those of further improving the service conditions and the treatment environment level so that the hot-spring therapy, a specific feature of the camp and the main category of its service work, can contribute to the promotion of the people’s health and their enjoyment of civilization, of expanding the sphere and space of diverse cultural life by actively making the most of the topographical features of the picturesque mountainous area and of making full preparations so that it can start its operation at the same time as the completion of the project. He then continued:

It is an important component of the people-oriented policies of our Party and government and a responsible undertaking to provide the working people with excellent treatment and recuperation facilities and more advanced service conditions for their maximum convenience. We should be more faithful to our original mission of existing for the people and fighting for their interests and always serve them with an innovative and positive attitude.

It is the intention of our Party to build modern holiday resorts and sanatoriums for the people, which blend well with the beautiful natural scenery, in famous mountains and scenic spots of the country and furnish them with a larger number of comprehensive service facilities so that they can fully enjoy the entities of civilization and promote their health thanks to the benefits of the advantageous socialist policy, and thus make those facilities serve as bases for cultural progress and result in a steady improvement of the life of the working masses.

When the Onpho Working People’s Holiday Camp is built as a comprehensive cultural recreation and health service centre in this mountainous area, which fully meets all the requirements of modern architecture while preserving well the unique charms and features unique to the region, it will be another worthwhile achievement of ours in pioneering really diverse fields and diverse realms of life, he said, proposing that the camp be successfully built in this significant year of the 80th founding anniversary of the WPK and presented to the people.

Kim Jong Un also indicated important tasks related to the construction of the Yombunjin Haeyang Hostel in North Hamgyong Province.

He approved on the spot a detailed work plan and proposals for the completion of the construction projects for the Onpho Working People’s Holiday Camp and the Yombunjin Haeyang Hostel, including the additional budget expenditure and workforce formation for the final stage of the projects, and assigned the tasks for their implementation.

Pyongyang, February 28 (KCNA) -- A relevant sub-unit of the Korean People's Army's combined missile unit in the western ...
11/03/2025

Pyongyang, February 28 (KCNA) -- A relevant sub-unit of the Korean People's Army's combined missile unit in the western area conducted a strategic cruise missile launching drill on the West Sea of Korea on the morning of February 26.

The purpose of the launching drill was to let the enemies, who are fostering and escalating the confrontation environment while seriously violating the security environment of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, know the KPA's counterattack capability in any space and the readiness of its various nuke operation means, to demonstrate the reliability of the state nuclear deterrent and to make the strategic cruise missile sub-units get adept in fulfilling their sudden firing mission.

Kim Jong Un, general secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea and president of the State Affairs of the DPRK, oversaw the launching drill.

He was accompanied by Full General Kim Jong S*k, member of the Central Military Commission of the WPK, and Full General Jang Chang Ha, general director of the DPRK Missile Administration.

The strategic cruise missiles precisely hit the targets after making flights along a 1 587km-long oval trajectory for 7 961 and 7 973 seconds.

Expressing satisfaction over the result of the launching drill, Kim Jong Un said that continuously testing the reliability and operability of the components of nuclear deterrent of the DPRK and demonstrating their power is itself a responsible exercise of its war deterrent.

What is guaranteed by a powerful striking ability is the most perfect deterrent and defence capability, he said, stressing that it is the responsible mission and duty of the DPRK's nuclear forces to durably defend the national sovereignty and security with the reliable nuclear shield by making them more thoroughly ready for combat and fully prepared for their use.

Pyongyang, February 28 (KCNA) -- Thanks to the steadfast will and energetic guidance of the respected Comrade Kim Jong U...
11/03/2025

Pyongyang, February 28 (KCNA) -- Thanks to the steadfast will and energetic guidance of the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un to develop the public health of the DPRK into the most advantageous and advanced socialist one so that the people can fully enjoy the benefits of modern medicine and lead a happy life in good health, a world-class medical service base has been wonderfully built in the capital city of Pyongyang as a perfect embodiment of the Workers' Party of Korea's plan for modernizing public health and its idea on Juche-oriented architectural beauty.

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, visited the completed Pyongyang General Hospital on February 27.

He was accompanied by Pak Thae Song, member of the Presidium of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the WPK and premier of the DPRK Cabinet, and officials of the Party Central Committee, public health and other sectors concerned.

He was greeted on the spot by senior officials of the hospital and construction and design units.

Guided by the officials, he went round such parts of the hospital as emergency department, specialized treatment departments, general operating theatre, conference hall, service facilities and helipad to learn in detail about its overall construction.

Saying that all demands of advanced architecture were thoroughly embodied in every element of the hospital and building work was done perfectly in conformity with the public health policy of the WPK, which gives precedence to the promotion of the people's health and regards their lives as the most precious ones, and with the construction policy for its implementation and that the specialized facilities of all systems including outpatient and inpatient wards were furnished on a high quality level, he added that this is attributable to the substantial three-party agreement of design, building work and operation the relevant units made as intended by the Party.

He noted with high appreciation that in particular, the general operating theatre with 30 modern operating rooms is well furnished to ensure best public health and sanitary conditions and scientific accuracy and smoothness of treatment, as befitting the most important core facility of the hospital.

He also toured a restaurant and other public service facilities on the top floor of the building. He said that he was very pleased to think that our people can be completely recovered from diseases and promote their health while enjoying the most advanced medical service as well as civilized and excellent convenience, adding that the hospital is another proud asset of our state which absolutely subordinates everything to promoting the people's wellbeing.

He expressed great satisfaction, saying that he felt really proud to have the world-level modern medical service base and medical science research centre capable of more reliably protecting the people's health and wellbeing, that we can see our great strength rapidly growing, overcoming ordeals, and that a solid springboard has been laid for restoring and radically developing the country's public health sector on an advanced basis.

He highly praised the ardent patriotism, loyalty and devotion displayed by all the builders who contributed to the successful construction of another monumental edifice representing the era, upholding the WPK's policy with heroic creative practice.

Saying that there should be no slightest weak points in making preparations for the hospital's operation so that it can fulfil its inherent mission and role in curing people of illness and completely recovering them from it after its opening, he stressed the need to reinforce its emergency system, which can be called the first gateway to it and its face, in aspects of practical utility, rationality and efficiency so as to ensure the promptness and mobility of emergency treatment more thoroughly.

To develop the overall public health of the country on the basis of the completion of this hospital as a model medical centre is an important revolutionary undertaking to defend and develop the advantages and original feature of Korean-style socialism centred on the masses, he said, setting forth important tasks arising in building modern new hospitals that will appear not only in Pyongyang but also in cities and counties across the country in the future. He continued:

What is most important in building a hospital is to design all elements, ranging from site selection to building layout and arrangement of the line of flow, in conformity with the specialized technical requirements on the principle of guaranteeing the level of specialization and functional qualities peculiar to the public health facilities so as to make it convenient for medical service activities including diagnosis and treatment of patients.

The design sector should lead other sectors at the present time when the scope of construction is steadily expanding and the struggle for achieving comprehensive national rejuvenation is being accelerated. The design of an architectural structure to be built by our socialist ruling Party for the people should properly combine modern character with national identity while prioritizing the defending of people's life and safety and the promotion of their wellbeing, and reflect the great ideology and ennobling political creed of our times that aspire after higher ideals and civilization. In this sense, it can be said that designers are "political artists" who draw the ideas and policies of the WPK in reality.

He gave instructions to be regarded as guidelines in architectural design, adding:

Whether or not this wonderful hospital, provided by the Party, contributes to promoting the people's health entirely depends on the medical workers' thoroughgoing spirit of serving the people and specialist qualifications. The public health sector should decisively strengthen the medical forces and effectively conduct the work of raising medical science and technology to the world's advanced level, so as to ensure that all doctors and nurses devote their utmost sincerity to medical treatment with warm humanity.

In particular, continuous education, internship, experience-sharing workshop, sci-tech achievements presentation and others, aimed at broadening the regional medical workers' horizons and improving their medical skills, should be organized and conducted with a correct methodology in line with the full-scale construction of hospitals going on in cities and counties under the WPK's new regional development policy. The central-level hospitals should dispatch guidance and assistance forces to regional hospitals and introduce telemedicine and other systems and methods for giving more reasonable and effective medical service conducive to diagnosis, treatment and health promotion and provide necessary conditions, so as to contribute to making everyone enjoy substantial benefits and protection from the advantageous socialist public health system wherever they live.

Enjoying a panoramic view of the modern medical service centre on the bank of the picturesque Taedong River for a long time, he said with pride that the hospital is, indeed, a symbol of socialist public health in our era aspiring after the building of a highly civilized state and a monumental entity as well.

Saying that public health is a criterion for evaluating the political climate of a country, the level of its civilization and the quality of the life of its citizens, the soil growing the strength of life and an important index of evaluating its national power, he stressed once again that it is the firm determination of our Party to bring about a revolution in public health in the new era and thus turn our public health into the most advanced, modern and world-class one.

It is necessary to perfect the Pyongyang General Hospital, to be opened this significant year set by the WPK as the first year of the public health revolution, as the best medical service centre without any slightest defect and present it to the people, he said, laying out the detailed tasks to this end.

The Pyongyang General Hospital is expected to be inaugurated in October this year marking the 80th birthday of the WPK after undergoing the process of assembly of medical equipment and facilities and their trial operation.

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