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| ▲ This photo, released by the North's official Korean Central News Agency on Feb. 16, 2023, shows North Korean leader Kim Jong-un (C) attending a groundbreaking ceremony for a greenhouse farm in Pyongyang. (For Use Only in the Republic of Korea. No Redistribution) (Yonhap) |
NK leader-housing project
N.K. leader attends groundbreaking ceremony for housing project in Pyongyang
SEOUL, Feb. 16 (Yonhap) -- North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has attended a groundbreaking ceremony to build 10,000 homes in Pyongyang, the country's state media reported Thursday, part of the nation's five-year project to supply more housing.
Kim attended the ceremony for the second stage of the housing project to build 10,000 homes in Pyongyang's Hwasong district Wednesday, according to the official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA).
The North plans to build 50,000 new homes in Pyongyang by 2025 under the project announced at the eighth congress of the ruling Workers' Party of Korea (WPK) in 2021.
Kim attended previous groundbreaking ceremonies for the project in the past two years.
"The project for construction of 50,000 flats in Pyongyang City is an important item decided by the 8th Congress of the WPK to build as soon as possible the socialist paradise," Premier Kim Tok-hun said in a speech at the event, according to an English-language report by the KCNA.
The North's leader also attended a separate groundbreaking ceremony for a large-scale greenhouse farm in the capital on the same day. The events marked Kim's first on-site field inspections this year.
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