There started another important undertaking for regional development to be specially recorded in the new era of great transformations, when the people-first ideal of the Workers’ Party of Korea is being comprehensively realized.

In December last year, the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un attended the inauguration ceremony of a modern country city in the Sinuiju area, whose looks had undergone a radical change after eradicating the aftermath of the severe flooding. At the ceremony he declared a grand new construction plan for greater regional change and bestowed great favour of personally dispatching the construction workforce for the project.

Thanks to the warm sincerity of the dear father, who is unfolding a brighter future in the people’s cradle built on the road of his devoted efforts for the flood victims, a largest-ever modern greenhouse farm and a vegetable science research base will be built in Hadan-ri in Sinuiju, a gateway city in the country, and in Soho-ri in Uiju County, as structures, symbolic of the lively and bold progress in regional rejuvenation.

A groundbreaking ceremony of a 450-hectare greenhouse farm and vegetable science research centre took place with splendour on February 10.

Officers and men of the Navy and Air Force units of the Korean People’s Army and commanding officers and other members of the Paektusan Hero Youth Shock Brigade to be involved in the undertaking for the gigantic regional transformation lined up at the venue of the ceremony.

Kim Jong Un attended the ceremony.

When Kim Jong Un arrived at the venue, all the participants broke into enthusiastic cheers in reflection of their highest tribute to the benevolent father of the great socialist family, who has pioneered the unprecedented sacred revolution, called the comprehensive regional development, of successfully achieving the long-cherished desire of the people across the country, and is ushering in a new era of high civilization and prosperity shining with the people’s laughter and the promotion of their wellbeing.

Pak Thae Song and Jo Yong Won, members of the Presidium of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Workers’ Party of Korea, and other senior Party, government and military officials were present at the ceremony together with the builders.

Pak Thae Song, premier of the DPRK Cabinet, made the groundbreaking speech.

Noting that grand greenhouse farms on a modern, intensive and industrial footing have been built one after another in the era of transformations led by the great Party, and thereby a new path of improving the people’s living standards is being hewed out, the premier said that the edifices of the times built in different parts of the country are the crystallization of the ennobling desire and bold leadership activities of the Party that orients everything towards providing the people with a more affluent life and ushers in a golden age of construction, self-sustenance and self-respect unprecedented in history.

Construction of the greenhouse farm, the fourth of its kind in recent years, is an important state affair to be carried out thanks to the ennobling intentions of Comrade Kim Jong Un to turn this island area, where only sandy dust floated by the strong river wind, into a socialist paradise where the people will lead a highly civilized and affluent life, he noted.

According to his plan and intentions, not only different types of vegetable greenhouses, vegetable processing factory and storages but also a vegetable science research centre, trial cultivation greenhouses, hundreds of flats, hostels and neighbourhood-serving amenities will be built simultaneously here in this area vaster than that of all the large-scale greenhouse farms built in recent years put together, he said.

If the large-scale greenhouse farm which will be put on a scientific and IT footing is built with the modern houses standing in rows showing the true picture of socialism on the shore of the Amnok River as the background, this island area will enjoy fame as a new model of regional development with its own strong potentials of development and as a brilliant symbol of prosperity in our era, he stressed.

Noting that the current construction project is a link in the whole chain of the struggle to turn Sinuiju into an advanced city which will vividly show and represent the development and might of socialist Korea and an important political undertaking for displaying the advantages of our Party’s policy on regional development, the premier affirmed that the large-scale project will be certainly and triumphantly concluded thanks to the clear-cut policy of the construction revolution indicated by the great Party, our strong conviction and indomitable fighting spirit and the army-people unity.

Kim Jong Un made a rallying speech.

The speech reads as follows:

Officers and soldiers of the Navy and Air Force units of the Korean People’s Army, which are famed for their ardent spirit of patriotism and brilliant exploits,

Officers and other members of the Paektusan Hero Youth Shock Brigade with the most honourable name,

I extend my warm encouragement to you, who have come to the important construction site with a high ambition of playing a major role in implementing the Party’s far-reaching plan.

As I have already clarified, our Party and government are planning to implement a new, promising regional development project on the shore of this Amnok River, where damage caused by a natural calamity was removed and a new socialist life has settled.

The site for the construction of a large greenhouse farm, on which we are now standing, will symbolize our cause of rejuvenating the whole country through a continuous, accelerated struggle, and it will provide another clear picture of the higher stage and processes of development of the regional and rural rejuvenation as has been designed by our Party.

I take pride in launching this ambitious regional development project, yet I feel more proud of the fact that I have entrusted the important task of carrying out this project to our most faithful large combined units of the services of the revolutionary armed forces and the youth brigade whose members are in a soaring spirit to wage an unyielding struggle.

Wherever miraculous successes are achieved and legendary tales of construction are created, I can see the officers and soldiers of the Navy and Air Force units. This is by no means coincidental, and I believe it is an inevitable relationship between you and me, as we always share purpose.

I am convinced that the officers and soldiers of our Navy and Air Force and the officers and other members of the Paektusan Hero Youth Shock Brigade will give full play to their qualities as befits the elite ranks that are carrying forward the great pioneering spirit with great creations and transformations, and thus present the most splendid and satisfactory structure to our country and people.

Comrades,

We are filled with confidence and courage great enough to change the times because we believe in our own strength, and we have the army and young people who are infinitely loyal to the Party’s leadership. And we are pushing our way uninterruptedly towards a powerful country along the path that nobody else in the world has ever trodden because our heroic army and young people are performing feats of labour.

What you will build is a large-scale greenhouse farm, and yet what surpasses it by far is the prestige of our dignified state, a beautiful life of our beloved people and a lofty ideal we are going to achieve.

I pay high tribute to the days of creation, which you will glorify with vibrant youth and enthusiasm, and the traces, which you will leave with your strenuous efforts reflective of your ennobling spirit and vigorous steps.

Along with our ever-prospering times, the happy future of our parents and siblings will always encourage you.

Let us all advance forward,

For the high prestige of our army and young people,

For the transformation of this region to be envied by the world,

For the eternal prosperity of our motherland!

When Kim Jong Un finished his rallying speech, all the builders raised the stormy cheers of “Hurrah!” with the single-minded pledge of loyalty looking up with soaring emotion to the great artist of creation and construction, who find all honours and prides of the revolutionary Party in the people’s happiness and is bringing earlier the comprehensive rejuvenation and realistic changes with his ardent spirit of serving the people and great revolutionary will.

Kim Jong Un dug the first spadeful of earth in celebration of the ceremony and pressed the button for blasting.

There was a loud sound of detonation signalling the brilliant future, and fireworks were set off.

The groundbreaking venue was filled with the ardent reverence for the great Party Central Committee that is turning the island afflicted by disasters through generations into an urbanized and modern ideal village of civilization and efflorescence.

Meeting and encouraging the commanding officers of the large combined units of the services of the KPA and the commanding officers of the youth shock brigade, Kim Jong Un gave a series of important instructions related to the project.

Repeatedly appraising that the KPA has always supported the plans and intentions of the Party Central Committee without an inch of deflection and with unconditional practice, he advanced the militant task for the army to push forward dynamically, in parallel with the greenhouse farm construction, with the dike project qualitatively to provide an eternal security guarantee in the island area on the lower reaches of the Amnok River and reliably defend the happy life of the people from any natural disaster.

All the builders were full of burning enthusiasm for invariably displaying the fame as staunch defenders and thoroughgoing executors of the Party’s policy by dedicating themselves to the revolutionary work for promoting the people’s wellbeing, cherishing in their pulsating hearts the deep trust and expectation of Kim Jong Un, who put them forward in the vanguard of the struggle to carry out the historic cause unprecedented in the building of the state, and of the Party Central Committee.

Construction of the extra-large greenhouse farm to be launched in the northwestern border area of the country is a great demonstration of the matchless guidance and inexhaustible fighting efficiency of the great WPK, which has put forward the regional development policy in the new era as an oath and pledge it solemnly made for history and the people and is stepping up the huge tasks of the epochal transformation in a most scientific, revolutionary and prudent way.