Kim Jong-un's On-site Guidance in Typhoon-hit Areas of Hamnam
Emphasizes Design and Supervision While Mentioning Local Construction
Kim Jong-un, Chairman of the State Affairs Commission of North Korea, consecutively inspected the typhoon damage recovery sites along the East Coast, including Sinpo in Hamgyongnam-do and Hongwon County, the Korean Central News Agency reported on the 15th. This area suffered considerable damage due to the landfalls of typhoons Maysak and Haishen this year, and party member units have been dispatched from Pyongyang to carry out recovery work. The photo shows newly built houses in the affected area. Photo by [Photographer's Name]
Kim Jong Un, Chairman of the State Affairs Commission of North Korea, consecutively inspected the typhoon damage recovery sites along the East Coast following the Kumdok area in South Hamgyong Province and encouraged the Pyongyang Party Member Division and military units engaged in construction projects.
North Korea's state media, Korean Central News Agency, reported on the 15th, "Comrade Kim Jong Un toured the natural disaster recovery construction sites in the East Coast area, including Sinpo City and Hongwon County in South Hamgyong Province, and guided the construction projects."
Chairman Kim expressed, "During the Party Foundation Anniversary celebrations, my heart was always with the capital party members and People's Army soldiers stationed at difficult and challenging outposts," and encouraged them by saying, "The capital party members and People's Army soldiers who are away from home are truly enduring great hardships."
Hamgyong Province suffered significant damage this year as typhoons "Maysak" and "Haishen" made consecutive landfalls. Earlier, Chairman Kim had revealed a handwritten letter requesting the Pyongyang Party Member Division to support the recovery efforts in the affected areas of Hamgyong Province.
The news agency stated, "Responding with passionate hearts to the fiery appeal of the Supreme Leader, the combatants of the 1st Capital Party Member Division restored tens of kilometers of broken roads and advanced to the battlefront. From September 12 to 29, within just 18 days of construction, they newly built 147 modern cultural houses in Unpo Workers' District and Kyongpo Workers' District of Hongwon County, South Hamgyong Province, as well as in Haksadae-ri, Riwon County."
It added, "Before the October holiday, they completed the assigned combat mission and have launched new battlefronts in other areas that suffered the most severe damage and lagged in recovery performance, engaging in fierce assaults to achieve even greater victories."
After inspecting the site, Chairman Kim expressed satisfaction with the construction activities of the Pyongyang Party Member Division and the military. The agency reported that Kim said, "The houses were built as well as by professional constructors," and "These houses are the crystallization of the capital party members' loyalty to the Party, and the combat power of the elite Capital Party Member Division was fully demonstrated in practice," expressing great satisfaction.
North Korean State Affairs Commission Chairman Kim Jong-un consecutively inspected the typhoon damage recovery sites along the East Coast, including Sinpo in South Hamgyong Province and Hongwon County, the Korean Central News Agency reported on the 15th.
Additionally, Chairman Kim mentioned plans for local construction and emphasized the importance of design and construction supervision.
He stated, "In some units in Kangwon Province, North Hamgyong Province, and South Hamgyong Province, there have been malicious and shameless violations of construction laws, such as neglecting design and construction method requirements and carrying out sloppy construction, which must be strictly addressed."
He continued, "In the future, local construction must continuously create new models and examples by making good use of the geographical characteristics of the respective areas," and "The role of design institutions is extremely important, and raising the responsibility and role of construction supervision departments is also a matter of utmost importance."
Chairman Kim also added, "By mobilizing core capital party members in local construction struggles, it has become possible to give party members a correct understanding of where their place is and their duties and roles when the country is in difficulty, contributing to establishing a beautiful socialist national ethos where the central and local areas and the entire country share hardships together."
He proposed paving roads within residential areas using soil hardening agents and emphasized the need to plant many fruit trees around each house and create forests.
Earlier, while touring the Kumdok area in Hamgyong Province, a major zinc and lead producing region, Chairman Kim pointed out the backward residential environment and revealed plans to build 25,000 new housing units in Daehung, Kumdok, and Ryongyang, transforming them into "model mountain villages."
On this day’s field inspection, Park Jong Chon, Chief of the General Staff of the Army, Jo Yong Won, First Deputy Department Director of the Organization and Guidance Department, Kim Yong Su, Party Department Director, Hyon Song Wol, Deputy Department Director of the Propaganda and Agitation Department, and Kim Myong Sik, Navy Commander, accompanied him.
Also accompanying on site were Choe Hwi, Party Vice Chairman and Commander of the 1st Capital Party Member Division, Ri Yong Sik, First Deputy Department Director of the Party Propaganda and Agitation Department and Political Commissar, and Sim In Song, Deputy Director of the Pyongyang City Party Committee Organization Department and Chief of Staff.
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