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Kim Jong Un Inspects Construction Site of Wonsan-Kalma Coastal Tourist Area

Date: 26/05/2018 | Source: KCNA.kp (En) | Read original version at source

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Pyongyang, May 26 (KCNA) -- Kim Jong Un, chairman of the Workers' Party of Korea, chairman of the State Affairs Commission of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea and supreme commander of the Korean People's Army, inspected the construction site of the Wonsan-Kalma coastal tourist area.

He was greeted by Army General Kim Su Gil, director of the General Political Bureau of the KPA, Army Col. General Son Chol Ju, vice-director in charge of organizational affairs of the General Political Bureau of the KPA, Army Lieut. General Kim Jong Gwan, vice-minister of the People's Armed Forces, commanding officers of the construction headquarters of the Wonsan-Kalma coastal tourist area and officials of the Designing Department of the State Affairs Commission.

Looking at the panoramic view of the construction site along Myongsasipri seaside, where various buildings are taking their shapes, he encouraged builders, praising them for having done a lot in just several months.

Saying the period when the Ryomyong legendary stories were created became the old period on this land where fresh leap and progress are taking place every day, he noted that new miracles in construction are being created again at the construction site of the Wonsan-Kalma coastal tourist area.

Going round various places of the construction site, he acquainted himself with the overall construction, including its scale and progress and measures for supplying building materials and equipment, and discussed the issues arising in hastening the construction.

He highlighted the need to set a day's feasible schedule of the construction and strictly adhere to the requirements of the standard of design and construction and building method on the principle of taking responsibility for the safety of the projects and thus guarantee their absolute quality for eternity in all construction projects and thus ensure the quality of buildings on the highest level.

He said that frontline-style political work and collective emulation should be waged dynamically so that the whole construction site could seethe with the frontline-style propaganda and agitation, ardent patriotism and zeal for struggle and emulation.

He underscored the need for the sector of producing building materials and other relevant units across the country to provide equipment, building materials and finishing building materials needed at the construction site in time by vigorously conducting the increased production drive and the drive for creation.

It is the determination of the WPK to wonderfully build the Wonsan-Kalma coastal tourist area as a Korean-style coast city without an equal in the world to make our people enjoy the highest civilization at the highest level, he said, giving instruction to complete the construction till the Day of the Sun, the birth anniversary of President Kim Il Sung, next year.

Accompanying him was Jo Yong Won, vice department director of the Central Committee of the WPK. -0-

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