Pyongyang, the capital of the DPRK, is taking on a new appearance day after day.

For any country, the capital is the image of the state, a criterion for measuring the national power and an epitome of its civilization.

The prosperity of the capital means the country is thriving.

The Korean people call Pyongyang the heart of the DPRK.

The soldiers of the People’s Army who are faithful to the mission of defenders of Pyongyang and the patriotic working people at industrial establishments, farms and fishing villages are burning their hearts with a special attachment to and great pride in the capital city.

It is a great ambition of the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un to transform Pyongyang into the most beautiful city in the world.

He unfolded a grand blueprint of a long-term plan for the construction of Pyongyang some 10 years ago and gave instructions on turning it into an ideal city for the people in his works.

At the Eighth Congress of the Workers’ Party of Korea, he advanced the capital construction plan reflecting the idea of believing in the people as in Heaven and the Juche-oriented idea on architectural aesthetics of the Party. At the Fourth Plenary Meeting of the Eighth Central Committee of the WPK, he stressed the need to bring about a new revolution in construction and to carry on the heyday of the capital construction.

When the construction of Songhwa Street was in full swing, he visited the construction site and said it was the core problem in the construction of the capital to build it as a city of the people, the heart of the country, with distinctive characteristics by preserving the Juche character and national identity and thoroughly applying the people-first principle. He enthusiastically said “For our Pyongyang” in his significant speech  "Let Us Further Glorify the Golden Age of Capital City Construction by Bringing about a Sea Change in the Hwasong Area" at the groundbreaking  ceremony for the construction of 10 000 flats in the Hwasong area.

At the groundbreaking ceremony for the construction of a new street in the Sopho area last year, he said, “For the eternal prosperity of our socialist state and our capital city of Pyongyang”.

Under his wise leadership, the ideal streets of the people is rising up every year and monumental edifices are being built in succession, including Unha Scientists Street, the Ryugyong Health Complex, the People’s Open-air Ice Rink, the Munsu Water Park, the Okryu Children’s Hospital, the Sci-Tech Complex, Mirae Scientists Street, Ryomyong Street, Songhwa Street, Pothong Riverside Terraced Houses District and Hwasong Street.

The structures associated with his guidance from the idea to the design, construction and finishing are diverse and efficient in spatial composition in keeping with their mission, character, functional requirements and surrounding environment and constitute the acme of architecture as they are well-defined and refined in architectural aesthetics.

The WPK is now leading the construction of new modern streets including the construction of the third stage 10 000 flats in the Hwasong area, extending Pyongyang’s urban area to the east and west and to the north.

Structures symbolic of socialist development and future will continue to rise up in Pyongyang year after year.