October 13, 2024
KCNA Pyongyang Times

A sea change in Pyongyang

Date: 01/10/2024 | Source: Pyongyang Times | Read original version at source

Today, Pyongyang has undergone tremendous changes beyond recognition.

Jonwi and Rimhung streets were built in the northern part of the city this year alone, Hwasong Street and houses in the Taephyong area last year and Songhwa Street and Pothong Riverside Terraced Houses District which is called a gem terrace in the previous years. Going back to the past decade, streets like Ryomyong and Mirae Scientists streets and such monumental structures as the Sci-Tech Complex, Munsu Water Park, Rungna People’s Recreation Ground, Mirim Riding Club, Mirim Aviation Club, Central Zoo and Natural History Museum sprang up in the city one after another.

Pyongyang citizens always repeat the word “dreamlike” as they can hardly believe the reality.

What are surprising are not confined to the number of structures and construction speed.

Every street and structure show the specific aspect and appearance, which could not be seen in the past, and their modernity, formative arts and the level of introduction of advanced technology are the world-class both in name and reality. In other words, a Korean style has properly been combined with that of the world.

For example, Jonwi Street, a grand monumental edifice of youth whose construction was fully undertaken by young men and women, shows the great, daring and vibrant spirit peculiar to the Korean youth with an architectural group of high-rise apartment houses, skyscrapers and public service buildings  that can be claimed to be flourishing quarters of the world.

Rimhung and Hwasong streets, which completely spruced up Hwasong District in Pyongyang, successfully embody the development aspect of the global architecture to meet the aspirations and sentiment of the Korean people in the shape and colour of buildings and the layout of streets.

Meanwhile, Songhwa Street situated in the gateway to the east of Pyongyang is conspicuous for a petal-shaped 80-storey apartment building soaring high representing fireworks and for an overhead bridge crossing over a road, and Ryomyong Street located near the Kumsusan Palace of the Sun where President Kim Il Sung and Chairman Kim Jong Il are preserved in their lifetime appearance is featured by solemnity felt throughout the street for the Korean people’s absolute loyalty to their leader and the successful introduction of modern architectural technologies like energy-saving one and green architecture.

The respected Comrade Kim Jong Un has brought about all these changes.

It is his ideal to turn Pyongyang into a world-class city and provide its people with civilization of the highest level. Unimaginable miracles have been performed in succession under the outstanding leadership of him who carries out what he is determined to do for his people perfectly and without condition regardless of whether the condition is favourable or not.

In those days, he saw innumerable mock-ups, designs and bird’s eye views of streets and structures and his speeches made at ground-breaking ceremonies touched the heartstrings of all the people.

Under his leadership, Pyongyang has greeted a new era of development of Juche-oriented architecture and that of prosperity of Pyongyang and the capital city changes its appearance as socialist flourishing quarters peculiar to Korea and a world-class city as the days go by.

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