Pyongyang, February 11 (KCNA) -- There started another important undertaking for regional development to be specially recorded in the new era of great changes, when the people-first idea of the Workers' Party of Korea is comprehensively realized.

In December last year, the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un attended the inauguration ceremony of a modern rural cultural 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 the greater local change and showed deep loving care by personally dispatching the construction forces to carry it out.

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

A groundbreaking ceremony of the 450-hectare greenhouse farm and the vegetable science research center took place with splendor on February 10.

Officers and men of the navy and air force units of the Korean People's Army and commanding officers and members of the Paektusan Hero Youth Shock Brigade to be involved in the undertaking for the gigantic regional change lined up in 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 the highest tribute to the benevolent father of a great socialist family who is pioneering the sacred revolution unprecedented in the history which is called the comprehensive development of regions in which the long-cherished desire of the people across the country is successfully achieved, and who is ushering in a new era of high civilization and prosperity shining with the people's laughter and the promotion of their well-being.

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 builders.

Pak Thae Song, premier of the DPRK Cabinet, addressed the ceremony.

Noting that the grand greenhouse farms, which have been put on a modern, intensive and industrial basis, have been built one after another in the era of changes led by the great Party, and thereby a new ground 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 a crystal of the noble desire and bold leadership activities of the WPK which orients everything towards providing the people with a more affluent life and ushers in a great heyday of construction, self-support and self-respect which is unprecedented in the history.

The fourth greenhouse farm construction in recent years is an important state affair to be carried out thanks to the noble intention of Kim Jong Un to turn this islet area, where only sand dust is flying in the strong river wind, into a socialist paradise where the people will lead a highly civilized and affluent life, he noted.

According to the plan and intention of Kim Jong Un , not only different types of vegetable greenhouses, vegetable processing factory and storages but also vegetable science research center, trial cultivation greenhouses, hundreds of flats, hostels and neighborhood-serving amenities will be built here simultaneously in a more vast area than what is put together all the large-scale greenhouse farms built in recent years, he noted.

If the large-scale greenhouse farm which will be put on a scientific and IT basis is built in the background of modern dwelling houses standing in rows while showing the true picture of socialism on the opposite side of the River Amnok, the islet area here 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 of the greenhouse farm is part of the struggle to turn the city of Sinuiju into an advanced city which can intuit and represent the development and might of socialist Korea and an important political work for displaying the advantages of the Party’s policy on regional development, the premier affirmed that the grand construction campaign will be certainly and triumphantly concluded thanks to the clear stratagem of construction revolution indicated by the great Party, strong conviction, indomitable fighting spirit and 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 pay 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 ahead uninterruptedly towards the building of 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 “Hurrah!” with the pledge of single mind and loyalty looking up with soaring emotion to the great master of creation and construction that is finding all honors and prides of the revolutionary Party from the people’s happiness and bringing earlier the comprehensive rejuvenation and realistic change with his ardent spirit 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 displayed.

The groundbreaking venue was filled with the ardent reverence for the great Party Central Committee that is turning the islet of disasters handed down 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 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 People’s Army has always supported the plan and intention of the Party Central Committee without an inch of deflection and in unconditional practice, he advanced the militant task that the People’s Army should provide an eternal security guarantee on the islet area on the lower River Amnok and dynamically push forward with the dike project qualitatively to reliably defend the happy life of the people from any natural disaster in parallel with the construction of the greenhouse farm.

All the builders were full of the burning enthusiasm to invariably display the fame as the staunch defender and thoroughgoing executor of the Party’s policy by dedicating themselves to the revolutionary work for promoting the well-being of the people with the deep trust and expectation of Kim Jong Un , who put forward them as the vanguard of carrying out the historic cause unprecedented in the state building, and of the Party Central Committee cherished in their pulsating hearts.

The construction of the extra-large greenhouse farm to be launched in the northwestern end of the country is a great demonstration of the matchless guidance and inexhaustible fighting efficiency of the great WPK which is regarding the policy of regional development in the new era as the oath and pledge of the Party that solemnly made before the history and people and is stepping up the huge tasks of the centuries-old change most scientifically, revolutionarily and carefully. -0-

www.kcna.kp (2025.02.11.)