Kim Jong Un, general secretary of the Workers’ Party of Korea and president of the State Affairs of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, gave field guidance over the project for newly building the Onpho Working People’s Holiday Camp under the Recreation Management Bureau of the Ministry of Labour.

He was accompanied by Ri Hi Yong and Kim Jae Ryong, leading officials of the Central Committee of the WPK.

He was greeted on the spot by the chief secretary of the North Hamgyong Provincial Committee of the WPK, the chairman of the provincial people’s committee and officials of the construction field command team.

The project is for building a recreation and recuperation centre, which is under way in accordance with the on-site instructions given by the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un during his field guidance over various sectors of North Hamgyong Province in July 2018. At that time, he stressed the need to newly build the Onpho Holiday Camp in Kyongsong County, a famous hot-spring area of the country, into a comprehensive cultural recreation and medical service base so that the people can receive hot-spring therapy while enjoying highly-civilized cultural and leisure activities.

Kim Jong Un met senior cadres and working-level officials at the construction site and learned in detail about the progress in the construction project.

He said that the construction of the holiday camp and the preparations for its operation should be done without any slightest defect in order to complete it as another distinctive base for cultural life and an advanced recreation and recuperation facility for the people to enjoy spa culture to their heart’s content, and referred to a series of deviations being revealed in the ongoing project and to the measures for overcoming them.

It is important to fully embody the functional requirements in conformity with the mission and use of the construction object aimed mainly at recreation and recuperation, maximize the utilization rate of the building area and ensure convenience, he said, stressing the need to pay attention to the detailed issues lest the visitors should experience even the slightest inconvenience, since the overall project has reached the final stage, and to finish it in a qualitative way.

He set forth important tasks to be tackled in the construction of the holiday camp and its future management and operation, including those of further improving the service conditions and the treatment environment level so that the hot-spring therapy, a specific feature of the camp and the main category of its service work, can contribute to the promotion of the people’s health and their enjoyment of civilization, of expanding the sphere and space of diverse cultural life by actively making the most of the topographical features of the picturesque mountainous area and of making full preparations so that it can start its operation at the same time as the completion of the project. He then continued:

It is an important component of the people-oriented policies of our Party and government and a responsible undertaking to provide the working people with excellent treatment and recuperation facilities and more advanced service conditions for their maximum convenience. We should be more faithful to our original mission of existing for the people and fighting for their interests and always serve them with an innovative and positive attitude.

It is the intention of our Party to build modern holiday resorts and sanatoriums for the people, which blend well with the beautiful natural scenery, in famous mountains and scenic spots of the country and furnish them with a larger number of comprehensive service facilities so that they can fully enjoy the entities of civilization and promote their health thanks to the benefits of the advantageous socialist policy, and thus make those facilities serve as bases for cultural progress and result in a steady improvement of the life of the working masses.

When the Onpho Working People’s Holiday Camp is built as a comprehensive cultural recreation and health service centre in this mountainous area, which fully meets all the requirements of modern architecture while preserving well the unique charms and features unique to the region, it will be another worthwhile achievement of ours in pioneering really diverse fields and diverse realms of life, he said, proposing that the camp be successfully built in this significant year of the 80th founding anniversary of the WPK and presented to the people.

Kim Jong Un also indicated important tasks related to the construction of the Yombunjin Haeyang Hostel in North Hamgyong Province.

He approved on the spot a detailed work plan and proposals for the completion of the construction projects for the Onpho Working People’s Holiday Camp and the Yombunjin Haeyang Hostel, including the additional budget expenditure and workforce formation for the final stage of the projects, and assigned the tasks for their implementation.