Pyongyang, April 18 (KCNA) -- The military-civilian builders in the DPRK have attained the huge goal for the capital city construction, set forth by the 8th Congress of the Workers' Party of Korea, year after year without fail, while upholding the WPK Central Committee's plan and long-cherished desire with miracles of creation. Through their stubborn and dynamic continuous struggle, they successfully completed the third-stage project in the Hwasong area in a short span of one year and thus provided a decisive guarantee for the completion of 50 000 flats in Pyongyang. In this regard, the Korean Central News Agency issued a detailed report on April 17.

According to the report, another large architectural group was built in the Hwasong area with the appearance of a distinctive urban district different from the first- and second-stage districts and with a peculiar and good combination of skyscrapers, high-rise apartment houses, educational and public health facilities and different kinds of modern neighbourhood-serving networks like commercial, public catering, technical and recreation service facilities. So the Hwasong area has turned into a center and model that can lead the existing areas of the capital city to civilization and enlightenment with political, economic and cultural functions as a full-fledged city administrative district.

Another proud entity that has sprung up in the Hwasong area is a brilliant fruition of the wise leadership of the great Comrade Kim Jong Un , a prominent revolutionary and great master of creation and construction, and precious outcome of the indomitable stamina and extraordinary creation spirit of our people dynamically advancing with the strong will to overcome difficulties and bring changes and development in order to realize the long-cherished desire of the WPK with single mind and loyalty.

Saying that it is the true nature and duty of our Party and government to keep unconditionally the promises made to the people in the face of any hardships, the respected General Secretary Kim Jong Un gave meticulous guidance over the preparations for the grand construction of a new stage so that it could be substantially pushed forward with, and energetically led the whole course of the project.

He perfected over 660 designs so that the third-stage area could have a peculiar style different from the preceding stages so as to provide material and cultural wellbeing of higher level to the people.

Looking up to the General Secretary who pressed the blasting button at the groundbreaking ceremony in February 2024 and warmly encouraged the builders to firmly guarantee the construction struggle, launched by our Party as a patriotic undertaking for eternal prosperity, with eye-opening results of transformation, those builders in the Hwasong area hardened their strong will to successfully implement the plan of the Party Central Committee with fresh miracles and innovations.

The construction of 10 000 flats at the third stage in the Hwasong area was a great creation struggle beyond the existing stages in size and quality as a group of houses and public and service buildings, including educational, public health, commercial and public catering establishments, were to be built at the same time in an area of over 90 hectares and a total floor space of nearly 1.52 million square meters.

As befitting the pioneers ushering in a great golden age of capital city construction, the military-civilian builders kindled the flames of creating miraculous Hwasong speed and myth by displaying the indefatigable spirit.

In a short span of time after the groundbreaking ceremony, more than 1.66 million cubic meters of earth were successfully excavated for the foundation. And the foundation concrete placing was completed in a short period, and the housing framing project was carried out in earnest.

At the third-stage project, more vigorous sci-tech activities were conducted to put the construction work on an industrial and modern basis of higher level.

While inspecting the construction site in April last year, Kim Jong Un stressed that the housing construction is the most important task for providing the people with a beautiful cradle of happiness, so it is necessary to perfectly conclude even the finishing process with the goal of completing it on the highest level to be impeccable even in the distant future.

With a resolve to uphold the Party's far-reaching plan for providing the people with better material and cultural wellbeing with thoroughgoing executive ability, the builders successfully built such colorful commercial, public catering, technical and recreation service facilities with strong symbolic and specific characters as the Hwasong Kumgang Restaurant of overpass style, the Hwasong Vehicle Service Station and the 300-seat video game house.

Preparations for landscaping suited to the modern urban division were made with foresight. So more than 69 400 trees were planted and over 300 000 square meters of lawn created.

Officials and workers across the country made solidarity innovations for the construction of 10 000 flats at the third stage in the Hwasong area.

Officials and primary information workers of many units, art squads and mobile art squads in different parts of the country visited the construction sites to further stir up the revolutionary enthusiasm of builders out in implementing the Party's decision.

The third-stage housing construction in the Hwasong area was completed at last and the task for the fourth year of the construction of 50 000 flats in Pyongyang successfully carried out, thanks to the boundless loyalty and staunch offensive spirit of the military-civilian builders who have worked fresh miracles and myths, regarding as their highest honour and pride the trust of the Party Central Committee which put them forward in the vanguard of the capital city construction.

The report said that the emergence of another architectural group of 10 000 flats again in Pyongyang is a striking demonstration of the great Party's spirit of continuous revolution and the inexhaustible potential of our powerful country.

As long as there is the wise leadership of the great Comrade Kim Jong Un and the invincible might of our single-minded unity rallied around the Party Central Committee, the new era of Pyongyang prosperity of socialist Korea will continue with more vigorous creation and innovation and our country will shine more brilliantly as an ideal land full of the people's happiness, the report stressed. -0-

www.kcna.kp (2025.04.18.)