Pyongyang, June 10 (KCNA) -- 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 construction site of Kusong City Hospital on June 9.

He was accompanied by Jo Yong Won and Ri Hi Yong, secretaries of the Central Committee of the WPK, and Kim Jae Ryong and Kim Yong Su, department directors of the Central Committee of the WPK.

The respected Comrade Kim Jong Un was greeted on the spot by officials of construction unit and design institutions.

Making rounds of the construction site, he learned in detail about the progress made in the construction.

Kusong City Hospital is one of the hospitals under construction in different scales on a demonstration basis in three cities and counties in 2025, according to the decision of the Eleventh Plenary Meeting of the Eighth Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea.

Kim Jong Un said that at present the construction sector, the major sphere of our struggle and the main front symbolizing the steady advance and development of our state, is continuously expanding and developing, and the fulfillment of the huge construction plan designed by our Party requires the rapid and qualitative strengthening of the workforce indispensably.

Construction which proves with clear entity the leap forward civilization and prosperity we are idealizing is thoroughly conducted by the workforce, the mainstay of the gigantic creative struggle, he said, adding that it is our Party's view that the preparation of the workforce means a sure guarantee for the construction revolution in the new era.

Saying that the historic task of rapidly establishing a system for expanding and strengthening the workforce by the state in a qualitative way should be solved in a right way, he underscored its importance repeatedly.

Strengthening the workforce is not an immediate short-term issue but a strategic task in the ten-year construction struggle for regional rejuvenation, he noted. He pointed out that although many workforce of the People's Army are now being dispatched to the huge construction areas unfolded by our Party and their revolutionary enthusiasm is growing day by day, the efficiency of using the workforce is not ensured at the up-to-the-standard level due to the non-specialization and inexperience in the organization and command of construction.

In order to make a vigorous advance of gigantic grand construction which our Party and state are directing much efforts, a rapid state measure should be taken for qualitative strengthening of the workforce with the main emphasis on training skilled workers, he said, adding that an intensive short course will be organized for the present to improve the practical abilities of officials in the construction sector at all levels for it.

Kim Jong Un said that the intensive short course of officials at all levels in the construction sector to be held after the Twelfth Plenary Meeting of the Eighth Central Committee of the Party should deal with the urgent problems arising in carrying out the construction revolution, including the establishment of a well-regulated system of training skilled workers.

He said that the gigantic struggle for the implementation of our Party's regional development policy should be a revolution to fundamentally and ultimately put an end to the centuries-old backwardness and laggardness of the regional areas and, at the same time, a process of transforming the old customs, outdated culture and obsolete technology that remain in the construction sector to suit the new era and a historic process of training all the builders to be creators of new culture and new civilization and genuine socialist builders.

We have a guards hero unit, that is a unit of competent construction educators with excellent construction potentiality, and if all the experience and models created by them in construction are positively applied to the construction enterprises at all levels and military construction groups, remarkable progress will be made in carrying out our Party's construction policy, he said, adding that this problem also can be solved through the practical short course.

Saying that it is a key issue to train the reliable technical forces necessary for the assembly of equipment as the hospital is a functional building which should be technically compatible with the termination of the substructure, medical equipment and appliances and all other things, unlike dwelling houses and industrial buildings, Kim Jong Un set forth a series of important tasks, which should be carried out in the construction field without a moment's delay, including the issue of examining the establishment of an enterprise specializing in the assembling of medical equipment and the issue of further increasing the proportion of construction work done by machines and steadily improving the level of modernization of equipment. -0-

www.kcna.kp (2025.06.10.)