Pyongyang, November 21 (KCNA) -- Kangwon Province greeted the significant and auspicious event of inauguration which signals the completion of the hydropower stations it pledged before the Party when the whole country is full of the spirit of the vigorous advance of all the people to celebrate the Ninth Congress of the Workers' Party of Korea as the one of great victory and glory.

The Hoeyang Army-People Power Station, which has been completed following the army-people power stations in Ichon, Munchon, Sepho, Phyonggang and Kosong, is the last project of the six hydropower stations on which Kangwon Province has concentrated all its efforts after setting it as an important task to build them without fail for the regional economic development and the improvement of the people's material and cultural life, true to the important task of the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un to go on to push ahead with the construction of small- and medium-sized hydropower stations.

The completion of another power base which the province had envisaged during the five-year plan for national economic development makes it possible for Kangwon Province to further strengthen its solid foundation for proudly writing a new history of prosperity along with the era of regional development and its development potential for creating a more affluent life by its own efforts.

The inauguration ceremony of the Hoeyang Army-People Power Station was held with splendour on November 20.

The venue of the ceremony was filled with great pride and self-confidence of the people in Kangwon Province who have built valuable assets of prosperity with their own efforts and confidence in their own strength.

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, attended the inauguration ceremony.

When he arrived at the venue of the inauguration ceremony, stormy cheers of "Hurrah!" shook the earth and sky.

All the participants enthusiastically cheered, looking up to Kim Jong Un , who personally visited the power station in the mountainous area to bestow great love and honour on them.

Present there were members of the Presidium of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the WPK and other leading officials of the Party and government, chief secretaries of the provincial committees of the WPK, chairpersons of the provincial people's committees, officials and workers in Kangwon Province and Hoeyang County, military and civilian builders and employees of the power station.

The DPRK national anthem was played.

Ju Mun Jin, chairman of the Kangwon Provincial People's Committee, delivered an inaugural speech.

The speaker said that the people in Kangwon Province, who are imbued with the revolutionary idea of self-respect and self-sustenance of the WPK as absolute truth, greeted the moment of honour of making a report of loyalty and victory to the Party Central Committee on the building of another proud creation. The building of the six power stations simultaneously by the efforts of the province was a stiff and gigantic nature-remaking project baffling the existing idea and common sense and there were not a few obstacles in the construction, but thanks to the trust and leadership of the Party Central Committee, Party members and other working people in the province could wage a heroic struggle for the consecutive grand construction full of confidence and courage, he noted.

He referred to the fact that Kim Jong Un solved all the problems and meticulously led the construction of the power stations saying that it is necessary to help Kangwon Province set an example in realizing the intention of the Party which calls for living on the strength of self-reliance.

He stressed that the power stations built in different parts of the province including the Hoeyang Army-People Power Station are a precious fruition of the revolutionary ideas of Kim Jong Un and a proud monument to the new era erected thanks to his absolute trust in the people in Kangwon Province and energetic leadership.

The speaker expressed the firm determination to make Kangwon Province take the lead in the worthwhile struggle for carrying out the tasks at the new stage of socialist construction to be set forth by the Ninth Congress of the WPK true to the ideas and leadership of the Party Central Committee.

Kim Jong Un made a meaningful speech.

In the period when the whole country is filled with enthusiasm to substantially wind up the year 2025 that must be recorded in history without fail as a year of victory, it is very auspicious that the Hoeyang Army-People Power Station is to be inaugurated, he said. He noted that those power stations, which have sprung up in different parts of the province that truthfully tells the history of the struggle of the army and the people to defend the country together, are fortresses of faith in socialism built by the concerted efforts of the soldiers and civilians to make firmer and more beautiful this precious land defended at the cost of blood.

For the future, for the coming generations–this is the inscription to be carved in the power stations in Kangwon Province by the times and history, he said, extending warm thanks, on behalf of the Party Central Committee, to the people in Kangwon Province and the service personnel of the Korean People’s Army for presenting to the Ninth Congress of our Party a valuable asset, which will bring benefits to the coming generations as well, by building solid power production bases, self-reliant and self-supporting, through a resolute and uninterrupted struggle.

Hailing the indomitable spirit of the people in Kangwon Province of creating a history of transformation by braving challenges and the disposition and mettle of doing without fail what is determined to do as the great spirit of Kangwon Province, he extended once again warm greetings of encouragement to the conquerors of nature, artists of miracles in our era and wished Kangwon Province a new appearance, which will be transformed and prosper as the days go by, and its people a happier life.

When Kim Jong Un finished his speech, all the participants broke into enthusiastic cheers as a token of their gratitude to the great father of the people who highly values the life and the struggle of the people in Kangwon Province as the culmination of the times.

Kim Jong Un cut the inauguration tape.

The fireworks were set off and a large number of balloons sent up into the sky of November, wonderfully adorning the venue of the inaugural ceremony that will shine forever as an immortal picture recorded on the glorious road of advance for self-reliance.

Kim Jong Un shook hands with every officials and meritorious persons, who performed remarkable labour feats in the construction of the power station, highly commending them for their efforts and devotion.

Then he went round the room dedicated to the history of the power station, control room, generator room, etc. to learn about their conditions.

Saying that Kangwon Province completed the construction of six hydropower stations including the Hoeyang Army-People Power Station during the term of the Eighth Party Central Committee, true to the pledge it made to the Party, he noted that it is a manifestation of the indomitable will of its people to unyieldingly go along the road of self-reliance, following the Party only, with unwavering faith in the justness of the line and policies of our Party.

He stressed that the people in Kangwon Province are, indeed, the embodiments of the pioneering spirit, models of our times who prove with their steadfast patriotic loyalty and persistent efforts the vitality of the Party's policy which demonstrates the truth that self-reliance is the only way to survive and anything is possible when one holds fast to the spirit of self-reliance ad self-development as the driving force. And he underscored the need for the whole country to learn after the fighting spirit of the people in Kangwon Province who unhesitatingly follow the road however arduous it may be and never fail to carry out whatever they undertake.

When we painstakingly take huge tasks without fear of the ordeals and difficulties and translate them into proud reality of the present times, it would represent the process of the development of the state and guarantee the happy future of our people and the generations to come, he said. He called for redoubled efforts to carry out the historic mission of the national rejuvenation given by the times and the revolution for the eternal prosperity of our great country and wellbeing of the people.

Enjoying the panoramic view of the magnificent dam of the power station, he noted that great is the might of the great unity between the army and the people and the monumental edifices which was recorded as another brilliant page in the history of the struggle of the people in Kangwon Province will hand down forever the patriotic feats of our generation who are ushering in the era of comprehensive national prosperity and writing a new history of regional transformation.

Acquainting himself with the construction of six hydropower stations Kangwon Province built by its own efforts and future plan for creating new capacity of generating electricity, he gave precious instructions to be implemented in building hydropower stations and strengthening the independent economic foundations of the province.

He expressed expectation and belief that the people in Kangwon Province would further exert their miraculous might, with which they opened up the clear prospect of solving the electricity problem most essential for developing the economy of their region and improving their material and cultural life, to continue taking the lead in the historic struggle for the victorious advance of the socialist construction of our style.

All the officials and working people in Kangwon Province, who were honoured with great love and trust bestowed upon them by the Party Central Committee, firmly pledged to erect many more entities for prosperity, which will contribute to the independent economic development and the improvement of the people's living, in the spirit of uninterrupted innovations and successive leaps without a moment's stagnation and thus glorify their honour as the forerunners of self-reliance.

The splendid inauguration ceremony attended by leading officials of the Party and government clearly proved the justness and vitality of the ideas and policies of our Party which calls for vigorously opening up a broad avenue for the comprehensive socialist development on the strength of self-reliance, and served as a meaningful occasion of further inspiring self-confidence that the eternal prosperity is in store for the people when they rely on their own strength and carve out their future by their own efforts. -0-

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