For the People: DPRK

-Korea Does What It Is Determined to Do

 On October 10 last, the founding anniversary of the ruling Workers’ Party of Korea, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea held in a grand way the inaugural ceremony of the Ryonpho Greenhouse Farm in South Hamgyong Province, demonstrating in practice that its determination to build the large-scale greenhouse farm by October 10 this year was not empty talk.

Determination for the Good of the People

 Looking back, Korea has made determinations to the surprise of the world.

 On the debris after the Korean war (1950-1953) it made a determination to produce tractors on its own efforts, and put it into practice. When trucks and bulldozers were needed, it built them. Later it produced electric locomotives and a 10 000-ton press. It built the 8km-long West Sea Barrage.

 In recent years it has made world-startling determinations more frequently. In 2016 when the northern area of North Hamgyong Province was severely hit by flooding, contrary to the prediction of the world, the country decided to rehabilitate the area in a little over two months before the cold set in, and built up the area more splendidly than before.

 Amid the sanctions and blockade by the hostile forces, global public health crisis and its difficult economic situation, it decided to build 10 000 flats every year in Pyongyang in the coming five years from 2021.

 In February 2022 it made public that it would build a greenhouse farm, the largest of its kind in the world, in 230-odd days in the Ryonpho area. Though it had accumulated experience while building a large-scale greenhouse farm in 2019, the amount of work to be done in this project was two times larger than the previous project, the time was shorter by half and the farm’s level of modernization was to be far higher. This determination drew the attention of the world.

 Why has the country made such audacious determinations without any hesitation?

 They have always been for the good of the people. To take the above-mentioned project for example, in South Hamgyong Province where the greenhouse farm was to be built, and in Hamhung, the seat of the province, there are several factories and enterprises that shoulder a large share in the country’s sci-tech and economic development; it was the WPK’s will to regularly supply fresh vegetables all year round to the scientists, technicians and workers at these factories and enterprises.

Determinations Carried Out by Relying on the People If one were to analyze the secret of how the country implements any of its determinations, one should not try to find it in the size of its economic potential or in the availability of such material factors as raw materials and funds.

 The Party and government formulate plan for the future, make arrangements, reach crucial determinations and carry them out by always believing in the people’s inexhaustible strength.

 The country could reach a decision on building the Ryonpho Greenhouse Farm in such a short period as it believed in the strength of the great army-people unity. The soldiers of the Korean People’s Army have performed great feats not only in their posts of national defence but also in the socialist construction sites under the slogan “We serve the country and the people,” which is unique to them. And the people have braved difficulties, gaining strength and courage from the soldiers’ fighting spirit and working style. The great strength, with which the soldiers and people advance together while helping each other, has wrought miracles in removing the aftermath of natural calamities that hit the country several times in the past.

 The wise leadership of the WPK of giving free rein to the inexhaustible strength of the people makes the country turn into reality all the determinations it has made.

 With regard to the Ryonpho Greenhouse Farm project, Kim Jong Un, President of the State Affairs of the DPRK, personally designated the site of the farm, gave detailed instructions on its construction, and ensured that the necessary equipment, materials and funds were supplied on a preferential basis. At the ground-breaking ceremony, he made a speech, encouraging the builders, broke the ground and pressed the button of the first blasting.

 A powerful information and motivation campaign was organized at the project site, and with the trait of helping and leading one another forward running high, the movements of competing with one another and sharing good experiences were conducted to create new standards and norms.

 The soldier-builders seconded to the project worked day and night to turn the Party’s intention into reality. They adopted a written pledge to implement the project on schedule without fail, and perseveringly overcame all the difficulties they encountered; even in the situation, in which the highest-level emergency anti-epidemic system was put in place to cope with the unexpected public health crisis, and amid sand gales and torrential rain, they never suspended construction.

 The locals, sharing weal and woe with the soldiers during the whole project period, provided sufficient amounts of aggregate and created forests against the winds from the sea.

 Built as a result are over 850 greenhouses with the production area of 100 hectares and the annual production capacity of tens of thousands of tons, as well as houses, numbering 1 000, and public buildings. Vegetable production in the greenhouses is put on a modern, intensive and industrial footing.

 The country plans to build greenhouse farms in various parts of the country with this farm as a model as part of its effort to usher in a new era of rural rejuvenation.

 There is no doubt that its plan will turn into reality without fail.

-DPRK Presents a New Appearance of Its Socialist Rural Rejuvenation

The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea has built a large-scale greenhouse vegetable farm in the Ryonpho area on its eastern coast as a base of creation of rural civilization. Covering an area of 280 hectares, the farm has over 850 hydroponic and soil greenhouses. The dwelling houses, numbering over 1 000, schools, a hall of culture and a general welfare service facility all retain the local features.

-Names Associated with Kim Jong Un’s Affection for the People

 The places named by Kim Jong Un, President of the State Affairs of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, reflect his world of devotion to the people.

Rungna People’s Recreation Ground

 Rungna Islet famous for May Day Stadium with the capacity of 150 000 seats is on the Taedong River which flows through the capital city of Pyongyang. A comprehensive recreation ground was built on this beautiful islet in 2012. It consists of a water park, mini-golf course, modern funfair and dolphinarium.

 Kim Jong Un directed great efforts to having the recreation ground built as a world-class one.

One day when the recreation ground was under construction, Kim Jong Un came to the islet. While looking round the construction site, he advised relevant officials on how to make it perfect. He suggested installing chairs with hangers, personally drawing a picture of the chair on his notebook, and said: Out-door dining places should be laid out beside the restaurant serving soft drinks; a monorail or roller coaster should be installed between the two areas of the amusement park; a diving tower, water amusement tanks should be added in the water park and beach volleyball, basketball and volleyball courts should be built; the Rungna area as a whole should be renamed and the word people must be contained in the name. Then he suggested naming the Rungna area as a whole the Rungna People’s Recreation Ground, and the dolphinarium and wading pool on the islet, the Rungna Amusement Park , Rungna Dolphinarium and Rungna Water Park, respectively.

When he visited the recreation ground again in July 2012 prior to its inauguration, Kim Jong Un said that the Rungna People’s Recreation Ground was a very good name and it was truly a recreation ground for the people.

Full-service Ship Mujigae

In September 2015 Kim Jong Un looked round the newly-built full-service ship Mujigae.

  He had already conceived a plan of building a modern full-service ship equipped with restaurants and other cultural and welfare facilities for the people and setting it between Okryu and Taedonggang bridges. Then he had examined its design several times and named it Mujigae.

 The four-storey ship with a displacement of 3 500 tons is 120m long, 25m wide and has a total floor space of about 11 390㎡. It is equipped with a traditional Korean food restaurant, coffee shop, soft drink stand, dining hall, banquet hall, belt-buffet, restaurant on the deck, revolving restaurant and a shop. 

 After looking round the ship, Kim Jong Un said: Full-service ship Mujigae is a comprehensive service facility for the people and a unique space for their cultural life; it is necessary to offer good service in the ship so that the people can enjoy it to the full; I feel relieved of the accumulated fatigue to think that the people will enjoy themselves cruising the Taedong; I am the happiest when the assets for the wellbeing of the people are created one after another.

Fishing Vessels Tanphung and Hwanggumhae

In May 2013 Kim Jong Un visited a fishery station whose mission was to supply the soldiers with fish. When he looked round the four vessels he had provided to the station some time before, the officials accompanying him requested him to name them. He thought for a while and named them Tanphung No. 1, Tanphung No. 2, Tanphung No. 3, and Tanphung No. 4, wishing that the vessels would land big hauls. (Tanphung means autumn when crops are harvested–Tr.) Later those vessels achieved great successes in fish catching and opened up a new history of gold seas in the DPRK.

When he visited a fishery station in May 2015, Kim Jong Un said that the fishing industry was a major front in the effort for improving the diet of the people. Emphasizing that many modern fishing vessels should be built for the fishing industry, he continued: I named the fishing vessels I had provided to the People’s Army Tanphung, wishing that the vessels would land big hauls; it would be good to name the fishing vessels built by civilian units Hwanggumhae in the meaning that they would open up a new chapter of the history of gold seas.

 Today many vessels of Tanphung and Hwanggumhae series are operating in the seas of Korea flying the flags of full load.