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DPRK's Tremendous Achievements in Construction

Korean Central News Agency of DPRK

    Pyongyang, November 9 (KCNA) -- Ten years have passed since the order of the supreme commander of the Korean People's Army "On Building Chongryu Bridge (Second Stage) and Kumnung Tunnel No.2 in Pyongyang" was issued on November 9, Juche 83(1994). It was a historic order which aroused the entire people of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea in the efforts for creation and construction.
    After President Kim Il Sung passed away, the DPRK was in a grave situation caused by the imperialists' vicious moves to stifle the DPRK and natural disasters.
    The international community was focusing attention on the DPRK, afraid of its political prospect.
    At that conjuncture, Kim Jong Il issued the order, demonstrating to the whole world his strong will to carry forward the Juche-based revolutionary cause pioneered by President Kim Il Sung.
    Encouraged by his order, the Korean servicemen and people turned out as one to carry out the order with a firm determination to share life and death with him, who was resolved to invariably implement the behests of the President. They completed the construction of the second-stage Chongryu Bridge and Kumnung Tunnel No.2 in a matter of one year. With this stamina, they have erected numerous edifices to suit the Songun era over the last decade.
    They have finished nearly 40,000 projects including more than 6,000 industrial establishments and 1,500-odd cultural facilities over the last seven years from the "Arduous March".
    In recent years they completed many construction projects including the Kaechon-Lake Thaesong Waterway (natural-flow irrigation) and Thaechon Youth Power Station No 3. And for six years, they realigned over 284,800 hectares of fields in Kangwon, North and South Phyongan and South Hwanghae Provinces and Pyongyang to suit the features of the socialist rural communities.
    The last decade has witnessed the appearance of 1,600 modern rural villages across the country.
    The capital city of Pyongyang is also changing its looks as planned by the President.