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Downtown Pyongyang Undergoes Facelift

Korean Central News Agency of DPRK via Korea News Service (KNS)

    Pyongyang, September 5 (KCNA) -- The first-stage facelifiting project of Chollima Street in downtown Pyongyang is progressing apace. Chollima is a legendary horse that runs 400 kilometers a day. In the past the Korean people have wrought miracles in the spirit of riding Chollima. After the war, they rebuilt Pyongyang grandiosely in a short span of time, fully demonstrating their heroic spirit.
    The street was built in a matter of half a year before the Fifth Congress of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK) in 1970.
    Buildings on the street are now being colorfully painted to suit modern aesthetic sense. The slogans issued jointly by the Central Committee and Central Military Commission of the WPK call for sprucing up the capital city of Pyongyang.
    In a week after the start of the project, the builders replaced window frames of buildings standing from Pothong Gate to the Tongsong Bridge with new ones. Kim Chang Song, a resident in Tongsong-dong, told KCNA that the fast-progressing project reminded him of the construction of the street at the speed of Chollima 35 years ago.