The speakers said that not only modern factories but also advanced health facilities and multi-functional leisure complexes, whose modeling phase has successfully ended, are to be built in a simultaneous way in 20 areas in 2026, the significant year that will see a new phase of the overall development of socialism.
They went on:
The respected Comrade Kim Jong Un clearly indicated the orientation and ways for implementing the expanded policy for regional development vigorously without letup and took revolutionary measures for them. Thanks to his meticulous guidance a sure guarantee has been secured to successfully promote the construction projects.
The self-sustenance and confidence in the future, redoubled in the last year's struggle, serve as incomparable spiritual wealth in paving a broad avenue toward comprehensive national rejuvenation.

All the officers and men of the People's Army and officials and working people in the relevant areas should continue to strive in the vanguard of the great revolutionary drive for regional efflorescence.

Saying that the implementation of the regional development policy in the new era is being steadily accelerated thanks to the devotion and painstaking efforts of the great Party Central Committee, the speakers ardently called for achieving only proud victory in this year's grand advance with ardent patriotism.

KPA Founding Anniversary
Pyongyang, February 6 (KCNA) -- February 8, 1948 is the day when the Korean People's Army, the regular revolutionary armed forces of the DPRK, was founded.

After the liberation of the country on August 15, 1945, President Kim Il Sung set the founding of a powerful regular army as an essential requirement for building an independent and sovereign state and made tireless efforts to realize it.

Voice of Korea:Factory Benefiting the People

There is the Ryongaksan Soap Factory in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. One day in June 2016, the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un visited the factory under construction.

Looking round the construction site, he said the factory is the one directly linked with the improvement of the people's living and the one the Workers' Party of Korea attaches importance to.

He called at the completed Ryongaksan Soap Factory again in October that year and saw its products.


He said it is necessary to provide the people with an affluent and happy life as early as possible to be envied by the world, and stressed the need to continuously direct great efforts to further consolidating the material and technical foundations of the sectors conducive to the improvement of the people's standard of living so that they can greatly benefit from them. The various kinds of "Ryongaksan"-trademarked liquid soap produced at the factory are popular among the Korean people