N. Korean Leader Visits Construction Site of Ragwon County Offshore Farm

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, gave field guidance at the construction site of the Ragwon County Offshore Farm on July 13.

The respected Comrade Kim Jong Un was accompanied by Jo Yong Won, Kim Jae Ryong and other major leading officials of the Central Committee of the WPK.

He was greeted on the spot by the commanding officers of the units of the Korean People's Army involved in the construction and officials of design institutions.

The construction of the Ragwon County Offshore Farm has been powerfully pushed forward and entered the final stage thanks to the plan for the regional development policy and direct guidance of the WPK to radically develop the offshore farming which conforms to the natural and geographical characteristics of the DPRK and proved its profitability and prospect and thus expand and strengthen the economic independence of coastal cities and counties in a sustained way.

Kim Jong Un heard the detailed progress made in the construction.

He highly appreciated the efforts of the soldier-builders who are spending the days and months of feats through successive offensive, devoting their all to the worthwhile struggle for bringing about the future changes in every coastal city and county, true to the decisions of the Eleventh Plenary Meeting of the Eighth Central Committee of the WPK.

He made rounds of the construction site of the offshore farm.

He said that many things have changed beyond recognition in just a few months since the construction of the farm started in February, adding that the current practical changes, not words and letters, fully and visually show the grand plan, steadfast will and executive ability of our Party to powerfully promote the regional development.

Saying that the construction of modern offshore farm directly planned and pushed forward by the Party Central Committee is an innovative creation field to reliably guarantee the efficient rejuvenation and long-term development of more than 60 coastal cities and counties across the country, he expressed great satisfaction over the fact that the important construction work to give a fresh impetus to the realization of the regional development policy which is growing stronger day by day is being perfectly pushed forward.

He appreciated that the construction of the Ragwon County Offshore Farm has been pushed forward at a high level in good harmony with the environment of the coastal area, while further applying modernity, advanced character and originality, not confining itself to following the past experience.

He said that the construction of the offshore farm is a strategic creation work for fundamentally strengthening and developing the material foundation for regional economy and improvement of the people's living standards on the basis of the specific environment and economic potentials of relevant areas and thus it is necessary to exactly and substantially organize all the work from a long-term and scientific point of view. He stressed that it is necessary to rationally define the grade of the construction of the offshore farm on the basis of scientific research and analysis of the population, economic foundation and marine and ecological environment of the relevant region as well as other projects for the regional development policy and push ahead with it in a sustained way.

In order to effectively conduct the intermediate- and long-range work of developing and expanding the regional economies across the country on a new basis, it is necessary to give precedence to working out the annual plan for the construction of city and county offshore farms at the stage of the future struggle, he said, indicating the important orientation for it.

Underscoring the need to build the offshore farm as another stage of revolutionary development in the design of industrial facilities, he set forth the tasks and principles arising in massively building offshore farms on a nationwide scale, including the issue of attaching more importance to economic profitability and effectiveness in conformity with the rapid development of construction, the issue of increasing the proportion of afforestation in the sections of dwelling houses in rural areas and the issue of applying the most rational and optimized plan in the construction of coastal structures including breakwater.

He went round with pleasure the dwelling houses successfully built in the fishing village area.

He said that a new phase of development was opened up in the construction of dwelling houses suited to the characteristics of the coastal region, the modernity of the regional environment was improved and the seaside of paradise and the Korean style fishing village of bliss were born. He said with pleasure that our Party's desire to present the most beautiful fishing village in the world to the people of Ragwon County on the occasion of the 80th founding anniversary of the WPK is to be realized.

Noting that the fishing village in Ragwonpho is a proud visual entity of the new phase of development of regional rural culture and our architectural art which is undergoing a complete change racing against time, he stressed that it is the firm determination of our Party to turn all coastal areas across the country into seaside of paradise which is shining with new civilization and new wellbeing enjoyed by the people.

Saying that the Party's policy on construction is a policy of constantly aspiring after the new and development and there should be no absolute model or standard in its establishment and implementation, he stressed that in order to make our construction work pioneer the future both in name and reality, it is necessary to increase the already accumulated potential for construction and, at the same time, actively aspire after the advanced ones and wage a ceaseless struggle.

He said that the successes being made in the construction of the modern marine industrial base and Korean-style modern fishing village are another miracle that can be made only by our soldier-builders boundlessly loyal to the cause of the Party and a powerful proof of the validity and might of our Party's policy which sets radical changes and steady development in the regional areas as the most important task and carries them out vigorously.

He expressed expectation and belief that the soldier-builders would perfectly unfold in Ragwonpho until the founding anniversary of the WPK a peculiar creation to guarantee the wellbeing of the regional people forever and a socialist paradise to be proud of and thus translate the plan of the Party Central Committee into a brilliant reality by redoubling their high militant enthusiasm and bold redoubled efforts.

Receiving the militant encouragement and great trust of Kim Jong Un, all the builders took an oath of loyalty to surely set in time a valuable creative example in implementing the Party's policy on regional development which can be generalized and applied to other parts of the country by making more courageous efforts with the honor of the army of the DPRK which is absolutely faithful to the order and instructions of the Party Central Committee.