The DPRK is making great efforts to achieve overall development of socialism by developing all the fields and regions in the country at the same time. This is grabbing the attention of the international community.
It is needed to understand what the overall development of socialism charted by Kim Jong Un, general secretary of the Workers’ Party of Korea, means.
The Eighth Congress of the WPK held in January 2021 set forth a task of building 10 000 flats every year, or 50 000 flats over five years (2021-2025), in the capital city of Pyongyang. Accordingly, over 40 000 flats have sprung up in Songhwa Street, Hwasong Street, Rimhung Street, Jonwi Street and the third-stage section with 10 000 flats in the Hwasong area. In February 2025, as he addressed the groundbreaking ceremony of the fourth-stage project for building 10 000 flats which would bring the 50 000-flat project to completion, Kim Jong Un outlined the Party’s policy-oriented plans for the capital city construction, saying that housing construction in Pyongyang should continue until the Party’s plan is turned into reality to provide its citizens with perfect conditions for leading a civilized and happy life without any inconvenience. This is probably enough to make you guess how the transformation of Pyongyang is taking place.
The Eighth Congress of the WPK set the economic strategy for the coming five years as the one of readjustment and reinforcement. As a result, an array of remarkable achievements have been made in different economic sectors, with energy-saving oxygen heat blast furnaces built at the country’s leading iron and steel production bases, namely the Kim Chaek Iron and Steel Complex and the Hwanghae Iron and Steel Complex, a number of power stations inaugurated, a large-scale sodium carbonate production line established at the Namhung Youth Chemical Complex, and the Kumsong Tractor Factory and other farm machine factories renovated and modernized. In a word, the DPRK’s economy is on a steady upward swing.
In December 2021, when he presided over the Fourth Plenary Meeting of the Eighth Central Committee of the WPK, Kim Jong Un unveiled a programme of the rural revolution in the new era and set out a grand plan for bringing about a leap forward in the development of the countryside. Since then, more than eleven thousand modern rural houses have been in the country, and rural housing construction is expected to gather greater momentum in the future. The comprehensive readjustment and reinforcement of the irrigational system, steady improvement of mechanized farming and the scientific agricultural production provide a guarantee for sustainable development of agriculture. All this is evidenced by the fact that grain production goals have been successfully hit in recent years.
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