The Workers’ Party of Korea is powerfully carrying on the regional-industry revolution and the public health revolution, regarding the people’s security and the promotion of their wellbeing as the foremost state affair, and the entities of prosperity are being erected one after another on this land thanks to its transparent outlook on the people and its spirit of unconditionally serving them.

When the whole country is experiencing the stirring changes and rejoicing at the news of the brilliant completion of the second year’s task for implementing the Regional Development 20×10 Policy aimed at bringing earlier the wonderful future of the building of an ideal socialist society, Kusong City of North Phyongan Province greeted the day of inaugurating a base for advanced medical service conducive to the promotion of the health of its local people.

The Kusong City Hospital, which has been built thanks to the firm will of Comrade Kim Jong Un to make substantial changes in the regions in order to provide the people across the country with more civilized and happier living conditions and enable them to enjoy the benefits of modern healthcare and under his direct guidance, is another proud result brought about in the new era of regional development.

The inaugural ceremony of the Kusong City Hospital for the Regional Development 20×10 Policy took place with splendour on December 13.

The venue of the ceremony overflowed with the boundless pride and self-confidence of the builders, who are devotedly working to realize the long-cherished desire of the Party Central Committee, and the great emotion and delight of the people in the city, who would enjoy the benefits of advanced medical service earlier than others under the solicitous care of the Party.

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, attended the ceremony.

When Comrade Kim Jong Un arrived at the venue of the ceremony, all the participants raised stormy cheers of “Hurrah!” shaking the sky and the earth.

They extended their warmest gratitude to Kim Jong Un, looking up to him who is making great devoted efforts with incessant thinking and brain-racking to open up as soon as possible an era of prosperity, when all the people across the country lead an affluent and civilized life, subordinating all the state affairs to the people’s wellbeing.

Present at the ceremony were the participants in the 13th Plenary Meeting of the Eighth Central Committee of the WPK, builders and officials of the Party and power organs and public health institutions and working people in North Phyongan Province and Kusong City.

Ri Il Hwan, member of the Political Bureau and secretary of the WPK Central Committee, delivered an inaugural address.

Upon authorization of the Party Central Committee, he extended warm thanks to the designers, builders, officials of the relevant fields and other working people who have realized with perfect creative practice the Party’s long-cherished desire to provide all the people in Kusong City with a wonderful hospital in which the people-oriented character of socialist public health is genuinely embodied.

He also warmly congratulated the citizens of Kusong City who would lead a more civilized life with the completion of the modern hospital and medical workers and other employees of the hospital who became the masters of the new workplace.

He referred to the fact that in the wake of the completion of the Kangdong County Hospital which showed the perfect and new appearance of a regional hospital for the first time, the Kusong City Hospital has been successfully built based on the plan and principles of the WPK on the hospital construction in the new era.

He stressed that the wise leadership of the WPK to lay new foundations for public health in the regions has already brought about world-level changes in different parts of the country in the first year and, in this course, the principle and methodology of the construction of hospitals to be built in all other cities and counties have been confirmed and the foundations have been laid for vigorously pushing ahead with the modernization of public health with sufficient capability for and confidence in it.

Saying that the days when such good fruition cheered by the people in line with the demand of the times has been made are associated with the great dedication of the great father, he referred with emotion to the devoted efforts made by Kim Jong Un who has laid foundations for building up the public health capabilities one by one, prioritizing it as a sacred cause for protecting the lives and health of the people.

He stressed that the modern hospitals built in different parts of the country are a valuable result of the people-first politics that can be achieved only by the WPK and the state which subordinate everything of the state and social life to the promotion of the people’s health and wellbeing.

Noting that when the tasks of the public health revolution are resolutely and persistently carried out by taking larger steps forward after the present dynamic first step, our public health would clearly represent the genuine image of socialist Korea, he ardently called on everyone to devote the patriotic wisdom and passion with the firm faith in the validity and vitality of the WPK’s policies and thus bring earlier the future of a prosperous and powerful country full of laughter and happiness of the people.

Kim Jong Un cut the inauguration tape of the Kusong City Hospital.

Fireworks went off and a large number of balloons floated up over the venue of the ceremony to be specially recorded in the dynamic course of making the public health revolution in the new era, beautifully decorating the sky in meaningful December.

All the participants raised enthusiastic cheers with the unbounded pride of holding in high esteem the great leader, who takes loving care of all the people across the country with ardent affection, taking them to his arms and showing them love continuously, as the father of the large socialist family and the boundless reverence for him.

Kim Jong Un warmly waved back to the participants in the ceremony, wishing the local people happiness and their families good health.

He went round various places of the hospital.

He said that the Kusong City Hospital is another precious creation which shows the will of the Party to change and strengthen the regions and the steady development to be achieved by the overall public health of the DPRK and, at the same time, makes the meaning of 2025, the first year of the public health revolution, clearer.

Recalling that the December Plenary Meeting of the WPK decided to build modern hospitals in 20 cities and counties simultaneously from next year on the basis of the experience gained in building regional hospitals into model ones this year, he said that it stands out as a pressing issue to put the ranks of medical workers on an advanced level as early as possible and that the talent issue is fundamental to the public health revolution. He added that, to this end, it arises as an important task to radically reform the state medical education system in conformity with the reality of the country and take a revolutionary measure for training specialists in the public health sector.

He stressed the need to push ahead with the work of improving the clinical and technical level and academic qualifications of medical workers in a tactical and offensive manner and indicated the important tasks to be tackled by the state.

He also underlined the need to make guidelines and provide a scientific and technological guarantee so that modern medical facilities and equipment can be managed and operated properly.

Saying that the issue related to the operation of hospital is also an important political one for defending the Party’s policies and the people’s trust in the Party, he stressed that the Kusong City Hospital, one of the model units in the modernization of public health, should create a good exemplary experience for the development of regional public health in the course of its operation, too.

Saying that another perfect hospital has been built and its construction is flawlessly successful, he highly appreciated the efforts of the builders who proved the vitality of the Party’s policy on the development of public health with devoted labour struggle.

Regarding the construction of the city and county hospitals as an essential and most important task for implementing the regional development policy and powerfully pushing ahead with it are the most right option that our Party and state fully responsible for the lives and health of the people should not delay even a moment nor have any right to put off and the way they should surely take, he said, expressing his firm determination and will to build modern hospitals in 20 cities and counties every year and thus build solid foundations for the country’s public health in the near future.

He stressed that leading cadres and senior officials at all levels including members of the central leadership of the Party should buckle down to implementing the regional development policy with the viewpoint that everything starts from now on and develop all cities and counties across the country in a balanced, accelerated and qualitative way so that every step of the present day would lead to a substantial and comprehensive change in the regional areas and to the realization of the far-reaching ideal of national rejuvenation.

Going round the hospital furnished with modern medical facilities and excellent conditions for medical service, the participants in the ceremony keenly realized the greatness, truth and tremendous vitality of the original ideas and leadership of Kim Jong Un who is ensuring the acceleration of the building of a highly civilized and prospering state through new qualitative changes in regional areas.

The inaugural ceremony of the Kusong City Hospital, which has meaningfully adorned the first year of the historic public health revolution, marked a significant occasion for giving full play to the soaring spirit and enthusiasm of all the people across the country, who are striving with one mind to successfully round off the first-stage struggle for pioneering and transformation towards the comprehensive development of socialism and to greet the Ninth Congress of the WPK as a congress of victors, a glorious congress.