There came an epoch-making success of concluding the construction of 50 000 flats in Pyongyang, which had powerfully been carried on as the top-priority task of the historic Eighth Congress of the Workers' Party of Korea in the new era of the comprehensive national rejuvenation.

Apartment houses for nearly 60 000 families and public buildings epitomizing advanced civilization were built in Songsin, Songhwa and Hwasong areas alone to create new majestic and beautiful ideal streets for the people, showing the eye-opening development of the people-first architecture, and a modern urban administrative district was formed respectively. As a result, Pyongyang has been given a radical face-lift as befitting the capital city of socialist Korea in a matter of five years.

With the overfulfilment of the five-year plan for capital city construction, the WPK came to surely keep the promise it made to the people in the name of the dignified Party Congress. Through the struggle of past five years, textbook experience and a new standard of Juche-oriented architecture have been obtained and established to dynamically guide the construction work on a nationwide scale that will be more widely conducted in the period of the Ninth Central Committee of the WPK.

This eye-opening reality symbolizing the great era of changes is another precious fruition of the far-reaching plan and wise leadership of Comrade Kim Jong Un, who set it as an honourable revolutionary task to turn Pyongyang into a world-class city where all desires of the people have come true and has energetically guided the whole course of grand construction from the significant first groundbreaking. It is also an immortal great victory of the Party's idea of “The people are God”.

An inauguration ceremony of 10 000 flats at the fourth stage in the Hwasong area to conclude the five-year plan for monumental capital city construction was held with splendour on February 16, the auspicious holiday of the DPRK.

The venue of the inauguration ceremony was filled with the infinite pride of the capital city builders, who provided the biggest labour gift to the Ninth WPK Congress by perfectly building grand architectural groups that add brilliance to the great era of Kim Jong Un under the flag of the headquarters for building 50 000 flats in Pyongyang given by the Party Central Committee, and with deep emotion and joy of Pyongyang citizens witnessing the dazzling golden age of Pyongyang with excitement.

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 inauguration ceremony.

When he arrived, all the participants burst into stormy cheers of "Hurrah!" looking up to the great master of creation and outstanding leader of the revolution who is steadily ushering in a heyday of comprehensive development of socialism where the people's dreams and ideals come true.

Present at the ceremony were members of the central leadership of the Party, including senior officials of Party, government and armed forces organs, officials of ministries and national agencies, working people who would live in the new street, military and civilian builders, youth and students and other Pyongyang citizens.

Ri Il Hwan, secretary of the WPK Central Committee, addressed the ceremony.

We have come to greet the emotive moment of proudly declaring that the construction plan for 50 000 flats in the capital city has been overfulfilled by far through the dynamic construction revolution in the great era of Kim Jong Un, Ri said, extending warm congratulations and thanks on the occasion of the significant inauguration to all the builders of the capital city, service personnel, and officials and working people in the relevant fields who helped the Party keep the promise made to the people.

The respected General Secretary Kim Jong Un ensured that the housing construction was surely carried out, irrespective of condition and environment, by setting it as the core of the construction policy put forward at the Eighth WPK Congress, saying that socialism should be built in the mind of the people first and the housing problem is a matter of their greatest interest, the speaker noted, adding: Thanks to his noble intention and iron will, the construction of 50 000 flats was given absolute significance as the Party's long-cherished desire and was carried on powerfully and vigorously at all times from its dynamic start.

He told in an excited tone about the tireless efforts and boundless devotion made by the General Secretary with his ardent will that the true image of the WPK lie in the appearance of the thriving country and in the happy looks of the people and out of his desire to provide the working people with new dwelling houses on the same day and at the same time as if they had fallen from the sky and to see their happy looks as soon as possible.

Those modern large architectural groups are a symbol of the great ideology and politics of the WPK which warmly embraces the people and holds them in high esteem as heaven, a fortress of the strongest single-minded unity that nothing can break, and a demonstration of the indomitable spirit and inexhaustible strength of socialist Korea, the speaker said, and in reflection of the unanimous mind of all the capital city builders, Pyongyang citizens and all other people across the country, he extended the warmest gratitude to Kim Jong Un, who is building on this land a socialist paradise to be envied by the world.

Stressing that it is the sacred duty and honour of the present generation to improve the appearance of the country through a dynamic construction revolution and create the richest and most civilized life with our wisdom and efforts, he called upon all the people to continuously work hard to glorify the capital city of Pyongyang as the most beautiful and greatest city in the world full of people’s happiness and attain the far-reaching goal of building a highly civilized and prosperous state at the earliest date according to the new milestone of transformation to be indicated by the Ninth Congress of the WPK.

Kim Jong Un cut the inauguration tape.

Fireworks were set off, confetti was thrown and balloons were released to the sky above the venue of the ceremony, which was witnessing an auspicious event to be specially recorded in the new golden age of Pyongyang, beautifully decorating the sky of the capital city.

The participants paid the highest tribute to Kim Jong Un who regards it as the strongest national power for all the people to be equally well off and who cultivates a large flower garden of all blessings where all the people across the country lead the happiest life with happy laughter.

Kim Jong Un received bouquets of fragrant flowers from sweet children.

He met workers who received new houses.

As they expressed gratitude to him, he wished them happiness in the wonderful houses and all the families who would move into new houses joy and happiness.

The citizens were filled with tears of gratitude as they threw themselves in the arms of the benevolent father who made the ordinary working people enjoy the privileges that no other people in the world could imagine and even wished them a happy life.

Kim Jong Un met labour innovators who performed distinguished feats in the construction of the capital city.

Shaking hands with each of them, he said that thanks to the thoroughgoing implementers of the Party's policies like them, the important construction task decided by the Party could be successfully carried out and that the Party Central Committee would launch a more gigantic construction project with a belief in the revolutionary mettle of creation and fighting spirit of the capital city builders in the future, too. And he warmly encouraged them, hoping that they would once again fully display their honour and mettle as capital city builders in a new grand construction theatre.

The capital city builders raised cheers full of emotion, looking up to Kim Jong Un who attached importance to the construction of 50 000 flats in Pyongyang as the forefront symbolizing the pioneering era of comprehensive rejuvenation, repeatedly bestowed on them great affection and trust in the whole period of the huge project, guided them to the creation of miracles and attributed all the successes to them.

There was an artistic performance in celebration of the inauguration.

The Hwasong area reverberated with famous songs on the theme of patriotism that sing highly of the greatest motherland where the people's paradise is being built on the basis of the principle of believing in the people as in heaven.

The participants were filled with great joy while hearing the odes to the era of great transformation, in which a thriving power with efflorescing socialist civilization is being built.

Solemnly played was the national anthem of the DPRK, the most advantageous people's country where all wealth is created for the people and enjoyed by them from A to Z.

On the luxury street of the beautiful capital city in the evening, filled with the noble emotions peculiar to the DPRK and people, the participants enthusiastically sang in chorus an all-people hymn “Dear Father”, while beautiful fireworks were set off into the sky.

Kim Jong Un looked round the new street in the Hwasong area.

The newly-built Hwasong area looks so beautiful for the majestic appearance of large architectural groups embodying the advanced civilization and, more importantly, as it reflects the genuine happiness and bright images of the people, he said, adding that today is a very significant day in the time-honoured history of the capital city of Pyongyang.

Stressing that it is our Party's faith, absolute outlook on the people and thoroughgoing spirit of serving them to do under any circumstances everything that is wanted by them and that is for their wellbeing, Kim Jong Un said that our Party will make strenuous efforts without a moment's stagnation and without an inch of deviation to bring earlier the future in which our people will enjoy a civilized and affluent life to their heart's content.

The capital city construction should be steadily boosted, leading the development and civilization of our own style, he said, adding that the successes achieved so far are really great and precious, but they are just the beginning in light of our dreams and capabilities. And he expressed his firm will to perfect the Hwasong area as a model district equipped with all the political, economic and cultural components and turn the whole area of the capital city into the one embodying the features of the new era.

On the basis of the remarkable successes and experience achieved and gained in the period of the Eighth Central Committee of the WPK, the Ninth Congress of the WPK will clarify a greater milestone and goal of creation and our people will witness again another exciting five years of their perfect implementation, he said.

After the ceremony was over, the participants looked round the wonderful new street.

At the modern apartment houses and distinctive neighbourhood-serving amenities presenting a good harmony of architectural formative art and advanced civilization, they were filled with boundless reverence for and trust in the motherly Party which translates all desires of the people into reality.

The successful completion of the construction of 50 000 flats in Pyongyang proved before the whole world the iron truth that the WPK’s decision for the good of the people is a science, practice and victory. And it has brilliantly been recorded in the history of the country as an unprecedented construction miracle that convinced all the people that their capital city and their state will prosper more wonderfully along the new road to the overall prosperity of socialism to be opened up by the Ninth Congress of the Party.