Kim Jong-un Leads Beginning Of Construction Of 50 Thousand Houses In Pyongyang

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JAKARTA - North Korean leader Kim Jong-un attended the groundbreaking ceremony for building 10,000 houses in Pyongyang. It is part of the country's five-year project to supply more housing.

Kim attended a ceremony for the second phase of a housing project to build 10,000 houses in Pyongyang's Hwasong district on Wednesday, according to the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA).

North Korea plans to build 50,000 new homes in Pyongyang by 2025 under a project announced at the eighth congress of the ruling Workers' Party of Korea (WPK) in 2021.

Kim attended the groundbreaking ceremony for the project in the past two years.

"The project to build 50,000 flats in Pyongyang City is an important matter decided by the WPK 8th Congress to build a socialist paradise as soon as possible," Prime Minister Kim Tok-hun said in a speech at the event, according to a statement. English report by KCNA.

The North Korean leader also attended a separate groundbreaking ceremony for a large-scale greenhouse farm in the capital on the same day. The event marked Kim's first field inspection this year.

The greenhouse appears to have been built over a former air force base in Kangdong County in Pyongyang, according to an official at Seoul's unification ministry.

North Korea previously converted the airfields at Jungpyong in North Hamgyong Province and Ryonpho airbase into greenhouse farms in 2018 and 2022 respectively, amid apparent efforts to make productive use of underutilized facilities.

The final conversion of the air base was carried out in line with those at Jungpyong and Ryonpho, said an official at South Korea's unification ministry.