North Korean supreme leader Kim Jong-un has demanded that the builders hand over “an area in Pyongyang with 10,000 modern apartments” by the end of the year. About this, quoting “an enthusiastic speech filled with love for people and deep trust in builders”, writes TsTAK.
According to the local dictator, a new area in the southeast of the DPRK capital will solve a certain housing problem in Pyongyang “once and for all.”
The frame of the modern-looking apartment building that will flaunt on the main road to this housing estate in Sadong, Kim ordered to be completed within three months. There will also be at least one skyscraper, a 50-story building in the spirit of Greater Lisbon in Macau.
In February, at the party plenum, representatives of the construction sector tried to argue that it was necessary to reduce the planned number of new apartment buildings by 25-30 floors, as there is a shortage of materials and labor, but they were not heard.
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According to the head of North Korea, the party now considers the construction of a new housing stock in Pyongyang “the most important task,” because “a significant share of the state budget” has been allocated for it.
The groundbreaking ceremony was attended by a huge crowd of thousands of soldiers and workers.
Pyongyang’s last major urban construction project is Ryomeong Street, which was completed in 2016-2017.
Kim said that “now more than 16,000 apartments are being built in the capital,” and by October 2025 (the 80th anniversary of the founding of the party) there will be “almost 70,000”.
NKnews.org writes that many of North Korea’s pompously announced construction projects are “deadlocked”, such as the Wonsan Kalma beach tourist area and single projects in the capital, which have been unfinished for years.
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