The great Workers' Party of Korea is bringing earlier the future of advanced civilization and prosperity in our own way and by our own efforts from A to Z, based on the idea of "The people are God", single-hearted unity and self-reliance. Its revolutionary guidance firmly unites the DPRK people under the banner of patriotism and overcomes manifold difficulties by dint of the great unity, thereby ushering in a new era of epoch-making changes on this land.

 Ideal "cultured rural towns" and beautiful villages epitomizing modern civilization have been built to greet the significant time of completion in the flood-hit areas of North Phyongan, Jagang and Ryanggang provinces, fully demonstrating the advantages and invincibility of Korean-style socialism.

 All the builders and supporters, including the Party members, service personnel and members of the Paektusan Hero Youth Shock Brigade, who volunteered for the rehabilitation projects in the flood-hit areas in hearty response to the ardent call of the Party Central Committee for making miraculous successes by overcoming the crisis once again and going all out for the people and the country, successfully built the embankments invulnerable to any flood, thousands of modern flats, nurseries, kindergartens, schools, hospitals, clinics, etc. in a little more than four months, thus giving full play to the irresistible might unique to Juche Korea which gets stronger in ordeals and gets firmer through a vigorous struggle for creating new things with loyalty and patriotism.

 This eye-opening reality, which has recorded another dramatic change in the history of the country, is the precious fruition of the noble outlook on the people and outstanding leadership of the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un who has made an uninterrupted journey of love and devotion for the safety and wellbeing of the people, regarding the pains he takes for them as his greatest honour.

 An inauguration ceremony of dwelling houses in flood-hit areas of North Phyongan Province took place with splendour on December 21.

 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, was present at the ceremony.

 When the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un arrived amid the playing of welcome music, all the participants broke into enthusiastic cheers, looking up to the great leader of the people and benevolent father who unconditionally subordinates all the state affairs to the people's wellbeing and translates their dreams and ideals into brilliant reality.

 He extended warm militant greetings to all the builders who built the dwelling houses for the people in the flood-hit areas, bravely overcoming difficulties with absolute trust in the Party and firm faith in socialism.

 Present there were members of the Presidium of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea and other members of the Party central leadership body, officials of the rehabilitation headquarters, officials and working people of North Phyongan Province, the city of Sinuiju and Uiju County, service personnel of the Korean People's Army and commanding officers and members of the Paektusan Hero Youth Shock Brigade engaged in the rehabilitation work.

 The national anthem of the DPRK was played.

 Kim Jong Un made a speech in celebration of the inauguration.

 He said in the speech:

 Today we are holding a meaningful inauguration ceremony while reviewing the proud result of the more than 130 days of the arduous campaign of rehabilitating the disaster-stricken areas by building durable embankments and houses for the local people. This gigantic transformation makes us realize once again how proud our Party is in having made a correct decision and conducted a worthwhile undertaking, as well as how wonderful the socialist ideals are and how sacred and honourable our cause is, which we are advancing while overcoming the difficulties by our own efforts and by dint of fortitude.

 In support of the political ideals and intentions of their Party that places the safety and wellbeing of the people before anything else, the service personnel, members of youth shock brigades, officials and working people of North Phyongan Province and helpers from across the country have worked strenuously overcoming all manner of difficulties from the sweltering summer to the bitter winter, and thus built cultured rural residential areas that reflect the original features of our style of socialism and its future. On behalf of the Central Committee of the Party and the government of the Republic, I extend warm thanks to them.

 This ceremony is an important occasion for demonstrating that our socialist cause that absolutely supports and serves the people, the foundations of the state and all that forms it, is advancing stoutly in the face of all manner of difficulties. As I see the result of the campaign, I feel confident that this lower reaches of the Amnok will remain durable in another severe flooding in 100 years; and as the flood victims will start a new life on the islands transformed beyond their original appearance, I am pleased with a feeling of relief. 

 The campaign was conducted in the worst conditions in terms of the period of a few months from designing to completion, its sites and transportation of materials, but it has unfolded the present reality. This can be called a miracle in the history of construction. But what I feel really sorry for is that its completion date, which was made as an express promise with the flood victims and was fixed as a decision of the Party, was extended repeatedly, resulting in its completion in the end of the year, when the cold has set in. 

 We have so far launched into and waged major construction projects however difficult the circumstances were–even in the emergency anti-epidemic days–but no project has been implemented in a strained way like this one. 

 After pointing out the unrealistic and unscientific deviations revealed among officials during the campaign, like lack of far-sightedness in planning, Kim Jong Un continued: 

 Frankly speaking, when we launched into the campaign, several countries and international organizations expressed their will to assist us, but we made clear our determination to remain faithful to our approach to resolving problems by our own efforts at all costs. This was because we were confident in our own strength and, more importantly, our self-supporting spiritual and material asset that had to be developed further during this challenging project was more precious than anything else.   

 The in-depth analysis of the recent flooding revealed that it was not merely a disaster caused by the unpredictable force of nature, but an artificial disaster caused by the loose system of the relevant disaster prevention organs of our state plus the irresponsible sense of reasonability and carelessness of the officials. So I decided that through the course of self-reliant rehabilitation project, we should learn the subsequent cost and repent ourselves. 

 And I thought that the experience would be essential for us to cope with the possible disasters in the future.

 If we had pinned hope on the assistance from others, there would not have been the dignity we are all now feeling, not to mention these wonderful transformations. 

 The recent rehabilitation project was not simply an undertaking to remove the aftermath of an unexpected disaster; it was a struggle that could surely emerge victorious by our own efforts as it was an undertaking for us to bring about epochal transformation on an attitude of taking responsibility for the future. 

 It was the Party's intention to further cultivate our internal forces for braving any manner of difficulties by our own strength while winding up the campaign on schedule without fail by dint of the united strength of the whole country, with a belief in the strength of our army and people including the young people. 

 It was an occasion for further cultivating the spirit of self-sustenance.

 Kim Jong Un pointed out that the officials' unscientific work attitude kept such a project of such great political magnitude from making progress as had been originally expected, specifying the causes of the failure to put construction work on a scientific footing, its consequences and the serious lessons to draw from it. 

 As the new year begins, we will launch into a new regional plan that correctly reflects our Party's and government's goals for the comprehensive development of socialism and is consistent with the local people's ideals, he noted, adding:

 We should carry out our Party's crucial decisions to transform this region into a socialist fairyland by implementing one project after another in a three-dimensional way. 

 As the long-term plan is shown on this map here, next year we are going to build combined greenhouse farms on a hundreds-of-hectares-wide area of Wihwa and Taji islands. 

 Over the past several years large-sized modern greenhouse farms have emerged in Jungphyong and Ryonpho on the east coast and in the capital city of Pyongyang, proving the economic effectiveness of vegetable cultivation in greenhouses. With a sea of greenhouses appearing here, we will be taking a huge step forward towards improving our people's standard of living.  

 We will assign these greenhouse projects to the People's Army units and the Paektusan Hero Youth Shock Brigade, so that they can once again demonstrate our creative abilities in an atmosphere of fierce competition. 

 Also included in this plan is the construction of a modern vegetable science institute as a base for scientific and technological research and information diffusion to put vegetable cultivation in greenhouses on a scientific, intensive and industrial basis, as well as the setting up of greenhouses for experimental cultivation, dwelling houses and public welfare facilities, thereby transforming the island areas into model farms of the new era with potentials for development. 

 Along with this, we are faced with many tasks, including reinforcing the embankments in the islands on the lower reaches of the Amnok River and in Sinuiju and Uiju County to turn this region into a buttress free from any other possible damage, and building bases for political and cultural activities, service networks and other public buildings in the new residential districts. 

 We must never rest content with what we have achieved today or remain on the level we have attained; such construction work is a requisite for implementing the Party's plan to transform the country's border cities in a modern fashion. 

 I'd like to add that our future plan involves transforming Sinuiju into an ensemble of modernity, originality and national identity, a thriving city epitomizing the advanced level of socialist Korea and its might.  

 Here we should begin with developing the island areas and then transform Sinuiju. Then the locality in the northwestern part of the country will have excellent regional culture and potentials for development. 

 Noting that the shortcut to civilization and prosperity is open and the successful dash towards them depends on our struggle, he underscored the need for the construction headquarters to conduct the planning and command for construction projects in a responsible and scrupulous way, based on the experiences and lessons gained in the course of this year's construction, so as to ensure the perfect implementation of the Party's decisions. And he stressed:

 The officials of the Paektusan Hero Youth Shock Brigade and the youth league, mindful of the intention of the Party in dispatching the young people to the major projects, should conduct the organizational and political work and the command of construction effectively, so that the indomitable spirit of advance of the heroic youth in the new era always prevails in the whole ranks. Regarding the course of grand construction as a good opportunity for training our young people to be staunch defenders and reliable builders of socialism, they should pay special attention to training all the young people to be strong pillars of the times, who have learned how to love the country and the people, deal with difficulties and create things on the fronts of acute political struggle and in the crucible of gigantic struggle for pioneering.

 Construction is an undertaking which clearly represents our Party's ideology and policy. At present, the successes in this sector, for their political character, visual impact and great vitality, constitute a political symbol which instils into people the confidence in and optimism about the revolutionary cause and powerfully demonstrates the development level of the state.

 Referring to the measures to be surely taken for the long-term development of construction, he went on:

 We should put the new turning point of construction revolution and regional construction in the new era on the track of radical and steady development so as to adorn the historic cause of achieving the comprehensive national rejuvenation with substantial, simultaneous and multiple changes.

 To this end, it is important to raise it as an important policy-oriented requirement to improve the level of specialization in construction and push powerfully ahead with this.

 Only then, can we ensure both the speed and quality of construction, improve the effectiveness of expenditure and make a leap forward towards the goals we have set.

 Gone are the days when construction was conducted by a large number of people singing Song of General Mobilization. Human-wave tactics cannot meet the requirements of the present times, when our construction work demands a fresh, qualitative leap forward.

 To improve the level of specialization in construction, three elements–design, workforce and equipment–should be regarded as important elements, and they should be steadily improved.

 The Party and the state should direct their efforts to training a large number of competent designers, building up the regional design institutions with talented personnel and steadily improving their qualifications through practical work; they should also put stress on ensuring the functional occupancy, convenient effect and diverse aspect, making a meticulous calculation of economic effectiveness and profitability and applying optimum options at the stage of designing.

 The construction units should steadily intensify the work of enhancing the technical qualifications of their employees with clear-cut objectives and methodology, so that they can acquire the ability for carrying out any construction projects.

 Foremost among the three elements of the effort for the specialization in construction is to improve building equipment, and it is necessary to back up the development of the construction sector by working out and pushing ahead with a national long-term plan to build up the capacity for producing modern building equipment, ranging from small tools to heavy-duty machinery, in consideration of the characteristics of construction featured by protraction and in keeping with the world trend. 

 Kim Jong Un reiterated that the Party and government of the Republic would lead the sacred cause of realizing the centuries-old desire of the people across the country to the last without a moment's pause or interruption, and expressed belief that all the officials, service personnel of the People's Army and youth shock brigade members, who are about to start another new construction projects, would add another page to the annals of national rejuvenation by displaying indomitable spiritual strength and taking patriotic action with high pride in being participants in and direct undertakers of the sacred and worthwhile struggle of adding glory to our state's prestige and honour and bringing earlier the wellbeing of the local people.  

 Extending warm congratulations to the residents in the city of Sinuiju and Uiju County who will settle in new houses amid the blessings of the whole country and sincerely wishing all families happiness and harmony, he ardently called on all to make unyielding efforts to bring about the country's eternal prosperity and the people's wellbeing. 

 When Kim Jong Un finished his speech, stormy cheers of "Hurrah!" raised by the audience with deep reverence for and trust in the great Party Central Committee resounded far and wide through the sky in December.

 Kim Jong Un cut the inauguration tape.

 The venue for the ceremony where fireworks were displayed was full of the high spirit and militant enthusiasm of the service personnel and members of the youth shock brigade to repay the great trust and expectations of the Party Central Committee with devoted service for the country and people, strenuous efforts and creation of a new legendary tale of construction.

 He, together with the participants, looked round the new modern rural residential districts.

 Enjoying a bird's-eye view of Hadan-ri of Sinuiju where modern high-rise and low-rise urban-style rural dwelling houses imposingly stand in a safe zone, surrounded by solidly built embankments, he said with great satisfaction: I had a heavy heart at the thought of the homeless people in hardship, when I looked around the inundated area on a rubber boat a few months ago. But now I feast my eyes on this area that has turned into a splendid ideal socialist village. This is, indeed, a dramatic change. 

 Going around an apartment house, he said happily that it was good to have furnished each flat with a TV, furniture and other daily necessities and that the flood victims came to enjoy a happy and civilized life at their homes without any worry, adding: I was told that the flood victims are called the "people blessed by flood" and it is really good news. 

 He said: Through the rehabilitation project in the Amnok River basin, we further boosted our confidence in the irresistible force of the single-hearted unity unique to our country, the one and only unity in the world, and our own strength and have come to pass through a new stage and process of development for regional and rural rejuvenation.

 Our Party has been able to adorn its arduous journey of revolution full of trials with only victory and glory, because our people have sincerely trusted and followed it and defended its cause. Our people are just the benevolent patriots who firmly support this country with sincere sweat and efforts, shouldering every burden of the country at the time of hardship, while placing the state affairs before their household ones. We should make more strenuous efforts to firmly defend and hold in higher esteem such excellent and great people without parallel in the world and make them happiest in the world.

 Going round modern rural residential districts, members of the Party central leadership body and other participants cherished more deeply the absolute truth that eternal victory and prosperity are in store for our powerful country and a rosy future for our people and posterity are as they hold Kim Jong Un in high esteem as the father of the great socialist family.

 All the participants renewed their iron will to uphold the great Party's ideology and leadership with single-minded loyalty and thus make our advantageous socialist system and country more excellent and beautiful.

 The loud shouts of "Long live the great Comrade Kim Jong Un!" and "Long live the Workers' Party of Korea!" that resounded in the northwestern tip of the country were a great echo of history demonstrating the spirit of dynamic advance of socialist Korea which confidently hastens its civilized and prosperous future in the face of all difficulties, firmly adhering to its own outlook on development and mode of development.