North Korea breaks ground on 10,000-home residential project in Pyongyang
CNNCNN — North Korea has started work on a sprawling 10,000-apartment residential project as the country embarks on a housing drive in its capital, Pyongyang. In a speech titled “Let Us Further Glorify the Golden Age of Capital City Construction by Bringing about a Sea Change in the Hwasong Area,” Kim thanked construction workers and army personnel at the ceremony, according to Sunday’s edition of North Korea’s Rodong Sinmun newspaper. In a rare admission of the country’s challenges, Kim’s rubber-stamp parliament, the Supreme People’s Assembly, said last month that it was working to improve livelihoods in light of “difficult and complicated problems,” according to North Korean state media. A documentary broadcast in North Korea last month, titled “The Great Year of Victory 2021,” showed Kim visiting a construction site alongside images of an 80-story skyscraper and a large apartment district. The country’s official Korean Central News Agency has previously boasted about so-called “Pyongyang Speed,” claiming to have completed the frame of a 70-story skyscraper at Ryomyong New Town in just 74 days.
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