He was accompanied by Jo Yong Won and Ri Il Hwan, secretaries of the WPK Central Committee, and Kim Yong Bok, deputy chief of the General Staff of the Korean People’s Army.
He was greeted by commanding officers of the military units involved in the rehabilitation projects in the relevant areas on the spot.
Looking at an artist’s impression of the residential quarters to be newly built, he learned in detail about the progress made in the construction.
He highly appreciated the efforts of all the builders who are achieving fresh innovative successes day by day, bearing in mind the patriotic appeal to make redoubled efforts for the prosperity of the great state.
He repeatedly stressed that it is the most urgent task facing the Party and the government at present to alleviate the pain of the flood victims as early as possible and restore the production and living order in the flood-hit areas to the normal level. And he said that all the builders should complete the housing construction on the highest level in the shortest time by directing redoubled efforts and sincerity to provide the people in the flood-hit areas with houses for happy living.
He repeatedly requested that primary efforts be always directed to thoroughly ensuring the quality of structures as the rehabilitation of the flood-hit areas is not merely a matter of removing the aftermath of natural disaster but an important process of implementing the Party’s far-reaching programme for regional development.
Every structure representing the era of changes reflects our ideology, policy and aesthetic view and therefore construction is a visual expression of politics, he said. He stressed the need for all the builders to fulfil the requirements of designs and construction methods and wage a fierce struggle in time against a slightest practice of neglecting quality control without conniving at it, by bearing in mind that ensuring quality precisely means the correct implementation of the Party’s policies and an important political issue of keeping the people’s trust in the Party.
He went round a construction site of dwelling houses together with the cadres accompanying him.
Watching builders at work, he expressed thanks to the spiritual world and devotion of them who are boundlessly loyal to the country and its people.
Describing the soldier-builders and members of the youth shock brigade who volunteered for the flood-hit areas as the vanguard fighters who have taken the lead in the honourable struggle for the great people whom the Party upholds as Heaven, he stressed the need for officials to always pay deep attention to ensuring their living conditions and said that the Party would take an important measure for this.
Learning about an embankment project in the island areas, he indicated the ways for building permanent embankments.
Noting that the ongoing campaign for repairing flood damage is another political process that occupies an important place in raising to a higher level the stage of development of rural civilization set forth in the Party’s programme for the rural revolution, he called for powerfully conducting political information and motivation work for instilling into the minds of all the builders as an element of faith the self-respect and honour of the state and the consciousness of performers who directly carry on the sacred struggle for the well-being of regional people.
He clarified important guidelines related to the rehabilitation, including the issue of preferentially supplying materials and equipment needed for the projects in time by meticulously organizing transport, the issue of speeding up framework building to the maximum and raising the quality level by directing more time to the final process of construction and the issue of improving the surrounding environment and carrying out afforestation properly in ornamental and practical aspects, given that civilized and modern residential quarters would be built.
He expressed expectation and belief that the soldier-builders and members of the youth shock brigade would perform brilliant feats in the theatre of honourable struggle for providing the people in the flood-hit areas with the base of a stable and cultured life at an early date with the consciousness and firm confidence that they are the creators of the new era and pioneers who shoulder the gigantic cause of comprehensive national development.
All the builders, looking up to the outstanding teacher and great father who came to the rehabilitation sites to make sure that miracles are performed and to give them inexhaustible strength and courage, made a firm pledge to fully demonstrate the advantages of Korean-style socialism centred on the masses of the people by carrying out his on-site instructions unconditionally and thoroughly without an inch of deflection and turning the land of the country, which has overcome the natural calamity, into a socialist paradise where the people’s happiness is in full bloom.
Political News Team