One October day in 2014, the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un visited the construction site of Terminal 2 at Pyongyang International Airport to learn in detail about how the project was progressing.Being guided into the entrance hall on the second floor, he halted and gave a look around for a good while.He pointed out some defects, including the disharmony of the service amenities and other facilities with the internal space of the terminal. He went into details about how to rectify the defects. He advised that restaurants should be located not in the corners of the building but where the runway came into view so that the diners could see airplanes taking off or landing.He then recalled the way a passport control desk in the immigration inspection area had been designed, which he had gone over a few days previously. The desk had been designed to be ...

On March 24, 2013, the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un came to see the floating restaurant Taedonggang, a vessel which was being built by the service personnel of the Korean People’s Army.Being shown around the exterior and interior of the vessel, he was very pleased that, in faithful support of the Workers’ Party of Korea’s benevolent policies for the good of the people, the service personnel had made substantial progress in building the modern vessel in a short period.He inquired about the finishing material that had been used in making the deck, saying that as the vessel was in effect a restaurant it was necessary to adhere to the principle of keeping the deck clean and hygienic.He then looked round the dining rooms, stressing that good materials should be used in building the vessel as the quality of a structure would depend on the type o...

On June 1, 2015, the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un visited Wonsan Baby Home and Wonsan Orphanage again just before their inauguration.Looking at the portraits bearing the beaming images of President Kim Il Sung and Chairman Kim Jong Il hanging on the façades of the new buildings, he said that the portraits looked bright and respectable. He said that the orphans would move into their new homes amid the blessings from the great leaders.While being shown around the new buildings, he gave some advice on what needed to be done to take better care of the orphans and improve their education.He said: The Wonsan Baby Home and Wonsan Orphanage are proud creations that visually and eloquently show the advantages of socialism of our style. This is an addition to the assets for the good of orphans i...

On March 10, 2017, the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un visited the Paektusan Institute of Architecture that had been renovated as befitting a unit responsible for designing the future of socialist civilization.He said that he came there after being told that the buildings of the institute were renovated and the equipment sent by the Workers’ Party of Korea installed there.After looking round several places of the modern institute, he said: The officials, designers, architects and researchers of the institute should firmly arm themselves with Chairman Kim Jong Il’s Juche-oriented idea of architectural aesthetics and the Party’s construction policy, thus preparing themselves to be competent personnel capable of faithfully implementing our Party’s construction plan. This is the way to add eternal lustre to the Chairma...

One May day in 2012, the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un visited the Changjon Haemaji Restaurant whose construction was proceeding at the final stage.Guided into the lobby, he looked up at the ceiling and commented that the indirect illuminations in a circular shape were excellent.His comment took the officials by surprise, since even the specialists with rich experience argued that such lighting did not suit the Korean style.He continued to say: In the past circular indirect lighting was seldom used in decorating the interior of an architectural building, so some people may claim that it is a European-style decoration. It does, beyond doubt, suit the Korean style. We should give our people a clear understanding of the fact that our country’s architecture has made a leap forward. Whatever our people have created in keeping with their ideologi...

One August day in 1950, when the Fatherland Liberation War was raging on, the great leader Comrade Kim Il Sung asked an official about how preparations were being made for the start of the upcoming school year.The Cabinet had already taken necessary steps for ensuring that all the schools in the country would open on September 1. However, many schools were destroyed by the US imperialists’ indiscriminate bombings and bombardments.Being briefed on the situation, Kim Il Sung said that the education of the rising generation should continue non-stop despite the difficult wartime conditions, stressing that preparations should be stepped up for opening schools as usual. He continued that even though many school buildings were blown up by the enemy’s bombings and there was a shortage of school fixtures and other supplie...

Recently, amazing transformations have taken place one after another across the country under the sagacious leadership of the Central Committee of the great Workers’ Party of Korea. In particular, new streets were built in Pyongyang, the construction of which was undertaken to promote the wellbeing of the people.Among the new streets is Rimhung Street, the second-stage project for building 10 000 flats in the Hwasong area. Inaugurated on April 16, 2024, it was a monumental creation symbolic of the era of comprehensive national prosperity. Launched according to the decisions of the Eighth Congress of the WPK and the Sixth Plenary Meeting of its Eighth Central Committee, the street is a huge architectural group that embodies the WPK’s concept of architectural aesthetics, and ensures a perfect harmony of the Juche character, national identity, modernity and artistic beauty. ...

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One May day in 2016, the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un visited the Natural History Museum.In the entrance hall, he cast his eyes on the wall of the lobby beside the souvenir counter. There were several semi-cylindrical decorative flowerpot stands, about 30 cm-long half-split log blocks.He looked at them with a worried expression on his face.After a while, he said: It is an expression of lack of common knowledge to stick stone-patterned paper to the surface of flowerpot stand in a bid to make it look like stone. It is unreasonable to attach stone to the semi-cylindrical decorative flowerpot stands.The officials blushed, realizing that he was concerned about the wall paper attached to the flowerpot stands.Kim Jong Un went on: In case of using stone-patterned paper, it will be advisable to stick it to the square...

One day in April 2012, the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un went round the Rungna Amusement Park while giving on-site guidance to the development of the Rungna People’s Recreation Ground.At that time, there were two entrances to the park as it was divided into two sections.After learning about the fact, he said: It is good to make two entrances in the park. But if it is divided into two sections, it will cause inconvenience to visitors as those in the first section have to go out of an entrance again to enter the second section. Therefore, both sections should be connected with each other so that people from any entrance would go around the park.And he said that visitors would feel inconvenient if it took long for them to go by car from the first section to the second section.Listening to him who pointed out such shortcomings, the accompanying...