VMar Choe Ryong Hae meets with KPA personnel participating in national seminar of construction workers (Photo: Rodong Sinmun).
Senior DPRK officials visited the Pyongyang residential accommodations of the participants in a seminar and national meeting of construction workers on 7 December (Saturday). DPRK Premier Pak Pong Ju, Director of the Korean People’s Army [KPA] General Political Department VMar Choe Ryong Hae, Korean Workers’ Party [KWP] Secretary and Director of the Propaganda and Agitation Department Kim Ki Nam, Chief Secretary of the Pyongyang KWP Committee Mun Kyong Dok, DPRK Vice Premiers and other senior officials of the KWP, KPA and DPRK Government “congratulated the people in the field of construction participating in the significant great workshop, a landmark in the history of Chuch’e-based architecture, under the warm solicitude of Marshal Kim Jong Un (Kim Cho’ng-u’n).” According to KCNA, the senior officials “called upon the participants to successfully build more monumental edifices true to the noble intention of Kim Jong Un and greatly contribute to glorifying Kim Il Sung’s (Kim Il-so’ng) nation and Kim Jong Il’s (Kim Cho’ng-il) Korea as a highly civilized and powerful country where people fully enjoy wealth and luxury under socialism” and said that “all the participants should firmly arm themselves with the original and popular ideas and theories of architectural aesthetics of the Workers’ Party of Korea and acquire profound knowledge of architecture as required by the new century during the workshop.”