Seoul: North Korean leader Kim Jong UN has returned from a month’s vacation from a general view to examine a large development project near the border with China, which he said symbolizing his country’s “iron” to achieve prosperity in dealing with international isolation and pressure.
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The North Korean official Central News agency said on Tuesday that Kim expressed satisfaction during his visit to the city of Samjiyon for the progress of construction in the area called “Sun’s holy place.” Samjiyon is at the foot of Mount Paektu, the heart of North Korea’s myths revolves around Kim’s family and is explained by the official narrative as a spiritual center of the State Revolution.
Building Samjiyon to be “Cultured City Model” is one of the main focus of the National Construction campaign aimed at North Korea to complete in time for the 75th anniversary of the establishment of the ruling party in October last year.
But construction slowed amid closure of the border pandemic and international sanctions on Kim’s nuclear weapons and missile programs.
Kim has struggled to overcome what appeared to be the toughest period as a leader with the locking of Covid-19 which was forced himself in the country created a further surprise for an economy that was beaten by sanctions and decades of investment.
KCNA said construction in Samjiyon can be completed by the end of this year, which can provide a necessary trophy achievement because it reached a decade in the government since taking power after his father’s death in December 2011.
Kim praised workers for them “high loyalty, strong willingness and sweat “To push forward with the project in the face of” an unfavorable environment “and said Samjiyon will be a guideline for rural development.
He said four years the country had spent developing Samjiyon, which involved the construction of thousands of houses and buildings and new streets and electricity networks, showed a single-minded union and “iron would” achieve our own prosperity “said KCNA.
The visit was Kim’s first public appearance reported in the government’s media since he delivered a speech at a weapons exhibition on October 11.
“Claiming the success of Samjiyon’s development is politically important at this time because the Gunung Paekdu area is the center of North Korea’s mythology and the story decorated by previous leaders,” When Kim could immediately commemorate 10 years since his father’s death, Leif-Eric Easley said, a professor at the University Ewha in Seoul.
North Korea associated Paektu with the founding grandfather of Kim, Kim Il Sung, who according to an official narrative, saved the Korean Peninsula with a broken guerrilla raid against the Japanese invaders from the base on the slopes of Mount II.
North Korea also claimed, maybe it was wrong, Kim Jong PBB’s father, Kim Jong Il, was born in Paektu.
Since being a leader, Kim Jong UN has spent years consolidating his strength by eliminating political rivals and family members while spurring the development of nuclear weapons and missiles he saw as a guarantee of the strongest survival.
He initiated diplomacy with former US President Donald Trump in 2018 when trying to take advantage of his nuclear program for sanctions assistance, but the talks slipped in 2019 because of disagreement on the withdrawal of LED U8 sanctions proposed in return for partial denuclirization by North Korea.