Our Party’s State-building Principle

To make the capital envious of the regions, to make regional rejuvenation represent the progress and development of our state and to make the true image of our style of socialism mirrored on the ideal appearance of the regions--this is our Party’s plan for the new era.

Our Party is steadfast in its will to powerfully push ahead with the regional rejuvenation, and thus tackle the differences between the capital city and the provinces and the imbalance between regions and build an invincible socialist state.

The state-building principle put forward by our Party is to make the capital envious of the regions.

It is our Party’s grandiose strategy for state building to build a firm foundation by reinforcing the regions and erect a higher tower on that basis.

Cities and counties are strategic bases of a civilized and prosperous socialist state.

That the regions are reinforced means that the politico-ideological and material and technical foundations, firmly guaranteeing an independent, rapid and sustained development of cities and counties, are consolidated to let the regional rejuvenation represent the progress and development of our state.

Only when the substantial and simultaneous transformation and rejuvenation are dynamically propelled as intended by the Party, can the era when the capital envies the regions arrive and can the powerful socialist state where both the capital and the regions are developed be built.

To provide the regional people with affluent and civilized living conditions and environment is an undertaking which requires a considerable amount of labor and efforts. As it is impossible ever to eliminate the gap between the capital and the provinces, towns and countryside if we put off the necessary endeavor for this or that reason while simply discussing the feasibilities, the Party made an unusual, revolutionary determination to transform the regions and pushes ahead with its execution without an inch of deflection.

At the moment, the construction of the Ragwon County Offshore Farm gathers momentum in the wake of the completion of the Sinpho City Offshore Farm. The largest-ever greenhouse farm and the vegetable science research center are being built in Hadan-ri in Sinuiju and in Soho-ri in Uiju County, and the Onpho Working People’s Holiday Camp is being built as a comprehensive cultural recreation and health service center in the mountainous area. There are lots of other creations that infuse the regional people with confidence in and optimism about new life.

It is to provide the regional people with a civilized and happy life as soon as possible and to give fuller play to the advantages of our-style socialism that our Party assumes medium- and long-range tasks of regional rejuvenation and ceaselessly opens up new realms and stages though it is hard to find any more reserves as the Party is engaged in the struggle to bring about an innovation in all aspects for increasing defence capabilities.

The world will witness how our Party’s plan to make the urban people envious of the regional people is turned into reality and the song of happiness resound from all across the country.

Rodong Sinmun