Great Socialist Wealth Born of Devoted Service

for People's Wellbeing

Respected Comrade Kim Jong Un Attends
Commissioning Ceremony of Kangdong General

Greenhouse Farm

Pyongyang, March 16 (KCNA) -- The world's biggest vegetable farm has been
successfully built and inaugurated in the Kangdong area of Pyongyang, the
capital city of the DPRK, at a stirring time when a new world of socialist
cultural efflorescence and a new era of grandiose changes - the Korean
people's long-cherished ideal - is being brought under the guidance of the
great Party Central Committee.

The Kangdong General Greenhouse Farm, where vegetable production is put
on an advanced intelligent and intensive footing with its modernity, culture and
practical efficiency surely guaranteed, is a monumental edifice born of the
political idea of believing in the people as in Heaven and the spirit of making
selfless, devoted efforts for the good of the people of the Workers' Party of
Korea (WPK) that lavishes funds on promoting the rights, interests and
wellbeing of the people, regarding it as the most important state affair, and a
model entity representing the country's rapid development.

The respected Comrade Kim Jong Un unveiled a far-reaching plan for
building a number of modern greenhouse farms in different parts of the
country, even made sure that important military bases were dismantled for
greenhouse farms, and has put his heart and soul into their construction. He
unfolded a blueprint for building a large-scale greenhouse farm in the
Kangdong area at the Sixth Plenary Meeting of the Eighth Central Committee
of the WPK and energetically guided the whole process of the building
project.
The service personnel of the Korean People's Army (KPA), who responded
with single-minded loyalty to the special order of the Party Central Committee,
successfully built a new-generation general greenhouse farm whose size and
production capacity are much bigger than the Ryonpho Greenhouse Farm,
public buildings and terraced dwelling houses harmonizing with the
surrounding natural landscape in a matter of one year with their strong
offensive spirit and mettle of Korean-style creation, thus laying out a fairyland-
like "greenhouse town", "farm town" in the suburbs of the capital.

The spectacular Kangdong General Greenhouse Farm with modern
greenhouses of peculiar styles, including a cylindrical greenhouse for

vegetable cultivation and a dome-shaped glass hydroponic greenhouse, will
produce and supply various kinds of vegetables to the citizens of Pyongyang.
A commissioning ceremony of the Kangdong General Greenhouse Farm was
held with splendor on March 15.
Kim Jong Un, general secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea and
president of the State Affairs of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea,

attended the ceremony together with leading cadres of the Party and the
government.
The venue of the event, where the birth of the large-scale greenhouse
vegetable production base would be declared to add another brilliant page to
the new era of comprehensive national rejuvenation being dynamically
opened up by the WPK, a great motherly party which takes warm care of the
people's happiness and destiny, was full of great emotion and joy of the
participants.
All the participants in the event were waiting for the respected Comrade Kim
Jong Un, a great guide and artist of epochal changes who glorifies the
country where the people's desire is realized as an ideal one under socialism,

as befitting its prestige and status as a power, with his untiring efforts and
devotion.
When Kim Jong Un and his beloved daughter arrived at the venue of the
ceremony amid the playing of welcome music, all the participants broke into
stormy cheers of "Hurrah!".
All the participants enthusiastically cheered, looking up to Kim Jong Un, the
pioneer of great change and the great artist of creation.
Present at the ceremony were Premier Kim Tok Hun, member of the
Presidium of the Political Bureau of the WPK Central Committee, and
secretaries of the Central Committee of the WPK, officials of armed forces
organs, ministries, national agencies and Pyongyang Municipality, soldier-
builders and officials and employees of the Kangdong General Greenhouse
Farm and Pyongyangites.

The national anthem of the DPRK was solemnly played.
Ri Il Hwan, member of the Political Bureau and secretary of the Central
Committee of the WPK, made a commissioning speech.
The speaker said the farm, the third proud creation in the history of building
modern greenhouse farms in the new era ushered in by the Party, has been
successfully built in a matter of one year and its significant inauguration would
be declared. He pointed out that the completion of its building project and the
start of full-scale vegetable production, which will greatly contribute to
bettering the citizens' diet, constitute another successful fruition of the gigantic

creative struggle which the Party determined and has put big efforts to for the
good of the people, and an inspiring event that convinces them of bigger and
new successes this year when the whole country makes leaps forward for
development and change.

He stressed that the commissioning of the greenhouse farm vividly represents
the boundless pride of creating new things in our own way so that we wouldn't
envy others and a substantial change that has reached the people, not by lip
service and wishful thinking but by a reality, and at the moment, not in the
distant future.
Upon authorization by the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un, the speaker
extended warm thanks and congratulations to the service personnel and all
other builders who successfully built the Kangdong General Greenhouse
Farm as the people's wealth adding luster to our era and fully demonstrated
the absolute advantages and inexhaustible vitality of Korean-style creation
with the steadfast spirit of devotedly implementing the Party's resolutions and
through indomitable and strenuous struggle.
He recalled that the respected General Secretary Kim Jong Un, who had
always cherished and matured the idea of supplying fresh vegetables to the
citizens of the capital all the year round, along with the construction of 50 000
flats in Pyongyang Municipality, as important plans in his mind, had planned
and energetically led the construction of a greenhouse farm for the citizens of
Pyongyang since he opened up a bright prospect for building modern
greenhouse farms all over the country. The Kangdong General Greenhouse
Farm is a precious socialist asset born of the warm sincerity and wise
leadership of the General Secretary, who devotes his all to promoting the
people's well-being only, he stressed.
He said that the modern, advanced, convenient and unique greenhouses and
one thousand and hundreds of dwelling houses at the farm are associated
with the devoted efforts made by the soldier-builders who dedicated their pure
conscience and efforts to every process and every part of construction
displaying the irresistible might of the Korean People's Army out of their
absolute loyalty to the leader, and by the families of service members who
added to militant enthusiasm of the officers and men staying overnight at the
construction site in hot summer and cold winter.
The speaker referred to the intense loyalty and devoted efforts made by the
scientists and technicians who studied and introduced an intelligent integrated
production system for actively controlling the production environment and
process and various new technologies in conformity with the actual conditions
of our country while continuing tireless inquiries with extraordinary creative
spirit, citizens who carried out river improvement and greening, and officials
and working people of ministries, national agencies and relevant units who
provided planned materials and equipment in a responsible manner.

He said that our own way and strength are a fundamental guarantee for
building up wonders, rare to be found in other parts of the world, at will and
that when all the people work hard in the high spirit displayed in the general
greenhouse farm construction, the day when the whole country prospers and
the people enjoy an affluent and civilized life would be brought earlier. He
ardently called upon all the people to make firm and courageous advance
toward a new great victory in 2024 that will witness another change and
progress and toward eternal prosperity of the beloved country.
The respected Comrade Kim Jong Un made a significant address
encouraging the service personnel of the KPA who successfully built the
Kangdong General Greenhouse Farm to realize another cherished desire of
the Party.
He made the following speech of encouragement:
"Comrades,
"Dear officers and men of the air force units,
"Teaching staff and cadets of military academies at different levels,
"You have taken much trouble indeed.
"As we see today, you have built in a matter of a year this advanced and
splendid asset at a miraculous speed. I cannot find enough words to express
my gratitude to you and my happiness.
"The traces of your hard-fought struggle in this transformed Kangdong area
have already disappeared.
"However, your staunch revolutionary spirit, outstanding wisdom and
strenuous efforts buried under this creation will live as a model for the coming
generations, I believe.
"Seeing it, everyone will say that something has been created from nothing.
"You have set up a large creation as a present for the people in the place that
bears the imprints of your military service and militant feats.
"Whereas all the challenges and difficulties facing the state are our army’s
primary targets for annihilation, the accomplishing of the cherished desires of
our Party and people is its first goal to attain.
"This is the invariable essential nature of our army.
"Heroic officers and men of our army who are always thoroughgoing and
powerful in defending the state and the people and legendary and almighty in
creating the wealth of the country and the happiness of the people,

"As it has always been with you, you are just given the priceless honour of
leading the effort to effect a world of transformation in the coming years, a
world which our ideals and our style of creative struggle will surely lead to.
"Officers and men,
"Let us continue to advance and achieve victory, singing the song of creators
under the uplifted banner of defenders.
"Availing myself of this opportunity, I, on behalf of our Party and government,
once again extend thanks to our laudable and heroic army.
"Thank you."
When the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un finished his address, stormy
cheers of "Hurrah!" raised by all the participants resounded across the sky of
March.
All the soldier-builders, who received the deepest trust and the highest honor
from the great Party Central Committee, were filled with enthusiasm to add
luster to the noble prestige of the ever-victorious heroic army and genuine
people's army at the outpost of the sacred struggle for accelerating the
comprehensive development of our thriving nation by steadily giving full play
to the fighting spirit and creative mettle displayed in the construction of the
Kangdong General Greenhouse Farm.
The respected Comrade Kim Jong Un cut the tape for commissioning of
the farm.
Fireworks were set off to the sky above the venue filled with surging
excitement as a witness to a touching scene to be recorded in the great
journey of devotion to the people.
Kim Jong Un waved back to the soldier-builders and other people
enthusiastically cheering for a long time.
The great persons of guidance, together with cadres of the Party, the
government and the military, went round the farm.
Kim Jong Un visited greenhouses of different types to learn in detail about
the advanced technical devices for cultivating greenhouse vegetables
domestically introduced for the first time, their economic efficiency and
technical features.
He expressed great satisfaction over the highly intensive, optimized and
intelligent production processes to be operated by our own efforts and
technology with world-level insight.
He said that new sphere and level of greenhouse vegetable production have
been pioneered thanks to the completion of the plot- and labor-saving general

greenhouse farm which guarantees radical increase in productivity in
comparison with the conventional cultivation method while providing the
growth environment of various kinds of tasty and nutritious vegetables in a
scientific and balanced way. He added that the eye-opening change in the
Kangdong area is an epitome of the worthwhile struggle of creation of our
own style growing intense in the spirit of self-reliance and self-existence.
To expand the proud successes and experience gained in the construction of
the general greenhouse farm, which will serve as another great engine for
improving the people's living standard, is the sacred work for further enriching
and beautifully cultivating the new socialist life, he said, giving precious
instructions for accelerating the large-scale modern greenhouse farm
construction on a nationwide scale and surely turning the vegetable
production into a creation-oriented industry.
He looked round the dwelling houses built for the working people who would
enjoy a worthwhile working life at the farm, and wished them happy future.
The commissioning of the Kangdong General Greenhouse Farm serves as a
significant occasion for adding to the confidence and optimism about a new
great victory being brought about by the Workers' Party of Korea, whose
unquestioned mission is to achieve the prosperity of the country and promote
the people's well-being, and for inspiring the all-people grand advance toward
the future of a highly civilized powerful country in the Korean-style mode of
struggle and way of creation. -0-