SEOUL: North Korean leader Kim Jong Un laid out ambitious plans Thursday for major construction projects across the country in the coming year, including public health facilities, leisure complexes and industrial plants to be built in 20 regions.
“We are now standing on the starting line of our gigantic struggle for another year, aimed at transforming the regions,” Kim said in a speech cited by the official KCNA news agency early Friday.
Completion of the envisaged construction program “means that nearly one-third of the cities and counties across the country will have been transformed,” he said.