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From Voice of Korea.
http://vok.rep.kp/index.php/detail_com/scomde/iee260811006/39/en
Regional Transformation
A new history of regional transformation is opening up in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea along with the vigorous implementation of the regional development policy in the new era.
Modern regional-industry factories were built in 40 cities and counties in two years’ time, making an active contribution to improving the living of the local people.
In those days, a variety of beautiful stories were heard in different places of the country.
Everybody Comes
An inaugural ceremony of new regional-industry factories was held in Jangyon County on December 18, 2025.
After that, many people visited the house of Kim Il Sim and Im Kum Hyang living in the town.
At first, the house was visited by their villagers and now even by outsiders.
When he took part in the inaugural ceremony, the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un held a child in his arms, beaming all over his face. The child was their daughter Kim Mi Rae.
So everybody wanted to know where the fortunate child was living, what her parents were and what she told him.
All the visitors took her by the hand and had pictures taken with her, saying she is a happy child blessed by Marshal Kim Jong Un.
The house of an ordinary worker’s family has become a house everybody visits and envies.
A Story about “Our Products”
Sinyang County is a mountain county with high and low mountains standing like a folding screen and with many narrow and deep valleys.
The number of varieties of the regional-industry products of the county increased more than five times and its total industrial output value more than two times compared with those one year ago.
All the local people say:
“We would go to the town to buy good commodities. Now we don’t need to go there as our local products are as good as those in the town.”
“Really wonderful is the furniture which is produced in our county.”
“I sent foodstuffs made of wild fruits to my relatives in Pyongyang and they requested more.”
Similar stories can be heard from the children growing healthily taking the confectionery and dairy products supplied to them every day and the people who moved into the new rural houses. They boast of the treasure factories and special products of the county.
Products of Mountain Counties Go beyond Their Bounds
Songchon County, which witnessed the first groundbreaking and inauguration of regional-industry factories, produces jam, fruit preserved in honey, sweet jelly and the like with its special product–Songchon chestnut–as raw materials. Those products were well known even to other regions.
The Unsan County Foodstuff Factory presented processed pine nuts including sweets, cakes and sponge cakes to a number of exhibitions held in Pyongyang last year and it is requested from across the country to send them.
The people in Usi County, a remote mountain county in the north, have also become the masters of the region with a lot of prides. Growing is the demand for the tara vine jam, pear jam and apricot jam, the special products of the county.
Black stone craftworks of the Yomju County Daily Necessities Factory and various kinds of grasswork of the daily necessities factory in Kaephung District of Kaesong are also popular among outsiders and they are expanded to other regions.
Various kinds of good-quality products of the modern regional-industry factories go beyond the bounds of the regions to other places of the country.
Name of a Baby
Touching stories produced by the new era of regional development are posted on a number of websites of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea almost every day.
A subscriber posted a story telling about how she named her baby.
When a number of people gathered, she asked for naming a baby to be born soon but she couldn’t choose a name to her taste. Some days after the news of the new regional-industry factories inaugurated in Cholwon County, her birthplace, she could give a perfect name to her baby. It was “Jin Hung” meaning that it is a happy child who was born in the new era of regional rejuvenation.
Unfamiliar Road to Home
A student of a national-level university in the capital city blogged an article:
“I came home on vacation. The road to my home had been quite familiar to me. But it was not this time. New regional-industry factories were built in Kilju, Orang and Kyongsong through which I pass on the way to my home and the county seats were face-lifted. So the road has become unfamiliar and new to me.
There is a saying that ten years are enough to change mountains and rivers. On this land, however, mountains and rivers are changed not in ten years but every year, nay, day after day.
The road to my home gets newer with each passing day.
After graduating from the university, I will come back home and devote my enthusiasm to building it up beautifully.”
The Korean people are proud of living in the new era of regional transformation. And they are convinced that the day of the overall national prosperity will come earlier for sure.
