Seul, South Korea – North Korean leader Kim Jong has presented his respect for a family mausoleum to mark the birthday of his late father and former leader Kim Jong Il, state media said on Monday, committing to continue the “sacred struggle” for prosperity and security.
Kim Jong Il’s birthday, which falls on February 16, is widely held as an important holiday in North Korea, called The Day of the Shining Star.
But it was the first time in four years that the young Kim visited the Kumsusan Palacio del Sol in the capital, Pyongyang, which houses the embalmed bodies of his father and grandfather, for the anniversary.
Accompanied by Kim Yo Jong, his sister and a senior official of the ruling party of the Workers Party, among other assistants, Kim Jong a paid tribute “in the most humble reverence,” Kcna said.
“He expressed his solemn will to devote himself to the sacred struggle for the eternal prosperity of the country, the security of the people and the promotion of their well -being,” he said.
The Kim dynasty has ruled North Korea since its foundation after World War II and has tried to strengthen the control of its leaders about power by building personality cults around it, although Kim Jong has shown signs of treating each time more in his own feet of his own feet. without trusting their predecessors.
In another shipment, the state news agency KCNA said Kim attended an inauguration ceremony on Sunday for the final phase of its PET project to build 50,000 new houses in Pyongyang.
The ambitious initiative was launched in 2021 as part of Kim’s five -year plan to strengthen the economy, and designed to distribute at least 10,000 new apartments in Pyongyang every year, although some analysts have questioned their viability amid international sanctions and economic problems and economic problems .
The photos and a video released by Kcna showed Kim in a ceremony that received thunderous applause from thousands of people, many of them with protective helmets, in a context that shows images of modern and high apartments.
Koo Byoung-Sam, spokesman for the Ministry of Unification of South Korea, manages intermorean issues, said North Korea seems to be focused on producing tangible results by mobilizing the labor and material where they can progress with relative ease, such as the housing construction.
During the ceremony, Kim praised the workers and construction officials to achieve a progress of almost 400% last year compared to 2020, and promised another plan to continue expanding the city.
The project “would mark the beginning of a new era of prosperity of Pyongyang in which the ideal streets of the people of which to be proud in the world are built every year,” Kcna said.
