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The wise leadership of the Workers' Party of Korea, which is turning cities and counties across the country into regional bases of a highly civilized, wealthy and developed socialist power, is ushering in an era of unprecedentedly great changes when assets of prosperity and welfare are created one after another in different parts of the country, hastening the accomplishment of the centuries-old cause of regional development. The Ragwon County Offshore Farm and the modern fishermen’s residential district, a construction project which has been pushed forward as a major policy-oriented task of the Party and the state this year according to the Party's policy on regional development and the decision of the historic Eleventh Plenary Meeting of the Eighth Central Committee of the WPK on strengthening the independent foundations of the regional economy and improving the material life of the regional people by developing the fishing industry in cities and counties in coastal areas in conformity with the natural and topographical features of the country bounded on the east and west by the sea, are greeting the day of significant and grand inauguration. The soldier-builders, who turned out in the construction of "Ragwonpho" associated with the noble love for the country and the people of the respectedComrade Kim Jong Un, performed proud labour feats of building a seafood production base of a characteristic style, fully equipped with modern production facilities and processing lines, and hundreds of modern houses in the fishermen’s village, most unique in terms of convenience, aesthetic beauty and formative art while in harmony with the surrounding natural scenery along the undulating mountain, in the spirit of devotedly implementing the Party's policies and the fighting stamina of performing miracles peculiar to the Korean People's Army. A grand inaugural ceremony of the Ragwon County Offshore Farm which has been built as another monumental creation on the east coast in the new era of regional development was held on August 30. The venue of the ceremony was full of great delight of the people in Ragwon County who will enjoy the joy of a new life and new civilization and the boundless pride of the soldier-builders who glorified their appellation of creators of the people's happiness through the construction of an ideal fishermen’s village of our own style. Kim Jong Un attended the inaugural ceremony. When Kim Jong Un arrived at the venue of the inaugural ceremony amid the playing of welcome music, all the participants cheered enthusiastically with strong emotion, looking up to the great leader who is ushering in the era of great prosperity, when every region across the country prospers all together, spending days and months of uninterrupted thinking and creation to make all our people enjoy all the benefits of the world. Present at the ceremony were members of the Presidium of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the WPK, leading officials of the Party, government and armed forces organs, chief secretaries of the Party committees of provinces, cities and counties and chairpersons of provincial people's committees in coastal areas, members of the non-permanent committees for promoting the Regional Development 20×10 Policy, officials and working people in South Hamgyong Province and Ragwon County, soldier-builders, employees of the Ragwon County Offshore Farm and their family members. Ju Chang Il, alternate member of the Political Bureau and department director of the Central Committee of the WPK, made an inaugural speech. The speaker said that the site, which had only a small port and sandy beach until February last, has been turned into a spectacular landscape symbolizing the eye-opening innovation and civilization of regions within a period of more than 190 days, adding that the Party's cherished desire to present the most beautiful port in the world to Ragwon County was successfully realized through the successful building of the farm with great economic effectiveness and prospect at a prime site for an offshore farming base and even a modern residential district preserving the features of the coastal area. This is a proud fruition achieved for the first time in the second year of implementing the regional development policy of our Party and an entity of change that vividly shows the appearance of the socialist paradise and the advanced development and the people's happiness brought about by the regional development policy in the new era, he said, adding that it is an important achievement that demonstrates the rapidly advancing speed of our creation and change and redoubles the faith in the future. He said that the change we have faced today proves that the Party's regional development policy, which has taken the course of less than two years, is confidently switching over from satisfying the basic demands of the people for their living on a nationwide scale to bringing about a sure change in more fundamental and comprehensive realms. He noted that Kim Jong Un gave detailed instructions on the principled issues arising in the construction of the Ragwon County Offshore Farm and energetically led the work to bring about a new phase of development in all aspects including viewpoint on and insight into architecture, design, construction and equipment and facilities for production. The landmark change of Ragwonpho, which has emerged as an ideal land of the people in 2025 to be specially recorded in the history of the country thanks to the devotion and direct guidance of Kim Jong Un, will convey forever the ardent sincerity of the father for the people and the nobleness of the people-first politics of our Party, he stressed. Upon authorization of the Party Central Committee, he extended warm thanks to all the service personnel who have most successfully fulfilled the tasks assigned by the Party and the people through devoted struggle and extraordinary efforts and proved the truth and vitality of the Party's policies with a visible entity. Kim Jong Un stood up, and paid militant tribute to the absolute patriotic loyalty and noble devotion of the service personnel who are achieving proud results of unprecedented changes and development with pure conscience and sincere and ardent love for their country, hometowns and families. The speaker said that it is the policy of the DPRK in Kim Jong Un ’s era to find out more worthwhile tasks like the construction of Ragwonpho to perform with credit and make all the cities and counties of the country prosperous, expressing the belief that the aquaculture in the new era, which our Party attaches importance to and steadily pushes forward with, will be revitalized with modern bases suited to the regional characteristics in different parts of the eastern and western coasts and this will be a powerful source of revenue for fostering the development capability of regional areas and steadily bringing about an upsurge in the nationwide trend of innovation. Kim Jong Un cut the inaugural tape. At the venue of the ceremony where a historic picture unfolded to prove a new advance of regional change, fireworks were set off and a number of balloons released to decorate the sky above Ragwonpho. Boy and girl students presented fragrant bouquets to Kim Jong Un, reflecting the unanimous gratitude of the people of Ragwon County. Kim Jong Un met the working people who would live in the ideal fishermen's village and warmly blessed them.
