The respected Comrade
"The ideological and cultural revolutions have been promoted successfully in the countryside, with the result that the ideological and spiritual qualities of our agricultural working people have been transformed and great developments have been achieved in rural cultural life."
It was nothing but the news of moving into new houses in the socialist countryside that was the most popular and widely reported in the DPRK last year.
Following the house-moving in the Samgwang Livestock Farm of the North Phyongan Provincial Rural Economy Committee in February last year, songs of happiness reverberated in the sky of the "greenhouse town", "farm town" spreading far away in Kangdong area on the spring day of March.
When the moving to the new houses were in full swing in Rimhung Street which was built as a beautiful new fairyland in Pyongyang, a ceremony of moving into new houses was held in the Pobu Farm in Kaechon City, to have one happy event after another both in the capital and the local areas at the same time.
From February to October, more than 130 pieces of news about moving into the rural dwelling houses were reported on Rodong Sinmun.
When people are moving into the new houses both in the capital city and local areas of the DPRK at the same time, the news is told that the ship carrying refugees sank in the sea and many precious lives were lost, and people are eking out a precarious living in the ruins destroyed by the frantic and continuous bombing of the imperialists.
But in the DPRK where the destiny and happiness of the people are firmly guaranteed, the news of the happy events in the countryside is told every day.
Looking back on the history of mankind, the countryside has been the address of the poor and miserable victims for thousands of years. It was the fate of the countryside that descended from generation to generation to suffer poverty and to be far from modern civilization though it is the site of happiness.
Today the countryside, which was the synonym for centuries-old backwardness in the past, means the epoch-making changes and civilization and this is the new path of prosperity our countryside is picturing along with the great
The Korean people will vigorously advance with confidence in sure victory to achieve the all-round prosperity of the rich and civilized state, to carry out the historical cause of simultaneous development of the capital and the provinces to brilliant completion, and to bring earlier the new times of communism, the supreme ideal of mankind, under the wise leadership of the respected Comrade
