Kim Jong Un Tours Paektusan Architectural Institute

Pyongyang, July 14 (KCNA) -- Kim Jong Un, supreme leader of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, provided field guidance to the Paektusan Architectural Institute. He went round the room for education in the revolutionary history, the room preserving historic data and relics and the room dedicated to history of the institute. Watching photos of leader Kim Jong Il giving on-the-spot guidance to the institute, he said they clearly show the history of Kim Jong Il's leadership over the development of the Juche-oriented architecture. Going round the exhibition of architectural sci-tech achievements, the room for the study of architectural designs, the information study room and other places, he set forth the tasks for the institute. The officials, designers, architects and researchers of the institute should firmly equip themselves with our Party's idea of Juche-based architectural beauty and construction policy and wage a dynamic drive to erect buildings to shine long along with the era of the Workers' Party, structures strictly based on the Juche character, national character, originality and modern style, he said. He called on the designers, architects and researchers to thoroughly reject similarity and repetition in architectural designing and work hard to build a greater number of buildings for health, green ones, zero energy and zero carbon ones and multi-functional structures, etc. He underscored the need for the institute to direct big efforts to the work for maximizing the proportion of locally available finishing building materials, making building materials diversified, increasing their varieties and producing multi-colored ones, exploring new areas in architecture, raising the creative skill of designers and architects and accumulating more data on world architecture. Noting that the Party has a very great expectation in the institute, he expressed belief that its officials, designers, architects and researchers would creditably discharge their heavy yet honorable mission and duty. Then he had a photo session with them. -0-