Kim praised the speed of reconstruction work in Kimhwa County in the country’s southeast during the visit with Kim Yo Jong, KCNA reported. Summer storms and floods have hit North Korea hard, destroying thousands of homes and raising concerns of a worsening of the country’s chronic food shortages. While praising the recovery, Kim said he “felt regretful” that new houses in the area were of a “monotonous” design. Earlier, state media had called the cookie-cutter houses a model of the “socialist fairyland”, advertising the regime’s recovery efforts after thousands of homes were destroyed by floods. Kim said that although speed was important, he wished “artistic harmony with the surrounding environment and diversity had been appropriately combined”, KCNA said.

Source: Dhaka Tribune October 02, 2020 00:45 UTC