North Korea's Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un Cuts The Ribbon To Formally Open The Pyongyang Sci-Tech Complex
North Korea's Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un attended the opening ceremony for a majestic science and technology complex in Pyongyang on Friday.
According to the North's state-run KCNA news agency Saturday, Kim added yet another ostentatious building to the already impoverished country's showcase capital. The complex is situated on a "propitious site" just next to the Taedong River in the capital.
The Southern China Morning Post reported Monday that Kim described the complex as a "a great center" that is open to everyone for education purposes and "for disseminating [the] latest science and technology in which the party's plan has been materialised."
"It is the party's firm determination to ... advance the establishment of a rich and powerful fatherland through the locomotive of science and technology," Kim said in his speech.
It is reported that Kim attended an opening ceremony on Jan.1 as a way of fulfilling the promise he made during his New Year address. The Supreme Leader reportedly promised the struggling one-party Stalinist State that he would raise their living standards.
During the opening ceremony, Kim was filmed cutting the ribbon to the gleaming structure. He was applauded by thousands of participants in attendance as balloons floated in the air and "Happy Tomorrow" played in the background. A TV commentator described the building as a model structure built from the nucleus. Other participants described the building as a mock-up model of the North's Unha rocket.
Kim Jong Un was also filmed getting the grand tour around the complex. He also commented that the complex's completion showed how great the Worker's Party of Korea attaches to the development of science and technology.
According to a statement by The Channel News Asia, Pyongyang's KCNA news agency reported that the complex will be utilized "for disseminating [the] latest science and technology in which the party's plan has been materialised."
Generally, Pyongyang comprises of numerous monuments and pompous edifices of dubious purpose spawned by the personality cult of the Kim dynasty. Its construction has siphoned a lot of money as well as resources during the state's poor economy.
