calendar>>January 10. 2009 Juche 98
Wonsan Youth Power Station Commissioned
Pyongyang, January 10 (KCNA) -- The large-scale Wonsan Youth Power Station was commissioned with due ceremony on Saturday.

The builders of the station finished on the highest level the overall projects, such as waterway tunneling, dam building, pressure conduit project, assembling of equipment and building of generating room and electric power system, by introducing advanced building methods after working out a rational dam design of Korean style under the difficult conditions that everything was in need.

General Secretary Kim Jong Il clearly indicated the orientation and ways for its construction several times and preferentially provided everything needed. Recently he visited again the completed station and gave pep talk to the workers out in the new year's advance movement, expressing great satisfaction at the fact that the builders have successfully constructed the modern power station of historic significance.

The completion of the station, which was successfully built as a admirable edifice in the era of Songun in the wake of the Anbyon Youth Power Station and Anbyon Youth Power Station No.2, helped completely carry into practice President Kim Il Sung's last instructions on establishing a competent hydro-power base in Kangwon Province and Kim Jong Il's far-reaching plan for providing the people with happier life.

Attending the ceremony were Premier Kim Yong Il, Department Director of the Workers' Party of Korea Central Committee Pak Nam Gi, Chairman of the State Planning Commission Kim Kwang Rin and officials concerned and officials, builders and working people of Kangwon Province.

There a letter of thanks from Kim Jong Il was conveyed to the builders and volunteers who performed the shining labor feats in the construction of the power station.

Ri Chol Bong, chief secretary of the Kangwon Provincial Committee of the WPK, made an unveiling address which was followed by speeches.

The speakers stressed the need to brilliantly adorn a-hundred-year history of Kim Il Sung's Korea shining with the Juche era with the great victory of Korean-style socialism and expressed the determination to proudly complete the Wonsan Army-People Power Station and bring about a new turn in the drive to build a great prosperous and powerful socialist nation by giving full play to their infinite mental power again.

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