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Mansudae Street Built in Pyongyang
Pyongyang, December 5 (KCNA) -- People who had moved into new houses in Mansudae Street in Pyongyang have begun living a happy life. The apartment buildings in the street were constructed on the bank of the River Pothong in a peculiar way and in perfect harmony with nearby magnificent edifices.

Those who settled in the nice apartment houses this year replete with great change are very pleased with their new homes and other citizens of the capital, too, rejoice at their luck.

The apartment buildings in the street were constructed splendidly as a pattern of housing construction in the Songun era.

The interior of each unit with a floor space of a hundred and several dozen square meters was designed well to suit family life.

It, fully furnished with heating system, water supply and drainage facilities, ventilation and calefaction devices, quality furniture and household utensils, has well-arranged living rooms, vestibule, kitchen, washroom and bathroom.

It also has a store in a verandah to keep kimchi in winter.

Residential quarters, with apartment buildings of different sizes and stories standing in a three-dimensional shape, were placed in a harmonious and coherent way, while giving prominence to each building's features.

The buildings are colorfully decorated with various kinds of local-made coating materials and some of them have roofs of the Korean architectural style.

Trees and flowers of good species have been planted in areas covering nearly a half of the total plottage and such public amenities as service facilities, kindergarten, nursery and park built in the street to fully afford convenience to the residents in their daily life.

Modern apartment buildings with 100,000 units like those in Mansudae Street will appear in Pyongyang within a few years.

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