SEOUL, November 21 (AJP) - North Korean leader Kim Jong-un attended a ceremony marking the completion of a hydropower plant in Kangwon Province, state media reported on Friday.
According to the state-run Rodong Sinmun, Kim visited the plant the previous day, the sixth to be built in the region amid the country's chronic electricity shortage.
In his speech, Kim described the plant's completion as a significant achievement, praising the collaboration between the military and civilians in its construction and calling it a "fortress of socialist belief."
The visit came just a few days after Kim attended the grand opening of a hospital near Pyongyang earlier in the week.
These visits appear to be part of efforts to boast his key projects aimed at boosting the local economy ahead of the country's Party Congress, slated for early next year.
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