North Korea’s leader Kim Jong-un touring a vegetable greenhouse farm and a tree nursery which were completed in Jungphyong area, Kyongsong County, North Hamgyong Province, North Korea. Photo by KCNA / EPA
June 1 (Asia Today) — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un inspected a large greenhouse farm with his daughter Kim Ju Ae, marking his first public livelihood-related visit in about two months, state media reported Monday.
The Korean Central News Agency said Kim visited the Sinuiju Combined Greenhouse Farm on Saturday with Kim Ju Ae and senior party and government officials.
The greenhouse complex has drawn repeated attention from Kim. He visited the site five times last year, including for its groundbreaking ceremony, and chose it as his first public field guidance trip of this year. He also attended its completion ceremony in February.
Kim called for the farm to focus not only on productivity but also on crop diversity and scientific cultivation management to provide people with nutritious and good-tasting vegetables.
He said the Sinuiju Vegetable Science Research Center has an important role in advancing scientific greenhouse vegetable production and called for measures to help quickly introduce its research results to greenhouse farms across the country.
Kim also said the Sinuiju farm should serve as a model for the balanced development of new greenhouse farms nationwide.
He expressed satisfaction after being briefed that hundreds of tons of vegetables from more than 1,150 greenhouses were being supplied each day to child care and education facilities.
Kim also inspected construction sites for medical facilities, a general service center and a vegetable processing plant in the farm district. KCNA said construction of those facilities was about 50% complete.
Kim described the Wihwa Island area, where the farm is located, as a model for regional transformation in a new era.
North Korea has promoted the greenhouse farm as a symbol of its people-centered and regional development policies. The project was built in the Wihwa Island area of Sinuiju, which suffered severe flooding in the summer of 2024. The complex covers an area about 1.5 times the size of Seoul’s Yeouido district.
The Sinuiju Vegetable Science Research Center is also being presented as a research, academic and distribution base for greenhouse farming across North Korea.
Kim had recently focused much of his public activity on military affairs. His latest visit to the Sinuiju greenhouse complex was his first livelihood-related public inspection since he visited service facilities in the fourth-stage section of Pyongyang’s Hwasong district in April.
The visit appeared intended to portray Kim as a leader concerned with people’s living conditions while continuing to emphasize national defense.
— Reported by Asia Today; translated by UPI
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