On February 6, 2025 the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un made a speech at the groundbreaking ceremony of a hospital and leisure complex in Kangdong County for the Regional Development 20×10 Policy. In the speech he said that the signs of backward and underdeveloped character of the regions can be found more largely in the sphere of cultural life than in that of material life, and the most serious of the gaps between the urban communities and the rural ones is to be seen in the sectors of public health, hygienic arrangement, science and education.
Kim Jong Un continued that as it is impossible ever to eliminate this cultural backwardness of the regions if we put off the necessary endeavour for this or that reason while refusing to accept this stark reality and simply discussing the feasibilities, the Party Central Committee made an unusual, revolutionary determination to carry out a decisive action of injecting advanced science, technology and civilization into all cities, counties and even mountain regions across the country and thus advancing forward without letup towards the already-defined goals of regional development.
