A major renovation project focused on Pyongyang's Ryomyong Street is nearing completion, state media photos published on Friday show, with authorities now focusing attention on a major turfing and tree-planting campaign.
The Rodong Sinmun photos, which show soldier-builders landscape gardening, polishing surfaces and smoothing asphalt, suggest authorities are on track to complete at least external aspects of the project by the April 15 deadline of founding president Kim Il Sung's birth anniversary, now just five weeks away.
A major renovation project focused on Pyongyang's Ryomyong Street is nearing completion, state media photos published on Friday show, with authorities now focusing attention on a major turfing and tree-planting campaign.
The Rodong Sinmun photos, which show soldier-builders landscape gardening, polishing surfaces and smoothing asphalt, suggest authorities are on track to complete at least external aspects of the project by the April 15 deadline of founding president Kim Il Sung's birth anniversary, now just five weeks away.
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