Housing Construction-Top Priority Task in the DPRK

At its Eighth Congress held in 2021, the Workers’ Party of Korea, the ruling party of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, set it as a major goal of the new five-year plan to build 50 000 flats in Pyongyang, the capital city.

In April 2022, 10 000 flats were inaugurated in the Songsin and Songhwa area as the first entity, showing its efforts to attain the goal.