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Kim opens new residential area in Pyongyang

(13 Apr 2017) North Korean leader Kim Jong Un attended the opening of a big new city development project in Pyongyang on Thursday. A series of skyscraper apartment blocks have been put up in just over a year along Ryomyong Street, which runs out of downtown Pyongyang, past North Korea's top university, Kim Il Sung University, and down to the palace where North Korea's past leaders are kept embalmed. At 70 stories, one of the blocks is Pyongyang's tallest apartment building. Kim Jong Un cut a ribbon to mark the opening of the street, but did not make a speech. Instead North Korean Premier Pak Pong Ju made a short speech praising Ryomyong Street and its significance. The construction of Ryomyong Street has gone on at breakneck speed, only interrupted by a flooding disaster in the northeast of North Korea last autumn, when resources where temporarily diverted to reconstruction of homes there. North Korea has a history of connecting landmark construction projects to important dates on its calendar. The most recent previous example, another new street, Mirae Street, was built in time for the 65th anniversary in 2015 of founding of the North Korea's ruling Worker's Party. Thursday's ceremony came amid growing tensions between North Korea and the US. A US aircraft carrier is steaming to waters off the Korean Peninsula as anticipation mounts that Kim will stage another weapons test around the anniversary of the birth of his grandfather, Kim Il Sung, the nation's founder, on Saturday. You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/you... Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork