{"id":45006,"date":"2020-05-26T10:01:02","date_gmt":"2020-05-26T01:01:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/?p=45006"},"modified":"2020-05-26T10:09:35","modified_gmt":"2020-05-26T01:09:35","slug":"wonsan-kalma-project-workers-sent-pyongyang-hospital-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wonsan-kalma-project-workers-sent-pyongyang-hospital-project\/","title":{"rendered":"Wonsan-Kalma project workers sent to Pyongyang hospital project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Architectural designers and other key personnel were transferred from the Wonsan-Kalma Coastal Tourism Zone project to the Pyongyang General Hospital project earlier this month, Daily NK has learned.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The move of personnel comes after North Korea\u2019s leadership recently decided to focus the country\u2019s efforts on constructing the Pyongyang General Hospital.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Only a few high-level construction-related officials remain at the Wonsan-Kalma project site. With the exception of workers focused on \u201cinterior construction,\u201d construction workers at the site have reportedly been ordered to work on farm fields from the \u201cend of May to mid-June.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The completion date for the project was set for April 15 of this year and there are signs that the lack of construction materials and labor will end up pushing the completion date back even further.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">38 North, a North Korea-focused website, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.38north.org\/2020\/05\/wonsan051920\/\">reported<\/a> on May 19 that several resort facilities on the project site remain incomplete.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cConstruction on the site more or less stopped in mid-March because of the lack of construction materials and labor,\u201d a source inside the country told Daily NK on May 25. \u201cThere are worries that the project won\u2019t even be completed by Oct. 10.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Oct. 10 is the 75th anniversary of the founding of North Korea\u2019s communist party.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThere was an attempt to finish the project by Apr. 15 by forcing soldiers to work on construction in the terrible cold in January, February and March, but they only managed to finish about 60% of the facilities,\u201d the source said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Daily NK <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/north-korea-pushes-workers-finish-tourist-zone-deadline\/\">reported<\/a> in March that North Korea tried to push military construction units to finish the project by Apr. 15.<\/p>\n<p><em>*Translated by Violet Kim<\/em><\/p>\n<p><i>Please direct any comments or questions about this article to dailynkenglish@uni-media.net.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/%EC%9B%90%EC%82%B0%EA%B0%88%EB%A7%88-%ED%88%AC%EC%9E%85-%ED%95%B5%EC%8B%AC%EC%9D%B8%EB%A0%A5-%ED%8F%89%EC%96%91%EC%9C%BC%EB%A1%9C-%EA%B5%B0%EC%9D%B8%EC%9D%80-%EB%86%8D%EC%B4%8C-%EB%8F%99%EC%9B%90\/\">Read in Korean<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Architectural designers and other key personnel were transferred from the Wonsan-Kalma Coastal Tourism Zone project to the Pyongyang General Hospital project earlier this month, Daily NK has learned.\u00a0 The move of personnel comes after North Korea\u2019s leadership recently decided to focus the country\u2019s efforts on constructing the Pyongyang General Hospital. 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