Kim at ground-breaking of Pyongyang housing project

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un attended the groundbreaking of a new apartment construction project in a suburb of Pyongyang on Saturday, state media reported early Sunday. It was the second groundbreaking ceremony for 10,000 homes in the capital, calling the project a "long-cherished desire" of the country.

At the eighth congress of the ruling Workers' Party meeting last year, North Korea announced its aim of building 50,000 apartments in Pyongyang by 2025, or 10,000 units each year. A groundbreaking ceremony for the first stage of the project to build 10,000 homes in the eastern Pyongyang was held in March last year, with Kim also attending, and the apartment complex is now reportedly in the final stage.