The Youth Hero Motorway has been built between the forked road to Mangyongdae in Pyongyang, the capital city of the DPRK and the entrance of Nampho, a port city in the West Sea of Korea.
Leader Kim Jong Il unfolded a plan of linking the Kwangbok Street with Nampho after the street was built so as to make Pyongyang the city with a port and on September 28, 1998 assigned the task of building the Pyongyang-Nampho Motorway by the 55th founding anniversary of the Workers’ Party of Korea to the Youth League.
With the leader’s task in mind, the young people had a meeting for hastening the building of the Pyongyang-Nampho Motorway and started the project, on November 20, 1998. They cracked rocky mountains with hammers and gads and carried on shoulders sacks filled of earth and stones in spite of ferocious nature and thus built the 25 km-long roadbed. They successfully finished raising a ground level and laying out road metal, sand and crushed stones for roadbed in 1 year and 1 month since it was started, and from July 2000 they began paving it on a full scale.
As a result, the motorway was completed before the 55th founding anniversary of the WPK and its inauguration was held on October 11, 2000.
Leader Kim Jong Il named the Pyongyang-Nampho motorway Youth Here Motorway to convey to posterity the merits of the young people fully displayed in its building.
The heroic feats of youth builders will be remembered forever by the country and the people.
