The Physical Exercise Center in Thongil Street is a modern one built according to the direct initiative and plan of Kim Jong Un who is always deeply concerned for the promotion of people's health and living standard.

The center having a total floor space of13 749 square metres consists of a physical exercise room for health, underwater supersonic wave room, recovery room, table-tennis room, soft drink shop, etc.

It is well equipped with 138 sporting apparatuses of 61 kinds including apparatuses for running, cycling and paddling exercises and modern medical facilities.

Going round various places of the center, Kim Jong Un acquainted himself in detail with the apparatuses and their distribution and use project.

Making the rounds of the physical exercise rooms for health on the ground and first floors, he learned in detail about the features of apparatuses.

Seeing various kinds of physical exercise apparatuses one by one, he said it is important to rationally distribute the apparatuses as befitting the center for the people.

At the rooms, he said that in order to help working people to train their physical bodies by use of various sporting apparatuses, and receive medical treatment it is necessary to cooperate with experts to seek and positively apply scientific methods of using apparatuses suited to their age and physical characteristics.

At the recovery room he said when servants acquire expertise knowledge including physical treatment method, they can positively contribute to the promotion of people's health and medical treatment.

At the physical exercise room for health on the second floor, he noted that it was arranged better than the rooms on the ground and first floors.

Apparatuses for running and cycling exercises are good, he said, noting that if not only school youth and children but office workers who work in rooms all day long take exercises and receive medical treatment at the center, they can devote themselves to the revolutionary work in good health.

Going round the underwater supersonic wave room furnished with modern supersonic wave equipment to stimulate each region of body and equipment for wet and dry steam bath and shower, he underlined to need provide service well so that working people may find the center effective for physical exercises and medical treatment.

It is the steadfast determination and will of the Workers' Party of Korea to enable the best people in the world to fully enjoy wealth and prosperity under socialism, he said, calling for operating the center well so that the happy laughter of the people may be heard from the center.

He was accompanied by Choe Ryong Hae, Kim Jong Gak, Kim Kyong Ok, Pak Thae Song, Hwang Pyong So and Ma Won Chun.