Curiously Familiar

North Korea orders 400 housing units built in North Hamgyong in a single month

Local cadres voice quiet alarm over materials shortages and labor mobilization demands

North Korea is pushing a sweeping housing construction drive across the country under the banner of “regional development,” and central party officials traveled to North Hamgyong province earlier this month to enforce the campaign’s targets with unusual intensity...

The officials repeatedly stressed that the current housing construction targets surpass those of the Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il eras, describing the campaign as “an unprecedented housing supply revolution for regional development in the history of the republic.”

Interesting due to a significant similarity with the UK government target of building 1.5 million net new dwellings in 5 years. 

Not only housing of course. There are prominent UK politicians and political pundits who have government central planning securely embedded at the centre of their ideology, where government is the sole originator of inflexible plans, targets and rules in all areas of life.