Politics

The 34th Plenary Meeting of the 14th Standing Committee of the Supreme People's Assembly (SPA) of the DPRK took place at the Mansudae Assembly Hall in Pyongyang on December 5.

Present there were vice-chairmen Kang Yun Sok and Kim Ho Chol, Secretary General Ko Kil Son and other members of the SPA Standing Committee.

Relevant officials of the SPA Standing Committee, the Secretariat of the Cabinet, ministries and national agencies were on hand as observers.

Choe Ryong Hae, member of the Presidium of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea, first vice-president of the State Affairs Commission of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea and chairman of the Standing Committee of the Supreme People's Assembly, presided over the plenary meeting.

The meeting discussed as its agenda items the issue of convening the Supreme People's Assembly of the DPRK, the issue of deliberating on and adopting the law on managing identification and the law on preventing noise pollution, the issue of recalling and electing judges and people's assessors of the Central Court and others.

The decision of the SPA Standing Committee on convening the Twelfth Session of the 14th Supreme People's Assembly of the DPRK was adopted with unanimous approval at the plenary meeting.

Then, there was a report on the main contents of relevant drafts of laws discussed by the Legislation Committee of the SPA.

On the basis of study and discussion of the proposed bills, the meeting adopted with unanimous approval a decree of the SPA Standing Committee "On adopting the Law of the DPRK on Managing Identification" and "On adopting the Law of the DPRK on Preventing Noise Pollution".

The meeting recalled and elected the judges and people's assessors of the Central Court of the DPRK.