Politics

An enlarged Cabinet plenary meeting took place on January 20 by way of videoconferencing to vow to thoroughly carry out the important tasks set forth at the Sixth Plenary Meeting of the Eighth Central Committee of the Workers’ Party of Korea.

It was directed by Premier Kim Tok Hun, who is also member of the Presidium of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the WPK and vice-president of the State Affairs Commission of the DPRK. 

It was attended by vice-premiers Pak Jong Gun and Yang Sung Ho and other Cabinet members.

Present there as observers were officials of organs directly under the authority of the Cabinet and ministries, chairpersons of provincial, city and county people’s committees, and officials of agricultural guidance organs and major industrial establishments. 

The meeting discussed the measures to thoroughly carry out the important tasks set forth at the Party plenum. 

He said that the Party plenum defined this year as a year of making a big stride in the development of the national economy and set it as the main task of economic work to mainly carry out the plan for readjustment and reinforcement decided by the Eighth Congress of the WPK while pepping up production in overall sectors and units.

Kim Tok Hun made a report.

There were speeches at the meeting.

The speakers expressed their determination to find out definite methodologies for implementing Party policies and implement the indices of the national economy to be attained this year without fail, regarding the successes, experience and lessons gained in last year’s struggle as a stepping stone for a leap.

The meeting announced measures for the matters put forward by the participants as regards the work of the Cabinet and the administrative and economic work of the state and adopted relevant decisions clarifying more detailed, scientific and practical ways with unanimous approbation.