The DPRK held a plenary session of the Workers’ Party yesterday (8), chaired by the supreme leader and General Secretary Kim Jong-un, to discuss the detailed guidelines of this year’s economic plan based on the new five-year plan for national economic development drawn up at the 8th plenary session of the Workers’ Party in early January this year, setting the metal and chemical industries as the main axis of the people’s economy and severely criticizing the negative and self-preserving political atmosphere in the country.
According to the North Korean official media “KCNA” this morning, the authorities held the 2nd plenary meeting of the 8th session of the Central Committee of the Workers’ Party in order to implement the strategic tasks and targets proposed at the 8th plenary meeting in early January this year, in order to comply with the decision of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Workers’ Party, especially for the review of the 2021 business report plan by various government departments.
In the meeting, Kim Jong-un especially mentioned that the Party Central Committee is required to have a strong will and determination to promote economic development in order to guarantee and improve the people’s stable quality of Life in the face of the global new Epidemic that has not yet ended.
Kim Jong-un reviewed the problems in the formulation of the 5-year national economic plan and criticized it in harsh words, “The national economic steering body has a negative and self-preservationist tendency in setting the goals of this year’s struggle, and I hereby express my severe rebuke! And I blame myself for the fact that the participants of the conference have lost the spirit of the party conference and failed to meet the highest expectations of the people in the first year after the formulation of the new 5-year plan.”
In recent years, the DPRK has emphasized the importance of economic development and Kim Jong-un, who presided over the Plenum, set the metal and chemical industries as the “central axis of the people’s economy” and launched concentrated investment, and made every effort to promote iron production and expand chemical fertilizer production, while in the fields of electricity supply, petrochemical industry, railway transportation, construction, light industry, commerce, etc. In addition, the company also proposed the goals to be achieved this year to the departments in charge of each field.
In the past, Kim Jong-un was in seclusion from April last year until May when he suddenly attended the completion ceremony of a phosphorus fertilizer plant in Suncheon, which shows that North Korea is gradually paying attention to economic development, especially the livelihood economy and chemical fertilizer production.
The Yonhap News Agency pointed out that this Time, not only important party and government officials participated in the meeting, but also the operation cadres of major enterprises attended in large numbers, mainly because the authorities hope to listen to the voices of laborers and related people on the spot when formulating economic plans, and to formulate feasible goals.
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