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No. 50/22 June 22, 2022
1. Third Enlarged Meeting of Eighth Central Military Commission of WPK Convened
2. Will to Achieve Substantial Progress Reaffirmed
3. Kim Jong Un Formulates a Policy on Building Up the State’s Anti-Epidemic Capabilities
4. Perilous Military Provocation Disturbs Regional Peace and Security
Third Enlarged Meeting of Eighth Central Military Commission of WPK Convened
Pyongyang, June 22 (KCNA) -- The Third Enlarged Meeting of the Eighth Central Military Commission of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK) was convened on June 21.
Kim Jong Un, general secretary of the WPK and president of the State Affairs of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, attended the meeting.
Present at the meeting are members of the Central Military Commission of the WPK. Officials of the relevant departments of the Party Central Committee, members of the executive committee of the Korean People's Army (KPA) Committee of the WPK, commanding officers of the Ministry of National Defence and military and political commanding officers of the large combined units of the KPA are on hand as observers.
Kim Jong Un, general secretary of the WPK and chairman of the Central Military Commission of the WPK, presided over the meeting.
The meeting will analyze and review the work system, order and actual conditions of the WPK Central Military Commission and the provincial, city and county Party military commissions and discuss major tasks for further enhancing the function and role of the military commissions at all levels. It will also review the overall work for national defence in the first half of the year and put on its agenda the issues of confirming the crucial and urgent tasks to build up national defence and thoroughly implementing the military line and key defence policies of the Party.
The meeting will review the military and political activities of the Ministry of National Defence, the General Staff of the KPA, the KPA Committee of the WPK, commanding officers, staff sections and political departments of the KPA units at all levels, and the Party organizations of the armed forces organs, before deciding on the important strategic and tactical tasks to be fulfilled by the KPA.
The Central Military Commission of the WPK started the discussion on the presented agenda items.
Will to Achieve Substantial Progress Reaffirmed
In early June, an enlarged meeting of the Fifth Plenary Meeting of the Eighth Central Committee of the Workers’ Party of Korea was held in Pyongyang, the capital city of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, amid the interest and expectation of the international community.
According to the country’s mass media, the meeting made a mid-term review of the implementation of the major policies of the WPK and the state for 2022, set the work orientation and policies of struggle for the second half of the year, and discussed and adopted practical measures for giving a strong and correct impetus to the projects of national importance.
Kim Jong Un, General Secretary of the WPK, made a concluding speech at the meeting.
He first referred to the successes achieved in the aspects of the political activities and management of the state, the country’s development and crisis response and management over the past six months and clarified the tasks for thoroughly implementing the economic policies of the Party and the state for the second half of the year.
He specified the work orientation and practical measures to be taken by the key industrial sectors including the metal, chemical, electric power and coal industries in the second half of the year.
He set farming and consumer goods production as the most pressing economic tasks for this year.
The meeting referred to practical ways for powerfully accelerating the implementation of the WPK’s agricultural policy. Among them were the issue of making the Party’s new policy of agricultural revolution prove effective from the first year of its enforcement by successfully concluding the farming of wheat and barley that were planted as earlier crops, the issue of directing all efforts to making full preparations for protecting crops from natural disasters as much as possible, the issue of putting manuring and cultivation of crops on a higher scientific basis, the issue of increasing the proportion of the farm work done by machines and the issue of intensifying scientific guidance over and state support for farming.
It also stressed the need for light industry to launch a dynamic campaign for production and increased production with the demands of the people in their life as the yardstick.
Kim Jong Un said that the construction sector should complete without fail the important construction projects slated for this year one after another to demonstrate the mettle of the Korean-style socialism to the world.
He pointed to the issue of making agricultural workers realize in practice the validity and vitality of the programme of the WPK for socialist rural construction by making sure that the Cabinet, provinces, cities and counties carry out without fail the first year’s task for rural housing construction which was launched on a full scale this year, the issue of concentrating national efforts on rapidly developing science by holding science and technology as the lifeline of economic development and the issue of resolutely innovating economic management.
Kim Jong Un placed a special emphasis on having a proper viewpoint on education at present.
Saying that education is not an undertaking whose results are immediately visible but a long-term one and that correct efforts for it are a springboard to future development, he called for further intensified guidance and assistance to the nationwide improvement in education, including the Party and policy-oriented guidance on the educational work and technical guidance on educational contents.
He stressed the need to continue to direct great efforts to strengthening the national defence capability.
Saying that the right to self-defence is an issue of defending the national sovereignty, he clarified once again the WPK’s fighting principle of power for power and head-on contest in defending the national sovereignty. And he set forth the militant tasks to be pushed forward forcefully by the armed forces and national defence research sector of the DPRK.
The General Secretary noted: We should open up a new phase of vigorous national development by taking the current harsh and difficult period unprecedented in history as an opportunity for getting stronger and more tested and displaying firm will and spirit of persevering exertion and do our best to ensure that all the undertakings for this year are correctly executed at the scheduled development speed.
Through the meeting, the WPK showed its will to reverse the current severe situation to a good opportunity for bolstering the country’s own strength, its internal driving force, and make substantial progress in the year 2022, an important stage in implementing the five-year plan of development and transformation.
Kim Jong Un Formulates a Policy on Building Up the State’s Anti-Epidemic Capabilities
Recently, an enlarged meeting of the Fifth Plenary Meeting of the Eighth Central Committee of the Workers’ Party of Korea was held in Pyongyang, the capital city of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, in the presence of General Secretary Kim Jong Un.
The meeting discussed an important agenda item of powerfully pushing forward with building up the state’s anti-epidemic capabilities.
The General Secretary clarified the strategic and tactical plans for finally defusing the malignant epidemic crisis, restoring stability and vigorously promoting the building-up of the state’s anti-epidemic capabilities, its capacity to cope with crisis.
Now the state’s anti-epidemic work has entered the new stage of both blockade and eradication of the epidemic from the blockade-focused prevention after the unexpected serious crisis caused by the spread of the virulent virus.
In a report to the enlarged meeting the General Secretary said that, under the current situation in the state’s anti-epidemic work, the urgent task facing the Party and state is to immediately remedy the shortcomings and deviations revealed in the work and to take decisive steps for building up the country’s anti-epidemic capabilities.
He said that only when the anti-epidemic policy of the Party and state is enforced in a strict, scientific and advanced way, can it prove successful, stressing the need to steadily improve the anti-epidemic system and methods.
Our anti-epidemic work is based on the people’s voluntary unity in action, not on any institutional mechanism or material and technical means, he said, adding that great victory in this work can be won only through an all-people resistance, by their joint efforts.
On May 12 the state’s epidemic prevention system was switched to the top-level emergency anti-epidemic system; since then, the Korean people have turned out as one in implementing the ruling WPK’s and the government’s measures for rigorous blockade and anti-epidemic work.
In the report Kim Jong Un clarified in detail the tasks for overcoming the immediate epidemic crisis: The Party organizations at all levels should conduct a vigorous ideological work for arousing all the people to the anti-epidemic war and guide the emergency anti-epidemic work in a responsible manner; all the Party cells should find on their own initiative the work to be done in the current anti-epidemic situation and ensure that Party members fulfil their duties and responsibilities with the same thought and action; officials should always lead Party members and all other broad sections of the people in the van of the anti-epidemic front, learn in detail about and grasp the enforcement of the emergency anti-epidemic system on the spot and take timely steps.
Underlining the need to vigorously promote the building-up of the state’s anti-epidemic capabilities, he said that the capabilities to be built by us is an ensemble of a consolidated work system and order, technical forces, material foundations and potentials capable of containing, controlling and defusing any possible health crisis, which the country might face, on its own initiative and in a stable way.
He reviewed and analyzed the invaluable experience gained and lessons drawn in the course of ensuring the preventive security of the country for over two years by enforcing our own style of epidemic prevention policy and of running the top-level emergency anti-epidemic system. He noted that all the emergency anti-epidemic policies and guidelines and the measures and policies pursued so far by the Party and the government serve as a great asset for building up the state’s anti-epidemic capabilities.
He set forth the immediate goal, long-term goal and detailed ways for firmly consolidating the material and technical foundations for bolstering up the state’s anti-epidemic capabilities.
Noting that the current anti-epidemic war is an occasion for gaining priceless experience and stratagems for creditably defending the security of the country and the people in any future health crisis, he called for bringing about an unprecedented miracle in restoring the stability in the anti-epidemic work by further intensifying the Party work, economic organization and public healthcare to give the fullest play to the organizing ability of our united society and the advantages of the socialist public health system.
He ardently called for firmly protecting the health and safety of the dear people by organizing and launching the emergency anti-epidemic work scrupulously, flexibly and substantially with confidence and courage and powerfully accelerating the building-up of the country’s capabilities for coping with any epidemic disease and crisis.
Perilous Military Provocation Disturbs Regional Peace and Security
The 19th Asian Security Summit was recently held in Singapore. It is said that the defense authorities from the U.S., Japan and south Korea, at the summit, have denounced as a “threat” our measures to bolster up national defense capabilities. They also have committed themselves to making a detailed plan and conducting at the earliest convenience trilateral missile warning and ballistic missile search and tracking exercise, and to taking follow-up measures.
The world knows well that peace and security in the region have been exposed to serious threats due to the joint military exercises conducted annually by the U.S. and its vassal forces including Japan and south Korea on the Korean peninsula and in the region.
Since its first joint military exercise with south Korea - “Focus Lens” - in 1954, the U.S. has ceaselessly conducted all kinds of war drills so far, to include “Team Spirit” and “Ulji Focus Lens”, “RSOI” (“Reception, Staging, Onward movement, and Integration”), “Key Resolve”, “Foal Eagle”, “Ulji Freedom Guardian”, etc.
The frequency of the exercises far exceeds that of any other war exercises conducted by the U.S. in other regions. Their scale is also huge as they mobilize strategic nuclear triad such as nuclear aircraft carriers, nuclear submarines and nuclear strategic bomber.
The nature of the exercises is very aggressive and provocative as it involves “decapitation operation”, “tweezers operation”, “invasion of Pyongyang”, etc.
In the meantime, the U.S. has converted Japanese islands into America’s arsenal and concentrated enormous nuclear assets there. On the other hand, it is seriously threatening the peace and security not only on the Korean peninsula but also in the region of north East Asia by conducting joint military exercises with Japan, which is dreaming of “Great East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere”, sharpening its sword of reinvasion.
This year alone, the U.S. brought strategic assets such as nuclear aircraft carriers “Ronald Regan”, “Abraham Lincoln” and strategic bomber “B-1B” in the vicinity of the Korean peninsula under the pretext of coping with our “threat of ballistic missile” and conducted rounds of ground and air joint military exercises with Japan and south Korea, thus escalating tension on the Korean peninsula.
The U.S. persists in its denouncing the DPRK as a “threat” and is pushing ahead with the U.S.-Japan-south Korea tripartite joint military exercises. Its ulterior purpose is to form, by all possible means, a tripartite military alliance to realize its Indo-Pacific strategy.
Of late, the U.S. has been persistent in its scheme to drag Japan and south Korea into “Five Eyes”, an alliance of secret intelligence services. In the meantime, it has been planning to enhance its military cooperation between Japan and south Korea and urging NATO to be involved in the Indo-Pacific region. The above-mentioned facts show that the scheme to create an “Asian version of NATO” through a tripartite military alliance between the U.S., Japan and south Korea has already reached a working stage.
Grave situation is being created on the Korean peninsula due to the U.S. and its followers who are conducting reckless aggression war exercises. And it is becoming all the more vital for our state to bolster in every way the national defense capabilities and preemptive strike capabilities so that we can rapidly respond to any kind of military provocations.
On the principles of power for power and head-on contest, we will smash into pieces the reckless military maneuvers of the U.S. and its followers.
Kim Yong Guk, President of the Institute for Disarmament and Peace of the DPRK