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No 05/25
January 24, 2025
1. DPRK Premier Takes Oath at
Twelfth Session of 14th SPA
2. On DPRK Cabinet's Work for
Last Year and Tasks for This Year
DPRK Premier Takes Oath at Twelfth Session of 14th SPA
Pyongyang, January 24 (KCNA) -- At the
Twelfth Session of the 14th Supreme People's Assembly of the Democratic
People's Republic of Korea, Premier Pak Thae Song took an oath, on behalf of
the members of the Cabinet, to remain faithful to the constitution of the
Republic and live up to the expectations of the Party and the people with
absolute devotion.
The Cabinet, the administrative
executive organ of the supreme power of the Republic, will hold fast to the
lines and policies of the Workers' Party of Korea as its lifeline to establish
the Party's unified leadership system more firmly in economic work and conduct
economic operation and command for the implementation of the Party's decisions
in a responsible and dynamic way, and thus faithfully discharge its heavy
mission and duty to the last in the struggle for the growth and development of
the overall national economy and the improvement of the people's living
standards, the premier said, adding:
The Cabinet members will do their utmost
to uphold Comrade Kim Jong Un's high intention and grand plan for state
building with their high ability and pure conscience, bearing deep in mind the
boundless loyalty to the people and the spirit of unconditionally serving the
people.
This year to be specially recorded in
the DPRK's history of development, the Cabinet will hold fast to it as the main
task to bring about a new phase in the national economic development and make a
clear advance in the improvement of the people's living standards by propelling
more vigorously the implementation of the major policy-oriented tasks, adopted
and accelerated by the Party Congress, to successfully complete the Five-Year
Plan while pushing forward with the preparations for the next stage of
development in a substantial way.
I will see to it that all the Cabinet
members unconditionally carry out the enormous tasks facing the economic sector
at present, stir up a drive for increased production and economy across the
country and make fresh innovations, bold creation and vigorous progress in all
fields of the national economy.
The Cabinet members will establish a
system and method for controlling the overall economy in a unified way in
conformity with the economic structure and specific conditions of the country
and definitely put the overall economic work under the unified guidance and
strategic management of the state by further strengthening the
Cabinet-responsibility system and Cabinet-centered system.
The Cabinet will make sure that all
sectors and units thoroughly overcome the old-fashioned work attitude and style
and establish the innovative work style of actively solving any problems from
the standpoint of the state and the patriotic attitude and in close mutual
cooperation.
It will put the dignity of the prestigious
Party and state and the safeguard of the ties of kinship and single-minded
unity between the Party and the people before anything else in designing,
organizing and executing all the work and thus defend the absolute authority of
Comrade Kim Jong Un and the WPK in every way.
He made a solemn pledge before Comrade Kim
Jong Un and the WPK Central Committee, the respected deputies and all the
people to discharge his important duty as the Cabinet premier in a responsible
manner with actual achievements by thoroughly establishing the trait of
settling all problems accurately, perfectly and substantially as intended by
the Party, deeply mindful of his heavy mission responsible for the country's
economic work.
On DPRK Cabinet's Work for Last Year and Tasks for This Year
Pyongyang, January 24 (KCNA) -- Deputy
Pak Thae Song, premier of the Cabinet of the Democratic People's Republic of
Korea, made a report on the last year's work of the Cabinet and its tasks for
this year at the Twelfth Session of the 14th Supreme People's Assembly.
The reporter said that the Cabinet,
concentrating efforts on attaining the 12 major goals for the development of
the national economy last year, organized and conducted the work for
implementing the economic policies of the Workers' Party of Korea, regarding it
as the main task to put spurs to the increase in production and step up the
readjustment and reinforcement project in all sectors and units and thus
provide a sure guarantee for the fulfillment of the Five-Year Plan.
Our people achieved remarkable successes
in the struggle for economic development and improvement of the people's living
standards, overcoming all sorts of unprecedented challenges and threats last
year under the wise guidance of the respected General Secretary Kim Jong Un,
the reporter noted, and went on:
In the dynamic struggle to attain the 12
major goals, the rolled steel production was increased by 143 percent, coal
production 115 percent, nonferrous metal production 107 percent, nitrogenous
fertilizer production 104 percent, cement production 102 percent, and cloth
production 108 percent as compared with the previous year.
Last year we faced many obstacles and
difficulties, but we stubbornly waged a grand construction campaign for the
people without a moment's interruption under the far-reaching plan of the
Party, thus erecting many monumental edifices conducive to the people's living
in different parts of the country and demonstrating the development
potentiality and advance spirit of our state.
Last year, everything was in short
supply and difficult as never before, but the state established a
well-regulated system for control over the quality of products to be provided
to the schoolchildren and kindergartners and supplied quality school uniforms,
bags and footwear to the schoolchildren.
True to the decisions of the plenary
meetings of the Party Central Committee, the science and technology sector
completed the major state projects for the development of science and
technology, thus contributing to the increase in production and the improvement
of the people's standard of living.
The public health sector built standard
pharmacies in all cities and counties across the country to further consolidate
the foundation for the promotion of people's health, and the sports sector won
more than 360 medals including over 210 gold medals in at least 50
international games.
The successes achieved in socialist
economic construction last year are a precious fruition of the wise leadership
of the General Secretary and the vigorous struggle of our people firmly united
as one around the Party with patriotism.
Referring to the serious shortcomings
and lessons revealed in the last year's struggle, the reporter went on:
Today we are faced with heavy task to
glorify this significant year marking the 80th founding anniversary of the WPK,
the final year of the Five-Year Plan, as a year of eye-opening events and great
turn to bring about a phase of upturn towards a higher development stage with
immense courage, redoubled efforts, inexhaustible enthusiasm and devotion.
The Cabinet will make innovations in
economic operation and command, regarding it as its main task to lay a firm
foundation for a new stage of development and make clear progress in improving
the people's living standards by further putting spurs to the growth and
development of the overall national economy this year and unconditionally
attaining the readjustment and reinforcement goals set forth by the Party.
All sectors of the national economy will
lay a firm springboard for the sustained development of the national economy by
putting spurs to the attainment of 12 major goals and the fulfillment of the
Five-Year Plan.
We will dynamically step up the project
for building 50 000 flats in Pyongyang, the construction of the Kalma coastal
tourist area, the rural construction and other major policy-oriented projects
and push ahead with the work for realizing the home production of finishing
building materials as planned.
The agricultural sector will attain the
grain production goal without fail and steadily direct efforts to the
readjustment and reinforcement of irrigation system, the production of farm
machines and the reclamation of tideland so as to consolidate the material and
technical foundations of agriculture and definitely put the agricultural
production on a track of stable and sustained growth.
The fishing sector will conduct positive
fishing activities and fish farming and aquaculture on a large scale so as to
produce a large amount of seafood.
The light industrial and regional-industry
sectors will direct primary efforts to improving the quality of products and
boost the production of essential consumer goods, condiments, school uniforms,
bags and footwear and push ahead with the readjustment and reinforcement
projects.
The commercial sector will enhance the
leading role and control ability of the state and ensure the regular supply of
nutritive and quality foodstuffs with hygienic safety to the children, true to
the Party's childcare policy.
The land and urban management sectors
will push ahead with the land management and ecological environment protection,
spruce up the appearance of provincial, city and county seats and provide the
people with convenient and cultured living conditions and environment.
The scientific circles will turn out as
one to successfully solve urgent sci-tech problems for the economic development
and the improvement of people's living standards, and the public health sector
will revitalize the production of medical supplies and raise the scientification
and modernization level of medical service to provide better medical benefits
to the people and lay a solid foundation for the anti-epidemic work to cope
with any global health crisis.
We will intensify the work for improving
the educational structure, contents and methods to put the quality of education
on a higher level and give state priority to education, direct efforts to
strengthening the educational foundation of the country and raise a strong wind
for further stirring up the work of support to education throughout society.
The Cabinet will direct efforts to
solving the urgent methodological problems that conform to the country's
economic structure and specific conditions while making the working masses the
real masters of economic management, and steadily and gradually push forward
the improvement of economic management to develop the economy and the people's
living standards in a stable and sustained way.
It will ensure a unified command over
the state emergency disaster crisis response, reinforce the emergency
information system on natural disaster and the information system on flood,
typhoon, drought and coastal disaster management and further strengthen the
state crisis response capability to prevent human loss and minimize economic
damage.
In order to successfully carry out the
tasks facing us this year, the Cabinet will hold the overall economy of the
country on the same line and ensure the unified and long-term guidance and
management by intensifying the work to establish discipline and order in which
all sectors and units unconditionally obey and implement the Cabinet decisions
and instructions on the principle of the Cabinet-responsibility system and
Cabinet-centred system.
It will thoroughly establish a work
habit, in which the leading economic officials do away with the indifferent and
self-centered practices as required by the comprehensive development of
socialist construction and approach toward any knotty problems with the state
stand and patriotic attitude and solve them through close cooperation between
sectors and units and actively cope with the conditions and environment.
The reporter said that he would always
bear in mind the expectation of the Party and the people, who entrusted the
economic work of the country to him, and carry out without fail the important
tasks, set forth at the Eleventh Plenary Meeting of the Eighth Party Central
Committee, with tireless zeal and courageous practical ability and thus glorify
this significant year marking the 80th anniversary of the WPK as a year of
proud victory and honorably greet the Ninth Congress of the Party.